Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunny with a few Cloudy period Todur bad ii wednesday. Little change in temperature. Winds Light at 15 rally per hour becoming rat tool she. Low tonight and High wednesday 40 and 60. Temperatures for the 31-hour period ending at . P Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora Man. 61 54 38 70 63 6-1 min. 47 37 -10 49 31 60 49 60 proc. .70 so .07 .68 .a3 to. To. Max. Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York 86 89 79 so 67 min. 44 49 45 50 75 63 o5 63 Winnipeg free press by Carrier 55c per week Winnipeg tuesday september 17, 1963 single copy Price Loc no refund in St. Vital shouting match erupts Over tax rebate plan a proposal for a general tax rebate for St. Vital ratepayers monday night sparked a shaking shouting match this is How the repaved and widened Section of Jubilee Avenue Between Cockburn and Osborne streets will look on its reopening for traffic wednesday morning. The Street has been closed for two months while metro carried out the work at a Cost of nearly making use of his last Chance to drive his Wagon in safety on the new pavement is David Berozuk 4, of 572 Jubilee. Sirens inquest at Stonewall still howl ambulance sirens will continue to howl in Winnipeg at least until the traffic commission can think of an answer to the prob j died of Lem different from the one sub injuries last an All male fitted to the provincial govern monday fixed no blame and ment recently by City Council. Made no recommendations at an jury attaches no blame in crash which took 3 lives fist bet Ween mayor Harry Collins and Alderman Florence Pierce. Tie Battle erupted when mayor Collins suggested that the rebate proposal advanced by Aid. Pierce was nothing but a Plank in her election platform. After a heated debate Council members voted 3-2 to reject the plan calling for each St. Vital taxpayer to receive a three Mill refund on his 1963 assessment. At the Tail end of the Sam e meeting Aid. Fred h. Brennan read a Type written statement announcing his resignation from Council effective dec. 31. Aid. Brennan who normally would serve another year said afterwards his resignation came about because he s fed Aid. Brennan a former mayor of St. Vital said he has t de from politics or seek the May from politics or seek the mayoralty again. Never again discussing the Pierce plan. Mayor Collins said St. Vital was once on the Edge of bankruptcy. And i m not going to let it Hap pen the mayor whose term expires this year also told Aid. Pierce you wait till you get on a platform with me. I la Tell you a lot More than you d like to hear you la find out More about this municipality than you the City has a Reserve Hardy said a Large part of the we Don t have to borrow from fund of More than in Money is eluding in civic assets j it is common Good business and in unspent 1962 practice to have this Revenue. However Aid. Jack i Aid. Hardy said. It Means that mayor Collins they can have you Ald. Pierce pitiful pitiful Stonewall Man. Staff Highway 6 and Warren Road one after listening to As statement had been made by an a at the aug. 6 City Council on a motion by aldermen Leonard h. Claydon and Walter. Crawford voted unanimously to ask the provincial government to introduce a Bill at the next sit Ting of the Manitoba legislature which would prohibit ambulances from using sirens and from speeding in restricted areas such As playground and school zones. At a City Council meeting Mon Day night mayor Stephen Juba submitted a letter he had re inquest concerning the traffic deaths june 29 of three Winnipeg men near Warren Man. Killed in the Accident were Russell Desjarlais 21, of 48 Lydia Street Harry Joseph Houston 24, of 474 Sargent Avenue and Elwin George Sayer 20, of 722 Maryland Street. The who deliberated for an hour or. Desjarlais and or. Houston met their deaths when burned in the cab of a half ton track. Or. Say Cei Ved from attorney general Jer died july 25 in Winnipeg Gen Sterling Lyon in reply to the eral Hospital As a result of Sec Ond and third degree Burns to-40 per cent of his body. Across Lane tie Accident occurred at ., june 29 on a straight stretch of Road at the Junction of Council s Resolution on ambulance sirens and Speed. The letter advised mayor Juba j that the attorney general s department was unable to re com mend an amendment to the High Way traffic act As suggested by the Council. The letter said that the depart ment could t recommend the change on the principle that the abatement of a nuisance should t be accomplished by a Law the enforcement of which might Lead to a delay in medical attention in urgent situations. When he presented his motion to City Council Aid. Claydon had said he had talked to numerous medical doctors and of them had favored ambulances using sirens or going at great speeds to get patients to Hospi tals. He said ambulances used sirens for cheap memo dictated to him by or. Half mile from Warren. The half ton truck driven by or. Houston was in collision with a White panel truck driven by Louis David Militare of lunar. Man. Or. Militare was charged with impaired driving following the Accident. Or. Militare will Appeal in court in Stonewall sept. 23 on the charge of impaired driving. His wife Mary Militare was the Only passenger in the panel truck. Coroner or. F. L. Evelyn of Stonewall called on ramp con stable David doer to give Testi Mony on the Accident and his subsequent investigation. Con stable doer