Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 1956, Winnipeg, Manitoba Maple Leaf Ham Winnipeg free press delicious anytime Bryce s bread sold Only at your grocers by Carrier in Winnipeg Joc per week Winnipeg monday March 19, 1956 week end edition with comics we Sharpe sees Drys Victory opposes election Day vote Hurst out on Snow Survey City Engineer w. D. Hurst left sunday on his annual flood Survey of Hie red River Valley Anil is expected to return thursday. The City Engineer will examine Snow and run off conditions at grand Forks and Vicin Ity and will Confer with . Army engineers at Minneapolis. He will probably report either directly to City Council at meeting March 25 or to a meeting of the Public works committee March 27. Spray 1 Lii Sas a cur up Lulu a a Romani ill puddle one of the hundreds thai dotted Winnipeg Over Hie Uteri Cid is the City first Haw of the sen Sim. The Snow was nil Litis. Hut Ninny is reel drains were eloped Liy in and some roadways were covered from eur to curb by Muddy water. This particular puddle was several inches deep. A room on citric cum teach pm to drive not in school hours teaching High school students. W. A. Wecker president of Gen provide the theoretical instruction to drive car is a Good thing it Oral motors of Canada said his the principals held a meeting to carried on outside school firm s dealers were planning the matter. Although they that s the reaction from trus give driving lessons to High school recognized the virtue of this Type Lee Nan Murphy Winnipeg the company recon inf training they weren t convinced Hoard chairman to a general mends that schools applying could be done during school motors proposal to it i dual con the course provide a minimum of hours. I Trot cars to Ihu schools without 2u hours classroom instruction and the school Board made arrange charge. Hours actual driving for theoretical training lion per Pupil a year. The evening schools. The course. J part in school which runs about 12 weeks Fol Lowed by some behind tie wheel of the 8th to 12lh centuries have 78 cases of i pumps Xiv cock mumps was lie most com m o n communicable disease this week with a total of 78 cases reported to the Provin Cial health department. The year s total now stands at cases. Filly eight cases of measles reported in the week brought the total to 552 cases for Hie year. Other diseases his week with the year s totals in brackets Are gonorrhoea. 30 chickenpox. 29 i2h2i. Tuberculosis seven and Scarlet fever five i57.i. Mayor George Sharpe said monday that he would t be a bit surprised if Winnipeg went dry in a liquor referendum. He said people think i m crazy when i say but he believed the reason could be found in the ethnic and fraternal clubs in the City particularly in Ward 3. These clubs he said have been financed largely through the pro fits and sales of alcoholic Bever Ages and it would Surprise me it the members were to Cut them selves off from this source of in legion Halls too would be affected by the addition of scores of new outlets throughout the City and Many of their members might vote accordingly. Not election Dat the mayor also said he sin Cerely Hopes that the City s liquor referendum would not be held on the same Day As civic elections this fall. Liquor would certainly be made one of the issues in the he said and it should properly be kept quite distinct. I m afraid we d find candidates judged on the basis of whether or not they took a list month at a meeting of representatives of All greater Winni Peg municipalities it was agreed that the local option votes in the metropolitan area should be held on the same Day. The mayor said that As soon As the new liquor Bill became Law he would ask the group to deter mine what the Best Day would be land also to prepare a Brief asking that the provincial government pay the Cost of the voting. It sunday school con Ven i Ion opens More ban 500 sunday school i e a c h e r s from 50 Winnipeg churches Are expected to attend a Al greater Winnipeg sunday school convention monday and tuesday in Klim Chapel. Rev. Clate a. Risley of Chicago. Executive Secretary of the National Sunc Lav school association is con change the procedure the budget mention Leader. Other speakers in Jwill probably be brought Down elude Rev. Sherman Williams and As soon As study of the estimated Manitoba tax news in 9 Days by Gordon Sinclair a Manitoba budget is expected to be brought Down in about nine Days by Hon. R. D. Turner provincial treasurer. What promises to be the province s most interesting budget in a will probably make provision for a two cent a gallon increase in the gasoline tax and possibly revisions in some other taxes. Don t drive if banned., is warning will of end a period of eight no increases in major i taxes a record unparalleled in North America. Unless or. Turner decides to new canadians to get prizes f fourteen prizes for out standing