Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 1, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunny with Cloudy intervals isolated j. Showers this a few showers Friday a Little Coaler. Winds Northwest 15 Friday. Tonight 65, hich Friday 75. Temperatures for 24-Hoar period ending fort new York Winnipeg i Tours 2.50 of tilt you Mph vat Advance car radio Centre by Carrier per week Winnipeg August 1, 1963 single copy Price we 636 Sargent near Sherbrook phone Claudia s parents rejoice celebrity in the House now9 would any Only mind if i just Hilda Mcpherson put Down the phone her voice break ing tears of Joy and Relief beginning to gather. Claudie s made the word came at . Wednesday. Claudia Mcpherson 17 year old school girl from St. James had landed on the English coast three Miles South of Folkestone and had become the youngest person Ever to swim the 21-mile English Channel. As mrs. Mcpherson Dis solved in liars and chuckles cries of Joy came from Clau Dia s father Claude As he skipped about the Mcpher son s suite in the Kee Neland apartments 206 Olive Street. I knew she d do he said. It s terrific. I can just see Claudia. I bet she s the same As when she came out of Lake Winni Peg at grand Beach. Potato chips i bet she s asking for potato i m bawling my eyes said mrs. Mcpherson. I can t go on to like who cares we have a celebrity in the House said her husband. Haven t slept since 6 . Last said Clau Dia s Mother. Every tune the phone has rung for the past three Days we have gone through the Claudia had been forced to postpone her swim twice in the past few Days due to bad weather and sea conditions. Aug. 13 last year in her first bid to beat the Channel Claudia was forced to come out of the water six Miles from her goal. For two years Ever since Claudia started training seriously for the Channel swim she and her Mother had been getting up at . So that Claudia could be in the water at the air Force Pool by . Our whole life was Dis said her Mother but it s been Worth it. I d be doing supper dishes at 6 ." while Claudia swam hours a Day and ate Steak at every meal or. Mcpher son was working nights and mrs Mcpherson went Back to work As head dietitian at Grace Hospital to help Fin Ance Claudia s trips. This one Cost us said Claudia s Mother. Right now i work for Claudia but next year 1 might be working for my son Doug if he needs y lessons Claudia started swimming at the age of 7 when she took lessons a t the Owca. Her first attempt at Long distance swimming was in 1961 she swam Lake Winni Peg. Although or. Mcpherson wears water wings when swimming his Cousin is Irene Pirie Canadian and olympic Champion free style swimmer from 1932 to 1936. Claudia s 12-year-old brother Doug won the Manitoba championship in the 50-Yard breaststroke last year. A newsman asked Doug if he were going to swim the English Channel someday. I he said. He was asked if he were proud of his sister Claudia. I said Doug. I guess or. And mrs. Claude Mcpherson listen to radio news of daughter Claudia s swim feat. Coffee break by Gene Telpner although not too much has been said about it Canadian authorities Are concerned about the steady Trade in smuggled diamonds into this country. Diamonds Are apparently difficult to Trace and it s almost impossible to estimate the total amount of the smuggling. On the subject of diamonds a list of stones and jewelry of fantastic value is being circulated among Winnipeg jewellers by chief James Mackey of Tor onto. The diamonds and other ornaments recovered by police Are All unidentified and apparently stolen by Canadian jewel thieves. Among the items on the list valued up to a Large number of diamonds Worth More than plus Many other articles. According to the chief some of the merchandise has been identified As having been stolen in Montreal last March while others were taken in a robbery at Idlewild Airport in new York on May 19 of this year. The total value of the unidentified items is Al most and Tony Adams of Mckin Neys showed me the list in his store. If any Winni Eggers have been the victims of jewel thieves they might find their missing valuables on the list. However it s unlikely because the ripest prospects for a jewel thief Are in Toronto Montreal new York and other big centres. I m told they Don t like to operate around Here because of the reputation for efficiency of the Winnipeg police Force. On the personal Side jottings from a reporter s notebook Haven t seen them Here but there s an interesting new item for Sale in the . It s a miniature aluminium Keg sized to fit in your refrigerator. The Keg is fitted with its own plastic spigot holds More than two