Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 29, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1964 Admiral Winnipeg free press car radios 29 50 by Carrier Csc per week Winnipeg saturday. February .29, 1964 single copy Price we l Coffee break by Gene Telpner although this is a controversial subject there Are times when i wonder if Canada could t learn some thing from England about the handling of narcotic drug addicts. Over Here it is a crime coupled with a definite degree of shame. Yet alcoholism which can Lead to serious or fatal Auto accidents and other problems which Are in our papers every Day is looked upon with a completely different attitude. What brings this up is the fact that at least 50 Canadian addicts that i know of have moved to England to avoid further trouble in Canada including prison sentences for Possession of drugs. Lady Frankau a British doctor said in a recent Issue of the Canadian medical journal that she documented the treatment of these 50 known Canadian addicts while in England. Of the 50 patients 31 who had previously received prison sentences directly connected with drug offences Are now working steadily and leading a apparently Normal life. This was after the British Type treatment which allows them a Legal Supply of drugs while try inst to break the habit. Said lady Frankau in her summary the treatment of drug addiction is a medical problem and those who Are addicted to narcotic drugs Are sick perhaps it s time that Canada and the . Took a new look at the whole question of narcotic drug addiction in an Effort to halt the terrible traffic in illicit drugs. Did you notice that in s been a 1 moist three weeks since any newspapers have mentioned the names of Christine Keeler or Handy Rice Davies this men Tion is merely to shatter the record anyone have a Roll top desk if so. Phone 453-8511. Last one i saw was used in he press club production of the front pase fellow who Calls himself of hoho was in the office to hand me a Dollar to pass on to Charity. It All started with a Nickel but the boys in the Beer parlor built it. All the Way he grinned As he walked away. Winnipeg or bust there s a Little Community in Iowa named Essex not too far away from where i spent my boy Hood. Right now a White line has been painted Down the Middle of main Street in Essex and by june the Good people of the town Hope the line will be a mile Long. You might ask what All this has to do with a column in a Winnipeg newspaper. A vory Good reason indeed. You see the red River exhibition invited the Essex High school marching band to come up Here this summer and to meet expenses the town is try ins to raise a mile of dimes. That s the reason for the White line and every time a Dollar is donated the line will be extended a foot. The fund drive is the largest Ever undertaken in the history of Essex according to mrs. Max Carlson who is president of the band parents club. Mrs. Carlson said when i he Essex band appeared in Des Moines last fall a scout from the red River exhibition was in the audience. We did t know any thing about it until the invitation arrived a few weeks said band director Gary Wishmeyer since then we be been on Cloud a number of bake sales Are planned Community dinners auctions and dozens of other activities in order to make the Winnipeg trip possible. This should Gladden the hearts of the red River people. Terry Morris better know As Terry the tramp has arranged a Benefit variety concert for wednes Day at Knowles school for boys. On the program will be such stars As Roy and fran Petty Bobby Griffith Jose Soneira the fashion four Judy Tal got Eddy Laham and Bob Burns As master of Cere monies. Names make news Lucille Fleming the publicity director for Manitoba theatre Centre has handed in her resignation next week. According to miss Fleming a recent news Story that she was planning to leave in the Spring to take summer employment was not entirely Correct. Rumours floating around Are that More people will soon be leaving the Mac Anri apparently they have already changed photographers for publicity photos. On the subject of theatre Michael Mcaloney o Rainbow stage is due in town soon with news of the theatrical package he has reportedly signed for this summer. Under his contract he s supposed to spend six months of the year in Winnipeg. From the viewpoint of this columnist the new i Rainbow promotion manager Sergei Sawchyn is doing a much better Job than most people expected. Seat belts in autos mean cheaper insurance premiums in some states. Seems to me these Are supposed to be Standard equipment in new autos manufactured in 1964. But i Haven t heard if Manitoba insurance companies Are giving lower premiums for. Seat belts writer named George Woods wants to know Why Bald headed men have to pay full Price for haircuts. He suggests the Price be Cut in half for baddies Story making the rounds about a fellow complaining his wife bought 200 pounds of steel Wool. Seems she