Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 20, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday october 20, 1955 Page 7 w v w w parents Corner school patrols by Richmond Barbour How is traffic controlled around your elementary school signals regular cops special officers or by a Junior traffic patrol where conditions permit i like Junior traffic patrols. They re made up of the most responsible fifth and sixth Grade boys usually the Mem Bers Are selected by their teachers. Local motorcycle cops come into the school to rain them. Sometimes service clubs pay for the uniforms they Wear. Sometimes the Board of education does with Public funds. The patrols control the flow of both pedestrian and car traffic near schools during Rush hours. A Well drilled Well dressed Junior traffic patrol commands respect. Drivers pay More at Tention to the kids than they do to adult policemen. There is something about the Young sters which makes adults extra cautious. Children respect them too. Possibly the Best thing about the patrol is what it does for the boys themselves. It gives them real responsibility just when they need it. It teaches them very important safety lessons. A while ago in los an Geles some men made a study of teen age Drivers. Do you know which ones were the safest former members of Junior traffic patrols. They did t have accidents. They Flinn t get tickets. In some places Laws make the Junior patrols impossible. In others the school boards Are dead set against them. That is too bad. There Are a few common sense restrictions. The kids must be carefully selected and trained. They can t be used on arterial highways or Busy downtown intersections. Arrangements must be made so they do their directing from he curbs not out in the streets. Close continuous pol ice supervision must be provided. If you Don t have a Junior traffic patrol at your school will you ask your principal about one clip this column and show it to him. Maybe he s missing a bet. About 42 per cent of Brazil s peo pie Are under age 15. Looking backward eighty years ago oct. 20, 1875 raging Prairie fires had Des troyed most of the Hay put up by the settlers along the Dawson Road. So arriving passengers had reported and free press reporter Justus Griffin was sent out to get an item on the extent of the damage with names of losers. Seventy years ago oct. 20, 1885 general Secretary c. M. Char lie Copeland presented an inter Esting but alarming report at the annual meet ing of the Winnipeg . In Central congregation Al Church formerly at Quappelle Avenue and Hai grave or. Copeland s report stated that the y membership had fallen off from 290 to 258 inside a year. Sixty years ago oct. 20, 1895 the Liverpool Post claimed to have discovered the Skull of Oliver Cromwell in the Possession of the Wilkenson family at sea Chart Kent. Cromwell s Skull had been stolen when the protector s body had been disinterred and hanged publicly at the restoration. Fifty years ago oct. 20, 1905 the Winnipeg theatre notre Dame Avenue which had for years under manager c. P. Wal Ker been Winnipeg s prime place of entertainment was Seld to two Detroit men messes. Drew and Campbell. Or. Walker s new theatre the Walker later Odeon was to be ready shortly. Forty years ago oct. 20. 1915 or. Of. G. Grace famous Brij Tish cricketer died in London aged 67. Or. Grace had played amazing Cricket for 55 years Ever since his 12th year having accomplished seven times the double feat of scoring runs and Tak ing-100 wickets in one season. Thirty years ago act. 20, 1923 the first meeting of the Winni Peg social workers club was held in the Marlborough hotel with Rev. D. S. Hamilton the newly elected first president in the chair. The guest speaker prof. F. W. Kerr of Knox United spoke on Geneva and the league of nations. Twenty years ago oct. 20, 1935 the Progress of the United Church of Canada in ten years of Union was to be set Forth Over coming week end by principal Clar ence Mackinnon of Pine Hill Halifax former minister of Westminster Church and or. James Endi Cott. United Church Secretary of foreign missions also a former Winnipeg Ger. Old Mission Oak a moravian Mission for the eskimos was founded in 1778 on the East coast of Labrador. Blackheads Don t squeeze them. Two ounces of peroxbo5 powder from drag store and apply gently with wet hot cloth Over blackheads. They a Mph dissolve and disappear by ton method. Qew precision Swiss made to keep you on time remind you on time Idina ;