Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 18, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Twat of a it. Cloudy. Clear Lar overnight. Sunny and Little i1 ult Liao Al s warmer thursday. Wind will be Light Aitch at 15 indies per hour thursday afternoon. Wrt and 65. Tape nature. Lor 24-hour, period ending Park a Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora 36 48 40 55 45 .03 42 39 .01 70 49 .07 74 57 .37 66 49 Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York 69 60 .42 s8 66 s7 77 .02 71 69 .49 s3 66 .07 68 65 is 1 Winnipeg free i press by Carrier 3sc per week Winnipeg wednesday september 18, 1963 single copy Price we car radios 2.9 50 custom installed up car radio repairs 2.50 Whitt you Watt 30 i Hotl St vhf Advance car radio Centre 636 Sargent of feb she rebook phone Hospital Start in april Coffee break. Gene Telpner people Aist places Marie Hohtanz who once had an afternoon show on Channel 7, is Back in Tele vision. She s doing the same Type of show for Calgary s Channel 4, a ctr affiliate sir Judson Smith of Back to Back belly to belly Fame is sending out press releases like mad. His most recent one came from Fritzel s in Chicago where he s playing. The release quotes All the Good things said about him in Winnipeg by Don Peters in the St. Vital Lance. No mention of what else was said about him. Laurie Peppin the Winnipeg Boxer who had some unforgettable fights with Frank Battaglia is ailing in King Edward Hospital. Fight fans will re member him. I understand he s Able to move around now on crutches speaking of fighters Cassius Clay is making a new album for Columbia records called i am the greatest among the numbers in the album Are i am the double greatest and will the real Sonny listen please fall according to Clay he s going to Send the first copy to that ugly Tom Ashmore who writes the continuity column in the Clever Krc weekly publication dial log was rack ing his brains for a title. So he stole one from us decided to Call it Copee break. Wonder if editor Don Slade will put up with such plagiarism the . Census Bureau reports a girl starts worrying about finding a husband at the age of 15. If she Iii t married by the time she is 25 her chances Start to decline. When a woman reaches 31, the Odds Are Only 50-50 that she will get married and when a Gal is 40 the Odds against her Are 4 to 1. Best time for a girl to get a husband is at 23, claims the Bureau. Come to think of it Liz Taylor sure played havoc with the Odds. In the morning mail the readers write dear sir. This summer we took a trip through the Northern part of British Colum Bia. We became very conscious of Many freshly painted Pink buildings. Finally someone in our car suggested that this was probably a tourist attraction advertising the Pink Salmon of . This seemed like such a Bright and sensible idea that we accepted it. We were completely convinced of this when at a restaurant in Cache Creek the waitresses appeared All wearing Pink uniforms. Even the men and women signs on the restrooms were painted Pink. When we arrived at Kamloops and found the House next door to where we stayed painted a Salmon congratulated the owner on his tourist patriotism commenting what a Bright idea on someone in the province s part to suggest the Pink paint. Scratching his head he said to me lady i Don t know what you re talking about. The color of my House is chinese. Coral i m sick of it and this Countryside is painted that sincerely mrs. J. R. A. Pollard 2213 Garnet Street Regina something to Crow about if you be Ever driven along a country Road certainly the sight of Black rows is a common one. These arrogant Black Birds seem so confident almost As though Man is no match for them. Perhaps they Are right and John Madson in stories from under the sky has a rather interesting paragraph to do with crows. He writes even if you Don t care much for the Crow you have to give him his due. I be always had a deep almost reverent Awe for the raucous old Rascal the sort of feeling that i usually Reserve for space scientists and extremely angry women. For one thing the Crow has nearly every hand turned against him but gets along just Fine. Men bomb him Poison him gun him Down but he still flourishes and apparently there s not much we can do about it. There s a reason for this. The Crow is just about the end Point of Avian evolution. He s gone about As far As a Bird can go and is splendidly equipped for survival under an immense Range of diet and living conditions. Hard feathered and sleek he has a voice like a Wood Asp and a mind like a Dia salvation has t chosen name yet architects Are going ahead with preliminary drawings for the new 250-bed salvation general Hospital in St. James and construction is expected to begin in april next year an spokes Man said wednesday. The new Hospital will nol be called Grace Hospital but will operate under a name still to be decided by salvation National Headquarters in Toronto. Tenders for the building will be called As soon As preliminary drawings have been completed and approved by the Manitoba Hospital commission and sketch plans and specifications have been drawn up. The new Hospital which will be one of the most modern in North America is expected to Cost million. It is to be