Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 22, 1957, Winnipeg, Manitoba Swift press Mora ads Mora readers merc results your greatest Market to buy to sell free press want ads phone Whitehall 3-9331 Swiff s Premium Franks made fresh daily i by Carner in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg Friday november 22, 1957 weekend edition with comics Loc u tories win minority Rule in mock House for the first time in 10 years. Conservatives have won control but Only minority the University of Manitoba s annual mock parliament. Since 1947, the government has been controlled by the lib eral party. But in last year s parliament the liberals formed Only a minority government and in thursday s elections conservative Candi dates with votes took 28 of the so seats in the House. The liberals with 694 votes took 18 seats the Kcf. With 330 votes 10 seats the labor progressive party two seats with 90 votes and the social credit party two seats with 87 votes. The conservatives held 21 seats in last year s mock parliament. They have thus gained Constable Alert seven this year. The Kcf last year held 12 seats two More than it gained this year and the labor progressives two the same number they hold this year. About 51 per cent of the University s student population voted in the election. Raised stir the appearance of the social credit party on the ballot raised a stir and it was Felt in some quarters that a protest might be lodged because the social creditors apparently did not fulfil the obligations required before a party could run for election. These obligations include the presentation of a Public platform and be ing certified by the Parent body in Ottawa. However Duncan Wallace Deputy returning officer said the returning officers could find no definite constitutional requirement which made the social credit party s entry illegal. They therefore counted r votes cast for it. J 3-Day session i the mock parliament will be held wednesday thursday and Friday next in the legislative building. Hon. Stuart Garson former minister of Justice is the governor general in the parliament. The speaker is Dale Gibson. House seats Are filled by proportional representation with a party filling the same percentage of. The seats As he percentage of the vote it receives. The conservatives Are led by Wally Fox decent. Laurie Smith is Liberal Leader Mel Myers. Kcf Leader and Roland Penner. Labor progressive party Leader. Voting in All faculties was very close with the conserva Tives getting a majority in All faculties but three. These Beer parlor talk leads to capture a policeman who dropped into a downtown Beer parlor while off duty was credited with the Cap Ture of a thug who robbed the sister s inn. 357 notre Dame ave Inie. And stole nov. 12. Sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary for the crime w a s Arthur Edison Matthews 41, who was released from the Penitentiary oct. 16 after completing a three year term for car theft. In the afternoon of nov. 12. Con stable Wilson a. Irwin overheard Matthews Tell another Man in the three pharmacy St. Pauls Beer parlor that he was going to hold up a restaurant. When Matthews left the parlor. Constable Irwin followed him to the sister s inn and waited out Side. When Matthews dashed out of the restaurant Constable Irwin gave Chase and arrested him. Court was told that when Matt hews entered the restaurant he put his hand in his pocket pre tended he had a gun and demanded the Money. When the girl hesitated he barked if you yell i la when the waitress had turned Over the Money she pleaded that it was All she had. Matthews be came soft hearted and handed her Back the Silver which amounted to approximately Matthews who has a lengthy record dating Back to 1929, was also Given a concurrent three month sentence for fraudulently obtaining lodgings f r o m a local and St. Mary a voted Liberal. The big Surprise came at uni Ted College which strongly sup ported the conservatives in Stead of the liberals As in the past. This time Ontario gets its lumps Manitoba s education set up has been getting its lumps at Royal commission hearings. On Friday however Manitoba took a Back seat while commission chairman or. R. 0. Macfarlane roundly denounced Ontario s education standards. He said the pro Vince has t got any stand Ards and that the Only Grade in Ontario schools with stand hotel. I Ards is Grade 13. _ trim Dvor poor weather for Sleigh ing at 29, 39 or 49, the absence of Snow at this time is a Fine thing1 no sidewalks to shovel and no drifts to prevent Good motoring. But when a fellow s nine with a Good Sleigh crying for attention an open fall is pretty annoying. Here ruminating on the unfairness of it All is nine year old Bobbie Knik of Aberdeen school. A shot in Arm but 4 not All Community clubs want paid directors permanent recreation directors i of a paid director was that in de paid directors because they were provide a real shot in the Arm Pended of individual Circum to Community club activities but stances locations and other prob not All Winnipeg clubs feel they lems said t. G. Maley chairman Are needed. I of the meeting.v4e these were the views put of a representatives of six common spent by the club with the Parks Ward thursday night by clubs Whick now have Perman. Sent Alves of the City s 16 com Nair he Ity s Unity centres at their monthly meeting. Clubs with experience with paid directors were All in favor of the system but spokesmen for the Isaac Brock orioles and River Heights centres were not con Vinced that this was the Best Way to direct club activities. The discussion arose from a statement by . Lumsden Citi zen member of the Winnipeg Parks Board who claimed two weeks ago that some clubs were facing difficulties and recommended hiring of permanent re creation directors. Deny suggestion All representatives at the meet ing denied the suggestion that they might be forced to