Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 14, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Delicious nutritious and so economical Winnipeg free press Winnipeg Friday october 1955 Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week week end edition with comics we journey for Eva Lone girl on a horse drum dive by Joe Gelmon Eva Roux has just made the journey from Chinook alta., to Marquette Man., in peanuts peanuts is a horse. A eight year old Pinto gelding. Eva is a 21-year-old Bru Nette from lunar has wanted to travel the Long distance on horseback Ever since i was a Little now she has done it. But the Success of the Long endurance contest months across Farmers Fields along highways Over two ferries does t impress Eva too much. What she s most proud of is the fact that she does t mind sitting Down. I feel she says with typical Western succinctness. All Eva took a train to last March. She worked As Cook on a farm near Chinook which is 35 Miles from the Saskatchewan Border. Towards the end of july she decided it was time to go Home. She bought a horse peanuts on which to make the journey. It was always my she says. On peanuts right Side she Hung the proud sign from Chinook. Alta. To Winnipeg or bust. When they got to Marquette Eva decided to leave peanuts there for a while. All that noise in Winnipeg might impair the psychological balance of h e r faithful Steed. After All pea nuts had been through a lot. Could be faster so Eva left peanuts in mar Quette and came into Winnipeg for a few Days of City life. Monday she s returning to mar Quette for peanuts to set out on the two or three Day Jour Ney Back Home to lunar. The trip from Alberta took Eva months but she and peanuts could have made it a lot faster. But there were Sev eral stopovers with friends along the Way. Mostly Eva slept in farm houses. Those Farmers Are pretty Eva says. The other Side of Yorkton anyway. You know what they West is no Flats one thing about travelling by horse no Flat tires. But Eva says peanuts lost a couple of shoes. In Winnipeg to visit friends for a couple of Days before go ing Home Eva determinedly placed a Cowboy Boot on a chair and said she was none the worse for her experience. Matter of she opined i think i even gained a Little peanuts lost a few pounds. Maybe he also hates grass now Buster a two year old Collie hated water. He would t be caught dead in the stuff. But the other Day busier changed his mind at least for the moment. His owner Thomas Rogers of 397 Stewart Street St. Charles was burning grass around his buildings. And Buster Allun knowing was hiding in t i e Long grass. Suddenly the flames reached Buster s paws. He streaked toward the House spied a 45 gallon drum of rain water and forgetting his moments later Buster emerged with Cool feet. Is this then a Good Way of curing a dog against dread of water not so you d notice says or. Rogers. The Collie still hates it perhaps even More. Angry hotel men deny vote dictated by brewery u May establish course on therapy the establishment of a physio it would be tied to the Manitoba therapy course at the University of Manitoba is currently being Dis cussed Here. Or. H. H. Saunderson University president said Friday no definite decision has been reached. Cost would be the main Factor he said. In town this week on a tour of Western centres mrs. Margaret Miller of Toronto meet with or. Saunderson Friday. Mrs. Miller is executive Secretary of the Cana Dian physiotherapy association. She said that the will for establishing the school is a matter of providing if operated on the same basis As medical College with training car ried on in Winnipeg s teaching hospitals. The course is largely prac tical. At present physiotherapy courses Are offered at Mcgill University and the universities Toronto Montreal and Alberta. However most of the Eastern graduates even those who come from the West stay in the East and in Manitoba alone there now Are 24 vacancies for physiotherapists. A to nurse there would help fill them she said. The four existing schools turn out about 115 graduates a year from the three year course but the four existing Canadian schools that s not enough to fill the need function of Church College keep religion in forefront is plea of new principal a plea that Church colleges Ful Rev. J. Esek Stewart chairman of the Winnipeg presbytery and inaugurated by senator John t. Eva Roux peanuts could t make it. Fill their True function As islands of