Progress will be presented to new canadians taking elementary English classes at the technical vocational eve Ning school thursday by car Lyle Allison Canadian club president. Approximately 1.100 students Are taking classes of this Type in the City. The school Board has declared an open night from 7.30 to 10 . Thursday and has invited the Public to visit Tec voc and see what being alone in evening classes. Presentation of prizes will take place in the school auditorium at 8 . Before and after the presentations the classes May be visited. There will also be display classes in shop work commercial subjects and Home economics. A photography display has been arranged and a number of paintings by Art class Mem Bers conducted by Richard .1. Wolfe at the Kelvin evening school will be displayed. Historic relics Copper plates and Silver coins said mrs. Murphy the theory. Or academic part could be taught in the schools. But the practical a Lam Ltd scale lessons would have to be Given out Side of school hours. Trustee h. B. Parker said Good Driver training was needed. Ever the curriculum was already full. It was not the responsibility schools to turn out Good Safe Drivers. G. T. Macdonell assistant superintendent of Winnipeg schools said he would like to see every City High school student get training in driving a car. But there were other desirable things that j i could t be handled by the schools. Last year s flax j the school Board considered j Driver training last Spring the Junior chamber of Commerce Millered cars if the schools would training has been carried out on been excavated at main Amati in ikast Pakistan. The William Greig. Both of Chicago j and miss Lillian Swanson of the child for Christ crusade Calgary. The keynote of the convention the sunday school builds the Home the Church the will be the basis for discussion at r. B. Baillie. Motor commissioner monday vehicle warned totalling motorists suspended from driving i that police were on the Lookout for Cai is con eluded. That should be Early ban is ired i id i1uuu workshop it Rodvein week. In past years a wednesday afternoon has been chosen for in the budget and it would All lectures and 2b v periods. Topics include organization pro i motion and publicity open Assem Blies missionary education disc budget Day for Manitoban. Saturday police nabbed five motorists under suspension. Talking of the motorists now suspended or. Baillie said it Only fair to let them know guides plan world Camp in Ontario guides from 32 nations have been seem Likely that a week wednes that there is a very Good Chance invited to gather in Canada next Day that s March 28 will be them being can Pline. Evangelism school and daily schools. In the sunday vacation Bible As Manitoba has made Provis he noted the penalty for a first offence is a s200 Fine or three months in jail. Sometimes an Adah Spring even almanac s confused Ion for borrowing up to Dit ional seven Day jail term is i imposed without option of a Fine. Li1us it in the coming fiscal year ending the province s pay As you go program the government will have to make up about in provincial revenues. Of this amount the government will receive More than 40 per cent from the Federal government under the tax rental agreement mately s28.400.000. He also warned that suspended Drivers should not apply for an operator s permit until their sus pension ended. Last week five Drivers did this and a routine Check showed they were under suspension. Period of suspension is length ened if the Driver is caught operating a vehicle or. Baillie stated. Fund total a total of wus received at red Cross Campaign Headquarters saturday bring ing the fund in the current drive o s70.373. Which is 18.2 per cent of the s386.500 Mani Toba objective. U gets in Grants Library growth chamber Grants of plus a private a varsity s Plant science department. Library and a growth chamber for Intel provincial co operatives Plant science research have been Ltd. Has made a s500 Grant to sup donated to the University of Mani port research carried on by the Toha. Or. H. Saunderson presi soils department and a growth Dent announced monday. J chamber valued at about s3. 500 under terms of the will of Rev. J has been Given by the United Grain Kinar Sturla Ossou of i trek Fjor growers. Lid., to the Plant science Clur. Iceland his Library will go department. To the University Library. I the Searle Grain co. Lid. Has the Catelli food products. Ltd. Donated s2.0uo toward the surgical has granted is. 500 for each of three research Laboratory established in years to promote research in the. The acuity of Medicine under Field of durum wheat by the uni 1 supervision of or. C. C. Ferguson. Trying it twice his mistake returning to the scene of his crime resulted in a six month jail Erm for Joseph Alexander paling 61, of no fixed abode. Paling received the sentence Friday after he pleaded guilty in City Magis