Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 9, 1957, Winnipeg, Manitoba Meats for babies we Mora More results i your greatest Market to buy to sell free press want ads phone Whitehall 3-9331 by Carrier in Winnipeg 3pc per week 9 1957 weekend edition with comics Loc Christmas of f ice parties gain in favor but liquor is a problem j. Office workers in Winnipeg will be heartened by recent findings of a National Survey indicating that 60 revealed in the Survey con ducted by the National office management association. P. Q. Archer of Searle Grain co. Ltd., is president of the Winnipeg chapter of the member association of office per cent of them will be executives. The Survey was Distri Able to enjoy an for release saturday. Christmas party with Allex lenses paid by the com Pany this year. Other pros and cons of Yule tide celebrations in offices Are limit liquor the Survey started immediately Afler last Christmas is based on the opinions of executives from approximately business firms of All sizes and types across the abolish them says chief Taft f by Elman Guttormson i free press staff writer if chief Robert Taft of the win i Jii Peg police department had his Way Christmas office parties with liquor would be abolished. Christmas office parties Are not. Essential to the enjoyment of the Holiday season and if anything. Signal permits for these office Par ties. It would be interesting to know the reason Why these firms have discontinued the practice rather than to know reasons of that Small number of firms who wish to continue the he said. Chief Taft warned this year As they detract from said chief Taft. According to the chief the Par lies Are a Hazard to the Host As Well As the guest. Evidence May be required from the Host As to the consumption of liquor by a guest should the guest become a defendent in a court Case for driving while impaired intoxicated or for some other reason. Party permits drop these he Sal d. Uke place in the downtown area of the City with its traffic congestion and during the Peak traffic periods. This is no time to let Loose on the Public Street a Driver i in the past the police department will be Alert and will visit pre Mises where parties Are being Heldi to ascertain if they Are j who has been Drinkin. Producing statistics. Most executives who favor the parties believe they improve employee Many have reservations about alcoholic beverages at the party. Sixteen per cent say they Are All right if liquor is forty four per cent of the executives against office Par ties feel liquor causes a prob Lem others -19 per cent object because parties interfere with personal time or Are a waste of 15 per cent be cause mixed sexes and liquor 11 per cent because employees Are in compatible or have different still free despite the feeling that con sumption of liquor should be limited or forbidden it will still be furnished free by More than half the companies. How Ever in Many cases employees will have to provide their own liquor. However where parties Are held on company property liquor is becoming frowned upon and half of such parties will be dry. Sixty one per cent of the companies plan to hold parties Afler working hours 50 per cent in the evenings and 11 per cent on the weekend. About one third of the Par ties will be on company pro no permits after dec. 21 banquet permits for Christmas by Gen. Rodger parties of this office parties after dec. 21 will nature appear to be on the Perty. Most shindigs will be at a restaurant or hotel. Thea Defin Ite trend toward More Christ mss a Roifes. Chances Are they will continue with variations. Not be granted to any firms it the chief was Learned Friday from Gen. N. There has been a great re i Elliot Rodger vice chairman of auction in applications for Occa express slow go the Portage Avenue express bus certainly has t been what you d Call a resounding Success during its first week in operation d. I. Macdonald general manager of tie greater Winnipeg transit commission said Friday. He attributed the Lack of res Ponse to the ingrained habits of the Public and thought it would take a Little time before people would change Over to the new service. The Experiment would continue for a month any Way or Macdonald said. Last monday the Gutc initiated its express service Between Assini Boia and downtown Winnipeg. Pas sengers pay a five cent Premium in the express area. So far the buses Haven t been even half full in the morning Rush hours or. Macdonald said but the response had been a Little bet Ter in the afternoons. If however the Public did not take advantage of the express ser vice the Gutc had other areas where increased bus service was needed he said. The liquor control commission. Dec. 21 is the saturday before Christ Mas. Gen. Rodger said the commis Sion was not in favor of such parties but they recognized the fact there Are still a number of businesses which wish to continue their custom of Many years stand ing or having Christmas parties for their staff or customers. This year the commission is is suing instructions on the conditions which liquor permits will be granted for parties in offices or business premises. Applicants will have to satisfy the commission that a senior executive of the firm or organization is in charge and will be present at the party. The emphasis will be on the service of food rather than liquor. Permits teeing issued this year will be granted Only during the period Between dec. 9 and dec. 21 and for parties which terminate by 6 . According to statistics revealed the Winnipeg Public Library has announced a change in the Book Mobile schedule. Beginning wednesday Bookmobile no. 1 will Slop at Lockwood and carpathia Park instead of Corydon and