Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 1956, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press fresh Orange or Bryce s new layer cake by Carrier in Winnipeg. 30c per week Winnipeg tuesday March 13, 1956 week end edition with comics Loc new plea to help children aldermen silent on school for retarded the greater Winnipeg retarded children s association made a final hid for City Aid in the operation of a retarded children s school monday night but provoked no action from City Council. Council lifted its rules to allow association delegates to make the plea but alter they d spoken no further mention of their request made. Alderman asked that finance committee reconsider earlier rejection of the association s request. The wants i h o u t it i y Aid to operate retarded children s school. The Kinsmen j club of Winnipeg has offered to build it for to. I the association estimated an Nual Cost to train a retarded child at the fir Vindal govern Mont has promised s150 the Par a tuts would put up Sion in tees j the Public would be canvassed for the City was being asked put up the remaining Milttie had turned it Down j tin City solicitor Advisee that education was clearly the res pc is ability of the provincial govt in Merit. Association president Jack Maunder said monday All i these children for whom you would be paying the Sion per year Are children of parents who pay taxes i do not receive the tax Benefit of up to s200 paid by the Munici a Pality to the school Board Tori education of Normal children be cause their child cannot go to ii. I. Softley president of the Manitoba association Lor he larded children said your Fin Ance committee has rejected tins partly because of i he Cost Anc partly because it feels this is a provincial responsibility. 1 believe the thinking Here has been negligent. Is there any Law which pro Hibits assistance from being Given the City Council has always assisted what it Felt 10-Mill tax jump in West Kildonan Cross Campaign total reaches contributions totalling a Clay moved the red Cross a step nearer to its Manitoba objective of to Date has been contributed in this year s drive. West Kildonan rate payers face a stiff in crease in their taxes this year. The Munici pal tax rate has jumped 10 Mills and Educa Tion costs Are absorb ing All the extra Money. The municipal coun cil monday night approved the 1956 budget of of which goes to the schools. The total rate is 81 Mills. Bui i District Levy accounted Taraska lands in hot water Aid. Peter Taraska told Winnipeg City Council monday night he had become Council s dirty Linen he said the 1956 Council had inherited two problems trom the 1955 Council a Battle Over a new promotion system in the fire department and recurring complaints Over the City s methods of handling pro Perty transactions. I got both of the Alderman said. He is chairman of the safety committee which adminis ters the fire department and chairman of the property sub committee which administers property deals All i m doing is washing the dirty Linen from last for the entire change about Over last year. Its rate went from 32 to 42 Mills. A school Board offi Cial said tuesday the main reason for the in crease was the additional teaching staff hired this Vear. A 22 room school h i c h opened in january required 22 new teachers. The Board also took into account the pos sible need to hire an other eight or nine teachers this fall when another school May be built the total school Board budget went up open season on City catch basins opening up catch basins in Winnipeg May cause trouble this Spring with the result there May be water in the streets from melting Snow. City Engineer a. D. Hurst said monday the City will Fol Low its usual procedure of opening catch basins with steam. This is routine he said but the heavy Snow May cause difficulties. In the event the steam does t work too Well or the basins freeze up after being opened the engineers May have to ask for extra Money to get the drains open he said. Or. Hurst would t venture to say How much extra Money might be needed. Bracken erred says Church group a committee of the Winnipeg presbytery of the United Church declared tuesday that the report of the Bracken liquor inquiry com Mission did not contain evidence to justify its recommendations for new cutlets. The report came from the evangelism and service com Mittee which made 13 recommendations on the Bracken report to a special session of the Presby Tery. We believe that the first step in improving conditions in the free press meetings meetings to be held wednes Day in the free press building include Board room no. 1, Rob Roy Camp no. 42, sons of Scotland 8 . Board room no. 2, Winnipeg philatelic society 8 . Clubroom Manitoba District Branch of Federated do minion