Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, October 22, 1957

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 22, 1957, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Swift s Premium Franks made fresh daily 1 j Mora Adi men readers merc result is your greatest Market to buy to still free press want ads phone Whitehall 3-9331 by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg tuesday october-22, 1957 weekend edition with comics we is he communist . Candidate won t say town Hall in West Kil Clonan reached an explosive stage monday night when a candidate for mayor was asked Point Blank if he is a communist. The candidate Charles refused to answer. After he engaged in a series of retorts with the questioner the town Hal chairman t. C. Gres Chuk said he would Irbid such personal questions. We re it said the West Kildonan electors committee has in publicity inferred a link with the Kcf party. This is absolutely said or. Miller. The Kcf never has discussing sputnik or satellites i and never will associate with a we re discussing municipal of a communist the question from the audience was preceded by a charge from Saul a. Miller Council candidate that the West Kildonan electors committee is communistic. Candidates sponsored by this croup arc or. Watson for mayor Daniel Brusly for Council Wurl mrs. Doreen Plowman Lor the school Board Jik smiles when the communist question was fired at or. Watson he walked slowly to the speaker s lectern and smiled. "1 presented s or. Watson said. To went on to say it was a his program. You Haven t answered my ques said the Spectator. Arc you a or. Watson s smile vanished then quickly returned. "1 think mccarthyism died quite a while ago. Let s not revive Haven t courage i m not reviving it. I just want no gasoline on sundays in St. Vital service stations in is. Vital will have to remain closed sunday St. Vila Council has decided. The new bylaw which passed by or Voles to i to provides thai Fias stations will in future have to shut at 0 . Weekdays from May to october and at 7 . During he rest of the year. They will not be allowed to open on sunday at any time. Passage of the bylaw came after a petition asking for the Early and sunday closing was submitted to Council by 10 of the it St. Vital the answer to my question. You re service station operators con asking me to Vole for you and you Haven t the courage to say what you believe i be proven my or. Watson retorted. At his Point the town Hall i chairman slopped the i urls inning and or. Watson resumed in his seat. Corned. Two of the petitioners through a letter to Council and through their solicitor Aubrey j. Halter asked that i heir names be struck c. B i Lucan manager of the automotive trades association. Old Council that pressure had fhe Only other Throat one Harp Hcan or indirect i came in quest lolling of May in he two withdrawing petitioners by the Oil in spite of up came on Wralty candidate c. About the closing of i n. May kits liner a portion of Scotia Street near Kildonan Park in said one Mem Ber of the audience they would know what to do about with respect i just came Back from eng Halter s protests to the contrary. We want municipal Law and not Oil company he said. Councillor a. G. Mensforth said that if a similar bylaw were in Force All Over Manitoba and Western weekend travel under the old bylaw service Sta Tion operators either had to remain open 24 hours a Day seven Days a week or shut at 7 . Week Days and All Day sunday. replied or. Kushner. We would come to a halt could learn a lot from England if anyone wants to drive on and one thing about England 11 councillor Harry Collins Don t know whether you la believe i declared he should buy his Gas this citizens treat their elected on saturday. Surely we re not out officials with Here Pinch hitting for the Oil com that s because they be j panics got elected officials Thov can res called Back a Spectator. Or. Kunner said Council had been advised by engineers that the River Bank is in danger and that Council had acted on this information. If i had my he declared there would t be a House on a River Bank in All of All Council and school Board candidates were present. The two mayoralty candidates were riven 10 minutes each by the sponsoring kiwanis club of West Kildonan. Council and school Board Candi dates were allowed five minutes each. Lip service or. Watson called for lower taxes and More aggressive Leader ship. Only lip service has been paid by Council and school Board to increased provincial education he chided councillor Kushner for his absence from a protest meeting. "mr., Kushner