Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Reconditioned to sets 17" and 23" new guar Antii up Advance . Centre 636 Sargent or pm. 786-3347 Winnipeg free by Carrier 40v per week saturday october 10, 1964 authorized As 2nd class mall by the . Dept., Ottawa and for payment of. Postage in can. See Winnipeg s ingest a Spray 1965 .-----stereo Trade As Down payment Advance . Centre 636 Sargent of pm. 786-3347 Coffee by Gene Telpner now that mayor Stephen Juba has been put in office by acclamation he s gone to his favorite sport Cliff hanging. By that i mean he has hinted at a mystery of something big to come and the mayor merely refers to it As a secret plan that will cause quite a commotion when it is made Public. Now what in the world could it be it can t be the pan american games we be already got them and it won t be the Grey cup championship because we be already lost that. In our office we be started a guessing game and i be Analysed some the projects most Likely to originate in the Fertile mind of the mayor. Would it be a huge plastic dome to cover the City of Winnipeg thus insuring a tropical climate every Day of the year this is one fascinating possibility and certainly a project that would cause quite a i visualize the dome As Only protecting Winnipeg proper not metro. The Snow that accumulated on the Edge of tropical Winnipeg would be a disposal problem for metro which is in charge of streets. Could the mayor have in mind lending his consider Able weight to a plan to raise the level of Lake Winni Peg thus causing the red River to flow South and eliminating All future fears of a flood whatever the project May be at least the mayor is keeping us on the edges of our collective seats with a script worthy of Alfred hitch cock. Frankly i m in favor of the dome provided it extends to West Kildonan. Despite the fact that Winnipeg celebrates Sadie Hawkins Day at least three times Here is the offi Cial Date. According to the news Syndicate that Dis tributes i l Abner which appears i this newspaper nov. 28 is Sadie Hawkins Day. So Start lumbering up for the big Chase girls. Beat of the City notes to you my fair lady slated to have its opening oct. 28 at the metropolitan theatre already has taken in for the first night at s100 a couple. This seems like a fantastic Advance and theatre manager Bill Novak expects it to have the longest run of any film Ever shown at the met. At a newspaper you re prepared for almost any question. A Saskatchewan Reader wants to know How Many pounds a Sturgeon gains each year. X imagine it would depend on How much the fish eats. Prof. Maxwell Cohen Dean of the Mcgill Law school will speak sunday ., at the Rosh Pina Syna Gogue to open a new lecture series mall Centre the sparkling new Complex on Portage Avenue will have its official opening next thursday. Watch for the finest hours a marvelous documentary of the life of sir Winston Churchill scheduled to open nov. 5 at the Odeon theatre. A screening was viewed with interest this week at the King s theatre. It s a two hour color feature made by Jack Levien the same Man who produced the valiant years which you May have seen on television. Random thought that la be the Day when kids poll snapshots from their to show off their parents there s Money in Money there will. Be a tremendous amount of interest and also a lot of Money changing hands at the three Day Coin and stamp exhibit of the greater Winnipeg Numis Matic society. When the show opens oct. 15 at the Marl Borough hotel there will be dealers from new York new Jersey Minneapolis California and Many parts of Canada. You can expect some furious bidding for the coins that go on the auction Block and some collectors May pick up a real bundle because of interest in Cana Dian uncirculated Money. By the Way a Block of eight of those famous Canada Seaway upside Down Stamps will be on Sale and already it has a value of the show is open to the Public at a Low fee. St. James Speed skating club can use some skates anyone who has some available Contact Keith Campbell 837-3142 perfect cribbage hand for Alan Johnson Sanford Man. Sorry that we Are unable to run fowl suppers. There have been so Many of them that they Are now appearing in our women s pages. Smellie wants govt. To give Thompson Low Cost housing the provincial Cabinet will foe asked next week to approve a proposal by Muni Cipal affairs minister Robert g. Smellie to establish a corporation which would provide Low Cost housing at Thompson Man. Or. Smellie said in an interview that an order will be submitted to the Cabinet asking that a limited dividend housing corporation be set up for the mining Community 485 Miles North of Winnipeg. Smeilis s Eleanor Mccallum of Dauphin Man., rounds a