Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 29, 1961, Winnipeg, Manitoba In metropolitan Winnipeg Winnipeg free press by Carrier 3sc per week Winnipeg saturday april 29, 1961 single copy Price Loc Forseca cloudiness win blah sunday 0 saturday Vancouver Canary Edmonton is ten Max. 56 3fi is so 48 pc i t to i permit Man. 49 27 25 20 31 3a 27 Ilner. Been ill for free. .65 .02. Nil to. Nil to. To. Late that Al my on sunday except of i Drill it no Salt. Low 24-hour period end inc r site thru la Man. 34 45 35 72 52 36 43 noon 1 30, sum prec. .49 to. Nil .15 nil to. .57 nil Brandon Angeles foil William by Gene Telpner Coffee break Union split bared for the past few years a prominent Winnipeg merchant has been regularly visited by a panhandler asking for Money to buy a meal. Although the visits Are annoying to the businessman he usually gives the Man a Small sum to get rid of him. Recently the businessman who is inclined toward pud Giness went on a strict diet. By the second Day in his own words he was dying of at this critical period of the diet last week the panhandler appeared As usual. This time however he received a different reception. The businessman greeted him like an old Friend took him across the Street to a restaurant and ordered the Best meal in the House for the Down and outer. After the Man ate his fill the merchant then gave him some extra Money. The fellow is probably still wondering about the glad hand but As the businessman explains to his friends for the first time in my life i knew what it meant to be hungry it s a terrible feeling. If i could t eat at least i had the pleasure of watching someone Small return since we mentioned Small cheques being returned As income tax refunds to local people we be been literally swamped with letters on the subject. Mrs. V. H. Nash of 364 Toronto Street writes i have a Cheque i keep for a souvenir of nine cents sent to my husband from the car for retroactive wage and mrs. Evelyn Downie of Tyndall Man., wrote that two years ago she received a five cent refund from income tax. Next year it was t so she added. I had to pay Peter Barren of 1480 Catherine Avenue Weston actually mailed in to Coffee break a Cheque for six cents which he cashed for a local Man. Anyway thanks for your interest and now we d like to bring it to a halt. We hear of All types of hobbies but k. B. Parr a jew Eller living in Indian head sask., has one that s unique. Or. Parr has successfully reared Hawks and crows which have become great pets. But his latest achievement was when he succeeded in hatching out an owl egg. No. He did t sit on it but hatched it in a oven set at Low temperature. Now the Little fellow we think is out of his Shell and is about the size of a Small baby Chick. Notes to you jottings from a reporter s notebook the second annual Rod and custom Auto Rama will be at rink for three Days starting May 4. It s presented by the Winnipeg roadster club with displays of hot rods custom cars antique autos and even go karts. The club by the Way is out to promote Highway safety and Courtesy magazines and pocket novels Are urgently needed by the patients at the Selkirk Hospital for mental diseases. Tie them securely and drop them off at the Grey Goose bus garage 301 Burnell Street open on sunday. By the Way All next week is mental health week so we urge you to support the Canadian mental health association in the fight against mental illness Grey Street arts men s club Pancake supper is at Grey Street United Church next wednesday. We gave the wrong address earlier this week we Admire the initiative of a Small Winnipeg lad who made himself a Bank out of a cheese Box. After finishing his task he put a sign along Side it that read Piggy Bank. Help a poor in cent boy earn Money. Put in 4c needless to say his parents took the hint latest Coffee break Silver dollars going to mrs. Phyllis Popham. 44 Frederick Avenue mrs. G. A. Mcewen. Dale apartments and mrs. A. Bradley Portage la Prairie. A hectic week if your Home is like ours it has been a pretty hectic week verging on the Edge of panic with exams under Way in the schools. We took some Solace in Reading Eric w. Johnson s very Fine Book called How to live through Junior High school believe me it s a big help. Or. Johnson says quite firmly that you should never do Homework for children. If you he writes err on the Side of giving too Little help rather than too then he makes a very Good Point what you remember about multiplication of fractions or parts of speech May be so different from what is taught these clays that All you will do is to create another thing that reassured us was or. Johnson s advice not to expect our children to be perfect. I suppose it s Good and natural that we Hope our children will be better than we Are but let s face facts and recognize that they May turn out to be worse than we Are or at least very different and less successful. Certainly human history does not confirm the View that each generation excels the preceding anyway like most parents we have survived the week but about wednesday we were beginning to have our doubts. Thanks or. Johnson you be been a very big assist in this trying time. Hold it please although most Winni Eggers Are interested in the acad Emy awards Hollywood is actually too far away to create