trate s court to obtaining a car Worth s435 by fraud. In december j953. He presented a worthless s30 Cheque and n s30 bicycle which was not paid for to a Salesman at Century motors As a Down mint for the car. Paling who then left the City returned to Winni Peg and attempted to Purchase another car from Century motors by the same method. He was recognized by the Salesman police were Calk a. Anil paling was arrested. Bradley gets stay of execution to july 10 Robert Alfred Bradley convicted last november of the murder of Gus flatfoot in a Lane off Higgins Avenue has Hail a further postponement of execution until july 10. Or. Justice Paul Duval set the new Date on saturday to permit decision of the supreme court of Canada in the Case. Bradley was originally sentenced by chief jus Tice e. K. Williams to be hanged Jan. 19. This Date was later extended to March 20 pending Appeal in Manitoba. The Manitoba court in the said lie City editor poetically a Fuller Crimson conies upon the Robin s breast in the Spring the wan ton Lapwing gets himself an other Crest in the Spring a livelier Iris changes on the Burn Slid then he blushed continued gently in the Spring a Young Man s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of he stopped suddenly and remembered he was the Civ editor. Hey he called i think Spring s coming. My ulcers Are starting to ache. Start on foot the Sun shone through the venetian Blind and glinted upon the yellowed pages of the can Adian almanac. Spring the re Porter was Given to understand Ottawa Canon named Rector at St. Paul s of Appeal rejected the Appeal and the Case supreme court. Was then taken to the Smedley s Corner there s one Winnipeg housewife who really had some Rich soap suds when she was doing her washing this week. When she opened the top of her washing the amazing sight that greeted her eyes was in cur Rency floating around in the water. She scooped out the Money and Hung it out to dry according to reports we received. Although we did c get All the details one of her girl friends told us the Money came out of her husband s clothing. What was doing in Friend husband s pocket we have to assume there s a simple explanation although the husband in t but All we can really think about is that this is another example of How a wife takes her husband to tile cleaners. Canon s. Clarke Canon Serson Clarke Rector of St. Luke s Church. Ottawa for the past 23 years has accepted an appointment to St. Paul s anglican Church fort Garry. The Post has been vacant since november when Rev. Hugh r. Percy left for the los Angeles Episcopalian Church. Gordon Ternouth. Rector s War Den at St. Paul a said Canon Clarke will take Over the new Post aug. 1. Canon Clarke was educated at the University of Tor onto and Trinity College. He served in the Canadian army from dec. 1939 until dec. 1944. He is a past president of the Gyro club of Ottawa and for six terms has been a member of the Ottawa collegiate Board. Canon and mrs. Clarke have three Chil Dren John 22, Constance 18, Penelope 9. By that worthy volume begins at 7.2t . Central Standard time. The worthy volume apparently was wrong. said the weather Man rides no horses Down the Hill. But comes on foot a Goose girl still. All the loveliest things there be simply so it seems to then he sighed and added "1 cannot help but be amused. Almanac is All Spring lie agreed starts to Morrow. But it starts at 9.21. . At il.21 he continued the next few Days you re going to love. Highs of 33 above Snow doth slowly disappear thus does Calm our Hood ing fear Sun is out and All looks Fine. Wanted on the other the world almanac agreed with the Weatherman. Spring it said starts at 9.21 Tomor Row morning. This is when the Sun enters Aries. Prof. K. J. Lockhart of the Winnipeg Centre. Royal astronomical society of Canada had a few More references to Hack this up the society s records the British nautical almanac and the american Ephemeris. he added modestly we figured it out equal night he said with that nameless pathos in the air which dwells with All things fair with her Golden suns and Silver Rains with us once Spring he noted begins with the Vernal Equinox the time when the Sun crosses the Equa Tor on his Way North. This occurs at 9.21 . Cost Tomor Row. Equinox Means equal night Day and night Are of the same duration. The fact that they won t be exactly the same length tomorrow is be cause of the slanting of the Sun s rays in this part of the world. The Vernal Equinox is usually on the 21st or 22nd. But he said. Spring s coming Early up this Way february had an extra of Joy this information was duly assembled then presented to the City editor. That estimable personage grunted then mum bled of Joy of rapture and of glee. 62 in Hope. . Are to me a rising Star. Go downstairs and Wash my Spring was almost Here. Good Irish advice Snow strains cottage roofs at Beach cottage owners in the Winnipeg Beach