Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 6, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Says for preplanned Profet signal office moving consult a Security moving to Pace us 3-7171 by Carrier 40c per week saturday february 6, 1965 authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dept., Ottawa and Cor payment of postage in Cash. 11" portable televisions Brand name 1965 models. 1 or. Full service coverage. 129 .50 Advance to Centre 636 Sargent Cor. Of Megee Phi 786-3347 Coffee break life Fok a Telephone switchboard operator is never easy particularly if she works for a Busy firm or one with a lot of partners. By that i mean she May have quite a Mouthful to say if it s a Large firm with several names. One firm in my Home town a Law organization was called Shotwell Monsky Grodinsky Vance and Harry b. Cohen. Every single partner insisted on having his name mentioned when the switchboard answered the phone Cohen wanted his name used plus the Middle initial. Woe be it to the poor operator who merely said Shotwell and company. Even in our office we drop Winnipeg and just say free press and our phones Are continually ringing so our operators Don t get Many Slack periods. Probably the biggest dilemma in the City came when the architectural firm of Waisman Ross and associates joined forces with the firm of Blankstein Coop Gillmore Hanna. Now what a Mouthful this would have to be for the harassed switchboard operators. Believe git or not this called for a major policy decision because imagine an operator saying to Call after Call the entire six names of the major partners not to mention the other associates. So they called a meeting made a momentous decision. Now when you phone number instead of the names the operator merely says number 10 architectural group be cause 10 is their address on Donald Street. It might be fun to find out what firm has the longest answering name on its switchboard and operators can Send in their nominations anytime to me. Scene in the City notes to you Silver Heights collegiate putting on Gilbert and Sullivan s Mikado feb. 9 to 12 writes Christine Douglas of the publicity committee Ben Zvi chapter of b Nai b Rith girls Are collecting wire and wooden hangers for a fund raising Campaign. If you have any you want to get rid of Contact Barbara Maslowsky at 339-8610. In a recent column i credited a gentleman from. Quill Lake sask., As being our Champion subscriber with 50 consecutive years. Not so writes e. Collins of s81 Washburn Street who has been taking the free press for 58 years. And i guess there Are others who have taken it longer than said the letter. Dates of the Winnipeg children s theatre production of tippi Long stocking by caravan players at the playhouse is feb. 19 at and . Feb. 20 at . And . You can Exchange previous tickets to fit in with the new schedule fellow i know stopped smoking just like that he fell Down an elevator Shaft. Sam the cameraman is surprising his friends by sending them pens inscribed simply stolen from Sam the it s a cute Way of advertising and the pens work too. In the morning mail dear or. Telpner. A Friend of mine answered the phone recently and the party on the line asked if she would like to join a dancing school. She said yes i would love to and i la be 85 tomorrow yours truly mrs. Florence hag Man 101 Martin dear or. Telpner. Just after Christmas i was going to write you about the business of Christmas presents Lor teachers. I intended to suggest that the Money be Given to care. Then the free press Barley fund came into being and was Well supported by the schools. This i heartily applaud but parents have to Dole out again. Then March of dimes Valentines Day my five year old starts school this year and i Hope i can afford it. Mrs. J. R. Pitre 516 Rosseau Avenue West dear sir. As an Avitz Reader of your column i just to mention that the obscene Telephone callers Are still at it. I Hope Laone of your readers have experienced what i be been going through and i wonder if anything can be done about it please Don t sign my name for obvious reasons mrs. K. the woman in question furnished details and it s a pity such pests exist in our City they should be ashamed of themselves. Weather Cloudy with Snow flurries and Drifting Snow today. Sunny with Drifting Snow sunday and colder. Winds South East at 20 . Today North at 25 sunday. Low tonight and High sunday -10 Tjqfe-5. Temperatures for the 24-hour period ending at . Saturday Vancouver Max. Min. Pre. 42 36 .60 Calgary 24 -2 .03 Edmonton 15 -10 .32 Regina 13 7 .12 Brandon 8 -6 .07 the Pas 0 -11 .04 Winnipeg 7 -7 .04 fort William 20-10 .02 Kenora 13 -1 .01 Max. Min. Pre. Ottawa .___11 5 .33 Toronto 37 32 .04 Montreal 1? 