Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 14, 1957, Winnipeg, Manitoba Swift fat Mim Mcloft made fresh daily in Mort Adi Trade re Mora result to your greatest Market to buy to sell free press want ads who Rejall 3-9331 by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winn Jpe. Thursday november 14, il957 weekend edition with comics Loc says liberals Defeated because they lost human touch the Federal. Liberals lost the june 10 election be Thuiy lost of several Points in the party s Creed Hon. F. L. Jobin minister of Industry and com Merce thursday told the annual meeting of the messed Manitoba federation of Liberal women. J or Low arrived from Ottawa our party lost that delivered a despite efforts of press Manitoba so reds in Fine shape Low by Fred free press staff writer touch so vital and necessary or. 3obin said. I blame our fed eral leaders for losing touch and i blame we party members for permitting them he told the group you Are in an Ideal position to recognize this shortcoming and Over come without concern the thinking of the supporters Back the minister urged the women s association to meet More often with the provincial Cabinet to Dis cuss matters of general interest in education health and welfare or the other Many important mat you have right and a duty or. Jobin blamed the do he said. Party for failing to consider every or Jobin said the party faces human a terrific Battle in the next pro in other he said election permitted our leaders to carry out go out of your he told Jour affairs in a Good business like j he women determine what manner for the Good of All he populace is thinking and then without the concern for the this information on to your of All without due concern for j Solon Low National social credit Leader concluded wednesday that everything was Rosy with his party s Manitoba organization despite efforts by the press to party executive lost his support months ago Hutton Manitoba s Lone social credit Ting to the Basic facts of social address to the annual Manitoba social credit league convention at the Marlborough hotel. Main topics the press and. Although he did t mention the name. Or. Howard Mcgill the Alberta physician who worked his Way into a responsible position in the Manitoba sacred party before confessing he was just a conservative conducting an Experiment. Watching anxiously or. Low said social creditors i member of the legislature wed in Ottawa had been anxiously i afternoon admitted that he How to help needy at Christmas time a child without a toy a Home without a tree a family without Christmas Din Ner. It s not a Happy picture. But it occurs in As it does elsewhere year after year. The Christmas cheer Board a Community Chest red Feather Agency tries to re member the less fortunate in the greater Winnipeg area at the festive season. To Speed up and gift mailing the Board asks for a list of families for whom private citizens May be packing hampers. The Board also will release names of needy families to organizations desiring to lend a hand. If you know of a fam in or old person who May be forgotten at Christmas phone the Board at we 3-1235. You la make Christmas a Littie merrier for them. Chest collections reach there was donated to the 1957 greater Winnipeg Community Chest fund wednesday bringing the total at noon thurs Day to this year s objective is si.094.000. Large donations received wednesday included s3.844 from the free press employees fund and from the Canadian Bank of Commerce employees. Meeting cancelled meeting of the fort Garry Ken feel club scheduled for . Thursday in Board room no. 2 of the free free building has been cancelled indefinitely because the guest speaker has the flu. Back in politics mock Hon. Stuart Garson former minister of Justice will be the governor general at the univer sity of Manitoba annual mock parliament to be held nov. 27. 28 and 29 in the legislative chamber. Four parties Are contesting the election the liberals who formed the government in 1950 the progressive conservatives the , and the labor progressive party. Election speeches Are currently being made at the Var ious colleges and faculties of the University. Election Day is nov. 21. The leaders of the various parties Are Liberal. Lawrie Smith Law 1 progressive conservative Wally. Fox decent United College 4 Mel Myers Law 1. The Leader of the App has not yet been named. Dale Gibson Law 4, a Mem b e r of former houses is speaker of the House. The proportional represent Tating system is used in the election with the number of seals held by a party depend ing directly on the percentage of the popular vote if receives. Let s Start off with something educational today like where does the expression left in the lurch come from believe it or not it comes from the