Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 17, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday october 17, 1955 Page plane Hunts in vain after mystery sos Vancouver up an Craf Rescue plane investigating a Marine distress Call returned to base Here sunday night after a fruitless search Oft the West coast of Van Couver Island. The Canso cruised the area 180 Miles Northwest of Victoria look ing for an unidentified ship that sent a radio sos message. Unique obstacles no bar to manitoba9 port by Walter Gray Churchill. Man. Is a problem in this Hudson s Bay port. Food costs Are higher. Tele phones Are few. Plumbing is mostly Lua oors. And Only a Lew houses have running water. Summer brings out the Black flies and the mosquitoes Winter Holt lie que. The Snow and the freezing cold. And when you die they have to carve out your grave with Dyna mite. But some 850 Hardy souls Call this town scattered Over the rocks and Tundra at the Mouth of the Churchill River Home. Wheat Givy Viz in pkg. Both for wheat City 1 in. Packers products York Brand 15 of. With York Brand 15 of. York Brand 12 of. York All pork product 12 of. York 3 of. York 12 of. Start saving your Complete set of football players tumblers 9 of. Shop easy store 1595 main St. Open wednesday till 6 . Closed Friday Nite at 6 . Jewel store main Bannerman open thurs., for. Sat. Until 9 . Broadway Spence open thurs Day and Friday until 9 . Churchill is enjoying its Best year Ever. The shipping Boom has brought increased activity to the port. Construction of radar defence lines further North has turned the town and nearby fort Churchill a joint . Military base into a bustling operations head quarters. The Boom has created a multitude flight safety talks Edmonton Safe a including that on the Dew Distant Early warning radar Ine Airlift operations will be a major Point of discussion at the annual convention of the Cana Dian airline pilots association w. J. Montgomery the association presi Dent says. Or. Montgomery a trans can Ada air lines Captain from Winnipeg and Walter Fairey of Winnipeg association managing director were in Edmonton sunday to speak with association members regarding the three Day convention Betty open so of Waterford. Ont., who was one of the four women competitors against 200 men at the International plow ing match at Leamington ont. She has a word of advice for girls who want a Nice figure take up blowing. It s Tough she says but it s wonderful for a girl s Waist and army engineers hold record size week end scheme Lethbridge up a Well planned Retreat with the enemy stymied was carried out at nearby Park Lake sunday in what an army spokesman termed the largest concentration of militia army engineers held in Canada since the second world War. Militia exercise operation tur of problems for the town which is still an unorganized municipality. This summer the town with the approval of the Manitoba govern ment established a five Man town planning committee headed by furniture dealer a. A. Anderson to handle affairs. Fifty new Homes were erected this year and the committee set aside new building lots to meet next year s demand. The lots i would make a City contractor shudder. They were strewn with huge rocks some As big As a Small House beneath the Tundra. Only two or three feel below the surface the ground is Frozen solid the year round. Excavation is impossible buildings rest on a gravel hauled in by truck. Yet these lots Are Selling from to because of the permafrost pipe lines run along the surface. Water supplied by the National Harbor Board is piped to the town from Lake Isabel two Miles Distant. The line skirts the town with a Branch running through a Row of houses to the Canadian National railways terminal. The 20 houses by the lines Are Able to tap the Supply at a year but when the cold weather sets in the Supply to the Homes is Cul off and householders must hair their own water or pay 75 cents for a barrel delivered. Some residents melt ice. The few telephones Are operate through the Camp switchboard when a Telegram arrives for a res ident an announcement is made Over the Camp radio station Choc and the receiver must either walk to the nearest Telephone or direct to the station. The local chamber of Commerce now is trying to persuade the Manitoba Telephone system to run a Long distance line from the Pas electricity Supply Harbor Board supplies the town with electricity at 12 cents a kilowatt. Most Homes have out door toilets others septic tanks Anc cesspools. Fuel Oil Sells for for a 35 Allon drum and Coal at a ton. Churchill looks its Best in Winter the Snow hides the garbage and litter strewn about the town. In frequent garbage collections Are made during the summer and none in the Winter months. The Shab Biness is made More noticeable by the Lack of vegetation. Hudson Square a huge tangle set in the Middle of town is a Barren expanse boulders and gravel. There Are no lawns or gardens. Drainage ditches run deep along some streets. Exteriors of most Homes Are Dull generally Grey imitation Brick Sid ing. Tar paper is common. The Pink painted Home of Dave Croal Churchill Bush Pilot stands like a fresh Blossom in a fading Garden. The enterprising Croal is currently attempting to make a Lawn around his Home. He has Laid a fill of wheat screenings and Cal dust. Before the Snow flies he Hopes to truck a Load of top soil from the Churchill River Banks. Enterprising business men have moved abandoned army huts from the Camp and carved them up into Small Homes. Thirty families of servicemen live in town paying from to a month for two and three room dwellings. Traffic is fairly heavy on the Dusty gravel Road running the five Miles to fort Churchill. The 10 taxis operating from the town charge a set rate of for the round trip. Gasoline Sells for cents a gallon. Fresh milk Sells for 40 cents a quart and 80-Pound sack of potato the mail order business for clothes is brisk. The town is fringed with shacks and tents of the Chipewyan in howling sled dogs Are chained in the Flats Between the town and the port for they Are not allowed within 200 feet of a build ing. The town is the Centre if two religious orders. It is the Headquarters of the oblate fathers of the Hudson s Bay vicariate a roman Catholic order whose Mission spread North from throughout the Hudson s Bay area established in 1860 Rev. L. R. Willis of Sundridge ont. Is in charge of St. Paul s anglican Mission the oldest mis sinn in the North. A whaling factory operates on the River during the summer months. 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