Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 14, 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ity life in metropolitan Winnipeg Coffee break by Gene Telper no vote for Ike a canvasser for mrs. Margaret on Macmillan Avenue was having understood to a 95-year-old gentleman sitting Frerot after lengthy explanations by the persistent canvasser a Light finally appeared on the old fellow s face _ shaking his anger at the canvasser he declared of yes the voting Well i la Tell you one thing Young woman i m not going to vote for that during the St world War an italian born private k the Canadian forces in the a Tiabo. And if so would they Contact her Maryk Friend i thought the show was supposed to Couver its rival this summer. Room at the top the Bob Goulet the Canadian starring in it made. When the "10 Best dressed rooms of fast week in new York at the National design Centre one was specially designed for or. Goulet. I m not Jery m describing rooms but this is what the Goulet s personality traditional accents that s a term i draperies Are of an Olive Green fabric with a Homespun texture to complement Woven Cocoa matting carpeting. There s a round Marble top on the dining table and the table itself has a slender Black Metal base. Chairs of course Are Louis the 16th Antiques upholstered with Orange fabric. Colors in the room Are Olive Green Brown and Orange picked up from a contemporary painting Over a wrought Iron fireplace. Yes sir he s come a Long Way. The other Day in the column i ran a picture of the youngsters taking a leading role in the movie version of music men. A mention was made that Jeffrey Manisher is playing the same part in Rainbow stage production. Several people phoned to ask Why Jeff s picture did t appear. So Jeffrey posed with a trom Bone like the other lad and that s his picture today. Hope that satisfies everyone. Notes to you jottings from a reporter s notebook the annual Muir head reunion is set for 12 noon sunday july 15, at the for age agric hural society grounds located at the West Side of Island Park in Portage la Prairie. If you go bring your own Basket lunch and also musical instruments to make it a real funnest any muh Heads or Moo Heads and Moore beads who want More info can Contact Emma j. Muirhead Box 54 Douglas mar musical minded Reader Points out first it was then Chubby checker the next big name has got to of Lien w Fri Mpr Annie Mctear Pudgy chess. Sanitary sewers in. Storm sewers out Winnipeg free press by Carrier 35c per week Winnipeg thursday june 14, 1962 copy Price inc anyone to work in a print shop deserves to have them stepped on Flash in the pan at to St about every Large affair at the auditorium or . To test in North Churchill site for 22-balloon cosmic Ray study the United states National aeronautics and space administration and the office of naval research will launch about 22 Large Skyhook balloons from fort Churchill Man., on Hudson Bay this summer it was announced wednes Day information will be sought on composition Energy Spectra and other characteristics of cosmic rays and to test experiments and equipment to be flown on satellites later. The first flight is expected to be launched Friday from the base 610 Miles North of Winnipeg. Raven industries of Sioux Falls South Dakota will conduct the launching operations. The payload will be released on parachutes at the planned termination of the flights. The equipment will Impact in the general area of Stoney rapids and uranium City sask., East of Lake Athabaska. Pilots of Raven industries incorporated will land aircraft equipped with floats As near As possible to the equipment to re cover the payload packages. In addition to these 22 flights the University of Minnesota sponsored by the National Sci ence foundation plans to launch about 30 smaller bal loons especially during periods of High solar activity. The payloads will Telemeter information to fort Chur chill. No attempt is made to i recover these payloads. Weather is Mosquito s Friend metro s Mosquito abatement Board is using More men More machinery and More Money than Ever before in its Battle with greater Winnipeg s Mosquito population. An experienced staff is directing operations. It s the weather that s causing All the trouble. If the weather would Only set the Down and co operate for the next few Days the worst of the Mosquito plague would be Over by the weekend metro officials say. But it in t going to be a pleasant year even if this Hap pens. Last month was the fourth wet test May on record they Point out. Mosquitoes love moisture. But rain makes Mosquito fogging almost impossible. June s drier Days Haven t Al ways been suitable for fogging the area either. Wednesday night we started fogging in St. James then had to pull out because of the a metro official said thursday. However fogging was done in Charleswood St. Vital St. Boni face and Riverview. Thursday men were hand fog Ging along the Seine