Public works association 3 . Winnipeg Cage Bird society 8 . Province is not an Extension of outlets but an enforcement of the present Law along with an effect Ive education the com nit tee stated. Province wide the committee also recommended that a province wide referendum be held on new out lets after the Public had been Given time to study the Bracken report and then legislation per mitting local option votes should e passed Only for those outlets approved in the referendum. Both these recommendations were opposed in a minority report presented by Rev. Douglas Lauch an of Charleswood who moved amendments calling for the abolition of the Beer parlor and for a province wide referendum Only on he question of on premise Sale o hard liquor by the Glass. Earlier the presbytery heard j. R. Mutchmor Secretary of the Church s department of evangel so and social service condemn the proposal to legalize mixed drinks. He said the Beer parlor which had been hailed As a cure All when it was introduced was now being made the Scapegoat. He claimed Manitoba s proposed City action on old Homes brings jeers o More than 250 persons crammed ing Aid. Penner s motion out of or this is the car in which a St. James youth lost his life an 1 two others were injured when it was in collision monday night with a. Bus on Nairn Avenue just East of the Bird s fort Garry engineers Survey flood defences Public works engineers in fort i Mission. The major dikes thro ugh Garry Over the week end began a out the metropolitan area Are built Survey of their outer line de Ito hold Back the equivalent of a Hill Road. The bus went into a Snowbank following the collision. Inset is the youth who was killed Robert f. Gar land of 352 Linwood Street. He was a passenger in the car. A suburb hits Road Block on artery an irate delegation jammed West Fence of dikes that the Munici Pality constructed to the South and West of the major greater Winni Peg diking system. The municipal Engineer said tuesday the Survey As yet had not Cowan said tuesday the major and been completed. These municipal dikes reaching car skids into bus fatal to youth 18 an 18-year-old St. James youth minor injuries at Transcona and was killed and two of Bis friends allowed to go Home were injured one critically when police said the three youths had their car skidded out of control attended a hockey game at trans and collided with a bus monday Icona monday evening and were night on Nairn Avenue just East on their Way Home when the fatal the residents who presented the Hin Road mishap occurred petitions to Council one Agama to dead is Robert f of Kildonan Council climbers Day night and virtually scuttled the municipality s plans for a 32-Ioot arterial Road on Jefferson Avenue. G. 2g3i 26.5-foot stage As measured at the j the 32-foot Road and one requesting. 352 Linwood Street. The Driver of Jarres Avenue pumping station. The visit sri. These dikes in an emergency can be built up another six feet. Diking commissioner a 24-foot Street filled the visitors the car Wright 18i of gallery and overflowed into both it i n------1. The hallway and the Council Cham Ber itself. Guildford Street and the Only other passenger in the car William w. An inquest will be opened tonight in Cooke s funeral Home Transcona. Passengers in the bus were h. G. Avenue greater Winnipeg were in very almost As for As the Village of St. I Good condition but that after the Norbert. Are higher than left them there Likely would actual major dikes to be an almost constant throughout the greater Winnipeg patrolling to Check against slippage area by the Manitoba diking com a during the period of rising Waters. Grants to improve science teaching the Dupont co. Of Canada Ltd. Has announced it will provide annual s1.700 Grants to 10 Canadian universities in a program to help improve the teaching of science in secondary schools. At the University of Manitoba the award will take the form of a scholar ship to a Man or woman who hns graduated or is about to graduate from an honors course in science or from a course in which science has been a major subject and who agrees to enrol for the following academic year for training As a secondary school science teacher. The department or faculty gets for administration costs. The scholarship is to be increased by ?600 if the student is a married Man. Secondary dikes was said to be signed by 70 the petition against the arterial of. Bonyace nose Raj. Scone residents w. A. Johns. 