too much of a local stir. However things will be different in the near future with some local Academy awards of a sort in the offing. So far it s still talk but Steve Solilo a Csc photographer is organizing a new group called the press photographers association which intends to hand out awards. We re still just thinking about said Steve but we Hope to create awards for the most co operative photographic subject of the year and by the same Token for the most the first meeting of the infant association will be thursday at Steve s House. He claims there Are about 25 eligible for membership in the City. _ last minute notes Duffrin historical society of car Man will present an album of memories variety concert next Friday and saturday 8 ., at Carman memorial Hall still in Carman the Carman memorial Hospital auxiliary annual Tea set for next saturday to 5 in the memorial Hall Norm Dant of Csc chalked up a perfect cribbage hand thursday night. Welcome to club 29, plan Early Start on technology school miners Magazine i charges attempt to disrupt local a charge that an under cover attempt to disrupt the membership of a mine workers Union local at Thompson Man., is made in the current Issue of mine Mill Herald official Organ of the International Union of mine Mill and smelter workers a complaint appears to be made against the mine Mill s the United Steelwork cars of America Don Cox president of local 1026, mine Mill reports from Thompson that an executive of the Board of local 598 of mine Mill at Sudbury ont., and an other top officer of local 598, were in Thompson recently working against the interests of the Thompson local. He claims these men had been associating with the steelworkers. Visited Camp we at Thompson have recently been subjected to a visit by the vice president Don Mcnabb of local 598, and executive Board member Leo or. Cox says. The two were there to discredit local 1026 and Wetre in the Camp two Days be fore being discovered by local i026 s officers he says. Local 598 of Sudbury is the local that has split the mine Union by asking to secede from mine Mill and join the Cana Dian labor Congress. Mine Mill is not allowed in Csc because of alleged communist leadership in the other local at Sudbury and in its locals across Canada. Local 598, which has broken Friendly relations with the other locals and elected a new president Donald Gillis is believed trying to get the Thompson miners to Side with the Csc joining move. Was Csc link the Don Cox article says the executive members Mcnabb and Legault had been associating with Joe Rankin a senior official of United steelworkers the mine Union for jurisdictional purposes in Csc. Or. Cox says this is the same Rankin who intervened and succeeded in delaying the establishment of our Union in the first or. Cox is re Ferring to last year when the two mine Union organizations were battling for the certification rights at Thompson for International Nickel co. Workers. Mine Mill won. Or. Cox says the officers and membership of local 1026 at a meeting april 6 condemned the actions of or. Mcnabb and or. Legault in attempting to Dis credit local 1026. Or. Cox asks Assurance that further interference is not forthcoming. One of these designs May be used to Mark greater Winnipeg streets that Are being taken Over by metro on monday. Pert metro receptionist Lonia Johnston 20, of 721 Walker Avenue put them on display Friday. Metro is sponsoring a contest to find a Crest that will be used on metro vehicles As Well As streets. Metro gets 159 Miles of roads on monday plea made for free Legal Aid Public defender policy urged to help indigents by Laszlo Bastro Janszky an official of the Law society of Manitoba Friday launched another plea to the provincial government to introduce the Public defender system Here As the Long feared snags began to loom in Manitoba s free Legal Aid scheme in the the last few weeks. Protest Early closing the Federal government will pay 75 per cent of the Cost of the s3h million Manitoba Institute of technology to be built in Brooklands it was announced Friday. The building which will provide instruction in medical technology Library technology Engineer ing craftsmanship and other courses will receive Federal Aid on condition that it is completed by the end of March 1963. Construction is expected to Start Early this summer. Education minister Stewart Mclean said the project will be tailored along the lines of Ryer son Institute in Toronto and the technological Institute in Calgary. The school will offer Post High school training in Trade and vocational classes along with Semi professional and technical courses for those who have completed Grade 11 or 12. I the project which will a com a Iodate about pupils More than the present enrolment at the Manitoba technical Institute on Portage was first announced in the throne speech Early in the 1961 Legisla Tive session. However no details were Given at that time. Metro Council thursday refer red to its planning committee the government s request the Institute on a 122-acre site next to Brookland cemetery. Last week metro turned Down a proposal that a million Indus trial development be approved for the site. Winnipeg architects Moody Moore and partners started work i on the plans earlier this week. By Charles Thompson there