close their doors unless full time supervisors Are provided by the Parks Board. But consensus on the question we put our head Down and raised the Collar of our Flimsy fall coat against a piercing november Breeze and As we trod purposefully along Portage Avenue we reflected on the Good fortunes of migratory Birds. Given wings and the Good sense to Fly South they were now basking along the Gulf coast while we and the sparrows were chilled to the marrow. But when we reached our office we found that not All migratory Birds had fled. There on our desk was a photo see above of one which remained at Inwood when its comrades had flown. It in t a real Duck you la see but a potato sent on to us by mrs. P. A. Lyon. A Spoonbill we presume i pets 1y things the baby it has been found is allergic to dogs and that s Why a Little terrier dog four years old is looking for another Good he s House trained and a wonder Ful Little says the owner who hates to see him go. He s a Giveaway to the right party phone Edison 4-0979 and a family in St. James has scoured the neighbourhood advertised Well they be done All they can to find a five months old White Kitten male and the pet of two Small children. Tinker disappeared last sunday and the owner May be reached at 6-6915 and Here s a fowl supper for saturday. It s at 6 . In the. . Hall had Ashville sponsored by the ladies auxiliary of had Ashville. Extend Grant Academy bus routes the greater1 Winnipeg transit commission has announced changes in several routes in the West River Heights and East St. James areas effective sunday. The Academy Road bus route will be extended South on Kenas ten and West on Tuxedo to Edge land Street at the Boundary of Tuxedo. The Grant bus route will be extended to Kenaston Boulevard. The Normal school bus which leaves Portage Avenue at St. James Street will be routed via St. James Bridge South on Kenas ton to Corydon Avenue and West on Corydon and Tuxedo to the Normal school returning Over the same route. The Airport bus will terminate at Portage Avenue and will no longer operate across St. James Bridge to Kenaston. Passengers who have been using the Corydon Airport bus to travel Between por Tage Avenue and Boute Vard May use either the Normal school bus to travel a s far As Ken Aston and Corydon or the Charles Wood bus which operates As far As Tuxedo and Kenaston free press meetings meetings to be held monday evening in the free press build ing include Board room no 1, chapter Beta Sigma Phi sorority Peri. Parc Roora no. 2, free press nursing division no 75, St John ambulance brigade 81 . Clubroom a Amateur. Dio league of Manitoba 8 . Chest total the Community Chest of greater Winnipeg thursday received donations of to raise the fund total to 84 per cent of the objective. Ent recreational directors paid by the Parks Board All reported that their addition had been beneficial to the clubs. However., one representative Ernest Anderson of Broadway-0j troist noted a need specifically to delineate the respective duties of the director and the Community Centre volunteers. Don t want them two of the clubs Isaac Brock and orioles said they did not want bound to take some of the Initia Tive away from volunteers. H. Oli ver of Isaac Brock said he would prefer to have the salary Board s approval. Citing the example of the River. Heights club f. S. Robinson suggested that a coordinator of activities paid by the Community was better than a director paid by the Parks Board. In River Heights activities Are still run primarily by volunteers he said. Clubs that now have paid directors Are Broadway Optimist River View Weston West end memorial lord Roberts and East Elmwood. Be sure you Dent look Uke a Deer want to go Deer Hunting and stay then just make sure that no one mistakes you for a Deer. Because that says the Mani Toba federation of game and fish associations is the big Gest cause of Hunting Acci dents. The federation listed two main causes of unnecessary tragedy Hunters who Don t Wear Bright red or White cloth ing and Hunters the trigger before they re sure of the target. The statement was an out come of a special meeting of the federation s safety com Mittee which noted that there had been two Deer Hunting fatalities already with the sea. Son less than half Over. The meeting also called on the federation s 65 affiliated associations to step up their campaigns to make Manitoba sportsmen More safety conscious. The federation reminded Hunters not to. Wear White clothing during snowy weather because it s hard to see. Interest chop saves City improved Market allows Council to Cut rate on debenture Issue Winnipeg s City Council moved swiftly Friday to take advantage of the improved Market for municipal debentures and met in special session to chop the interest rate on a Winnipeg debenture Issue from. To 5 per cent. The difference could save Tea classroom intrigue Jfe d Stop the fashion Parade by Roger Whittaker free press staff writer the path to the school room Pencil Sharpener is on e fraught with intrigue. So says Winnipeg school trustee and teacher George Frith who wants something done about this sort of thing. Fie told the Royal commis Sion on education Friday the girls make regular trips to the Pencil Sharpener to show off what they Are Wear ing it would and the boys he said Wear trousers so tight they can t Bend Down. He suggested a strict Clamp Down on what school says and girls Wear these Days. He favored tunics for girls it would be or. Frith did not it is riot necessary that they Wear them every Day just with some sort of regular or. Frith said there should be general regulations about students apparel. He would be satisfied he said if even not there Deputy mayor Peter Taraskas said Friday that funny things go on in the mayor s office when the mayor is away. Telegrams he said Are sent in the name of the mayor with out him knowing and i m the Deputy the Alderman was