116 r of m graduate wins Markle research award a doctor who graduated with a . From the University of Manitoba has been awarded a five year research Grant from an american foundation lit is or. Peter a. Stewart now assistant professor of physiology at Emory univer sity school of Medicine geor Gia. The University has been made a s30.000 Grant towards or. Stewart s support in the next five years by the John and Mary r. Markle foundation. He is one of 23 scholars helped in this Way in the . And Canada. I Winnipeg car official i moves to Montreal i George w. Keefe of Winni Peg has been appointed superintendent of Montreal termin als and St. Jerome division for the Canadian National rail ways. He will be succeeded As assistant superintendent for the Portage Brandon division by Sydney j. Wise formerly assistant superintendent at Melville. Sask. Or. Keefe was born in Biggar sask. And joined the car in 1940. Or. Wise a native of Shell Mouth Man., has been with the rail Way since 1927. Smedley s Corner would you rather take a Bath or watch television we can t speak for Winnipeg but in at least one part of can Ada the saturday night Bath seems to have been swept aside in the Wake of electronic Progress. A Survey by a leading Canadian corporation reveals that television sets now out number bathtubs in. The Niagara Peninsula Hamilton Toronto . According to the Survey there Are tubs in Homes in that area but there Are 552.205 television sets. We re not sure exactly what this proves but we re betting Winnipeg has a tub for every set. Odds and ends St. John s chapter no. Is . Is holding a St. Pat Rick s Tea in the t. Eaton co. Assembly Hall saturday from 1.30 to 4.30 . All Money raised goes to cancer research and religious awards of the organization sign of Spring reported by e. C. Dubois of 1s45 mid mar Avenue. He said a Butterfly flew into the Kitchen the other Day and fluttered All Over the place. Per cent of the property owners and the other by More than 60 per cent. A Speedway the ratepayers claimed that the arterial Road would evaluate then property would make things unsafe for Small children and vehicles would make a Speedway out of their Street. Mayor a. E. Wright said Council was going on advice of traffic experts and by what it considered to be the Best interests of the majority of the municipality. You May not appreciate it today but your children s children will appreciate that we have tried to do some town he said. The mayor and other Council members insisted that the wider thoroughfares would be safer than a 24-foot Street. Councillor c. N. Kushner said he thought property values on Jefferson would Proba Bly go up. He also said Council had intended to Post signs forbid Ding trucks to use the route. Shared Cost if the Road were built of the estimated Cost of the Section Between main Street and the car Beach line would be paid by the provincial government. The Section through to Mcphillips Street from the railway comes within the Garden City housing development. Cost to taxpayers on Jefferson Avenue on their Section of the Street would be per frontage foot. Councillor Kushner asked the delegation if they were willing to Gamble on not getting a i paved Road at All for at least two years. He also asked if they to a Levy of ?8.25 per frontage foot to enable the narrower paving to be constructed by the Munici Pality. He got a resounding yes ans wer to both questions. Or. Keith is in fair scone residents w. A. Johns 116 Cron Avenue East Helen mater group presents concert at club members of the Harry nun Neley concert group entertained sunday at the Good neighbor s club Ross Mac Donald was master of Cere monies and mrs. A. S. Peddie Wes accompanist. Entertain ers were Judy Mccullough Roberta Robertson Pat Gair Dorothy Paterson Marilyn Peabody Sandra Wiederman Jim Tait Eric Barschel David Van Engel Charles Lane Wil Liam Hall. John Barbour and mrs. K. Mulholland. Wright is in fairly Ucki 810 Hoka Street d. Clifford 289 Thompson Street Ethel Nic Liol 309 Victoria Avenue East mrs. A. Condition. The Driver of the bus. 62-year old Steve Stylski of 200 , 426 Regent Avenue East drive East Kildonan and eight mrs. F. Kuprowski. 322 Harold passengers on the Transcona Avenue West and Brian Blakney bound vehicle were treated for 1314 Bond Street. No drunk at the pump it will soon be permissible to drink in some places other than Beer Parlours. But the St. Boniface pumping station won t be one of the new premises. St. Boniface Council instructed its solicitor to Post a letter in the station advising that any employee found under the in fluence of John Barleycorn will be dismissed. Girl s condition Good after Street mishap a 12-year-old girl suffered severe bruises when she was in collision with a car on main Street at Cathedral Avenue monday afternoon. In Good condition at Winnipeg general Hospital is Belva Cham of 75 St. Cross Street. Police said the car was driven by Harold Kramer of 12 Ballard Crescent West Kildonan. St. Boniface View same Day vote on liquor province pays Cost St. Boniface City Council agreed unanimously monday night to hold its liquor