River in St. Boniface. Woodhaven was being hand sprayed a process that kills the Mosquito than mosquitoes on the Wing. It s prevention rather than immedi ate cure. Meanwhile Normal work several metro offices has virtually been a flood of forecast ass mayors say Relief cases should work but Resolution shunted because of Legal questions by Charles Thompson a motion to put welfare recipients to work on municipal projects was referred thursday to the National executive of the Ca Nadian federation of mayors and municipalities. Delegates indicated they favored putting the recipients to work but shunted the Resolution to the executive because of Legal questions involved. The Resolution originally came from Hawkesbury ont. Referring the Resolution to the executive Means studies will be made and possibly a report pre pared for next year s conference at Toronto. Hawkesbury Council Felt that photo by Bill Rose Chest under the metropolitan Block provincial regulations forbidding municipalities the authority to re quest recipients to work for the assistance they receive is an intrusion on municipal the Council Felt that regulations encourage laziness on the part of welfare and it would be better if the Laws were changed. Several conference delegates seemed to be of the same Opin Ion although some warned that welfare authorities Are not too much in favor of putting welfare workers to work. Other municipal officials said that since there is Little labor work left in municipal jobs there was t much that could be done by untrained workers. Transit study urged can meet anywhere Carroll denies Union charge other resolutions passed by the delegates of the fourth Day of the conference in the Royal Alex Andra hotel were to request the Federal government for a special study on Canadian transit problems. Major cities in Canada operate Tran sit systems with losses in excess of millions of dollars annually. For More Federal and provincial government Money for education. The Cost of education is now 4.7 per cent of the nation Al income and is expected to Rise to 9.7 per cent by 1970. For More Federal govern ment action under the combines investigation act against companies tendering fixed prices for municipal contracts. The delegates also decided to ask for an Extension of the National housing act to cover financial assistance for improve ments to old houses and not just for construction of new buildings. The often discussed attempts to get taxes from the Canadian National railways were threshed out at the conference. Delegates approved a Resolution from the municipality of Westmorland which Calls for the Federal government to allow Rural municipalities in the Atlantic pro Vinces to negotiate Grants in lieu of taxes on car property. The Northeast Corner of Charleswood will be getting sanitary sewer service within the next few months but its residents have blocked a proposed storm sewer project. The proposed storm sewer project for Charleswood sewer District 1 has been blocked by a petition carrying More signatures than the required 51 per cent of ratepayers representing More than 51 per cent of assessment in the sewer District. Too few opponents of the san itary sewer project for the same District failed to collect the necessary number of signatures to. Block it. The proposed projects have caused an uproar in the suburban municipality. A May 16 Public meeting called by Charleswood to Dis cuss the project several Bun dred residents turned out to pro test that the improvements would raise taxes too High and would be the first step toward turning the almost Rural Charleswood into another Asphalt Manitoba s labor minister j. B Carroll thursday denied an allegation that his department would not allow the Winnipeg local of the electrical workers Union to hold a strike vote meet ing. He said the allegation made wednesday by William lady representative of the International brotherhood of electrical workers was completely unfounded. The unions can hold a strike vote meeting when and where they said or. Carroll. But it is up to the labor Board to decide where the strike ballot is to be held he added. Explaining Why the ironworkers Union earlier had been Al Lowed to hold a strike ballot in the labor Temple but the electrical workers would not be or. Residents petitions a Amsl the installations were submitted to Charleswood Council sitting As a court of revision june 5. The petitions were referred to the municipal clerk for checking against assessment lists. He made his report to Council wednesday evening. 