Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 13, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free press thursday october 13, 1955 copter school in . World fliers Penticton . Up the students at a school Here to land a helicopter on cig Aret package. Then they learn to do the same figuratively speaking on a Jar Mountain. The school for helicopter pilots in this South Central British Colum Bia Valley 200 Miles East of Van Couver is run by Okanagan Heli copters Ltd. To it come pilots from Craf from the United states France and Indonesia. Valuable training a Veteran american Pilot capt. Lloyd Watland of fort Riley kan., explained Why the training is done Here. This is the Only company in the is orld specializing in the Mountain of helicopters. We just son t have the know How and we could t have got this valuable anywhere capt. Watland a Veteran of the second world War and the Korea 3var, added a few of us Are taking advantage of Canadian experience. When we go Home Well spread it throughout the last year 22officers of the . Army transportation helicopter battalion went the 80-hour course. Carl Agar operations vice pres ident of the company says the reasons he chose Penticton were Ideal flying conditions the year round and Good territory for the special training. The school opened in Vancouver four years ago but moved Here because of better weather. Okanagan helicopters developed their experience in Mountain flying while carrying equipment for the aluminium and electrical projects at Kitimat and Kemano 400 Miles North of Vancouver. Barrier once past the initial training period the pilots learn to land their on a Mountain. It s quite a psychological bar or. Agar says. It s just like standing on the parapet of a 20-Storey building and looking chief instructor Don Poole Fly ing a reporter to a nearby Peak we be got plenty of mountains close to the school of the right Heights and offering a variety of saddles peaks and knolls. We also get All the problems of winds Down draughts and that a helicopter Pilot trainees Fly loads up to feet above sea level. A Landing platform is built on the Side of one Cliff. The course consists of 30 hours flying time and 50 hours of lec Tures. During that tune students learn to judge air currents and break through what or. Agar Calls the psychological it takes a lot of training most of to Over come it. Nothing can take the lace of 150 children behind Iron curtain to join parents in Canada Montreal Edward Stanbury of Toronto National com missioner of the Canadian rec Cross says negotiations have been completed with Iron curtain coun for repatriation to Canada o 150 children of europeans living in this country. In an interview tuesday night following his arrival from Europe aboard the liner Saxonia or. Stan buy said there Are about 400 children listed by the Canadian red Cross As missing somewhere Portage Ottawa for bus mail Portage la Prairie Man. Special a chamber of com Merce proposal to have Portage mail carried to Winnipeg by eve Ning buses is to be forwarded to the postal office department at of Awa. Concerned by the cancellation of certain mail carrying trains or Soth the Canadian National Anc Canadian Pacific railways the chamber had written the District director of postal service suggest ing the innovation. The at tuesday s c of c meeting said such a decision was a matter for he department at Ottawa where the proposal was being forwarded. The chamber endorsed a proposal to have High school students aught safety rules for Highway driving. Passed unanimously were resolutions asking the provincial government to establish a uniform Ime for the province and object ing to the Sale of electric stoves and appliances by the Manitoba Power commission in Competition with regular retail business. Remember when cars like this chugged along Manitoba roads if you do you re an old timer. It s a 1905 Keo powered by one Cylinder with a Chain drive and steering wheel on the right. The old car is now resting on the farm of d. J. Klassen Miles was t of Gladstone and sy2 Miles North of Woodside. Strikers Force firm to close Montreal spokesman Lor Miron it Freres said wednes Day the company has decided to close its buildings following what be called a reign of terror by strik ing employees of the construction firm. A car belonging to a company superintendent was wrecked by an explosion before Dawn wednesday and the company spokesman said several trucks and other machines have been he did not elaborate. We have decided to stand on our Legal the spokesman said in announcing that the company was closing up. The strike involves