Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 1957, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Mats for babies Mori merc Adi morn Mara remits your greatest Market to buy to self free press want ads phone Whitehall 3-9331 by Carrier in Winnipeg 30c per week Winnipeg wednesday december 11, 1957 weekend edition with comics Loc we can get Gas firm tells Gity j aldermen a spokesman for great Northern Gas utilities said tuesday he had the verbal Assurance of trans Canada pipe lines Ltd. That any company properly enfranchised to sell Gas in Winnipeg would be supplied with Gas by trans Canada. S. R. Kaufman great Northern vice president appeared before Winnipeg s Public works committee press his company s application to distribute Sas in Winnipeg areas not served by the Winnipeg and Central. The alternatives before the City face said were u in allow the Winnipeg and Central an exclusive monopoly 2 to make the rival great Plains Gas co. A Tor 3 to put the City in the Gas business itself. Not difficult or. Kaufman had nothing to say about the first alternative. He had this to say about the second a Quick comparison without any mud slinging should t make it difficult to decide which is the More sound our company or Grea Plains. Were demanding a Bond or. Kaufman said his company j was in fact working such a Bond. The mayor asked How far the company was prepared to go. Or. Kaufman replied that h e could not say in front of the press. E cuts Power in town fire of undetermined origin swept through Viking motors in great Northern is incorporated j Lac Dubonnet Man., Early cd is financially sound and has causing an estimated personnel. Great Plains have five damages. Operating Gas companies. Great Plains controls vast subject on the third possibility or. Kaufman said a City owned Utility is a Long and vast subject i know you gentlemen Are capable of deciding upon your selves. It would be necessary for you to establish that such a com Pany would be feasible and that you would be Able to raise funds and finance of the fire. Asphalt on nearby houses and Ether buildings melted in the heat and paint blistered. Firemen were barely Able to contain the Blaze and people in an adjoining building were warned they might have to evacuate the fire broke out about 5 am and destroyed the one Storey Frame garage five cars including two 1958 models and two one owned by the motor company. Flames leaped 100 feet in the air As Drums of Gas and Oil sex he estimated it would Cost Pio ded and burned. The Blaze 000 to for the City to deter be seen for 30 Miles. Mine this feasibility. Fire units Frorer an american As for the Supply of Gas or. Ajr Force base about 14 Miles from Kaufman said Dubonnet were called in to let me be perfectly honest with help the local fire fighters. You. No matter who goes into the temperature dipped to eight. Gas business Here i take below while firemen opinion that there will be no prob-1 fought the Blaze. Damage is Par Lem getting a Supply of Gas from j tally covered by insurance a trans Canada pipe lines. They will sell he said he had talked to the executives of trans Canada. They take this stand. That they Are completely Neutral in this Winnipeg problem. To any properly enfranchised company they will sell you have been Given that As asked Aid. A. E. Ben Nett. Not in writing but replied or. Kaufman. Aid. Paul Goodman asked Why great Northern could t get the Assurance in writing. Or. Kaufman replied you must remember that trans Canada is in an awkward position at the moment. As you know they have a. Contract with the Winnipeg and Central. But that does t preclude that if another company is properly enfranchised they won t sell it Gas. I think you should look at it in another Way. If another com discussed at cording to owner Oscar Bjornson. Lac Dubonnet is 70 Miles North East of Winnipeg. To discuss Beer prices in hotels a committee of the Manitoba hotel association will meet with the Manitoba liquor control commission within the next few Days to discuss among other mat ters Beer prices in hotels. Statistics now being studied by the commission show a downtrend in returns to hotel operators in recent years. Possible methods of relieving this Pany is properly enfranchised the trans Canada will find itself in such a position that they cannot but sell it higher Bond mayor Juba asked whether great Northern would be willing to put up a substantial performance Bond. The company had offered Cash. Some aldermen 68 flu cases there were 68 new cases of flu reported in Manitoba this brings the total number of cases for the year to situation will be the forthcoming meeting w. B. Fraser Secretary of the association said wednes Day. The association is expected to Point out that other liquor out lets Are permitted More elasticity in Selling prices while hotel Beer Parlours must charge 26 cents a pint. Due to rising costs hotels Are showing reduced profits and the association Hopes to negotiate better terms with the commission. Extension of hours a another matter which will probably be discussed. Guess youngsters Are the same everywhere. Cedric Adams in his Minneapolis Star and Tribune column tells. Of a teacher warning her pupils of the danger of colds. I had a Little Nephew seven years