Gallons of draft Beer which you can dispense yourself. Cooling thought another big vegetable Story. King sized peas brought to the office by 15-year-old Victor Fries of 663 landside Street. Morley Decker formerly with the Manitoba tra Vel and convention association and now heading the convention sales department of the Royal Alexandra dropped in to talk shop. Mostly about the Royal Alexandra before he left he informed me that its meeting rooms Are All air conditioned and that convention business is looking up latest sick elephant joke is this one. Why does an elephant have a trunk because it does t have a Glove Compart ment. Noted at the Winnipeg press club. Poor or. Mac Millan. He s getting All the blame and did t have any of the thought you might like to know that the private detective agencies in London have been enjoy ing a Boom since the big scandal broke. The same source says the Price of Calls girls in that City is now up 20 per cent. For your information random thoughts anytime you feel discouraged you can take a Good lesson from the Tea Kettle. The darn thing sings even though it s in hot water up to its neck the following says the Bay news is a quote from a letter written by a lawyer in India. Dear sir. Unless you pay the rupees that you owe within seven Days we shall take Steps As will cause you the damned Leila Martin Jim Tushar and other cast members of West Side Story have been spending Mieir free time tanning around the charterhouse Pool. Miss Martin is one Gal who can Wear a Bikini with no fear of criticism Only approving stares. Overheard at the paddock i met my wife under very unfortunate circumstances i was a Reader with the initials e. W., wants to know about the discrepancy in Speed limits on the Detour around the new Portage Avenue subway in St. James. East to West it is 20 Miles per hour while West to East it is posted 25. Do you suppose there is any reason for Rainbow stage can use 30 men s Felt hats any size shape or color for the King and i. Call Tom Barnes Chapel 7-4090 Bob Ellison formerly with Manitoba theatre Centre has joined the management staff of Tor onto s Crest theatre As sales manager. By the Way John Hirsch has been signed to direct the Crest production of Hamlet. Milk Binge could have sunk her Young swimmer on diet for two years before feat by Heather Robertson it May seem that All Claudia Mcpherson had to do to conquer the English Channel was to walk. Into the water and swim As hard As she could in a straight line until she reached England. But behind the big headlines is a Story of countless Small prob lems. A slip up on one of them could have meant the end of Claudia s Hopes to be the Young est swimmer to beat the Chan Nel. Would she Wear grease or not what time would she Start her swim what she eat if she were a couple of min utes late at Zero hour or went on a Binge and had a Glass of milk it would mean the end of her Hopes and the waste of thous ands of dollars invested in her trip to England. Fruit juice Claudia has been on a strict training diet for two years which Means lots of Steak and eggs and fruit juice but no milk. Milk causes mucus in the Throat which hinders her swim said her father Claude Mcpherson in an interview at the Mcpherson apartment on Olive Street in St. James. Fruit juice gives her the Neces sary liquid and vitamins. If we ask her when she comes ship to Shore Claudia Mcpherson a 17 year old St. James girl who has just become the Young est person to swim the eng Lish Channel had trouble get Ting into port after her 21 mile trip. She had to Register in customs As a said her father. The customs people weren t too pleased since it involved a lot of writing and red he thought that she should have Given her name As the "s.s. do your newspaper b1giuvor pay him te6ulasly collection period this weekend warns crosswalk can be trap pedestrian crosswalks can be death traps councillor a. H. Fisher said wednesday at a metro streets and transit committee meeting. He said pedestrians Are Given a false sense of Protection in crosswalks. Motorists had a responsibility to Stop but the councillor indicated they often did t. The committee referred the matter to a citizen s safety committee being organized by metro for an All out Campaign to educate Drivers to Stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. Councillor a. E. Bennett transit committee chairman said there is a vast difference Between the driving habits of motorists in greater Winnipeg and those in Vancouver. He said that in Vancouver cars halt when a pedestrian Steps into a crossing. Councillor b. R. Wolfe said Vancouver motorists do this because they have