learning on which the Beacon lamps of Christian truth might still be kept was entered by or. Wilfred c. Lockhart upon his induction and inauguration As Prin Cipal of United College thursday. The Toronto minister successor of the late or. W. C. Graham who retired in 1954, lamented a trend towards the secularization of higher education. It is important for the preservation of our culture and our religious he said to maintain institutions of higher j learning where education is set unashamedly in the framework of Christian truth and the search for truth is related in positive and dynamic terms to a living or. Lockhart was inducted by w. E. Donnelly minister of Young United Church. Rev. F. J. Douglas read the Les son from thu Bible. 16 cases 2 murder Jam fall assizes two murder cases five rape cases and three violations of the narcotics act will highlight the fall assizes of court of Queen s faces 3 traffic charges a 48-year-old Stonewall Man., Man suffered fractured ribs in a two car collision thursday night on no. 6 Highway in Brooklands. The injured Man Reuben Herbert Walker was in Good Condi Tion at Winnipeg general Hospital. Brooklands police reported air. Walker was Driver of a car which was in collision with another car operated by Gerry Daly of Rosser Man. Police said Daly who was not injured will be charged in connection with the mishap. He faces three charges under the Highway traffic act Brooklands police chief Art Cuba her said turning from a direct line of traffic giving an audible or visible signal driving without a Driver s licence and not having a vehicle registered for the current year. Both cars were badly damaged in the mishap. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Monday in the free press building include Board room no. 1, ladies auxiliary Arrial Gama Ted civil servants Board room no. 2, ladies auxiliary to Imperial veterans in can Ada c 1 u b r b o a Winnipeg aquarium St. Vital candidate Alvin Winslow 23 Victory place St. Vital will run in the oct. 26 municipal election in St. Vital As a candidate for Council. Or. Winslow s name was inadvertently omitted from the published list of nominations thursday. Enquiry into police station death oct. 19 an inquest into the death of Sylvester Kotar 72, of 71j4 Schultz Street opened in Central police station thursday and was remanded until oct. 19. Or. Kotar was found lying on the Street in a Drunken condition at 10.10 . Tuesday near the intersection of Dufferin died at 1.45 . Wednesday. From a heart attack. Or. I. 0. Fryer said the Man Smedley s Corner this is about people who Are Happy about things that were lost and have been found. Take 14-year-old Jack prior of 1169.downing Street. He was with his family in Minneapolis a Lew weeks ago and lost his Wallet. It did t have much Money in it Only so or 90 cents which in t bad after a spell in Minneapolis but there were pictures and other treasures. Well Jack could t find it and he had Given up Hope. But the other Day a package arrived from the Century theatre where the priors had seen cinerama during their Holiday. In the package was Jack s Wallet. And we should like to report that a kind Reader has turned Over a tricycle to the Little polio cripple we mentioned earlier this week. Remember his Trike had Digap pared from the porch this in t the same Trike but it will help him exercise his limbs. The Tumilson at 1320 Selkirk Avenue More fowl suppers looks like a big tasty Turkey won t have a Chance out Dugald Way the next few Days. We were informed by a lady from that Community thursday that there Are not just one but two fowl suppers coming up out there in the next few Days. On saturday october 15, the women of Plympton will hold a fowl supper in the basement of the Dugald United Church and then on saturday octo Ber 22, the ladies of the Dugald United Church will serve a monster Turkey dinner. They re expecting such a crowd that not Only the Church basement will be used but also the Church Hall. Eating is from 5 to s . And there la be movies in the Church from 7 to 9 . And then we must t forget the ladies of Ste. Anne of St. Charles roman Catholic Church who Are serving a fowl supper on sunday october 16, in the Church base ment starting at 6.30 . Bench. The assizes Start at the Law courts building Here tuesday. In All 31 persons will be arraigned in connection with the 16 criminal cases on the list. This will include 13 prisoners of head Ingley jail charged with mischief in connection with