s knitting a stove. Puts Juba a1vd the Ballet Rye bread and Salami that s Winnipeg by Gene Telpner done nothing of an not Starl match the twins big Cash prizes some twins look alike and others look like anyone except each other. Matching pictures of mismatched twins will soon be fun and profitable to free press readers. And there will be in Cash prizes just to make the contest More exciting each Day the free press will publish pictures of twins. Each picture will be numbered. Cut the pictures out each Day and match them As their twin appears on subsequent Days. An entry form will be published later. The contest starts saturday March 14. After All pictures have appeared two weeks will be allowed to make final selections and get the entries in. First prize is second is third and fourth is in addition there Are five prizes Worth each 25 prizes of each and 80 awards of each. Watch for further details. By Gene Telpner Winni Eggers from mayor Stephen Juba to or. Justice Samuel Freedman will get a new and unusual look at themselves in a controversial article by author Jack Lud wig in the april Issue of hol iday Magazine. Comments on it so far Range from far from the truth by a business executive to any mention of Winnipeg is a Good one from a travel official. Or. Ludwig a Winnipeg born Authar who has gained Fame in the literary Field apparently interviewed dozens of people for the article and retraced most of his boy Hood Steps to get the necessary feel of the City. Has done nothing he quotes Alderman Jacob Penner s opinion of mayor Juba the mayor is the look of the Bosses. He has done nothing of an outstand ing nature. Only get Tures in the or. Juba who gave a lengthy interview to or. Lud wig for the article had t seen the Magazine up to Fri Day morning but this is what the article quotes or. Juba As saying we got Here in Winnipeg a terrific future. Terrific. If we think big. Winnipeg s through sleeping. I Tell you Vancouver s the Hare but the Peg is a Tor then the mayor went on to explain i m the Best Friend the artist s got in but according to the author or. Juba was t sure How much the City gives to the Manitoba theatre Centre or the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Author Ludwig asked or. Justice Samuel Freedman a pointed question what he thought of a jew him self having been made Chancellor of the University of Manitoba. The answer from or. Jus Tice Freedman this has always been a Liberal City. Labor is Strong. Progressive ideas take hold quickly. Both papers have consistently opposed any sign of bigotry. They helped create the Cli mate that made my election a common i acl or. Ludwig plays with the commonly known fact that most people South of the Bor Der know Little or nothing about Winnipeg. Whenever i meet an american and the where Are you from game begins i usually have this conversation i say. It s in Manitoba Canada not even Canada changes the Blank then this hypothetical ans wer comes from the Amer ican. Say you know sea Gram Labatt he s from Canada too. Somewhere around there Montreal i think. Maybe it s Vancou there Are factual errors in the article. For instance or Lurwig credits the City with people but metro Winnipeg likes to boast of or More. Author Ludwig labels Winnipeg s emigration rate the highest on the continent and says that Many of the Best brains have left the City. He singles out people he knows who have left former classmates of his at St. John s technical school. Modern and Pushy Winnipeg is modern Pushy boasts its hardiness dismisses its isolation and dreams Fine dreams. Its sons should stay Home make a Nice City for when visitors writes or. Ludwig obviously with Tongue in Cheek. So what is really special about Winnipeg or. Ludwig has theories on this which he explains in Holiday. Hard and crusty Rye bread. Russian sour dough hard and crusty on the outside moist inside Ris ing like a civilization. A Man named per Muller makes it Best at City bread. And a Man named Averbach started Blue Label Salami which Winnipeg s Good delicatessens Hockman Shang till it turns wine purple and wattled full of spice that bites the Tongue and garlics the air in retaliation against the imperialistic encroachment of the Bland of Orless Anglo Saxon izing a the article is full of descriptive paragraphs about the life of Winnipeg from Rupert Street station a Crew of Rookie cops in shaggy Buffalo Coats issued Forth like a Herd of main Street that blight of secondhand stores sour restaurants frilly pick up joints where Indian and White Man meet not All bad despite the controversy that s bound to Rise when the City has a Chance to read this extraordinary View of Winni Peg All is not bad in or. Ludwig s article by any Means. He closes with this distinct Ray of Hope. I Don t recognize my Home town in what i see now. But there s More to Winnipeg s destiny than making itself familiar o its native sons. Whatever it is that happens can t be All can 01 a jew my Tatien this hypothetical