been educated to understand that the Law gives the pedestrian the right of Way. In addition the Law was enforced. The same Law was on the statute books in Winnipeg. The matter came before the committee when the senior citizens of the Chesterfield housing club in St. Vital asked that a stripped crosswalk and the word Stop be painted on the St. Mary s Road pavement at Chesterfield Street. Other requests from die senior citizens Are to be considered. They Are for a Bench at the Corner and to have the words Welcome aboard placed in the entrances of metro transit buses. Sweet sound Home if she would like Steak she will probably say said or. Mcpherson. During her 17-hour Channel swim wednesday Claudia was fed every hour from cups held out to her on the end of a stick by her coach George Alliston. She would be Given one cup of soup Chicken Noodle or beef one cup of a liquid diet for Mula and a Mouthful of Lemon juice which she would gargle and spit out. The Lemon juice is to counter act the Salt water so that her Tongue won t swell. No grease Claudia did not Wear the usual nine pounds of grease during her swim because her parents and Trainer thought it did As much harm As Good. It s like Woollen said her Mother Hilda Mcpher son. It offers terrific resistance to the water and while it insulates against the cold it also insulates against the Sun so that you can t warm or. Mcpherson said that when her coach and boat Pilot Bert Reid says Claudia it is my business to get ready to her father quotes Claudia As saying. You say that i be there at the Beach i will be she says. You say i sleep i wednesday the strict schedule paid off. The 17-year-old Silver Heights collegiate student be came the youngest person Ever to swim the Channel. Retail sugar Price slithers the Sweet sound of falling sugar prices could be heard in Winnipeg thursday. Some stores dropped the Price of a 100-Pound bag by As much As drowns in farm dugout one year old Alvin Paul Kerluke drowned in a cattle dugout on his father s farm in the Arden District at about 11 . Tuesday. Ramp said the baby found by his Mother at noon was pronounced dead on arrival at Neepawa District Hospital. Or. G. Lambertson Cor Oner said there would be no postmortem or inquest. Flood Way now ahead of schedule eighteen contracts involving the spending of almost Mil lion for testing excavation sup ply of materials and construction of Bridges and other structures for the red River flood Way have been awarded to Date Manitoba s agriculture minister George Button has announced. Despite unfavourable Spring weather conditions and late rain contractors Are now slightly ahead of schedule and work is progressing smoothly or. Hut ton added. Current work being done includes construction of three Bridges and the outlet control Structure which Are scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. Four other Bridges Are in the design stage. This year s work schedule involves the handling of about cubic Yards of Earth just under one third of the to Tal Earth movement required during the whole construction period. Total Cost of the 30-mile Chan Nel and flood control project is expected to be in the neighbor Hood of million with the fed eral government paying about 5814 per cent of the total. Police May now Park 7iv peace metro will erect a parking sign in front of Winnipeg s Rupert Avenue police station so policemen won t break the Law. Metro s streets and transit committee wednesday agreed to put up a sign which reads no parking police vehicles a Cit zeil recently noticed police vehicles were being Park and in front of the station although it was a no parking zone. When the matter was brought to the attention of the Winnipeg police commission the commission decided to ask the Winnipeg traffic commission to allow police parking Only. The request then was passed on to metro because it has jurisdiction aver the Street the retail Price decrease Fol Lowed decisions by Winnipeg wholesalers to Cut the Price Char ged the stores by 70 cents to for 100 pounds. Further retail and wholesale Price cuts Are expected in the Wake of thursday s announce ment in Montreal that three sugar refineries had reduced the Price of refined sugar by 55 cents to a 100-Pound bag the third decrease this week. One downtown Winnipeg Gro Cery store thursday was Selling sugar at for a 10-Pound bag for a 25-Pound bag and for a 100-Pound bag. Boy killed by dad s truck Bruce Wenham 16, of lot 58 St. Mary s Road was fatally injured wednesday night when he was run Over by his father Cyril Wenham while working on the farm of John Petal in the Stone Wall District. The Accident occurred about 10 . The