Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 24, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada packers presents Man around the House Mon wed Fri Frap v v j.-l1jl a a Al Al by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg saturday september 24, 1955 week end edition with comics a Quick route through to Ellice Avenue from Osborne Street completed with widening of Spence Street above Between Ellice and Portage. The Road has been widened from a 24-foot wide macadamia de surface to a 40-foot wide Concrete surface. It was re opened monday after about three weeks closed while City engineers Tore up the old Road and Laid the new one. Cost was the new Road continues North of Portage to the cutoff from Osborne along St. Mary to Portage. Dictator ruled Over Republic of Manitoba have you Ever heard of the re Public of Manitoba guess not. Or. Justice Ivan Schultz told the Story Friday night As guest speaker at the convention banquet of the Wes Tern Canada water and sewage conference at the Royal Alexandra hotel. Speaking on the Folk lore and traditions of the Western Provin Ces or. Schultz said Manitoba the Only province in Canada that had Ever had a Republic. Before there was a stable government in the province an eng Lishman set up a Republic in what was now Portage la Prairie. It was called the Republic of Mani Toba. The individual concerned made himself not Only president but judge and in the first Case to be tried in the Republic he acted both As judge and prosecutor. Several other interesting fact concerning Manitoba were note by or. Schultz. Lord Selkirk h said bought acres from the Hudson Bay company for and got a Clear title. Rocks in the Winnipeg River hat been tested and found to be thre billion two Hundred million years old. With the exception of similar outcroppings in Finland and Southern Rhodesia they were the oldest in the world. Or. Schultz pointed out tha Western Canada was a tapestry Woven of Many nationalities and said the nation would do Well to preserve its cultural heritage. A past president s pin was presented to l. A. Kay by the new president r. H. Nicholson. F. E Balshaw was Given the Lindsten memorial award for outstanding service. No mail delivery on thanksgiving Day there will be no letter Carrier delivery thanksgiving Day oct. 10, the Post office has announced. Postal stations throughout the City will be closed and there will be restricted service at the main Post office. There inquiry registration general delivery and stamp wickets will be open from 9 to 11 . The Public lobby will be open from 8 . To 6 ., for the convenience of Box holders. Specia delivery service will be As usual. 6 in Hospital staff honoured for service six staff members at St. Boniface Hospital were presented with certificates and gifts at a general staff meet ing thursday. The six have air served overdo years. Presentations were made by the medical staff to or. James Prendergast. Or. L. D. Coffin or. Murdoch Mckay or. J. P. Howden or. K. J. Backman and or. W. A. Weir. Inquest into traffic death set for oct. 5 inquest into the death of Nick Boychuk 61, of 534 pol son Avenue who died in Winnipeg general Hospital four hours after he was in collision with a motor car at main Street and Matheson Avenue sept 19 will be held at Central police station at 8 Oct. 5, it was announced saturday. Grey cup Parade decision again delayed civic finance committee Friday for the eleventh deferred decision on what sort of representation Winnipeg would have in the nov. 26 Vancouver Grey cup Parade. Committee was asked 11 weeks age to put a float in the Parade later it decided to buy two of carts. Later still it decided of carts would be too slow for a Parade. So it earmarked the of carts for display still undecided is what if anything the City will Send to Van Couver the decision was averted Friday without comment. Part of loot in jewel theft recovered Montreal up police re ported Friday night they have recovered some in jewels stolen last month from mrs. Harry Pursey wife of a member of. The British parliament. Detective Insp. Georges Allain said the jewels were recovered from a taxi being repaired at a Montreal garage. Two men one of them a taxi Driver were help for questioning and Insp. Allain said they will probably be form ally charged today or monday with burglary. Kichard Macdonald director of the Dominion drama festival who will arrive in Winnipeg Satur Day. Or. Macdonald is on his annual Cross country tour to Confer with drama groups. He will address an open meeting in studio 13 perish in dynamite truck blast Mexico City Dyna mite loaded truck and a train collided near Torreon Friday night touching off a shattering explosion