Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 2, 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba In metropolitan Winnipeg Winnipeg free press by Carrier 35c per week Winnipeg Friday february 2, 1962 single copy Price Loc forecast 2sr ,5t saturday 15. Temperatures for 24-h Max. Min. Free. Vancouver 50 4s winds West is tomorrow. Tank fit Jur period ending a 10. High m. Friday min. Proc. -9 .04 -24 to. -7 .05 11 to. 54 As 8 .01 16 Edmonton 37 .02 36 24 Ilio l 4 1 10 los Angeles Minneapolis new York 77 73 9 fort William new movie theatre for Polo Park no Corn no Popcorn policy reversal in Post to trend the first motion picture theatre to be built in More than two decades in greater Winnipeg is planned for Polo Park and when completed will specialize in Good limited seating and no Popcorn. To be built by the new world theatre company the new movie House represents a reversal of a trend in Winnipeg where existing theatres have been converted into j Bowling alleys supermarkets or have Hung out for Sale signs j since the Advent of television. Seats 250 the new theatre will be located 2 Hurt in City mishaps two Winnipeg men Are in Winnipeg general Hospital suffering from injuries they received when they were involved in two Separ ate Industrial accidents thursday morning. Reinhard Friedrich 31, of 2571 Marjorie Street an employee of Kleinfelder construction was believed to have been overcome by Carbon monoxide fumes As he in the basement of an existing building at Polo Park. It will have two studios with a seating capacity of 250. The Man behind the new Ven Ture Leonard Stone could not be reached for comment Friday morning but it was Learned that the new theatre will be devoted to what were described As bet Ter Type movies. It will not be a private the atre but will be open to the pub Lic. However in keeping with the Type of movies to be shown the new theatre will not have a pop Corn Concession. Bids for the new Enterprise j Fri Eulrich who was using my be open Ruil feb. 20 Are i ass Msj su1s 8. Socrates and was taken to Hospital by fire City building authorities said i department Rescue truck. His con project represented the edition is reported As fairly Good. Injured in the other Accident was Wilmar Ross 39, of 1160 College Avenue an employee of building products limited. Police said or. Ross was standing beside a Fork lift truck carrying a Load of 300 pounds when it was struck by another truck tipping the Load onto his left leg. I or. Ross was taken to Hospital j by police ambulance suffering a fracture to his leg. He is reported in Good condition. First new movie theatre to be built in greater Winnipeg in the j past 25 years. Two of the last movie houses to be built have already been converted to other this loveable Little tyke today spelled doom for Manitoba s Farmers not to mention its Urban summer lovers at least if old superstitions Are to be Given credence. The groundhog came out of his Winter Den took one look at the blazing Sun above him and the lengthening Shadow on the ground and went Back to bed for six weeks. A a to a a a groundhog sees Shadow bad weather to continue iy2-Miu school tax Rise indicated for Winnipeg in 62 local trustees expect boost in provincial government Grants an estimated in Mill increase in the Winnipeg tax rate is expected this year to bring in a record schools Levy of this jump Over last year s Levy will bring the schools tax rate to 31 Mills. These figures were revealed a special Board meeting Law on closing asked University Art show to feb. 171 an exhibition of constructivist Art which combines an interest in mathematics the use of modern materials and the integration of Art with architecture is now on display at the University j of Manitoba. J the exhibit British constructivist Art will be shown in the University s Library exhibition Centre feb. 17. I the show will include work by some of the Best known artists j in this Field which began to develop in England in 1951. Work by Victor Pasmore John Ernst Stuart Gilbert Anthony Hill and Kenneth and Mary mar tin will be on display. The exhibition organized by the Institute of contemporary arts in London is travelling to museums and Art centres throughout the United states and Canada under the auspices of the american federation of arts. Farmers and agricultural officials normally hold no grudge against the weather office. In fact most of the time they would find it difficult to get along without the services of the Public forecaster. Today however they were wishing the beleaguered offi Cial bad Cess As sunny skies overtook the morning s Clouds threatening another Long six weeks of wintry blasts and yet another bad crop year. All this animosity towards the hapless Weatherman stems from the fact that Friday is groundhog Day the Day when must beautify car wreck site Alliance Francaise r. W. Walters will speak to the Alliance Francaise of Mani Toba at the University women s club 54 Westgate at . Feb. 7. He will talk about romanesque architecture in France. Or. Wilder Penfield of Montreal will deliver the Alexander Gibson memorial lecture monday ., at the Manitoba medical col lege auditorium on the subject of University Medicine. The american born surgeon became director of the Mont real neurological Institute in 1934 and retired from the Post in 1960. Since retiring he has devoted his time to writing and studying Educa Tion problems in North am Erica. The Public is invited to the lecture. Metro s planning committee moved thursday afternoon to make sure another graveyard of old cars was t started in Brooklands. Brooklands Secretary treasurer Douglas Locheed said two Auto wreckers in the area have been taken into court recently in an attempt to clean up the area. If we can t get the ones we have now to rectify the situation we Don t want he said. He and Brooklands councillor a. J. Maskell agreed with metro s planners Only after it was decided