of the Stonewall detachment and Corporal Arvin Neilson attended the Accident. The half ton truck was 50 feet South of the. Junction on the right Side of the Highway facing East. It was lying across the East Lane. One Hundred and fifty feet North was a White panel truck in the West ditch. It was City Man posed Sale to Nikita a Winnipeg lawyer tuesday revealed How his personal visit with russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev May have paved the Way for the Gigantic wheat Sale to the soviet Union announced this week. Wasyl Swystun has produced a ambulance firm spokesmen in commenting on the City Council s motion said ambulances would never get through greater Winni Peg traffic in an emergency with out using sirens. The matter was referred Back to the traffic commission for fur ther study. Khrushchev on june 5, 1954, in which the soviet Leader said there was a possibility for a Concrete Trade Between us Russia and Canada and does not exclude the possibility for the soviet Union of buying Canadian or. Swystun said a copy of the memo was turned Over to the music men plan National festival plans for an annual National music Competition festival to be inaugurated in 1967 As part of Canada s Centenary celebrations were announced at the men s musical club annual meeting Mon Day night. Richard Cooke club president said the idea has been brewing for several years but had been delayed due to problems of Fin Ance and the difficulty of establishing standards that can be recognized As National in the various provincial Competition festivals. The National festival As described by or. Cooke and by Reg Hugo president of the federation of Canadian music. Festivals would be open to winners in provincial festivals but Only those who met a certain Standard. Not All winners would automatically be features of the National Lesti Val would be a High Content of Canadian compositions some commissioned among the test pieces and a Range of classes in which Canadian composers could compete. Plans have progressed to the syllabus stage adjudicators Alec Redshaw and Massie Hancock have collaborated on this but not quite to a decision on the Loca Tion of the festival. We be thought of the o Keefe Centre in said or. Cooke but thinking is about As far As we be got with that part of Canadian external affairs department and was mentioned two years later in 1956, when the first Canadian russian Trade agreement was signed. Or. Swystun said he interviewed or. Khrushchev on june 5, 1954, and with the approval of the then Canadian ambassador to Russia suggested the possibility of the soviet Union making wheat purchases in Canada. Or. Swystun said he never made his visit Public because re lations Between Canada and rus Sia were not As amicable then and his visit to Russia could have been misjudged by Many canadians of ukrainian background living in Winnipeg. Or. Swystun said that when he suggested to the russian Premier that the soviet Union might buy Canadian wheat in the future or Khrushchev said Why the soviet Leader then dictated a memorandum to or. Swystun which the Winnipeg lawyer trans lated into English and re submit Ted for verification. After he go it Back from the russian author ties he turned it Over to the can Adian external affairs depart ment. Traffic tips Rushing Roulette tailgating Avith some Drivers it s a Chicken game a sort of Rushing Roulette. It s a Gamble that pays off in rear end collisions Ali splash injuries clients crushed by steering wheels and Windshield fractured skulls. The Jack pot is death. With other Drivers tailgating is simple carelessness but results can be equally tragic. Stay at least one car length be Hind the car in front for every 10 Miles an hour of Speed. That s the Law and it makes sense. Don t Tail Gate. Pright and the left front was extensively he said. The scene was examined and debris where the vehicles Collid d was in the East Lane opposite be White panel truck. The Point f collision appeared to be in the ast Lane. This Means the half on truck driven by or. Houston would have been in the wrong Ane at the Point of Impact. Charred bodies later Constable doer said he found two badly charred bodies n the cab of the half ton truck iut there was no sign of a third Nan. At this Point an unidentified woman began sobbing and was sorted out of the Parish Hall there the inquest was held. Or. Evelyn then asked that the statement of Elwin Sayer who died in Hospital july 25, be read o the jury. The statement read in full shortly after supper june 28 1 went to Desjarlais Home. We picked up Houston Down town my drove out to St. Ambroise Manitoba. We Hung around the 300 Hall until about . And got a bottle of wine. We drank it and then went to a Louse across the Street and had a few Beers. We could t find a party so we decided to go Home. 3n the Way Home i fell asleep. Think know at the at Polo Park warm Winter mall planned for shops shoppers at Polo Park win Aid. Pierce who also must j Nipes s largest shopping Centre will be Able to do their Christmas shopping this year by moving seek re election this fall immediately jumped to her feet to protest the mayor s com ments. Ill debate with you any she told or. Collins. You re out of order All the time. Sit there in your chair and keep quiet that s what you should Reserve fund Only Aid. Brennan supported Aid. Pierce when the tax rebate scheme was put to a vote. Both these Council members maintained that St. Vital s excess