Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 5, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Bryce s by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg wednesday october 5, 1955 Feek end edition with comics we j. Crean chosen c of c president officers of the Canadian Cham wednesday at the annual meeting of distillers corporation Seagram suburb okays fluoridation now after a hectic debate tuesday night St. James Colm cil officially approved fluoridation of the municipality s water Supply but mayor Thomas b. I Ridley had to break a tie vote on the subject. And councillor David Johnston served notice that he would raise Raymond Dupuis Montreal Law june Crown Trust co. I the Issue once again in two weeks yer is first vice president. He is a. C. Ashforth Toronto is Hono voting in favor of fluoridation and managing director of Rary treasurer. He is president councillors g. W. Johnson Dupuis Freres limited. The Toronto Dominion Bank. I g b Wallace and Charles d. Lee. G. Arnold Hart. Montreal is against were councillors w. M Sam Morgan and David Commerce were elected new president is j. G. Crean of Ltd. Toronto president of Robert Cream e. T. Godwin of Toronto is also and co. Ltd., and Adam hats can Ada Ltd., of Toronto. A vice chairman of the executive Council. He is general manager of 0. B. Thornton of Montreal is chairman of the executive Council. He is president of the Montreal i Trust company. A. M. Henderson of Montreal is i vice chairman of Socrate honorary treasurer. He i assistant general manager Bank of i Montreal. I Council. He is Secretary treasurer meets voters tuesday St. James Council will hold a pre election Public meeting at 8 . Tuesday in St. James collegiate. The school Board will hold a Public meeting at another Date in the Council Chambers. The executive St James Council Johnston. Mayor Findlay broke the tie with an affirmative vote. The vote proper was on adoption of the minutes of a committee session sept. 28. These minutes contained a recommendation by councillor Wallace that Council go on record As favouring fluoridation. Councillor Johnston served notice tuesday night that this item be deleted from the minutes. This gives him. The right to raise the Issue at the next Council Meetins. New Bridge major roads receive boost in St. James Long term plans for a new Bridge and Road and a new major thoroughfare one on the extreme West that it approved the plans decided to Send the remaining principle. The metropolitan plan Ning commission has also approved the plans. Council tabled the let Ter. Charleswood and Assiniboia and reasonable i Are considering the plans. And the other one on the Council also approved Purchase East of the suburb to Homes considered by St. James Council tuesday night. Two More Bradford to make Way for Street pro posed 100-foot thoroughfare from Portage Avenue and at least As Faras Ellice Avenue. Over 20 Homes the proposed Oridge would con Iare still left on one Side of Brad. Next up with Charleswood Between Portage and Silver would Span the Assiniboine in a j Avenue. Ibra lord is three blocks line with Moray Street which would have Road would to be extended. The run North and South and would serve As an escape route for residents in that Sec Tion of the greater Winnipeg area in the event of a major disaster such As flooding or St. James town planning com Mission in a letter to Council said experts on Canada to 1 for current Way should Canada be satisfied with being mainly an exporter of raw materials or should she strive to became an exporter of manufactured goods there were two Clear Cut schools of thought on the subject wednes mesday at a panel discussion on Trade problems at the Canadian chamber of Commerce s 26th an Ashforth r. Dupuis certificate of Merit for c of c Sia Nager m. J. G. Manager of the Canadian chamber of Commerce was among 13 graduates of the Canadian Institute for Board and chamber secretaries who received certificates of Merit from g. S. Thorvalson presi Dent of the Canadian chamber. Also among graduates of this year s Institute held last june at Mcmaster University Ham Ilton. Was j. Harvey Johnston of the fort William chamber. Style stymied Hatter Heads c of c a hat maker from Toronto is the new. President of the Canadian chamber of com Merce. It s an Odd thing that in a Community in which nearly everyone wears a hat hat making is quite an unusual occupation. However John g. Crean 45, president oldest hat manufacturing Busi Ness in the country arid of Adams hats Kas plenty of information about the Industry. One of first for instance hat Man fac negligence blamed .00 for elevator death a Coroner s jury tuesday night blamed negligence on the part of a person or persons unknown for the death sept. 16 of Frank Claude