Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 19, 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ity life in metropolitan Winnipeg Winnipeg free by Carrier 35c per week Winnipeg tuesday june 19. 1962 single copy Price Loc forecast Toronto Montral Halifax Chicago Miami Lam Minne Atolfi new York Vancouver Edmonton Tranten fistful by fistful Chown swings k. Who sways by John Robertson it was ., and at Winnipeg South Liberal Headquarters the smiles they were vainly ing to stretch Over gritted Teeth kept clamping shut into pursed lips when no one was looking. Their Margaret Konantz teas being inched into oblivion by grim Little fistfuls of votes. Since shortly after 8 They had clustered about the huge poll by poll scoreboard alternately clucking and fretting As first mrs. Konantz and then conserva Tive incumbent Gordon Chown in Ched into the Lead in the tight est vote scramble in the prov Ince. But the Liberal grip was slip Ping first by 100, then two three then 400. She had to overcome a 000 vote deficit from the last elec muttered a somewhat deflated supporter. We thought for a while she could do it but hey wait a minute what am i saying she s not beat but it was becoming agonizingly apparent to Many that she was. The waiting the Lack of final Ity was possibly the worst to Bear. It was As if she were climbing fist Over fist up a Greasy rope out of a mine Shaft Only to keep banging her head on a locked roof. They re interviewing Chown on someone shouted. What did he pleaded mrs. Konantz. He says he s got i hear it s narrowed Down to said a Young woman burst ing into the room. Who said i Dunno. I just heard it some another woman rushed up and kissed mrs. Konantz unashamedly on the Cheek and. Whispered we re not beat Yeti we be still got the army vote to come and the Advance someone shouted. Would she some one asked. I Learned As a golfer that you Don t give away any putts on the 18th she replied stoutly. At a Pink Telephone a Grey haired Man grappled Over the last returns. Things were getting better but it was All too evident that the finishing kick would be too Little too late. Finally mrs. Konantz was coaxed into heading borne to await he inevitable verdict. While she was going Hoine or. Chown was accepting congratulations on to. It was All Over. Over at the Chown Headquarters tastefully upholstered with a Bevy of curvy Young things the apprehension gradually Mush roomed into bedlam As the clock ticked past 10. No matter Bow you added it up their boy was on the Way to v i think he s 900 up someone shouted through the Din. Nobody bothered to Check they just cheered. One radio Man. that tie other beat ing him to the results by several he was going Home. _ or. Chown was on his Way to interview and to his supporters this meant Victory no matter Bow Many polls were left to. Come the Only real certainty amid the Din was that win South was putting up the Only decent election fight in the City. South Centre where the incumbent conservative Gordon Churchill outshone Liberal Wea Therman de russe Holt really was t in the same class. Looking Calm and confident or. Churchill admitted in his Busy but somewhat subdued Headquarters that be had expected or. Russe Holt to give him a bit of a run for and was not surprised at his reduced majority Over 1958. Conversation was at its liveliest when he attempted to whittle a free press photographer Down to size. With Cornflower blossoms sprouting out of each Lapel he decided to get difficult when the cameraman asked him to hoist both hands in the air in a Vic tory Salute. Said or. Chur chill sniffing haughtily at his Cornflower petals. You re from the free press. I Don t owe you any thing. I la just shake hands with my partners Here. A Mon or. pleaded the photographer. Loosen up look Happy like you won y know awl if you do take a Good picture the free Piess won t print he growled. Get this with i want to get Back he retreated through the door in a Flash. Over in North Centre it was All Over at and new democratic party Winner Stanley Knowles was already on his tour of to stations while his support ers sat around munching cake and drinking Coffee. A Brief period of gloom prevailed when the television blared out the defeat of nip Leader Tommy Douglas. Or. Knowles margin of Victory came As Surprise to a Kaowles aide Frank chafe. We just got our own voters Back. This has always been our the Winnipeg North Headquarters of victorious nip candidate David Orlikov also showed a considerable Lack of spontaneous emotion. I was just telephoning the news to my another in Law mrs. Emma or. Orlikov said. Sure i m elated but this seat i is traditionally nip and i d be wrong if i said we had t expected to take the Only real whoop de Doo out Side of the tense South Riding was i the Camp of the prov Ince s Lone Liberal Winner Roger Veillet of St Boniface. Gleeful supporters sporting Bright red night Caps almost buckled at the Knees under Back slaps he returned from a to appearance. Windsor Park the of for beamed Aue Jack Mcgurran. Last year we Only got one vote