situated North of Portage Avenue and East of Vic Toria Street on the Western out skirts of St. James and is expected to be completed by late 1965, or Early 1966. It will be fully air conditioned and will contain a 20-bed pedal Ries Ward and a 20-bed teen Ager Vard. The building program will be financed on the basis of 80 per cent in Grants and Loans from the ederal and provincial govern cents. And 20 per cent from the Ity of St. James and the Salva Ion . The 20 per cent will be covered largely by a bylaw proved in 1962 by St. James rate Ayers. The Hospital will be on a 20 acre site. Plans will allow for expansion to 500 Beds in the future if ghosts Harvest a bumper crop of lawbreakers City s unmarked police cars have Good effect Taft insists Winnipeg s ghost cars Are helping to boost charges in Winnipeg magistrate s court to an All time High and chief Constable Robert Taft says that traffic is now moving More smoothly since the introduction of the ghost squad in july. St. James aldermen Are worried about this Small Welcome sign right which is situated at King Edward Street and notre Dame Avenue. Aldermen say the sign looks pretty cheap when compared to St. James regular greeting signs like the one left which stands at Portage Avenue and Oak Dean Boulevard. A movement is under Way to replace the Small sign with some thing More will govern appointments Board kills rubber stamp Accident victim Dies of injuries Peter Joseph Knockwood. 47, who Lay unidentified and in a coma for three Days in Winnipeg general Hospital after being injured in a car pedestrian Accident at notre Dame Avenue and Banning Street died at. . Tuesday. Police said or. Knockwood had no Wallet and carried no identification on him when he was struck by a car driven by a juvenile Early sunday but was wearing a to shirt with the name Gretna inscribed on it. Kis identity was later established. He was unconscious when taken to Hospital and never came out of the coma. The name of the juvenile is being withheld by police. Police Are trying to Contact anyone who knew or. Knock Wood. A change of procedure in the hiring of upper salaried employees of the Winnipeg school Board squeezed by on a one vote margin tuesday. Trustee Andrew Moore brought Forth the Resolution to provide for interviews by the Board after declaring that the present meth ods of appointment were rubber there had been some bad appointments made he said. His Resolution passed by a vote of 8 to 7. Under the new procedures the superintendent of the Board will make a confidential report to the Board with a list of the applicants for upper salaried positions. It will include All information on each candidate and list them in order of preference but will make no recommendation As to appointment. The Board will then consider the list and if necessary conduct interviews with candidates they select. Under present procedures the superintendent submits a list of applicants to the Board with his recommendation on an appoint ment. Trustee residents demand modified High Rise concerned Home owners in Birchwood Heights won t know for another two weeks whether a million High Rise apartment Block will be constructed in their area. St. James Council tuesday night tabled further discussion on the matter until the next Council meeting. The apartment Block which the Borger Lount co. Has an option to build on the South Side of Portage Avenue near Moray Street has been under criticism from irate Home owners who fear the projected Block is too big for the Birchwood Heights District. Original plans for the project which would be known As Pine Wood Terrace called for a nine Storey Block but residents Are now pressing for a modified ver Sion Only five storeys High. A second plan a 21-member delegation appeared before Council to reiterate their stand against the proposed apartment Block. A representative of Borger Lount co. Showed Council a Sec Ond plan for the Block which his company Felt would satisfy the Home owners. This plan curved the Block towards Portage ave me so that the distance Between the Block and the nearest would be greatly increased. The Home owners however insisted that the Block be reduced n size As Well. Different Mem Bers of the delegation chastised Council for not protecting the rights of St. James Home owners and were cheered on by loud clapping from the remainder of their group. Aid. A. H. Mackling acting chairman of the property com Mittee told Council that .6 Chil Dren would live in each acc every one of the 210 suites in the Block and about half of this number would be of school age fear crowding this did Little to soothe the fears of the Home owners who had mentioned that their children May be crowded in their schools with a possible 228 children be ing added to the classrooms. Aid. Mackling i. Feel we must protect the Home owner a Block like this is not sound Aid. Alex Soroka a motion that the matter be tabled until the next Council meeting mayor a. W. Hanks cast the deciding vote to table the Issue Csc to cover Pearson at in Csc radio will carry the address of prime minister Pear son to the United nations Gen eral Assembly Over cow from to . Thursday. Fri a at 9 ., cow will carry he address of president Ken Edy to the general Assembly. On thursday at radio will