Bey was hit by a farm truck while he was working in a Field. Or. Wenham took his son to Winnipeg general Hospital where he died at . Or. Truar Coroner has1 ordered an autopsy. No decision on an inquest has been made. Blaze damages duplex unit fire of undetermined origin damaged a two Storey Frame House at 450-452 Mcgee Street late wednesday night. The fire broke out in the North Wall at 452 about . And spread up through the Wall to the second floor. Firemen brought the flames under control within no one was Hurt. The House is owned by m. Gar ton of 311 Mcgee and is occupied by Robert h. Main and his family. Damage to the House was slight and the family of six was move Back water damaged rooms had been cleaned up. Jail for two 3 sentenced for having jewelry loot Trio caught Here with part of Saskatoon haul Winnipeg police on the Lookout for Worth of jewelry stolen from a jewelry Salesman s car in Saskatoon july 2, have caught two men and a woman with a very Small portion of the loot. The two men John Doug Las Simpson 2j, of Ste. Marie ont., and Robert Arthur Macea Cherri 26, of Regina sask., were both sentenced to two months in jail after they pleaded guilty thursday in mag Istrate s court to a joint charge of being in Possession of stolen goods. The goods included neck laces rings watches and Brace lets. The woman was Given a three year suspended sentence on the same charge. Pawned police said they caught the Trio after learning about jewelry be ing pawned at several Winnipeg Pawn shops. Court was told that Simpson when arrested had the jewelry in a locker along with his lug Gage. He had Worth of stolen jewelry when picked up police said. Said he came in pos session of the jewelry when a Man he had met in a downtown cafe told him to pick up a parcel at the general delivery wicket of the main Post office. Simpson said he was told to meet the Man again to give him the parcel but that the Man had t shown up. Simpson said he kept the pack age and later discovered jewelry inside it. Try to sell he said he then contacted Mac Eachern and the woman and the Trio decided to try to sell the jewelry. About Worth of jewelry was stolen july 2 from the jew Elry Salesman s car in Saska Toon but Worth has Al ready been recovered in Saska Toon. Loot in two break ins almost in Cash and More than in cheques and merchandise were taken in two separate break ins overnight police reported thursday. They said in Cash was taken from a filing Cabinet at the Sair tire division of Dunlop Canada ltd., 148 Avenue. Entry was through a Side win Dow. An unspecified number of Sair tire Blank yellow cheques to be drawn on the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Broadway and Hargrave Street May have also been stolen police said. In addition in Cash and in cheques were taken from a Safe at Donovan s Tom boy store 894 Westminster Avenue. Entry was through a Side window. Police said Worth of cigarettes and Coffee was also stolen from the store but Worth was recovered. Flower show the St. James horticultural society will hold their annual exhibition in the auditorium of Linwood school on tuesday and wednesday aug. 13-14. Mrs. C. U. Van Bee Hoff of the nether lands president of the associated countries women of the world will officially open the show on tuesday at . Benny plays 0v Badger game Benny the burrowing Badger has struck. Four Large holes about a foot across appeared wednesday on the second Fairway of the Transcona Golf club Dugald Road and King Street. Beside each Hole was a Heap of Earth Large enough to fill a half of a Bushel bag. But there was no Badger in sight As angry groundskeeper swarmed out armed with snares and traps. The Badger has been around the Golf club since monday when he was spotted near the sixth Hole. Since badgers Are fat and have Short legs they thought he would t get very far while they planned How to trap him. Overnight however he tottered 400 Yards to the second Fairway Laid his four traps for Golf balls and went to ground. Now the Hunt is on in Earnest. He keeps moving says club manager w. J. Wyatt. The Odd person sees him but by the time we get there he is gone club personnel Are too Busy with everyday chores to be come full time game wardens. Assiniboine Park zoo officials say they Are too Busy to Hunt Down the Badger but they will give it a Home if someone Man Ages to catch it. The Transcona Pound has been called in to Aid in the search. And the Manitoba game Branch assured the club that badgers Are not on the protected list so it is All out War. Benny could end his career As a Badger bristle shaving Brush if he drives Transcona golfers too far officials warned ;