Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 1957, Winnipeg, Manitoba Swift Premium Franks hade fresh daily Mora ads Mort mom a Tittl your greatest Market to buy to sell free press want ads phone Whitehall 3-9331 by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg tuesday december 3, 1957 weekend edition with comics inc government members hold caucus Hospital scheme High on list of pre session issues one of the Manitoba government s last major caucuses before the next session of the legislature got under Way tuesday morning one Day before the Provin Cial Liberal progressive association convention Winnipeg. Premier d. L. Campbell s Aid the caucus was called at this time because members would be in the City to attend the convention. It will be the pre session caucus he said. Members will Likely quiz Cabinet ministers on proposed legislation. High on the list will be the National Hospital insurance scheme. Hon. R. W. Bend health minister said a was prepared to discuss All the latest develop ments with the members. Ern ment members feel they lost ground in the by election and think this will have to be consid ered in designing new Legisla Tion. The Las will also Likely voice an opinion about a general elec Tion Date. Nothing definite is Likely to be decided but the matter will be taken into consideration in relation to proposed legislation. Premier Campbell monday said that no Date had been decided yet for calling the next session i but because of several important conferences and meetings in de Cember and january it was unlikely that the session would Start earlier than last year when it was called in the last week of january. When asked if this late Start would have any effect on setting an election Date the pre Mier replied that he did t think so because the House could always be dissolved. How the Federal government will pay for tubercular and mental patients under the National scheme or. Campbell said he was under the impression that the conservative government wanted to deduct from tax rental payments the Money it would Cost Ottawa to pay the provincial to and mental patients costs. He indicated however that there is some reason to think Ottawa May reconsider this approach. It is understood from other sources that or. Campbell and Premier t. C. Douglas of Saskatchewan pressed the Federal officials hard on this Point at the do ninety accidents have been minion provincial fiscal Confer a chalked up in Manitoba so far Dur ence last week. Safe driving week which be another matter Likely to Geigan at Midnight saturday r. B consideration by the caucus is the Bailie commissioner of motor 90 accidents so far in safety week t enter Gas business Council refuses to pass committee s move to bring in another distributing company a Public works move to allow another Gas company to operate inside the City limits made a 90-minute appearance in City Council monday night and was finally bounced Back to the committee again. Defeated in the process was Kcf amendment to make the Sec Ond Gas company in fact a new division of the City Hydro. Undecided was the Fate of the applications of great Northern Gas utilities and the great Plains Gas companies to operate in those areas of Winnipeg not at present the Winnipeg. And government s unsuccessful at tempt last session to change the labor code. Although not a formal matter it s Likely the caucus will talk Over results of the two Bielec tons held last month at Emerson and Morden Manitou. Some gov vehicles and provincial safety Dir Ector reported tuesday. There have been no fatalities but 18 people have been injured and 73 of the mishaps caused property damage. Monday 50 accidents were reported 10 More than on the previous Day. Young set May relive Good old Winter Days Sleigh Bells horse drawn Cut ters and hot roasted potatoes May All be Back in next win Ter to show in youngsters just the kind of fun their parents and grandparents enjoyed in the Good old Days. Charles Prober. City business Man who is hoping to put up a children s amusement Park in As of in Boine Park next summer told the free press tuesday that he would also attempt to persuade the Parks Board to extend his Ope rations throughout the Winter months. Prober said that if the City was agreeable he would build to Boggan slides organize tally to s and have several teams of trained horses Complete with Sleigh Bells drawing old fashioned cutters around the Park. These Are Only part of his plans for providing Winter entertain ment for City children if the Parks Board give him permission. I think the children today miss most of the