Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, October 16, 1964

Issue date: Friday, October 16, 1964
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 16, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Car radio stereo a thrill beyond All words radio reverb system fully guaranteed 59 .50 Advance . Centre 636 Sargent of Mckee pm. 786-3347 Coffee break by Gene Telpner if canadians had their Way i believe the majority of them would vote the democratic ticket and return president Johnson to office. It s a rather unique situation that finds most canadians favouring the democrats but it s nothing new by any Means. I particularly noticed earlier this week when a per former before a packed House at o Keefe Centre in Tor onto mentioned the democratic candidates in a gag he got a tremendous hand from the audience. If you Don t believe this theory is True ask your neighbor who he wants to be next . President. I d be willing to bet that nine times out of 10 hell say or. Johnson. Just mention beatles and the mail Box is jammed with responses. In the wednesday column there was a letter from a Man who does t like beatle music blared at him in restaurants. Among the most mild letter writers was 15-year-old Shirley Sharp of 703 Dudley Avenue. She suggested to the writer that if he wants to hear less music in eating places he should go to another place or get a pair of ear strangely enough in London where i visited recently the spell of 1he beatles on the younger set is fading. From what i could gather the Young people feel the beatles have directed their talents toward older people Over 20 and Are deserting their fans. Another thing of interest in Toronto earlier this week i Learned that a Man named John Balogh has formed the anti beatlemania association. I did t meet or. Balogh but he classifies beatlemania As a disease and claims he s going to do some intensive research on it. People and places lord Devlin who is in Winnipeg this weekend to address the Winnipeg press club and Manitoba school of Law will also speak to the medical Legal society tues Day ., in the medical College auditorium. Be cause his topic tuesday will be the profession in a changing society representatives of various professions have been invited. However or. Alan Klass who is presi Dent of the organization said that All professions Are Welcome to attend the tuesday session and there is no admission charge. Letter from Ron Oakes who says he misses Winnipeg but is enjoying his new position in Calgary. He says the City is bursting with sex Winnipeg types including Jack Robbins Don Curtin Richard Scott Jack Stewart Jack Mcrory Oord Walker Dave Brown Fred Pirn Roy Mcdonald and Many others. If you asked what we miss most i d say after the Many friends and associates a store where you can buy Winnipeg s famous Rye bread and native meats Beautiful wide thoroughfares and so Many other All of Ron s Many friends wish him Well at car Calgary. The Royal Winnipeg Ballet received excellent response on its recent tour to Small centres in Manitoba Saskatchewan and North Dakota. In Manitou Man., 450 out. Of the town s 900 citizens turned out to watch the perform Ance which is a staggering statistic notre Dame Day Centre 590 notre Dame Avenue can use empty thread spools plastic from dry cleaning bags Wax paper sheets of cardboard and similar items for Craft work. They can even make use of the cardboard centres from toilet paper. On the personal Side notes to you congratulations to Krc s Don Slade for the double Celebration of his birthday and anniversary which both fall on the same Day oct. 22 is the 50th anniversary reunion Tea of William Whyte school 2 to And 7 to 9 Perfect cribbage hand for Daniel Johnston 1405 Lincoln Avenue. Those who saw the Electron vision presentation of Richard Burton s Hamlet Here May be interested in the next attraction. Coming up is a 100-minute teen music show to be at theatres during the Christmas Holiday sea son. Among artists already signed Are the Beach boys Lesley Gore the rolling stones and Many others. So kids Start saving your Money. Writer Don Newman of this newspaper had a note of thanks from mrs. Margarite Oswald Mother of Lee Harvey Oswald for a Story he wrote. Or. New Man did t Send her the Story and was quite sur prised at the unexpected note that said in part thanks for your interest feel free to write any Winnipeg free press by Carrier 40c per week Friday october 16, 1964 authorized As 2nd class mall by the . Dept Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. See Winnipeg s largest display 1965 .stereo Trade As Down payment Advance . Centre 636 Sargent Cor of Mcgee pm. 786-3347 the Winnipeg symphony orchestra looks As though it has made some new Young fans at one o a series of ten concerts being Given at the playhouse theatre for elementary students in greater Winnipeg. The concerts Are an annual treat for the children. Similar series for High school students Are held later in the year. In research team urges direct Aid Jesuit sees danger in shared services . Prof. Says plan threatens separate schools tells parents to demand equal