Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, March 19, 1960

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba Reach twice the readers in greater Winnipeg with free priss want ads weather a offs by teak by Gene Tel neb Winnipeg women will probably sympathize with the recent problem faced by a Niagara Street housewife. She asked a Friend for a recipe with the idea doubling it Beca use she has a fairly Large family. The original recipe called for three cups of liquid and enough flour to make a stiff dough but the Friend anticipated the greater need arid passed on a doubled recipe calling for six cups. Unfortunately the housewife did t realize it had been doubled so she multiplied., it again to 12 cups of liquid. The first time she went to the store for five pounds of flour the grocer said pleasantly baking Ted a i on the second trip when for an other five pounds he remarked my we Are Busy but the third time when she had to get five pounds he asked s going her breathless reply was i m making buns and was she Ever the rising Batter dish in the. House Turkey roaster. In desperation she put seme of the overflow in the Bathtub but did t solve the problem. When her family arrived Home for dinner she had buns on the Kitchen counters buns on the on the Washer and dryer. Nearly eight dozen buns two loaves of bread and a huge Coffee cake. There s a lesson Here somewhere but we Haven t thought of it. Two nurses from Winnipeg. Arrived in Springfield Missouri a few Days ago wondering if they had their directions mixed. Luella and Muriel Griffith were assured they said that Missouri would be in full Bloom the perfect place for a Winter vacation. The girls thought the fur Coats from Winnipeg would be objects of amusement in the subtropical but they found themselves almost knee deep in Missouri Snow. Some tropics Grapefruit country Sid Stanford of Baldur man., was interested in the recent Coffee break item about a woman who found 69 seeds in a grape i was in the South last Winter in the Grapefruit or Stanford wrote and one tree on a farm we visited bad grape fruits with that Many seeds in every one. They were White inside and All the rest Pink. I brought Home one Bushel from this tree they Cost me just is. But boy the or. Stanford added a Friendly postscript when you get old and you would like a change to get away from Manitoba s wintry blast take a trip to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. You won t regret we Hope someday to do just that or. Stanford. Among the most interested of the audience Friday night at the performance of the Ballet Brave song presented by the Koyal Winnipeg Ballet were members of the Indian trails club. This club consists of Young people of Indian blood who meet weekly Brave song is a Ballet based on authentic Indian Folk lore. Joseph Nep Inak is president of the Indian trails club and Mem Bers come from All other the province. Smart women much As we hate to see myths destroyed Here s another one gone by the Wayside. Harry a. Gassard an official of the Cana Dian investment dealers association declares the notion that women too flighty to handle Money wisely is not at All True. Women investors because they Are willing to take said or. 5assard. The same qualities that make a House a Good manager also make her a investor. Women shop und compare values and learn through the experiences of their he gives Short shrift male investors saying men betimes will not admit they. Don t know too much about invest ments and will impulsively plunge into now he tells us things you till now years ago unnamed Post office in the state of Missouri asked the the area up with a Peculiar name for the town. Today called by the name selected Peculiar Missouri. Can readers submit reasons for other strange names scene at the Beach 3. E. Meacham of 254 Harbison Avenue is still puzzled Over two incidents that happened last Victoria Beach. On a particularly hot muggy Day a elderly lady was at the Beach Wear ing a Winter coat gloves a Hood Over her head and her face Cov ered with a shawl. All that could be seen were her eyes. Either she was a refugee from a harem or was trying to avoid the mosquitoes. That same night or. Meacham. Saw a woman get off the Beach train carrying a Bird Cage with a big cat inside the Cage. Our Assumption is that the Bird was inside the cat. This is supposed to have happened on Portage. Avenue. A Winnipeg businessman finished lunch was crossing the Street when a track sped past splattering him with mud from head to foot. Language turned the air Blue by the time he reached his own car but when he fished for i car keys they were miss ing. Wrong coat now a Little happier he hurried Back to the restaurant replaced the drenched coat on a rack rushed out with his coat Nice and dry. Someone in for a Surprise latest Coffee break Silver Dollar to mrs. W. J. Walsh 108 Enrby Street. 