was the Only Council member absent from the meeting. He did t want id be embarrassed or tar mayor Stephen Juba signed Embarrass the provincial govern proclamation tuesday officially designating thursday As United or. Kushner disclaimed any pro nations Day. Vinci Al political link there j the proclamation was signed in never has been politics at a Muni-1 the mayor s office in the presence Cipal level he also Sandlof j. 0. Blick president of the protest meetings Lead to nations association Branch Rule they get in Winnipeg. It s easy to say let s do this. No Stone unturned in this drive aldermen emerged from a City Council meeting monday night and found their cars Alt carrying posters advertising a candidate seeking to capture one of their scats. Every Aldermani car parked in front of the building carried a poster urging voters to elect William Gelfant in Ward 3 in wednesday s civic election. Some of the aldermen drove away without noticing the cards. Aid. Slaw Bebchuk or. Gelfant s opponent Tore his off the rear window. So did mayor Stephen Juba who apart from an attack on Carrick another Gelfant oppo nent has tried hard to stay out of the Campaign. Aid. Peter Taraska a Ward 3 Alderman not running this year left the card on. What the Heck leave it on he said As he drove away. A Spectator said a group of children had put the cards on the car while the aldermen were meeting. Cheap or not Well have to wait for Camel Here anybody want to buy a Ca Mel cheap at it s a steal. But Winnipeg will have to wait until next year at least before importing its first de Sert specimen. The Price is right that s for Tom Hodgson City proclaim in Day thursday let s do that. We try to keep taxes Down. There is a constant struggle Between municipal provincial and Federal Levels to lower Lions convention c. G. Carter a Winnipeg director of Lions International will be guest speaker thursday at a Lions Council candidate or. Miller convention in Mitchell . Run Dvor Ronnie seven his next door neighbor Barbara five and Mark eight who lives across the Street were Busy 1he other Day discussing what they were going to do with their future lives. Barbara asked Ronnie when you grow up will you marry said Ronnie scornfully i m going to marry Mark. I d rather have a Hub acid than a wife any Winnipeg teenager s comment of father who owns a Small car Well dad if you flood the Carburettor All you have to do is put the Cor Over your shoulder and burp Kitty Corker can anyone offer a Good Home to a Beautiful Black part persian romping playful trained sex week old Kitty s a Giveaway to the person who phones Spruce 2-7043. And there Are too Many cats on a farm at Teulon. In the Market for new Homes Are a Gray and White Tabby two White Kittens and a Black and White Kitten. If a re quest is left with David Evans Spruce hell pick up the pets on his next visit to the farm next weekend also looking for Homes two greyish Kittens about seven old phone Sunset 3-0414, Parks Board superintendent told the free press tuesday. But budget limitations has put a crimp in any plans Assiniboine Park zoo May have had for purchasing a two Humper from London s whip Snake zoo. The British Park tuesday announced Sale of Young Bac Trian two Hump camels at below last year s Price. Reason an unprecedented autumn birth rate. Quebec City zoo already has snapped up a two Hump or. In Exchange Worth of animals including badgers and porcupines will get new mailing addresses. Winnipeg will be sending Whipsnade five White tailed Deer for five formosan Deer next Spring. Maybe the Market on Ca mels will be just As favourable or. Hodgson said. I Hope wonder what the camels Are thinking these Days canadians have never been better fed or in better health hut their physical condition is that Wai the sum up in Winnipeg tuesday by or. Doris plecs. Fitness and recreation consultant to the department of National health and welfare. Or. Is conducting physical fitness on a Cross unction of Winnipeg school children As part of a nation wide Survey. The Winnipeg tests Are being carried out at Sargent Park school auditorium and the above picture shows or. Plecs with Kas Vitruk. Physical education director for Winnipeg schools an they put Robert of Linkk. A Grade s Stu Dent through the test of abdominal muscle or. Plecs tuesday requested any willing groups of adults to reach her through the school Board. Col. Arthur Sullivan prominent Winnipeg lawyer and businessman died Mon Day at Hli Home 197 Kings Way at the age of 77. Story on Page 24. City traffic policeman hit patrol sergeant Morris Hinam 41, was treated at Winnipeg