Justice by Robin Taylor government should give direct Aid to separate schools because shared ser vices could destroy the separate school system an eminent Jesuit educator said thursday in Winnipeg. Study Salt damage a University of Manitoba re search team has undertaken to find out How much car corrosion was caused by the use of Salt on Winnipeg roads last Winter. The professors conducting the experiments will inform metro of their findings by the end 1965. Metro gave the University emergency situations pure Salt this summer to conduct these experiments. The metro streets and traffic department uses a Salt and Sand solution composed of 10 per cent Salt in normally cold weather. However in four instances last year which were considered teachers to oppose cutting exam time Winnipeg teachers claim Stu dents will get a raw Deal if the school Board goes ahead with proposals to reduce the time of Christmas exams for Junior and senior High school students from two to in i hours. Howard j. Loewen director of Public relations for the Manitoba teachers society said in a Tele phone interview Friday the Winnipeg Branch of the society will submit a Brief to the school Board meeting tuesday protesting the changes. Or. Loewen said the school Board intended to reduce the length of exams and also to crowd them into a four Day per Iod dec. 17 to 21 instead of the five to seven Day period Gener ally allotted. This Means or. Loewen said some students will have to write two exams in the morning or the afternoon. Owing to the difficulty of set Ling up an exam timetable to cover everything in four Days some students May even have to write four exams in one or. Loewen said. He added that students would have to study the same amount of material for the Ivy hour exams As they had for the two. This reduction in time will not make the students task any was or. Loewen said. Gone ahead he said the school Board had gone ahead with plans to Intro Duce the proposed changes with out consulting the teachers. The first we Learned of the changes was when the teaching committees who set the Christ rapist Hunt still on City police have been checking dozens of reports in their search for a rapist. Inspector of detectives Norman Stewart called thursday for land lords to report any movement in and out of Winnipeg Rooming houses for no apparent reason before sept. 24 and after oct. 10. He said that police have received dozens of Calls on this and also from people reporting suspicious men. Inspector Stewart said that even if the reports Don t amount to anything we stil hike to hear from he said circulars have gone out to All Canadian police departments. The rapist has not struck again since he attacked and raped o 40-year-old woman on the Disraeli freeway last sat urday. She was his third victim in three weeks. He is described As being five feet eight to 10 inches age be tween 25 and 30, Brown to dirty Blond hair medium to heavy build. His clothes would have been blood stained police said. Fourteen men i and a nation 6 Bruce Hutchison has written another Book. Y dealing with Canada s 14 prime ministers in the 98 years of confederation the Book is entitled or. Prime minister. Starting saturday the free press will 5 publish the first of a series of excerpts from 5 the Book. The articles will appear tuesdays thursdays and saturdays. A regular contributor to the free press editorial Page or. Hutchison is also the author of the unknown country a profile of Canada and the incredible Canadian a biography of Mackenzie King. The latest Book is considered to be Hutchison s most distinguished and Lively. In his Long career or. Hutchison is considered to be Canada s most Brilliant political reporter. He has known six of the prime ministers he writes about and he has studied the others with the warmth sympathy and septic ism of a superbly inquisitive reporter. This is not a formal Book of he says. My own recollections Over 46 years in political journalism Are mingled with the Public record occasionally denying Mas exams were asked to shorten them. The exams had already been set for two hours and now teachers Are Busy making the Al or. Loewen Saidi Winnipeg teachers have been notified of their executive s decision to submit the Brief and or. Loewen said he hoped there would be a Good turn out of teachers the school Board meeting tuesday. No comment g. T. Macdonell Deputy school superintendent said he could idiot discuss the proposed changes until after he placed them before the Board tuesday. Or. Macdonell said the Board had discovered in the Spring that students who were staying away from school to study luring exam week were breaking the Law. The Board then asked the administration to study possible changes in the exam schedule. It is proposals based on these studies conducted in conjunction with school principals which i shall place before the school Board on or. Macdon Ell said. Was used. The results of the study will help verify or refute charges by Winnipeg motorists that Salt erodes their cars and shortens a car s life Span. Prof. D. W. Craik director of the Manitoba research Council and