Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 7, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba They re essential Wail ambulance firms u Winnipeg wants Siren screams throttled Winnipeg will ask the provincial government to prohibit ambulances from using sirens and from speeding in. Restricted areas such As play ground and school zones. On a motion by aldermen Leonard h. Claydon and Wal Ter Crawford Winnipeg City Council voted unanimously tuesday night to ask the provincial government to introduce a Bill at the next sitting of the Manitoba legislature to Amend the Highway traffic act. No Bells either the City wants the act amended to prevent an ambulance using a. Siren Bell Horn or other signalling de it also wants speeding curtailed. Aid. Claydon said he had talked to numerous medical doctors and not one favored forecast period in Ilinor sunny and warm. Light winds. Low tonight 60, hich thursday to. Temperatures for 24-hour m. Free the Pas Winnipeg fort new York 1 break by Gene Telpner a few nights ago we took an after dinner cruise ii the red River with some boat owning friends. Despite All of the Nasty things that have been said about the red River it was a delightful trip. There is some thing very relaxing about the soft whirr of a propeller powering a luxurious Craft up the peaceful waterway in the Cool of the evening. Shortly after we reached the area of the Manitoba yacht club our Host served cocktails. On the water they seemed to have an extra kick although it May be partly the imagination. It s amazing How Many people have grown to love the Waters we take so much for granted there Are boats on the bed by the dozen. When you Stop to think about it Winnipeg has a lot to offer. Once in a while it does a person Good to take Stock of our positives and forget the negatives. A Young lady i know recently moved into a new apartment. The Telephone left behind had been disconnected but when she picked it up there was a buzzing sound. She tried dialling numbers but nothing worked. Then she tried just dialling two or three numbers at random. The phone rang and she was connected with the free Slie tried another combination of numbers. Again the free press answered. On the third try she asked the free press switchboard operator to Call her. The operator was told by a recorded voice that. Is not a working strange Don t you think busiest Man in town these Days is Bruce Moir chairman of the Canadian pharmaceutical association convention which opens Here later this week. On the personal Side jottings from a reporter s notebook Here s a note for the family pulling a boat trailer Mon Day Between 5 and 6 . At the Falcon Lake Cut off. The Young Man in the car who Cut you off and almost created a fatal Accident has had his licence revoked. A caller who saw the incident thought you d like to know burned out family with no insurance can use a Chest of drawers. Call mrs. Dowsett 475-2042. Bad Luck must come in threes. One of the Manitoba archaeologists who was on a weekend expedition to Cedar Lake proved it tuesday morning. First his trailer hitch broke shortly afterwards he struck a Bear which damaged the front of the car then he ran Over a Skunk. Outside of that it was a pretty routine trip. It happened on the Road Back from Gypsumville. Bobby Spivak Points out that the Milwaukee braves have a Catcher by the name of Torre. In a game with the dodgers Maury wills came blazing into Home plate with his spikes High. Torre instinctively backed away from the noted base stealer and wills was Safe. At that moment braves manager Bobby Bragan reportedly came storming up and cried loudly what s the matter Are you Chicken Catcher this notice was spotted in a loan office window in the u.s., for the Man who has everything and has t paid for in the morning Moil the readers write dear or. Telpner. I won Der if anyone in your vast army of readers knows any thing about ancient Bone jewellery i have a Bone ring which was slowed up in a Field in England Well Over a Hundred years ago. Have often wondered if there is much of this jewellery in collections. Sincerely mrs. L. A. D., Dryden dear sir. I have had the to Oby of collecting Lapel buttons for a Long time. Through you i Hope to be Able to obtain others to Complete my collection. Yours Faith fully Rene r. Basualdo Avda. Pellegrini 1631, Rosario dear or. Telpner. Why do the Sawhorse used As barricades while repairs an being done on Portage Avenue Bear the word inspiration ? seeing the word gives me a chuckle these toot humid Days but it piques my curiosity too. An dear sir. Needing a Small paint Brush