26 per cent of the 733 ratepayers in District 1, Only 31 per cent re presenting 26 per cent of the assessment signed the petition against the sanitary sewers. About 67 per cent represent ing 60 per cent of the assess ment _ opposed the More expensive storm sewers. Now that the storm sewer had been Defeated How Long can we feel lome Paterson one of the organizers of opposition asked from the floor. The minimum Legal period be fore the project can be introduced again is two years or. Paterson was told. Said Reeve Cyril Hayward one of the project s original sponsors As far As i m concerned you won t hear another thing about phone Calls about the mosquitoes. The Mosquito abatement Board phone rings almost continuously. Cost of Mosquito control per person in the metro area is 17 ends per year not As reported earlier. Wildlife hears Call of the City St. Vital police shot and killed an injured one year old Deer thursday. The Deer was found near 256 St. Anne s Road. Both of its front legs were broken. It is believed a car hit the Deer. Also reported was a Moose seen running along the Banks of the red River at 4 . Thursday police said it was the same one seen in St. Boni face and fort Rouge Between 5 and 6 . Three bobcats were also seen overnight along Wellington Crescent. Foundation hands out the Board of directors of the Winnipeg foundation this week authorized a total of in Grants to greater Winnipeg Wel fare agencies. Of the total went in operating Grants to 31 Agen cies All members of the Community Chest except the Nymha and the sir Hugh John Macdonald Hostel for boys. Largest of the operating Grants went to the Myca for its Community service. Small est were several Grants of to fresh air Camps. Of the non recurring special Grants went to the Myca for its inner City program involving one project with 150 boys and another with old people in the downtown area. The jewish child and fam ily service received to pay half the Cost of an extra Case worker. The jewish Wel fare fund will provide the rest of the Money. The costs of an expanded Home maker program undertaken by the family Bureau were under written to the extent o f the foundation also agreed to underwrite half the Cost of i court worker for the Indian Anc Metis Friendship Centre the province will pay the other half St. Paul s College was Given to buy new Library books. The foundation will provide a bursary for a staff member of Knowles school for boys to at tend a summer Institute at Syra Cuse University in Syracuse new Camp Kinnaird the Owca girls Camp at Lake of the Woods was granted for capital repairs and other items. The remaining will the Cost of sending a Delegate in a pre school education conference in London England. Carroll said it May have been because the labor Board Felt there was too much Union influence at the Temple. After All said the minister the purpose of a strike vote is to get the personal views of the work ers. A claim by or. Ladyman that the government had said it would not interfere with Union s constitutions was also denied by or. Carroll. At no time did we overnight parking banned a bylaw prohibiting Over night parking on streets in St. Vital will come into effect Fri Day. Police chief Edmund Stanley recommended enforcing the ban. St. Vital Council passed the required bylaw. St. Vital Accord ing to the ban will not be Able to Park their cars on the Street Between 3 and 6 . More than 330 warning tick ets have been issued to Date. Election Deputy fired the Deputy returning officer at Piney in Southeastern Manitoba has been fired for opening an and Vance poll ballot Box. Abram k. Braun of Alton a Man., returning officer for pro Bencher Riding said the Man had made an honest error in open ing the boxes. Piney was the site of one of five Advance polls in the Riding. Nine Deputy returning officers in Eastern Canada have already lost their jobs for making the same mistake. Say he said. How could we go along with some constitutions often they Call for the National president to Call a probably the Best place to hold a strike vote he Sugges Ted would be on the properly where the Union men work. A portable balloting station could have been arranged but the labor Board decided against it. The strike vote will take place in the Norquay building Between 5 . And 10 . June 21. Or. Carroll said if the Union wants it can hold a meeting be tween 5 . And . On june 21, then March up to the Norquay building to have the men cast their ballots. Asked if the Union could hold its meeting in the Norquay build ing or. Carroll said he did not know. The Union he said has not approached him with this suggestion or complained to him As it had done to the news papers. Want sales tax Cut because the railway is a Crown corporation it is exempt from Normal property taxes. In the maritime Small municipalities Don t even have the right to ask for Grants although most other areas in the country can. Moncton n.b., received ing from delegates on a motion to ask the Federal government to cancel or reduce sales taxes on materials or equipment used by municipal governments for storm and sanitary sewer cleaning All forms of Energy for pumping or treating water materials for building or cleaning water sys tems insecticides for pest control machinery for Snow control and machinery for sanitary land fill operations. Toronto