Gen eral Hospital after he was knocked Down by a car at . Mon Day while directing traffic at red Wood Avenue and main Street. The policeman who lives at Greenwood place received bruised hips. Traffic officials said sgt. Hinam was struck by an automobile operated by Hilda Maruda of rh3 Winnipeg. The woman told police she was blinded by the lights of a and did not see the policeman. Board opens North air hearings the air transport Board began a three Day hearing in Winnipeg tuesday to hear six applications for new licences and to review All existing licences in the North Ern Manitoba area. Trans air ltd., has three applications before the Board and Tay Lor Austin and Nelson airways each have one. T. D. Delamere counsel for International Nickel co., and g. R. Hunter representing Sherritt Gor Don mines Are also attending the hearings. In an opening statement for the Board or. Delamere outlined the position of his company. The com Pany believes there is no justification for any protected basis at Wabowden Ilford and Moak Lake or. Delamere said. He also suggested any planes his company operates under Long term charter be allowed to Fly in and out of any base in Northern Manitoba. Purpose of the hearing is to Clear up the situation in the North and the transport Board has advised All operators that As a re sult of the hearing it May cancel Amend or consolidate any licences currently held. Many Small operators in the North say they have suffered severe losses since the completion of the mid Canada radar line which employed a near record number of planes and created a Boom in Northern air travel. Gifts to Chest total donations totalling were received by the 1957 greater Winnipeg Community Chest monday. This brought the Chest total at noon tues Day to free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Wednesday in the free press building include Board room no. 1, Victoria Beach Community club Hoard room no. 2, Winnipeg philatelic so c i e t a clubroom Winnipeg radio association. Bus solution delayed again delegations howl As Council almost solves route problem the Winnipeg City Council with a Little advice from a crowded gallery came perilously close Mon Day night to solving temporarily anyway the 20-year old Wolseley bus route dispute. But it did t quite make it. In there was a shudder Amons the end the whole Case was adjourned for two weeks. Opposing delegations appeared before Council to ask that the bus be taken away from its present route and be made to run up and Back to Portage Avenue on slip Burn and Garfield streets. 2, ask that the bus be left on to present route and kept strict in away from Portage Avenue Sherburn and Garfield Street. Some aldermen. And. Peter Taraska called upon the aldermen to have courage and put the bus where they thought it. Belonged regardless of pressure groups. He spent 15 minutes exercising some of it himself after the meeting when he was buttonhole by residents. Aid. Scott demanded that coun cil stick to its previous Garfield Sherburn decision and. Carry it out. There were cries of no from the gallery. At one Point there was a Aid. Hallonquist then gave her on stration in the gallery and a notice of motion Spectator called Down at and. H b. Scott a sit notice of motion but in the end Aid. Lillian Hal Lonquist rave notice of motion that Council s previous decision to use the Sherburn Garfield route be rescinded. At present it. Swings South to Palmerston Avenue looping its Way around Aubrey and slip Burn streets. For 15 years residents of his Block have been demanding that it Loop somewhere else. Last year the Parks Board agreed to part with some proper a tin Aubrey Street to provide a turn round area. Coun cil approved Over a howl of pro tests and the zoning Board turned the idea Down. On trial basis this year safety committee and the transit commission came up with the Garfield Sherburn idea on a 9fl-Day irial basis. Before1 local residents became aware it the proposal had got through Council. But then a delegation so i Large it overflowed the committee chamber showed up and safety committee asked the transit com Mission not to put the Garfield Sherburn plan into effect even though it had Council approval. Instead the safety committee said it would go ahead with the Aubrey Loop plan again. This time for a wild drive threatens to run Down policeman a Motorist was fined i and costs in City magistrate s court after travelling at wild speeds through City streets threatening to run policemen Down. He also damaged an Alder Man s Fence during his wild escapade. Magistrate m. H. Carton also ordered Peter Kissick. 