referendum on the same Day As All other municipalities if the provincial government would pay the costs involved. The question of a referendum Date came up in a letter from the association Urban municipalities. It asked if the Cathe dral City favored a vote on the a a same Day for All Manitoba centres. Mayor j. G. Van Belleghem said he had already virtually committed St. Boniface to a simultaneous vote in the met. Rop Olitan area. But several aldermen asked about the Cost of this. It was argued that if a Day other than St. Boniface s election Date were chosen it might Cost the City a lot of Money. A a a special flood meet soon when Aid. William Appleby moved that Council approve a simultaneous vote throughout the province if these costs were assumed by the provincial government there were no Dis Senters. A a a favor increase in pensions for business or books aldermen will reconsider Winnipeg City Council monday night asked its property subcommittee to think again about letting a private investment firm buy a piece of property sought by the Library committee. Library committee had asked for the lot on the Northwest Corner of Kelvin Street and Hespeler Avenue for a Library Branch. But committee had been informed the lot would not make a suitable Library site and besides it was too valuable. Aid. H. V. Mckelvey told Council monday night. Now said the Alderman the committee proposes to sell it to Churchill investments limited for St. Boniface aldermen took a for people living along the look at old age pensions monday night and by a 7 to 3 vote that they were not sufficient to meet the needs of pensioners. The debate was touched off by a letter from the Toronto suburb of new Toronto. It sought coun cil s support for a petition to the Federal government seeking a s25 a month boost in old age pensions. Aid. J. J. Pynoos leaped to his feet to Tell of the poverty of pen. Sinners asking social welfare assistance. He spoke of seeing old men searching the streets for cig Aret Butts. Aid. William Appleby said the question should not be discussed at the municipal level but Aid. Henri Boiselle retorted that the Federal government was spending millions and was not giving pensioners enough to live on. He said the government could Well afford to increase the pensions. Voting against the motion were aldermen Appleby Rene Dussault and Charles Ursel. Council also took action to Speed up the flow of traffic on Norwood Bridge. Mayor j. G. Van told St. Boniface Council River. He asked what was be night that he would shortly done to protect the area and a special meeting to discuss there were plans for the Marion precautions. Street Bridge which he described Aid. Charles Ursel had an he also asked if residents could rent or borrow pumps from the municipality. Aid. J. J. Pynoos said the Public works department needed every pump it had. The mayor added that a report on flood preparations was being prepared. When it was completed he would Call a coun cil meet to discuss it. It s time for Spring signs of Spring City Council monday night authorized the engineering department to Advance the City Hall clock one hour at 12.01 . Sunday april 29, to inaugurate Daylight saving tune and restore it to Standard time on sunday sept. 30. Laws were based on those of ont Ario and that the tide Public j opinion in Ontario had turned against More liquor outlets in 1953. Marts 99th birthday Gregg Man. Special mrs. Ellen Dempsey a car Berry Plains Pioneer celebrated her 99th birthday March 6. Mrs. Dempsey a native of North Gower ont., came West to the Gregg District following her marriage. She remained there until 1950 when she moved to make her Home in Carberry with her son in Law and daughter or. And mrs. Fred Burwell. Mrs. Dempsey has one son James Wesley of Victoria and five daughters mrs. W. Nicholson Calgary mrs. W. Dickenson. Edmonton mrs. F. Williams Meadow Lake sask., mrs. V. Olmstead. Gregg and mrs. Burwell. There Are also 25 grandchildren and 34 great grandchildren. Galleries at City Council Day night to hear communist Aid. Jacob Penner demand that Council express its opinion that reassessment of the City s older Homes should be set aside. After the meeting some lined Der. A woman Spectator waved her Finger at aldermen Lillian Hallon quist and Maude Mccreery and said they would suffer for this in the next election. Aid. Slaw Bebchuk pushed his Way through a crowd on the main City Hall Steps and corridors corridor ignoring taunts that jeered departing aldermen for evading the assessment is sue. Aid. Peter Taraska met a Cost is big estion in health plan if it were not for the question of the Cost of National health insurance hanging Over the Heads of All the provinces the Federal proposals could be considered in the Light of the present provincial