popular game of cribbage though we be never heard it in that connection. A player our favorite card expert tells us is left in the lurch or lurched if he fails to reach a total count of 91 Halfway Mark on. The cribbage Board by the time his opponent wins the game. Call for skates could you appeals the equipment converter of the Winnipeg Speed skating club help unearth from basements and attics some of the hundreds of old Speed skates that must be lying around gathering dust one of these pairs of skates on the feet of a youngster trained by the club might win a National the Domin Ion Speed skating championships Are being held in Winni Peg this year by the Way for the first time in Many years. If you Are a Good skate who can spare an old pair of Speed skates or other Speed skating equipment please phone Ron Thompson at Sunset 3-1566 and contribution will be picked up Short stuff thanks Bill for the sputnik poem but Grundy is now crying for mercy. The poets have flooded us and we must plead no More sputnik poems please. We enjoyed your verses and we re returning them by mail with thanks thanks too a Friend in Selkirk who recently pointed out. The the somebody s face was red and this saturday is the big Day at Stonewall what with the annual carnival sponsored by the Currii if club. It will be in the Stonewall Curling rink cheated and there s a Small charge at the door. And there s the big tur key supper too from.5 to 8 . At a reasonable charge too the Christmas cheer Board has opened its doors at 267 Edmonton Street and toys Are already hoeing do rated for children of needy families. Two Volunteer helpers at the Board mrs. A. C. Mcmillan left and mrs. S. Broadfoot Are shown unpacking toys. The Board also packs and Dis tributes christinas hampers through donations from the Public. Local team wins debate in St. Paul United College representing University of Manitoba thurs Day Defeated Mcallister College representing University of Minnesota for the first time in 17 years of debating Competition. United students Arthur g ill Man and at Warkentin defended the negative Side of the topic the establishment of the state of a Israel was the cause of the or e sent trouble in East. The debate held in St. Paul Minn. Says jail Story aligns guards heading Ley jail guards thursday were reported in a press release from the attorney general s. Office As disturbed and annoyed Over City students get 10-Day Holiday break Winnipeg school children unlike those in Edmonton won t reap greater Holiday benefits this year even though Christmas and new year s fall in the Middle of the week. Students in Winnipeg will get the usual Holiday the Holiday begins on dec. 24 and they will return to classes Jan. 3. Edmonton students will get 16 Days Holiday the longest in 11 years. Winnipeg school Board officials said they dislike sending children Back to school on a Fri Day Jan. But said it was necessary to fulfil the school Days required each year. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Friday in the free press build ing include Board room no. 1, ladies auxiliary. Canadian Hong Kong veterans association Board room no. 2. Past mistresses club ladies or Ange benevolent association clubroom joint Hospital com Mittee Canadian legion. Inferences by unnamed sex prison watching the Manitoba situation and from the look of things the Little rift that occurred last fall had t Hurt the organization. The Manitoba league he said had evidently been Able to get things straightened out despite efforts of the press to mess them up. And i Don t know How they could have done a better Job if they d deliberately set out to be not that he was warning the newspapers entirely he said. Ers that liquor and bomber pills but the free press which in could be smuggled in by bribing the past had done quite a bit of jail personnel. In the release supt. Barry Littlewood said the guards did a Nec Essary and straightforward Job arid their honesty was unquestioned. But when they and especially their families read stories like the trying to wreck the social Cre Dit movement in this Case had done a great Job of joining with a Man who was a Little bit of a self confessed reference this was an obvious reference to or. Mcgill who before admit one prominently displayed in last Ting was All just a hoax night s free press stones that tend to degrade and discredit their can imagine their feel Ings. They Are embarrassed in front of their children and their children in turn Are embarrassed in front of their friends. It seems a shame that disgruntled sex prisoners with anti Socia i outlooks Are Able to malign hard working officers through unsupported stories in the the superintendent said his staff is continually on the the smuggling of drugs or liquor into jail by friends of