Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba press monday october 10, 1960 More about Highway continued from Page 1 unexpected Muskeg the loser was Mcnamara construction Ltd. Of Toronto whose Crews ran into one mile after an other of unexpected Muskeg. Some of it was seven feet deep much of it was fed by underground Springs. Before the time expired Mcnamara made Good its pledge however and Farmed out about a third of its share to the two Mani Toba companies that had Cam completed their sections of the Job 15 Days within the 100-Day limit. They were the construction firms of Paul Braun of Winnipeg and Everett Metcalf of Portage la Prairie. The Braun firm contracted to build the Southern 45 Miles of the route for and the Metcalf firm the Middle 34 Miles for 000. Mcnamara s contract entailed the Northern 33 Miles for heavy equipment ten Miles of the Mcnamara Sec Tion was Farmed out to Braun and Metcalf at an undisclosed figure about two weeks before the dead line. The two Southern firms hurled their 69 pieces of heavy equip ment Worth about into the Northern Section and the Road will be finished almost on time. Meanwhile work will continue through the Winter on a Bridge that will take the new Highway across the Mouth of the Saskatchewan to grand rapids settlement. This week for the first time people were Able to travel to grand rapids by Road. Traffic is carried across the Saskatchewan on the lady a Cable ferry named areas tical for one of the tougher looking fore men on the Bridge Job whose Nam is Farrell. The Bridge contract runs the ferry and he charges per Veli icle each Way. Taxi service a taxi service already is run Nutig Back and Forth from Gran rapids at per return trip. Skirts the two links still missing in the route by the which the contractors have provided around them. Soft drinks moving t grand rapids in bottles this week the first time some of the indians in the settlement have Ever seen them. The Cost , the bottles has been so High in the past that the indians have Hac their soft drinks in cans. The people who did it All the contractors and their employees Lay the first credit to modern machinery. One new machine can move through a pit and scoop up 18 of Earth in about 30 seconds haul it at 35 Miles an hour to its destination and then distribute it in an even layer. If that layer should happen to be a 45-degree slope the machine simply travels at this Angle. 33 bulldozers there have been 22 of these in service at once at grand rapids As Well As 33 bulldozers six drag lines a Power shovel eight graders four 18-ton trucks and an assortment of smaller equipment. The contractors also Heap credit on the Braun and Metcalf Job us Braun for Braun and George Fenwick for Metcalf. Sometimes they had their equipment going around the clock to get the Best out of it. When the going got rough Mcnamara called in the chief of its grading division William Gilette who in his 30 years with the com Pany has scooped Muskeg out right across Canada. He was also one of the first men ashore when the company landed men and equipment on rafts to build an air port at a place called Goose Bay. The result was that the Road moved Inland throughout the sum Mer As much As 1% Miles per Day. The government has not yet decided whether it will pave the new route but it should prove enticing to the tourists. Was not grand rapids after All the historic stopping place for men like David Thompson and sir Al expander Mackenzie they had their troubles getting there too. And they did t have bulldozers. Pages j. Lloyd Stone right alumni director the University of North Dakota a Point to Manitoba s lieutenant governor Hon. Errick Willis left As or. Willis visited the grand Parks . Air Force base. Others in the picture Are left to right col. Neil a. Newman Deputy commander of the air defence sector and col Raymond s. Brown Deputy commander o the 478th fighter group. V More about Quebec continued from Page 1 the committee also proposed that the electoral map be revised to give areas of heavy population More representation and machinery be set up to see that seats Are periodically examined and redistributed. A Compromise the political committee s Reso Lution that legislature members and party candidates have pro visor advisory Powers was the watered Down Compromise that resulted from a committee room Battle Over patronage. Under the Union National administration people who had business with government departments dealt with them through the legislature member or the Defeated Union National candidate. Or. Lesage had announced his party s intention to make the legislature member a Law maker not a dispenser of favors and collector of contributions to the party. In his speech saturday he denounced the patronage system and called those who used it parasites and festering he said the party and the government were two different things and the party member must always be a servant of the Public. People dealing with the govern ment should Deal directly with the department concerned he said. More about Africa continued from Page 1 As a Republic South Africa would have to re apply for membership if it wanted to stay in the Commonwealth. Ghana and Malaya both Commonwealth members have started a Boycott of South african products be cause of the country s racial policies. Verwoerd announced after the to the Republic probably be pro claimed next May 31. The prime minister has said he will Lead a delegation to the an Nual conference of Commonwealth prime ministers to try to retain South Africa s membership. Verwoerd maintains his Republic will bring Unity of dutch desc ended afrikaners and eng ish speaking White people Here which the British Crown never minister raps pm Rea prime minister Edmonton son Given by Diefenbaker for withholding fed Oral Grants on highways until the trans Canada Highway is completed was described sunday by Alberta highways minister Gor Don Taylor As the shallowest excuse that i have Ever the prime minister was re ported Friday to have said there will be no further Federal contributions because Quebec has now entered the trans Canada Highway agreement. Or. Taylor said that Ever since collectives in trouble Moscow the official communist party Organ today reported falling production on Many of Russia s collective and state farms. It accused officials of being indifferent to Seri is shortcomings. He took office prime minister Diefenbaker has been trying to excuses for not keeping elec Tion promises. He said that by seizing on the entry of Quebec into the agreement or. Diefenbaker expects to be Able to Dangle the Promise of additional Federal contributions for High ways for another 10 years with out 68 killed violent death took a thanks giving Day off across Eastern Canada but the toll was High in other parts of the country. With Only about 12 hours left in the three Day autumn festival there were to deaths directly attributable to the Holiday East of Quebec province. A Canadian press Survey showed 68 persons died in the period from 6 p. M. Local time Friday to noon Edt today. More about continued from Page 1 in according to Moscow cations disarm now and talk about inspection later. He said Russia would have no alternative but to shoot Down further spy planes. He added in talking about the u-2 spy plane furore there can in International re lations be til sorts of i Grava Toms. Sometimes they can be very Sharp indeed but with the passage of time such relations lose their rough edges Evi Dently this will happen also with the u-2 perhaps significantly Khrushchev said nothing about his Previ ova demand that president Eisenhower apologize because of the u-2 incident before any new sum Mit session Khrushchev was interviewed by television producer David suss kind on the program open end. The program was carried live or on a delayed basis Over More than 250 to and radio stations throughout the United slates. In addition the Canadian broadcast ing corporation the British broadcasting corporation and the australian broadcasting com Mission acquired rights to the telecast. Hundreds disliked show the show touched off protests. Hundreds of viewers phoned the studio to protest Khrushchev s appearance. Other called to com Plain about spot announcements luring the program which extolled the work of radio free Europe and the North Atlantic Khrushchev just got rigid with anger when an aide passed us a note during the show Tell no him about the radio free Surope announcements Susskind said later. Victor Sukhadreva his inter Preter relayed Khrushchev s comment. It was but in a few How dare seconds the soviet Leader calmed Down. Well do anything you like. Be will win. We will Khrushchev told Susskind. Panama rebel May be new ambassador Panama apr. Roberto Arias who tried 17 months ago o overthrow the panamanian government has returned. From smile amid reports he May again e named ambassador to Britain. Arias whose wife is Britain s Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn arrived saturday for talks with Anama s new president Roberto Chiari. Editor Dies London Stewart Jehu 51, former editor ;