Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 11, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Forecast of com Mut is tomorrow. Low tonight 45 Lor 21-Nour period ending . Max. Min. Prec. Vancouver. 71 58 Calgary 78 58 morning sunny in the Northeast 15 ton Stit Ohleh tomorrow 65. Temperatures wednesday Max. Min. 64 67 79 is s8 s2 54 44 66 74 63 64 to 84 73 s3 71 60 59 46 61 52 .07 .09 .71 .01 .07 Chicago Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Angeles Minneapolis new York Winnipeg free i press by Carrier 35c per week Winnipeg wednesday september 11, 1963 single copy Price inc car radios 29 50 custom i car radio repairs 2.50 r you c0ffee7 break Gene Telpner a the end of this year you can kiss goodbye to those old battered licence plates. Nothing much new about the color of the 1964s, yellow background with Black lettering. But there is one thing new. When the renewal forms go out later in the year you May not receive one if you be moved since january. I was speaking to an official of the motor vehicle Branch and he said people who have moved should Send us their registration cards showing a change of address then Well mail them out a corrected one. Other Wise they might not be getting a notice along with everyone also found out that the Pioneer motoring Breen family has been receiving the number 1a1 for count less years and i imagine they la get it Hack next year. In the ., the state of California is issuing special plates to members of press radio and Tele vision. Nothing on this in Manitoba although Ham radio operators will be Able to get special plates Here in 1964. Mks. Isabel Collins of 767 Spruce Street had a rather unusual experience recently in a Grafton North Dakota supermarket. In payment for groceries she handed the clerk a s2 Bill. Sorry we can t take that without discounting it for the declared the clerk. But protested mrs. Collins. The clerk explained patiently that Canadian Money was Worth less therefore it was necessary to charge the Exchange. Mrs. Collins did t object to that line of reasoning at All. But in this Case she did because it was a S2 Bill she gave the clerk. Apparently they Don t recognize their own currency or it May be that s2 Bills Are scene in the City jottings from a reporter s notebook the St. for retarded children at St. Boni face Sanatorium urgently needs Volunteer women willing to take these youngsters for afternoon walks. There Are 73 children Able to go out for walks but there has been a big decline in Volunteer groups. If you re interested in this worthwhile project Call mrs. E. W. Manning at Alpine 6-1080 or sister Lane at St. Boniface Sanatorium. A Mother phoned to say this i was Wheeling my in month Oid son through a Large downtown department store when he grabbed at a lady s purse. She turned to me and snapped gee he s sure Start ing now what did she mean by that i think it was a Nasty Indian Metis Friendship Centre at 376 Donald Street makes handicrafts for Sale. They have no funds and operate on a shoestring. If you have any of those old Christmas card boxes with Clear plastic tops in which they can package the goods they make they would certainly appreciate them perfect cribbage hand for g. S. Kennedy 12 ambassador apartments. Fort Garry housewife says we live in a new suburb out Here and we were told mail could t be delivered unless we get a proper sidewalk for the postman to walk on for safety purposes. So we did put in a sidewalk and it s been in for some time. Now my question is Why does the mailman insist on cutting across my Lawn instead of using the Side walk we put it in because they raised such a fuss about noise Check asked can t sleep say residents of fort Garry fort Garry Muni Cipal Council tuesday promised to investigate a complaint that noise from a factory was forcing at least one resident to sleep away from Home. The complaint lodged by a delegation of Waterford Avenue residents against Pioneer elec tric Ltd., said the firm was operating 24 hours a Day six Days a week. Arthur Baler 1009 Waterford Avenue spokesman for. The group told Council that manage ment at the factory had eliminated some of the noise when complaints were made but there was still so much noise at All hours of the Day and night thai it was getting past the Point of real nuisance it was a real nuisance to taxpayers in the area or. Bat or said and if a petition from residents on Waterford Avenue and Waterford Bay was first required to get Council to act the petition would be circulated promptly he said. The delegation wants the firm to insulate its building to stifle i the noise keep doors and vents of the building closed at All times and eliminate vents on the South Side of the building. The residents also want the firm to discontinue using its incinerator which was reported to give off a Tariff in the firm should be forced to have the waste taken away and Dis posed of elsewhere the delegation maintained. Threatens action Advance Carbajo Centre 636 Sargent near scr Brook phone ailing mine Calls for trained help san Antonio shareholders told prospects at Bissett promising by Roger Newman the fortunes of Bissett s ailing san Antonio Gold mine can be reversed if the company can obtain the services of 10 experienced miners Ralph g. Henderson san Antonio president told the company s annual meet ing Here tuesday. Speaking to 21 shareholders or. Henderson a Toronto executive said he believes the mine can operate at a profit