barrel during the ladies barrel race at the opening night of the second annual Winnipeg Benefit horse show at the Arena. The race was one of the Western events of Friday night s show. The show continues with a performance tonight and a matinee tomorrow. By Gordon Dodd if you meet an elderly a trite haired figure at the Side of he Highway bearing a piece of tin with a Dollar Bill note at ached and the name of a Des nation chalked upon it you will probably have Corne across John temperatures stay below Normal by j. H. Judson Winnipeg s temperature hovered 13 degrees below Normal this week As warm autumn weather stayed West of the City. Sunday s High of 48 fell far Short of the High on that Date last year when the Mercury Rose to 82. Monday was even cooler with the temperature Ris ing from the overnight Low of 30 to a Cool High of 42. A disturbance formed tuesday morning on the Arctic front or Boundary of the cold air and moved rapidly southeastward from Northern Saskatchewan to Southern Manitoba. As it moved by the City Light rain began to fall and amounted to .03 inches. While Winnipeg s High temperature read 46, Regina was enjoying a warm 75 degrees. Cloudy Cool weather followed the disturbance and wednesday s temperature ranged from 34 to 44 As High level winds kept cold air pouring southward across Manitoba. Thursday the upper wind moved a dome of Clear air of of the Arctic that sent win Peg s temperature Down to 19 de Grees and even though the us shone brightly the afternoon maximum reached Only 41. The High pressure cell moved Jui East of Winnipeg on Friday and dropped the temperature to 18 the coldest morning this fall. Hitchhiker offers Money for kindness of a lift vibe at a Veteran of the Outlook for the next few Days indicates sunny Cool Wea ther clouding Over on monday thanksgiving Day. Temperatures should be near Normal. Normally in the second week of october Winnipeg s tempera Ture ranges Between daily lows of 36 and highs of 55 degrees. Last year a record warm spell sent the temperature up to 79 on october 14, and 78 on octo Ber 15. The record Low for this period was 12 degrees on octo Ber 13, 1881. Merely a year in the hitchhiking siness. He will offer you the Money or the kindness of a lift prob ably towards or from the direct Ion of Altona. But that is not he Only purpose of displaying it so prominently. It is a Little different from putting your hand he said. Drivers never know what to expect from hitchhikers. Remember he occasion two boys were Given a lift by a preacher hear shot him and took his Money you would not expect that from a Man offering a Dol one would probably not expect it from a Man the age or. Wiebe either but his modes Operand is nevertheless interesting. Too old to drive it All began in Biily of last year or should one really say in 1855? that was when or. Wiebe once a store owner at Horndean Man., and now living at 386 Wardlaw Avenue was forced to sell the last of Chevrolet he had owned during his motoring career because the authorities said he was too old to drive a car. So the much travelled or. Wiebe became dependent on Public one of the events he was Loath to miss was the annual Rhineland agricultural society fair at Al Tona. But july of last year be dearly wanted to get to a fair at mor Ris Man., and there was not a jus at his disposal not to be de erred he took a metro transit us As far As the University of Manitoba terminus. There he garbage paper with Liei word Morris written across it and the tempting Dollar attached. Then he waited. He got a lift to Morris from the fifth car that passed he recalled. Twice in month twice this month or. Wiebe has hitched the 140-mile trip to Altona and using the University terminus As his starting Point. First it was to visit the annual fair. Last sunday he re turned to talk Over old times with some of his Many friends Here. Having reached his destination la changes his indicator to Winnipeg for the return trip. The Driver always refuses the proffered Dollar but if Terji Are children in the car or. Wiebe persuades the Motorist to let them have the Money. The fit looking or. Wiebe who eaves a 71-year-old wife at Home when he makes his jaunts has had his own seat Dri ver s License printed just for the fun of the occasion. He intends to go on hitch hiking As Long As possible. Why he asked. It has worked pretty Well so weather a few Clouds today. Sunny with Cloudy inter Vals sunday and Little temperature change. Winds southerly 30 ., Light tonight decreasing to West 1 5 Sunday. Low tonight and High Sun Day at Gimli and Winnipeg 35 arid 55. Carman 35 and 60. Temperatures for 24-hour period ending Saturday Vancouver Calgary 61 Edmonton 63 Regina 62 Brandon 52 the Pai. 49 Winnipeg 48 Kenora 43 fort