restrictions would be imposed and enforced by metro. The property involved is East of Highway 6 and North of High land Avenue. The planning com Mittee was asked to rezone it from agricultural to Light Indus trial. The applicant Frank Jaeger had planned to put an eight foot Fence around the property so operations could not be seen but agreed to further restrictions. From past performances of other Auto wreckers the Council is very said councillor Maskell after1 hearing or. Jaeger s presentation to the commit tee. Metro planners Are to meet with the owner and Brooklands officials to plan the restrictions that will include landscaping in front of the property. Or. Jaeger said he Felt that if he was being made to abide by metro restrictions the Munici Pality should make attempts to clean up its own he explained that across the Street from his property a Muni Cipal dump smells is infested with rats and smokes when it was supposed to be operated As a land fill operation. But or. Locheed maintained that within the last several weeks the dump has been cleaned coloured James reminds workers no Gravy if pot empty free swinging debate highlighted sessions of Canada s first Post War labor management area con Ference being held in the nor Quay building Here Friday. Keynote of the panel discus Sions was the speech by Joseph Jimmy James executive Secretary of the Manitoba federa Tion of labor. Or. James had some harsh words for management it was lagging behind he said in labor management com Mittee work. But he had equally critical comments for labor. Labor groups should realize if they Are going to keep asking for increases in wages there must be something in the he said. Therefore it s impera Tive that labor and management get closer together not fear each other but have a closer Community of interests. If the employer goes broke the worker is dispossessed from his government planners trying to distribute secondary Industry across the province have a big responsibility too or. James said. If industries were going to close plants in Winnipeg just to move out to Rural Manitoba areas they would be doing no thing to help unemployment. From the management viewpoint said Charles e. Grab manager of Greb industries ltd., the govern ment should not do More in the labor management Field than it is now doing. The Federal program lays Down the principles Industry should follow. From there on the Ball is in our he said. Business wants help but not government control in this Type of Endeavor he said and the Job of expanding the work of labor management committees is now in Industry s hands. Locker room fire in apartment Block a Small fire in the locker room of the Royal Crest apartments 271 Wellington Crescent sent the occupants of the building s 40 suites out into the Street during thursday s supper hour. Damage was confined to the locker room. The estimate of damage and the cause of the fire Are unknown. No one was injured. Rex Grose Manitoba s Deputy minister of Industry and com Merce told of the work Manitoba is doing with Federal organizations to encourage establishment of secondary industries to con duct research into the Field of unemployment and to assist in creating smooth Liaison Between management and labor. Manitoba is now working with no less than 16 Federal groups in this Field he said and he was pleased to see How hard every one was working. Keith Cowan of the newly created National productivity Board told of the first con Crete Steps the organization has taken to meet the Chal Lenges of a changing world picture automation and unemployment. Next month he said 30 top representatives of Industry and the same number of key labor men will meet in Kingston ont., to look at the economic facts we face As a nation and to decide what we can do together to meet the Gordon c. Cushing assistant Deputy minister of labor was chairman of the panel discussion. Sessions conclude Friday. Rods a hit Winnipeg schools superintendent w. C. Lorimer said thurs Day the experimental Quisen Aire method of teaching Arith Metic has produced such Good results it will gradually be introduced into the entire school system. An eventual outcome will be the revision of our whole Arith Metic program from elementary through to Junior and senior he told trustees. He said the by a belgian kindergarten Tea Cher and involving the use of coloured rods graduated in will be introduced a Grade at a time until the entire division uses it. Or. Lorimer said the method now used experimentally in a few selected schools has proven its value Over other methods. There has been a general in crease in competence because of he told the Board. He said extensive in service training for teachers would be required to implement the division s plan and he expressed the Hope that telecasts would be made this year to inform both teachers and parents on How it operates. The method he said instructs children in Complex mathematical operations not usually found in an elementary school pro Gram. The Board approved a budget item for supplies for the method. A total of 140 Grade 1 classes will Benefit from the new procedure this year. Marxism is topic or. Gordon Blake professor of economics at United College will speak on marxism As econ Omic theory or utopian Creed at . Tuesday in con vocation Hall United College. This is the fourth in a series Public lectures on utopias. Traditionally the Little animal harmless and loveable most of the year climbs from his Den of wintry sleep and takes a look around. If he sees his Shadow As to Day he could hardly avoid do ing he pops Back Down into his warm Cave leaving the rest of us upstairs to freeze for an other six weeks. If Antiquity is any guarantee of the Validity of superstition this particular one is foolproof. Chamber s Book of Days a miscellany of popular antique says about groundhog Day there is a Universal superstition throughout Christendom that Good weather on this