prof. G. K. Yuill of the faculty of engineering Are direct ing the experiments. Apparatus for the experiments consists of four Asphalt tracks Ach 20 feet in diameter. Within Ach track four wheels covered Vith steel fenders Are fitted at he ends of a rotating Metal framework. Racks with Metal Abs Are fitted inside the wheels. The tabs will be checked for corrosion. The Experiment will begin when Snow Falls. The apparatus s on the lawns of the Campus on Dafoe Road to ensure the roads get a Normal amount of Snow. The wheels will be oper ated every Day to try and duplicate the operation of a typical car. One track will be treated with Jure Salt one with Salt and Sand in the same proportions ised by metro and a third will have no solution added to it. Rev. Virgil c. Blum head of the department of political science at Marquette University Milwaukee said the parents of children in separate schools Are being compelled to accept shared services instead of receiving shared he urged parents to form a group that could rectify the situation by bringing political pres sure on government. Father Blum was speaking to a predominantly Catholic Audi ence of 300 people in the play House theatre at a lecture sponsored by the Newman alumni of Manitoba. He said the acceptance of a shared services program Indica Ted Only that separate schools could not afford to pay the full costs of education. Character but he said the Church rela Ted education provided by Separ ate schools cannot retain its character in a shared services program. In defining father Blum shared services said he was t conducted Tours of new City Hall Start monday conducted Public Tours of Winnipeg s new million City Hall Complex will begin monday mayor Stephen Juba announced in a press release Friday. There will be Lour Tours daily monday to Friday of the seven Storey administration building and two and one half Storey coun cil building. The Tours will begin at 12 noon ., 2 And Evening Tours will be conducted every second Art ing oct. 26, and Are schedule or 7 ., ., 8 And Tour passes Ray be obtained ree from the officer on duty a the information desk in the coun cil building Hall. Driver killed a 33-year-old Lorette Man Man Raymond Marcoux dead on arrival at St. Bonifac Hospital after his car hit c Cement abutment at Friday on the Symington railway overpass on Highway 1, ramp reported. A National Freedom and it is a ant Catholic and jewish children nondenominational and nonpartisan civic organization. Its mixed membership has destroyed the illusion that the school question is a Catholic Issue it is a civil rights Issue a struggle by god fearing persons for Freedom and equal Justice in the education of their father Blum said he was t fully aware of the situation but the nature of Premier Roblin s tentative shared services propos als made in june seemed to indicate he does t have enough support at the grassroots to come up with much not Neutral father Blum said secularism in Public schools was its own Reli Gion and therefore the schools could not be called Neutral. It is a serious violation of the rights of conscience of protest whose parents object to having their children indoctrinated in an other Man s religion. In the . More and More protestants Are beginning to protest this indoctrination of their children in the father Blum said. He added that the democratic party in the . Has written into its official platform a clause that Calls for Federal Aid for All Chil Dren in All schools. He said this had not been implemented yet but by political pressure and More enlightened attitudes trends were moving in this direction. Father Blum said the Chal Lenges of the 20th Century required the capacity of All Chil Dren to be developed to its High est potential. We cannot afford the luxury of discrimination of a single child because of la s religious he said. Regrets 6-month sentence Magistrale Isaac Rice wednes Day imposed a six month sen tence on a father of five while decrying the need for such a stiff penalty. Roland Frank Lachance 626 St. Jean Baptiste Street St. Boni face pleaded guilty to a charge that he kept two letters while sorting mail in his Job at Winni Peg Post office at . Wednesday. Court was told la Chaice 27, had taken two letters addressed to the Back to the Bible Broad cast one containing and other a Dummy letter. It was his first offence. Told that Lachance had been working at the Post office for 30 months and had five children magistrate Rice said the min ister of Justice says we re Tough and have Little thought for re habilitation of people in the court. Here s a Case where i have to give him six six months is the minimum penalty under the criminal code. Maximum is 10 years. If he d committed another of Fence he d be a Good Case for the magistrate said Justice minister Guy Favreau recently criticized treatment of first offenders in Canadian courts. He said it was a Dis Tressing blot on our culture. Magistrate Rice said later "1 have to observe the Law but i m working on a speech about this thinking Only of transport text books and the like bul of Aca Demic courses Given in Public schools to separate