Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 29, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba Reach twice the readers in greater Winnipeg with free press want ads Winnipeg free press by Carrier in Winnipeg 30e per week tuesday March 29, 1960 City s new budget holds line on taxes City of Winnipeg 1969 budget summary estimated actual i960 1959 realty assessment Mill rate 43 43 business tax payments in lieu of taxes on exempt properties provincial government Grants miscellaneous tax property receipts surplus from previous year add Transfer from tax Reserve add Transfer from sundry re serves expenditures general government Protection health and sanitation highways and Bridges education recreational and Community social services debt charges unclassified surplus 1959 municipal general .12.625 Parks Board 1.373 libraries .996 14.999 school Board 28.001 43.000 Bate bylaws 1960 and 1960 Mill rate amount 1959 1959 Mill rate amount 14.505 1.192 .903 16.600 26.400 43.000 arrangements for a recent Winnipeg wedding were handled with the precision of an army manoeuvre particularly when it came to out of town guests. Nearly 80 guests came to Winnipeg for the ceremony from Minneapolis St. Paul in a special train. When they arrived in Winnipeg they were met by a. Fleet of numbered cars and each guest received instructions As to what car he she should enter. The cars driven by friends of the bridal party were put at the disposal of the guests during their stay and the Drivers acted As hosts. From the station the delegations were promptly driven to hotels where reservations had been made in Advance and one lumber executive who doubled As a Host Driver even Hung up cloth ing for his guests in their hotel room. The Fleet remained mobilized and on the Alert until the last guest had been safely delivered to the Railroad station for the journey Home. Around the Toton last week More than 200 delegates attended the provincial Home and school convention at the Nymha. Naturally at times parking in the area posed quite a problem. A worried husband was watching the efforts of his wife to Park during the convention and he disapprovingly eyed some dents made in the car bumper As the Little woman squeezed in a space better made for a motorcycle she saw the dismayed stare and dismissed it by sniffing Weil for goodness Sake dear what s a bumper for if you Don t bump something with it now and Westminster United Church is starting a new club for Moth ers and pre school children which meets every thursday 2 to 4 in the Church. Children will be looked after by a compe tent staff while the mothers have Tea. Mrs. George Marshall deaconess of the Church writes we Are concerned about needs in the area right around us. New arrivals in the area with or without children Are Welcome Pur group is warm Friendly and interested in notes to you jottings from a reporter s notebook Rainbow stage is still Short of male singers baritones tenors and basses. Try outs will be saturday starting at noon in the free press clubroom. Be fore coming please phone Rainbow people at Whitehaus 2-1449 sight in the town is the massive mural 62 feet wide and More than 10 feet tall being painted by Winnipeg artist Robert Bruce in a new room at Pierre s. The mural is a Paris Street scene painted on a plastic fabric a real Eye Catcher. So far the room is unnamed but promises to be one of the fanciest in the City quote of the week by Robert Frost there is one thing More exasperating than a wife who can Cook and wont and that s the wife who can t Cook and a Winnipeg youngster showed real originality last week in giving his younger sister an assist on a Loose tooth. He actually tied a string around it fastened the string to an Arrow then gave the Arrow a hefty boost from his toy Bow. The sister jerked Forward he reported but the tooth still has t come out. Have you tried fastening it to a door son More car stories in the area surrounding a Large automobile firm near the downtown area employees of the firm play a game of tag with the Law since there Are no meters in this particular part of the City they Are constantly moving cars to avoid getting tickets and have set up a warning system to keep them informed. But two can play at the game. Last Friday the warning system failed and no less than 20 tickets were issued right Down the line. I thought it was said our informant on the phone and i can t see How we slipped mrs. Edith Miller of 183 Havelock Avenue. St. Vital went with her daughter the other Day leaving their car in a department store lot. When we came out we noticed a lot of ice hanging from the Bottom of the car so we decided to clean it explained mrs. Miller. After hacking chopping and kicking for several minutes they discovered their work had been in vain. Wrong car. Their own same make and Model was parked three stalls Down. Snores of Yore the headers write dear sir when i read in Coffee break about the lady who used her dust mop when her husband began to snore i was reminded of a similar instance which took place at upper Dib Gate which was a Reserve training Centre Dur ing the first world War. We had a robust Irish lad in our group of something like 221 men. When Dan the irishman started to snore no one slept. As i slept with my feet to Dan s head i was delegated to keep the peace. So when he began to snore i had to poke him with my Rifle. The last remarks i heard before the boys got off to sleep each night were Jimmy have you got your Rifle As i would keep it beside the bed. There was a sad aftermath to Dan. He and 18 others got a Shell right in their hats at a place known As Hill s Camp quite close to Vimy Ridge. The germans were searching for a hidden Battery which was located close by. I often thought that if Dan was snoring none of