Day indicates a Long continuance of Winter and a bad crop and that its being foul is on the contrary a Good the superstition has existed since the infancy of our or. Chambers said. Apart from its importance to Farmers today is also. Candle mass a religious festival Cele Brating the Churchina of Mary and the dedication of Jesus to god. The festival centres on candles in commemoration of Sim Eon s description of Jesus As a Light to lighten the gentiles and the glory of thy people retail merchants seek metro wide store hours Winnipeg retailers have decided to ask City Council to press the provincial government to empower metro to enact bylaws governing closing hours for stores throughout metropolitan Winnipeg. The retailers themselves have decided to ask the province to take similar action. They Are seeking legislation similar to that drawn up by the Saskatchewan government which specifies the number of hours stores can be open but gives municipalities Power to reduce the number. The retailers met at the Marl Borough hotel at 8 . Thurs Day. M. M. Wocks Secretary manager of the retail merchants association presided. It was decided to ask City Council to retain the present by Law until such time As metro or the province of Manitoba passes Laws regulating the num a Ber of hours that stores can re main t. R. Hodgson superintendent of the Winni Peg Parks Board died in hos Pital thursday. Or. Hodgson had been ill for several months. As Parks Board superintendent he was instrumental in setting up Winni Peg s Rainbow stage. See Story Page 12. Pensions criticized at a special Board thursday at which trustees took a look at final estimates on the division s financial state of affairs for 1962. To help balance its budget apart from the tax Levy the Board expects to receive in Grants from the provincial government. This is an increase of More than Over last year s Grant. The 1961 Grant dropped from the 1960 Grant be cause of the distribution formula which favors poorer districts with a lower balanced assess ment. The Board raised a storm of protest Over this Cut in its Grant at the time and urged that the government pay one third of education costs the 1962 higher Grant is due in part to increased enrolment and staff. The Basic government Grant to elementary Junior and senior High schools is up last year this Grant the govern ment s major one was reduced by other sources of income such As the department of National defence s share of operating expenses for carpathia school Are expected to bring in Revenue to budget level. The Board still working its Way through the proposed Bud i get item by item received the i estimates without comment but it is reported that a higher gov i Ern ment Grant May be in the off King. The division showed a surplus i of from 1961. Free press meetings meetings to be held at b . Monday in the free press building include Board room no. 1, women s auxiliary Manitoba Home for girls Board room no. 2, Cutty Sark club Winnipeg clubroom no. 2 Branch sons of Ireland. 19 courses at y s evening classes Fred Hamilton president of the Winnipeg Branch of the United nations association will speak at the open House of the Myca Spring series of evening classes at . Monday in the Central y. Nineteen courses ranging from Bridge instruction to Basic human biology Are offered. Most Start feb. 12 or later and Are held mondays tuesday wednes Manitoba pays the lowest Tea Chers pension in Canada Educa i Tion minister Stewart Mclean was told wednesday. A committee of nine retired teachers representing the retired i women teachers association told i or. Mclean the proposed 1962 pension plan would not greatly downtown Library open soon improve pensions for. Those Al Winnipeg s new downtown ready retired. It urged that the Branch of the Public Library will service pension be doubled. Manitoba teachers average be opened feb. 10, the City lib Rary committee decided monday. Days or thursdays. Anyone Over corned about retired teachers and pension last year was the the Branch located at Portage association noted. In British col and Kennedy will be open from Umbria it was or. Mclean said he was con 18 is eligible. 70th anniversary the German society of Winni Peg will hold its 70th anniversary banquet and dance tonight in the German Hall Flora Avenue and Charles Street. Guests will include Hon. Stew Art e. Mclean Manitoba s Edu cation minister. Mayor Stephen Juba of Winnipeg and police chief Robert Taft of Winnipeg. The society has about 700 members and is the oldest Ger Man group in Western Canada. Indicated that something might j be done for them in the near i future. Radiographers or i 9 . To 9 . Monday through i Friday and from 9 . To 6 i . Saturday. J Aid. Paul Para Shin was elected l Library committee chairman at i the meeting and prof. J. B. Rud i Tyckyj was named vice chairman. Librarian h. H. Easton recommended that the loan period for books at All branches be reduced from four to three weeks and that borrowers be limited to six commencement exercises student radiographers will be held at 3 . Saturday in the new i books each auditorium of the medical col the committee also considered lege. Speakers include or. C. W. Hall or. E. A. Osberg and increasing the s3 family fee for Library use by non residents. G. B. Rosenfeld. A graduation the Library spends an average dinner and dance will be j of for each non resident fam at . In the Marlborough i ily. Final decision on the increase hotel. I was postponed for one month. Premier Duff Roblin Alks to a group of West Kildonan collegiate students immediately before the school s annual commencement exercises and official opening of the new gymnasium thursday right. In a Long speech to the student body the Premier described How Canada has found the individuality of its Peoples into a democratic Unity and emphasized the importance of education. Scholarships were presented to various students by dignitaries ;