Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 23, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cloudy with a few sprinkles tonight. Little rain Nib in temperature. Winds South is 15. I i this afternoon. Low tune but and Ohleh tuesday so and 65. 18-hour period in Dunk . Monday Vanc Diuver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon Winnipeg fort William Ottawa Toronto min. 35 free. To. 70 b7 53 54 62 Montreal Halifax chit ago Miami los Angeles Minneapolis new York the Pas Kenora Max. 57 54 ti6 88 78 60 g5 g8 60 min. 39 40 50 74 63 49 50 50 43 free. To. .45 Winnipeg free press by Carrier 3sc per week Winnipeg monday september 23, 1963 single copy Price inc car radios 2o 50 custom is talus of car repairs 250 Rou a text 39 Mihun or evict Advance car radio Centre 436 Sargent nofts Sherbrook phone Coffee break Gene Telpner some residents of one of the newer neighbor hoods in River Heights have been alarmed because a Large dead rat was found under a. House. The owner of House informed the City health department and they sent an inspector Down to get the details. Rats Are not pleasant creatures to talk about and the owner of the House was reluctant to let his name and address be used for fear of alarming the neighbors. According to the Rule of thumb if you see one rat you can be assured there Are others around. When nations of the world Haven t been fighting each other Over the centuries they have been fight ing rats because it is a world problem. In washing ton d.c., you can see them right near the washing ton Monument and one Washington newspaper recently estimated there were 30 to 40 million in the District of Columbia alone. Here Are some startling rat facts. A rat can eat 40 pounds of food a year and because a rat s Teeth grow at the rate of five inches a year he gnaws at anything to keep them Down. Rats will eat anything and Accord ing to the fish and wildlife service in the . The total annual economic loss from rats is More than one billion dollars. I Don t have figures for Canada. It is claimed that rats spread typhus infectious jaundice rabies tapeworm and the plague among other loathsome diseases. A rat s life is about one year but a female in that time can produce from four to seven lit ters. It is estimated that about 20 rats a year Are weaned by each female. In cities slums remain the favorite Hunting ground of the voracious rats but they Are Likely to appear anywhere. The fact that a rat eats 40 times his weight each year lends itself to this comparison. A 200-Pound Man who performed a similar feat require eight thousand pounds of food every year. Behind the beards the recent mention in this column that beards were no safeguard against mosquitoes has proved an interesting Point to Many readers who have since written on the subject. J. C. Gibbs of 687 Lyndale drive nor Wood worked on Dominion land surveys in the North country 50 years ago and wrote an interesting note. I did t grow a Beard but smoked a bag of old chum tobacco a Day to keep them away but they seemed to thrive on the smoke. We had to keep a smudge going night and Day to keep the mosquitoes away from our pack ponies. If the smudge got too Low the mosquitoes and bulldog flies were so thick on the ponies that they looked like overgrown mosquitoes c. Jiansen. Of 410 seven Oaks Avenue says flatly that a Beard is a Beard Only if it is hey claims he has grown every Type of Beard from mus f tache and Goatee to a 200 per cent Mosquito proof Beard the size and shape of the Tumble weeds you see in Western n. Kildonan wants metro Urban sprawl report suppressed mayor claims municipality pictured As 4a real slum area in study the municipality of North Kildonan has asked metro Council to limit the circulation of a report on Urban sprawl in the greater Winnipeg area. Jack l. Pearce North Kildonan mayor said monday that parts of the report make his municipality sound like a real slum mayor Pearce added that his Council cells North Kildonan s future development could be hampered if the metro report is too widely circulated. To read the report you d say to yourself boy there s a slum area that metro should clean mayor Pearce said. Expensive Homes but i be lived in North Kil Donan All my life and i know we have Homes that Cost As much As on the whole we just feel that metro could have picked help was voted it s a bit like Belling the cat looking for an exciting Job Well the Manitoba depart ment of mines and natural re sources May one Day have a real Dandy. All you would have to do is insert a Small radio Mechan better examples of Urban ism under the skin of a Polar Bear then stand Back. A provincial government prizes missing St. Vital blushes Over contest Back in 1952, or. Han sen operated what he Calls the world s Barber shop located in i Northeast Greenland and i from experience in that in a usual shop thinks he has