Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, July 23, 1958

Issue date: Wednesday, July 23, 1958
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Previous edition: Tuesday, July 22, 1958

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 23, 1958, Winnipeg, Manitoba V Jafeff pays on the Road in the Home near the water Don t take chances Winnipeg free press special rates in free press want ads on situations wanted Only 14c per line per Day or 65c per line for a full week n Winnipeg 30c pet week Winnipeg wednesday july 23, 1958 weekend edition with comics we Lake Winnipeg impractical flood control measures on Lake Manitoba which would practically eliminate All flood damage to sur rounding farm lands could be constructed for about photo by Margaret Metcalfe wafer gushes Over White Shell Road after monday night s deluge at Lake Brereton the lakes a report from Winnipeg and much As those on Lake Manitoba Ern ment retain All Crown subject to flooding. In relation to the value of the around Lake Winnipeg up to an the report was financed by both advantages that would be derived Elevation of 722 feet above sea j the Federal and provincial govern therefrom for flood control and i level. The government should also a rents and the Board was Corn having regard to the findings re Purchase private land up to Ani posed of representatives of both Garding Power developments the j Elevation of 718 feet when a favor Ujj. A. Griffiths assistant Deputy Board finds this project on Lake i Able occasion presents j minister of Public works in Man firm pig to be impractical under at Samp Janle Flo govern to 3a was chairman the Board id see that the Lakeshore m a manner harmonious no Day. But flood present Cucu stances. Ament but work on Lake Winnipeg Foras _. Power development will be of t0 future development of the Lake Board said wed great value to the Economy if Tor Power Lesow Ces consideration and when Uip Tola capacity of be Given to a program of the Nelson River Hydro plan Sho Rebne Protection particularly reaches a magnitude of several Flom to this control Mea sures on Lake Winnipeg would be much More expend Sive and Are not economically practical at present. Premier Duff Robin whole leased the report at a press con Ference described it As very hopeful and said he has Ali Fady instructed Novorr Tuit engineers to Start making a Cost Benefit study of the recommendations big values Hundred megawatts. After the Nelson River Hydro end the government should consider a system of Finan Magazine owner fined plants approached their full devel Jacial assistance for protective Facil Ozment capacity of Onega cities in return for flood easements an increase m the Range of that would be Rogi Steed against Lake Winnipeg regulation would the title of Shoreline properties to yield tremendous values m terms Lyle nor of a Magazine known debris at re Tnie in the Wake of the big Whites sol area storm donations to Manitoba s red Cross blood Bank fell far below Normal this week leaving Only two bottles of blood available in the j emergency Bank. Red Cross officials said that supplies bad picked up after a donor clinic tuesday in Selkirk. But the emergency Bank was still Only up to half its Normal Supply the shortage of emergency bottles occurred when regular donors failed to keep their appoint ments at monday evening s clinic. Normally there Are 50 bottles of emergency blood on hand at the red Cross Bank. Officials reported 23 donations wednesday available for urgent use in the emergency Bank. To meet demands in Manitoba at least 1.000 blood donations Are needed each week the red Cross says. Fort Garry six Inch rain Hal turn campsite into sea of Rary would be Back to Normal by noon he predicted. He said the brei Clon campsite flooded out As a result of the Garo ratepayers in of Liber will be asked to on an 000 water to nov bylaw for a municipal lib but in the midst of water rat a Laplant there via a Short age of the Library would be omit on dunking Ualifi at Rifko brer Plon Pembina Highway next to the one cottage Dweller James municipal my drum 2 k Montgomery five the building would Lune _ Sall had to i Tavel 20 hold m 000 to 40 too Bonks and has water Lue Saav the Lake Brereton resort area bore the. Brunt of monday s Savage storm in the White Shell the free press Learned wednesday. The rain flooded the area for 3vi to five hours with at least half an hour of Hail. About six inches of rain fell. Recoils of the storm s direction varied but