Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 16, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba Reach twice the readers in greater Winnipeg with free press want ads Driver tuesday february 16r Manitoba to Centra Centre s John Hirsch just Back from a Toronto theatrical conference reports terrific interest in the cast about Winnipeg s work in the Field of drama Mavor Moore and others Are most enthusiastic says John and everyone leaving about the Here. But m View of All the s i thus afm about Manitoba in other parts of the country John _ he was disappointed that the Centre was not included in provincial m very saddened about that. We re doing big Job of bringing recognition to Manitoba All Over the said John. Produced in the East. It s a great pity they Don t do it Here. Were John s final words. While Winnipeg burned in our office Gassler heard that mayor Stephen Juba was donating his violin to the women s Corr Pittee of the Winnipeg symphony As a fund raising item she lifted an Eyebrow and said i wonder if there Are any strings attached she also offered the suggestion that his worship perform with the orchestra in. A sort of Jack Benny concerto. We can or Juba fiddle my while perhaps Aid. Taraska does the vocals. All for Chanty of course. We sincerely Hope that our Good neighbors in Altona have olved their dog problems. Because the Lack of a dog Catcher decided to pay for every stray dog rounded up a Friend from Altona said Small boys were luring every dog in sight and reported group of boys he had seen with four dogs one Large and three ones. The big dog refused to move so the boys hitched him to the three smaller dogs and dragged him to the Pound things we being solved now. Because the town is hiring a dog Catcher to put the Small boys out of business. Around the town Afflic notes a bouncy blonde wearing a three Quarter length Brown suede coat with an above knee length skirt stopped traffic on Portage Avenue during her noon hour stroll last Friday. Never have we spotted so Many male Heads pivoting in the from fort to Hargrave streets at a Stop Light one of our scouts overheard a conversation Between a Mother and a four year old daughter. The Light said Don t walk and the Mother was explaining to the Little girl the significance of re plied the youngster brightly. Then is it Okay if i run. Sign in Large downtown department store window. Window closed Lor do you favor any particular color when you eat Jelly Beans we Don t know the psycho logical aspects of this but female Friend in River Heights told us saturday night that Slie eats Only White Jelly Beans. My friends have known this for years and always give me their White Jelly she said. Well make a note of this because we the Black ones. Good for laughs or Tennyson Guyer. A state senator from Ohio who addressed the Winnipeg rotary club Here last week should have been a comedian. Free press reporter Mel Hinds who covered or. Guyer s said he was better than Bob Hope. In fact. Or. Guyer won a National award in 1958 for being the Best inspirational speaker in America. Anyway reporter Hinds collected a few Choice bits from or. Guyer s speech which we repeat we have a new tax in Ohio pay As you go without. I married the Only Angel in America. She s always up urine always harping and never has anything to describing his childhood Days or. Guyer said we were too poor to paint and too proud to have you to Steed How Many countries Are represented by menu blues for on the Winnipeg car Market one of our friends the car business says that in diag a car is getting Mure and Mere complicated All the time. Now you not Only have color stae and horsepower but Alio nationality of the blamed negligent in death of woman jury a Coroner s jury Mon Day ruled the death of mrs. Bertha 60, of 345 Beaverbrook Street was accidental. Her son Raymond Laverne Gregory 36, of 855 Hector Avenue Driver of the car in which the woman was a passenger was cleared of blame. Mrs. Gregory died at feb. 1 in Misericordia Hospital following a traffic Accident at Stop this migration is plea Manitoban May be using a Power within 10 years Street at Jan. 24 on Weatherdon Stafford Avenue. Death was caused by traumatic rupture to a Large blood vessel leading to the heart and lacerations to the liver the jury was told. The jury said the 17-year-old Driver of the second car was negligent in operation of his vehicle since he did not yield the right Way to another car already in the intersection which had Given its signal to make a left hand turn. The youth is facing a charge. Or. Gregory s car was Travell ing South on Stafford and was about to make a left hand turn into Weatherdon when the collision occurred. Carol Johnson of 735 Somerset Avenue fort Garry who was. A passenger in a car going North on Stafford Street driven by Lynne Benjaminson of 484 South drive Aid she saw or. Gregory s car Block away. It was beginning o make a turn into Weatherdon Avenue she said when the youth s car sped past theirs and crashed nto the Gregory car. 2 urge plan for City life a four Point program to help Indiana adjust to City life has been urged in a Brief to the parliamentary Coni Mittee on Indian affairs. It was submitted by two Indian organizations in Winnipeg. The two