that took the More than 40 persons. In. A Chain reaction the collision and explosion set of the cargo of a second dynamite carrying truck. Reports from the scene said More than 40 bodies had been re covered and the death to1. Might reach 70. More than 150 Parsons were injured. Authorities said the two trucks both heavily loaded with explosives were racing without lights when the Lead vehicle collided with the Torreon to Chihuahua train. Torreon is about 200 Miles West of Monterrey in North Central mex Ico. Florence Chadwick to a fake new try at Channel swim Calais France Long distance swimmer Florence Chadwick said saturday she will Nake another attempt to. Swim the English Channel both ways Sun Day. The san Diego calif., swimmer who gave up her first attempt just Over a mile from the French coast Friday after.12 hours in the Waer said she will make her new by from a Point near Dover eng and sunday morning. More Mustard Pakistan crops of. Mustard and rapeseed for 1955 Are estimated at tons against previously mock decisions aldermen get blame for Jaycee acts press reports of Junior chamber of Commerce mock City Council proceedings Are confusing the Public mayor George Sharpe told finance committee Friday. He said that people ask me what did you do that for or what did you do this for when All the time they have been Reading proceedings of the mock Council. Aldermen at the mock Council debate the same issues that appear on City Council Agenda on the same night that City Council meets. Committee decided to Send copies of the City s Agenda to the chamber two Days later so that both meetings would not be held on the same night. Robertson to attend conference the Manitoba government and to provincial farm groups will e represented at a sept. 27 and 28 conference on Grain marketing promotion called for Saskatoon by he Kite provincial Council of farm unions. The Alberta government and Al Erta federation of agriculture Lave turned Down an invitation o the meet on the ground that not much Good could come rom it. But Hon. R. D. Robertson Man Toba s agriculture minister will 6 attending. Also there repro retail history to be made in 1955 province Heads for sales record Manitoba in 1955 will Chalk up said would be Down slightly while its biggest year in retail history. By the time the year is ushered out predicts David Gilbert nation Al president of the retail Mer chants association retail sales of the 12-month period will be up four per cent Over last year s ant about two per cent Over the 1953 Peak. To Back him up. Are the figure for the first six months of 1955 which Point to a higher spending trend. There was a 9.8 per Cen increase in All retail sales Over the first half of 1954. Spotty places although retail sales Are headed or a record and although Hon Walter Harris finance minister declares the booming Canadian declares Economy is exceeding government expectations there ire spotty places in the Manitoba picture the booming Canadian. One of these surprisingly enough in the face of Peak Auto production is in car sales. For the province As s. Whole these sales will be Down about two per cent from last year which in turn showed a 10 to 15 per cent drop in unit sales and a 25 per Cen drop in Dollar volume from 1953 in making this prediction. Free Wood Secretary manager of the Manitoba and Northwestern ont Ario motor dealers association said he realized Many Auto firms particularly in greater Winnipeg lad shown a Sharp upswing in sales some lines As High As 75 per cent. Offsetting this Are poorer sales n other parts of Manitoba where some dealers Haven t moved a car this year he said. Odd year in Industry in Industry it has been an Odd year reported d. Harry Young he Canadian manufacturers association. Many Manitoba firms he insurance advertisers elect w. A. Neville w. A. Neville of Winnipeg has Een elected a member of the executive committee of life insurance advertisers association it Vas announced following the organization s annual meeting in new York last week. Another Winnipeg Man George Powell was appointed chairman if the association s standing com Mittee on sales promotion. Or. Neville is advertising Man Ager of the great West life Assur Ance co. And or. Powell is the company s manager of sales pro motion Andi services. Norwood to vote of school. School Board seeks new collegiate Norwood ratepayers at their of Ober civic election will be asked o approve a new Colle renting Manitoba Farmers i s ate which school Board Union will be Jake Schulz past president and conference chair Man James Patterson president and mrs. Mary Mclntosh women s president. J. D. Wilton president of the Manitoba federation of Agricula ure and co operation said