Winter fun thous ands of them have never even seen a horse drawn Sleigh let alone have a ride on one. Most adults can still remember the thrill they got out of hearing the found of Sleigh Bells on a Crisp Winter Day. I d like to bring All this Back he said. At the moment the nearest organized Toboggan slides Are a Selkirk and Lockport. A Toboggan slide ran for a number of years at the old River Park. Each year the Canadian legion erects a Christmas tree where the Public May leave rifts for War veterans in Hospital. This year the big has gone up at the t. Eaton co. Store. Gifts Are starting to pile up around the tree and pictured Are h. E. Barker of no. 1 Branch Canadian legion and . E. Stewart president of the Imperial an ladles adding of few More .presents._________. Served by Central. Reject motion Council refused to pass the pub Lic works committee s recommendation that a Gas company other than the Winnipeg and Cen trial be allowed to Cut the City streets. The committee had t decided Between the two applicants but left the decision to the Public Utility Board. After one and a half hours of de Bate this recommendation was referred Back to the works commit tee where it will come up for recommendation dec. 10. Neither did the Council get to Deal with an alternative proposal agreed upon by the committee if the first failed that the City Council discussion of the Gas Issue Field would show Winni Eggers was doing a lot. Of damage to the City of he said we would leave this Utility alone. If we leave it alone it will level itself off this is nothing but pure social said , and it s Aid. Slaw Bebchuk said that the two companies in the Council starts Job of committee Reform City Council monday night with out debate approved the merging of three of its standing commit tees into one committee and ordered bylaws drawn up to make he changes effective Jan. If legally possible. Merged under the order would be the committees on Public works Public utilities and Public safety. Council also took initial Steps mrs. Murphy says parents to blame Santa Claus and Christmas shopping Are More important than he school As far As most parents Are concerned according to mrs. Nan , president of the Canadian trustees association. She made the statement Mon Day evening while speaking on a panel discussion in the lord Nel son school on Are parents shirk ing their responsibility. Other members on the panel were Rev. P. M. Petursson and prof. John Dallyn sociology department University of Manitoba. Slamming general irresponsibility of parents mrs. Murphy said that the children Are doing a tremendous Job on their own. It s a wonder we Don t see More Juve Nile delinquency than we she added. Leading eventually to the merger of the finance and the personnel and legislation committees. It. Did so by agreeing to Cut Down the amount of work Dele gated fro the personnel committee. It took from that committee its legislation functions the task of approving proposed changes in the Winnipeg charter. It left that task to the appropriate committee hav ing jurisdiction Over the change proposed. Routine appointments to the City staff were taken out of the hands of the committee except where the personnel department and department head concerned can t agree. Twice a year the committee would also Deal with increases in the staff of a Here s the latest a Motel opening Down at Miami Beach on december 20th has among modern conveniences a closed circuit television camera in each unit. When mothers and fathers go out on the town in the evening a nurse in a Central office can baby sit for Emall and Rush to the Rescue in Case of any particular emergencies. This big brother is watching you device happily can be turned off by the parents when they return. Of course i can describe assailant officer. That s what was doing when he slugged bulletin Board one of our readers is ready to return a favor. Through this column last october she was Able to get a Fine Little Kitten. Now she has two Black and White kitties looking for a Good Home think they re phone 43-5463 another Giveaway an eight weeks old Puppy Black with Brown legs and White paws not quite trained. We got the Frisky wee thing from the farm recently but we find the baby s allergic arid so he must find a new Home to brighten phone Vernon 24658 All Formey Stovel i girls Are invited to attend the annual Christmas dinner at Peggy s pantry wednesday at . For further information Call or. Hamilton at Whitehall 3-6531 the women s auxiliary to the Navy. League of Canada Manitoba division holds its Christmas Tea saturday from 2 to . In the