groups the Indian and Metis Friendship Centre Council and the Indian Urban association said that migration1 to and from reserves is forced upon indians. The Brief says that indians frequently Are Able to find employ ment during summer months but when Winter sets in they Are left without income. Annual Cycle since they have not lived in the City Long enough to be eligible for welfare assistance they Are virtually forced to make their wily the Reserve. The Fol Engarde Doug Wilson of 423 Brooklyn Street St. James got a laugh out of the terminology used by one of the girls behind the checkout counter of a Large supermarket the other Day. Or. Wilson approached the counter with Only two Small purchases and found himself behind a woman with a Mound of groceries. The clerk looked at the heaping Basket then at or. Wilson with his Purchase. As or. Wilson writes with one simple remark the clerk solved the problem. It you wiil excuse me i think that t and All. Or. Wilson my. D. Of 20 St. Thomas Road St. Vital has three of those famous ship lasers 25-cent paper Money dated july a 1923. She wonders if any readers know their present value would like hear from someone who can give her the Corr rect information Coffee break Allver Dollar on Way to it. Ferguson 77 Spence Street. Will run this Man through first. Immediately i and my groceries Here How does it feel run groceries did smashing Job on 2 police cars Holand Robert 19. Of b97 Ellice Avenue suite 4, who did a smashing Job on two police Cruiser cars tuesday was sentenced to 30 months in Penitentiary. The Story of How Jonasson played Chicken with a Cruiser car while trailing a second police car behind him was told in City magistrate s court. Jonasson was driving a stolen truck Early fek s when a police car spotted him. In the ensuing Chase the Cruiser locked bumpers with the stolen truck and Jonasson hauled it along Ellice Avenue. Near Victor Street a second police car noticed the stolen truck. Jonasson headed directly for this Cruiser and then swerved seconds before he would have crashed head on into it. The Cruiser attached to the truck and the other police car crashed head on doing damage to the vehicles. In court tuesday Jonasson pleaded guilty to eight burglary charges and was sentenced to two years he was Given a consecutive six months term on a criminal neg i authors discussion mrs. Thecla Bradshaw Ray Tulloch and miss Jean sanguine Viii take part in a panel discus Sion on writing for magazines a a meeting of the Winnipeg Branch Hospital men talk is Over gence charge arising out of the to ice car mishap. Four other members of Jonas Ion s gang received lesser sen fences. Werner Horst wok20, of 811 St. Paul s Avenue who pleaded guilty of 17 charges was sentenced to to years. Daniel Robert Nyznick 19, of no fixed abode was sentenced to 15 months. Donavon Wilfred Bauming 18, of 262 Balmoral Street received a six month term on three charges. David Roy Allan Gurr 20, of fort Osborne was sen ended to six months for one Bur Glary offence. Police said the gang part in a series of burglaries of service stations and Small stores during the past two months. Stole Cash Early feb. 6 Jonasson. Accompanied by Bauming and Gurr broke into the Spence Street ser vice station 520 Portage Avenue where they stole a Small amount of Cash. Jonasson then got into i truck parked in the garage and drove through a Glass panel door causing damage. Later in the. Morning the Bur Glary was discovered by a patrol Ling Constable and about 6 detectives spotted the stolen truck it was in the ensuing Chase tha the vehicles collided. The truck broke free from the an administrative clinic sponsored by the associated hospitals of Manitoba was held monday at Winnipeg general Hospital. Or. L. O. Bradley association president said that administrative personnel from 12 Manitoba hospitals attended the session. Purpose of the clinic is to acquaint smaller hospitals with some of the latest develop ments in the Hospital Field and to discuss problems faced by individual More than 30 people who took part in the clinic were briefed by representatives from various departments of the general Hospital. Or. Bradley said this was the first clinic to be held but the association expects to have a series of such clinics to cover All aspects of Hospital administration. All hospitals attending Are Affili ated with the associated hospitals of Manitoba. Pensioners Low fares Sui lowing year the Cycle of Migra Tion begins again. This migration the Brief says tends to perpetuate the existence of a group of transients who see themselves As having no roots in either the Reserve or the City and. Who Are the e non Indian Community As shiftless and to combat this the organza tons urged a change in residence requirements for welfare assist Aiice. Vocation training for indians with limited read Emit background. T Loans to help indians up Small business similar t Loans for indians to begin farm ing. Means by which newly arrived indians could Contact the Indian and Metis Friendship Cen tre for counselling and assistance. The Indian Urban association organizes some social activities and encourages indians to participate in Indian Community projects. The Friendship Council is concerned specifically with the