his roup will be represented at the conference but the Delegate has not yet been named. Lola Cuddy chosen Dan Mac medallist miss Lola Cuddy of 609 Spence daughter of mrs. Melba Cuddy and the late w. A. Cuddy ormer Winnipeg Alderman h a s j Leen chosen gov nor general medallist Daniel for the Mclntyre collegiate inst Ute. Miss Cuddy has e e n prominent i City musical circles winning a Active part in school life and led erf classes in both Grade 10 and 1. She is United College. Hopes to have ready for use by september 1956. The Board says the new school is necessary if an adequate educational program is to be maintained for the higher grades. The new school would take care of the High school population of Norwood until the expected Peak enrolments of 1960 Are reached. It would contain 16 classrooms chemistry and physics laboratories and commercial training rooms and a auditorium gymnasium. No increase in taxes would be necessary to finance the new col the Board says in a statement. It will be financed through Sale of debentures Over 15 years at an annual Cost of 504.51. Each year is placed in the building Reserve fund of the school District. With Elemen tary school facilities now adequate this Money will be available for debenture payments. Budget de creases will make up the officials say the new building is needed because the present build ing is inadequate and cannot be i Only half the. Eligible Stu dents can be accommodated in Home economics and manual train dilation Are not Good enough. Others would be showing increases of from three to five per cent Over 1954 production in balance production equal last years he. Felt which was Down from the 1953 record. On the credit Side of the Ledger tourism Manitoba expects a record Trade this year against last with about tourists enter ing the province compared with in 1954. This so far has brought a 50 per cent boost in bus travel Over 20 per cent in plane travel and per cent de crease in rail travel. This just covers . Tourists with destinations in Manitoba and does not apply to inter provincial transport construction picture Winnipeg building permits valued at have been issued to Date this year As this time last Are projects including 979 dwellings valued at compared with projects including 717 dwell Levy hike asked on municipalities in Mosquito War the greater Winnipeg Mosquito abatement District wants its 15 member municipalities to increase the per capita Levy by 25 per cent next year. In August of this year the Levy was raised from 10 to 12 cent in order to enable the District to control mosquitoes More efficiently. The new rate if approved would be 15 cents per capita. E. J. Stansfield the organize Tion s manager said 12 cents be capita did t give the District enough funds. Representatives o the municipalities at a recen meeting agreed to ask their respective councils to increase the Levy. Or. Stansfield said the organization was the Only one of its Type in Canada. A similar group in Toledo Ohio gets a 47-Cen Levy per capita and California state pays 44 cents. The greater Winnipeg organize lion presently is spraying Dot in Marshland. When the eggs Hatch in the Spring the larvae will be killed or. Stansfield said. Wilson denies labor unions illegal Here a Charlottetown ., attorney who suggested that labor in on Are illegal in Manitoba has been contradicted by Elliott Wil son Manitoba s Deputy minister of labor. The charge was made thursday before the , supreme court y j. 0. C. Campbell former Deputy attorney general of the pro Vince. He claimed that the unions were illegal conspiracies in ., never having been legalized there in said that the same situation probably existed in Nova Scotia Mew Brunswick and Manitoba. Commenting Friday or. Wilson said that the Manitoba labor re actions act conferred certain duties and status on unions and this could hardly be done if they were Winnipeg doctor on International body s executive or. Joseph Bernard Thonne Winnipeg specialist in physical Medicine has been appointed a vice president of the International society for nutritional research and psycho Taxon orgy. With Headquarters in England he society s of ices include specialists from rational institutes n Europe and the United states. Its is or. I 5. Rawson i r s t vice or. Thonne Dent is sir. George Lacon. Psycho apology is the process of restoring a Normal healthy approach to habits responsible for improving the inst Ute also interests itself in the uses and fertilization of land. Or. Thonne studied Medicine ind radiology in Paris Poland Austria and Germany and was associated for 10 years with the ate or. Arnold Mann Licher a Trian King s physician and cancer specialist. He also worked