37, of 703 Larvis Avenue prohibited from driving anywhere in Canada for three years. In default of the Fine Kissick will have to spend six j months in jail. At noon tuesday i the Fine had t been paid. At . Aug. 15 police does a Centre strip need a Sprink were about to Stop Kissick in the Ler system or will the grass grow of 1611 Pacific Avenue Green without it when he drove away at High East Kildonan Council monday j Speed. During the Chase which night asked its engineering depart went up and Down several West intent to investigate the matter streets and Back lanes Over fore it makes any decisions about i boulevards and through parking grass without. Sprinklers is in , its Henderson Highway boulevards. Kissick hit a Speed of 75 mayor g. N. Suttie said that an hour while the strips on Portage Avenue Kissick s car collided Wilh two and main Street in Winnipeg one at lne rear of sprinkler systems he did not of Ald Coward Mckel those in the residential areas were1 Ify p4 Alexander Avenue equipped with them. It was Sug ill Ere he damage gelled that perhaps the sprinklers to d hi31 when were needed Only where there was i Lihe car Kissick pavement underneath the grass and con stable had to jump to safety the Chase finally came to an lend in a hotel parking lot when Kissick s bumper caught on a Telephone support Cable. Police said Kissick had a Crim such is not the Case on the Hender son strips. Montrose school meet get acquainted night for parents and teachers at Inal record plus convictions under school will be monday at 8 . The liquor act. Stop wherever you wish but Start with that t Mark your City Council and Council ballot there will to Griffons club Hartwell Bowsfield provincial archivist will speak on archives and Manitoba history at the re Gular meeting of the Griffons club at thursday in Moore s restaurant. Photographer lives with danger his is life of adventure by Pat Clayton free staff writer with danger his constant com Panion per Olow Anderson s life has been a whirlwind of adventure and excitement. And Given it All to live again he would change nothing. Life is so Short we must get s much out of it As the 36-year-old swedish photographer said in an interview monday. Or. Anderson who now makes his second Home in Cairo does free Lance work for magazines and motion picture companies and is in Winnipeg on a combined Busi Ness pleasure trip. An account of his life sur passes any adventure fiction and begins 20 years ago when he ran away from Home and his philosophy studies at the University of Stockholm to Volunteer in the Spanish civil War. But i was there three he lamented. My father found out where i was and we sent the second world War found him fighting in Poland and then in Finland where his Hobby of photography enabled him to do photographic propaganda for the finns next Stop was Norway where with a handful of swedes and norwegians he formed a guerrilla Mountain movement against the nazi invaders. Pressing on to the North of Norway he joined the Raf As an Aerial photographer and then returned to Sweden where he used the British embassy As a base to Send supplies to the norwegian underground. War experiences his other War experiences in clude covering the Landing of the Allied forces in North Africa Italy and Normandy. After the War his movements continued As a Kaleidoscope of. Color and excitement with visits to the Middle East one and a half years of Hunting alligators in Central America writing a Book on banana growing and a trip with some headhunters into the heart of Colombia. On the less dangerous Side he was publicity photographer for the movies War arid peace Alexander the great and trapeze. Maybe sometime will he Ever Settle Down maybe he commented not very enthusiastically. The Only drawback to his travels is that he has Little time to spend with his wife and two sons in Sweden. Or. Anderson who leaves Winnipeg wednesday to begin a lec Ture tour of american universities on the Arab refugee situation in Palestine is accompanied by an other swedish photographer Knoppel. When -his1lecture tour is Over he will return to Stockholm from where he will motor to Damascus to make a film on the Middle East. When will be write his Auto i when i can find a firl to take Lai Istad. V they would make sure the plan Jot a through. Once again the Parks Board agreed to part with the property. But the property Transfer of the Aubrey Street land needed finance committee approval. A delegation protested this plan before finance. Aid. Walter Crawford went to safety committee last week and persuaded the committee to put into Force the Garfield