some inmates while the smuggling is sometimes successful it is by no Means fre quent he said. The Story that prisoners with Money could enjoy a soft life with plenty of liquor purchased through the assistance of the guards was wholly untrue and emphatically he said such stories also reflect on Many inmates who come in and serve their time in a creditable manner. Around the world on 60 pounds he bet a cup of Tea Derrick Speed is living up to his name. His aim travelling around the world in 80 Days. His prize a cup of Tea. He has 76 Days and ?130 to go. Actually Derrick did a bit of Globe spinning for five weeks before Docking at Mont real nov. 11. Bui his official race against time began in Canada. The 26-year-old English office clerk left Winnipeg for Vancou ver by bus wednesday night. I m doing it on a Chal or. Speed said. To Day s youth is just As adventurous As in Pioneer so far he s bummed through Norway Finland Italy France Sweden Denmark Germany United states and Canada. Still to Singa Burma new zealand Australia and Africa. All on the Wager was made on a Chance remark. V ill bet a cup of a Hometown Chap said to Der Rick Over a cup nobody can go around the world in 80 Days on 60 pounds about Derrick took the bet. I like he said. On his travels Derrick has met smugglers movie stars and but no nor Mal i he was kidding of course. Just like that Fanner in Malmo Sweden. You can sleep in Rny barn the Farmer told Der with roy1 other some the hitch hiker recalled a pig that that in its the Young Bachelor lives with a twin brother and Hiss parents it in a City called Trent in a county for Shire in in stayed at the Home of or and mrs w. Ramage 460 Banning Street Solon Low reporters Are hungry was one of two men who announced formation of a second social credit organization to Buck the Manitoba league. Lot of people said or. Low thought social credit had been naive in letting this fellow into the party. But How about the newspapers who were so naive As to believe everything he he Felt that or. Mcgill in the be ginning was quite sincere in joining the social credit party. But he went off the deep end in making statements to the press until finally he found it difficult to retrace his Steps and still save his Good Alibi and finally when he became All tangled up he manufactured a pretty Good Story to explain it All. Had withdrawn his support from the party s provincial executive As Early As last january. Gilbert in his second at tack of the Day on the executive told the Manitoba social credit league s annual convention that he withdrew his backing because he Felt the provincial Board of directors was failing to recognize party principles. The. Member for Minnedosa did t specify what principles the executive was ignoring. He simply said i be Felt we Are not get Rempel says so reds can win 9 seats the Manitoba social credit Lea gue annual convention in Winnipeg was told wednesday the party will win eight or nine seats in the nes provincial election if voting trends set in last june s Federal election hold True. B. H. Zempel who was sue needed by Walter Taylor of Melita As president said that a break Down of Federal returns Over provincial constituencies showed that the party would have won eight or nine seats. Also he said the sacred group would have been close in other Ridings. Or. Rempel also forecast that he party would run from 40 to 45 candidates in the next provincial Section. 4 in other business wednesday the convention passed a Resolution a roving parity prices for All Agri cultural products a two Price sys pm on agricultural products consumed in Canada and deficiency payments on exported agricultural goods. Another principles we must stand not fair earlier wednesday he had at tacked the suspension without a fair trial of former Provin Cial organizer Keith Hunter As a violation of party principles. In his afternoon attack or. Hut ton also criticized the executive for its handling of special sacred speakers brought to the province. Except at election times Ridings in Western Manitoba were ignored. The speakers concentrated their efforts within a 60-mile radius of Winnipeg. The party he said must Start Low to show people in the out Ying Ridings that it was really interested in their welfare not wait for an election Campaign next Spring. Social credit now has Only one Vila he said. And if we Don t get out pushing before Spring we might not even have Scott stirs Stew progressive conservative politics in St. Matthews Riding burst into an open name calling contest thursday and it began to look As f there will be two candidates calling themselves progressive conservatives in the Riding in the next provincial election. Candidate no. 1 in Chrono logical order anyway is Aid. Henry Baird scoy., the sitting con