4 honoured in names of new buildings at University Campus four men who made great contributions to higher education in Manitoba Are to be honoured in the naming of four buildings now wider construction on the Campus of the University of Manitoba. The naming of the buildings re commended by a special commit tee appointed by the. President has been approved by the univer sity s Board of governors. The new physics building is to be named the Allen physics Laboratory As a tribute to or. Frank Allen first professor of physics and mineralogy and now emeritus professor of physics. The new chemistry building is to be known As the Parker chemistry Laboratory to Honor the late or. Matthew a. Parker first pro Fessor of chemistry. The new science lecture building is to be known As the armes lecture building honouring the late or. A p. Armes who served the University for 40 years. The special adjoining the arts building will be designated As the Isbister build ing with a supplementary identification of. Commerce and psychology which school and depart ment it will House. The name honors Alexander Kennedy Isis Ter who studied in the red River settlement at the school which was the forerunner of St. John s col lege. He worked briefly in the fur Trade then went to England where he became an1 outstanding educator and author of textbooks on his bequest to the University of Manir Toba which has perpetuated his name in the award of annual scholarships. The four buildings Are to be completed for the opening of fall classes this year. Estimated Cost of the three science buildings is approximately and of the Isbister building or. Parker was born in Renfrewshire Scotland. A graduate of the University of Glasgow he came to Canada in 1904 to be come the founder of the depart ment of chemistry at the univer sity of Manitoba. He helped to found the scientific club of Winnipeg and contributed to the founding of the Canadian Institute of chemistry in 1919. Or. Armes was on the staff o the University for More than 40 years during which time he Rose from the rank of a chemistry department demonstrator to. Presi Dent of the University. A 190e graduate of the University of or. Armes came to Manitoba in 1909. Started fires in garbage cans is fined a Winnipeg Man was fined and costs Friday in City magistrate s court for setting fire to the contents of four main Street garbage cans. He was ordered to pay. Damage Basie cans. Six firms face charges under combines act three Large packing cases of documents arrived at the Law courts building this week addressed to f. Q Meighen special prosecutor for the department of jus Tice. Starting. Monday or Meighen will prosecute sugar companies in the four Western provinces on two charges under the combines act. The cases contained numerous books and papers which will be in produced As exhibits at the trial o . Sugar refining co. Ltd., and . Sugar refinery. Ltd., in one count and the same two com Janies together with Canadian Jugar factories ltd., Manitoba sugar ltd., . Sugar refining 3o. And . Sugar re ining co., in the second count. The charges Are that the com Anies were parties to or know ugly assisted in the formation or operation of a Combine at Winnieg Vancouver and elsewhere in Canada Between june 1, 1954 and july 13, ,1959. Where the Alberta Sas Katche Van and Manitoba companies Are concerned the charges Are that a monopoly or Trust was formed he Ough . Refinery ltd., either y purchasing or otherwise acquiring control. The action it is charged took place Between april 3, 1955, and july 13, 1959. The own contends the merger or rust has or is Likely to Perate to the detriment of the. Public. The indictment was preferred directly against the . Compan s by or. Meighen last july. The ase set the Fofe court of Queen s7 Bench at Winnipeg in erased to a later Date because counsel for the companies John Robinette of Toronto was in aged on a lengthy Case in the ast. Chief Justice e. Wjk. Ear the Case which is expected from three weeks to one month in court of Queen s Bench. But 1st to buy seals the first donation to the i960 easter Seal fund has come from miss Constance. Lans Downe who has been confined to a wheel chair for seven years. Miss Lansdowne was stricken with muscular dystrophy and has not walked since october 1953. still an Active woman particularly inter ested in handicrafts. Three Days a week she works at the Industrial workshop operated by the society for crippled children and adults. She worked with Bureau for 16 years and said i Hope the easter Seal fund grows this year to give every crippled child in the province the help 34 21 to. N Sias students get fee raise the Board of governors of the University of Manitoba has a roved a increase in. Student yes requested by the student Council. Half of the increase will go to expand student Union activities and the other will be returned o the faculties. An additional ?3, increase a roved by Council for construction an athletics Centre was not con dered by the Board owing to a Council that be deferred until Urther facts about the Centre can be gathered. Charity permits to 3 groups the civic charities endorse ment Bureau has granted permits or use in the City to these or animations for fund raising pro acts the Manitoba optometric so piety women s for. Sale f chocolate snowballs at a from april 1 to May 31 to buy equipment for classes for visually Ahdi capped children. The Manitoba association of ire chiefs allowing Sale of advertising space in its annual pro ram Book from March 15 to May 5 to defray expenses of the an Ual. Fire prevention and control conference being held in Winnipeg in june. Rotary club of Winnipeg for