the boys heard the Shell the letter is signed sex sergeant. Rate will be 43 Mills again Winnipeg City Council passed a Bud get monday a budget which maintained the 1959 Mill rate by using City reserves. The budget which estimated expenditures for 1960 at set a tax rate of 43 Mills. It makes up the difference Between Revenue and expenditures by using from surplus City Hydro earnings from the Sale of City property and from Reserve funds set up for Street cuts and equipment replacement. Wrong in Only Aid. G. R. Fines voted against the budget. He said the use of City reserves to meet cur rent expenditures was wrong in principle and by passing such a budget the Council was liquidating the assets of the City just to maintain a tax Aid. Peter Taraska chairman of the City finance committee said previous councils had used Reserve funds to balance budgets some had spent As much As of reserves in a year to keep the tax rate Low. Aid. Taraska said it was Only in recent years that Council had adopted a policy of setting aside funds from the City Hydro earnings or from property sales. The adopted budget represented a cutback of from the original draft budget submitted by City departments. The apparent million deficit was overcome by reducing municipal expenditures by increasing estimated revenues by and trans Ferring the Reserve funds. Manitoba s travel and publicity Bureau is Gelting almost Dou ble the number of inquiries this year it did last. Sylvia Barnes is shown holding some of the letters prospective tourists have mailed in the first three months of 1960. Last year he department received inquiries during the same period. An swering All the letters is a big Job. In Day the department mailed 27 bags full of tourist information. Cut capital items of the deleted from municipal expenditures. Was for items considered to be capital items which could be properly financed in other ways. Some of the items so covered were libraries Street improvements charged to the City As a whole and new Street sweeping equip ment. The increased Revenue making up the remainder of the deficit will be obtained from an extra contribution from the Hydro electric system profit an estimated increase in Busi Ness tax and from recoverable debt charges from Winnipeg enterprises corporation and sundry accounts the 1960 budget includes no pro vision for charges which May be levied on the City by the new metropolitan corporation. The Bud get report warns that the City May have to make provision for some expenditure for metro in 1961. With an Eye on elections the desire for re election was suggested monday As the secret and obscure reason that Winni pegs finance committee was will ing to use Reserve funds to hold the tax rate this year. Aid. C. H. Spence told the City Council meeting that five out of the six committee members who recommended using Reserve funds were up for re election this fall. Last year the finance commit tee said it was sacrilegious to touch Reserve Aid. Spence told Council. Now they say it s different this year. Could the difference be that five out of the six members Are up for Aid. Spence said he had suggested economies to the committee such As cutting Down the num Ber of aldermen. "1 was told that this would be he said. Last year i suggested we use some Reserve Money to prevent a Mill rate increase. I was told that Reserve funds could never be used to meet current expenditures. Now All i want to know is Why we have changed our policy this sugar freight Cut was t passed on British Columbia sugar refining co. Ltd. In 1953 failed to pass along a one third Cut in car freight rates according to a let Ter read monday at. The company s trial. Alan. Robertson vice president of the company in a letter on May 3, 1953 to Frank Taylor general manager of Canadian sugar factories ltd., Raymond alta., said the car had reduced the rail rate from factories to Winnipeg and Brandon from and to per 100 pounds. Channel 6 has Indian no Cowboy if they re tired of hockey Tele vision fans can now switch Chan Nels and get at least a picture. By turning the Knob to Channel 6 Winnipeg set owners will pro Bably receive the Indian head test pattern used on Channel 3. Channel 6 is currently being tested by the Csc and it is hoped that by april 24 the French language satellite will be broadcasting from it. The Indian head will be seen periodically As testing continues a Csc spokes Man said tuesday. The alternate reception in t pleasing everyone however. A Kirkfield Park resident complained tuesday that the Csc test pattern is interfering with his reception of the Fargo North Dakota Channel which occasion ally comes in As clearly As cwt. He objected to the French station being on the same Channel As the Fargo one. Free press meetings meetings to be held wednes Day in the free press build ing include Board room no. 1, Manitoba Lacrosse association 8 . Board room no. 2, order of Eastern Star Constitution . Clubroom Anglo Cana Dian dance club 8 . This was a great break and simplified the carrying out of plans in Manitoba or. Robertson wrote. We had contacted most of our customers in Winnipeg before we received the Welcome news and although the offer we made was based on the probability of our having to rail in a considerable portion of the sugar for Winnipeg at i do not think we should change our offer for the time be ing now that we can move All the sugar at by truck and he said the lowered Cost would give the company a margin to fight with if or. Robertson said the Manitoba sugar Market is a Cut Throat rat the company s main com petition was Eastern sugar trucked in from the Lakehead at a net Cost of 28 cents under the Winnipeg list Price. To panel on strike cancelled a television program on the Brandon strike has been cancelled because no one