in six Over there but so far tonight we be taken 18 out of 23 polls. My wife Bina was help ing Campaign Over there and she did a great i kept telling myself All Day that no matter what happens my people have done a fantastic Job for said or. Veillet. By tonight i was t even Ner Vous at least until you press Fellows started coming his words were Cut Short when someone tugged a night Cap Over his head and planted him in front of a camera. But As the night lingered on the question on everyone s lips throughout the Ridings was will we have to go through this again in Coffee break by Gene Tel pm just his cup of Tea if the cry. Is there a doctor in the comes up at the Royal Alexandra hotel this week it should t be. Hard to get a answer. The place is packed with medical men attending the annual Canadian medical association convention. Although the sessions Are strictly for Doc tors there s one thing open to the Public which i inspected with Art Lover Jack Ablett of our photographic staff. It s a physicians Art Salon in the lob by of the hotel paintings by doctors under the sponsorship of Frank w. Homer. The paint ing that made me sit up and take notice was one called cof fee break and the artist is or. J. B. Mcl Braith of Rexdale Onti it s reproduced with the column today but Don t ask for an explanation of the significance because i could t find or. Mcl Braith crowd vote in Telpner with Coffee break there Are dozens of news men covering the and one Toronto newspaper Gal is not Only covering it but also participating a most unusual Angle. She s Joan Hollobow who covers medical and science stories. Anyway the Toronto staff of the Cha were so impressed with her knowledge they asked be on a medical panel Friday to express the patient s viewpoint. Senior sing along Here s a hint about some interesting entertainment com ing up and it s free. The senior citizens of the notre Dame Day Centre Are sponsoring a giant sing song thursday 8 ., in the Manitoba theatre Centre building with Howard Langdale As master of ceremonies. This group of spirited oldsters has its own rhythm band Complete with vocalists instrumentalists and comedians. The average age of the band is 72. I be heard them perform and they re a lot of fun. Of course with Junior citizen Langdale on hand it should make for a gala evening. Don Browne supervisor of the Day Centre Sarif he d like to see a full House. A reporter s diary random thoughts did you Ever notice tha things said in a lowered tone of voice Are most Likely to bring raised eyebrows my son and a few of his friends finally got on Mike Hopkins kids bids show. Thank goodness now we. Can quit eating potato chips. Ronnie my son seems to be a Chip off the old Block. When i asked him what prize he liked Best on the show he promptly an swered Bonnie Davis. But he did t have enough Points to bring her Home this is what judge Thurman Arnold a noted Washington lawyer has to say about Early marriages. I am very sceptical about Early marriage before there is enough Money to finance the family. It is Apt to be a tremendous Handicap. If you marry too Early you Are Apt to have financial obligations which pre vent you from taking chances and enlarging your despite the Good judge s advice the kids hardly out of the diaper stage still get. Married Early today provided dad can still keep them in the manner to which they re accustomed. Judge Arnold also noted that nowadays parents not Only have to support the children but the grandchildren As Well. Fifty years ago he said the children used to help support their parents Don t be surprised in the near future to see cans that require no can openers. They la have a lift up Tab. Nip liberals win 3 seats from tories Here Are the final results press time for Manitoba constituencies and for Kenora rain River in monday s voting compiled by the Canadian press the conservatives held 11 seat in the province losing two to the nip and one to the liberals. The liberals held Kenora rain River. Denotes an elected Candi Date a o the last parliament and the initials and figures in brackets after the constituency name give the pa4hbrdteffcthe seat in the last parliament and thar major Ity in the 1958 election or the last Job selection. Brandon Souris Walter Dinsdale pc j. Cameron Brown l Reg c. Leslie Robson nip Churchill pc Robert Simpson pc f. L. Jobin l Flor. Matthews nip Dauphin pc or. Elmer Forbes pc Fred Zaplitny nip Sigurdur Sigurdson l Lawrence Milner so Lisgar pc George Muir pc Kenneth Hartwell l Roger Poiron so Sid Varcoe nip 444 Chown cautious until very end by Al Barnes progressive conservative Gor Don Chown was a cautious r Man monday. Not before All 275 polls had been heard from did he let himself believe that he had really Defeated Liberal mrs. Margaret Konantz in Winni Peg South. He had reason to be cautious. The Man who received votes in the 1958 election More than the nearest rival found himself 5n a nip and tuck Battle All the Way with the organization who was stepping into the political swim Ming Pool for the first time. The Lead switched poll