Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 20, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week fear orioles club Type fracas Winnipeg thursday october 20, 1955 week end edition with comics we Community club building opposed As nuisance a fracas oct. 8 at the orioles Community club in which More than a dozen youths were held in an attack on a policeman had repercussions wednesday after noon at a Winnipeg Parks Board meeting. Two Man delegation appeared to protest the erection of a Community Centre building for the Isaac Brock Community club at Isaac Brock school on Clifton Street. A nuisance you re creating a nuisance in the or. 0. Brewer told the Board. Look what happened at the orioles club. You have a Bunch of people hanging around there who Are not in the Best interests of the Community. Recreation director Charles bar hour broke into the discussion. It was not the fault of the orioles club he said. The teen agers had descended on the club from the football game at Winnipeg stadium. He said 100 youngsters from All Over the City had tried to Force their Way into the club., or Brewer presented a petition of residents around the Centre. He said it had been taken a year ago. Aid Gordon fines said that one of the names on the petition was that of a member of the executive of the Community club. He said that when a Public meeting had been called to discuss the project the two men in the delegation were the Only two people in the area to raise objections. I think they re imagining things youth who took part in disturbance fined William Joseph Kaywood 18, of 733 Lorette Avenue was fined and costs in City magistrate s court thursday for being disorderly in a Public place oct. 7. A charge of unlawful Assembly was stayed by the Crown. Haywood was a member of a gang of 12 youths who were involved in a fracas at the Oriole Community club in which a police Man was assaulted. Police said Hay Wood did not participate in the assault. Are going to happen that he said. Aid. Lillian Hallonquist said that one of the members of the Dele gation was a professional she asked the press not to quote her. Committee decided to go ahead with the Job. The Board s Agenda identified the second Delegate As r. Hocker. ,669 in red rain no Rainbow the musical show Brigadoon lost in the six Damp and Chilly nights it ran at rain Bow stage last september Winnipeg Parks Board was in formed wednesday. More than of the loss will be absorbed by private patrons of the show and the remainder More than will be borne by the Parks Board. Parks superintendent t. R. Hodgson told the Board he was sadly disappointed with the financial report. Small coverage he d expected that rain insurance which paid off on one night the show was rained out would cover at least 000 of the costs. It covered Only or. Hodgson said the Board had ordered rain insurance at the rate of per evening enough to cover the operating costs for each night. Total Cost of the production for six nights was when it came time for the insurance company to pay off however the company explained that the policy Cov ered Only those tickets that had to be refunded or about no insurance company will insure under any other terms or. Hodgson said. It seems to me there was a slip up said Board chairman j. G. Eraser. The insurance is based on the or. Hodgson said. We wore under the impression we were covered on All Small increase in number seeking work in Winnipeg persons seeking employment in the greater Winnipeg area last week totalled an increase of 353 Over the previous week according to figures released by the unemployment insurance com Mission wednesday. Slu Lif _ Job applications in the sales and clerical category of employment accounted for the major part of the increase when there were applications compared to for week ended oct. 7, an increase of 233. Applications in manufacturing and miscellaneous employment showed an increase of 36 and 61, respectively. Applications for employment during the comparative week of 1954 reached a total of More than last week. Unfilled vacancies to oct. 14 totalled compared to for the comparative week last year. Here is a breakdown of applications for employment with the previous week s figures bracketed managerial and profession 2o3 3d sales and clerical manufacturing 720 construction 352 transportation 232 trades and services agricultural mining and lumbering 88 miscellaneous 342 unskilled students Register for employment the University office of National employment our costs for the rained out does t that show that con tracts like this should be submitted to the City Law depart asked Board member g. P. Macleod. It certainly replied or. Fraser. Ticket sales brought in 998 prof ram sales and the rain insurance rights orchestration and music Cost the choristers the orchestra the loss exceeded the producers speculations made after the third Chilly night of the six Day stand. At that time the producer said that under no circumstances would the losses be so High the Parks Board would have to pay. Patrons would be sure to cover All the losses he said. As it turned out however the total patronage fell about Short of meeting the deficit some fixing at school before vote the property committee of Charleswood school Board is taking immediate Steps to make some of the changes recommended in the fire commissioner s report chair Man j. C. Hilgenga says. Other improvements Are scheduled to be made after tabulation of votes on a school by Law next wednesday when the Board know How much Money it has to spend. Or. Hilgenga said carpenters have already been instructed to adjust the front doors which the fire commissioner s report said fitted too snugly and to report on the possibility of installing a hinged window leading to a Tern Horary fire escape from the ground floor. Or. Hilgenga said there arc Many