i saw my father Cut a lock of my mom s hair and make a Little Brush. Sincerely miss Susan Kowalsky Box 250, Arborg dear Gene. Saw in your column that Manitoba Drivers have no automobile insurance. This in t fair to those of us who do have insurance. Why can t the province pass a Law making car insurance compulsory maybe you can suggest this to someone in the legislature. Yours truly k. E. B., pound9s a lonely place All 35 dogs find Homes the Winnipeg City Pound was caring for 35 dogs monday. Tuesday the Day following a Story in the free press about the nameless strays that had been picked up by the Pound every one of the dogs was sold. Dogs of All colors and sizes some Well trained and some not yet House broken were hustled out of the Pound find into Homes waiting for them. Some will be children s pets others will provide companionship for elderly persons. All of them have escaped the Fate of strays which Are Nei ther claimed nor bought after two or three weeks in the Pound. Pound keeper Joseph Zajacz is very pleased that none of those dogs will have to be put to ambulances using sirens or going at great speeds to get patients to hospitals. He said ambulances used sirens for cheap advertising. They ambulance Drivers get out there with going any time they want. It does to matter if it s an emergency just As Long As people notice police Check it was impractical for the police to Check constantly to see if an ambulance using a Siren actually was on an emergency trip he said. However said Aid. Claydon on one occasion police had Fol Lowed an ambulance which had its Siren screaming Halfway across the City. When police Fin ally checked it he said they found that one of the men in it was going Home. This is typical of what the Wail of sirens on City streets is just cheap Adver Tising for ambulance firms says Winnipeg s Alderman Leonard h. Claydon. Reply firms sirens Are essential to get through traffic., Here Are the details about what Winnipeg City Council wants done about sirens and what the ambulance companies think about it All. 4" without sirens ambulances would never get through great ver Winnipeg emergency spokesmen for City ambulance firms said wednes Day. They were commenting in Telephone interviews on Nipes City Council s decision tuesday night to ask the Manitoba legislature to ban the use of ambulance sirens and also to prohibit ambulances from speeding in restricted areas such As playground and school zones. All of the ambulance spokes men said their sirens Are used Only in times of emergency and that a Driver is liable to a Fine if he abuses noise or Speed regulations. Here Are some of the com ments from the ambulance firm representatives Joe Maeren of aaa ances sirens Are definitely necessary or we would never get through the traffic. It would take us two or three hours City Council is being Ridic Ulous really. I notice that the Winnipeg City police ambulance service has just bought a new ambulance with a Nice big Siren and they Are using Ray Shabou the Transcona ambulance service it does t matter who is driving in front of me. He gets Over to the Side or he gets put there Lack of a Siren would make it a Little tougher on the other automobile Dri because it would be difficult for them to know when an ambulance is coming. Donald Irish of Irish ambulance sirens Are just As necessary for ambulances As for fire trucks. We Are dealing with human life not with grass there was a likelihood of misuse of sirens by Drivers but until the fire depart ment gives up its sirens ambulances should t be required to do this Sidon t think a thing like this the requested legislation will be passed. They tried it in Toronto and it did t work. The Only people who would gain by this move would be the undertakers they com Plain at the hospitals now about the dead on arrivals think what a squawk they would make after this Why have ambulances at All might As Well run a taxi ser r. H. Leiman of Astorian ambulance service sirens Are not required All the time but they Are essential on the main mrs. R. Tardiff of St. Boni face ambulance traffic does t care about an ambulance. They won t give you the Road even if you do have a Siren. Sirens Are very Neces sary in an Winnipeg free press car radios 7 q 50 custom g of str Mojo Jip airs 2.50 30 by Carrier 35c per week Winnipeg wednesday August 7, 1963 single copy Price Loc Advance car radio Centre 436 Sargemt mar Sherbrook phone 7s6-3j47 fear heavy payroll City Council holds up pay raise but new increases for police department approved Winnipeg City Council tuesday sent Back to committee a recommendation