present a special news program from the in Gen eral Assembly Over cow and a second news special will be heard on Friday at mayor to speak mayor Stephen Juba will speak to the Griffons club on he pan american games at thursday at Moore s world s jews fast and Pray the Observance of the jewish new year 5724, Rosh has Hanah will begin wednesday at Sundown for jews of Winnipeg and the world. Rosh has Hanah Marks the Start of a 10-Day period of prayer and penitence culminating in yom kippur beginning sept. 2c which is traditionally the Day of atonement. The jewish religious period is dedicated to spiritual Stock taking and yom kippur Day is a fasting Day of atonement. Al synagogues in Winnipeg will con duct services and one of the Fea turns of Liis religious Observance is the sounding of the Shidfar or ram s Horn. Today the meaning of the Sim far s sound is to remind the War shipper to fight his faults and overcome them. In ancient Day of Israel the ram s Horn summoned men to Battle or Impi Tant conclave but nov it a Only religious significance. Traffic tips the Speed menace speeding to travel hopefully the old saying goes than to arrive. For today s Highway traffic it should read to travel fast is to decrease one s chances of arriving at All. Many Drivers seem unaware that arriving intact is the Only justification for being on the Road in the first place. Undeterred by Speed Laws police cruisers radar traps or the right of other motorists to die a natural death they Streak along at 80, giving neither them selves nor others a Chance to react to a sudden Emer gency. Getting there can be half the fun. Make Mure you re around for the other half. Don t Speed. Andrew Robertson Viool Board chairman said there have been appointments made that Haven t worked out and once they Are in it s hard to get them out. It is wrong for a Board to Slough off its responsibility and that s what i think we Are doing no so far it has been a record year with a bumper number of accused persons appearing on the docket. The largest number of offend ers have been charged with care less driving and failing to com ply with traffic control devices and to Date persons have been charged with these offences since the beginning of the year. More persons have been apprehended on the traffic charges since the unmarked police cars with officers in civilian clothes began prowling the streets at the end of june than in the entire first half of 1963. For the court it has been extra work on top of a Busy year which taking into account All types of has seen 047 cases disposed of. Criminal cases accounted for charges. Chief Taft commenting on the ghost squad said traffic is running More smoothly motorists Are More considerate in their treatment of pedestrians and the conduct of the pedestrians themselves is much bet bid to solve football problem Winnipeg school Board decided to set up a permanent Aison committee with the win Peg High school athletic coun in to try to work out some Solu on to the High school football problem. During the meeting trustee j. Oss White seconded by trustee Eter Gordon called on the Board take Over football. Trustee Valter paschak. Not in business of managing a foot All disagreed. Countered trustee William Ray or this is our responsibility i m a Little bit agreed said trustee Isadore Volch the High school athletic Council has been dictatorial and arrogant they re responsible or this whole mess we have lot been critical enough of them the Board should assume re possibility for operating it pro fifth wheel then trustee j. E. Wilson suggested a Board committee act As Liaison with the athletic Council. No said trustee Andrew Floore football is the fifth in our system it s dangerous we Are trustees and we should take All measures o protect them mob Psychol by is after a number of comments n the amendment chairman Obertson dealt trustee White s proposal the death blow i think have More important things do. One of the most regrettable Lings is that we have spent so much time on then the vote with trustees j. T. White Peter Gordon. Walter and Isadore Wolch Dis enting. In favor were trustees Ken eth Rothwell j. E. Rew Moore g. A. Frith mrs. Ignes Mcgavin w. W. Jenkins Andrew Bileski Joseph Cropo Valter paschak Andrew Zahary Chuk and Andrew Robertson. Committee backs 14 candidates the civic election committee announced wednesday that i will support seven Council am seven school Board candidates in Winnipeg s coming City elec Tion Campaign. For aldermen the committee is backing Ward Edith Tennant Mark Danzker mrs w. A. Trott Ward Mcgarva t. J. Hind Ward e. G. Romanowski. For school Board those endorsed by the committee Are Ward e. Wilson Kenneth Rothwell b. Mcarthur Ward Andrew Moore mrs. Agnes Mcgavin Ward mrs. Olga Fuga. The 14 candidates were endorsed at a committee meeting tuesday night. Other candidate May be endorsed by the com Mittee before nomination Day oct. Free press meetings be held at 8 . Thursday in the free press building include Board room no. Com Mittee Wallace Camp no. 88, sons of Scotland clubroom Winnipeg philatelic society. School reports rapped technical jargon on school re port cards leaves parents in the dark about their children s pro Ress trustee Isadore Wolch charged at a Winnipeg school Ward meeting