with r. Louis Wicham in France s Vil Juif cancer Hospital. He has act iced in Winnipeg for 24 years. W. J. Mccorpen of London ont., products manager for adhesives and coatings Minnesota mining and manufacturing of can Ada ltd., who will be among speakers at the Canadian association of purchasing agents meetings in the Koyal Alexandra hotel thursday and Friday. He will speak on adhesives and their applications. Ings valued at in 1954. Employment spite of the increased labor Force in Manitoba there Are from 400 to 600 less people out of work now than Al this time last year. This has been the Case throughout 1955. At sept. 16, there were unemployed in the province in the Winnipeg area against this time last year. Increased construction might cause some Slack in seasonal unemployment which at its Peak last Winter edged the Mark Here while Bush Camp and lumber operators anticipate very Busy nevertheless there is expected to be a Little drop in the number of unemployment insurance claimants mainly because under the new regulations effective oct. 2, it will be easier in some cases to secure benefits. Farm implements late Spring and summer sales of Harvester equipment were up from last years reports a. A. Thomson Secretary of the Manitoba whole Sale implement association. This Industry was hard hit in 1954. All business groups Are eyeing the 1955 bumper crop. Some fee it will mean a Strong upswing in fall business while others say it won t affect a thing until the crop finally is disposed of. Like Money in Bank in an enthusiastic Telegram from the maritime where he is Organ izing provincial branches of the retail merchants association or. Gilbert termed Manitoba s out standing crop just like Money in the viewing the economic picture on Canada wide basis he wrote that Industry is up 7.6 per cent in May manufacturing up 7.6, Mineral output 6.5, textiles up 20 per cent construction up 33 per cent Homes financed under Nha up ,44.5, population of Canada up 2.7, National income up by 6.3, Gross National product May reach or. Harris predicted Over billion or. Gilberts wire in answer to a free press query also stated that retail sales should reach the Mark this year. This he stated can be the greatest year in the history retailing for the merchant who will merchandise advertise and pro organization of on the Atlantic he also said Rma branches Seaboard was proceeding beyond in the retail Trade most lines have shown increases or. Gilbert reported. A spot Check showed Manitoba variety stores women s clothing grocery stores and departmental gives tip on How to be Hale and Happy at 90 w. C. Carrothers of 17 St. Elmo St. Vital celebrated his 90th birthday saturday but you d never mow it from talking to him. Or. Carrothers looks 20 years younger than he is. He s in the jest of health and his memory is just As Good As it Ever was. In act he s never been sick a Day a his life. The formula clean says or. Carrothers but head mits that a family history of Longe Vity has probably helped. The men of his family have lived to an average 74 years. Or. Carrothers Hobby now Asil Las been since he retired from he Canadian Northern railway Over 20 years ago is travelling. In each of the past 23 years he estimates he s travelled an average of Miles coast to coast in Canada arid the Northern . This year he slowed Down a Little. He Only went As far As Lon Don ont., for a family reunion and on to Toronto and Montreal. He was born at London in 1865, but moved to Saskatchewan with his family in 1889. He moved to Winnipeg to join the Canadian Northern in 1895 and worked Here Unte 1932, except for a time he spent working for a Saskatchewan lumber firm. But or. Carrothers found time for other things than work. He was Secretary treasurer of the Lavalee school District years and a trustee for 15. He a s four daughters and one son. His wife died four years ago a Fine was levied in City magistrate s court against Sophie Birnboim 426 Inkster Boulevard for failing to provide suitable Gar bage1 containers for her apartment Block at 373-377 William Avenue. Architect s drawing of the proposed new Norwood collegiate which the school Board will ask nor Wood ratepayers to approve at their october civic election. The new school will contain 16 classrooms on mistry and physics laboratories commercial training rooms and an auditorium gymnasium and How does it feel to be 90? it s been a grand experience with plenty of Sunshine and few says or. Car rothers. W. C. Carrothers stores had the most percentage in crease with the hot summer giving a Sharp upswing to Light cloth ing. Appliances slow appliances however continue to move slowly with to sales fluctuating Between stores from a bit below