by poll during the evening and even the final count with or. Chown ceiling votes compared to for the Liberal opposition was 53 disappointment to the deputy1 speaker of the House of commons. It s a cried a voice from the crowded 0 s b o r n e Street elis Hall. But or. Chown s gloomy composure remained until mrs. Konantz entered the door of the Hall at . Followed by a band of five she smilingly Shook hands and Cheek. Kissed him on the his face brightened. At last his opponent had conceded. The conservative s chief worry near the end of the counting was about 400 armed forces votes from Wainwright which won t become known until Fri Day. But he told his supporters before they left he had been assured that Only about 100 votes had been cast by the soldiers. We have won a hard fought after thanking his Campaign staff and his wife he pledged starting tomorrow to Start work ing for the next Campaign in the fall or the the next majority must be bigger he said at In the commit tee rooms before the Tea party crowd left for the elks Hall or. Chown said the big Issue of the local Campaign was the pegging of the Dollar and the Strong campaigning of his opponent. But he immediately stopped he would t make statement until the final re sults were m Only 201 votes Are you he was asked. I m ahead Marquette pc Nichol. Mandziuk pc Harris Huston l James Mckeand so Stuart Barber nip Portage Neepawa pc s. J. Enns pc Lena Shuttleworth l Douglas Duncan nip r. D. Hughes so Lloyd Henderson ind Provencher pc Warner Jorgenson pc Stanley Roberts l j. P. Loewen so Peter Kruszelnicki nip 263 St. Boniface pc Roger Veillet Laurier Regnier g. Campbell nip Joseph St Hillare Selkirk pc Erie pc j. Crawf. Mcmillan l Valdi Arnason nip Terence Tergesen so 858 Springfield pc 491 Joseph slogan pc Archie Warren l Jake Schulz nip Bernie Rempel so Winnipeg North of 215 David Orlikov nip Paul Para Shin l Murray Smith John defer so William Ross conic Winnipeg North Centre pc Stan. Knowles nip John Maclean pc Barry Kraw Chuff l David Webster so 859 Donald Currie comm 648 Manitoba Lifesaver far tories by John Dafoe Manitoba led the Prairies Mon Day night to save the the time being at John Diffen Baker s progressive conservative government. In a sweep which outside of metropolitan Winnipeg matched that of 1958, the conservatives 1 won 11 of Manitoba s 14 seats. The new democratic party i won two and the liberals Only one. The tories cashing in on Farmer satisfaction with government agriculture policy won every seat in Rural Manitoba. But they lacked the strength a Urban rid Ings this time to match the com plete sweep they registered in .1958. The nip recaptured two traditional Ridings. In his old Riding of Winnipeg North Centre party founder Stanley Knowles Defeated con Margaret Knowles plants a Victory kiss on her father s Cheek As Stanley Knowles is officially notified that he has been elected in Winnipeg North Centre. Or. Knowles who lost the seat to the conservatives in 1958, said june 18 was his birthday and All be had asked for were Many Happy i got he beamed. On the face of things it s Victory or defeat Serva Tive John ivs Cloan and former la David Orlikov of the nip crushed conservative Murray Smith in Winnipeg North. Liberal Roger Teullet recaptured St. Boniface for his party with a solid Victory Over conservative Laurier Regnier. He will join Hazen argue As one of Only two Prairie liberals in the next House of commons. The Manitoba Story was the same As it was All across the. Prairies unbeatable govern ment strength in the farming areas. The conservatives faced their toughest fight in greater Winni Peg and came within an Ace of losing four of the five metropol Itan area seats. Veterans affairs minister Gor Don Churchill won Winnipeg South Centre with a substantially reduced but still healthy major Ity Over Liberal de russe Holt. Seesaw Battle but in Winnipeg South the liberals Margaret Konantz made it a race until the last few polls. In a Battle which see sawed Back and Forth through much of the night conservative incumbent Gordon Crown steadily built his Lead As the late polls came in. By shortly after Midnight his margin was big enough that it could not be overcome by the soldiers vote which won t be known until the end of the week. The seat was conceded. In the country the trend was evident much sooner. Even in seats which had been picked As conservatives weak spots the government candidates waltzed in with sharply reduced but still comfortable pluralities. Total vote for conservative candidates dropped sharply but the voters they lost did not switch to any of the opposition parties. Instead they apparently just stayed Home. In seat after seat in the Rural Ridings the Liberal vote in 1962 was almost exactly the same As it was in 1958. Popular vote Winnipeg South pc Gordon Chown pc Margaret Konantz l Sidney Green nip James Macpherson so Winnipeg South Centre pc Gordon Churchill pc de s. Russe Holt l and. Robertson nip Asta Oddson so Ontario Kenora Rainy River l 183 a a. M. Benedickson l Victor Croxford pc Paul Mcrae ;