8 .45 Halifax 20 7, .05 Chicago 40 Miami 79 71 .04 los Angeles 55 52 .20 Minneapolis 41 24 new York 31 31 fund drive Campaign Aims at in three years the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Friday announced a three year Campaign to raise s259.000. I Dennis h. Carter Ballet presi a Dent and general chairman of the i Campaign told a press Confer i ence in the Smith Street studios the Money is needed to assure the total Success of scheduled Tours of Britain and the United states. The 23-member company will be flown to Britain in september by the Canadian government to represent this country at Tho Commonwealth festival of the arts. Performances Are slated in London Cardiff Liverpool and Glasgow. In october the company will Start an eight week tour in Montreal under the auspices of new York impresario sol Hurok. The tour will continue to 50 United states centres from new York to California. A successful Campaign would provide substitute dancers and More stage settings As Well As wipe out a deficit accumulated Over the 25-year his tory of the company said or. Carter. The Campaign set up by g. A. Brakeley and co. Ltd. Of Mont real will be a mail and personal canvass of corporations Busi Nesses and individuals. Lieutenant governor Errick f. Willis who is honorary Patron of the Campaign predicted at the conference that Winnipeg will be known As the place of the. Royal Winnipeg other Campaign officers Are mrs. James a. Richardson honorary chairman Joseph har Ris honorary treasurer Dean Jacob Hoogstra ten and sol Kanee vice chairmen. Following saturday s perform Ance in the playhouse theatre the company leaves monday on a 23-Centre tour of Western Canada. To Mark its Silver anniversary the company was entertained after the Friday performance at a party Given by or. And mrs. Willis in government House. Parents to meet Grosvenor Home and school association will meet at 8 . Monday in the school auditorium. R. Wesley Mcammond child development instructor at Manitoba teachers College will speak on help parents can give their Chil Dren who attend school. Here Are three of the Snow sculptures prepared by faculties fraternities and Sorori ties of the University or Mani Toba on the fort Garry Cam pus As entries in the annual sculpting contest held in con Junction with the students Union s Winter carnival. The week Long carnival ends to night with the crowning of a Sno court site East of main attorney general Stewart Mclean confirmed Friday that the provincial government s new magistrate s court building in Winnipeg will be built East of main Street in the Vicinity of the proposed arts Centre com plex. The exact site of the building is confidential at the moment or. Mclean said but it Likely will be behind the arts Centre buildings near the red River. Winnipeg City Council monday recommended that the new magistrate s court be built at William Avenue and King Street with an overhead passage to the proposed Winnipeg Public safety building. The City s recommendation was made after or. Mclean indicated late last month to the police commission that the province favored a site near the arts . Faulty Gas Furnace blamed for death a Coroner s jury Friday ruled that a 24-year-old Winnipeg Man died of Carbon monoxide Poison ing caused by a faulty Gas fur Nace. After deliberating for 40 min utes the jury recommended that All Home heating equipment be Given a More rigid inspection on installation followed by Peri Odic inspections. The jury was inquiring into the Jan. 30 death of Robert Claude Abbott of 378 Newton Avenue. Or. Abbott and his father Law rence 59, were found unconscious in their Home Early that Day. Robert Abbott s death was placed at about 9 . Jan. 30. His father recovered i Winni Peg general Hospital. The jury s verdict read in part we the jury find that cause of death was accidental and was caused by the faulty operation of the Gas Furnace at 378 Neilton Avenue which produced the Carbon monoxide in sufficient quantities to be of a fatal nature evidence was that Robert a Bott was found unconscious in an upstairs bedroom of the House. His father was discovered in a bedroom on the main floor. Winnipeg fire department officials testified that when they arrived at the Newton Avenue House shortly after an emergency Call there was .04 per cent car Bon monoxide Content in the House. A pipe Between the building s Gas Furnace and the Chimney was found to be slightly opened. Edward ring a Gas and Oil inspector for the province of Manitoba testified he found two things wrong with the basement Furnace. An outlet pipe in a first floor bedroom closet was found to be disconnected from the Chimney and the Furnace s compartment door was off sitting beside the Furnace. Or. Ring said it. Was the door being left off the Furnace and not the disconnected pipe that caused the release of Carbon monoxide Tumes. Aggravating the situation was the fact that the Furnace was too confined and did t allow enough oxygen to filter through the Small basement. The deceased s father Law rence Abbott told the jury that during the past month he had Felt nauseated and suffered head aches in the House. He said he had not been aware or suspicious of Gas fumes leak ing from the Furnace. The inquest presided Over by Coroner or. Fred l. Jamieson was held at the Rupert Avenue police station. The stuff s All fluff9 Tabby s fur causes stir by Chris Ladd cat lovers can relax. Manitoba s in t after household pets this or any other season. Complaints to the Winni Peg humane society that unscrupulous raw fur buy ers Are out for Tabby s hide Are groundless according to spokesmen for the Industry. It seems that pelts of domesticated felines Aren t Worth a plugged Nickel let alone the whispered Price of for prime cats. We would t take them if you. Gave them a local furrier said. It just in t real fur. I think somebody s id e in pulling your not amused but to officials of the humane society and cat lovers in general it did t seem funny at All. A