Revenue should be used for tax Relief instead of being put into a huge Reserve fund. According to Aid. Pierce s we hit something i saw a hash. I woke up in the ditch then someone picked me up and drove me to drank Beer or. Militare was not called upon to speak but asked that his statement be read. He said that on the afternoon of june 28 he took his truck in to be repaired in Winnipeg. He went to a motor hotel and had a few Beers. He went Back to see if the truck was ready but it was t. Then he went to a hotel and had a few More Beers. He picked up his wife at his Mother s and then left for Home. About the Accident or. Mili Taire said i saw the other truck in flames. I sat Down on the running Board of my truck got up and waved my flashlight around to attract other cars. I saw this other fellow walking around badly burned. Then other cars arrived. I went Over to the burning pick up truck but it was impossible to get near. A few minutes later the ramp a woman faints during the report of the Winnipeg general Hospital s pathology department another woman collapsed. She fainted and was carried out of the Hall. The report showed that or. Desjarlais died of Complete Char ring and destruction of the body. Or. Houston died of multiple fractures Complete charring and partial destruction of the body and or. Sayer died of second and third degree Burns to 40 per cent of his body on july 25. Orchestra to tour the Winnipeg symphony or Chestra is planning out of town performances this year. It will present concerts in the Lakehead Bottineau North Dakota bran Don and Altona. It will also visit Roblin Dauphin and fun flon. The orchestra will appear at the Lakehead oct., 17 Bottineau North Dakota in the Spring of 1964 Brandon March 17 and Altona april 9. Austerity hits civic luncheons Winnipeg City Council voted 13 to 5 monday night to adopt a new policy to Cut expenses for civic luncheons for visiting Conven ions. On a recommendation from i in finance committee Council agreed to keep a More watchful Eye on their a year Bud let for civic luncheons and Din lers. The new policy is that dinners or luncheons will be tendered Only for National or International organizations As far As possible that have not been so honoured for at least five years and that the maximum amount spent on each dinner will be approximately Council Hopes this will enable them to make sure that significant conventions will not be Over looked because they Are held during the last months of the year. This year the Money allocated for dinners is almost spent. Be cause of this several organizations that Council feels should be getting civic dinners will have to be turned Down. Giant hotel for City metro s zoning Board will soon be asked to approve plans for a 24-Story hotel and office build ing on the West Side of memorial Boulevard Between Portage and St. Mary avenues. Bernard glow a spokesman for the developers said tuesday the proposed Struc Ture will occupy tie service Sta Tion property formerly owned by Imperial Oil Ltd. The developers will be Atlas finance and realty corporation a Calgary firm con trolled Jack and by Singer. Jack Singer first entered the Winnipeg real estate Market about three months ago when he and a Toronto associate purchased the nine Story Somerset build no on Portage Avenue. According to or. Glow plans or the new memorial Boulevard milling Are proceeding rapidly y a Calgary architect. He said plans will be completed in time or presentation to metro s Zonin Board on oct. 1. We will make a full scale announcement in a couple of or. Glow said. We expect this new building will be a real landmark in tentative plans for or. Singer s new Winnipeg office building vere first disclosed about a month ago. Rpm store to store in 70-degree Emper lure. Senior executives of Fairview shopping centres Ltd., owners if the Polo Park Centre announced monday that work will com Mence immediately on a half million Dollar mall enclosure which will be heated in the Winter and air conditioned in the sum Ner. Work on the steel supported Structure which will cover 000 Square feet and connect 48 new fee for Bike licence Winnipeg City Council monday night passed a bylaw amending the present City licence bylaw which will raise the fee cyclists pay from 75 cents to the bylaw which will come into effect on Jan. 1, 1964, was presented to Council by the health and welfare committee. The fee raise was suggested to the health and welfare commit tee by City licence inspector James Barrie because expenses in running the bicycle licence Section exceeded fees collected by this was due or. Bar Rie said to higher costs in administration and an increase in bicycle thefts in the past few years. The increase will be the first change in the licence fee since 1954. Fee is expected to raise More a year. Lyon sees night court continued attorney general Sterling Lyon said monday that Winnipeg s night traffic court will probably be continued. The City police commission has already decided that the court has proven itself after a is month trial and have said they will ask or. Lyon to extend i on a permanent basis. The Banks. We can finance Many of our own projects without having to pay interest on Bank Aid. Hardy also said the Pierce plan was impractical because it would Cost St. Vital thousands of he said the City would be put to the. preparing a special rebate bylaw listing the name of every tax payer in the municipality. Prudent operation the proper procedure