she said. One Day he took his Sileci out in the Snow. He caught pneumonia and three Days later he Cedric reports that there was silence for about ten seconds then came a voice from the rear what happened to the Uncle Harris an says if the Cost of food goes any higher dollars to doughnuts will soon be an even seeks godmother a Serviceman h. Popp of Block 50, apartment 4, Shannon Park Halifax is being moved and will be passing through Winnipeg soon. He would like to get in touch with his godmother miss Rosina Miller if she is still Here. She used to live on Nairn Avenue. Would miss Miller or any one having information about her please Send a note to or. Popp at the address above easy on the kitties please a Reader whose Home is on a Mink ranch on the out skirts of the City laments that their District seems to be a favorite area for people wishing to abandon Kittens. She says that she takes in Many every year and Many others Are hot found until they Are too wild and. Frightened to be caught and these poor Young things have Little Chance of surviving the Winter. Why can t people try to find Homes for unwanted Kittens advertise seek help through the humane society or through Grundy rather than to aban Don them so cruelly she asks. And by the Way she has one Fluffy Little Black and White Kitten about eight weeks old now looking for a Home phone Vernon 2-7781. Bennett irked at delay in metro govt. Report Aid. A. E. Bennett said tuesday tired on some property in the path the greater Winnipeg investigate Joi the freeway ing commission should either re a the City could either pay port or 00o and buy the property outright at the same to time v my Flor pay to extend Stephen Juba indicated that he is one year. Committee decided upon n favor of delaying completion of the Disraeli freeway until some form of metropolitan government is worked out. The discussion arose in Public works committee after y solicitor and City Engineer re ported that the option had sex Job seekers on increase figures show the number of people looking for jobs through the unemployment insurance commission in Winnipeg is growing. At dec. 6, the commission had applications on file of them from men. The figure is up from the previous week and from the comparable week of 1956. Unfilled vacancies number 740, of which just Over Are for men. At the corresponding Lime last year there were unfilled vacancies of them for men. Applications for employment Fol Low managerial and professional 337 sales and clerical manufacturing construction transportation 860 trades and services agricultural mining and lumbering. 573 mis Cellaneous. Unskilled others nine. The latter after mayor Juba said we should t lose track of metropolitan government Here. If we spent now it would not be fair. I believe this is a metro Politan City Engineer w. D. Hurst said the get credit for any thing it invested in metropolitan improvement. Commented Aid. Bennett this 11 what 1 feel about this metro Politan commission. They have Lead More than two years to work or the problem. They have had a Joy ride Over the old country. I think they should either report or no other Alderman took up the cry. The 41st annual exhibition of the Winnipeg sketch club is now underway at the Winnipeg Art gallery and will continue through dec. 22. Pictures Are by Mem Bers of the club and some Aro for Sale to the Public. The picture above is a water color entitled by the Kiver painted by l. A. San Der Nan one of the three he has entered in the exhibition. At left is a. Water color entitled mrs. Hsi painted by Winnipeg artist miss Denise Ahlvers. The picture is one of the Many on exhibit at the gallery. There Are about 100 Pic Tures on display. Survival kit thieves jailed two men get 8 months each for taking equipment from planes theft of two Toboggan survival kits valued at each from two Dakota planes belonging to the Craf brought eight month jail terms to two men who pleaded guilty before magistrate d. a. Kyle in provincial police court wednesday. No room rebuild our Gates plea to City the Armstrong s Point association asked the City of Winnipeg tuesday to repair the Gates Lead ing into the area s three Scenic thoroughfares Westgate Eastgate and Middlegate. The association s Secretary said in a letter to Public works com Mittee that the Gates were deteriorating and this was obstructing the revival of Armstrong s Point As a first class residential area. The committee clerk recalled that the last time a request was made to repair the Gates it was found that they were not City pro Perty. They had been built by a real estate company on City land. What would happen if we Tore them asked Aid. A. E. Bennett. You d have a repetition of the Wolseley tree said Aid. Paul Goodman. You re not said Aid. Bennett. The matter was referred to the City Engineer and City Law depart ment to find out who owns the Gates and How much it would Cost to fix them. Weibel 24, a member of and Charles Street 25, of Ocean Falls b.c., former civilian worker at the air Force base in St. James. Scott Wright Crown counsel said the accused men admitted taking the kits last May 10 and later hid ing them in a Bush Between St. Charles and heading Ley. Later they retrieved them and while on a trip to Regina by car threw