Learned everything about fancy and Plain Home grown beards. The Cornerstone of my authority on beards was Laid when i was just a few years old. My Grandfather an old sea Captain let me use his Beard As a swing a la Tarzan and he used to hide Candy in it. Finding it was like exploring a Jungle. That s or. Hansen with his Beard photographed at station North Greenland in 1952, which appears with the column today. Don t know of he still has a Beard today but i do know that he shaves with a straight razor same As the Barbers use. Notes to you jottings from a reporter s notebook Morris United Church fowl supper october 2 in the Church auditorium starting at . George Dawes operations manager of sky pm drops a note reminding everyone that station will celebrate symphony week by playing symphonic works selected by Victor Feldbrill. Speaking of symphony week which is on right now More than school children get a Chance to hear the Winnipeg symphony orchestra each year and this season it has scheduled 59 concerts. Ould not produce the names of in winners monday morning and mayor Harry Collins who in t know the names either warned a questioner not to meddle around by asking ques ions because i m out for the mayor said he was not present when the Queen and princesses were crowned aug. 17, but hat same Day had offered to a the prize Money to the girls it of his own pocket. He said he was told not to football referee attacked by player a sunday football game be tween two greater Winnipeg juvenile teams ended when a 20 year old referee was knocked unconscious and taken to Hospital. The matter has been referred to juvenile court authorities. The incident occurred at 4 . When referee Gerald Sobie. Of 777 Burrows Avenue ejected two East Elmwood football players for rough play during the game with Northwood Community club at the club grounds at 1415 Bur rows. The two ejected players continued to follow play along the sidelines. When the referee approached the 16-year-old Elmwood coach to complain a dispute broke out. The referee then awarded the game to the Northwood club. Or. Sobie was immediately sur rounded by a group of protesting. Elmwood players and while walk ing away was struck in the Temple by a team member and knocked unconscious. Or. Sobie was taken to Winni St. Vital crowned its common y Queen and her two princesses be weeks ago but to Dale the Iris have not received the n prize Money they were prom sed by the City. St. Vital municipal offices a car thai went out of control Cut a berserk path of destruction through six Agnes Street front Yards Laic Sun Day. The Arrow indicates the porch thai the car struck moving it a foot. Car hits fences porch by Michael Kostelnik a late Model car went out of of 221 Poplar Wood control on Agnes Street at 10 . Enue and Gloria Jennings of sunday jumped the curb drove 208 Poplar Wood Avenue were to j across six front Yards hit a receive s50 and As runners House and moved its front porch Union May go nip by Dudley Magnus delegates at the first Conven Tion of the newly formed Cana Dian Union of Public employees after the report was published mayor Pearce called a special Council meeting to discuss the North Kildonan references with the municipality s metro representative councillor Jack Willis. The two hour meeting held two weeks ago featured a pro longed discussion during which All North Kildonan councillors said they Are extremely Dis Turbed about the sections of the report relating to their Munici Pality. Good relations councillor Willis told us that the report in t to be published All Over the mayor Pearce said. We also Are sure i that he took our views Back to _ j the rest of metro Council so to thursday to consider that the incident is at the fort Garry hotel _ Are worry because the prize Money was coming from the he said the funds were created 1 through the Sale of the program which helped celebrate St. Vital s first anniversary As a City. The Queen of St. Vital Hea i tier Barrett of 809 St. Mary s i Road had been told she would i receive a prize of but said monday she had not yet received j the Money. The princesses Margaret Alastair Ross named to welfare Job Alastair Ross 36, has been appointed supervisor of child Wel Are services for the province of Manitoba. Or. Ross succeeds miss win Ona Armitage who months ago due to ill health. Wel fare minister j. B. Carroll in announcing the appointment said Over children Are wards of the province and that or. Ross will be working with the children s Aid societies and his own department to try and improve the services to such children. The new supervisor joins the government service following five years of service As executive director of the children s Aid society of Eastern Manitoba. Home and school Robson will speak on what is Home and at John m. King school tuesday at 8 . Or. V. Gellman of Chil Dren s Hospital Poison Centre