would appear on behalf of management. Edition Witk 10e error on map renewal plan is based wrongly plans for Winnipeg s new Urban renewal project were discovered monday to have been founded upon an error in the City s official zoning map. Hugh Parker counsel for Resi dents of the Burrows Fife area appeared before City health com Mittee to present the objections of residents to the project. However he said his objections probably will not be necessary. He understood after a Check of City bylaws that they show the area zoned re. Tha. Map shows it zoned r-3 where multiple family dwellings Are allowed. And the Urban re Newal plan Wai developed on the basis of the map. There Are no buildings on the properly at pre sent. Confirms error Aid. Jacob Pinner confirmed that the. Area involved had been discovered to be an re zone. The aldermen Learned this last week at a meeting of the zoning administration committee he said. Where this left the City plan was not immediately Clear. The Burrows Fife area is the key to the whole project. The plan was to Settle people in that area so that another District could be redeveloped. The Only Way that the City appeared Able to go ahead with the Job was to rezone tha area to conform with the map. But this gave residents an action against the City on the grounds that they had bought property in an re area and the City was changing the face of their neighbourhood by changing its Lawi. Of argument As far As we Are said or. Parker if the area is re that is the end of the argue he said however that residents had other criticisms of the project. The City Council had assured residents of the Troy Chamberlain area that a Beautiful hous ing scheme would be built there weather _. It few Clit Riding hip my tint is Ort Tki it Lor 2t-km x. Man. Vancouver a Calgary Edmonton 24 of Rena Brandon slim Lorr fort William 3s Ottawa. 25 30 .11 .29 .02 a .02 .13 of Toronto. 4rt Montivel 43 Halifax Chicago. 47 Miami York "1 or 19 30 40 7s 48 41 41 to. To. Fire checks in rented Homes asked heroism of police and firemen at slum Blaze inquest heroic action of police and firemen who groped through dense smoke in a slum fire March 4 in a futile Effort to save the life a a five year old boy was revealed monday at a Coroner s inquest. Robert mor Risselle. 722 Henry and instead they had received in their front Yards an lie said. It was already evident that schools in the area could not accommodate As Many extra pupils As the plan would bring he said. Health committee recommended that City Council refer the problem Back to the Urban renewal Board which developed the plan. To probe City s buying a tires bought through one firm Juba told mayor Stephen Juba told City Council monday that he had a let Ter from a Winnipeg lire dealer complaining that All City business for automobile tires was going to one dealer. It is letters like these that make me wonder about our Pur chasing the mayor said. The letter said City orders for All brands of tires were placed with one dealer even though that dealer handled just one Brand. Aid. Peter Taraska suggested that the mayor should have taken the letter to the proper depart ment instead of Reading it at tha Council meeting. Mayor Juba said he had taken the letter to the proper part ment but was Reading it to the Council to emphasize that there were complaints against the City s purchasing system. Aid. H. C. Avery wanted to know about City printing. He said 000 Worth was dribbled out every year. Aid. Taraska said City printing came under the control of the City clerk s office. He said print ing orders were placed on an estimates system three bids were requested and the lowest got the Job. Both Aid. Avery and Aid. C. H. Spence renewed their request for a report on the purchasing coordinating Branch of the City finance department. Aid. Lillian Hallonquist said the finance com Mittee had been too Busy with the budget to set up an investigating committee so far but that a full report would be made. Province gets new fire commissioner the Winnipeg program Eye to Eye had planned a discussion of he strike for tuesday evening. Plans for the program had to be changed when a management representative decided he would not appear to discuss the strike with a Abor representative. Archie Wudel manager of bran Don packers said he had agreed o appear on the program but not his coming week. Or. Wudel said other arrangements made it impossible for the Plant to be re resented this week but said the company would be Happy to Send representation for a later program. Csc producer Ken Black who s in charge of planning for the program said Only no comment when contacted for information about the programming change. Panel on Selling a panel discussion on buyer seller relations will be held at a meeting of the rotary club of Winnipeg at . Wednesday in the Royal Alexandra hotel. Moderator will be Hugh Lloyd and panellists will be Al Johnson Larry Phillips Art Elliott and Abe swarm. No film of big race viewers Call Csc complaining phone Calls from viewers crackled into the Csc Winnipeg switchboard be cause film of the grand National steeplechase was t televised Sun Day afternoon. Phone weary officials just re covering monday afternoon from complaints about sunday night s Marathon hockey coverage explained the Lack of steeplechase film this Way the grand National was run saturday in England and film of the race was. Flown to Canada for use on the Csc television network last sunday afternoon. But Winnipeg was one station not slated to receive the race Sun Day because of commercial commitments after the French Block of programs. This has happened before with other network programming. The Csc in Toronto and Mont real however had been plugging the race for sunday on the net work and Many viewers in