Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 18, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press week end edition with comics we Winnipeg tuesday october 18, 1955 by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week others at town Hall by Ted Byfield and Fred Fri before a Lone heckler and a half full House. 14 Winnipeg candidates for aldermen put Forward their wares monday night at the seventh annual town Hall meeting sponsored by the Junior chamber of in the civic auditorium nearly 1000 citizens heard questioned Douglas Chisholm by Bank would Back them Jack St. John Ald. Jacob Penner i m the Man a 20 per cent tax boost w. A. Kennedy it s not sunday sport Stan Carrick we re in for trouble i i applauded and gently cheered the candidate All very politely and Jaycee officials described the meeting As one of the most nobody hissed and no one was Irown out. But the evening had one heckler whose raucous Bari tone Cut through the crowd at a delicate moment to describe former Alderman Stan Carrick As a that with an occasional groan and some cruelly timed guffaws was the height to which Pas Sions Rose. Jaycee officials said hospitals seek Way to reduce costs but improve service of Ottawa cider of 5 and nursing welfare ates a cent than 1.200 delegates Are spitals can save 15 per cent of expected to attend the three Day food costs and improve food qual which got under Way Ity at the same time by Stream tuesday at the Royal Alexandra i lining their dietary departments font of to Retinas from Hon. Or. Hughes said he was known r w Bend minister of health recently in a new american hos and Public welfare. Mayor George Jpilar a sorting machine which it Sharoe or w d Piercey. Exec was claimed did away with the Ive director of the Canadian hos menus punched on vital association and j. E. Rob cards were distributed to patients in of the Winni to Mark their preferences and Peg childrens Hospital and sen these then went through the a Aerial chairman of the conference. Sectional groups Are meeting in with the Hospital and problems of reducing costs and improving services Wil produce a Large share Chine. This took the Guesswork out of estimating food quantities required. The Hospital official who showed or. Hughes the machine was a graduate of the Yale school of hotel administration. Hydro Power switch Eady in a few Days the Little red Light in front of the speaker s dais went on. Everybody began to applaud the Peoples signal to the candidate to sit Down time was up. But the candidate could t see the Light. He was doing Well he was sure. Listen to those people clap he pressed a Multi million Dollar switch Between the City and the province on Power distribution facilities May be completed late this week. Under the Deal City Hydro will take Over the distribution facilities Winnipeg electric co., and will become the sole distributor of Power in Winnipeg. In Exchange City Hydro will turn Over to Aumi Peg electric now owned by the Manitoba Hydro electric Board All its distribution facilities outside the City. Besides a straight Trade of distribution Plant City Hydro will make a to Boot payment of representing the greater value of the Winnipeg electric facilities in the City compared with City Hydro s distribution system outside. D m. Stephens Hydro electric Board chairman said tuesday that what we Hope will be the final drafts of the agreement have now been completed and Are receiving a final Check. If nothing untoward is found during this Check the Deal will be ready for signing in a few Days. Car jumps curb Man. 28, injured Alexander Mckeon 23, of 630 Rosedale ave nue was admitted to Winnipeg general Hospital with a fractured Arm. Multiple bruises and cuts Fol lowing a traffic mishap at 8.50 . Monday. His condition was reported fairly Good. Police said or. Mckeon w a s driving East on Academy Road when his car went out of control at Guelph Street jumped the curb and struck a Hydro pole. Public libraries to hold open House Winnipeg ers have a Chance today to browse around the Public libraries before voting oct. 26 on a Money bylaw for the erection of six new Branch libraries. An open House today at the libraries will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Winnipeg Public Library. Hours Are from 2 to 5 . And from 7 to 9 . Roland Man to compete for scholarship Barry stocks has teen selected Manitoba candidate for the Eaton agricultural scholarship Hon. R. D. Robertson announced Friday. Or. Stocks will compete with candidates from other provinces at the Royal agricultural Winter fair in Toronto nov. 10 and 11 for the. Scholarship. It covers fees Board and lodging for a four year degree course in agriculture. Or. Stocks had been a member of the Roland 4-h beef calf club for seven grew louder. The candidate became More confident. The applause was getting deafening. Across the face of the candidate flashed a Shadow of doubt. They re not applauding for me. They re applauding against me. They want me to shut he stalked to his 5631 this happened not just to one but to about five speakers at monday night s town Hall meeting. Here s what three of them said when they were being Cut off _ Harold Buchwald speaking for commercial sunday sport Are you going to deny crowd applauds. Speaker smiles Are you going to deny hese citizens crowd applauds louder. Speaker smiles Are you to deny these citizens the right crowd s applause drowns him out. Speaker does not smile. Speaker Dowald. Gordon fines but there Are other things we could do to Cut the Mill rate a Little applause we a lot of applause Well we could too much applause. Speaker sits Down Ernest Anderson onco upon a time we had applause once upon a time we had applause deafening. The people never found out what they the most embarrassing moment of the evening when