ans should stay Home make a the article is full of de if v social Aid up sunday modest increase will help meet higher costs the provincial cab inet has set March 1 As the Date on which a new and higher scale of payments will go into effect for Manitoban on social assistance. However welfare minister j. B. Carroll said in an interview Friday that it May be april before increased benefits Are paid to the majority of those entitled to added assistance. Or. Carroll said the increases won t be immediately effective because his department first has to review the individual needs of the to Manitoba families receiving social allowances. Under Manitoba s welfare sys tem All social allowance pay ments Are based on individual need Anri each Case has to be judged separately before highe payments can be made. The increases once paid will consist of modest extra assist Ance to help recipients meet Ris ing living costs. There will be an estimated three per cent Over All increase in payments Al though not All recipients will get added help if they Are faring satisfactorily on their present Al Lowance. The new rate schedule Marks the first time since 1960 that the provincial government has generally up graded social allow Ance benefits. Under the new schedule the government will increase food and clothing allowances for Many families. Special emphasis will be placed on helping Small family units with higher rates scheduled for families living in their own Homes. The new rates however won t provide for Board rates higher room and nor will there be an upward adjustment for recipients living with relatives. However there will Likely More help for families with Large numbers of children. Govt. Refuses to give data on death strip tories defeat Liberal bid for traffic count information by John a foe the conservative majority in the legislature Fri Day snowed under a Liberal request that the govern ment provide the House with traffic counts on 1he death strip Highway Between Winnipeg and for age la Prairie. At the same time without were not allowed to see the actually intending to it rejected an opposition request for in the finishing touches arc put on an Eigil font tall Polar Bear Snow sculpture by George Kaka Way and Robert Papish of the Indian residential school on Academy Road. Some of their help ers members of the school s thunderbird group Admire their entry in the school s annual win Ter carnival Snow sculpture Competition. Court frees Mother in manslaughter Case monday night not saturday there will be a family roller skating night in Aid of the Mani Toba heart foundation at the Winnipeg roller rink at r . Monday. A floor show and danc no demonstration will be Given by members of the Winnipeg Roler skating club. A Story in Fri Day s paper incorrectly stated he skating night would be held saturday. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Monday in the free press building include Board room no. 2, the Cutty Sark club Winnipeg clubroom no. 2 Branch sons of Freland. Carnival Queen miss Marion Davidson has been crowned Queen of the Champlain Community club Winter carnival. Her princesses were miss Jane Ursel miss Maureen Sweeney and miss Marline Collins. A 31 year old heading Ley Mother walked smiling out of Winnipeg Assize court Friday a ree woman after being acquitted of a charge of manslaughter Laid following the death aug. 9 of her four month old son. Christine Geraldine m a r i e Aarts was also found not guilty of a subsidiary charge of assault occasioning bodily harm. Evidence at her Ivy Day trial before or. Justice f. M. Bastin of court of Queen s Bench was that she struck a blow in the face that contributed to the death of her son Ronald Francis Aarts. The All male jury discussed the Case for an hour and a quartet before bringing in their verdict of acquittal. In his Brief address to the jury or. Justice Bastin stressed that the evidence showed mrs. Aarts had had no intention of killing her son when she slapped it to Stop it crying the afternoon of the Day he died. Observing that the charge alleged an unlawful assault the judge told the jury they had to consider whether there was in fact an assault. He pointed out that evidence had shown mrs. Aai to to be a Loving Mother to her three children. Mrs. Aarts gave evidence in weather sunny with a few Cloudy periods today and sunday. Continuing mild. Winds West at 20 becom ing Light tonight. Low tonight and High sunday 15 and 30. Temperatures for 24-hour period ending . Saturday Vancouver Calgary min. 48 33 44 .03 Edmonton Regina 37 18 39 Brandon 40 the Pas Winnipeg fort William Kenora 15 -2 37 28 34 27 31 of. To Max. Min. Pre. Ottawa 29 10 Toronto 33 10 Montreal. 28 8 Halifax 26 ,21 to. Chicago. 28 to. Miami. 