is to pass on any savings when we prepare the 1964 Aid. Hardy said. We Don t have to have a profit but we have to operate a letter to Council from the municipality s solicitors cast doubts on the legality of Aid. Pierce s plan. As a result coun cil members decided to Check with the provincial minister of municipal affairs for an opinion. After Aid. Pierce s proposal was Defeated on first Reading Calm prevailed for Only a few minutes. The fierce Collins hostilities were renewed when the aldermen brought Forward a scheme calling to stabilize residential assessments for five years. It s not an election Plank i your election the mayor asked Aid. Pierce. Why Are you jumping into this now you could have brought it up when you were a member of the court of no t a. Plank it s not an election Plank i Don t need replied Aid. Pierce. Well i need lots otherwise he people might elect said he mayor and if the people vant you they can have you. They sure can have pitiful said Aid. Pierce. A Grade 7 student could do Aid. Pierce said she has no mayoralty aspiration preferring stores is expected to be completed by december. Four entrances Access to the mail will be from the parking lot at any of the four entrances. Ceiling of Hie enclosure will be of a combination of stucco and tile with Glass areas Over the Central Pool and other Points. It was designed by Winnipeg architects Green Blankstein and Russell. The improvement is said to be a first in shopping Centre history in Canada. Although a number of shopping centres in the United states have been considering the same improvement As a second stage of construction it is believed that Polo Park May be the first shopping Centre on the continent to do so. Community affairs a. C. Shedden general Man Ager of Simpson Sears the Lar Gest store in the Complex said the enclosed mall would provide a greater Opportunity for the Centre to co operate in Community affairs. We Hope that Many service clubs charitable and religious organizations in our immediate communities of Winnipeg St James Tuxedo and Charleswood. As Well As from the other municipalities of greater Winnipeg will use these unequalled facilities As a Community Centre in which to hold their he said. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Wednesday in the free press building include Board room no. 2, Canadian music Al revue majorettes mothers auxiliary clubroom British wives club. To seek office As an Alderman at the forthcoming elections. But i d like to run for mayor against she told re porters. Bullet inquiry starts the tuesday opened a court of inquiry into Circum stances surrounding an Rifle Bullet which entered an Assiniboia Home sunday and just missed mrs. Albert Wynne a 28-year-old Mother of five children. Late monday ordnance authorities determined that the spent Bullet found in tie Assini Boia House was a .762 round of the Type fired by the s in rifles. The Bullet May have come from the St. Charles ranges about a mile from the House where members of the Queen s own Cameron highlanders militia were conducting Range fir Ings. The ranges have dirt Mounds about 25 feet High and firing Points from 100 to Yards from these Mounds. The court of inquiry will investigate whether it is pos sible for stray bullets from tie ranges to penetrate As far As the newly built up areas of the municipality. When the ranges were first established they were Anjany Miles from the nearest Homes but new build ing has placed Homes much closer to tie firing Points. The language of color reveals secrets to the investigator by Chris lad a powerful separation technique using the principles of co Lor writing can now help deter mine what caused an explosion what pollutes air or water and whether a drunk is really a drunk. Prof. Samuel Sander of the University of Toronto s chemical engineering department outlined these facts monday during an. Interview. In Winnipeg to address the inaugural meeting of a Winnipeg Gas chromatography discussion group or. Sander said that Gas chromatography provides Power Ful problem solving tools for science and technology. What it does is take complicated mat Ter either liquid or gaseous and separate it into simple components for he said. Gas chromatography was pioneered in England in 1952 by two biochemists or. A. T. James and or. A. T. P. Martin. Earlier however in 1906, a russian botanist first became aware of its possibilities. He made an extract of the Green color in plants and placed it on a column or tube which was packed with powdered Chalk. After the tube was washed with a solvent various colors were seen forming at . What he had done was separate the various constituents of today s method is much More advanced. A Gadget called a Chromatogram separates the different constituents or. Sander said the Cremato Gram separates each constituent and its identity is then Analysed with an info red Spectra photo Wietry. He said that 12 years ago the same analysis would have taken 10 to 1.5 hours if it could have been done at All. Now it takes Only 15 minutes. In crime detection the Chromatogram can be used on samples of fire or explosion once the components Are broken down1 and identified the chemist can. Get some idea of its origin. Or. Sander said the Chromatogram has been used successfully by the ramp to determine the alcoholic Content in breath and in blood. Other tests can be fooled by different constituents in the breath of diabetics for example but this can t happen with the ;