will be no formal fan fare monday when metro takes Over greater Winnipeg s main streets but to councillor ber Nie Wolfe it will be a Milestone. It ends nearly a year s work of slow and steady Progress which will Likely set the Pace for the near future. Metro takes Over jurisdiction j of 139 roads measuring 159.71 Miles in 14 cities and municipalities. But said councillor Wolfe they Are not the Only ones. Others Are being As far As motorists Are concerned there will be no imme Diate sign contest probably one of the first notice Able changes will be the growth of a Small sign marking the thoroughfare As being under the authority of metro. The provincial government Marks its roads with a Buffalo. Federal highways Are distinguishable by Green Leafs. Metro is sponsoring a contest to find an Emblem or Crest for its own use. There will be no official take Over of the streets from local councils because the takeover is contained automatically in the provincial Bill 62 the metro Bolilan corporation of greater Winnipeg act. We Are taking Over about the same mileage As we proposed hit by car boy 4, injured Curtis Cowling 4, of 652 Gert rude Avenue suffered a Frac tured Collarbone and concussion in a traffic Accident at Friday. At Misericordia Hospital his condition was reported As Good. The boy was crossing the Street in front of his Home police said when he was hit. By an Auto driven by Howard Mutton 21 Eastgate. Matas denies teachers paid incorrectly Roy Matas chairman of the Winnipeg school Board Friday denied charges by the Winnipeg division association of the Manitoba teachers society that the Board is failing to pay 500 teach ers according to the salary j or. Matas said such a state i ment was incorrect. Every teacher on our staff is being paid according to the sche a. W. Davie president of the division association announced earlier that the teachers had asked the minister of education to establish a Board of Abr Itra Tion in its salary dispute with the Board. Or. Matas also denied or. Davie s statement that the teach ers offered further concessions at a conciliation meeting with the Board. There were no further con Cessions offered by the teachers thursday he said. Sing at Hospital forty five members of the Winnipeg chapter of the society for the preservation and encourage ment of Barber shop quartet singing in America Sang wednes Day in the closing program of entertainment for patients and staff at Selkirk mental Hospital. The chorus was directed by r. L. Wells. Tom Mcewen was master of ceremonies. Last said councillor Wolfe. There have been some substitutes and exchanges at the requests of he local govern in most cases an amicable agreement had been reached in the cities and municipalities. Traffic pattern As the traffic pattern emerges metro will be faced with the problem of taking on additional said councillor Wolfe. As the perimeter Root is completed the connecting roots will have to be he added Wiir first problem will be to attempt to maintain this Core of traffic arteries in As High a Standard of maintenance As possible. This will be one of the main tasks of streets maintenance and inspection or. Wolfe said he will see that some Means will be found of coming up with an alternative for existing Hole Patching meth ods. Pol Hole repairs he said that in some areas Asphalt is shovelled into pot holes and tramped Down. This is hardly he said. The number and Miles of streets being surrendered by the municipalities no. Miles Winnipeg 301 98.62 St. Boniface 8 11.24 St. James 9 12.41 East Kildonan 4 4.75 St. Vital 3 10 West Kildonan 3 3.27 fort Garry 1 2.37 Tuxedo 2 2.04 Charleswood 1 3.81 North Kildonan 1 2.58 Transcona 3 5.71 Brooklands 1 .61 Rosser 1 .31 Assiniboia 1 Harold St. G. Stubbs Secre tary of the Law society said in an interview that providing free Legal Aid Foi indigent persons accused of crimes under the Crim Inal code of Canada or a Federal statute is getting to be a greater problem Day after Day. The requests from indigent prisoners for free Legal Aid is in creasing in great proportions since it was introduced Here. We have Only so Many lawyers of Are appearing in City magistrate s courts regularly and we just can t keep Call ing them Day after Day. Their work is he said. We have informed the provincial government numerous times of the fast growing prob Lem of providing free Legal Aid and we advised them that the Public defender system should be introduced in or. Stubbs said. Started in 59 the Public defender is a Law yer paid by the government to represent and defend persons charged with criminal offences j the free Legal Aid system for i indigent persons was introduced Here in 1959 following a meeting of the Law society. A Resolution that persons charged with of fences be made aware of the Aid offered out of a Pool of lawyers willing to act in such cases was then passed. At present when the accused appears in magistrate s court. He is asked by the Crown prosecutor if he wants a lawyer appointed for him free of charge providing the accused cannot afford to hire his own lawyer. If the accused requests free Legal Aid it is marked on the information by the court clerk who in turn notifies the Law society. The accused after the request is usually Given a one week remand without plea to await the appointment of