rioting in. The jail last Spring. Caretaker s death Donald Earl Hambleton of 216 Talbot Avenue is charged with the murder of Harold Harry Wolrich caretaker of the gait building whose body was found May 29 in the basement of the Robert Alfred Bradley 34, of no fixed address is charged with the slaying of Gus flatfoot 30, of 188 Sutherland Avenue whose body was found in a Lane at the rear of 154% Higgins Avenue Jan. 6. The battered body of 66-year-old or. Wolrich was found by Walter Law office manager of the can Ada players ltd., who had dropped into his office Early sunday after noon to finish some work. Police termed the assault one of the most brutal in local crime history and Many transients in the City s Jungle and Flop House areas were rounded up. Then the finding by an unidentified citizen of a blood spattered jacket in the Vicinity provided a clue that set off one of the biggest manhunt in the City s history. 51 hours later Hambleton was arrested just 51 hours after the Start of the Hunt. City police reported that the rime netted the perpetrator just 12.50 total loot estimated taken rom the building. Bradley the second Man charge Vith murder was arrested at St Man., by an ramp con table Jan. 6, a few hours after he battered body of Gus flatfoot iad been found. Police at the time of the slay no said there appeared to be no motive except a Drunken fight in he Lane. Among other cases Are Arthur Reuben Saunders charged with breaking entering and theft Jack fieldhouse and Frank John Zimmer narcotics Donald and Dorothy Mcgregor narcotics Thomas Sawchuk and Leslie Hall narcotics Edward Simard alias Seymour rape Wilfred Edward Schoyen rape Arthur William Wiebe rape Milton Edgar Olson rape Mifton Edgar Olson and Michael Wahl rape Nicholas Bono Ragozzo false pretences Frana Dora Mitte Steiner Gross indecency Stanley Drozdowski wounding with intent Laurie Mel Vin Martin alias lome Peebles prison break Louis Jourdain it Al mischief. Covering All cases on the list the Crown expects to Cal 204 wit Nesses. This includes 42 for the Hambleton trial and 32 for the Bradley trial. There is no Indica Tion How Many defence witnesses will be called but court officials say this will be one of the heavies Assize sittings in recent years. W. J. Johnston will appear for the Crown against Hambleton with c. W. Brock defending. A. S. De War will act As prosecutor at the Bradley trial with j. Crawford defending. Need t be Neutral he told a full Church that there is no Basic reason Why a demo cratic state should seek to remain Neutral on the great issues raised in religion. If a nation really desires to preserve its so called democratic pattern it must preserve the roots rom which that democracy Springs. These Are roots that run deeply into the soil of our Chris Ian culture and that May Only he nurtured and sustained by a Posi Ive and dynamic the existence of Church colleges a association Vinci Al universities is in itself one of the Best guarantees of keeping he National pattern of education torn becoming dominated by an entirely secular position he said Board of colleges or. Lockhart was presented for induction and inauguration by or. W. Harold Young Secretary of the Board of colleges and secondary schools of the United Church of Canada. Or. Lockhart was chair Man of this Board for nine years a statement for the Board of regents which appointed or. Lock Hart with the confirmation of the Board of colleges and schools was read by Allan h. Watson vice chairman. The prayer of invocation and the lord s prayer were Lead by or. Sparrow Stepnuk Haig chairman of the Board of regents at Young United Church. Greetings from the universities 1 colleges and schools of the United Church were brought by a. B. Moore president of Victoria University Toronto from the University of Manitoba by president Hugh h. Saunderson and from he affiliated colleges of the University of Manitoba by Canon l. F. Wilmot Warden St. John s College. Flown Back the-12-year-old fort Garry a o y who stowed away on a trans can Ada air Linos plane to escape an operation was returned to Winni Peg thursday afternoon. The boy. Slipped in Talca s North Star Airliner at Stevenson Fiek sunday night and was not discovered until the aircraft was a bbl to. Take off from Edmonton. He had told the stewardess when boarding the aircraft that his Mother was right behind him with his he was taken into custody by welfare officials in Edmonton Anc thursday Tea officials made arrangements