a Check of surrounding areas showed that Thucie was no Hail at Falcon Lake Caddy Lake West Hawk Lake Lac Dubonnet j or Porte Clu Bois the first three spots caught the storm s rain but escaped the Hail. Lac Dubonnet had Thunder and lightning but no Rains and Points Dubois reported Only the horizon. Four people were injured in accidents tuesday in greater Winni Peg. Archip Mac Elton 17, of 375 Dan Dale me received severe Burns when he touched an a Lecleric r fan j ing 2000 volts in East St Paul lie is in fan condition police said night War run c Smith five of 422 Rad roil Stilet was injured whore he collided with an Auto on Mountain Avenue Dreen by Nick mar Renurik of 645 Lan Iside Tupot Warren is in fair condition m child Dnn hos Pital a fractured Skull and abrasions on he lower left leg face and head sea of the Lake he said had usen nearly one foot As a be Suli of the rain in the past two been designed pension to allow later sex three Way face lifting for is. James the recently created beautification committee1 of St. James Council got off to a flying Start tuesday night when Council accepted three of its recommendations. The first Calls for the erection of a Large a site 1 Welcome sign night. The handles of nearby pumps had been removed due to the infiltration of Wells by surface water. Or. Meldrum found trains crawl ing through the area wednesday morning afraid 1o go fast because they had no idea what Lay ahead he said Impre Ware Trees Down along Highway no. 4, and the shoulder of Whippi Hill Road was completely eroded leaving Sharp drops of As much As a foot in some places. Rain in cottages some cottages Veie t spot Ted to have received watch damage will he planted in the Triangle at Portage and Madison Street and and estimate will be made of the Cost of seeding portions of Centre Boulevard on Portage. The the forestry officer at Rennke Access roads to cottages Hart been rut off in two or three but these were being repaired wednesday morning. Everything govt. Irks St James Council map it Plain tues Lav Ghl that it does t think the Federal gov i non Cal Iris the moral Light to pop Ronate land Fiorin the City at an Aue and inter when it finds it has no fur her need for the land to put to up for Sale to the High est bidder through town assets disposal corp Lialiou Council Recti i d a letter from the Crown corporation saying that 9 acres of land on Beriy Street was up for salp Council told that in could exorcise the Light to meet the highest offer received it in wants the land the aldermen refused to sub Mil a bid instead they voted to Send a letter outlining Tho situation to Ilori co Don Churchill Roini Ter of Trade and Commerce who represents St Jam 66 in the commons. Study would be done in about in Voeks he said the Board s Tenns of refer enc in 1956 bad specifically excluded a Cost Benefit study. No Early decision or Rafalin said he doubted any decision could be made about the until the commission on flood Cost Benefit on the red and Arsi Bome Rivers had reported. This report will be in this year he said the men 15 taking the Lake report under consideration at once the is Page report said the fair Ford River which is the outlet to Lake Manitoba has a relate la Steep gradient it would Cost about for excavation and Lor a Consol dam to re Duce the Lake fluctuations to 811 813 feet pets inf fluctuation is 810 3 to 815 8 feet Large losses this control measure would eliminate practically All agricultural losses such As were caused by High Lake stages from 1954 to 195g these losses were estimated at the Fairford River derision would be compatible 1 with a diversion of Assini Bome flood Waters into Lake Manitoba As veil As i he diversion of Lake Manitoba water into the Assim Boine River Lor Lov water control through create Winnipeg the Fairford River conversion would also by compatible the be port said with a possible Power on the Dauphin River having regard to the advantages that would accrue to practically All interests the Board finds this project to be practicable under the present circumstances million estimate the Cost for flood control ii take Winnipeg to Wespi would be As High As 000 s1 Foi excavation work and Lor a control dam this would reduce but no eliminate the agricultural losses during extremely High Lake stages. These losses were estimated at about Between 1954 and Josifi pipe it losses on Lake Winnipeg from 1900 up to the present Day were Post Imald at about m50 000 at current prices this Means inc total