area have been visiting their cottages for the past two or three weeks to shovel off roofs. Great piles of Snow Are reported on cottage and garage roots. In some cases roofs have collapsed or. At least Bent under the Strain. F. L. Tucker of Winnipeg visited his place sunday to find the roof of his double garage caved in. The building is a total loss and a boat inside the garage was partially damaged. The garage and cottage Are at 1st Avenue and Prospect Street. Boundary Park. In some cases the snowdrifts Are so High the owners Are Able Toi walk right on to their cottage oops without a ladder. Tolerance prejudice can t live together free press meetings meetings to be held tuesday in the free press building in clude Board room no. 1, Canadian War disability pensioners association 8 . Board room no. 2, Winnipeg better business Bureau 4 ., t. Eaton co. Ltd. Public speaking group 5.30 ., Coronation Kennel club 8 . Clubroom free press Bridge club 8 . The Irish of Winnipeg bad some words of advice Satur Day night for their Brethren in Ireland that tolerance and understanding can overcome even the deepest of prejudices. In an address at the sons of Ireland banquet the group s president Frank j. Kennedy said we have in our midst sons and daughters of the four Corners of Ireland a Fine example of tolerance and understanding regardless of religious or political affiliations. If irishmen have failed to solve the problems at Home May they take heed and Fol Low the Aims of this Small society Miles More than 400 people Over flowed the banquet Hall at the Marlborough hotel to Cele brate St. Patrick s Day. After the banquet t y danced and there was a musical program that w a a of course traditionally Irish. Soloists included j. Ormond Gil Len mrs. W. A. Macgregor and Gerald Gelley while John Cafferty played accordion selections. During the dance intermission a troupe under the direction of Sam Mcconnell gave an exhibition of Irish dancing. Hon. J. S. Mcdiarmid the lieutenant governor and mrs. Mcdiarmid were among the guests. Nicholas Harvey was chairman. Year. Mrs. W. Rankine Nesbitt of Toronto chief , for Canada said in Winnipeg Mon Day. The world Camp will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of guide and scout founder lord Baden Powell and guides Are expected to attend the gathering in the Muskoka out. District. Mrs. Nesbitt was in the City to attend the annual meeting of the Manitoba association which is currently planning a National trainers conference for August at the University of Manitoba. Three other countries Are plan Ning world Camps in 1957, mrs. Nesbitt said. Canada has received invitations to Send representatives to the Philippines and great Bri Tain and expects to receive one from mrs. Nesbitt who is serving her second year As top guide official in Canada is the daughter of Gen. T. V. Anderson and lived in Winni Peg from 1929 to 1933. She leaves tuesday evening for Edmonton and Calgary. Scout color film Clia Eleswood residents interested in scouting have been invited to a free color and sound movie of the 1955 boy scout world Jamboree at out. There will be two showings at 7 and 9 . Tuesday in the Clia Eleswood collegiate auditorium. North Kildonan Accident sends two to Hospital two persons were in fair condition in Winnipeg general Hospi Tal following a car truck collision Henderson Highway in North i Kildonan sunday afternoon. George Shwabe 17, of lot 110 East St. Paul Driver of the car involved in the mishap sustained a fractured jaw possible head in juries and face cuts. Metro Yancius 20, of 112 Hespeler Avenue a Pas Senger in the car suffered a Frac tured thigh. Police said the car operated by the Shwabe youth collided with the rear of a truck driven by Jack Lytle 30, of 1882 Henderson High Way. Or. Lytle was not injured bul his 26-year-old wife Betty suffered a severe Gash on the Back of her neck. She was not detained in Hospital. Police said two other passengers in the car Cecile Richardson 16, of 700 Henderson Highway and mar Garet Rebeck 16, of 26 Green Avenue sustained minor injuries but was not admitted to Hospital. two persons in this ruined Auto got the worst of it in a car truck collision sunday afternoon on Henderson Highway. The car Driver and a passenger went to the Hospital. It s not ice Cream in these containers in their Effort to raise Money for the easter Seal Campaign Winnipeg Kinsmen have come up with a Bright Cost cutting idea. Rather than buying Regula Tion Coin collecting containers to distribute to stores and restaurants around the City the Kinsmen got into the do it yourself swing. Their Coin cot lectors Are transparent plastic ice Cream containers turned upside Down in a heavy card Board Holder and stand. There s a Slit in them which will take any Coin and even folding Money. The Coin collectors to Aid the society for crippled children and adults have been distributed to about locations ;