if it can find the 10 miners to run important equipment that is now standing which lost five month Idle. San Antonio during the v a f when capt George Proctor left flies out to Windsor and Toronto this afternoon he will become the first trans Canada airlines Pilot in Winnipeg to Complete flying hours on Domestic routes. This is the equivalent of years continuous flying Over a distance of live million Miles. To Mark the occasion a group of his fellow pilots gave him a picture of a vis count in flight. Above he is seen talking to capt. Ronnie Giguere Airport flight operations manager about his Accident free duplication discord Roblin Calls for United Effort to solve problems of growth voice of the people in a recent column i mentioned that Irish Stew is not native to Ireland Swiss Steak in t a Swiss dish and similar oddities. This prompted an amusing and informative letter from mrs. R. Damer of. Winnipeg who was raised in Holland. Mrs. Damer explains that in her native Holland when teen agers brought their own food and drink to a party it was called an american and when girls paid their own Way to a movie it was termed an american she never heard the phrase dutch treat used until she moved to North America. So there goes another fable. They re having problems out in Elkhorn Man. Florrie g. Gibbs of that Community writes that the construction of a new sewage collection and disposal system is Only half completed. But it s been brought to the attention of the Village Council that some people were already using the sewer facilities even though they Aren t ready to function. So at the regular Council meeting tuesday a bylaw was enacted whereby no person shall permit the use of the system until full completion and operation of the system. Every person who Contra Venes the provisions of this bylaw shall pay a penalty not exceeding for each or. Eater said he was t just asking but demanding that the matter be rectified or the group was prepared to take be Gal action. Mayor l. R. Fennell said that was the first official notice the Council had. Received about the noise. He said a report suggest ing suitable remedies would be made shortly. A spokesman for Pioneer elec tric said wednesday his firm was planning to build immediately an anti noise Fence Simi Lar to those used at the Airport. The spokesman said the firm also planned to move the noisy part of their operation to the Centre of their 10-acre site away from the nearby residential areas. He said the firm was anxious to avoid causing any disturbance. In other business Council decided to prepare a bylaw re Quested by the Parks Board which would provide for the Levy of one Mill for maintenance and operation of Community centres. To wait of a report before taking further action on Why the water Utility had lost Money Dur ing the past eight months. A Call for More co operation Between the Federal and provincial governments in the Effort to solve the problems of nation Al growth was made tuesday by Premier Duff Roblin. Speaking to the 61st annual conference of the Canadian inst or. Roblin said the duplications not Only do no Good in them selves but inflame and emitter our current debate on the Constitution and provincial same task giving As an example the tute of chartered accountants in fact that Manitoba already has the fort Garry hotel the Mani an economic consultative com Toba Premier said the Over All j Mittee or. Roblin pointed out Cit Rahnn Pinic nut for a new that Ottawa has now legislated situation Calls out for a new approach new machinery for Federal provincial action and co criticizing Federal duplication for an economic Council of can Ada. Manitoba has Long had a Job stimulating department of in of existing provincial agencies l Dusty and Commerce. Ottawa Assiniboia hits troublesome act the Rural municipality of Assiniboia wednesday charged the provincial department of Munici pal affairs with a calculated and deliberate move to prevent it from using a revolving fund in Stead of borrowing to finance its capital projects. In a Brief to the Mich Mer school bus Back in St. Boniface metro transit officials said wednesday school bus service will be re introduced Friday in the Blair Burns Way Section of East St. Boniface. The move cancels parents ear Lier plans to take drastic Mea sures if the bus service was t revived. A metro spokesman said the Blair Burns Way service has been opera no for several years but was stopped this fall because District roads were in a Slippery and unsafe condition. However the spokesman said the problem has been overcome because St. Boniface Public works employees Gravelled the roads this week. The decision to re introduce the bus service was reached at a meeting tuesday afternoon be tween metro transit officials and St. Boniface Alderman h. L. Softley who is also District schools superintendent. Aid. Softley said parents complained that their children were in danger because they have to walk along Highway 59 to catch a bus for King George elementary school. According to Aid. Softly Che new bus route will travel along Highway 59, Dugald Road Burns Way Blair and Holden. Pickup Point for the children will be Blair and Burns Way. About 75 children will use the bus service. It was t sleeping sickness a year old St. James boy undergoing diagnosis in St. Boniface Hospital to determine if he was suffering from sleeping sickness apparently was t. Results of blood tests taken tuesday had not been received wednesday