Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1964 Admiral . New Slimline portables free 1 or. Full service Advance to Centre Winnipeg free press car radios 636 Sargent nor pm. 786-3347 by Carrier 35c per week Winnipeg Friday february 28, 1964 single copy Price Loc 1 year warranty a up car radio repairs 2.50 vhf in you 30 Mihutat Sik Vicc Advance car radio Centre Sargent or. Sherbrook pm. 786-3347 Coffee 7 break by Gene Telpner saturday is the leap Day of leap year but eligible spinsters still have 10 to trap the Man of their Choice. Although the myth exists that leap year is the one time that women can ask men to marry women have been doing this whether a year is divisible by four or not. Of course you won t get a Man or woman to admit that she was the one who actually proposed marriage but my personal belief is that indirectly it s the woman who pops the question. She does this in a Subtle manner so that most men Don t realize it is happening. Just look Back on your own marriage proposal and see if there was t More to it than met the Eye at the time. While we re on the subject of marriage a cute Little Story in this Field appeared in the current Issue of Catholic digest. According to the Story a quiet Little nun had enrolled in an advanced journalism class. Her professor gave her the assignment to get an off beat human interest Story at the marriage licence Bureau. She walked up to the Bureau counter noticed that everyone had stopped work and was staring at her in amazement. Finally a Young male clerk approached her and when she explained what she was looking for he blurted out in a Fine Brogue glory be to god sister when Paul Marlowe Teller Lawrence Anseeuw chased Bandit picked up dynamite fake dynamite closely resembled real thing crime Syndicate betting confirmed police chief Taft says article on Winrig Peg bookmaking factual a National Magazine article which says illegal betting con trolled by an International crime Syndicate exists in Winnipeg has been termed by Winni Nipes police chief Robert Taft. Chief Taft said that Alan Phil lips the author of a series of articles on mafia activities in Canada published by Maclean s Magazine knows More about criminal activities generally across Canada than the average policeman whose Job it is to Stop these activities. The Magazine article says a recent cleanup Campaign has reduced Winnipeg bookmakers to about 12" but says big sports bets Are still being the article says runners Are still Active phoning in bets from the car shops department stores the Craf station. They belong to two main it identifies the groups As a now defunct news and Shoeshine store and a hat works. It says that a third group now considered in Active May be backing the other two. Financially. Chief Taft All men named in the article Are known to the police but. W6uld not comment on the accuracy of this part of the report. He said the author had indicated much research before car licence deadline is Midnight saturday Winnipeg police Are re minding motorists that if they Don t have their 19b4 licence plates on their vehicles by Midnight Satur Day they May be prosecuted and their cars towed away. Although 1963 plates May be used Only until Midnight saturday police won t Likely begin a City wide crackdown until 8 . Monday. Of said police spokesman if we Stop a car for any reason during the. Weekend it must have a 1964 plate in k. N. Gateson administrator of the Manitoba motor vehicle Branch said Friday that More than motorists still have not registered for new plates. He said the Branch Felt it could handle applicants each Day. The Stream of motorists applying had been steady to Date. By thursday picked up 1964 plates. A 1964 plate at the rear of a vehicle is mandatory. Jury retires slapped baby Mother sobs i writing the article and displays a greater knowledge of under world activities and Syndicate operations than is common among policemen. The Magazine says the Winni Peg men operate discreetly and live respectable Middle class it says they do not party or drive expensive cars. Except for Winter holidays in Florida they do not display what the under world Calls Flash though most Are All groups have other bookies working with them and All Are linked. Chief Taft says or. Phillips was conservative in his state ments. The chief says Winnipeg police have no direct knowledge of arrangements reported in the article whereby Winnipeg radio Sta Tion employees could be bribed for a week to pass on wire service information about racing in other cities. We do know that some radio station employees have been approached and have reported these approaches to the chief said. Chief Taft said his department had tried for some years to have it made an offence to report Rac ing results from meets held in other cities. The chief said detailed radio broadcasts of meets in other cities served Only two types of people the bookies and those who had made illegal bets and that both were lawbreakers. When someone asks for such information he is either a Bookie or someone who has made an illegal bet and wants to Check up on his the chief said. Chief Taft said he had no objection to radio reports of race meets in. Winnipeg being Broad cast in Winnipeg. A 31-year-old heading Ley Mother broke Down and sobbed uncontrollably As she told an Assize court jury Here Friday How she struck the blow which killed her four month old son. Geraldine Marie Aarts of lot 60, heading Ley is on trial on a manslaughter charge Laid after Ronald Francis Aarts died aug. 9 in Misericordia hos Pital. Or. Justice f. M. Bastin of court of Queen s Bench presided. Shortly before noon the All Man jury went out to consider a ver dict. In her evidence interrupted by a 10-minute recess so that she could compose herself mrs. Aarts described her dead child As a Happy seven months pregnant with her fourth child she said the expected baby would be to replace the dead Little boy. She said she had been preg Nant almost continuously since her marriage in i960 to her Hus band Frank. Mrs. Aarts testified she had played child Only a Short while before he began a fit of screaming which lasted 20 min utes and began to fray her nerves. Weather clouding Over becoming sunny again saturday Forenoon. Mild. Winds Northwest 25 sat urday afternoon. Low tonight 20, High saturday 35. Temperatures for 24-hour period ending . Friday Max. Min. Pc. Ottawa .17 3 Toronto 23 6 to. Montreal 15 8 Halifax .34 -2 to. Chicago 31 25 to. Miami 81 72 los Angeles 63 46 Minneapolis 37 17, to. New York 34 25 Calgary 50 35 .03 Edmonton 39 Brandon