commitments said Premier d. L. Campbell. He returned to Winnipeg from the conference sunday. He feels the Federal proposals somewhat similar reception. Aid. Penner s motion asked coun cil to go on record in expressing its opinion that the recent assess ment on old Homes is creating undue hardships and that this assessment should be set it was ruled out of order on the advice of City solicitor William Fraser. Who held that the matter was clearly outside the jurisdiction of Council under the City charter. The mass delegation was the finale of a series of protest meet Ings called by Aid. Penner to pro test recent reassessment of older Lomes in the City. Assessments Rose an average of Between 25 and should not be considered apartj30 per cent to fal1 Ift Une with As from the health insurance promo i sess ments on new Homes Sals. It has been estimated that implementing the Ottawa i 11 insurance plan on a 50-50 basis would Cost Manitoba Hon. Walter Harris for the first Ime spelled out what be would be for collecting taxes for the provinces. He said the fed eral government would not be pre pared to set up administrative machinery to collect for a period of less than two years for any province. If a province indicated it wished to have the Federal government collect certain taxes for a period of two years the charge would be three per cent for a per Iod of three years or More the charge would be two per. Cent. If the present agreement is signed it will continue for a five year period. Or. Campbell is not prepared to make a statement Aso whether Manitoba will agree until he has discussed the proposals with his Cabinet colleagues. The indications Are that Manitoba will agree. Machine accountants the Winnipeg chapter of the a ional machine accountants association formerly known As the Winnipeg machine accountants association will meet at Moore s restaurant 6 . Thursday. M. H. Head director of machine accounting Canadian wheat Board will speak on this age of electronics. Strathcona h and s prof. B. R. White Tiger of the University of Manitoba will be guest speaker at the Strathcona Home and school association meeting tuesday at the school. On truck route Aid. Jack Blumberg told Winni Peg City Council monday night he had been told a backdoor at tempt was being made to con Vert Church Avenue into a truck route. He said he has this from traffic Engineer w. H. Finnbogason and he served notice he would oppose the move. Aid. Paul Goodman traffic com Mission chairman immediately denied that any such plan exists. Church Avenue was being widened he said but this was not preparatory to its being made a truck route. A traffic commission plan to make nearby Inkster Boulevard a truck route had been thrown out after strenuous objections from Ward 3 aldermen ont. Fire chief Dies in course of duty Haliburton ont. Chief Thomas Chambers died Early tuesday while fighting an All night Blaze that destroyed a Bank and a dime store in this Village 80 Miles North of Peterborough. Chief Chambers about 52, was believed to have been suffocated when trapped in the basement of the Bank of Montreal Branch. No other deaths or injuries were re ported. Credit just Bank propaganda men in the know from across the nation agreed tuesday that John q. Canada s credit is As Good As it s Ever been. The credit managers of retail firms across the country. The associated credit bureaus consisting of agencies which investigate credit and also collect delinquent a the propaganda of meeting Lue Saay. The there s no real Over Extension of credit according to directors of the credit grantees present for the sessions is Lind Ley s. Crowder of St. Louis mo., general manager treasurer of the e 1-1 j j ii a to Clit i Ina Natl n. Association of Canada and the As National he Taii credit association Socia Ted credit bureaus of Canada the United states meeting in the fort Garry hotel. In an interview tuesday the Ere and they maintained credit buy ing and proper systems of credit Extension Are very Large factors in keeping the Economy booming. About 40 delegates from Newfoundland to British Columbia Are attending the meetings of the two organizations. H. L. Hulme of to Ronto was re elected president of the credit grantees association monday with William j. Thomson Winnipeg and Norman Belle Perche of Windsor As vice presi dents. The credit grantees represent Dit men stressed the three c son which credit granting is based character capital and capacity. Or. Crowder added a editions. Credit has become so much a part of the continent s economic picture he said that today there is a St. Louis Bank that will loan you with no interest charges. You pay it Back at a month for a year. There Are two results you be established your credit and in addition you be been encouraged to save systematically ;