Douglas 65, of 471 Hetherington Avenue. Or. Douglas died after falling into the freight elevator Shaft at the t. Eaton co. Ltd. Mail order building. The jury ruled the death accidental and recommended greater safety precautions to prevent such accidents. Or. I. 0. Fryer provincial Coroner presided at the inquest held at the Central police station the jury was told by fellow workers of or. Douglas that he had apparently fallen through the open doors of the elevator Shaft on the Bottom floor. He fell a distance of about six feet but a hand car loaded with several Hundred pounds of goods fell on top of him. No one saw the Accident but it was presumed the elevator doors had somehow been prevented from closing when the elevator went up and hat or. Douglas not realizing this had backed through the open doors while Wheeling the hand car into position to be loaded on to the elevator. Swerved in front of police car Hugh Sowden Balmoral Man., was fined in Provin Cial police court tuesday a after he pleaded guilty to operating a truck while his ability was impaired by alcohol. Sowden s Driver s licence was suspended six months and his truck impounded for three. Police said Sowden attracted police Atten Tion monday night by swerving from one Side of Highway 7 to the other. At one time he had swerved directly in the path of the police car going in t h e opposite direction. Court was told he became abusive when stopped by the police. Four month term for 43-cent theft Paul Menard 33, of 31 Savoy hotel will have the next four months to decide whether the 43-cent he stole was Worth the loss of his Freedom. Menard pleaded guilty in City magistrate s court tues Day to stealing a Wallet con Taining 43 cents from the pocket of Jack Arnold Hill 445 Newton Avenue in a City department store. Or. Hill caught Menard in the act and held him until store detectives arrived. Police said Menard had a previous conviction for a Simi Lar offence. Year s total of measles cases measles topped the list of communicable diseases in Manitoba for the week ending oct. 1 As 80 new cases were reported to raise the year s total to the health and welfare department reports. Only two new polio eases were reported during the week a total of 25 for the year. Other diseases reported with the year s total in brackets were gonorrhoea 27 tuberculosis 15 whooping cough 13 mumps 10 bacillary dysentery 9 chickenpox 7 infectious jaundice 6 typhoid fever 3 syphilis 3 diarrhoea and enteritis under one year 1 Ger Man measles 1 Scarlet fever "1 luring was one of the first six industries started in Canada away Back in 1666, by t h e French intendant. Talon. This was because the country was opened up on the Beaver Trade. All the Early Felt hats were made out of the and said or. Crean can Ada manufactures 98 per cent of All men s Felt hats used in this country. But 40 per cent of women s hats Are imported. More men Are wearing hats More or. Crean says. It s because of the narrower brims and the Darker colors that Are now fashionable. This is the most rapid style change the Industry has seen in but Why Don t ask me. There s really no rhyme or reason to style. Five or six years ago there was a big Campaign to bring in exactly the same style that is now popular. It was called the scoop. But it was a Complete Flop. Now everyone has taken to Active since 1946 or. Crean has been Active in the affairs of the Canadian chamber since 1946. Although he was a member of the Tor onto Board of Trade Long be fore that. For three years he was a member of the Canada . Committee. He is waiting for the Cham Ber to reach definite decisions before he comments on what might happen next year. We Hope the americans will take some action that will stimulate our exports to he says and tend to balance our very heavy and verse balance of otherwise he says in an unashamed cliche work As chamber president will to to keep the Flag of private enter prise Nual meeting in the Royal Alex Andra hotel. Four experts answered the ques Tion in their own Way. Sample opinions or. Claude m. Isbister director of the Trade and Commerce department s International Trade re lations Branch Felt the present situation should not be regarded As unhealthy. He said the strength of our trading position based at present upon these products. Foodstuffs and Basic raw is regarded with envy by other coun tries. The exports which we Are in the Best position to Supply Are in fact the goods which Are in greatest demand throughout the surplus problem or. Clarence l. Barber of the University of Manitoba on the Export Side our most serious prob Lem at the moment is that of try ing to dispose of our Large surplus West of St. James Street Council bought the Homes of j. H. Mack at Bradford and 0. A. Wilson at 289 Bradford at