carpathia Street Between 6 and 9 . Woman injured in collision mrs. Joyce Boyd 24, of j82 Bur rows Avenue was injured Friday night when a car driven by her i husband Beverly collided with a j other car driven by Andrew Pat Terson of 635 Alfred Avenue. The Accident occurred at Salter Street and Dufferin Avenue. Mrs Boyd was taken to the general Hospital with a fractured thigh and bruises to her legs and face. Her condition is reported As Good. Let the Snow whirl and the North wind blow we re cosy in our Nice warm office and on our desk we Jive something Green a Branch from a Lilac Bush picked by b. E. Fenner of Plum Coulee on november 7 and sent in for our inspection. There Are seven Little burgeoning buds on it quite quite Green. Pet Corker has anybody seen a lost Little White Puppy it s Only about a. Foot High part Chihuahua and answers to the name of it escaped from a Yard on Balmoral Street. The folks have tried every Way to locate him and their Little girl is very sad. As a last resort Grundy sends out this Appeal if you know where Bandy is please Call Spruce 5-2975 giveaways three female Kittens Wack yellow and White Gray yellow and White and Gray and one Gray male Kitten All about nine weeks old and also a seven months old yellow and White torn cat. We have the says. The owner and we kept the rest of the family As Long As we could but we can t keep Emall phone Vernon 2-1015 also Lour persian Kittens two of pm blonde and two Black phone Castle 2-9615 and two eight weeks old Kittens trained one dark Brown part siamese and one multicoloured phone 6-7053. And now we hear that the planners of o new supermarket soon to built Down in the Good of . Are going to put in Wall to Wall carpeting. 7hth theory most food buyers Are women women Are Home Motorj so tit ret should at Mot pert. There were approximately 100 permits issued in 1953 80 in 1954 70 in 1955 and 47 in 1956. He added however that because liquor licences have been issued to various hotels Anil restaurants some of the remaining parties will be held in these places rather than of Busi Ness premises. Rally held for March of dimes Hon. R. W. Bend provincial health Friday told March of dimes committee work ers that Manitoba is the farthest advanced of the 10 provinces in the Field of rehabilitation. Speaking to a rally of about 75 workers from throughout the pro Vince. Or. Bend pointed to the relationship of the society for crippled children adults of i Manitoba and the government Del apartment As a Good example of j the partnership of voluntary a animation and i mrs. Garnet Coulter said the March of. Dimes Campaign which raised about last year is the Basic source of funds for the society s adult re habilitation program. Proceeds from the easter Seal Campaign go towards the program for crippled children. She said when you rehabilitate a crippled person to use the Abili ties he has left or to acquire new ones you be returned him to a self respecting productive Mem Ber of a feature of the March of dimes Campaign beginning Jan. 3, will be. A mothers a concentrated one hour House to House Blitz. J. Allan Cammell publicity officer greater Winnipeg transit commission will be guest speaker and commentator for a coloured film on transportation at a meet ing of the win Niong cosmopolitan club at . Tuesday in the Marlborough hotel. Groups plan services for remembrance Day veterans associations of greater it ions and armed services personnel Winnipeg and military units will j participating. The service will be participate in a remembrance i directed by f. E. Repro Day ceremony monday. Tsenling the veterans associations other special services monday of greater Winnipeg include a protestant ceremony at the Royal Canadian sea Cadet the civic auditorium and a roman band will provide music for the Catholic service at St. Cathedral. The ceremony monday will in clude a Wreath laying service at 10.30 . At the memorial Boule Vard Cenotaph with representatives of various veterans poses 3-Point Reform program Brandon Man. Special a three Point program for Reform of Mani Toba s educational system was outlined at the 27th annual convention of the Mani Toba Chambers of Commerce Friday by or. M. E. Lazerte Dean of the faculty of education at the1 University of Manitoba. Dean Lazerte spoke As a Mem Ber of a symposium which Dis cussed the topic meeting crisis in education As convention Dele Gates prepared to begin discussion of 19 resolutions dealing with educational Reform. Other members other members of the syr Reposi m. J. G. Mcmullen manager of the Manitoba Cham Bers As chairman were mrs. Nan Murphy past chairman of the Winnipeg school Board and e. L. Arnett general Secretary of the Manitoba teachers society. Working from the. Premise that inequality of Opportunity is one of the chief deficiencies in Manitoba s system of education or. Lazerte urged establishment of a foundation program for All provincial Public schools at the elementary and secondary Levels an equalized assessment of All pro Perty that is or should be taxed for education and a new uniform provincial tax for support of Edu cation. Oust special Grants amplifying the plan or. Lazerte said the government should wipe out a special Grants and Dis tribute education Money in an equalized fashion. He described such a move As a system where by All available provincial Grants would be used to raise the level of the foundation program. He said that under the present system of financing education in Manitoba real estate is bearing too Large a share of costs of Edu cation. He declared education is social credit meet Here wednesday Solon e. Low National Leader of the social credit party will be principal speaker at the provincial convention