presented a motion asking for the Federal govern ment to make a specific Grant to cover the taxes lost by municipalities on foreign owned properties used for consular Pur poses As there is no reason Why the general taxpayers should be burdened with the Cost of pro Viding services to such proper free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Friday in the free press building include Board room no. 2, past mistresses club ladies Orange Benevo Lent association clubroom joint Hospital committee Ca Nadian legion. St. Boniface c of c t. E. Burke Gaffney was elec Ted president of the St. Boniface chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting june 5. Other officers elected Are a. J. Oakes first vice president e. Fourn Eaux second vice president mrs. R. D. Labossiere Secre tary treasurer. It say senior govt. Must pay More 2 cars collide 7 Hurt seven people were injured wednesday evening when two cars collided head on three Miles West if Beau sejour. Injured were John Rak of 396 f Lora Avenue his wife Mary and daughter Christina Donald easer of 780 Toronto Avenue Vars. Lillian Freihofer of 316 red Vood Avenue and Ruth Young Ira Dollman both of Winni Peg. Ramp said mrs. Rak and mrs. Creaser suffered Chest injuries and cuts to their faces. The five others suffered less serious in juries. The Accident occurred about 9 . On Highway 4 about three Miles West of Beausejour. Drivers of the vehicles were or. Rak and or. Creaser. Steel work done despite strike Here the structural steel Section of the Winnipeg builder s Exchange has announced that steel work at the Winnipeg stadium has been completed despite the cur rent strike by the ironworkers Union. A statement from the Exchange Section says the structural steel employers in line with their policy of honouring their obligations to customers to Complete work to the Best of their ability have continued the erection of structural steel during the cur rent it says every other in the strike requiring the Erec Tion of structural steel is pro assume More of to. _ cation hospitals and welfare three municipal officials said in Winnipeg wednesday. The three authorities on Muni Cipal finance were speaking to the 25th annual conference of the Canadian federation of May ors and municipalities in the Royal Alexandra hotel. E. Royden Colter City Mana Ger of Windsor ont., spoke on hospitals Harold Balfour Muni Cipal manager of the District of Burnaby b.c., spoke on Wel fare and p. F. Byars Mana Ger of Halifax n.s., spoke on education. Hospitals out or. Colter said the real prop erty tax main source of Revenue for municipalities should not be required to finance any part of Hospital construction. The responsibility is wholly that of the senior he said. Municipal tax Money or. Col Ter said is collected for the Pur pose of providing Basic services such As sewers garbage collection fire and police Protection. Since the provinces generally have taken upon themselves the responsibility for determining construction needs it is then incumbent upon the province to take the responsibility for hos Pital construction he said. Ultimate control or. Balfour while conceding it is quite right and proper for a municipality to accept some financial responsibility in the Wel fare Field i also consider it right and proper for the senior governments to accept the major proportion since they ultimately control the program through he said that in the last 20 years the philosophy of welfare has changed bringing about a Large increase in the multiplicity of acts which govern the local welfare departments. None these is within municipal con he said the stand of the Union of British Columbia municipalities that welfare services except the Cost of any local administrative staff be paid for entirely by the Federal and provincial governments has much to com mend he also suggested a fixed maximum Mill rate for social welfare services to control Muni Cipal outlay. Or. Byars said a Means must be found to finance the growing needs of education by taxation based on the ability the people to pay their fair share. The fairest method in my View is through income he said. Blowing Challenge issued Portage la Prairie s mayor Lloyd Henderson wednesday challenged mayors All Over the world to a blowing match june 21 when his City is Host to the National blowing championships. The Challenge was made Dur ing the afternoon session of the 25th annual conference of the Canadian federation of mayors and municipalities. Wearing a White Stetson which he admitted was a Calgary mayor Henderson told the Dele Gates that he is the current Cham Pion blowing mayor. Get a shirt a hat and come to the blowing match he said. Woman drowns in dugout a 38-year-old Brunild Man. Woman drowned wednesday afternoon. Dead is mrs. Wiiiam Freder ick Edna Kaminsky. Ramp said she drowned in a dugout on her farm at about . It has not yet been decided whether or not an inquest will be held ;