school Chil Dren. I would recommend that the state build facilities in the sep Arate schools instead of confusing children by transporting them from one school to he said. Quoting from the . Maga Zine the new Republic father Blum said since the stale has interest in the education of Church school children in secular subjects the slate can and should pursue this interest by subsidizing instruction in these subjects. It makes no difference to the state whether the instructors Are jesuits or agnostics whether the classroom is owned by Luther ans or the local school should t worry father Blum said the stale should legislate for purely Secu Lar ends and As Long As schools did not propagandize the state should not worry if its measures indirectly helped a Church. In Manitoba father Blum said the existing attitude to separate schools had turned Many parents nto second class citizens. The problem of securing free Dom in education is a political and not a constitutional he said. He urged parents to unite and Ning pressure on the govern ment. We have such a group in the . It is called citizens for de new Halls feature of University Day highlight of the third annual University Day to be held oct. 24 on the fort Garry Campus will be the naming of three buildings by Premier Duff Rob Lin and mrs. H. M. Speechly. The new women s residence will be named Mary Speechly Hall honouring mrs. H. M. Speechly the first woman Mem ber of the University s Board of governors. The new dining Hall attached to the residence will be named Pembina Hall. The original University Resi Dence now occupied by male weather Clearing this evening. Sunny with a few Cloudy intervals saturday. Little change in temperature. Light winds. Low tonight for Gimli Carman and Winnipeg 35 and 55. Temperatures for 24-hour period ending . Friday Vancouver Calgary 53 Edmonton 49 Regina 66 Brandon 70 the Pas. 64 Winnipeg 68 fort William 78 Kenora 67 Max. Min. Pre. 52 39 .02 29 28 .01 28 47 39 49 .05 Ottawa Toronto 75 Montreal 72 Halifax 49 Chicago 74 Miami 87 let Angelet 76 Minneapolis 74 new York 73 Max. Min. Pro. 75 43 37 50 45 37 69 61 64 54 .01 to. Students Only be named tache Hall honouring archbishop a. A. Tache one of the founders of the University of Manitoba. Premier Roblin will open the new University College. The Public is invited to the open Day to watch the Cere monies and to visit the n e w buildings. The annual science fair sponsored by students of the science school pharmacy which this year Marks its 50th anniversary. The recently expanded computer Centre in the engineering building will be open to visitors who May test their skill against the machines set up on this occasion to Ray games. Faculty also be open on University Day. The agriculture and Home economics science fair and open House will be open from To 5 On University Day and on the previous evening from To 10 Many of the faculties schools and departments on the Campus will have special displays one of the programs being in the Louis l. Scharff of new York holds Over Worth of Canadian Stamps at the greater Winnipeg numismatic society s 19g4 Coin show now on at the Marlborough hotel. The eight Stamps on the. Right were printed with the red letter Border including the word Canada inverted. Their value is about those on the left Lack the usual horizontal perforations. They Are Worth about per pair. Or. Scharff is representing j. And ii. Stolow inc., stamp dealers of new York. League chief silent Joseph Morgan chairman of the metro Reform league remained Light lipped Friday on the identify of the officers or sponsors of Hie new political group. Following rumours that a group from Winnipeg City Hall or a group of businessmen dissatisfied in their relations with metro were behind the Reform group or. Morgan indicated that he might Issue a statement later in the week. He would wait or. Morgan said until after the newspapers were out. If anyone was mentioned As being behind the re form league who is not connected with the group he would make the statement. Friday he said he had read the free press Story and the Silva Tion seemed to be satisfactorily he added he had nothing further to say. Mayor Stephen Juba and Busi Nessman Gerald m. Hechter president of radio Oil refineries have denied association with the Reform league. More sweep ticket holders a total of 16 Manil bans now hold Irish Sweepstake tickets which have been drawn for sat urday s Cambridgeshire horse race. The latest eight Are listed below. Names of horses Are in capitals followed by ticket num Bers and names of ticket holders. Sabra War g9180, Asler Winnipeg the bos n Van 61239, Anna Winnipeg gloomy Portal wok 77986, Peter pan Brandon Hasty Cloud wok 16909, Pauline Fanny Stelle King of Babylon we 83918, 1 Heel Winnipeg l homme arme wed s8394, Kelly Lynn Winnipeg High flown a my 57448, Lucky Winnipeg Priddy maid exp 84336, Ricky flin flon. Free press meetings meetings to be held Mon Day in the free press build ing include at 1 Club room federation of senior citizens at 8 Board room ladies auxiliary to Imperial veterans in can Ada clubroom Winnipeg aquarium society ;