in the Marlborough hotel wednesday and thursday. The election of a provincial Leader and planning for nominations in. Many Manitoba constituencies Are highlights of the convention program. Walter Taylor of Melita. Man., and or. J. Browy of Winnipeg Aire most frequently mentioned for the leadership officials of the party said Friday. A social responsibility not solely the responsibility of the local District. Would guarantee funds he said a uniform provincial tax for education purposes based on. An equalized assessment would not necessarily mean that municipalities would pay less than they Are now paying towards education but would guarantee danger in Gas feud Davey says the president of Winnipeg and Central Gas co. Saturday warned that the controversy Over natural Gas distribution in the metropolitan area might give greater Winnipeg a reputation for Lack of stability in local the warning came in a state ment issued by w. F. Davey who also said the controversy might hinder the company s efforts to obtain capital for Extension of its distribution system. Shake Confidence obviously referring to efforts by two rival companies great Plains and. Great Northern Gas utilities to gain franchises in the metropolitan area or Davey said these efforts to Winnipeg and Central agreements with the municipalities could Only shake the Confidence of investors in the credit standing of the whole Winnipeg and Central s Gas Pur chasing contract with trans can Ada pipe lines and its financing were based upon serving the whole metropolitan area. Investors regarded the authority of the municipal and Public Utility Board As the primary element in their Confidence in the Good Faith metropolitan Winnipeg. It should be or. Davey said the financing done by Iii Nipes and Central must carry the Board s approval and the Bonds and debentures issued to Date Cairy the warranty that the funds w1 ill be used to extend distribution facilities in the. Whole of greater Winnipeg on the basis of existing consents agreements con tracts and other approx id a Mary s ceremony at the Cenotaph. Service in he auditorium immediately after the outdoor ceremony will be conducted by chaplains of the veterans associations and senior chaplains of. The armed services. Music for the auditorium service will be played by the Royal can Adian horse artillery band. The roman Catholic Observance will begin at 10.25 . At St. Mary s Cathedral. Taking the Salute in a March past following the auditorium ser vice will be . P. Montague who will be stationed at a saluting base on memorial Boule Vard. Units participating in the March past include veterans groups hocs Chippawa Canadian army Craf Royal Canadian sea cadets and Royal Canadian air cadets. Parade marshals will be f. E. Skinner., veterans associations it. Cdr. F. K. Heap run capt. P. Jacques Canadian army and so. I. D. Tenove Craf. Taking part in the auditorium service will be Hon. J. S. Mcdiar mid lieutenant governor of Manitoba. Parade route will be along memorial Boulevard Portage ave nue Down Kennedy Street then to dispersal Points. Apartment indicated Friday. Funds to provide equal Opportunity for children in All parts of the province. Or. Lazerte purposely avoided mention of Federal Aid to Educa Tion and concentrated on equalization of financial responsibility in the province. He noted that school boards should be left free to Fin Ance programs above the proposed foundation program no change. In w years mrs. Murphy speaking on school administration and Curri Cula told delegates there has been no appreciable change in Educa Tion practice in Manitoba in the past 50 years. She said there is a need for government leadership in the establishment of larger school areas which she said would provide Equality of Opportunity for Stu dents in Rural and Urban areas. Emphasis on English mrs. Murphy said there is need for More emphasis on the use of the English language changes in methods used in the teaching of mathematics and recognition of variation s in the ability of various students. She called for establishment of a general course offering instruction in subjects that Are not now a part of matriculation courses. She told delegates that such a course would enable the strengthening of the present matriculation course that would make it More of a Challenge for top students. Complete reappraisal mrs. Murphy also stated a com plete reappraisal of the present examination system is needed and suggested that a provincial Board should be established to work towards improvement of the present examination system. She advocated a provincial Institute of technology and the appointment of a director of guid Ance to Aid students in selecting of courses., passing profession by or. Arnett speaking on teach ing standards said Many of the province s gifted and Able Young people Are passing the profession by because it fails to offer re wards comparable with those offered by other professions. He said experience has shown that it is practical to raise stand Ards As a Means of overcoming the shortage of qualified teachers and called on provincial authorities to give the teaching profession responsibility and rights in the setting of standards and curricula in order to make the profession attractive to Young people various welfare agencies . Al Rattrey left and Jim Rose co Cli airmen of the House sponsored by the students architectural society of the University examine a Motel of a new Farmers Market for the main Street site designed by 1957 graduate Henry Kalyn of the Model is one of the designs to on display from 2 . 