a Law society lawyer. Noted Friday the first notice of the develop ing snags came from magistrate m. H. Carton Friday. A Man charged with obtaining a late Model car on false pretences appeared in City magistrate s court april 4 and asked for free Legal Aid. The Man appeared in police court Friday 24 Days after he made the request and was sentenced to 11 months in jail after the Law society lawyer appeared on his behalf finally. In another Case an 18-year-old girl who was charged with Forg ing and uttering was held at the Rupert Avenue police station Al most two weeks before she was interviewed by a lawyer appointed by the Law society. Eaton s present Brief urging that at Mark the amount of s14.164 sent in to Headquarters this week brings the red Cross Campaign for funds in Manitoba to the three Quarter Mark. The total now stands at should be repealed the Winnipeg Branch of the t. Eaton co. Has added its voice in protest Over the City s Early i closing bylaw at present under i study by police City Legal Heads and retail operators. The bylaw declared invalid in City magistrate s court earlier this month was discussed Fri Day at a subcommittee meeting of the health and welfare com Mittee. At that time joint proposals by police and the City solicitor s office were explained to lie com Mittee and various retail groups representing merchants in the City. Workable the police City suggestions were made in an Effort to streamline the controversial regulations called unworkable by police and some retailers. The representative organizations were asked to take the proposals Back to their respective groups and outline any objections or additions in a week s Lime before the committee. Eaton s Brief presented Fri Day to the committee called the bylaw difficult to interpret and apply unenforceable and one which should be a spokesman for the firm said his company s experience in other centres across the nation has indicated such bylaws Are out dated. Served purpose he added that the restrictions have served the purpose for which Urey were originally required to ensure fair employment practices for staffs. The spokesman suggested the opening and closing hours in the City should be left to the judgment of the individual re acting chief Constable George blow this month told the sub committee both Eaton s and tie Hudson s Bay co. Were Violat ing the now defunct bylaw by operating Beauty Parlours on week end evenings after most such operations had closed for the Day in Winnipeg. Something a mom Send your problem to Henry High flying free press reporter Pat Clayton has received her wings. She received a private pilots licence wednesday from the department of transport. Despite being afraid of air planes before she started. Miss Clayton excelled herself Lait fall after being assigned to do a series on learning in Fly. This is the Story of Canada s newest youngest columnist. He is 11 years Young he is Henry Makow of Rockell Heights Ottawa but he in t that formal. If you Are a Mother or a father and have a child prob Lem just Call him Henry and he will try and solve the prob Lem for you. That s Henry s idea. Lots of people write columns for newspapers advising parents on child care. But All of them Are grown up people. How can they understand a child s prob lems. 1 am a child and i can j understand children s problems. Why should t i write a column advising becomes famous he wrote to the Ottawa Jour Nal offering his idea. It was accepted. Henry suddenly found himself in the limelight. He appeared on two television programs. He was interviewed on a coast to coast radio network he was signed up by the Toronto Telegram news service for syndication through out Canada and the United states. Henry in t going to be a daily columnist after All at 11 he has school and other demands on his time but once a week he will appear in print. His first column appears in the Winnipeg free press today. Being a columnist by the Way was t Henry s first Choice. He first tried for a Job in a filling station but was turned Down because he was too Small 4 foot 10 inches 75 writ ing a column was Liis second Choice. His size did t matter then. Why was Henry so eager o get a Job savings plan Well he had visited Carleton University with his father and decided that when the time came he would like to go there. Fine his father agreed so Long As Henry worked and saved for his education. Henry is working and presumably being Henry has set up a savings plan. He has a couple of rules to Fol Low. 1. His writing must be strictly his own. Neither his parents nor his editor will make changes in them 2. He will remain a columnist Only so Long As readers want him. If you Are a Reader who wants him providing always that you Are a Mother or a father with a child problem Send him a question to answer. Henry realizes that As a columnist he must be professional a newspaper term meaning he accepts these Rul Ings As part of his contract. But Henry nature being what it is will not be always 11 years old. He was asked will happen to your column when you get too old to write Henry had already thought that one out he answered without hesitation i be got a kid Bro ther you Honry had also thought out what Jie wanted his column called. The first column appears in the free press comic pages to Day ;