87 52 to. Los Angeles 60 49 to. 45 .32 new York 37 31 .11 her own defence Friday morning under the guidance of defence counsel Nathan Nur Gitz. She broke Down and sobbed uncontrollably As she told the court How she had struck the blow which killed her son. Traffic counts i think the honorable Mem formation on the number of her could take my or. Traffic accidents on the High i Weir replied. He said thai tray Way for each year since 1945 j fice counts wore one of the the number of fatal accidents bases on which Highway up and deaths during the same grading programs were finder period and the number of per i taken sons injured. J w id Anri the government rejected the _ request for traffic counts de be Salci traffic counts spite the charge by an oppose a Afflic count laps do not in Tion member which Public themselves give the True tray works minister Walter Weir and i Fly flow for a particular area. Milled could be True that it the a Werc considered gives similar information to Malonff with a11 ule Ollu r Neces private Oil companies. They can be recorded y Ole i in that Case said opposition it took a recorded vote in the Leader Gildas Mol Gal. He gov legislature to reject the order Ern ment could present the for return a Resolution ask House with the other necessary ing for information proposed i information As Well. If it were by Gordon Johnston a Portage not prepared to provide simple la i information like that requested the order was rejected by a j then my honorable Friend and vote of 32 to 19, with All that they Are hiding some Tion parties United against the government. I Nelson Shoemaker a Glare Waller Weir rejected the re Slone no Pawa said he be quest for traffic counts on the i lived that traffic count inform Highway because he claimed was Given to Oil Corn it was privileged information panics to help them to decide collected Only for the internal j where to locate service Sra use of the department of pub 1 Lions. Lie works. Because the Issue does t. Konoir for All the other information contained in the order for re turn As Well. Four lanes or. Johnston who has pro Given Mem Bers of tin staff. 1 Don t d. L. Campbelll Lakeside said that traffic counts were provided to the legislature posed a Resolution calling for i when he was Premier. In fact the widening of the Highway to said charts showing traffic four lanes noted that govern ment members bad said in de bating his Resolution that the Highway would be widened when the traffic count warranted. Flows were displayed in the House during discussion of pub Lic works estimates. The traffic counts he said were obtained through the sex Spring warm up is on the Way by j. H. Judson weather forecasters see signs of a warm up for Winnipeg and March will come in with Lamb like thawing tempera Tures. It is expected to be a plea Sant change from the past week when weather disturb ances rippled along the Arctic cold front and brushed the City with Snow flurries and chilling winds from the Northwest. Sunday s Low of 24 below was 20 degrees below Normal. It was the coldest morning in february but monday s temperature struggled up to a High of 9 above. The Boundary of the cold air hovered near Winnipeg while Waves moved along it giving Snow flurries that amounted to .5 Inch of Snow. The snowy skies cleared on wednesday when a High pressure dome of cold air moved Over Manitoba. How he asked could oppose Pend iture of Public Money Tion members know if the wid j they were one of he things ening was warranted if they i which determined the spending of Public Money on highways. Public interest clearly the legislature is entitled to this he said. I am firmly of the Opin Ion it used to be done in former years and it is definitely in the Public interest that it should be new been uralic party Leader a. H. Russ Paulley sup ported the Liberal s. The House he noted planned to establish a special commit tee to study All aspects of High Way safety. One of the factors in Highway safety was the amount of use a Highway got. I cannot for the life of me see where the question of traffic counts is the privileged in formation of the department of Public works or the govern he said. Every Mem Ber of this legislature is inter ested in Highway gardening program a panel of Amateur gardeners will provide the program for a general meeting of the West Kil Donan horticultural society at 8 . Tuesday in Centennial school. The pane will include mrs. Thomas Shymkiw mrs. Frank Levens. Mrs. Eugene Slipetz and j. W. Hill. This dropped the temperature to 21 below before the High rolled off to the Southeast. Warmer weather returned on thursday As die disturbances took a More northerly course. The temperature ranged be tween 2 and 23 above. The warming trend continued on Friday and pushed the temperature up to 30. The Outlook for the next few Days indicates that Westerly winds aloft will bring mild air Over Manitoba from the Pacific. It is expected to raise Winni Peg s temperature to above Normal. During the first week of March Winnipeg s overnight temperatures begin to average above Zero. By March 7 the daily readings usually Range Between 4 and 22 above. The record extremes show a High of 55 it 1378, and a Low of -35 in 1939 ;