William 40 Max. Win. Pre. 61 51 .08 47 .25 46 .01 32 28 32 33 29 19 Ottawa Toronto 52 Montreal 57 Halifax 56 Chicago 44 Miami 86 lot Angeles 71 Minneapolis 47 new York 61 Max. Min. Pre. 49 38 .09 32 .01 44 .05 41 20 73 61 25 46 .24 to. Or. U students to study on train fourth year students of architecture at the University of Manitoba will study next week on the Canadian National rail ways train to Churchill Man. The group of 41 students and two professors will leave Winni Peg thursday evening with the assignment of drawing up a master plan for the future of Churchill giving special Atten Tion to the Community ethnic groups and sub Arctic climate. The project will cover two to three months of their undergraduate work for this Scholastic year. Aside from group discussion while on the train they will spend saturday interviewing Churchill officials. They will re boy Hurt in collision Richard Lavoie 5vz, of 641 Langevin Street is in Good condition in St. Boniface general Hospital with a fractured left leg and possible head injuries following a car pedestrian collision Friday. Police said the boy was Cross ing Provencher Avenue at Lange Vin Street at . And the car going East was driven by Clovis Malo of 569 Provencher. Or. Smeilis s statement was made Public a few hours after Premier Duff Roblin told a news conference that no announce ments would be made on the matter at the Premier indicated How Ever that the province could do virtually nothing to Force Thomp son apartment owners to lower their rents in order to ease the Burden on Many families living in the Community. The establishment of a corporation would enable the govern ment District to gather information and offer assistance to men earning less than a month who have families. A Survey taken by the Manitoba government last month showed there were 189 employees at Thompson in this category. Some of the men whose wives were working could get along on or less salary a month. It was estimated about 175 families were i need of hous ing accommodation with rents set at less than a month. A firm of chartered account ants had been hired by the provincial government recently to investigate rent structures in Thompson House financing and generally the High Cost of Liv ing. A report is expected to be completed by the firm soon to help the government to study the problems More thoroughly it was suggested earlier that the government enter in to the housing business by either building or encouraging the construction of Low Cost housing in the Northern Manitoba mining Community. However if Cabinet decided against the establishment of Low dividend housing Corpora Tion or. Smellie May have t turn to the chartered account ants report to seek other mean to ease the Burden on some o the residents. Opposes disbanding of militia unit mayor Stephen Juba has writ in a letter to prime minister protesting the possible disbanding of the Royal Winni leg rifles a militia unit whose history is As old As the City. In his letter dated oct. 7, he mayor said he was concerned by the Federal government s proposed reorganization of can Ada s militia in which it appears As though the Royal win rifles May be disband mpg associate defence minister Lucien Cardin has said the member militia will be reduced o he said a decision on which units will be disbanded or amalgamated with others will be made this month. It would be a most ill advised step to disband the Royal Winnipeg rifles mayor Juba said. Of All the militia units in Winnipeg the Royal Winnipeg rifles is in the Public mind the regiment of the City the regiment known As the Little Black devils was formed in 1883 and is the oldest infantry regiment in Western Canada. Al though the regiment has Only 22 officers and 107 men it boasts a record encompassing five wars and plates to the North West rebellion. A defence department report last August said at least 15 Mili Tia regiments in Canada have fewer than 200 personnel and their ratio of officers to men is about one officer for every five or six men. An examination of the figures other types of units might be disbanded though authorities predicted it might be politically Raj kissable for or. Cardin to Eli Minate some currently weak re Jimenis because of then famous names and War records. The mayor said apart from its history the regiment continues to function As an important part of Winnipeg s life. To remove it would be to remove part of our he said the people who could Best recommend a which infantry units should remain Are the various commanders who know the situation intimately. He said a number of leading businessmen Many of whom had previously served i the regiment had approached him to see what could be done to retain the unit. For this reason and