the 28 to Winnipeg fort William 24 24 -2 .02 .02 she hit him with her hand in an attempt to Shock him out of the screaming she said. Answering questions by grown counsel Laurie Mitchell said it was possible she had slapped the child More than medical evidence indicated the baby had been suffering from a latent and chronic Type of. Pneumonia for some time before his v or. Dirk Blouw the Aart s family doctor testified that Al though he had examined the baby a month or so earlier for a Chest condition the baby was in Good health shortly before ills death. He said a blow could have accelerated the chronic pneumonia condition into an acute fatal the inquest jury had found that the child had died of the pneumonia aggravated by a blow saw Blade kills lumber worker an inquest has been ordered into the death of a 57-year-old lumber Camp employee who was killed when he fell Blade of a 50-Inch Cir Cular saw. Romp at Swan River said Joseph Senchysyan of Minni Tonas Man., was killed instantly about . Thursday at the Camp of Leo Spitzke 14 Miles South West of Minitonas in the Duck Mountain Forest Reserve. Derby for troop the Bannatyne District boy scout troop will hold its annual Klondike Derby saturday at Stur Geon Road and Saskatchewan Avenue beginning at 9 . An earlier report had incorrectly indicated the Derby was open to All Winnipeg scouts. Relaxed liquor and Law now unlikely Brewers and advertising Media o Don t see Eye to Eye on formula by Koger Newman the Manitoba government has decided to withdraw proposed eased restrictions on liquor advertising in the province. It was Learned Friday that the provincial Cabinet recently agreed not to proceed with a Bill allowing breweries to advertise i their products on radio television and in the newspapers. How Ever other amendments to Mani Toba s liquor control act will probably be introduced in the legislature next week. Controversy in Manitoba s brewing and communications industries is the reason for the government s decision to. Drop advertising legislation for this year at least. During a series of meetings with attorney general Stewart Mclean representatives dropping Par Nate. Pharmacists Here say Par Nate a drug reportedly taken by 15 people in the United states who later died of strokes has been with drawn from the Canadian Market by Smith Kline and French laboratories of Phil Adelphia. Manitoba doctors and pharmacists were notified Friday that the drug had been with drawn from the prescription list on the retail and whole Sale pharmaceutical level. A spokesman for the Manitoba pharmaceutical association said Friday that the order will be complied with a t once. An Ottawa meeting was held earlier this week of Federal health officials to discuss the drug. 2 bids vetoed metro keeps hands of f apr taxation metro Council decided thurs Day night that it. Would neither investigate the possibility of tax ing the Canadian Pacific railway itself nor support the City of Winnipeg in its bid to tax the rail Way. Council voted 7 to 2 against supporting Winnipeg s application to the provincial government for the right to tax the car. The vote was on a motion made by councillor Sidney Green that Council support the City when its representatives appear before inquiry postponed an inquiry into charges of inefficiency levelled at Winnipeg s fire department which have been held has been postponed until after an inquest March 3 into the death of mrs. Mar Jorie Ford 40, of 105 Camp Bell Street. Winnipeg s Utility and personnel committee was to have investigated seven charges made by 20 Campbell Street residents. The charges arose out of the feb. 14 fire death of mrs. Ford. The provincial Law amendments committee. Coun. Green said an agreement signed by the City of Winnipeg 80 years ago giving the car tax free privileges was scandalous. But. Coun. R. Darwin Chase said we d be sticking our nose in where it s not wanted and where we. Haven t even the remotest coun. Chase was backed by councillors Thomas b. Findlay a. H. Taraska l. E. Ostrander Jack Willis and a. E. Bennett. Only coun. A a. Coulter sup ported coun Green. Council also rejected a suggestion by Puri. Taraska that a three Man committee be appointed to see if the metro act might be changed so that metro might tax the car. Coun. Taraska said with the establishment of metro the whole situation changed. The car is receiving services that Are being paid for by the greater Winnipeg area and no longer Only Winni his motion was Defeated by a 5-to-4 vote. Opposed were councillors find Lay Ostrander Chase Fisher and Willis. In favor were councillors Coulter Taraska Bennett and Green. Of various groups in the two industries were apparently unable to devise an advertising formula j acceptable to the majority almost certain As a result it is almost cer Tain that the government won t make any changes in the regulations which now govern Manitoba liquor advertising. And the Brewers will have to continue under the present system where by they can Only lend their names to institutional Advertis ing. Liquor advertising has been a source of controversy since the mid-1950s. In several recent years the government has been on the Brink of easing regulations but each time the Roblin administration s plans have been cancelled. During the coming year How Ever the government will continue its study to see if anything can be done to lift the liquor and ban. Some form Advertis ing is wanted by weekly news papers and some commercial radio and to stations. They feel it could make a difference be tween profit and loss on their operations. Hotel rooms As far As this year s Amend ments Are concerned the government will probably proceed with legislation to allow liquor service in hotel rooms under cer Tain conditions. This change is being requested by the Manitoba hotel association. Another amendment May give some Protection to hotel and cocktail lounge operations charged with serving liquor to minors. In the past some hotel men have been fined even though the minor drinking liquor looked older than 21 minimum age for drinking liquor legally. Stop using pure Salt mayors urge greater Winnipeg s mayors and Reeves association is going to ask metro to halt the use of 100 per cent Salt on its Street system until a comprehensive study can be made of advantages and disadvantages at a meeting thursday night the association decided in View of apparent damage to cars floors in Public buildings car pets in Homes footwear and clo thing that metro adhere to a formula of 16 per cent Salt with abrasives until a study can be made ;