for a five per cent across the Board pay increase for civic employees the fire department and the administrative and professional engineering staff. But it agreed to an identical a increase for the police de Arment. In its recommendation the Ommittee on utilities and per Onnel agreed to a five per cent a increase spread Over two ears for the administrative and professional engineering classifications and the members of the federation of civic employees. Aldermen Slaw Bebchuk and Yalter Crawford told Council that committee had been dealing the federation Only and did of have to recommend a pay increase for the other groups. The recommendation for a similar pay increase for the fire men was lumped in with recommendation for a raise for the federation and the administrative and engineering group and was Assed Back to committee. The recommendation for a aise for the police department As a separate Issue. Once the federation and the Ommittee came to agreement he fire and police departments indicated to the committee their willingness to accept similar agreements. New contract the new contract Calls for a two per cent increase retroactive to april 1963 a one per cent increase effective oct. 1 this year and a further two per cent increase effective next april 1. The administrative and engineering classifications had not been negotiating with the City for a new contract Aid. Craw Ford said and there was no Rea son to include a recommendation for a pay increase for them in the motion. A number of aldermen pointed out that an across the Board increase really did t help the Little Man As much As the big Aid. Bebchuk told Council that while he disliked saying it he could see the Day coming when the City would have to have Large scale layoffs because of the Large payroll it would have to meet. Woman fights history needs a cleanup. Solution acid Bath whoops dirty words on fort Garry Gate when you go Oil a guided tour of Winnipeg s Parks and play grounds you find out one thing for sure there s a dirty sign on the old fort Garry Gate. The dirty words Are in two languages. The sign erected by the historical Sites and monuments Board of Canada hangs on the front of the Gate at main Street and Broadway. The Gate once led to the inner Sanctum of fort Garry. It s More easily read if you use a Nail file or other Sharp object to scrape away the crust from some of the letters which All look alike on the Green covered Copper plaque. Winnipeg s City Engineer w. Hurst said during the Winnipeg Parks and recreation Board tour tuesday that the Only tiling the plaque needed was a Good Bath an acid Bath. The touring officials agreed. But it was suggested the sign could t be removed and cleaned up without the historical Board s permission. The alternative was to Bathe the whole Gate thereby clean ing sign and All. Since this seemed impractical the tour officials boarded the tour bus and went to look at another Park where there was t a dirty sign. In Peru s Jungles they la build roads or words by Noel Swann doctor dentist builder Road maker teacher Lan Guage creator these Are some of the roles played at various times by a Canadian missionary and his wife who have spent 16 years in the by Gerry Cairns missionaries Sylvester and Matilda Dirks peruvian Jungles among the Campa indians. The couple Sylvester and Matilda Dirks Are in Winnipeg attending the general Confer ence of the mennonite Breth Ren Church of North Ameri Ca. This is the third time they have come away from their Mission station in Peru on a one year furlough. In 1945, after studying to Gether at the mennonite Bible Institute at Hepburn sask., the couple left for Mexico where they spent 15 months with the Wycliffe Bible translators. Written words Here they. Learned How to convert languages which were Only spoken into written languages. From the spoken Lan Guage a phonemic Alpha bet would be worked out and rules of grammar and syntax would be formulated on information from native informants and Folk lore. In 1946, they were asked to Pioneer the Mission Field among the Campa tribe in the Jungles of East and Central Peru. At that time they had two children. They moved into the area living Anion the indians and started learning their language and customs. Now they have a thriving Mission station with schools and villages around it. They have raised their eight Chil Dren there and have gained sufficient converts among the indians to make the Prospect of a mennonite conference run by natives feasible. Hardships but it has t always been like that. Or. Dirks recalls the times when he had to contend with All sorts