operation of a Centre at 378 Don Ald Street. The Brief says both groups show that Indian people Are anxious to take responsibility to solve their own problems. We believe that the apathy of which Indian people Are often accused arises from environment rather than from any native Lack of pact b of the Canadian authors Assoc a Cruiser car during the i summer time Start april 24? Winnipeg will be on Daylight saving time from april 24 to oct 30 this year if City Council approves a. Recommendation from City health and welfare commit tee. This is the same period As in 1959. The dates coincide with those of the summer schedules planned by the railway association of Canada. Aid. Jacob Penner warned the committee that a would figh the measure in Council. He re pealed his annual suggestion that businesses should open and close an hour earlier in summer. New chief does t like pension plan second to get nuclear Plant Manitoba will probably by the second after Ontario to a nuclear source of electricity. It might nuclear Power Plant within Al Ocean. This thrown tuesday by d. H. Stepiem chair or to Hydro it Cotric his Vuron is prom pud by two Thirft nuclear Power becoming important to Manitoba cause the province available hydroelectric provincial centres Are too far from future Waterpower to bum these economical. This potential commercial probably a major tartar in the decision to put Canada Ond nuclear research Talion in Manitoba. The timetable for nuclear Power is dictated by other consideration of. Two Punu now Are being built in Ontario. By. My. When Are to nihed h will be Poi Ible to reach reliable Cost estimate for such Power. Three to five Yeam if nuclear Power for what or. Dear Baa As our it would Tatos another to five Yean to build the Plant. Why will other province not be ready for similar nuclear Powei or. Stephens said that Quebec Many undeveloped Hydro Murcia close to British Columbia plane to develop the Columbia River. The Power Winnipeg City Council will be asked to support student fare Scales for old age pensioners on greater Winnipeg transit com Mission buses. City health and welfare com Mittee made the recommendation at the request of the greater Winnipeg senior citizens federa Tion. The federation wants six tickets for 30 cents for pension ers with a six cent Cash fare be tween Rush hours. The federation wants the City to seek the reduced fares through its representatives on the transit commission or the Winnipeg suburban association. Tion at . Thursday at 54 Westgate. Mrs. Vinia Hoogstra will speak on the writing of Short stories. Jonasson drove a Short distance further tie fore abandoning the Vej hide. He was arrested a Short time later by a detective. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Wednesday in the free press building include Board room no. 1. Manitoba ski zone association Board room no. 2, Mother s auxiliary of the can Adian musical revue majorettes clubroom British wives club. Transcona Sticks to its Yale trans cons. Council does not like the idea of changing the name of Yale Avenue. The Public works committee monday received an. Invitation from the City of Winnipeg to attend a meeting to discuss the possibility of changing the name of Yale Avenue since there is a Street by the name in Winnipeg. It was suggested at the com Mittee meeting that because Transcona s Yale Avenue has a larger population. -212 dwellings than Winnipeg s Yale Avenue which has Transcona should retain the Narne. Councillor William Dzyndra moved that the Secretary reply to the City s letter pointing out the in the number of Home on the two Yale avenues. Councillor Dinara. Lives on Aramco of a Yale. St vital has become the first Iii greater Winnipeg to reach agreement with its teachers for a 19bo collective agreement. Receiving a wage increase will be a group of teachers with outside experience and teachers in the class 1a Cate gory which is Between class 1 and class 2. At present St. Vital teacher receive recognition for Allex Prience in the District. Formerly outside was recognized to the extent of half an increment per year to limit of four increments. This recognition now has been extended limit of five increments. A school division official Send it has not yet been estimated How much the agreement would Cost the division. May Pool pounds for dogs a proposal for a Saint dog Wund was made by East St. Paul at a meeting of East Kildonan Council monday night. Council will consider the proposal and decide on it at the next meeting. East Kildonan a urgently has a contract with a Mcville kennels in St. James Tor Pound duties which Means that residents have a Long to go to pick up impounded dogs. Informal proposals for the amalgamation a Pound also been heard from North Kil Donah St. Vital Council monday night agreed to exempt the new police chief from welfare Cost million welfare costs in Winnipeg Rose to in 1959 up from the previous year. The 1959 total includes Provin Cial Grants and City costs for the Vear. Biggest single item in the City s welfare Bill was for direct Aid. The largest portion of the direct Aid costs Renta payments totalled the fifth general meeting of the Manitoba historical society Wil be held tuesday evening at the Manitoba teachers society build ing Portage Avenue and Lapton str it. Lionel Orlikov will pre sent a paper on the Reform move ment in Manitoba. 