Winnipeg expected to see it and were disappointed. The grand National will be seen on cwt at . A Veteran of 32 years with the St. Boniface fire department has been appointed Manitoba s new fire commissioner to succeed h. E. Putter who is retiring at the beginning of May. Arthur j. Humphries 51, who has been with the St. Boniface fire department All his working years will take Over the Post. Or. Humphries began service with the department As a fireman and for the past 12 years has been Drill master and fire prevention officer. Hon. J. B. Carroll minister of labor said that or. Humphries has taken several courses on fire prevention including one on administration and operations for fire men and one on civil defence. He has attended fire instructor conferences and has Given talks to school students on fire prevention. Or. Putter is leaving the government service after 31 years with the department of labor. He has been fire commissioner for 19 years. During his term of office he served on the advisory committee to the City of Winnipeg on hotel j safety and helped make Winnipeg the Only Canadian City where All hotels Are fitted with automatic sprinklers for fire prevention. He also inaugurated the Volun Teer firemen s training school for the fire Man Fine chiefs from towns and Vil Lages where there is Little 722 Avenue was pronounced dead in Winnipeg children s Hospital shortly after fire started in an adjoining unit of a Terrace at 720 Henry Avenue. An overheated stovepipe was Given As the cause. Crown attorney John inns praising the police and firemen told the Coroner s jury if it had not been for their bravery might Well have been More Vic Tims among the 18 children living in the two Homes. The jury ruled death was accidental As a result of Asphy dial obstruction and irritation of the air passages caused by the chemical action of smoke urge Check h recommended that it be mandatory that All leased or rented dwellings in. Winnipeg be inspected and passed As Safe for habitation by a fire inspector. The inspector would have to approve the heating and lighting system and escape exits. The recommendation was Promp Ted by the testimony of Frederick Morrissette father of the boy who testified that there had been no electricity in the Home for Days before die fire and fur Nace in the basement want in use because of a Lack of fuel. Or. Morrissette said that he left Home with his wife at 7 . To play Bingo and left his son Roy 18, to take care of seven other children in the family. The Only fire in the seven room Home was in a Small stove in the Kitchen he said. He said the family had lived in the Home for two years and that it was the first time that the Power was off. He said the family had been using candles for Light. Took out eleven Gerry Cardinal 17, of 720 Henry Avenue testified the fire started n the basement of their Home behind the Furnace at . He said he told a brother to ring the Box alarm. I threw a pail of water on the fire but it did t seem to help and got the 11 children upstairs out of the the youth said he then ran into he Morrissette Home and told hem of the fire. Koy Morrissette said he woke up the seven children sleeping on the second floor and carried some of them to safety. David Morrissette j2, said he was carrying Robert when the youngster slipped out of his grasp and ran upstairs. I could t go after him because i was choking from the David told a Constable on i he scene that his brother was still upstairs. Heard cries Constable Joseph Mowatt said to ran upstairs but could t see any thing because of the dense smoke. I heard cries when 1 reached the second floor but i could t Tell where they wore coming from. T Arthur j. Humphries fighting training. The lectures and demonstrations have been held annually in Winnipeg each Spring. The travelling fire fighting units which go to towns and villages to provide special training for local firemen were started during or. Putter s term of office in 1956. Commemorating Vimy to Mark the 43rd anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge the 78th battalion association will hold its annual dinner at . Friday in the St. Begis hotel. Arriving. Fire. I fireman Sigmar k. Johnson searched the rooms on the second floor and found Robert lying in the bedroom. Fireman Harris Diack to Stiim he removed two children. Banded one child through a bed room window to a fireman on a ladder and earned a second Down the stairs. Mrs. Belva May Cardinal Testi fied the family had experienced trouble with the Furnace the Day before when a pipe came off and some pieces of Wood were on fire in a Box. We put the pipe Back on but it did t fit she added. Mavor tells Alderman j he works hard enough mayor Stephen Juba said Mon Day night he would t take any More from aldermen who thought he should be doing More work. The mayor struck Back at Aid. Lillian Hallonquist who said that some aldermen and the mayor wild have taken the time to attend finance committee meet Ings when the budget was being discussed. Mayor Juba produced a list of 10 appointments and three meet Ings which he said had been arranged for him for monday. One of the meetings i attended 1 had to leave three or four times to see delegations who Wail the mayor said. I m work ing if hours a Day now and 1 Don t have time to attend All the committee meetings that Are sche Aid. Hallonquist said she thought finance meetings would take precedence Over other meetings. I am aware of the number of meet Ings the mayor Aid. Hallon quist said but i believe the Bud get committee is one thing the mayor should be interested Aid. Hallonquist has never seen he work from the mayor s mayor Juba replied. I be been Here three years i was t offered any advice when f arrived and i Don t intend to Lake from the same aldermen ;