gun room aboard hocs Chip Pawa. There la be an apron bar Home cooking table and door prizes. The Law has a Long memory he discovers a crime committed seven Yean. Ago caught up tuesday with James Eugene Mac Luck of Kerrobert sask., who was sent to jail for one month when he pleaded guilty in provincial police court to passing a worthless Cheque. Court was told Mac Luck had obtained Worth of gasoline and in Cash on a garage at mid Dechurch in 1950. The Cheque was returned marked not sufficient funds and a warrant was issued for the Man s arrest. Scott Wright Crown counsel said Mac Luck had gone to the West coast and was arrested on his return to Kerrobert recently. He has a record of theft and false pretences dating Back to 1949. Department Only twice a year. Emergency increases would have to be made on a temporary basis. All these proposals were put be fore Council by the special com Mittee on City management. One proposal was sent Back to committee. It left in the hands of the City negotiating committee All discussion of wage increases. The City Engineer City finance com missioner the Hydro manager and personnel manager serve on the negotiating committee. Aid. Lillian Hallonquist said that the principle is absolutely wrong that one department head should sit in while the salary of another department head is ask St. Boniface to reimburse injured plumber St. Boniface Council s fire com Mittee monday was asked to reimburse a Transcona plumber for loss of income resulting from Burns suffered in a Furnace explosion. A delegation told committee that Roy Harvey a former caretaker nails on Way to Juba from Tiger City Hamilton is sending two kegs of nails to mayor Steven Juba to help with construction of the new anti flood Cost okayed by St. Vital agreement in principle to St. Vital s share of the Cost of the pro posed Seine River diversion scheme was Given monday by the Munici Council. Howver Council indicated it the first failed that the City Hydro go into the Gas business it if such is Neces coif . It flirt Lllan City Hall. Last week mayor Lloyd d. Jackson of the Ontario City turned Down an offer by mayor Juba to bet a Keg of Hamilton s nails against a sack of Winnipeg sugar on the outcome of the Grey cup final Between Hamilton Tiger cats and Winnipeg Blue bomb is. Hamilton won the cup 32-7. Self. Since the first proposal was not exactly Defeated Only referred Back the second did not arise. Amendment offered but. The Kcf in effect brought the alternative proposal up when Aid. Howard Mckelvey and Aid. Gordon fines offered an Amend ment to the first proposal. They suggested that the City Hydro investigate the possibility of the getting natural Gas. If it can they suggest it open a natural Gas division. Aid. Mckelvey said that if Dif Ferent companies were operating in different areas of the City there would still be no Competition in the Gas Industry. The two companies it sary to prevent flooding Shoula be on the same basis As for the pre sent plan. Overall estimated Cost of the Ini tial diversion according to Para figures Given to Council monday is of which one sixth or must be put up by the seven municipalities concerned. St vital s share of this is 21 per cent or the same amount is required by both tache and Rich of municipalities. Municipality of pays 20 per cent or and the City of St. Boniface 17 per cent or fixed amounts regardless of the final Cost have been set As the shares for. Two. Other municipalities. Hanover is to contribute Gas Incus try. Me Iwu ties. Naii Vuki. 10 w would each have a monopoly in its j qom and Springfield the True rate for natural Gas. Aid. Walter Crawford cautioned against the City entering lightly into the Gas Field. Aid. Peter Taraska said that the works committee had failed a its and possibly we should refer to this to some other com Mittee that will give it mature Defeated 11-5 the Kcf amendment was Defeated 11-5. Opposed aldermen Harvey Crawford James Cowan Douglas Chisholm Paul Goodman Lillian Hallonquist h. B. Scott a. E. Bennett Slaw Bebchuk Frank Wagner and Taraska. In favor aldermen Gordon fines Mckel vey Orlikov Stan Carrick and Penner. Aid. Bebchuk then put the main motion that another company be authorized to Cut the streets. Aid. Crawford said that he would not support this unless he had Assurance that the other company which Ever it was posted a 000 corporate surety Bond. He cited a court Case which resulted he said when one of the two applicants for Gas rights now before the City sued the City of Saskatoon. The company wanted Back it had posted is a guarantee it would develop a Gas system