each plus a serviced lot elsewhere in is. James to which the owners can move their Homes property owners on the Street a letter saying that Council is will ing to buy their land at a fair Price and pro vide lots elsewhere for Homes which Are suitable for moving. To Call tenders for High school the Winnipeg school Board tuesday decided to Call for tenders for a new High school to be built on a Lanark Street site owned by the school Board. It is patterned after the an Drew Mynarski pc school. School Board also approved plans for a proposed two Storey addition to Mulvey school. Bradford Street when extended would provide a main thorough fare to the Industrial area particularly for trucks. Council also decided to meet with representatives of Frank r. Lount and son. Ltd., the great West development co. Ltd. And the St. James planning commis Sion to discuss development of the municipal owned property on the North Side of Portage to the West Ern limits. Last year great West proposed an immense housing scheme for the area but the proposal has since been dormant. Whether the two companies present plans Are a revival of the old scheme or something new the mayor did t know. No Date was set for the meeting. Of wheat but if the world s population continues to grow As rapidly As it has in recent years it May not be Long before the growing world demand for food stuffs absorbs All our surplus sup plies As far As our other Export products Are concerned i think the prospects must be judged extremely Hugh Crombie of Montreal vice president and treasurer of Domin Ion engineering works Ltd can Ada is no longer primarily an Agri cultural country the time has passed when Canada could be referred to As the granary of the British Empire. Canada is now an Industrial country As Long As the Powers that be consider Canada As being Primar ily a nation for producing raw materials and Semi processed goods canadians will continue to emigrate to the United states and the National Economy will suffer. R. M. Fowler president of the Canadian pulp and association in the years ahead i Sug Gest that these i primary products will continue to be the products our customers will want to an increasing degree and these will also continue to be the products we Are Best Able to produce i suggest therefore that Canada with natural resources Well beyond the consumptive capacity of her pres ent or future population will con Tiue. To develop her primary Indus tries experts at Odds other Points made by the speak ers or. Isbister lauding the general agreement on tariffs and Trade admitted its rules have not been As effective As canadians would like but that this is no reason to Call Gatt a failure. Or. Barber Protection of secondary industries against foreign Competition a mistake and would lower efficiency. Or. Crombie Trade has always been regulated and most Likely always will be. There never was Complete free or. Fowler said Canada should continue to fight for Freer world Trade on a Multi lateral judgment reserved on railway Mineral rights judgment was reserved tuesday by the Manitoba court of Appeal in the Issue of Mineral rights on land purchased by the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways. The province is seeking Defini Tion in regard to Mineral rights As embodied in statutes contained in the railway act revised statutes of Canada 1952 and the real pro Perty act revised statutes of Manitoba the Case was placed before fhe court by order of the Manitoba lieutenant governor in Council. It was argued there is conflict ing legislation Between the two acts with the railway act stating a company is not entitled to mine ral rights on lands purchased by it unless special agreement is made at time of Purchase. The real pro Perty act states that land in i juvenile 30 Days Aid. Tack blumberg1, Veteran of 36 years on City Council dropped is hat into the ring again wednesday when nominations were held at City Hall. But another Veteran Aid. C. E. Simonite who has chalked up 26 years of service says. More for they Are shown chatting at City Hall As Nonini Natish papers were being filed. Election Day is oct. 26. