Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 17, 1960, Winnipeg, Manitoba Teach twice the readers in greater Winnipeg with free press want ads Winnipeg free press Comer 3sc per week monday october 17, 1960 single copy Price 10c Clear Lulf eve eff. A Diu thin w Sawany m few Toady Costi Auma co9l. Wladi Kurteff inn tight at Toful Iffat 45 Tuc Ainy. 48-Honi period Prev. Vancouver of .03 edition ton .13 Rte Lna 26 to. Brandon to. Angeles fort William 61 Tuwa to. New York 58 .56 labor wants inquiry into steel strike federation will ask minister to Start Industrial probe the Manitoba federation of labor executive has decided to make a formal application to the provincial government for an Industrial into the current steel us Ike the free press Learned monday. Joseph Jimmy fames presi Dent of the federation said Sun Day Nihof. At a closed meeting of strikers at Selkirk Man., that he would ask the minister of labor formally for such an in Quiry but did t Hope to have an answer before thursday. Or. James told the 350 strikers from Manitoba rolling Mill that he had already spoken on the matter to labor minister Jack Carroll but had received no answer to his personal request. To speaking to the strikers on be subject was Peter my , secretan treasurer of is in Dora Ion. The formal a a inst decision follows a Oiree Day convention of the Federau n Here during which the strike by members of United steelworkers of America was mentioned several times by delegates. Len Stevens steelworkers supervisor asked the federation to request that an Industrial inquiry be started immediately to study the walkout is Manitoba where some men have struck at Selkirk and at two Winnipeg plants Dominion Bridge. They went out aug. 25 with the com Pany s fight other plants to action at made its decision the government at did t decide or the convention but second Aqueduct opened it guarantees metro up to Gallons daily a daily water Supply of 000 Gallons Tot greater Winnipeg was assured at noon monday As mayor Stephen Juba District Board chairman unveiled a plaque to of fic ill open the second Branch Aqueduct. The is part of a p to of improved facilities that includes Winnipeg s new w. D. Hurst pumping station and two reservoirs. Until the new Aque a dict was Fin. Wished the greater crud Deli to approach once in an executive meeting sunday night. A sunday movies favored the motion picture Industry should be allowed to pick up the sunday entertainment Dollar along with other amusement organizations Manitoba federation of la Bor delegates decided sunday the Kozai Alexandra hotel. The Mil at tie close of its three May convention voted Over where tingly in favor of competitive sunday movies. The present of movies in the Sabbath said Maurice Gillman local 299, my Titi picture projectionists was in discriminatory and unfair on the theatres. I it is our carefully considered he Tow the 200 delegates that the theatres should not be discriminated against but should on an equal basis with Tele vision and sporting events com 000 Gallons of water in any Une Day. An capacity Aqueduct , the water to wish in 13 Miles of the City but from there the gawd pipe had Only a capacity. The new Aqueduct which parallels the 13-Miie pipe built in 1919, posts tee daily delivery capacity to Gallons. Water District engineers believe1 the new pipe will end the need for All watering rationing in Winnipeg when it has been complemented by unproved trunk Mains and distribution facilities through out metro. It is estimated the double Aque duct can Supply the Peak daily needs of a City of people. The plaque unveiled by Winni Peg s mayor monday gives a Short history of the Aqueduct and names members of the gawd Board and District engineers. The plaque is located on the West Side of the Pembina Highway near the University Cut off. Ruling for the amusement Dol Lar or. Gillman who is also an executive member of Winnipeg and District labor Council asserted that the Public was demanding variety in the entertainment Field on sunday. He said opinions of the past must be changed and people should move with tha times. The press had he said informed read ers that the employees of the motion picture Industry were not in favor of sunday movies. The parties responsible for these he said have Axtt consulted us and we do not know the sources of authority if any for such assertions at this four year sentence Jock Trout 22, a Cree Indian trapper of god s Lake Narrows was sentenced to four years in Penitentiary when he was convicted in court of Queen s Bench on a charge of rape evidence before or. Justice f. M. Bastin showed the offence occurred Las May 4 at god s Lake Narrows w Aen Trout visited a woman in her homa Aiter he had been shot in air suspect East Kildonan police fired above the head of a fleeing sus sect Early sunday bringing him o a Quick Hajt. He was charged with attempted breaking and entering. The Man appeared in Provin Cial police court monday and was remanded without plea until wednesday. Police a Man was seen loitering near a drug store on Senderson Highway and fled As police approached. When the shot was fired he stopped immediately waited for police to Over Ake him. By thousands or fish mysterious contamination week ago new Industrial waste May be cause mysterious contamination of the red Elver has killed tens of thousands of fish in the seven Days it was Learned monday at Lockport. Goi scientists