there. It had t developed it and the was forfeit to the City. The company sued to re gain it but failed he said. He did t name the company. Aid. Taraska suggested the City wait and see what information is brought out when the application of great Northern to serve two suburbs is heard by the Utility Board. After hearing this he said the City will be better Able to a cide the Issue. Aid e. B. Scott then moved that the proposal be sent Back to works committee. His motion was carried 10-6. Own particular District. The Only Way to have compete he said is to compete with a municipality operated Utility. Naiu Xiuji Wii _ today Thomas Walsh head of firm in 1 rouble Hoy Tarvey a in Hucl non of the Noella apartments 272 the Telegram by press time Cathedral was called to the Block said no doubt Hamilton is by resident Clifford j. Fraser on Jiang itself to two sacks of oct. 28 when he discovered the Furnace jammed with clinker and dust and the present caretaker absent. St. Boniface police and firemen arrived on the scene and gave instructions to residents. But several minutes later or. Harvey received face and hand Burns when the Furnace door flew open. Appearing on his behalf or. Fraser and Noella apartment owner r. Frecon suggested that the fire chief should perhaps have ordered or. Harvey away from the Furnace Vicinity. They said or. Harvey had been hospitalized for three weeks and would be unable to work until at least the new year. The committee said it would asic the fire chief for a full report on the incident. The Nail division of the steel company of Canada called or. Jackson and offered to Send two kegs of nails on behalf of the City As a sort of Consolation for the Grey cup loss. Or. Jackson accepted and sent the following Telegram to or. Juba citizens of Hamilton insist that we Send two kegs of nails instead of one As a contribution to the depleted municipal funds reserved for your new City Hall. Very kind regards to mrs. Juba and yourself and Hope you arrived Home safely. L. D. Jack mayor Juba had not received in but is Sta of sugar said Aid. David Orlikov the Winnipeg and Central is in trouble. They can say they Are in trouble because this and other municipal councils Are hounding them. But that s nonsense. They re in trouble because they re not offering the people what the people ought to stiffer Laws May save Hunters from Hunters East Kildonan Council concerned about the number of shooting Acci dents this fall decided monday to ask the Manitoba Urban when the Grey cup score is re versed next year injured in car mishap overseas pet. Alexander Moroz of grand View Man., Ivas injured and an other Man killed in a truck car collision near Baden Spe Lingen Germany thursday. First reports from toe German police said both men had been killed. Cpl William Burns of Montreal was killed in the Accident. The two men served with the Cana Dian army postal corps and were stationed with the Craf fourth fighter Wing at Baden Soellinger. Authorities said the vehicle driven by pet. Croz was in Colli Sion with a stopped. German truck. Was Scott the two versions of Grey cup Parade hassle Winnipeg Alderman h. B. Scott said monday that Toronto policy a were the but half a dozen Winni Eggers and the chairman of the Toronto Grey cup committee had other versions. One Winnipeg woman put it bluntly what really happened is that the cops weren t pots but Scott the Alderman claimed that he and 40 other Winnipeg fans were ordered off the Winnipeg Grey cup float by Toronto police. He wound up smiling gaily from the Hamilton float. John Sinclair of Toronto who was chairman of the Grey cup committee for the City said he was present with a Toronto police inspector Dur ing the Scott incident. This Man Scott and a flock of others were on the float before the Parade got underway and the people who built the float said it would not stand All the said or. Sinclair. Traffic inspector Murray a very decent fellow was finally asked by either the float Driver or the builder to Tell or. Scott and the others to he added. Or. Scott got very indignant did t want to leave and said he was a Winnipeg continued or. Sinclair i found it hard to believe he was an Alderman i an1 Alderman act the Way he apparently according to or. Sinclair or. Scott refused to the float but inspector Murray finally convinced him in a Nice Way to get off. I highly refute the state ment made by or. Scott that the Toronto police Are the because they certainly acted like gentlemen in dealing with the Winnipeg said or. Sinclair.1 or. Sinclair said As far As he knew the Scott incident was the Only untoward