for him to be flown Back to Winnipeg. He was met at the Airport by his Mother. He had told police at Edmon ton he was heading for Hawaii for the Winter. Bear facts now Are just lion Parks superintendent t. R. Hodgson said Friday that some Bear facts put before Council tuesday night were not facts at All and did not concern bears. He took Issue with an in Given Council by Aid. Gordon. Chown who asked for and got a Grant to Dis play the zoo s grizzly Bear cubs in the red River exhibition. Aid. Chown told Council he was making the request after talking to or. do you gentlemen or. Hodgson asked finance committee Friday that this Money is being provided at the request of the Park s we certainly said Aid. Jack Blumberg acting chair Man. Well it s not or. Chair Man and i want to make it or. Hodgson said. He said Aid. Chown had Tele phoned him immediately be fore the Council meeting and had told him that the red River exhibition wanted the bears displayed arts had asked him if the Parks Board to ult do it. Or. Hodgson said that he assumed it would be done at the request of the City and not at the request of the Parks Board. Furthermore he said the Bear cubs could not be Dis a charge that a certain brew Ery was dictating policy for the Manitoba hotel association brought heated exchanges and a vote of Confidence in the elected executive during the dying hours of the association s annual meet ing thursday. Making the charge was Joseph Stepnik of the Oxford a former Winnipeg Aiderman r who is running our or. Stepnuk asked waving a slip of paper in the air. "1 have e said a slip of paper contain no the names of our the slip he charged was Cir plated by a brewery company. Nine of the 11 or. Stepnuk said do but Haft they Are told to do. In future e should elect members who have financial interest in their own Aid managers played. They were too big for Hii Jitian. It would have to be some lion cubs Jand some rare Birds aldermen decided that whether the Parks Board had asked for the Money or not the Money had been appropriated and so the Parks Board might As Well go ahead and put the Lions in the exhibition and leave the committee to Dis cuss the matter privately with Aid. Chown. Or. Stepnuk said he did not be Rudge the paid managers of Olels their right to be present. 3ut he said that if the ind Epen ent operators wanted to do any Ling they had 57 votes against pm from the i won t accept that Merle Sparrow association presi ent told my. Stepnuk. If you ver accuse me again then you vill answer questions and they vill not be in a room like or. Sparrow told of being topped by or. Stepnuk the even and being handed the ame slip of paper. He denied the suggestion that directors took heir orders from anyone. He i lamed n. Rothstein j. G. Van Belleghem and f. W. Dangerfield. As a few of the men who owned heir own hotels and were inde indent. Their names appeared on t h e slip. Why would the brewery companies ask for their re election if he charges were True or. Spar Row asked delegates. Expulsion weather Outlook Bleak cooler weather is in the cards for the week end. The Weatherman says a storm is moving in rapidly and will hit the City saturday. However it is expected to be a Light one. Skies will become Cloudy this evening Clearing again saturday evening. The Wea Therman refuses to go out on a limb and say what the Wea ther will be like sunday. He says it May Clear or More storm Clouds May follow. A Toronto minister or. Wilfred c. Lockhart was installed principal of United College at a ceremony in Young United Church thursday. Holding the program for the ceremony with him Are sen. John t. Chairman of the Board of regents who performed the inauguration and Rev. J. Esek Stewart chairman of the Winnipeg Presby Tery who inducted or. then turning to or. Stepnuk or. Sparrow said. I would like to see you expelled from this As Charles Tanner Tor of the association Ajeff an swered the charges. He had been connected with the association since 1927. He had attended 29 an Nual conventions. Never have i been approached to put brewery interests he declared. I have consulted Ithem i yes but is it work with people who own i deny this allegation. Our Constitution and bylaws have been effect for years. You. Can change them by a two thirds vote. Tha nominations must be made from the floor. In this Case they were moved by an Independent and seconded by a hotel owner. The com plete executive was or. Tanner said the Independent hotel owners make