who have been working on the situation for a week find that it is due to a c and shortage i be River but fisheries Branch spokesmen say Uliey have not Yei determined what is reducing the oxygen con tent of the water. Capt. John Hokanson master of the s Andrew s locks at Lockport said that some new form of Industrial waste May hive this effect. He said that government in i Here s one of of he ship that never a War. Wilson a cast member of or. Roberts was the most seriously injured in accidents that plagued the cast of the is Nioba theatre Centre play last week. With or. Wissi Mac stage manager Stuart Marwick who took Wilson s part at tile minute and Mise Riim a Hospital nurse Olive Stefanson. Wilson suffered a broken Klip and three other were Hart in the line of on peaceful warship four actors wounded9 by Gene Telpner the Good ship akp01 which sailed peacefully across this stage of or. Roberts at the Dominion theatre last week was still counting its Canial ties monday. Although the play is about a ship Chat never saw a Battle actors Larry Wilson Perry Rosemont Gordon Sundi i and Ken Pauli were wounded in most seriously injured was Veteran actor Wilson who is in Misericordia Hospital with a broken right hip. Rosemond has his left leg in a cast with a Green stick fracture Sundin has a rib separation while Pauli the Lead in the play is nursing a battered nose. Fight scene All except Wilson were injured in the acting fight scene of or. Although Pauli was t in the fight. He caught a left to the nose when he ventured too close to the action. Wilson s injury which is expected to incapacitate him for nearly three months occurred Friday night less than five minutes before curtain time. The actor is a physical Cul Ture enthusiast and just be fore curtain time was doing some flips on a ship s rail about six feet above the ground. On the final flip he lost his grip and landed heavily on his hip. I thought i had just temporarily paralysed a nerve but then i realized something had he said from his Hospital bed monday. None of the cast knew any thing had happened until the curtain went up. When Wil son s plight was made known stage manager Stuart mar Wick of Montreal who has never acted professionally was Hoase destroyed i Blaze that spread from Rubbi Svi sunday i House and garage in fort Garry. Damage to Home at 1057 Lasalle Road if estimated at it was occupied by John diver Ais. Police say nigh winds the flames from a garbage fins behind the garage. No one was injured. Chest total now at 44% of objective another was added to the Community Chest pot wer the weekend bringing the Campaign to 44 per cent of its objective. The Chest now has of its goal. Standings of the 13 divisions remained the same Over the weekend but the schools and universities division under the honorary chairmanship of mayor George Suttie of East Kildonan pulled up to the so per cent Mark in the Campaign. Mayor Stephen Juba honorary chairman of the textiles division remained in second place with 27.5 per cent mayor Thomas b. Findlay of St. James boards and commissions third 20.5 per cent mayor Ray Fennell of fort Garry provincial Federal and civic governments fourth with 17.7 per cent and mayor waiter a newter of Brooklands mechanical and Engineer ing fifth with 16 per cent. Others in order of standing Are mayor Thomai Copeland Transcona residential 10.5 per cent mayor j. G. Van Belles him St. Boniface advertising 8.1 per cent Reeve a. E. Christ Iansen Vest St. Paul retail 5.6 per cent mayor Cecil Lainon Tuxedo wholesale and hardware 4.8 per cent mayor John Dick son North Kildonan food and beverage 4.4 per cent Reeve Fred Hayward. Charleswood Auto and transportation 2.1 per cent. Mayor c. N. Kushner of West Kildonan construction has raised the grand total of and mayor Fred Brennan St. Vital car and car still less. Told you re Saxl Marwick i sort of knew the lines from being at All the rehearsals and the next thing i knew they were to sing me into a Sailor suit i did t even get a Chance to change my striped a Between scenes Marwick was Given makeup and Meari Wilson hobbled to a phone to Call his own ambulance Sines no one realized he was badly Hurt. I eve ii called my own Doc Wilson said monday. On the floor Rosemond who came to win Nijjer from Toronto to take a role in the play was scuff Ling with other sailors when he apparently lost his footing and fell to the floor. He ignored the for two nights but by the Middle of the week it became painful enough to re quire medical attention and a Lejca cast which took Rose mond out of the show on thursday. 3undin was being hurled through the sir by two sail ors during the fight. A third Sailor was poised to catch him. He did t. Instead Sun Din landed on the stage floor but despite a painful rib separation continued in the play until the last night. First miss Wilson has been in hundreds of plays and had never missed the Irmanee up to the time of his Friday mishap. Funny he said a Miinch of my friends from Bau Phin drove in to see me in the play. There was no announce ment made that something had happened to me and i Ima Gine they Are still wondering Al out my not being on the monday morning Manitoba tiie atre Centre business Man Ager producer Tom Hendry was making the rounds of or. Roberts casualties. He brought Larry an autographed program with greetings from the rest of the cast. Said or. Hendry we did t dream a. Ship that stayed