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8p.m., thursday in the free press building include Board room no. 1, ladies auxiliary army and Navy veterans of Canada fort Garry unit no. 64 Board room no. 2. Victory club of Veteran guards of Canada Manitoba clubroom the Manitoba Lawn Bowling association. Magistrate jails dudes All mines minerals and quarries unless otherwise agreed. It was argued for the railways that lands Are purchased either by agreement by commencement of proceedings for expropriation and subsequent agreement or by direct expropriation and that in All such deals Clear titles include Mineral rights. The Appeal court hearing the Case was headed by chief Justice j. E. Adamson with or. Justice .1. T. Beaubien or. Justice j. B. Coyne or. Justice p. J. Montague land or. Justice a. M. Campbell. A 17-year-old juvenile who was transferred to Magis trate s court from juvenile court on an assault charge was sentenced to 30 Days in jail tuesday. He was charged with assaulting Steve slashing sky. 34. Of 303 Manitoba Avenue at 11.30 . Saturday after or. Slashinski refused to give the juvenile and his 19-year-old companion a ride. The 19-year-old youth received r similar sentence monday. Court was told the juvenile had a record. Crescendo on free music but pay for play goes on Smedley s Corner the High school teacher advised All his pupils to watch Macbeth on Csc television sunday evening and just to find out what those who had taken his advice had managed to get out of it he put a bit of a quiz to them monday afternoon. Was the Man who played Macbeth a Good actor what did you think of lady Macbeth and so on. Well one Grade 10 fellow we know took a look Over the paper then he wrote across it quite truthfully we re sure went to he has t got his Marks on the lest yet. Anxious to learn Neville i. Miller 172 Butterfield Street Herston Bris Bane Queensland Australia now what was it we were going to say about or. Miller of yes. He has a idea. He wants to learn More about Canada so he is looking for someone who can Send him some old Canadian magazines and other literature about this country booklets news papers maps Post cards. Or. Miller is a flying enthusiast and has a private Pilot s licence. Maybe it would be Best if someone with the same interest got in touch with him we Don t want everybody sending magazines to Australia. By Bill Mindess the violin an instrument which in the hands of a violinist can produce the sweetest of sounds was responsible for some sour notes at a Winnipeg school Board meeting tuesday night. The violin instead of soothing Savage trustees stirred them to the bitterest vocal Exchange of the night. It started pianissimo with a re port on violin classes a c i i y schools. Sixty seven students were paying and would find the prices a bargain. Next year he said very pianissimo there would be More pupils. Low note Here Are candidates for civic election was sheer trustee on the part of the parents r. Tennant said. It is ridiculous they d lost interest. To assume that persons in River Heights District can t afford j the 50 As Long As the school i the finale came with a vote to thirty three candidates wednes Day filed nomination papers for nine City Council and nine school Board seats at stake in the oct. 26 civic election. There Are three Council and three Board posts vacant in each of the City s wards. These Are the candidates Aldermani Ward i Aid. Maude j. Mccreery Cec seeking her fourth term ran third in 1953 Ward 1 Aldermani race behind Alderman Simonite and Chown who have both retired. Douglas Chisholm head of Douglas Chisholm agencies an insurance firm seeking his first term. Harold Pullin another insurance Man seeking his first term. David Mulligan former Alderman who served three terms on City Council and was Defeated in a bid for his fourth last year. Ernest Anderson Ahel ectrial contractor Defeated last year in a bid for a City Council seat in Ward 2. Jack St. John la and former Cec Alderman seeking re turn to City Council. Alfred White account and part owner of Osborne s Bak Ery in his first bid for an Alder manic seat. Jeg private detective seeking his first term on City Council. H. L. Former school trustee seeking his first term on City Council. Stan Carrick former Alderman Defeated in a bid or a second term last year and a former school trustee. School trustee Ward 1 trustee Hugh b. Parker school Board finance chairman seeking his third term. He ran second in 1953 to trustee mrs. Ten Nant who is retiring. Trustee Kenneth e. Mcca Skui seeking his second term. He ran third in 1953. Catherine Stewart ceo in vestment counsel of Sovereign life Assurance co., seeking her first term. Thomas Small a rail Wayman Defeated last year in an attempt to gain a Ward 1 school Board scat. Trustee g. J. Reeve struck a j Board took the responsibility of a see whether policy committee w a Ftp harm Reann for ranging classes and getting the should study the matter of free students to attend them these lessons again people were satisfied she said. The motion was Defeated and the now that there was some respond report was adopted As information. Low note. He saw no reason for trustee Moore s optimism. He wanted the Board to reconsider. Trustee w. E. Scoberg played it Sweet and sad. Lack of enough music trained students would have a serious effect on the Community. He favored further committee in first year 43 in Secand and 10 in j study. Third a total of 120. Trustee k. E. Mccaskill started j out double Forte. He was opposed m u u to further committee study. He but in november. 