the toboggans and most of the equipment into a River near Quappelle sask. Court was told the six foot Al Minum toboggans fold into a kit containing a pressure cooker ground sheets Shotgun shells Sig Nal flares a Hatchet knife Cook ing utensils fishing net wire snare for trapping concentrated food and other equipment. Pawned one gun Weibel in a statement admitted Selling one of the guns for and pawning second in a Winnipeg pawnshop for he gave one of the pressure cookers and ground sheets to relatives who did not know where they had been obtained. Or. Wright said the Case was under investigation for some months before the gun was found in the pawnshop and led to Weibel s arrest. Street was brought from Ocean Falls. Or. Wright said police searched he River near Quappelle for the equipment. There was a tragic sequel when a 13-year-old boy in that area found a flare signal and exploded it receiving serious head and brain injuries. Other equipment lost court was told the two guns pressure cooker and ground sheets would be returned to tre Craf but the other equipment was lost. An Craf officer said in court the air Force did not require Weibel in the service any he had been in the Craf six years with no bad conduct before this offence. Even though this is the first offence for both of you it is a ser ious one and you might have been charged with something far More serious As the result of the mishap to the boy who found the flare. However i am not dealing with Ity As a whole must be protected j and i sentence each you to eight months in the common magistrate Kyle said. Alberta gives us warm air a Belt of warm air from Alberta is putting the skids under Winnipeg s sub Zero temperatures the weather office said today. It was 11 below overnight but temperatures Are expected to climb to at least 20 above by thursday night. Predicted Low for tonight is Zero. The mild front brought a warm 40 above in the Alberta Foothills with 53 degrees in Claremont. For contrast it was 30 de Grees below Zero overnight at red Lake ont., North of Kenora. The Winnipeg Sal vation array said wednesday it has had to re fuse shelter to the homeless because its facilities Are filled to capacity each night with the unemployed. We have been forced to Send men to the police station for brigadier John r. Matthews told the free press. The unemployment situation is worse this year than in 195s, he our facilities have been filled each night for the past six to eight army officials in the rest of the country have also expressed concern Over the unemployment situation which is taxing army facilities to the limit. Major a. Brown of Tor onto said he Edmonton Branch had to con Vert its recreation room into a dormitory to accommodate persons seeking overnight Shel Ter. The salvation army in Van Couver is also looking for additional accommodation. Some people in Vancouver were seen sleeping in boxcars. Gifts arrive for victims of fire Christmas dinner for War veterans Politan government has delayed a Christmas dinner for single the investigating commission is studying forms of metro its report at the request of veterans of the first suburban municipalities. The sub world War will be held in the t. Suburban municipalities. The suburbs Are planning a joint Brief for submission to the commission room at . Dec. 30. Tickets will be available for the men monday at the commercial building first floor 169 notre free press meetings meetings to be held thurs Day in the free press building include Board room no. 1, Winnipeg Council of women 8 . Board room no. 2, fort Garry Kennel club 3 . Clubroom Manitoba old age pensioners society 2 ., ladies auxiliary. Associated Canadian travellers 8 . Eaton company employees lunch first floor 169 Dame Avenue col. Royal Burritt chairman of the Board of trustees Manitoba canteen fund announced. Optimist club g. A Thorvaldson Winnipeg barrister will be guest speaker at a luncheon meeting of the Optimist club of Winnipeg at noon thursday in the Hoyal Alexandra hoi Al. Homework not needed say education experts Homework came in for a drub Bing tuesday from two educationalists one of whom a vice Princi pal suggested it should be done away with so that More could be accomplished within the class Donald Mcmaster vice principal of East St. Paul High school said during a panel discussion before East St. Paul Home and school association that too Many teach ers spend too much time the work assigned could be done in the he said add ing that Homework was sometimes or. Andrew school trustee Moore agreed Winnipeg that the More work teachers can enable students to do under their super vision. The better is the education. Where it s needed he saw no need for Homework below the Junior High level. But he believed a Good Deal was Neces sary in senior High especially in Manitoba where we take years to do what in most provinces requires however Ardyth Brownlee a Bird s Hill elementary school Tea Cher said she thought slow Stu dents require extra practice at Home when today s crowded conditions do not permit extra class room supervision. The Young children of today have too few things to do any Way except for watching Telesis she said. Or. Moore strongly urged parents to assume their responsibilities and co operate More