Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 21, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba For Winnipeg free press braces milk Glo bread by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg Friday october 21, 1955 week end edition with comics Loc Cut pro hockey ties club teams ordered the Community centres advisory Council thursday night moved to refuse the support of professional sports organizations. In a motion passed at a Meetin at Winnipeg City Hall the advisor Council refused to allow Community clubs to permit sponsor ship of their teams by any professional organization with the understanding that donations to the general funds of the club on a voluntary basis May be permit aimed at nil clubs the move was mainly directed at National hockey league club which have been making donations of equipment to playground teams. It came in response to Strong pressure from the Board of Parks and recreation which hinted through Aid. J. Gurzon Harvey chairman of thursday s meeting it would Stop sup porting clubs which accepted professional backing. The Council also agreed to a proach he Bantam hockey league a Fol defy ban credit Union says the Manitoba credit Union society will defy the provincial government s ban on Urban neighbor Hood credit unions the society s m a n a g e a Marcel Caron said thursday. To try to persuade league officials to make their team boundaries the same As those of Community clubs. Members led in discussion by Charles Barbour Winnipeg s re creation director charged that players were being imported from outside districts to boast team strength. But these players should not be allowed to join teams of districts where they did not reside most members Felt. During the meeting councillors heard of professional clubs Dona Ting credit notes for equipment in the Hope that the resulting publicity would influence Youthful hockey players in their favor. Try. Motion by the meeting die not Rule out gifts by nil groups but directed that they should no be tabbed for specific purposes. One speaker described these gifts As missionary Money Given with the idea of eventually getting some hockey players in Jaycee backs referendum on sunday sports or. Caron said his organization would continue to organize neigh boyhood unions. The Manitoba government s decision to withhold further Charters had been revealed by r. D. Chase director of co operative services for the provincial department of agriculture. Allows commented or. Caron if the people want to form neighbourhood unions i can t see How any civil servant can prevent them doing so especially when the credit unions act allows he said purpose of the society in continuing to organize in the face of the government decision was to get the people or. Caron denied a statement by or. Chase that the society had applied pressure on the govern ment to permit additional neigh boyhood unions in greater Winni Peg and other Urban areas. Commercialized sunday sport received the support of the Jaycee civic Council thursday night. Before the vote Winnipeg Jun or chamber of Commerce Council Leard lengthy and heated debate in which one member declared there is no need in this Day and age for Blue Laws we Are All sufficiently Well educated to decide for ourselves our sunday those in favor of commercialized sports on Points sunday made these Montreal has proven that a devout christain can mix Church and sports on the same Day. Fast living of workdays together with a concern for store employees who work All Day sat urday dictates a need for More there is no longer any need for this Protection. Commercialized sunday sports might make the hum drum life of the Little Man More interesting since professional sport is not sport but those who opposed the sunday sport Issue made these there would appear to be no spans Vaneous desire or feeling by citizens for sunday sports on a commercial basis. A few persons sports promo ters Etc were trying to set a trend for the Many to follow. A referendum is unnecessary because the legislature last year Defeated the same Issue and is Likely to do so again. New office building for govt.? construction of a new build ing near the legislature to House government offices now dispersed Over a wide area of the City May result from moves now underway by the government. It was Learned Friday that preliminary consideration has been Given the question of overflow offices from the legislative building. It was under stood the government has or dered architect s plans to show How much floor space would be required in a new building to bring All main government activities together close to the legislative building. The government has offices in at least five office buildings outside the legislature build ing. And it s understood the government is concerned with the resulting higher administrative costs. In addition. Legislative building itself suf fers from overcrowding. No decision however can be expected this year. Relaxation from work and worry sunday from 1 to 6.30 . I a period when even the most religious Are free from meditation in any Case those who Are genuine churchgoers will always up Church before sports. Present Laws were originally designed to protect the Small employee from forced sunday labor Safeway denies Ort Oakland Calif ;