up the majority of the membership and that they always have been in the majority. He considered re signing or. Tanner said. He was tired. But he has told the directors he would stay on until the Bracken report had been implemented. Sell out advice then speaking directly to or. Stepnuk or. Tanner said i know of no Man who has benefited More through his hotel and through our work than you. If. Business is As bad As you say it is then i advise you to sell out and get or. Tanner then suggested that a vote of Confidence be taken in the directors. A standing vote was taken. Or. Stepnuk remained seated when the negative vote was Drew will speak Here saturday George Drew will definitely address the second Century conservative dinner saturday night at the Royal Alexandra hotel. Conservative party officials said their National Leader however had been forced to cancel a two Day trip to the maritime at the be ginning of next week. Or. Drew admitted to Winnipeg general Hospital wednesday night was a mild Chest was in fairly Good condition Fri Day. Only two can lose in Ward 2 s Aldermani contest five candidates two Cec two term last year. Ture seeking his second term on More densely settled areas. I lessened "tension6 dilate on seven previous i Ecio of and one communist Are Winnipeg born City Council brother of r a Williami g. Obey. Jan t Goodman part. Now making his term last year. Winnipeg born he is a member of the american society of civil engineers and is a diocesan Lay Reader in the 3. Anglican Church. Limiting the Ward 2 contest has been a five candidates two Cec two Kcf and one communist Are contesting the three vacant City Council seats in Ward 2 when City electors go to the polls oct. 26. The five Man race contrasts with a seven Man event in Ward 1 and a six Man contest in Ward a dearth of Independent Candi dates. No Independent is in the race. One Independent is running in Ward 3 and three in Ward 1. In Ward 2. Three sitting Alder men Are seeking re election. The two other candidates Are both political veterans one of them having run on seven previous occasions. This is the Choice in Ward 2 Aid. Albert Edward Bennett Cec a building contractor seek ing his first full term on City Council. He was elected for a half Uius us Uliuli. I in. Fines provincial treasurer of sask an Active Trade unionist Aid. Paul Goodman a Chewan he also served briefly his first term on City Council. Born Ner in an electrical firm seeking in Winnipeg in 1911, he served his second term on City Council. Overseas with the Canadian army born in Winnipeg he attended Public schools at Selkirk and play live in the air Cadet movement and organized the first a Ca det Squadron in Canada in 1938. Platform to hasten the develop ment of a metropolitan area in greater Winnipeg so that projects beneficial to the whole area Are not paid for by the City itself. To press for the creation of More downtown casual parking facilities. Aid. Gordon fines former member of the provincial Legisla on the Winnipeg school Board. Or. Fines taught school for eight years in Mani Toba and Saskatchewan before joining the can a d i a n Pacific railway Vard of fice staff. Plat form to press City Council to face up to vital social problems facing Winnipeg such As inadequate accommodation the and care of nursing Home patients substandard housing a commode for years during Tho Sec Ond world War and is a Dele Gate to the Winnipeg labor Council. P 1 a t form to for the sederal government t o. Reduce a r m a i Tures and use for de professional hockey for wich Rita. Providence and the Chicago Black Hawks. He went into business in 1927. Platform to press for More Public works improvements such As arterial Street widening act u plan of dilate on seven previous elections now making his eighth bid for a seat on City c o u n c in a Veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve. M r. Mcisaac is a machinist with the car and a member of machinists Lodge no. 122. He past president of memorial Community ten Nis club and is also Active in the i Canadian legion. Platform to press Council to draw up an Over tary education. This would to continue Extension Tion for people in lower income to Winnipeg a downtown one Way Street plan brackets shortage of Tot lots towards solving the promote Extension of off Street other recreational facilities in crisis. All this is made parking. For Al main Cipal services in the foreseeable future showing in particular How they Are to be financed ;