Lake Winnipeg losses Aie slightly More than while the Lake Alan Aloha loses Are the Cost of Conti olt on Lake Winnipeg would be Mote than six times As of Hydro tills stage in development How Ever is not Likely to be reached for 10 or 15 years the report said. But in preparation for that Day the Board recommended the gov diking is not an adequate Rnea Jas the Western Canada. Police ure to protect agricultural land review was fined s100 and costs from flooding around the Lake the j wednesday after he was convicted report said it suggested that the m magistrate s court or some appropriate Public authority buy the land and of on a Stangl 15 of 821 Cathe dral Avenue was Muied when the bicycle he was Riding Down Hill in Kildonan Paik Etna Shell into a Tiee taken to children s Hospital he was found to e a fractured left leg and abrasions to Tho left Elbow. He is in fairly Good Condi Tion Benny Allison 2, of 114 Slier Burn Sheet suffered a i calmed leg when he applied the hand Brake on his Bike and it front wheel locked thu owing him off the Dent or tired on Westminster ivc up bet Pon ship Bui n and a fiend so Rock to is m fancy Good concilion in child icons Hospital lights stay confronted by opposing Dole Gelli Riib battling for differ ent typos of Street lights St. James Council tie Sony Mgill tie circled to let the existing Light for thump in used pets of River Bench cd Pace in and Gaidon mad App Caird Bjoro you nil in sup Poi i of Low oin mental land Ards. An Equa Numbat de fended the High mantra ads a Lnch Tho Power has All adv in stalled on Tho two streets. Council m 4-3 Vole decided in favor of the High standards. Under Cross examination by Sandy Lake i stuck. Was c pc of ramp 3long hip Assim Boine is said k. .1 Lansfield the Field Man apr. From thursday in he fog Ging machines will operate in tapas Ipac most mosquitoes ire Concan to Alp. Among these Are West Kil Clonan and parts of the North end House holders ran take effective temporary measures against the pests by making smudge fires or spraying a 25 Poi cent Dot emulsion a mid with water around i hair Saulens this should kill them off in an a Tot of two but of course they will still come in from Olhow areas later Fror press meetings Mcc Libigs to be held thu ii play in the top press braid ing Board room no 2, Winnipeg Manx society 8 clubroom Eaton Angling club 8 . Alexander Mceachern Fergus Json 55, of 560 Sherbrook Street had pleaded not guilty to the charge. Thomas Kochanski or. Said he was working in his father s garage the Mountain service on june 11 when a Man telephoned and asked if the manager was in. He said when he informed the caller that his father was out of town he was told that his father had purchased an advertisement in the Western Canada police re View and that a or. Fergusson would Call around for for the and. Bawled out _ i he said about an hour later the two youngsters drowned tuesday in Manitoba at the garage temperatures Rose into the blistering 90s through most j submitted a receipt and collected of the province rhe fitness testified that when dead Are David Freier. 17, of his father returned he was bawled the Russell District and patricia1, out for paying out the Money be Joan Ludkowski 10, of Carman i cause his father had never or Patricia who went to the the advertisement. He said swimming Pool tuesday afternoon they then reported the incident to with Hei Mother Geurge Lud ipod acc. Skiwski. And two aunts was found i Fergusson testified that he had crowned in Weichl feet of water 201 solicited the advertisement from minutes after she was he son and he denied having said missing agreed to buy there were son people it the Pool previously. At the time of Uip Accident of a i ear to nations. Miles West of end Cliffe at Afler fee Case was a . Wednesday by members official said that the Only i official police Magazine in Canada is the Canadian police bulletin would be held. West of Russell. Coroner or. P. J which is sponsored by the chief Newdale is 50 Miles Northwest w. Opper of Grandview Man. Said constables associations of can of Brandon. I no inquest will be held. Ada Tjia Niico in a Blu Moon thy came tuesday for 150 of shoe siring oif Alre. The 150 balloons Irown into Uip nor Ilam Tintown Winnipeg to Mark the Lif Jim Nung of lie Ioup s production. Sloon is Blue shirts thursday at the theatre. Flying High Uro Dorothy Chew and Debbie Israel Backst Ajja workers for shoestring theatre Ami Judy Sinclair who has the feminine Lead in the Pijar ;