Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 13, 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday june 13, 1982 at comes to Winnipeg area action precision and color make the musical ride of the Royal Canadian mounted police a spectacular International at traction later this month Vinn speggers can Stop complaining that canadians never get to Siee it the ramp musical ride performances june 21 to 30 at the red River exhibition will be the first in Winnipeg s history. Actually Winnipeg did see a musical ride u04 but that was before the Royal North went mounted police became the ramp. Musical rides have a Long and colourful history. They probably evolved from the rides British cavalry regiments engaged in As a diversion. In fact the red and White Pennon the ramp s lances Are crimped in the fashion adopted by the 16th lancers after two ramp constables Check Over some of the equipment they will use in the musical ride at the red River exhibition later this month. The men and their horses have trained together four or five hours daily since mid february. The men have personally cared for then mounts As they will throughout this summer s 15-week tour that takes in Seattle wash., Vancouver and san Francisco. Concern at troops morale London of a slowing crime wave and poor morale among Britain s troops in West Germany Are causing concern at Home. Although several newspapers feel that stories have been exaggerated there is a general demand that War Secretary John Profumo should investigate Barrack conditions in the British army on the Rhine. Soldiers in West Germany have complained of poor food boredom and excessive discipline. At the same time relations Between the troops and West German civilians and i police have become strained. Hooliganism and Street brawls Are said to be frequent. So far this year 329 courts martial have been held and 52 j men face trial this month. These figures Are about the same As last year s statistics but some charges Are More serious. Concern developed after it was Learned recently that prison sentences of three and five years were imposed at a court j martial two months ago for j incitement to Mutiny. Court tells son to pay parents damages Quebec up Superior court has ordered Jacques Gerard Foy of Quebec to pay his parents or. And mrs. Geor Ges Foy damages As the result of a Highway Accident in june 1957. Or. Foy who is Quebec District Coroner and his wife were injured in the mishap near this City. Or. Foy was in Hospital More than two months. The son was driving the car with his parents As passengers when it collided with another at an intersection. The court held that the Driver was negligent in not reducing Speed to 20 Miles an hour As called for by traffic Laws. New Agency to co ordinate army spending Ottawa min ister Harkness announced tues Day creation of a new army department charged with co Ordin rating army spending. To be known As the comp troller general s Branch the department will also study the costs of All army programs. It is to come into being aug. 1. The announcement was made through the National defence department for or. Harkness who is in Edmonton. Brig. L. G. C. Lilley now commander of the Northwest Highway system will be promoted to the rank of major Gen eral and appointed the army s first comptroller general. On first floor up cats Boston a the old woman who lived in a shoe and had so Many children she did t know what to do was matched tuesday police said by an elderly lady in Hyde Park who had 230 dogs and cats in her single House. She kept them All the 100 dogs on the ground floor the 130 cats on upper floors. The police might never have intervened except for the coming of summer and open windows and the complaints of neighbors. Up to Here in dogs and cats police and animal Rescue league agents had to use two wagons and make eight trips to haul the pets to league Headquarters. Nearly 100 cats were found in. One room. The woman kept the animals Well fed the police reported but had some difficulty with other arrange ments. Upon the suggestion of a police physician she was placed in a state Hospital for mental observation. A Battle in which their Pennon were bloodied and crushed. British cavalrymen brought the tide to Canada and to the North West mounted police. A form of the ride was performed by the in amp in 1876. In 1904 a troop of the in amp performed it in Winnipeg. It has t returned to the City since. In its present version the ride is performed by 32 men and horses and is made up of intricate movements executed at the Trot and Canter to appropriate music. Controls timing and co ordination essential As the Lance bearing riders go through a spirited 20-minute presentation climaxed by an exciting charge. The men have selected from Many parts of Canada assembled in Regina in mid february to begin the Gruel ing training. Men and horses have worked together four or five hours daily since then. Seven of the men in the 36 member troupe Are Manitoban. They Are const. S. Maurice Bro Chez Brandon const. Donald c. Harrison Winnipeg const. Ian f. Kaatz Beausejour const. To Jseph a. Lagasse St. Adolphe const. Fredrick j. Ross Ericks Dale const. William j. Wood Winnipeg Beach and const. Ron Ald c. Ferguson Russell. By Carl c. Potter morning auction Sale of unclaimed storage goods Rons Artinr of Small Windsor electric refrigerator 3 piece modern Blond bed room suite Fleetwood 21 Inch 5 piece Chrome set occasional chairs Chesterfield bed president tank Type vacuum weeper Latte inf Coffee table Walnut and Blond step tables set of . 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The offer which would have Cost the National health service More than a year was in fact no More than a previous offer of a 2v4-per-cent a Union spokesman said. The have been campaigning for increases of up to 49 per cent which would Cost nearly a year. Air Force gets 8 ounce radio Wright Patterson air Force base. Ohio a new radio receiver developed for the air Force weighs less than eight ounces and. Takes up Only As much room As two packs of cigarettes. It replaces a five Pound set that occupies-148 cubic inches of space. Lisbon has lost 289 army men so far in its fight against a nationalist insurrection in the West african Colony of Angola that began in february 1961, the defence department announced tues Day. Tobacco Boom grows Qiuncy Fla. New Money acres of cuban Leaf Beinli har vested and processed by West Florida growers. The growers Are finding a ready Market for the Leaf which they say is much in demand now that the United states has embargoed the cuban product. 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We 2-o958 St. Paul s enters conference Hamilton up leaders j of 44 universities and colleges tuesday wound up a three Day j examination of the roles in education of a variety of institutions of higher learning Spring in up to meet Canada s Boom ing educational needs. Consensus at the annual meet ing of the National conference of Canadian universities and colleges was that there will continue to be a place for Many kinds of institutions rang ing from tiny Junior colleges to huge comprehensive universities. But More study needs to be done of their nature and specific tasks. The conference admitted two new institutions to membership College London ont., and St. Paul s College Winni Peg. It took Steps toward establishment of an Entrance exam j nation Board to test final year High school students to deter mine their fitness for univer sity and also heard from its executive director g. C. 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