complain ing at a civic finance committee meeting about preparations for a reception for the Winnipeg Blue bombers if they game. Win saturday what arrangements should be made by City Hall when the team goes to Toronto he asked. Should the police pipe band go Down Aid. Walter Crawford replied that the pipe band idea would be too expensive. And he understood that mayor Stephen Juba now in Hospital was going anyway. I m not sure we should t Send a wire before the saturday suggested Aid. Lillian Hallonquist. That s been. Taken care said Aid. Slaw Bebchuk. I m the Deputy mayor and i did t know about said Aid. Taraska. Funny things go on in the mayor s office without my half of the student body at tended classes in reasonable dress. City about a year in the Early years of the 20-year Issue being floated on behalf of both the school Board and the municipal corporation. Council last monday stopped tha debenture Issue when it came for Ivard because finance commissioner j. R. Mcinnes said the Bond Market had suddenly improved and the City could dispose of the debentures at about 5 per cent instead of 5% per cent that was planned. The change in the Market was due he said to the . Federal physical education he Sug i Reserve Board s action in cutting tested Start. Was one place to re discount rate from to 3 per cent earlier this month. The for girls or. Frith Sug Bank of Canada followed by Cut tested Nice coloured skirts Ting the Industrial development and Bank rate from to 6 per cent Traud ring Toof gets 2 years for bad Cheque spree a woman apparently hired by a diet and that she had Beau used ring distributing cheques in Mani by others in the nefarious Cheque Toba was sentenced to two scheme. She had no Simi in Penitentiary Friday. She had obtained a total of in goods and Cash from Morden Man. Merchants Early this month on a worthless Cheque cashing spree. Marion Parks 34, of no fixed address was sentenced by magistrate d. C. M. Kyle in provincial police court after she pleaded guilty to charges of Cash ing five each for Scott Wright Crown counsel told the court the alertness of an ramp officer who saw the woman in Morden and knew her from her previous record resulted in a Check on her activities and Dis covered that she had cashed cheques in five separate business places. Her method was to Pur Chase goods to the value of or and take the balance in Cash first Cheque charge or. Wright said while Parks had a Long record including convictions for running a disorderly House Possession of drugs and vagrancy charges it was the first time she had been involved in a worthless Cheque charge. He said apparently she had been hired by a ring operating in Manitoba engaged in cashing cheques. I police investigation is still proceeding and so far the Leader of the ring has not been caught but there was reason to believe or. Wright said that about .16 cheques had been cashed in various Pla Ces in the Morden District about that time. Crown counsel said when arrested the woman had about s85 in Cash and Worth. Of Mer Chandise in her Possession and this would indicate she had been Given her share of the split for cashing the cheques. She gave no state ment to police he an addict Manly Israel defence counsel said the accused was a drug and Lar offences anywhere in her re Cord he said. Magistrate Kyle said that possibly a longer term might serve to help her get away from the drug habit. It might Well be that at your age you will still be Able to re deem yourself if you can shake the drug addiction and keep away from bad he told Parks. Won t Cut a rays for to Here Manitoba will not curtail its tuberculosis a Ray program or. E. L. Ross medical director of the Sanatorium Board of Manitoba said Friday. Or. Ross was commenting on a recent recommendation by the. . Public health service that Chest a Ray surveys be restricted to groups known to run the great est risk of the disease such As Hospital and other institutional residents migrant workers Low income families and persons known to be exposed. The recommendation was based on the findings of a com Mittee of medical and Public health experts who considered both the great improvement in the National tuberculosis picture and possible dangers from expo sures to a rays. Or. Ross said this was an unfortunate thing to he said it would take 20 Chest a rays be fore a person could reach one per cent of the margin of safety. The Only reduction planned in Manitoba he Sadi was for those under 15 years of age in making its recommendations the . Public health service said some areas in that country now have practically no Active cases of to and in others the disease is largely confined to cer Tain groups. 109 Trade graduates to get certificates Friday night 109 Manitoba tech Nical Institute graduates repro i setting 24 trades will receive Cert i fic ates at the Institute s 10th Grade Alion exercises. Hon. W. C. Miller minister of education will make the presentations and or. H. H. Saunderson president of the University of Manitoba will address the graduates. B. F. Addy principal of the Institute and new director of vocational education will preside. These three oils comprise part of an exhibit by 20 St. Junes artists Friday Deer United Church. The portrait at left entitled v study is by dense olivers. Richard Hillier s picture Centre depicts All the vivid colors of autumn. The Pato Tiac at Rucht Huetis inter Lake is the work of Ekhard Kemp. Mrs. H. Pm. Kasboum left and w. F. Perry right co chairmen of the had paintings on Dis play. The exhibition marked the first Public showing of work done solely by St. James artists. Grey cup fans Manitoban who la be in to Ronto Grey cup Day nov. 30 have an invitation. The Toronto Branch of the University of Manitoba alumni association is holding its annual reunion that Day from 3 to 10 ., and it will Wel Winnipeg people who Are in Toronto. The affair is at 133 St. Pat Rick Street ;