of hardships to achieve his Aims there. Without any medical train ing he has extracted several Hundred Teeth treated sores of Snake bite victims dressed hundreds of wounds and trea Ted other illnesses. Or Dirks spent two years working out a written translation of St. John s gospel into the language of the Campa. His translation will be printed before the end of this year. He organized the cutting of a Road through the Jungle path to the City nearest his Mission settlement Talaya five Miles away. He has also built two houses at the settlement hand the planking himself. He and his wife plan to re turn for a further four year period. Takeover bid blasted in St. Vital lots of municipal land for school land owner mrs. Mina Badger of St. Vital lambasted the St. Vital school Board tuesday night for even suggesting that private property in this Case mrs. Badger s expropriated when there is plenty of municipal land around for a new school. Mrs. Badger appeared at tues Day night s meeting of St. Vital City Council to fight for land and in the end she succeeded in stalling any takeover. A school Board request for Council s permission to take Over a five acre parcel of land a the end of Arden Avenue for school site was before Council much of this land still belongs to mrs. She has it. Badger and she says no intention of Selling secret client mrs. Badger told Council she been approached by real estate agent w. S. Mcelhoe. She said he had told her he had a Auyer for her property but would not reveal the client s name. Mrs. Badger said she had phoned the school Board and was old the Board wanted her pro Perty. I have no intention of Selling my mrs., Badger told Council. It has More than paid for a school through taxes since the 1920s. should never be suggested that private property be touched when there is plenty of Munici pal land she said there was no Point in jutting a school on the proposed site in any Case because it s at he end of the Street in a sparse a settled area. 3 years ago the matter first came up three ago when a similar school Ward request was made to coun cil. Mrs. Badger said that at hat time the school Board had threatened to take her property she refused to sell. She had protested and the question had t been raised again until this Spring. Tuesday night Alderman Flor ence Pierce said the Arden Avenue site is no lace for a it should e in the Centre of a District not at the she suggested that instead a Wing or two be added to Hast Ings school two blocks away. Aid. Pierce said there should e no such tiling As the. Word expropriation when a taxpayer has been paying since 1920." ridiculous Aid. F. H. Brennan said it s he most ridiculous thing i be Ever seen to put a school at the end of the a committee of Council was appointed to meet with the school Oard before any further action m the property dispute was Aken. Free press meetings meetings to be held thurs Day in the free press build ing include Board room no. 2f Winnipeg repertory the atre at . Clubroom latin american Institute at . Lawyer asks for delay Bruce Kaiser 17, and Robert Mckenny 23, the two youths who escaped from Brandon jail last month and were recaptured in Winnipeg after a 56-ho.ur Man Hunt were once again remanded in provincial police court wednes Day on charges connected with their escape. No pleas had been entered to he charges. Their lawyer Saul Fromkin told the court that he lad been unable to Complete his work on the. Case while the two youths were being held in Vaughan Street detention Home. The pair was arrested july 14 in a West Winnipeg Home after and City police had spent he weekend combing the metro Winnipeg area for them. Charges Are to be Laid against women in connection with help no Kaiser and Mckenny elude he police search. Escapees picked up near jail two men who escaped pro Uncial jail in i7eadingley, tues Day were returned to custody Early wednesday. Deputy Warden w. E. Lawson Aid Robert Myron 19, of the a my Plains Indian Reserve and Edward Albert Clarke 21, of Man., made their escape while herding cows at the prison. They the Dep Uty Saidi after guard John Brown a them on. A nearby Road. He returned to heading Ley to advise he. Ram who subsequently licked up the men. Myron was serving an 11-month assault sentence and was to be released sept. 22. Clarke was Erving six months for breaking entering and theft and was due or release sept. 18. Meanwhile police in Winnipeg were continuing a search for Robert Joseph 26, of Winnipeg who escaped a City jail a today. Police said he was be ing1 held at the time of his escape pending a court appearance ;