1o . Sunday in the student Union building. The open is the first event in University of Manitoba s festival of the aria. Chamber Brief to ask Many changes Brandon Man. Special education which has been the sub theme of the 27th annual Conven Tion of the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce became the actual theme Here Friday afternoon fees delegates adopted a Basic state the convention through the sum ment of policy on the subject one Mary Resolution stated its thoughts which will be welded into a Brief on each of the subjects. Tecsa senior government Aid to Educa Tion teacher qualifications Short age of teachers salaries vocational guidance new teaching aids libraries curriculum publicity and for consideration of the Royal com Mission on education before the month is. Over. The resolutions committee of the one amen convention boiled Down the 19 resolutions on education which had been submitted by member Cham Bers into a two Page Resolution which won the approval of Dele Gates Friday afternoon. Subjects numerous the new summary covered such subjects As larger school areas thoughts will be incorporated in the Brief which must be completed by the executive within two weeks. Newer City areas get heavier vote turnout Winnipeg s new Home owners Are River Heights school with 47.3 per aking More interest in municipal cent and the Robert h. Smith affairs than the old ones statistics school with 47.4 per cent revealed by the City de i the worst turnout was recorded just one amendment to the Resolution was considered by the convention and this was Defeated in a subsequent vote. The Amend ment sponsored by the Baldur delegation asked the provincial government to increase its Basic Aid program from per room to the Cost of operation of a one room school. Main opposition to the Amend ment slated a Small increase in Grants As suggested did not follow the sweeping changes suggested elsewhere in the Resolution. In detail the combined Resolution passed by the convention first Calls upon the government of the prov Ince for direction in the establish taking More interest in municipal cent and the Robert h. Smith ment and financial assistance of larger school areas. It Calls upon the provincial government to provide further Aid to education at both primary and secondary Levels including a share of capital costs. Teacher qualifications under the heading of teacher qualifications it asks that Normal school entrants be confined to Grade 12 graduates with a Clear standing and asks utmost Atten Tion be Given to adequate train ing and careful selection of personnel of teacher training institutions. The Resolution suggests greater attention be Given placing of new in trained teachers and asks that refresher courses for teachers be made available by the department of education. Covering the shortage of teach at Victoria school in the Central a tabulation of the voting turn a part of the where the turn out in the october civic election showed generally that the newer areas within the City turned out in better numbers than the older areas. The top turnout was at Queen Ston school in River Heights where 47.7 per cent of those eligible cast their ballots in what was generally the worst civic election turnout in 35 years. The second and third top schools were also in River Heights the asked in Fargo Fargo . Special the Winnipeg Fargo. Good neighbor fund committee thursday night studied applications asking for a total of in assistance As a result of the june 20 Tornado in Fargo. I the committee has of hand which was contributed to a drive conducted during the summer in Winnipeg. The com Mittee said requests ranged from to after going Over the applications the committee said assistance to Tornado sufferers will be based entirely on the comm ties said replacement of property is out of the question because of the Small amount Money available. Working with the committee in screening applications Are representatives of out was 9.9 per cent. Every Ward 2 poll East of the Daniel Mclntyre collegiate produced a showing be Low. 20 per cent fihe City average was 26.2 per cent 27.9 per cent in Ward 1, 20.9 per cent in Ward 2 and 28.5 per cent in Ward 3. What pulled the Ward 1 average Down below Ward 3 was the fort Rouge area where one poll fort Rouge school reported a turnout of 12.4 per cent. The Broad Way area also helped pull Down the Ward s average. Mulvey school reported 16.4 per cent. The Ward 3 vote was More stable throughout the whole District ranging As High As 40.1 per cent at the Farraday school. Ward 2 a gauge of general interest in school Board elections. The Ward was about eight per cent below the other wards they said prob ably in major part due to the fact there was an acclamation for school Board. Service on radio to remembrance Day services at the National War memorial in Ottawa will be simulcast radio and television from to . Mon Day. Announcer Don Sims will be i heard on radio and Brig Whit Teker will narrate the Cere Mony for television. be the 24th year the occasion has been covered on Csc radio and the third year on Tele vision to the shortage is the Inadequacy of remuneration and Lack of professional recognition the Resolution even suggested salary rates to be adopted within the province running from a mini mum of per year in Elemen tary positions to a maximum of in secondary branches. To medium in addition the resolutions made mention of the medium of television in making available new teaching aids within the prov Ince. Finally the Resolution asked that nonresident fees of Grade 9 pupils be assessed against the re Levant municipality in the same manner As presently obtained for Grade 10 to 12. Come to school parents of students at St. John s High school have been invited to to school night at . Wednesday to visit the Tea Chers in their class rooms ;