Sherburn plan it had previously shelved. Commission waited committee therefore whole the transit commission to proceed but the commission decided to wait and see what happened at Council monday night. Here is what happened ii. B. Brehaut speaking for a delegation of some scores said that the Garfield Sherburn plan would mean traffic chaos on port age Avenue Oil fumes and per haps traffic accidents on Garfield and Sherburn. Would those in the galleries supporting his Case please stand he asked. The mayor told the spectators demonstrations were out of order. W. G. Lindsay 1120 Palmerston was All for the Garfield Sherburn plan though there were litters in the gallery As he put Forward his Case. The residents of Garfield and Sherburn he said were being asked to try out the bus for 90 Days. Our is a 15-year problem. We Haven t wanted that bus for 15 years. It seems we re outnumbered. I d hate to Call our Dele Gates to a f. Fiji 48 Aubrey backed up or. Lindsay. He was against the Aubrey Street Loop . Further More he said it would be pos sible to run All the Way Down Wolseley past that tree if we Ever get it out of r. R. Rembolt or. Raymond r. A Lemloh of Iowa City Iowa will attend the zone five meeting of the Winnipeg is. Ban Hace St. James Optimus to be held at the Silver Heights restaurant Ai . Tuesday. He is governor of District nine of optimists International. Or. Rembolt a pedal Triclia. Is a member of the a Lueje of med Clae Iwa us Verstr. Dates listed 1, 2, 3 and so on. Opposite the name of your first and Mark your City Hall Money Choice for Alderman put the Fig bylaw and referendum ballot sure 1 opposite your second with a straight the figure 2 opposite your those were the simple Las third 3, and so on. The same pro minute instructions by City Hall Medure goes for the ballot to elect election officials tuesday morn ing on the eve of the 1957 Winni Peg civic elections. For example on your school trustees. Vote hours in 9 areas Are listed elections will be held wednesday in nine areas of greater Winnipeg. Tuxedo will not be holding an election this year As the mayor and two councillors were elected by acclamation. Voting hours in the various areas Are As follows Winnipeg 10 .-9p.m. Assiniboia Brooklands Charleswood East Kildonan fort Garry St. James 10 .-9 , 10 . . 10 .-9 . 10 .-9 . 10 . And Here s something to re member you Don t have to fill cily out the whole ballot according to preference. If you Mark 1 oppo site your first Choice and let it go at your ballot will count that far. Of you can Mark your first and second preferences and Stop there. You can Stop wherever you want to. But one thing to remember is that you must Slart at 1. There s a real advantage to fill ing out the ballots however you can influence the election of an other Man even if your first choices Are Defeated. All Winnipeg cars who Are Bri Tish subjects 21 years or Over and who have lived in the cily at least 12 months before oct. 23 Are Enlil led to vote for cily coun cil and school Board candidates. They Are also Enlil led to vote on whether they want the new City Hall at the present site on main Street or at Osborne Street and memorial Boulevard. St. Vital 9a.m.-8p.m. Transcona West Kildonan. 10a.m.-9p.m. On the Money bylaw to finance the new cily Hall How Ever Only ratepayers Are entitled to vote. Polling Booths open at 10 . And close at 9 . Seven candidates have party support Winnipeg voters who in the Oast have supported the civic election committee s slate of Council and school Board Candi dates will be on. Their own this year. The Cec has withdrawn from election activities for one year to Wise have had Cec backing Art running their own campaigns. The Only candidates with party machine backing in the elections Are five cyfers and two communists Here is the Complete list of develop a program of civic admin candidates. Those with no Nota is ration Reform. A tons beside their names Are run the candidates who would other ining As independents. Ward one Council Ernest r. Anderson Malcolm Mcdiarmid Aid. David Mulligan Kcf mrs. Myrtle Sutherland mrs. E. R. Tennant John e. Tunney school Board i. I. Gladstone Kcf Roy j. Matas trustee Hugh Parker Ruitta Catherine Stewart Council Aid. Albeit e. Bennett Aid. Cordon fines Kcf am. Paul Goodman William Stefanik Ward two no school Board election in Ward 2 the three sitting members returned acclamation Council Aid. Stan Carrick William Gelfant mrs. Nina Partrick Aid. Jacob Penner Aid. Slaw Bebchuk he Leonard Ward three school Board mrs. Alice Peterson. Or. Isidor woke Kcf trustee Andrew Zaha Ryzhuk trustee a Mph Zuken ;