Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1956, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 4 Winnipeg free press tuesday july 3, 1956 Winnipeg pair Canoe champs blast rips . Atom Plant by Joe Gelmon new York a the question o f who s going to win explosion shattered a the 1956 car for the biggest Lake flin . Special entered. So far there Are a it looks like Bill Brigden and Don few Starkell Are going to do it again. The Winnipeg of last year s Gold Rush Canoe Derby at the Trout festival Here a commanding 34-minute Lead monday at end of the third Lap of the four Day event. The final result won t be known till the Winner crosses the finish line this afternoon but Brigden and Starkell have remained Well in front of the sole Indian team i in the meet. Joe Michel and Char lie Budd of Sturgeon Landing. Flin flon s Don and Bob Blackwell Are still a poor third. Over 30 pounds been excellent. And fishing . Line recalls dirty 30 s double secret Birmingham. England Reu ters this Midland Industrial City monday witnessed a sight Britain has been spared for two today is the wind up of the the mass. Registration annual festival and interest government of Unzem shifted away from the Canoe some automobile workers to the choosing of the Queen Mer who la be crowned to night. I dismissed Friday by the British corporation crowded Bir 11.71. 1 i i 1 i festival can recall there Are District employment sex s in on for can govern it new Rush a sub Exchange near the Austin Sisters in the Queen contest Stevenson representing creighton.1 Nelp us and Marlene Stevenson upholding j0rj the Honor of Cranberry Portage. Eve lne blg8est is 17, Marlene a year older. Other entries Valerie works part of the Bic the Pas Vicki Nielson. Flin flon men Karen Wiig. Island Falls. There s lots of excitement too. Police controlled the lineups i and special staff and emergency centres helped Cope with the Rush i of jobless men. Special accommodation was off because of i and overseas sales in the fishing Derby itself and i police controlled the Domestic callouses poin burning tenderness on Bottom of feet atomic Laboratory monday. Three Hundred employees and Rescue workers faced examinations in a. Routine Check against radioactive contamination. The blast of thorium Metal scrap injured nine one of them a woman. It also set off a Chain reaction of frantic queries from nuclear conscious new yorkers. Experts said t h e explosion posed no radioactive threat Cut Side the Plant itself. The atomic Energy commission went further. It said in a statement there is no possibility that anyone could have taken in a measurable amount of thorium unless he was in the room where the blast occurred or entered it a few minutes after the explosion. Clean up operations Are being carried out without danger to Plant personnel or the common War peril Dulles tells House Washington a state Secretary John Foster Dulles has told Congress the chances of u general War originated by the so Viet Union Are less than they were a year ago. In secret testimony before a for Relief enable. or. Bacholl a Zino pudd they remove Cauca Vutci Ono of the quickest ways known to medical Aci ecce. At drug shoo. Dppt., s-10i Storen ranged during the weekend second Marler won t vary rate hike Ottawa up transport minister Hon. George Marler said Day he has no intention of ing an interim increase of per cent in railway freight offid Marshall Wells formula House paint War. A wave of Calls for strike action among Bic s remaining j employees to protest the dismiss als Are under study. One group of 3.000 who walked off their jobs at the same time As last Friday s mass dismissals have voted to re turn to work today pending discussions with management with a View to improving the present shop stewards declared they were profoundly shocked by the diabolical action of Bic in fir ing the men without consulting the unions first. Despite demands for strike action the 15 unions involved Are considering a fresh approach to management in an Effort to Avert a walkout that would sweep the entire Bic organization. The Board of transport com missioner authorized the interim increase effective today Pend ing further hearings in septem Ber on the railways main de Mand for a increase. Or. Marler replying to a com Mons question by Hazen argue said he has not considered a request by the Canadian federation of agriculture to exempt agricultural pro ducts from the effects of the in Edwin c. Kimelman who was elected president of jewish child and family ser vice succeeding mrs. Max Wolinsky at the june meeting of the Agency Board of directors. Or. Kimelman a lawyer is Active in jewish communal. Affairs and is a member of the seven Oaks masonic Lodge. Other officers elected were vice presidents e. Guld and a r o s n e a treasurer l. Davis immediate Dent mrs. Max Wolinsky honorary Secretary Abe Schwartz. Chairmen of stand ing committees for 1956-7 were named and plans out lined for Agency activities for the coming year. Power boat owners will need licences Ottawa up the govern ment plans to develop a system of licensing for operators of can Ada s growing Fleet of pleasure boats patterned after the licencing system for motor vehicles. Once effective it will mean that the Power boat operator will need an operator s licence to run his Craft just As the car Driver needs a licence to drive his car. Caribbean withdraws Trade curbs Ottawa minis Ter it. Hon. C. D. Howe announced monday British countries in the Caribbean have withdrawn All Trade restrictions on apples Leaf to Bacco chemical fertilizers and Calcium Carbide effective immediately. Or. Howe informed the com Mons that this Trade development will assist Canadian exports to tha area and make a Large pro portion of Canada s exports to the Caribbean free of restriction. Canada s exports to the area totalled in 1955 Are increasing this year. Hopes to prove Columbus not first to find America Halifax ;