Ergative member who last week declared that he a d been chosen he party s St. Matthews Standard bearer in the next provincial elec Ion. The possibility of candidate no. Emerged thursday when a Man who said he was the party s St. Matthews Riding president wrote o the newspapers to say that motion recorded Scott was not the candidate. Convention s appreciation for the t116 candidate he Good work done by the National said wl11 selected at a con five Hurt accidents in City mention. Aid. Scott could run for nomination. But there was no candidate yet. But Aid. Scott retorted that his present nomination was official enough for him and he would not attend the convention. Aid. Scott said he had never heard of this president and never heard of any executive in the Riding thursday morning however newspaper received a letter signed with the name j. M. More. It i am president of the progressive conservative association for or. Mcgill s interference he in three separate traffic accidents five pedestrians were injured the provincial constituency of St derrick1 Spud 7tf Days am to co had t Hurt the parly but would draw it closer together. It s going to take More than an eager Beaver to break us apart. We re Here to or. Low made it Clear in his attack on. The press that he was criticizing the newspapers not the reporters. The he said Are hungry just like us. They have to earn a living. Some times stories Don t appear in the same Way As they were brutal attack while. He was in the. Mood the social credit Leader also attacked he pundits of High finance on the financial Post who had delivered what was almost a Bru Tal personal attack against him Over a speech in which he criticized the Bank of Canada s tight Money policy. In an editorial he said location had resorted to the same sort of debate by used by communist countries in the United nations. And although he did t know who the writer was i get the idea his Mother before he was born was frightened by a social it s like these or. Low said that the try to keep an air of taboo and mys Tery around High financed and it s the social credit Job to show the people what a lot of hooey they be been the sacred cow of Canada s present financial policy he is riot in the inter ests of All the people of the in Winnipeg during the night. All were admitted to Winnipeg Gener Al Hospital. Thomas. Harrison 72, of 359 Cumberland Avenue was in Colli Sion with a car at notre Dame Avenue and Hargrave Street As he was crossing notre Dame. Police said the car Driver was Victor Keam 18, of 404 tache Avenue. Or. Harrison s condition is fairly Good. He suffered possible Skull and leg fractures. Shortly after Midnight a Man and a woman were in collision with an Auto while crossing Prin Cess Street at Logan Avenue. John Wop Ford 29, of 289 Lizzie Street and a woman identified Only As Gladys Williams were in collision police said with an Auto driven by Gerald Fletcher ,19, of 339 Wardlaw Avenue.1 miss Williams is in. Fairly Good condition suffering from a Frac tured right leg. Or. Wpm Fprd is also in with a Frac tured left leg. At . Wednesday John Penner 62, of 263 Sherbrook. Street and his wife Anne 81, were injured when they collided with a car while walking across Salter Street. At Aberdeen Avenue they were taken to Winnipeg general Hospital where or. Penner is being treated for cuts to the head hip and Knees. Mrs., Penner suffered cuts to the knee. Police said the Driver of the car. Matthews i have no know ledge of any meeting at which or. H. B. Scott was nominated. It is the intention of our executive to Call a nomination Conven Tion in the course of the next few months. It will be open to or. Scott to contest this nomination if he chooses to do so. The Winner will be declared the official Candi Date of the conservative Aid. Scott said that As far As he was concerned he was already the official candidate. He had been nominated by known conserva Tives Only he was t at Liberty to identify them at a meeting held last Friday night in a place he was not at Liberty to disclose. Or. More said that none of the known conservatives is known to to any other conserva Tives he has talked to. He had been unable to find one single person who had attended or. Scott s meet ing. Meeting asked who had named the executive and himself As president or. More said of we had a Little meeting last August. I can t Tell you exactly who was there i Don t remember right now. But i could find out fast Aid. Scott replied that he does not know this but he1 certainly the Alderman that it s not the same j. M. More who works in Art Mauro s Winnipeg lawyer Arthur v. Mauro was the Man often mentioned As the conservatives pro Bable St. Matthews candidate be was Leon de vere 45, of 291 %ic-1fore.ajd. Scott suddenly appeared a. The scene ;