will up in the miss St. Vital contest. The program listed the prize Money and the contest on its third Page. Monday morning mayor Collins said he would like to know what All the fuss was about because he had already received two morning Telephone Calls. Don t you worry about fences of the next two houses passed through two More Yards which had hedge fences and came to rest after striking the porch of 492 Agnes. Mrs. Joseph Seraski. Who lives i there said she and her family were just returning from a week end Outing when they heard a crash out front. Rushing to the front she found the car resting against her porch and the air filled with plaster dust. After the dust had settled mrs. Seraski found that her porch was foot farther North on Agnes Nan it had been before. Fortunately there were no eople in any of the six Yards at he time of the Accident. Peg general Hospital for Obser give an illustrated talk on Poi vation and later released. Sons. Tips j. o move Over for Siren emergency vehicles an overriding right of Way which Many motorists seem to believe is theirs alone belongs to Only one Driver the Man behind the wheel of an emergency vehicle. His is the errand of life and death and he rightfully demands a Clear route. It May be an ambulance a police car or a fire truck. The Law gives them All precedence in emergencies. No More selfish Dri ver exists than one who would delay an emergency vehicle rather than surrender his place on the Highway. When you hear the Siren or see the flashing Light Don t hesitate. Move Over the mayor said this Money will be paid. They Are supposed to be calling a meeting about it soon. A foot. The Driver Claude Dubois 21, and his wife Beverley 21, of 450 Agnes Street were treated at Winnipeg general Hospital and then released. The car jumped the curb at 480 Agnes levelled the picket Fence there and also the picket closed for the the mayor said North Kildonan has Good relations with metro. However he Felt that in the Case of the Urban sprawl report the planners did t present a representative picture of North Kildonan. The report is designed to guide metro Council so that it will be Able to plan orderly development in Winnipeg s suburbs. Satisfied meanwhile Art Coulter vice chairman of metro s planning committee said monday he thinks North Kildonan is reasonably satisfied with explanations Given by metro representatives at the joint meeting two weeks ago. Councillor Coulter said he could t recall any specific re quest that reports of the Urban sprawl report be kept out of circulation. However he did recall that North Kildonan councillors were worried about a Damper being put on future development in their municipality. I think both parties agreed that there should be a limit on fringe development in areas where there Are no sewer and water councillor Coulter said. However we re going to make provision so that North Kildonan development will proceed with full sewer and water services As soon As passenger Hurt when car hits parked truck a 16-year-old girl suffered Sev Ere cuts when the car in which she was a passenger struck a marked half ton pickup truck at Vilkes Avenue and Lowdown Road Charleswood and then slip Ped into a ditch at ., sunday. In fairly Good condition Mon Day at Misericordia Hospital was Doreen Weaver of 1045 Scotland Avenue. Police said Daniel Thompson 20, of lot 136, St. Anne s Road the car s Driver suffered minor cuts and bruises but was not taken to Hospital. Two other passengers Leo a bin 20, of 198 Egerton Road St. Vital and Guy Vergano 20, of 1099 Trappist Road St. Norbert suffered cuts and bruises but were released from Hospital after observation. Jumble correction the answers to Jumble puzzles 2403 to 2408, published in Satur Day s free press contained a typographical error. The word Castle should have read caste. Likely to be urged to persuade their locals to affiliate with the new democratic party it was disclosed sunday night. The motion appealing for this action comes from a Toronto local and will pass to the floor unless thrown out by the resolutions committee. The Resolution which was expected in some form or other be cause the two unions involved in a merger had previously As sep Arate bodies endorsed the nip comes from local 1, Toronto. The two unions Are the nation Al Union of Public employees and the National Union of pub Lic service employees both can Adian labor Congress affiliates. There is Little Chance Obser vers consider of the new Union rejecting the Resolution though they May be requested to water the motion Down because nude did t previously endorse the nip to the extent that it suggested local level affiliation and nude members May not want to go so far. The move by Toronto however supports forecasts that the new Union to consist mainly of municipal employees will stand staunchly behind nip s efforts to Advance labor s legislative