Sale f fertilizer by the bag april 13 o june 15 to raise funds for the Lub s welfare work. Rose bowl tonight the Rose. Bowl Competition Lima of this Manitoba Estival will be held tonight at in the civic auditorium. Feather bedding often inevitable says i unionist by Mel Hinds labor unions in general Are against the practice of featherbed Ling but often it cannot be avoided because of changing society says the vice president of the Canadian labor Congress. William Dodge was asked Fri a. During a panel discussion at he National farm forum whether he. Labor approved of Eather bedding by Canadian rail Way firemen. What the firemen were trying o , was to ind a Means of surviving a trans Ion period caused by mechanize Ion without serious harm to nem selves after having. Served r invested Many years in the always. From technical changes i unions who have or. Jodge method has Tow from technical changes irid some unions use it trying o the transition per Industry of Feather bedding or. Dodge stated that is known As Light bulbs could. Be made that would last for a lifetime but manufacturers do not produce car manufacturers new models and styles every year. These Are forms of obsolescence. The whole Economy is v shot if Ull of. This sort of i or. Dose was r also asked for labor s opinion on one person holding More than one Job at the same time. Against. Moonlighting the unions Are against Moon lighting he said but they have not been Able to an answer to it. Labor realizes that in some cases moonlighting is a necessity. Farmers practice a form of moonlighting he said. There is a growing trend in Canada for Farmers to take some other Type of Job in a nearby City or town. Find Only Way Tiey can afford to suy on the land is to t a ii some other Job Canada s first new dental faculty in 44 years wag Epe aed by the University of Manitoba Friday. At top ii the new baud Init located near the medical College with inset showing the provincial health minister hoi. George Johnson cutting the ribbon As or. Hugh Saunderson University president looks in the lower picture the University Chancellor or. Justice Samuel Freedman watches As or. Harry Lyons signs the Register. Or. La Road Wai me of three dentists received honorary degrees at special Coito Cathy in with the official pea log. Or. Lyons of Richmond Vir Lnla is put president the american dental Aasa claim. 3 dentists honoured school opening first dental College opened in can three members of the dental pro session received honorary doctor of a degrees at a special convocation marking the official opening of the University of Manitoba school of dentistry building Friday. Or. H. J. Merkeley who has Practised dentistry in Winnipeg for to years was presented for. His degree by or. Harry Medovoy. Or. H. E. Bulyea. Director of the school of dentistry at the univer sity of Alberta since 1930 was presented by or. J. W. Neilson. Or. Harry past president of the american dental association and Dean of the school of dentistry of the medical College of Virginia in Richmond Virginia was presented by or. Lennox g. Bell. The degrees were conferred by or Justice Samuel. Freedman Chance Lloro the University in the auditorium located in the new whig of the. Medical College. The Cornerstone of the dentistry building which is next door to the medical College on Bannatyne ave nue East of Emily Street was Laid at 4 . Friday by the Hon. Errick i or of Manitoba in the presence of about 250 guests. The building was then formally o p e n e d by Hoo George minister of health and Public welfare. This is the Clifton Clifton Home and school association will meet monday at 8 in the school to discuss re solutions to the Manitoba Home and school association convention next week. Included in the resolutions to be. Discussed Art calling for the Banning of nuclear testing vial voicing opposition to religious education in pub tic a canola. Ada in forty years. Before the Manitoba dental association held a dinner at the fort Garry hotel in Honor of the occasion. The school now provides accommodation for the first two Yean of what will to a four year dental interview four for Arena Post four men will be interviewed next week for the position of Gen eral manager of the Winnipeg enterprises corporation a boart spokesman said Friday. The Board received 26 Applina Lions for the position and after re viewing the applications for nearly three hours Friday selected fou from which the final Choice i be made. Called for a a experienced in the operation of Multi purpose Arena football stadium and Ballpark. Stewart Mcpherson the presen general manager is leaving to take a position with Winnipeg s private television station scheduled to open in the fall. Budget meeting sunday Winnipeg finance committee will meet sunday morning in last ditch attempts to Complete the City s 1960 budget without a tax increase. The committee has been meet ing for Over two weeks in at tempts to close the Gap of 000 Between planned spending for he year and estimated revenues ased on the 1959 Mill rate. By wednesday of this week the committee had pared More than from the spending Esti mates and the members planned o draw an extra Revenue nto the general City funds from he Sale of properties. At a Long meeting Friday the committee was