away from action would be responsible for so Many injuries. It s a Good thing it was t a Story of a fighting Spector Are searching Winnipeg Riverside plants for the cause. The condition became evident a Little More than a week ago the Captain said when dead fish by the thousand began to appear every morning in the locks. He said that some were still alive coming to the Edge of the water for air. All species each Day after the Sun rises he snid the oxygen Content of the water seems to be restored and by mid Day the dead fish have been flushed downstream and eaten Fay. Gulls. He said that provincial biologists and worked on the situation last week and have now carried their inquiry to Winnipeg. Raw sewage in the River would cause it he said and Many Winnipeg suburbs dump directly into the River. But the fact that it developed so suddenly indicates an Industrial cause. The condition seems to affect every Type of species minnows Pickerel Sauger Goldye and tul Ibee. Swailes says Union Power Over rated the Trade Union movement of North America has smaller membership today in relation to the Worl Force than it had in the a labor Leader told 200 delegates to the annual Conven Tion of the Manitoba federation of labor Here Over the weekend. Donovan Swailes first vice president of the federation an swering charges by management that labor is becoming cd Power Ful said that in ratio to pre War Days the movement was not As in unemployment year com pared Lasi year at this per or. Swailes said the provincial government was shoving the whole Burden of Winter unemployment onto the and that Winnipeg Way one of the few Large cities not undertaking slum clearance and re develop Strong As people think. Now we be bean told much about the Power Trade unions and it s True unions have increased their Power but we hear very Little about the increased Power of or Swailes said. Not keeping Pace v by Lew people make a head line Issue of the i creasing pow ers of he said. Or. Swailes pointed out unions had not been keeping Pace in growth of the labor Force. Said there was a great danger in the repetition of the idea that labor had such Powar today because it will generate among unionists a feeling of complacency. A Don t want to be regarded As a peddle of or. Swailes said but i think All of us who hold positions of respond the Federal government was lashed on too this time by William Dodge executive vice president of the Cana labor Congress. Help sought or. Dodge said that unemployment was looked at by the conservative government As something that will go away if you doa t look at this attitude would get the government and the people no where. If you cannot produce a growing he said then you Are going to have in he urged that the Federal government help Industry to expand if private investment was unable to do so. Government must be prepared to spend Large sums to supplement sagging he said. Schools universities and other Foj acts Shouh be built he said Lio ii Usu Quai Iii a visibility in Trade Union movement unemployment which j Ohio in of Fin would be guilty of criminal neg ii if we ailed to take note of the changes rapidly taking lashes e03lin said Premier Roblin in a radio speech had said Marvel Lous developments had been Tak ing place in the province but ignored the 50 per cent increase this Winter will be worse than at any time since the Jumble correction the Surprise answer to Jumble Piulle no. 1689 was a Bank Blank and not a Blank Blank As stated in saturday s list of ans 200 save farm from grass fire More than 200 volunteers sunday fought a Prairie fire near Erick son 42 Miles North of Brandon to save farm build Ings while ramp were stopping traffic North West of the town because of other fires in the District. Erickson s fire chief Ken Gra Ham said monday he thought most of the fires were Tuider control although not All were out. A brisk wind sunday fanned the flames in a goo acre is Atli Erickson driving tiie fire Over tinker dry foliage and for a Lime threatening buildings owned by Joseph Zatylny. The volunteers managed to con. Tool the lire before it came close to the farm buildings or to a num Ber of filled rc1vip, meanwhile Weri Stop Ping traffic on provincial High Way 45. North and West of Erick son or. Said. Traffic was being tuned Back East of Al pins Lone As Well. No representatives of the Provin Cial forestry service could be reached for comment monday . Sil race like iceberg by Warner Koyer candidates for Winnipeg City Council Are conducting an ice Berg Campaign with nine tenths of their Effort unseen and Unsung by the general Public. A Veteran City Hall observer told this week by a colleague that the civic Campaign was a Dull one replied that every civic Campaign is Dull in Winnipeg this one is no except Arpin seeking advice the counsel for the Manitoba strike inquiry commission Maur ice Arpin said monday he was getting Legal advice on statements which were made about him and the commission at the Manitoba federation of labor convention last weekend. The vice president of the federation Sam Goodman was reported As saying the commission Tetsell was and made references to a shyster and to during outburst that had to be halted by the latest. Ference chairman. Or. Arpin when asked about the speech said he could make Only one official anyone who acts for himself has a fool for a or. Arpin agreed Liat his com ment meant he would seek other Legal