wants the Resolution reads where As the labor movement has found that collective bargaining alone will not achieve the goals it is seeking because of Laws in Vari Ous provinces and a weak nation Al labor code and whereas gains on the economic front can be taken away on the Politica press release issued Friday says it has been suggested that it would be comparatively the object of this comparatively simple act would be to enlist the wonders of science to find the answer to the mysterious life of the Polar once you get the radio under the creatures hide the biologists would be Able to follow the Polar Bear s movements by signals relayed from telstar the orbiting radio station out in space. It seems that very Little is known of the life and habits of these strange animals that spend their Summers on the fringe of Manitoba s Arctic coastline and their fall Winter and Spring season on the fro zen surface or floating ice floes of Hudson s Bay. So until someone inserts that radio the Manitoba government is working out an Aerial census technique which can be applied to further study of the scarce animals. By a count taken from the air in september 1962 it was Esti mated that the heaviest sum Mer concentration is Between Churchill and the Ontario Boundary along the coast a the estimated population in this area was 62 Polar bears. Front be it resolved that this Canadian Union of Public employees support the new demo cratic party and urge Alt its locals to affiliate to the juvenile held after stabbing charges will be Laid against a juvenile involved in a stabbing incident at a drive in food bar near Lockport Manitoba Early sunday. Ramp said David Harris 24, of Box 370, group 9, Rural route 3, Winnipeg suffered a knife wound to the Abdomen Fol lowing a fight with a juvenile at . Sunday. Or. Harris was taken to Sel Kirk general Hospital where his condition is reported As Satis factory. The juvenile is being held by the Selkirk detachment the ramp. Youth injured by gun blast a Shotgun Accident. Sunday afternoon sent a 16-year-old Bel Mont Man. Youth to Hospital in Winnipeg. Ramp said Merle Cline was admitted to Baldur Hospital suf Fering wounds to his right hip but was later transferred to Winnipeg general Hospital. After an operation monday morning his condition was reported As Satis factory. Kidding leads to sacking for television announcer Heather Barrett still waiting archaeological society election of officers and a re port of summer Field activities will highlight the first meeting of the season of the Manitoba archaeological society at 8 . Wednesday in the Manitoba teachers society building. By Gene Telpner television announcer Peter Parker has been released from Channel 7 for what a station spokesman monday termed in or. Parker denies the insubordination statement claims it was simply a matter of two pro Grams on the station kidding each other for audience build up. Ray Torgrud Public relations spokesman for Channel 7, said monday last tuesday or. Par Ker went on the air and attacked two programs which Are seen on Channel 12. These programs were the question and one Hundred and he referred to them As being in complimentary. He was called into the office and warned not to do it again. Two Days later on the air in an attempt to stir up controversy he attacked one of our shows in which announcers Bob Burns and Phil Reimer participate. This was the culmination of four or live such incidents and the management Felt they had had in he continued Call it insubordination if you will however we consider it an internal mat Ter. We have no malice against or. Parker we regard him As a most capable Peter Parker monday denied it was a Case of insubordination he said treasure crackdown the program of which he was Mas Ter of ceremonies and the other show Lucky 7, constantly kid ded each other. We tried to stir up interest in each other s show by making re Marks it was nothing More than declared . Channel 7 said that after the first incident earlier last week someone who said he was representing the Abc network called and threatened to sue Over the incident. Or. Parker said thai Call was a and a Chan Nel 7 spokesman did admit there Ivas probably nothing to the Call rom the supposed Abc representative. This Man said he was staying at the fort Garry hotel when they checked on it there was no such person said or. Parker. He explained that about every six months he and Bob Burns i an attempt to build up an Aud have been making re Marks about each other. According to Channel 7, the remarks have been hinting that Lucky 7 is and the Sta Tion tools Strong this Type of remark. According to or. Parker after being called i by the station pro Gram director he was informed that he was through As of last week. He has been with the station for three years and was considered one of the most popu Lar announcers because of his of mail ;