thing that happened in the Parade. The Way or. Scott acted at the float we thought he was in charge of the whole commented or. Sinclair. Some Winni Eggers who were present during the incident substantially confirmed what e what the people ought w mint 10 differ get unfortunately for. The Gas association press for stiffer company the people in this City have Oil. Regina a City a Quarter the size of Winnipeg has hooked up 10 000 Homes. Winnipeg and Cen trial should have hooked up 40.000. I doubt they be hooked up a Quarter of Aid. Jacob Penner said that he would support the Kcf move be cause his own proposal that the City take Over the assets of the Winnipeg and Central would probably never emerge from the works committee. Block move blocking the Kcf move Aid. J. Gurzon Harvey Fth l Suva uni. Become so bad Aid w. T. Snowdon told Council the Hunter had begun to feel he was the hunted. The Alderman made five recommendations adopted. Una Mously by Council for presentation to the Urban association at. Its convention Jan. 16 and 17. They were that All he uniformly dressed As to Cotor. White Caps or. Snowdon said ire often mistaken for the flashing prohibited from borrowing or lending their guns. Required either to mount telescopic sight on metro report delay ridiculous Bennett Aid a e. Bennett monday night described As absolutely ridiculous the fact that the greater Winnipeg investigating commission has been formed for two and a half years and has t made a re port. In City Council he asked mayor Stephen Juba when the City could expect action from the commis Sion. If action was t forthcoming soon said the Alderman the City ought to make its own investigation directly with the suburbs. The mayor replied i have been trying to get the same information myself and i have had no satisfaction Aid. Gordon fines said that tie understood it was the suburbs which were holding up matters. They had asked for time to study a City Brief put before the com Mission. So. Aid. Peter Taraska asked what of that body and its reports Are not considered very seriously by people. I sorry to have to say that but it is a Aid Lillian Hallonquist said that she too was a City Delegate and the items on their Agenda Are pretty Hunting licence unless they can prove they know How to handle a gun and How to recognize wildlife. Or. Snowdon suggested the government show films on Hunting As it does in Driver training courses required to take eyesight tests. In other business Council acted on a request from the East Kil Donan recreation Centre and granted approval to Winnipeg Ana Central Gas co. To extend its Mel Rose Avenue Gas line to the Cen tre s club House. The approval was voted after Aid. A. J. Reid noted the Gas company had already started to dig up the Melrose ave nue Boulevard. Council also decided to allow the greater Winnipeg transit com Mission to build a turn around at the Corner of Simpson Avenue and Gray Street voted tentative approval of a new plan of subdivision for the area North of Monroe Avenue Between Beasant and Lou ise streets providing for 20-foot, instead of 15-foot lanes and approved closing of the present Wal lace Street to be replaced by a new Road not yet Cut through. A plea from great Plains Gas co. For an Opportunity to prove our claim before the municipal and Public Utility Board was received As the meeting ended when an irate Alderman s. C. Mcleod asked Council to prod the municipal and Public Utility Board into a fast reply to the City s request for in formation about Gas service. The Board was asked for this information after the Council meeting two weeks ago. Ask left turn be legalized dog Sayeg in some cases master s life the Winnipeg traffic commis Sion wants to make it Legal to make a left turn off a Street into a private approach. Aid. Paul Goodman traffic Corn told Council a dog who dragged his master to safety Early monday morning when fire destroyed his Home in Little Britain Man., has been credited with saving the Man s life. Lester Johnston asleep in his Small cottage when fire broke out replied a Ento sese turn if they free press meetings meetings to be held tuesday in the free press building include Board room no. 2, t. Eaton co. Public speaking group . So Optimist club business meet at 4 a m., was overcome by smoke i was us ceded Hon a River Vanis 10 the house0 and its contents Val Tion. Uil. He proposed an amendment to the traffic bylaw legalizing the turns providing the Driver uses Plet Elv destroyed. Or. Johnstone is the father of Cpl. Bud Johnstone of the ramp who. In april 1556 thwarted a Bank hold up in Burnaby . Even ;