because of my own deep personal conviction in the matter i earnestly ask that no action taken that would result in tiie disband ing of the Royal Winnipeg mayor Juba stated. Youth Dies Richardson Cameron 17, of the Swan Lake Indian Reserve was killed Friday when the car he was driving overturned and pinned him underneath. Ramp said the youth was driving about one mile East of Brux Elles Man. When the Accident occurred some time Between 2 indicated which infantry and And Armed himself with a piece of turn oct. 19. Sales club speaker Robert Bend High school Prin Cipal and former Manitoba min ister of education will address a luncheon meeting of the sales and advertising club of Winni Peg tuesday in the fort Garry hotel. For senior citizens the Oriole Community Centre will begin its senior citizens Gram tuesday. The Happy hour club will meet at 1 . And a whist drive will be held at . Lutheran meeting the annual Cabinet meeting of the lutheran student movement in Canada will be held at the Central Myca from saturday to monday. A feature attraction at the second annual Winnipeg be refit horse show is Elaine Kramer above who roman rides a six horse team and jumps them As Well. Miss Kramer has appeared at such shows As the Washington International horse show and is the Only woman rider to present such an act in North America. Miss Kramer is appearing during each performance of the Winnipeg show which continues today and sunday at the Winnipeg Arena. Grade passing rate up in 63 passing rate in Grade 11 and 12 departmental examinations last june was up slightly Over 1963 according to the repeat of the Manitoba High school examination Board made Public Fri Day. Red Feather file City police have warned that a Vancouver convert who escaped from a provincial mental Hospital at b.c., May be in the Winnipeg area. Larry Kenneth Calvin Sinester 26, above was serving ten years for rape. The following description been issued live feet ten inches toll 160 pounds medium complexion Green eyes and Brown hair. Kan Ester who is considered dangerous has two tattoos Lurry on. The left Armjo on the right. Billy 7, saw parents die by Chris Ladi Billy s world Collar fed one night when he was seven. He awoke from a deep sleep with the sound of angry voices ringing in his ears. Creeping from his bedroom he watched horrified As his father shot his Mother and turned the gun. On himself. Such scars take a Long time to heal. Billy is now nine but he still has nightmares and the word Mommy is enough to make him sob he was placed for a time with relatives. There was a drinking problem in his new Home and Billy was t getting the love and understanding lie desperately needed. Officials of the children s Aid society were notified and Billy was taken to the society s receiving Home on the Bank of the Assiniboine River in downtown Winnipeg. Although he had been neglected while living with his relatives Billy still considered it Home. He ran away at every Opportunity. Hostile to All other adults he showed average intelligence but his behaviour was so no school would have him. Finally with love and under standing he began to change. He now attends school regularly and is Friendly and co operative with his teachers. The Cas receiving Home was Billy s Rescue station. There he Learned to Trust people. He enjoyed Good food made new friends and found Security. The Cas a red Feather Agency of the Community Chest of greater Winnipeg offers Protection services to children. It embodies full placement and adoption services and provides counselling and casework help to unwed mothers. For Billy and others like him there is still time to help. Gifts to the Community Chest will ensure that the children s Aid society can continue its work with such children. One of a figures released by the Board bowed that the 1964 pass rate or Grade 11 students stood at 73.7 per cent compared to 71.3 Peir cent last year. Grade 12 ass rate increased from 71.4 3er cent to 72.4. The number of examination papers written in these two grades last june reached and surpassed the for the first time in history. Last year departmental examinations were written in grades 11 and 12, the report said. According to the High school examination Board Grade 11 examination papers were written this year compared to in 1963, while Grade 12 showed a Sharp increase from in 1963 to last june. Passing rates in physics in both grades showed the sharpest increase in each Case up by nearly 10 per cent. Grade 11 French showed a 10 per cent drop in the pass rate while Grade 12 French showed a five per cent increase. The largest percentages in crease was shown in Grade 12 French option examinations up from 78.4 per cent in 1963 to 91.2 per cent last Board reported. June the a ;