but provincial officials reported that he has Al ready recovered from his illness. This indicates that whatever it was it was not sleeping sick Here s a timely re minder i d like Royal commission on taxation the municipality said that the revolving fund had proved to be of tremendous value in providing the finances required for local the municipality set up the fund in 1955 out of profits derived from the Sale of municipal land. Between 1955 and 1962 it grew from to it helped finance projects Worth More than this revolving fund system that without any doubt proved to be a sound fiscal policy and of great Benefit to the municipal Ity was fully endorsed in the beginning and later acclaimed by the department of municipal affairs for its Winter works hit the Brief stated however in 1962 the department of municipal affairs in effect declared revolving funds to be illegal has now created its new department of Industry to do the ame he said. Or. Roblin viewed the Agri cultural rehabilitation and de act As the prototype of future Federal provincial co operation in regional economic _ de period ending May 31 was recently forced to request a 000 provincial loan after a former company director depleted a Large part of the mine s work ing capital. Now that the provincial loan has gone through our problem has been reduced to or. Henderson said. If we can find a Baker s dozen Worth of miners we can turn the fortunes of the san Antonio housing project or. Henderson said there is a shortage of experienced mine labor with 40 per. Cent of Bis sett s work Force moving on each year. He said that to stabilize the mine s labor situation the company is now starting to build a housing project at the Bissett Tow site. We must have housing if we Ore to attract miners to Mani he said. " and we have a fair indication that Well get them once the project is completed. Our directors would t have started on the housing if they did t expect that Well soon have a sound mining invest cent of the minority shareholders got nothing when the Deal went through. I m not a forty four share Holder but i still think the Deal was he said. I Don t think one Manitoba com Pany should treat another in such a disgraceful in re ply or. Henderson said san an Tonio was forced to quickly gather in All its assets when the crisis struck last Winter. He said combining the two properties enabled the mine to obtain greater government Assis Tance and our first thought was for the Community of Bis the firm s annual report distributed at the meeting showed that the mine had a loss during the five months ending May 31, 1963. Working capital at the end of May stood at a decrease of from de Cember s figure. Or. Henderson later told re porters there is still no Trace of Toronto investor Max Isaacs the company director who is blamed Cucui Pmj a ii a elopement programs. For depleting Sari Antonio s work Arda he said was a remark ref nip and this in spite of the fact that to the knowledge of All this fund has operated with Success Foi Many the department the Brief held interpreted provincial legislation As requiring that proceeds from the Sale of land be used to pay current expenditures of Munici Ali ties. In the Early part of 1963, when compiling the 1962 report the municipal auditor began the de volition of this fund leaving in its Wake chaotic conditions and grave and lasting damage to the finances of the corporation. One of the consequences of this action is that the municipal Ity will have to forgo its win Ter works program with the loss of income from this fund. It will also have an Adverse effect on its free press meetings meetings to be held thurs Day in the free press build ing include 2 . Clubroom Manitoba old age pensioners society . Board room no. 2, Winnipeg Reper tory theatre . Club room the latin american Institute. Arda he said was a ably successful example of fed eral and provincial authorities working together to improve the Basic efficiency of Canadian agriculture. Under Arda with a Small number of top flight Federal peo ple it was possible to initiate and implement a National pro ram of agricultural development and adjustment. They do this by making maximum use of the provincial organization already in existence for the same pratfalls possible an Over centralized Federal development program or. Roblin said would probably fall Flat on its turning to the activities of the committee on Manitoba s economic future he said that his government s concern at the slow rate of economic growth in the province led to the formation of e committee. Only by following the com Littee s procedures and by con suing self evaluation and dec nomic planning can Canada Olve its problems the Prem or said. He concluded that the need to reconcile the constitutional ques on with economic activities ant policies of the Federal govern ment in a manner consistent Ith our National purpose is believe one of the Root causes t the base of our present in Appy problem of . Mackling s sword still drawn collection period this weekend police Chase big cat at air station squads of armed police tues Day searched the Bush near Craf station Winnipeg after an animal reported to be a Bobcat or Lynx was spotted running across a Field about 3 . By a department of transport employee. Assiniboia St. James and Craf police combed the area North of Why Tewold near the East runway but failed to find the animal. St. James police said wednes Day no further complaints had been