1910 to 1wo Farmers warned on new Oats agronomists with foils and crops Branch of the Manitoba department of agriculture have warned Manitoba Farmers against new variety of Oats now being offered for Sale in the province. A news release from the ranch says the e variety Glen is eing offered for Sale in the prov Ceas an Early maturing High Iel Dirig Type at Oats. These characteristics Are off it by susceptibility to oat smut and a relatively lower resistance r oat the release says. The agronomists recommend varieties known Garry and Odney which Are More resistant to rust and smut. Glen was developed at Mac Onald College in Quebec from a Ross of the Well known varieties and Rockton. It has been under test across Canada for the ast three years. 2 men lose possessions in Blaze Tva Transcona Brothers John and Paul Mikolayek of 406 Mel Ose Avenue East at 6.a.m. Tuesday to find their Home engulfed in flames. They got out having All their belongings be Lind. Transcona firemen brought tin Blaze under control in about 3i minutes but the Interior of the Louse was destroyed. Damage was estimated at about forty eight year old John Mik Lyew suffered a Cut Arm. I beyond their and Al Berta and Saskatchewan easy to chief Edmund Stanley wrote Council that he was not satisfied with pension plan arrangements easy Accel to i he would have to live to 78 be on the Fere he could reap full benefits of the five per cent contribution made on his behalf by Council. He now is 55. Why hire a Man to upset our pension plan Structure if he is not satisfied let him stay in dry said mayor Fred who opposed the appoint councillor Florence Pierce said the new chief was being paid 1520 a month or a year and since this was More than was paid to the old chief no car Owanee should go with the Post she also opposed the pension exemption but was voted Down. Where the libraries would go the Winnipeg Library committee working on a 10-year plan for in Branch libraries and a new ventral Library on Portage Avenue Between memorial Boulevard awl Iain Street City librarian h. H. Easton told the. Winnipeg town Lanning commission monday. Three Large branches would be located in River Heights Mcphil is Street and West Winnipeg. Three smaller ones would be in Weston Elmwood and on Osborne Street. The River Heights Branch would be built on Tho Brocic Corydon brother Paul not injured. Both however. Were stil suffering the effects of smoke and Shock at noon., they were staying at the trans Cona fire Hall while arrangements were made to get Mardi gras Ball the seventh annual Mardi Gra Ball of Leonardo a Vinci association will be held at . Feb. 27 in the amputation Hall 272 Sherbrook Street. T5 Cantafio bore Bank Street and Richard Champ me 7 Avenue Are in charge of tie Keta. School grounds and the North Winnipeg one on Andrew Mynar i school grounds but a better Ite would be near Redwood ave nue and Mcphillips Street be said. West Winnipeg site would be at Effice Avenue and Arlington Street the Weston one at Roy ave nue and East Street the Elmwood on Kelvin Street and the Osborne Street Branch near Mcmillan ave More tests on tobacco crops Here Manitoba s experimental Tobac co crop paid off at More than we an acre in one part of prov Ince but elsewhere Multi were le.3 Happy. Hon. George Huston minister of agriculture Mon Day. The tobacco was planted by provincial department of agriculture last summer As part of a pro grown to find diversified Seropi for Manitoba four acres were planted in March and area of Southeastern Manitoba or. Hutton two acres badly damaged by Hail but the four produced a ton of tobacco. The province sold 85a Worth at 51 cents a Pound. The situation or. Hutton is very encouraging and new test crops Art planned for the com ing year. Limited tests were also carried out West of Portage la Prairie but there the weather was very unfavourable and the experience was not so however he said the tests not car mishaps injure Man and boy Hoy Wilfred Olafson 27, of fort Osborne Barracks a passenger in nue. Or. Easton said studies had shown that the Central Library should be located where the Pedes Trian traffic is heaviest. A site on the downtown Plaza Between Gra Ham and Broadway avenues was attractive for a Central Library or. Easton said but he ruled out locating it in any Large Portage Avenue building unless the Library had the main floor plus one or two of the next floors. H. H. G. Moody commission chairman said the planning com Mission saw the. Need for locating the Central Library in a building of is own in a suitable location. But he said it would study the Bill on metropolitan government first and then recall or. Aston. Car driven by Joseph George Feldkamp so of Purcell Street was taken to Winnipeg general Hospital following an Accident at . Monday on Broadway. He received lacerations to forehead and requiring m stitches. Or. Feldkamp was travelling East on Broadway when car went into soft and ran up on the Centre Boulevard. A four year old boy Donald r. Parisien of 519 Dufferin Avenue collided with a car driven by Stan Ley Oferovich of Mcadam ave nue on Dufferin the boy was taken to Hoapil. End Letioa to food ;