unable to agree on the Best method for finding the still needed to balance he 1960 books and a further meet ing was called for sunday morn a budget is struck sunday. Ing. If copies will be furnished to All aldermen and a special meeting of Council called for March to con Sider the budget formally. Max. Min. 3s to. 35 to -01 41 .31 metro Bill is blocked Liberal group delays passage until monday the greater Winnipeg metro Bill was seconds away from passing Friday night before a Small group of liberals blocked third and final Reading. Their move gave notice of a fight to the end on their demand Tor a referendum before the Bill becomes Law. They took their step after the House had rejected a motion by Gildas Mol Gat a St. Rose that the debate on third Reading be adjourned. Refutes leave As speaker a. W. Harrison be Gan to present the Bill for third Reading. Opposition Leader d. L. Campbell Rose to announce that he would refuse leave for third Reading. Unanimous consent is needed for a Bill to receive third Reading on the same night it has been considered in commie of the whole if it has been amended in the committee. The move will delay final pass age of the Bill until monday. Earlier in the committee us Liberal group had been swamped on its motion calling for the referendum. Or. Campbell or. Mol Gat Edmond Prefontaine a car Larry Desjardins a St. Boniface and j. M. Froese so Rhineland were the Only ones to vote in favor of the motion. It was Defeated 32 to five with the rest of the Liberal members voting against it. The government voted Down a Long list of amendments from or. Desjardins and or. Froese but it accepted two amendments suggested earlier in Law Amend ments committee. Name changed the government agreed to in Bill which will change the name of metro corporation to the metropolitan corporation of greater Winnipeg com the corporation of metropol Tan Winnipeg provide for the boundaries f metro constituencies to be get by the electoral boundaries com Mission which draws up provincial constituencies. The name change was made in response to a plea from a group of t. Boniface citizens. decision was turned Over to the commission on the recommend ton of or. Campbell. Public hearings before tha commission the a medaries it will hold Public takings. Cabinet approval Wilt be required before the boundaries Are finally established. Only recorded vote in the com Mittee stage was on or. Camp jell s motion for a referendum. In. Campbell said the referendum hould be held because of the arge Powers being Given metro my because of the fact that rate Ayers were losing their tradition 1 right to vote on Money bylaws. Metro needs maximum Goodwill e its is going to be successful he Aid. The Best Way to provide is would be through the Educa Ive value of a Campaign on a referendum. Kcf Leader a. R. Paulley Taid referendum would achieve no Eal la fights a last ditch Battle Par autonomy of St. Boniface Larry Desjardins returned to the Battle for St Boniface autonomy Friday night with an offer to re sign his seat in the legislature if his constituents did t think the same Way he did and a Challenge to Premier Duff Roblin to run against him in the next election. Or. Desjardins carried his fight against the metro Bol in committee of whole from beginning to end he moved or supported four unsuccessful amendments beginning with the Bill s third clause and end ing with its last. Then he finished off the evening by being the Only member to record a vote against the Bill being reported out of com Mittee. St. Boniface out his first amendment called for St. Boniface to removed from metro. Later he moved Amend ments asking that no new Powers be added to metro without the unanimous consent of All member municipalities and striking out a provision to permit people who can read Only French to run for. The Nitro the language provision had been brought in As an amendment in response to a petition from St. Bon House starts cleanup on monday the annual legislative clean up will begin monday. Premier Duff Roblin yester Day introduced the traditional end of the session motion to put the full working Day period to use on legislation for a Quick disposal of the remain ing business of the House. It allows the legislature to con Vene at 9 30 in the mornings instead of the present . And lit wednesday nights and saturdays. Monday opposition Leader d. L. Campbell and Kcf spokesman David Orlikov will thai budget speech. Face residents but or. Desjardins said they had merely prese Texi a question of principle which w a i not too on the Bill s last clause he joined three other liberals and us legislature s social credited to a referendum before the Bill Law. Dangerous the Liberal member recollected thai the Premier the debate on the metro Bill in second Reading had called him tactless absurd and silly for his stand on metro. My said or. Desjardins was to Point out to my constituents that it is dangerous and he had done his duty saw h. Premier Roblin replied that or. Desjardins had a right to do his duty As he saw it. The Premier said he had not used his adjectives to attack or. Desjardins s stand but to refer to his personal re Marks against the Premier him self. Or. Roblin would be Happy to run against him when he be comes Leader of Liberal ;