tuesday. Let s get Down to a Basic said trustee after criticizing present Mark no systems for harping on Sta he received support from trustee James e. Wilson who said there is almost a conspiracy in hiding Progress from parents. You get reassurance or cautions but you re not told where he the elementary school reports were then referred to the build ing and policy committee for study and report. Housing Pace up in metro housing construction in metro Winnipeg is proceeding at a slightly faster Pace than last year according to statistics just released by Central housing and mortgage corporation. The Chc report says a to Tal of new units have been started in metro this year. This is an increase of 525 units Over last year s corresponding figure of units. Most housing activity is Tak ing place in Winnipeg proper with units started. Leading the suburbs is Assini Boia with a total of 410 starts. Runner up municipalities a Long Way Back Are St. Vital 199, St. Boniface 181, trans Cona 177, North Kildonan 168, and fort Garry 102. Less than 100 new dwellings have been built in each of the. Other suburbs. The report also says that builders Are finding it easier to fill new Homes. At the end of May there were 248 newly completed but unoccupied Homes in the metro area. However this figure had sunk to 174 units by the end of aug ust an improvement Over the August 1962 total of 193 empty units. History Andun Yards metro wants talks on future of River Forks metro s Parks committee is go ing to ask officials of the Cana. Dian National railways to a meeting to discuss toe future of company s Yards at the con fluence of the red and Assini Joine Rivers. The decision to hold the meet ing which will be closed to the Public and press came after an apparent impasse was reached. Parks officials Are concerned with the Long Range plans for the area which for historical Rea sons they feel should be pre served As a recreation area. A letter was sent to the rail Way asking what its future plans Are for the land but the car. Replied bluntly that it intends to retain ownership of it. The car reply was read at tuesday s councillor b. R. Wolfe Sugges de the meeting after explaining hat this area has a connection with the past and is vital or the future a significance that seems to have escaped them car coun. Thomas Findlay com Mittee chairman said that metro s Only concerned with what is going to happen in the Distant future. The Day will come when pedestrian injured in crosswalk mishap a Winnipeg Man is in Winni Peg general Hospital with undetermined injuries following a car pedestrian Accident at Sar gent Avenue and Sherbrook Street late tuesday. Peter Hawdio 42, of 623 Agnes Street was crossing Sherbrook Street in the North crosswalk when he was in collision with an Auto driven by Michael Kee ver 30, of 464 Sherbrook Street Nairn Avenue Detour Nairn Avenue will be closed at the Canadian pack Fie rail Ajr main line Cross ing from 6 . On wednes Day to 7 thursday. The will raise some the tracks and adjust then height to make a smoother Metros officials said tues Day traffic will de tour to Talbot Avenue. It the car Yards will be completely said coun. Findlay. At Regina Calgary and Edmonton the railways have already started to move out of the Down own areas he said. He added that the Hudson s Bay co. Had Given lower fort Garry to the Federal govern ment so it could become a National historic site. Coun. Wolfe said that the com Mittee at the meeting with the car could also bring up the unsatisfactory condition of railway rights of Way through Urban areas. He said they Are glaring gashes that Are Fine for Weed growing and that they should be replaced in a Long Range beautification program. Youth killed Roy Lucien Danielson 19, of Cranberry Portage Man. Was fatally injured at flin flon tues Day afternoon when hit by a truck Boom that broke As he was unloading propane Gas tanks in the Canadian National railways Yards. Coroner or. G. N. Willson of flin flon said an inquest will be held. Flin flon is 382 Miles North West of Winnipeg. Sewers rejected for tront Yards metro s water and waste com Mittee tuesday refused to allow the installation of storm sewers on private property in Assiniboia. The councillors on the commit tee agreed with staff engineers that there was no valid reason place them on Road allow ances. The idea came from under Wood Mclellan and associates ltd., consulting Assiniboia. The engineers for storm sewers were being planned for a new area which is opening up for development on Cook Avenue Columbus Crescent Erlandson Sayer Avenue Sturgeon drive and creak drive. Metro engineers warned that among other problems storm sewer on private property would result in manholes located in front Yard lawns. N. A Bubbis water and waste division director said the new location for storm sewers was being sought so that the streets could be constructed without hav ing to wait for sewer installations. It was explained that there is a Rush so that the purchasers of the new Homes which Are yet to be constructed would save through the Federal government support program for each House bought during i d sooner than have a manhole in the front of my place on my land. It could reduce the value of the House said coun. Thomas find Lay ;