truck Drivers of Miron it Freres and six other firms. As a result work on the St. Lawrence Seaway project in the ively Al stuns i to Bot shaping up i Dufferin Carman. Man. Special there will be an election for Reeve n the Rural municipality of due Erin oct. 21 As Well As in three or our wards. Reeve Archie Mceachern pre railways ask regulations Seaway protestant school must admit witnesses Quebec up the Quebec court of appeals wednesday or dered the protestant school com Mission of Rouyn que., to admit of school three children of or. And mrs. Paul Emile Perron members of the sect of Jehovah s witnesses. The three judge Bench also or dered the protestant school Board o pay to Perron to refund what he spent to educate his Chil Dren when the commission barred the children from school. The. Unanimous ruling of que s highest court quashes a judgment last year by the Quebec Superior court which ruled the protestant school Board was not obliged to educate the Perron Chil Dren. The Superior court judge ruled n effect that responsibility for the education of Jehovah s witnesses with the roman Cath Olic school commission at Rouyn. Behind the Iron he discussed the matter with romanian hungarian polish and Kussian red Cross officials while attending an International meeting of the society. He said they were very the Canadian red Cross has succeeded so far in reuniting some 65 children from communist coun j Montreal up Canada s najor railways said wednesday hey will be hobbled by regulations n competing with ships when the St. Lawrence Seaway is completed. In separate submissions to the Royal commission on coasting Rade Canadian Pacific and Ca Nadian National railways called or Federal Law amendments for an even break. Expensive licences the car recommended Amend ment of the Canada shipping act of require expensive licences for British ships operating in Dian coastal Trade. The licence or duty would be sufficient to cover the differential in shipbuilding Cost Between Canada and great Brit Crews of British ships licensed to operate in the Canadian coast Trade Sti Ould be paid Canadian scale wages while so engaged the Brief added. The car urged amendments of the transport act to provide 1. Publication and filing by the water lines of special arrange ments tariffs in addition to Al other tariffs 2. The same regulation respect ing tariffs and tolls for the Carriage of goods in bulk As apply to Al other goods. 3. Tolls and charges against Al ships for canals locks harbours Anc other facilities at a level calculated to recover construction and other Netherland s envoy s son to be Canadian Ottawa years of life in Canada has convinced the eldest son of the Netherlands ambassador that Bis future lies in this country. Hans Loving the Diplomat s eld est son and now a student at the University of Western Ontario in London has taken his first step to becoming a Canadian citizen. It will take five years but he thinks it will be Worth the wait Montreal Down. Area has been slowed some Drivers Are attending emergency meetings called by the International brotherhood of teamsters Al to discuss the refusal by Miron it Freres to recognize the Union. Ovink now Dean of Ottawa s dip somatic corps. Wednesday con armed his son s decision. But he Vas reluctant to talk about it say ing Hans will be most Embar Assed by All the he would want to be treated like any else seeking Canadian citizen ship. But the ambassador said he bought it was a Fine decision. Vancouver Council turns Down vote 3n sunday sport Vancouver coun cil voted 4-2 wednesday against submitting a plebiscite on sunday sport to Vancouver v o t e r s in december s civic elections. Earlier City clerk Ron Thomp son said that of More than Etters received opposed a plebiscite. Fifteen organizations wanted a plebiscite 14 did not five groups favored sunday sport and six opposed it. The move to have sunday sport sanctioned gained momentum last month when Vancouver acquired he baseball franchise of Oakland acorns in the Pacific coast league. Mayor Fred Hume who did not vote said he was not in favor of professional sunday sport or a wide open Catholic Bishops meet Ottawa Canadian Catholic conference an Organiza Tion of roman Catholic Bishops in Canada met Here wednesday to co ordinate All Church activities in Canada. James Cardinal Mcguigan of Toronto is presiding at the two Day annual meeting attendee by Paul Emile Cardinal Leger o Montreal. There also Are 12 Arch Bishops and 50 Bishops at the closed meeting. No. Netherlands ambassador a. J. Immigration discrimination charged Toronto up discrimination is being Practised against some