things about Charleswood school that the Board does no like and we had made our plan to Correct them before we eve received the report from the fir with much humor a Coroner s View of doctors death two injured in car collision mrs. William Dunlop of 737 Magnus Avenue and Roy w. Brown of 349 Lindsay Street were injured tues Fly night when two cars collided head on near the North main drive in theatre. Mrs. Dunlop s husband was not injured. Ramp said that or. Dunlop s car collided with or. Brown s car when the former was pass ing a vehicle on no. 1 High Way. Mrs. Dunlop was in fair condition and or. Brown in Good condition in Winnipeg general Hospital. Commissioner. But he said worthwhile to it did not seen make expensive service has begun its annual registration of students seeking Christmas summer or per manent employment. Later in the week graduates and under graduates from downtown col Leges May Register at United College. There Are two univer sity employment offices one in the engineering building for fort Garry students and one at United College for Down town students. Changes then have to rip then out again if Money was voted i seven Days time to do the Board whole program of renovations. Some trustees have argued tha repairs to Charleswood schoo built in 1914, would be too Cost and that the Money would be be Ter used to build new classroom Barbara Ann Seltz of Iso Macfadden Street South Transcona is a Little Mother with six hungry Mouths to feed every Day. Barbara Ann adopted her family of six Little rabbits after their Mother was killed by a weasel. They Are eight Days old and they be been orphans since they were one. In the picture Barbara Ann is trying to stimulate an interest in the doll s bottle but the whole operation is complicated by sleepy s refusal to open his eyes. By Monty Pilling far too Many Hospital patients All out of bed or collapse in the bathroom while under influence sedatives. Or. Athol Gordon pouty provincial Coroner told Ospital officials thursday. In fact the frequency of such accidents is quite surprising or. Ordon said. He spoke on the Coroner s lace in the Community at the ourth annual Hospital and Nurs no conference at the Royal Alexndra hotel. Route Hanges approved r changes in two Winnipeg bus outes and the addition up a new out were approved wednesday afternoon by civic Ommittee. Public safety committee approved proposals f the greater Winnipeg transit of Mission to operate the University bus nto the City by Way of the mid own Bridge route have it run along Graham Vaughan and St. Wary to Osborne and out of the City on Osborne Pembina it Low runs in and but on the us borne route. Extend the terminus of the slice line to St. James Street a drip its present terminus. The Rolley bus would make its Loop on Centre Street St. Matthew s Avenue and St. James Street. 9 operate a limited service on rant Avenue and Cambridge Street Between Grant and Lindsay of the intersection of Corydon and he urged hospitals to increase supervision of patients whose re flexes Are impaired by Barbito i ate drugs lest the Hospital be come liable to charges of Crimi Nal negligence and to civil actions. It s a wonder outlining the duties of nurses and doctors in preserving Evi Dence for the Coroner or. Gor Don told of one Winnipeg doctor who washed the blood from the victim s face tracked his foot prints Over the bloody floor and left his fingerprints All Over the premises. It is a said or. Gor Don that the state did t hang him on the evidence. Discussing the Coroner s role As a medical detective or. Gordon old delegates about the Case of a Young Section hand who fell dead in an instant without uttering a sound while working on a Section of track near Winnipeg. It was established that the Young Man died or a wad of chewing gum entangled in his vocal cords. Yet lie had not choked to death since Liis features were not cya nosed. The gum in fact had affected a nerve reflex and stopped his heart. Without a postmortem we would never have known How he some never solved some mysteries confronting the Coroner Are never solved or. Gor Don said. Ten per cent of the postmortem across the country Lamb Ridge. Committee ordered the traffic Engineer to study a fourth proposal that the Ellice bus run be Ween Ellice and. Portage avenues on Spence Street. It now makes its connection Between Ellice and Portage by running North on Vaughan and South on Kennedy. Aid. H. B. Scott said he feared the new proposal would fic lights at Spence and wanted a traffic count made to see if lights at this intersection would not Back traffic up into the Ellice Colony intersection. For Tornado hit Hospital the Manitoba government is going to make an immediate interim Grant of to the general Hospital at Vita Man., which was partly destroyed by Tornado late in june. The Grant was announced thursday by Hon. R. W. Bend health minister. He said he had begun correspondence with the Federal department of with a View to obtaining a fed eral Matching Grant for the Vita Hospital. No More neighbourhood credit unions in cities the Manitoba government has decided not to allow formation of any More neighbourhood credit unions in the greater Winnipeg area or other Urban centres. R. D. Chase director of co operative services department of agriculture revealed thursday that several applications to establish neighbourhood unions in Winnipeg had been turned Down Dur ing the past year. Winnipeg s Only neighbourhood credit Union the West end Cre Dit Union established in 1951 will be allowed to go on operating despite the ban on formation of new unions of the same Type. Or. Chase said that granting of the charter to the West end Union was frankly my explaining the ban of further unions in the City or. Chase said it was because of the Lack of a common Bond of association such As existed in Rural communities. Applications