Aid. H. B. Scott who is also an la announced in 1954 he was going to seek re election to City Council and remain in the legislature Jack St. John also an la who had previously been an Alderman was one of the chief opponents of a politician holding the two posts. In a City Council sponsored amendment to the City charter the legislature was asked to prevent aldermen hold ing a legislature seat. The amendment was Defeated but or. St. John was one of Only three Las who favored bar ring aldermen from also being in the House. Now sex Alderman St. John la is seeking to do the same thing Aid. Scott did. He s a candidate for City Counce in Ward 1 it was just a question of time until somebody pointed out the inconsistency. Monday night the time you the or. St. A questioner asked who tried to pass the bylaw about one Man for one or St John was ready. I m the Man All right he smiled holding tight to the lectern. And i be been asked As the Man in the Manitoba legislature to sponsor the City Bills. I put up As Good an argument As i could for tha bylaw but the committee discussed this problem quite thoroughly and turned it Clown almost unanimously. Or. St. John sat Down to scattered applause. Or. Mulligan s joke sex Alderman David Mulligan is a Man who appreciates the civil liberties especially when they re his. Or Mulligan who s seeking a Ward 1 Aldermani seat monday night backed the Junior chamber of Commerce vote As you please but vote Campaign. But to Trie Jaycees slogan or. Mulligan added one word. Vote As you said or. Mulligan As he wound up his town Hall speech. But vote Bennett collapses one of 4 absentees Aid. A. E. Bennett collapsed at a meeting of civic Public utilities committee monday afternoon from what at first was believed but later proved not to be a heart attack. Or. Bennett will spend three Days at Winnipeg general Hospital for observation. The Alderman seeking his first full term As Ward 2 representative on City Council was forced to cancel his appearance at monday night s town Hall. Three other candidates missed the meeting. They were said Morris e. White the chairman h. L. Stevens seeking a Ward 3 seat who was unavoidably out of town Aid. Jack Blumberg who was attending another meeting and Aid. Slaw Bebchuk who had three other things to questions and answers to serve on the police commission of the City of she asked support for three causes the Disraeli Bridge the Library bylaw and Aid. Maude Mccreery. David a. Mulligan i will attempt to have a thorough investigation made of assessments in the sex Alderman Mulligan was convinced that taxes on prop erty used for commercial purposes have not increased in line with taxes on residential land. Harold Gilbert Pullin elected officials Haven t the time to do a proper Job of admin or. Pullin Felt that a to manager system would lift he Burden of administration from Council and mayor. He also Felt lat a bylaw requiring new build nos to provide parking space be a progressive Jack St. John i cannot Romise miracles. You would t expect me to. It would t be honest you did. But i do Promise this look on the responsibility of an 31u113 . U a however that the turn out was Good considering there was no election for mayor this year. Trustees Parade the meeting opened with a two minute p Arade of school trustees the school Board candidates were shepherded on to the platform Ward by Ward and introduced one by one. Some bowed. Some smiled some stared with great dig to Down upon the crowd. But Nom were permitted to speak. There was time Only for the would a aldermen. Then followed a Brief debate o commercial sunday sport in pro and con spokesmen were each Iven three minutes. Neither ii shed on time and the pro con Vercial sport spokesman devoted nearly half his speech to thanking he Jaycees and telling a joke about Winston Churchill. Said Harold Buchwald Winnipeg Uderman As i would if i were the director of a corporation spending a year. I Promise you 11 see that you receive a full Ollar value for every Dollar you Pend in taxes. I earnestly solicit Raur support for Rne on Alfred Ernest White he presented the White parking 3lan" and urged his election As end oration of it. He said what the plan would do eliminate traffic congestion justly consider merchants., give Freedom to pedestrians allow traffic to unload but he did t say what it was. In Anwer to a question later he divulged it Centre Street parking on Portage Avenue. Ward 2 Aid. Gordon fines he said it would be irresponsible to claim that he could reduce taxes the City was in the throes of tremendous development popu Smedley s Corner now that we re All breathlessly awaiting a decision on the Romance of Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend it might interest readers to know that the London sunday express ran a Horoscope of the then baby Princess in 1930. Mrs r Palmer 81 Willow Avenue River Heights phoned to Tell us about it. She has the clipping. The Horo _ scope Reading by r. H. Naylor said that an event of tremendous importance to the Royal family and the country would occur in the Princess seventh year the abdication of King Edward Viii noted mrs. It came to the present phase of history stating that the Princess would marry rather suddenly Between Hei 24th and 26th years As a result of an attachment of Long Well we shall see. Odds and ends u a sounds like a lot of fun coming up Friday at the Bird s Hill Community Hall fiddling contest to Date says our Mormant six old time fiddlers Are entered and there 11 be plenty of fiddling. Sponsors Hope to make this an annual event. By the Way. It All starts at 7.30 . And there la be a Oance afterwards another Turkey dinner this one wednesday from 5 to 8 . In Nisbet Hall and sponsored by the Mary Nisbet auxiliary old Kildonan Presby Terian Church and. Please mrs. T. Jarman ;