recent rash of cat thefts did nothing to add to their composure. We re definitely going to carry out an said h. B. Wilcox Secretary of the society. The matter will discussed at the next meeting of our Board feb. 18." rumours started making the rounds after an elderly woman had a Chat with some trapper friends from the North. She said they told her that their cat named Timmy was getting old but was still in Good shape. He suggested that they might sell him to one of the fur she said. He told me that they would be sure to get at least for the hide she later recorded her protest in writing to the humane society. Used for lining a spokesman for the Manitoba fur and iame research station said he knew that cats had been used for trimming and lining Coats about 20 or 30 years ago. He added what extent i have no knowledge. The process termed Jenets it was Good fur and when sheared it resembled electric he said he believed that when Domestic rabbits be came popular the practice of skinning the cat was halted. The rabbits were just too cheap to pass he said. A fur Trade spokesman says he has t seen a cat around in years. We Only handle raw furs Here cats we Don t another spokesman for the Industry said Tiit to his knowledge no North Amer ican cat had Ever been used for furs. The Only Type Ever used came from Holland. Even that was t very Good and a coat trimmed in cat would t sell for More than meantime officials of the humane society say nobody has shown any interest Over the Fine selection of cats they have for adoption. Jury convicts parents of abandonment couple acquitted on charge of negligence in baby s death by Gordon Dodd a Winnipeg couple was acquitted by an Assize jury Friday of causing the death of their eight Day old baby by criminal negligence but convicted on the lesser charge of abandoning and exposing the baby so that its life was endangered handing Down a year s suspended sentence to the couple Henry James Vickery 38, and Adele Rae Vickery 32, of 455 Glasgow Avenue or. Justice c. Rhodes Smith said there was no doubt they had been far too careless in their supervision of the new born baby. Evidence was that the Vick Erys had left the baby Alison Marie and free other children alone in the House while they drank at Hie fort Rouge Branch of the Royal Canadian legion and later in a neighbor s apartment. Or. Vickery returned Home to find the bruised bloodstained baby lying on a their four year old daughter Linda Diane. Doctors testified that Linda was emotionally disturbed and men tally retarded and that she would have treated an infant like she would have a toy. It was suggested that the girl might have picked up the baby but not known How. To carry it safely resulting in the baby receiving knocks or Bangs. Crown counsel Ben Hewak said evidence pointed towards the children having been left alone for four and one half hours with out parental attention. Mrs. Vick Ery had said in one statement she returned to the House for 10 or 15 minutes but in another said the House was padlocked and she was unable to get in. A four year old emotionally Dis Turbed girl had been left with the responsibility which the parents themselves had not assumed counsel claimed. Legal duty owing by these parents to the baby that they did not fulfil As a result of which the baby lost her he asked the jury. Would anybody be that unthinking or negligent or Cal Lous neither of the accused gave evidence but their counsel David Bowman said although he did not Challenge they had made a serious mistake this did not War rant their being damned As referring to Linda he suggested the parents could not be expected to see what a medical Eye found after examination at length. A doctor agreed that the girl s tendency to Rock sideways or Back and Forth was not particularly significant in itself. We Don t know what happened that or. Bowman went on. We will never know and i Pray that Linda is never but he told the jury it could be sure the Vickery were fond and Loving parents. It was wrong to conclude they had engaged in a drinking orgy Whilo away from the House. Or. Vick Ery had had the equivalent of four bottles of Beer and mrs. Vickery Little More than one. Or. Bowman asked the All male jury which parents had never slipped out for a Short while leaving children alone in the House As mrs. Vickery had Only intended to do. He said even if the children had been checked every half an hour might not have prevented lie injury to. The baby happening. It is one of those horrible tragedies which nobody expects and no body can even counsel added. Or. Justice Smith said Al though the Vickery had left alone an eight Day old baby which was completely helpless it was not a Case where a baby had been deliberately abandoned for Good a situation he thought fully justified a prison sentence. Nowadays parents spend a Good Deal More time away from Home than they used to and babysitters could be an expensive item the judge continued. But it did not excuse failure to look after children and to take almost constant care of an infant child. He Felt in the circumstances that had suffered enough through what had happened in fixing a suspended sentence or. Justice Smith made it a condition that the Vickery enter a recognizance of each. Or. Vickery suffers from chronic Back injury. 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