for Charters to operate unions in the City usually set out the boundaries of a Geo limited dividend rental plan urged graphical area the Union was in ended to serve. But or. Chase said the people living within these arge areas could not be said to Lave the same Colimon Bond of associate a As existed in Rural communities and which was required by the credit Union act. He said the ban was not a reflection on the West end Union 491 Simcoe Street which he said appeared to be operating prop Erly and would receive All the help it needed from his Branch. He said there would be a Strong tendency for neighbourhood unions to become simply lend a Low rental development ment under supervisor Illiam courage. The proposed Elmwood project the brain child of two architects and two assistants of the universe of Manitoba school of architect privacy for indigent patients asked the Manitoba Catholic hospitals Congress would like to see More privacy for indigent patients in particular for the nature of their illnesses. The Congress representative of 15 Catholic hospitals passed a Resolution to this effect at its meeting monday. At present it said information about indigents ailments is forwarded to the municipality concerned. The Congress believed it would be sufficient to have a simple statement by the doctor that the patient needed Hospital care. No other Type of patient needed to disclose his illness it maintained. Six tons of fruit condemned during August food inspectors in the Winnipeg health department condemned six tons of fruit during August about four times the average in a month Long period. This was reported to civic health committee in the August report of or. M. S. Lougheed medical health officer. One Carload of spoiled fruit accounted for the increase. Other items condemned during August included 154 pounds of canned goods 120 of vegetables 102 of Candy 91 of meat 90 of baked goods 55 of Cereal 34 of poultry and six cases of soft Smedley s Corner we spoke wednesday of the lady and the double yoked eggs _ All but one out of a dozen. Well mrs. K. Kroeze 984 Carter Avenue must have the same egg Man. She bought two dozen and All were double yoked but one and that one was triple yoked. We feel that the record to Date at least should go to mrs. A. Frame 524 Clifton Street who tells us that of the last six dozen eggs she has used every one was double yoked. Not one of those Ordinary Etensie Weenie Grade a larges in the whole Bunch. Just giants. Miscellany this is the night and tomorrow night when the women s auxiliary of St. Alban s Church present a picture show As a matter of fact it s a world travelogue by win nip Egger George Tatlock flight 9703 starting at 8 . Each evening and rsm. Bill Frend 845 William Avenue is anxious that All ex-12th Manitoba dragoons in Rural Mani Toba and Saskatchewan get in touch with him by oct. 21 that s tomorrow we re late mentioning this so and mrs. A. King 329 Moor Gate St. James had a written reply to an and she had placed in the free press. The reply was from mrs. Helga Richter but it gave no address and it gave the wrong phone number. Mrs. King asks that mrs. Richter get in touch with her again. In Elmwood to House the most needy individuals and families known to Winnipeg social agencies was i recommended wednesday at a meeting of the housing commit tee of the welfare Council of greater Winnipeg held in the red Cross building. The recommendation came from a subcommittee of the housing group. How to do it the subcommittee also Recorr ended that a limited dividend corporation be set up under the National housing act to provide or construction of the Elmwood development and future Low Ren Al projects. In a limited dividend project Lentral mortgage and housing corporation provides up to 90 per cent of the capital needed. The remainder must come from a private corporation set ii to build the project. The sub committee suggested hat this amount be solicited from citizens and firms. The welfare Council s housing committee will meet again in five o six weeks after the member organizations have discussed the subcommittee s report. Then Inal report will be submitted the Board of the welfare Counci from there it will go to the Civi housing committee. The Elmwood development Coul prove to be the Pilot project of an immense Long term program o Low rental housing and slum Clear in Winnipeg it was state interim report details of the 30-unit project were contained in another interim report on Low Cost housing of Winnipeg which was prepare Over the summer by the planning research Centre of the school architecture the University Manitoba. Both reports were prompted a housing Survey of Winnipeg crowded Central area prepared b the City emergency housing Depar they Are prof. W. Soderlind c. De Forest and j. Inoshita. The project is planned on a Tri angular piece of land bounded on he North Side by Herbert Street n the East by a Lane and on its Hird Side by the Canadian Pacific Ailway mainline. He project the Elmwood site would accommodate 30 Row or Terrace Type ouse units of Frame constructor and stucco finish fourteen would in two bedroom units six Small free bedroom units eight Large free bedroom units and two four bedroom units. The City owned land would be difficult to subdivide into individual lots the housing report states income from the Low Renta housing project might make i worthwhile for the City to give Thi and to a housing corporation. The site is at the Edge of a residential area with adequate school facilities recreation area and transportation the report states. It is also High enough tha Spring flooding is unlikely. The subcommittee reported the following conclusions that there is a need for Ade quate housing for the Low income groups in the City especially among families with incomes less than since the housing Survey report