directly with the teachers. Too often parents teachers and principals get together Only when each has a Chip on his he said. In working with the school As a Parent please Don t criticize the school in front of the child. Take your problems direct to the Tea encourage Reading one of the most important ways in which parents can assist the school is to help the child build up his vocabulary. Or. Moore said. This can be done by encouraging the Reading of Good books asking the child to underline words which give him trouble. The teaching of greek and latin roots is no longer compulsory in our schools but children should be told to memorize about 100 of them. Or. Moore said. Miss Brownlee said she considered Reading the most import ant subject on the curriculum. But since elementary school read ers contain almost no literature we must get children to read every to combat the indifference of parents and teachers she suggested get your child a Book for or. Mcmaster said he always found that the Good were the Good readers and the bad students the bad readers. He believes that Reading will Cut Down 90 per cent of spelling and grammatical mistakes he said. Asked by panel chairman Edward Youngs what the Ideal sized class for teaching miss Brownlee said 30 for an elementary school. Or. Mcmaster said the Ideal High school class was 20 pupils. Night ban on parking during Yule daytime parking restrictions on some downtown streets will be extended to 9 . On shopping evenings Between now and Christ Mas. Streets affected will be the South Side of Portage Avenue be tween Vaughan and Carlton North Side of Graham Avenue from Vaughan to Smith streets North Side of St. Mary Avenue from Vaughan to har grave streets West Side of Don Ald Street from Ellice to St. Mary avenues East Side of Donald Street from Ellice to Graham ave Nues. These restrictions will be in effect in dec. 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21 and 23. On dec. 24 and dec. 31 Park ing will be prohibited on the East Side of Hargrave Street from St. Mary to Graham Avenue and the East Side of Carlton Street from St. Mary to Graham Avenue. Police said this will provide space for extra buses required for increased Holiday travel seeks Job help for indians Andy Paull president of the North american Indian brother Hood has called for assistance in finding jobs for indians on a re serve near Dallas Man. He says they urgently require food and clothing. Unemployment on Rice lakes which used to give indians Money has heightened their distress. Any charitable organization donating clothing May Send it to Hodgson Man., via Canadian National railways said or. Paull. Gas fumes create students Holiday an estimated 130 students got an unexpected half Holiday wednesday when Coal Gas fumes generated from a Chim Ney fire spread throughput Salisbury Junior High school on Prince Rupert Avenue in East Kildonan. Classes were expected to resume in the afternoon. Lions club Roy Frith will be guest speaker at a luncheon meeting of the Winnipeg Lions club at . Thursday in the fort Garry hotel. Household articles for the three families who lost every thing in the tuesday morning fire at 469 Sargent Avenue have started to arrive at the Isaac Brock Community club. More Are still needed. Mrs. D. W. Davidson above of 927 Spruce Street started the Ball rolling when she persuaded the ladies auxiliary at the club to under take the project. Two. Mem Bers offered transportation. Tuesday press and radio spread word of the need. Mrs. Davidson will be Home at her phone up 2-2143, wait ing for Calls. Especially needed Are Kitchen equipment and canned goods. The Community club at 715 Telfer Street will be open wednesday evening. All the clothes needed Are being supplied by the b. E d Cross. Be sure to Telephone if you wish to give a Bulky article. Wilfred Organ gets travel Bureau Job Wilfred e. Organ for the past five years tourist Camp inspector has been named director of the Manitoba Bureau of travel and publicity. Hon. F. L. Jobin minister of Industry and Commerce who made the announcement wednesday said or. Organ 42, has been with the provincial government for 17 years and 12 of them with the Wilfred e. Organ. Health department. Or. Organ succeeds Bert Fraser who left the position recently to become Man aging director of the Manitoba hotel association. Three other appointments were announced at the same time. Frank Gilbert who was a conservation officer in the while Shell Forest Reserve and in Northern Manitoba has been named tourist Camp inspector. Walter Wusaty who was chief clerk for the Bureau becomes administrative officer. R. H. Newman of the publications Section was named chief clerk. Worked with Fraser or. Organ is Well known in tra Vel circles in Canada and in the parts of the United states from which Manitoba draws most of its tourist Trade or. Jobin said. During the Winter months or. Or Gan worked directly with or. Fra ser on travel promotion. When he was tourist Carnap in Spector he initiated an extensive advisory service for Camp and Motel operators or. Jobin said. Or. Organ was born and Educa Ted at Dauphin. The civil service commission which advertised the Job received More than 30 applications from Winni Eggers and from. Eastern Points ;