last years to pretty much improved but slowness in getting some 1956 models is holding up last fall there also was a backlog of orders even greater than at the present time some distributors reported. Restaurants got off to a slow Start and at the mid year were running about two per cent behind 1954. However this has picked up in the last few months reports Manitoba s restaurant association president Walter Kurz. Garages shoe stores fuel Deal ers and hardware stores Are run Ning on the whole slightly last year s rate. But still total sales Are enough to give the province its greatest retail year yet. Four Hurt in traffic mishaps motorcycles figure in two accidents car in other two motorcycle accidents and a pedestrian car collision sent four persons to Hospital Friday. Injured Are Eric Linden Schmidt 723 Mcadam Avenue. Lac. Thomas Manzow 21, stationed at Stevenson Field. Arthur Vermette 86, of suite 2, 103 notre Dame East. Miss Glenda Smith 17, of 20 Centennial Street. Or. Linden Schmidt suffered con Cussion and multiple bruises and cuts when he co ended with a motor Cycle driven by Robert of 1427 Winnipeg Avenue at 8.30 Or. Blore was reported driving North on main Street at Church Avenue when a truck Cut him off. This caused him to swerve and collide with or. Linden Schmidt who was just stepping put of his car. North end Saiti. Or. Blore received a bruised leg and Cut Finger. Or. Linden Schmidt s condition in Winnipeg general Hospital is described As fairly Lac. Manzow was proceeding East on Academy Road near Guelph Street at 7.25 When he lost control of his motorcycle fort Rouge police said. He was thrown into the air and struck a pole. Miss Smith was Riding behind Manzow and was also thrown from he motorcycle. She suffered Only a broken right toe and after treat nent at general Hospital was Al if wed to go Home. Lac Manzow received a fractured right leg and suffered internal in juries. He is in Deer Lodge Hospi Tal in fair condition. Or. Vermette a night watchman at the Misericordia Hospital was crossing Sherbrook Street in front of the Hospital on his Way to work at 9.30 ., when he collided with a car. He was taken into the Hospital with a fractured leg and an injured head. His condition is ship sails again Montreal British Collier Maran Dellas with a new Engin room Crew of arabs flown Here from Britain cleared port Early Friday and headed for Syd Ney . The ship under charter to Dominion Coal company was delayed five Days at a Cost estimated by her agents at when Ler Engin room Crew of nine son Alfs refused to serve under the second Engineer. Usan chief sees City priority War target _ f _ _ Winnipeg s air Force station a first line base for. Northern de hence would make the metropolitan area a priority target in any enemy nuclear attack from the North. In making this statement Here Friday Gen. Nathan of. Twining head of the United states air Force said an enemy s first con Cern would be the crippling of our air defences even before hitting at important Industrial centres. It is believed this attitude is reflected in Canada s apparent Deci Sion to re equip its european based squadrons with of Loos As a prelude to pulling them Back Here for Northern defence West of Doolittle Gen. Twining arrived in Winni Peg. Friday with his Deputy chief of life Gem Frank eve rest on his Way to a Lake Winnipegosis As guest of famed Tokyo Raider . Jimmy Doolittle. Gen. Doolittle arrived shortly afterwards aboard a Tea plane accompanied by Harry Guggenheimer of the Guggenheimer foundation for the promotion of aeronautics. The two went to the air orce station joined Gem Twining and his operations Deputy and with . Earle a. Partridge Lead of Continental air defence Eft by an amphibious plane for the Doolittle Lodge att Lake Winnipegosis Gen. Partridge had from the North where was inspecting the Distant Early warn ing radar stations with Gen. A. G. L. Mcnaughton and other top officials. Less vulnerable with present warning systems and with coordinated defences this continent Felt Gen. Twining is less vulnerable to attack now than it was a year ago. In event of attack the air Battles Likely would be fought Over the sub Arctic he indicated. Russian and . Air. Strengths now were about the same he re ported. Whereas Russia last Spring had More planes in Active service with in Reserve than the the soviet Union since then has concentrated on modernizing its Force . To catch up in air Force strength. U Preshie saturday night a threat of rain Friday postponed the University of Manitoba s annual Preshie Parade -. Saturday the Parade will be starting on Market Avenue from rorie. St beef Tomain Street and along Portage to Vard and on to the civic auditorium ;