estimated about 50 additional housing units Are needed to relieve crowding in the Cen trial area a corresponding Figur for the whole City would be be tween and that children and families Are adversely affected by Over crowding and poor housing cond tons in Winnipeg s blighted area that the majority of ind tvs urls and families who live in in adequate housing do so through n Choice of their own. Their serious conditions of existence Rise from social problems such As finance crisis illness crippling disease old age and intellectual inadequacies that More adequate dwellings Lould be provided at the lowest possible Cost. Municipal and pro Uncial welfare departments Are ready paying relatively High ends for inadequate housing for Lany. That present minimum Stan Ards of housing uate housing permit invade that As More adequate hous no is provided housing Regula on would need to be rigidly enforced to prevent the continued be of sub Standard dwellings. The new adequate housing must be available at a rental possible for in Low income group. The subcommittee also recommended that the City raise mini mum housing standards to a level which guarantees adequate hous ing and that it enforce such. A new code. Members of the subcommittee Are mrs. E. Lord chairman rep resenting the Winnipeg Council of women r. H. Robbins of the trades and labor Council Alex Robertson of the chamber of com Merce Aid. James Cowan representing the Manitoba Branch of the Canadian legion and chair Man of Winnipeg s civic housing committee and g. Rich of the Community planning association b. R. Wolfe chairman of the Wel fare Council s housing committee was an sex Toffi Cio member. Fail to discover the cause of inquests Are required to establish four things Only Hoy where when and by what Means the deceased met his end. One Point or. Gordon emphasized in Case you get in trouble and Are afraid the evidence you give May result in a later prosecution you can ask for the Protection of the court. You or your counsel must ask for it. I can not Tell you to do it. If you answer truthfully the evidence you give May not be used against you in a subsequent trial. If you answer falsely then you n. Be tried for of yeah in a lighter vein. Or. Gordon told How ancient. Court tradition has been corrupted by modern usage. Recently he said a Young policeman at the opening of hearing attempted to proclaim the customary Oyez Oyez in Stead it came out of yeah of yeah of on another occasion he said the result sounded much like a series of hebraic expletives to wit Oioi co operation could solve farm worker shortage says Lange co operation Between farm groups and professional agriculturists could solve the shortage of professional agricultural work ers prof. E. H. Lange president of the Manitoba Institute of agro Logiste said tuesday. Prof. Lange spoke at a joint ing institutions without the Community association provincial Law. Required by the co operative credit society of Manitoba Central Organiza Tion for about 135 of the province s 180 unions had applied pres sure on the government to allow More unions in the City. Meeting of his organization s Board on the provincial Board of the Manitoba federation of agriculture and co operation. Or. Sol Sinclair Manitoba director of the agricultural Institute of Canada stated that the need for agricultural workers was world wide. His organization he said through a program of scholarships on the graduate level was trying to increase the Supply of trained workers. Chairman of the meeting was j. D. Wilton Mac presi Dent. Witness deemed hostile trial comes to a halt trial of Arthur Reuben Saunders on of breaking entering and theft before or. Justice g. E. Tritschler and an Assize court jury came to a sudden halt wed soloists for tonight s performance of the Messiah at the new Winnipeg Arena held a final rehearsal with conductor Donald Leggat and the 600-voice choir at the Arena wednes Day night. Left to right George Kent Winnipeg Tenor Lois Marshall Toronto Soprano Gladys Kriese former Winnipeg contralto now living in new York and Norman Farrow another new yorker formerly of Regina and London ont. The history making perform Ance this will be the largest choir and largest audience in Winnipeg s musical history begins at 8.30 ., but the audience will be in its seats by 8.15, when the lieutenant governor and his official party arrives. Ticket sales already outnumber those for tuesday s Arena opening hockey game. Seats have placed where the rink was Laid tuesday. Mesday when a. S. Dewar Crown attorney had a witness declared hostile and asked for stay of proceedings against Sanders the stay was granted. The Quick decision came after one of the 13 Crown witnesses James a. Sinister serving 18 months at heading Ley jail on a similar charge gave evasive answers and varied his testimony from that Given at the preliminary hearing in the theft Case. The Case involved the May 9 theft of Wols and plywood valued at from 798 Queenston Street. Sinister had been warned by the Crown about his responsibility As a witness but after several i Don t remember replies and other attempts at evasion he was told to stand Down and was declared hos tile. Or. Justice Tritschler said that the witness appeared to be an untrustworthy character and it was indicated in court that consideration would be Given to the possibility of a charge of perjury. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Friday in the free press build ing include Board room no. 1, ladies auxiliary Canadian Hong Kong veterans association Board room no. 2, past mistress s club ladies or Ange benevolent association clubroom joint Hospital com Mittee Canadian legion. School Burns Ponoka Alta. Cup about 250 students and nine teachers were left without a school wednes Day when a fire destroyed the Mecca Glen Public school 18 Miles East of Here ;