advice to find out whether or not the Comuni Scioti or he personally had been defined by the address. The commission is not sitting this week. Commissioner or. Justice g. E. Tritsch Ler declared an indefinite recess allow the transcription of tape recordings. The commission will resume hear Ings at Brandon. Exception or not the campaigns for the mayoralty and 11 seats on City Council have caused a scarcely discernible Ripple in City affairs. Staff of the City clerk s office preparing ballots and other election equipment seem More concerned about Vot ing Day than the candidates themselves. In wards 1 and 2 the Only electioneering under Way seems to consist of teas a few discreet Campaign a posters and a slim assortment of pamphlets and cards mailed to voters to candidates. Ward 3 quiet in Ward 3, generally the of More colourful candidates All has been quiet. There have been no candidates with Campaign Headquarters in a local Pool Hall As has charges of unfair electioneering no cries of foul in Short none of the trappings of an electioneering slug est. The mayoralty race in Winnipeg has been if anything less exciting even than the Aldermani Campaign. Winnipeg s 1960 mayoralty candidates mayor Stephen Juba and former Alderman Stan carried Are regarded As among the most colourful municipal politicians in City history. Yet neither has made any move thus far to pro Voke Public interest in their con erection of steel at air terminal to begin Friday erection of for Winni Peg s Crew air terminal building will Friday he Federal of transport has announced. Excavation of lie site is almost completed and most of the footings sunk. Construction on the pow or plan1 building will also begin shortly. Or. Carrick made be columns just prior to Nomina Tion Day when he released a 10 print platform As the basis of his Campaign. He was quoted again m oct. 5 when he filed his formal nomination papers. Since then his Campaign has been marked by Complete pub Lic silence. A word mayor Juba Seeling his third term is mayor of Winnipeg has yet to Issue a single line or statement concerning his Candi Dacy. He has announced no plat form made no printed to Campaign literature. During the first week after Nom nations closed mayor Juba was Cut of the City. He returned to Lis office wednesday after noon for a police commission meeting but on Friday morning he was out of the City again. This is a gentleman s Campaign said one observer Friday. Talk boys Are fairly certain who is going to be elected apart Froid. One or two Aldermani seat you could get 10-to-l on Jie results in every poll. There s no excitement because the candidates believe the elec Tion is already Churchill residents charge Buck passing Over Arena site Church la Man. Special the Chi Iridill Community Arena association has been trying for the past eight to St set building an Arena Lierck but sofa a government officials Haven t been Able to make up their minds owns the site. The association has raised for the project. It has a site picked out in Munck Park but eight months of correspondence with the Federal and provincial govern ments has so far failed to unearth a department which will adroit owning it. A resident called it the Best piece of government Buck passing that has been seen Here the committee has now taken its to Robert Simpson my Lor Churchill. They cited this re Cord of futile negotiations feb. 20, 1960 a letter was written to the town planning com Mittee Churchill for a site for an Arena and suggesting Munck Park. April the town planning com Mittee advised us thai they would Contact the lands Branch in Winni Peg asking for the Ite for the Arena. April the Churchill town to the unincorporated Urban Dis planning committee wrote or. Council asking for Munck w. Gyles lands Branch asking for site. April 26 Munck Par s for an or. Gyles replied that Munck Park is controlled by the Harbor Board and that the lands Branch had no interest in it. May the Harbor Board in armed us they have no interest in Munck Park. May 31 a letter was written to or. E. The Pas ask ing if he could advise us who has the authority to give us permission to build an Arena on Munck Park. June 21 a letter received from or. E. Batchelor advising us that Munck Park is inside the Boundary of the local government District of Churchill. July 22 a letter was written free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . In the free press build ing include Board room no. 1, Winnipeg Council of women Board room no. 2, Cor nation Kennel club club room free press Bridge club. Stirk for an Arena site. J. E. Ingebrigtsen chairman of the Uduc advised that Munck Park was not Whin the boundaries of the local govern ment District of Churchill and they did not know who was responsible for the Park. September or. J. E. Inge Brigtsen advised that the depart ment of mines and natural re sources Ottawa is the owner of Munck Park. Sept. 12 a letter was written to the department of mines and natural resources lands Branch Ottawa requesting permission to buy or lease Munck Park for an Arena. Sept. 30 a letter was received from the department of mines and natural resources informing us that they can find no department of the Federal government who owns this 1 so after some eight Mont Lis the Arena committee is still Back j where it started. This is certainly an Odd Situa thay told or. Simpson. So far the my has t come up with the answer to it ;