19o4 when is called free lessons _ and her e sons were free 229 students were the Majestic crash of fortissimo free trustee Zuken jumped to his feet to protest. Chairman Nan Murphy the conductor told trustee Zuken to sit Down and ruled trustee Mccaskill out of order. We do not consider leaching in Strumental music a function of the school trustee Mccaskill said. Trades and labor Congress of Canada tuesday night told the Winnipeg and District trades and labor Council he believes bet Weert and new workers would join a new Canadian labor Congress in the first two or three in first year with 118 in second year said trustee Joseph Zuken. A Sharp decline this How Many of these youngsters Are now in school trustee Zuken asked. Of the 350 taking lessons year. 191 were members of school orchestras. Making the students pay 50 cents a lesson almost s4 a month was the main Factor in the reduction the trustee said still pianissimo. He called it and Here he hit i double Forte deplorable trustee h. W. Moore added some j counterpoint. No one claimed there i would t be when the a fee. He become conditioned to the idea of Sibie for the reduction in health scheme. For har Ninov merger expected swell Union ranks Gordon g. Cushing. Secretary or. Cushing told the Council he treasurer of the planned speak before the con Aid. Ward 2 Paul Goodman ceo seeking his second term in Council he headed the Ward 2 polls in the 1953 election. Aid. A. E. Bennett ceo elected last year for a half term now seeking his first full term on Council. Aid. G. R. Fines former member of the legislature seeking his second term on City Council he ran second to Aid. Bennett in the 1953 election. J James Macisaac a car trustee chairman Ward 2 Nan Murphy. Of the ceo school Board. Seeking her fourth term. She headed the polls in 1933. Trustee Paul Thorkelsson ceo. Seeking his first full term. He was elected in a by election this year made necessary by the. Resignation of trustee Campbell Malcolm. Trustee Walter Seaborg seeking his second term. He ran third in 1953. Sex trustee Malcolm ran second. A. N. Robertson former school Board chairman seeking his seventh term on the Board. He was Defeated in a 1954 bid for a City Council seat and in a 1955 bid to take sex trustee Malcolm s seat in the by election. Roland pc incr son of Aid. Jacob Penner making i machinist who has been a Candi his fourth try for a school Board rate in eight previous elections. Seat. W. G. Gilby a Union organizer and frequent candidate in civic elections. Ward 3 mention thursday on the need of a nation wide health insurance scheme and organized labor has been pressing for such a scheme for Vears. He was certain that one Aid. Jack Blumberg first elected in Ward 6 in 1919 to serve out the last year under the old Multi Ward system. Elected again in 1920 to represent the new Ward Dav Canada would have such a. He has been representing it every plan. Stanley Knowles Kcf member years after Complete amalgam a of parliament for Winnipeg North Tion. I Centre who spoke after or. Cush trustee George Frith. All for or. Cushing arrived in Winnipeg ing. Told the Council labor maps Harmony wanted the music afternoon to address were always tattling for a National sons completely under s c h o o a annual convention of the Canadian health plan. Or. Knowles said that year since then. He headed the polls in 1953 in Ward 3 Aldermani election. Aid. Slaw Rybchuk ceo seeking his fourth term on City Council. He ran third on the first count in the 1953 election and Seward 3 trustee Joseph Zuken com seeking his eighth term on the school Board. He headed the Board control or thrown nut. Of Commerce one time he Felt certain Suchi cond on the final count. Was too close a parallel to the a Delegate. W. Rayner scheme would be added to the Aid. Jacob Penner communist services being offered by com run i attention to a press report which j employment insurance that the seeking his Lith term on City coun polls in 1933. Trustee Andrew Zaharichuk ceo. Seeking his eighth term on the Board. He ran second to or. Zuken in 1953. Jack Koll ceo. A Canadian Pacific railway Man seeking his first term on the school Board. Edward Saychuk Union organizer in his first bid for a school Board Seal. Or. L. Wolch. Dentist in i his first bid for a school Board i seat. He ran Sec Ovid on the first count in and third on the final count. Irent said no and no it was. John j. Thomas ceo Winni seat. R. J. Johns former Prin Cipal of the technical vocational High school and former director of technical education for Manitoba in his first bid for a school Board ;