persons seeking Homes in Canada the Canadian Congress of Jabor was told wednesday by its Luman rights committee. The committee urged the inclusion of provisions against discrimination on race Creed or color grounds in the National housing act and the Congress convention adopted a report to this effect. The delegates also called for a National Bill of rights endorsing Ong standing policy the committee pressed for the launching of a Broad educational program to combat race color Reed discrimination. Price Index rises in 9 of 10 cities lbs report shows Ottawa consumer Price Index Rose in nine of 10.re Vional cities Between aug. 1 Anc sept. 1, the Bureau of statistics reported wednesday. The Index for St. John s nfld., declined. Most cities reported increases in Ood and clothing prices. Indexes by cities for sept. 1 will aug. 1 figures in brackets St Johns 105.1 Halifax 115.2 Saint John n.b., 118. Montreal 117.1 116.8 Ottawa 117.5 Toronto 119.2 Winnipeg 116. Saskatoon and Regina 1154 Edmonton and Cal Gary 115.2 Vancouver 118.1 in calculating the Index average prices for 1949 Are taken As 100 London up Saskatchewan agent general Graham Spry has re turned to Canada for his annual visit. Officials Here said he will be in Canada about three weeks and will visit Ottawa and Toronto As Well As blackheads Don t sous get t users blackheads dissolve them. Get two ounces of be Koine powder from any drug store and apply gently with wet hot doth Over the Black leads. They amply dissolve and disappear by this sail simple Ottawa sea Ruddi Prawira Negara governor of the Bank of Indonesia arrives in 01 Awa today from the United King Dom for a three Day unofficial visit. The indonesian embassy said or. Prawira Negara May hoi talks with officials of the Bank o Canada while Here. Both from Alberta North ont. Officials thursday released names of two victims a Cf-100 Jet plane crash in Lake Nipissing five Miles South of Here wednes Day. They were of dug Bate Pilot and of a. N Leaf -.navigator. Both officers were married. Their families Are at cold Lake Alta. Sided at a ratepayers meeting Fol Wirig the nominations tuesday but although 60 attended there vere no grievances aired. The financial statement Given by Secre Ary treasurer Collin Rothwell As of sept. 30th, showed the Munici Paity in sound financial Pes Tzeo. Reeve who has served the municipality for nine years declined nomination and it s expected h. H. Mccullough and Alex King both former councillors will provide one of the keenest election campaigns seen in due Erin for Many years. Archie Gibson and John Smith Are running for the Ward 2 one year vacancy made when Alex King re signed to contest the Reeve ship. In Ward 3, l. J. Roth present councillor is being opposed by h. G. Rodgers a former councillor whom or. Roth Defeated at the ast election. In Ward 4, t. A. Clarke was re elected by acclamation. Murray Anderson councillor for Ward 5, is opposed by Lloyd Roth. Terms of office for councillors in wards 1 and 6 expire next year town of Carman in the town of Carman mayor f. C. Harris was elected by acclamation following ten years of service in that capacity. Three councillors terms expired those of j. B. Ross Kline Cochran and h. W. B. North. The first two Are standing for election along with l. R. Skelton George Bishop and w. J. Rinn. All three of the present trustees of Carman consolidated school District filed papers l. J. Bennett and l. B. Shilson for the town and Fred Abercrombie As Rural trustee. Or. Abercrombie was re elected by acclamation but or. Bennett and or. Shilson will be opposed by opposed by George Langved and Thomas Robinson. Sons if Ireland meeting a meeting of the sons of ire land will be held at 8 o clock Fri Day night in the free press auditorium. Husband and wife charged in theft of in . Vancouver up charges were Laid wednesday against or. And mrs. Jimwah darn in connection with theft of from a Safe in pie office of Pacific gig night. The Safe waa blown open., Jim Vandorria 29, was charged with breaking and entering while his 23-year-old wife Olga was charged with retaining stolen prop erty. Stabbed sentenced Prince Albert a. Waldeck 30, a prisoner at the provincial jail Here who stabbed a guard last month wednesday was sentenced to 2% years in Penitentiary for causing bodily harm wit intent to endanger the life of a jail guard. On new 1955 Kelvin Tor Washer Down per week extra phone for Salesman to Cam per week 661 Wall St. Open till 9 phone 75-2571 . Coffee is Lex or All pvt those but you la always want More Rich Strong . Mackinnon co. Ltd. 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