received and the search was called off. They think the animal May have moved to the neighbouring Assiniboia area. Traffic tips tire change Hazard repairs As Long As tires go Flat there la be the Driver who makes wheel changing a Hazard As Well As a chore. Blithely parking on the pave ment he goes to work As if the Road were his private drive Way. He commonly Parks on a curve blocking the View in both directions evidently undisturbed by the thought that a passing car might have too Little room to get by and that he and his car Are most Likely candidates for collision. The Highway is designed for mov k ing traffic. If you have a wheel to change get off the Road no capital last. Year. Before the province rushed to the Rescue in Lay fears were expressed that in mine would have to shut own leaving Bissett a ghost or. Isaacs was officially re moved from the firm s Board of directors at the tuesday meet no. His place was taken by or. M. S. Hollenberg the first Manitoba Man to sit on the boar Ince the mine was in Eastern interests. Or. Henderson was re elected president with c. A. Burns the Bissett general manager As vice president. Other directors Are g. Lawson w. W. Davison and w. C. Ringsleben. New Ore found during the meeting both or. Henderson and or. Burns were subjected to intensive question ing by the shareholders. In reply to a question or. Burns said the company has discovered As much new Ore As it has mined this year. For the first time in Many years our Ore reserves have held or. Burns said. We be discovered quite a bit of new Ore but the Grade in t quite As High As it has been in the one Winnipeg shareholder j. Halprin attacked san Antonio for the manner in which it took Over the adjacent operations of forty four mines Ltd. Or. Hal Prin said san Antonio controlled 77 per cent of forty four s shares but the remaining 23 per ask Public inquiry on pensions the member Winnipeg chamber of Commerce has sent a Telegram urging the Federal government to immediately establish a Public or parliamentary inquiry into the government s proposed Canada pension. The wire signed by chamber president d. C. Groff says an inquiry should be held before any legislative action is taken on the proposed pension plan. It also re quests government Assurance that interested parties will have an Opportunity to present their views before the pension plan becomes Law. Or. Groff said the Telegram was sent to Judy Lamarsh fed eral health and welfare minister after the pension plan was considered by the chamber s executive Council. He said the plan appears to have several flaws on he surface but we won t know unless there s an nobody denies that canadians must have worthwhile pensions and living or. Groff said. But in the Case of a National pension plan everything must be done to ensure that it will be set up in the most efficient he said he believes govern ment pension proposals Haven t been sufficiently examined and the government should t be forced to hurry legislation due to political considerations. B Nai b Rith meeting b Nai brith Garden City Lodge will open its season monday sept. 16 at . In the per Etz school Jefferson and teak Wood avenues. Professor Don Ald Whyte of the University of Manitoba will speak on the nature of prejudice. Builder wins first clash in St. James Apt. Battle a St. James development firm tuesday night won the first in its Battle to build a line Storey apartment Block in the Birchwood Heights Section of St. James. St. James City Council voted to 2 to permit the Borger co. To exercise its option on a site an the South Side of Portage Avenue near Olive Street. Voting against the option were aldermen a. H. Mackling who proposed the original motion and Russell Pawley. The Council s special meeting tuesday climaxed a three month Campaign against the proposed 210-suite building by Aid. Mack Ling and a group of Birchwood Heights residents after the vote Wasi taken a spokesman for the Burger Lount co. Said his firm Hopes to proceed immediately with construe Tion of the million project to be known As Pinewood Terrace. To present plans the firm will present its construction plans to the St. James property committee thursday afternoon. Then the committee s recommendation will be placed before foe St. James Council for a final decision at the regular meeting next tuesday night. Aid. Mackling said wednesday tie intends to continue his fight All the Way he said he expects a delegation of Resi dents will oppose the apartment Block at both the property com Mittee and Council meetings my position is that i will try to exert enough pressure to have this building scaled Down to a reasonable Aid. Mackling said. People in Birchwood Heights want the privacy and amenities of a Normal Community they Don t want to live in the Shadow of a Large Aid. Mackling said the developers had left then property standing Idle for seven years. He called the situation a joke and a other properties besides the apartment prop erty Borger Lount also holds options on another 450 feet of por Tage Avenue frontage near Moray Street plus a third vacant parcel South of Lake Street. The developers Wie meet with the St. James Council to discuss these properties As soon As the apartment scheme is completed. A St. James aldermen except Aid. Ron Gillies attended tuesday s meeting. The developers were represented by Wil Liam Lount Burt Stoval and their Legal representatives
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