Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 13, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cecil says for preplanned Sirerol signal office moving consult a Security of Fin moving Security Torace us 3-7171 by Carrier Doc per week Winnipeg saturday february. 13, 1965 portable televisions Brand name models. Vyr Fjell service coverage. 129 1.50 Advance to Centre 636 Sargent Cor. Erf Megee pm. 786-3347 Coffee break by Gene Telpner friends of Enzo Stuarti will be Happy to know he is doing Well and booked solidly with engagements through 1967. Winnipeg Ger Earl Miner just saw him at the Deauville in Florida where Enzo sent regards Tov me and other friends of his in our City. From Florida he Heads for new York to couple of recording dates then on to the Shore Harn in said Earl it s the first time i be Ever seen a standing ovation for a performer people were reaching out to touch his hand they were so entranced by his there was a nostalgic Flashback in a recent Issue of the Victoria daily colonist about the famed Empress hotel in that City. According to the article the hotel May eventually become a thing of the past. One expert gives it five years before it turns into a Nice old apparently it is an economic Millstone for the cps which owns it and to get the old place Back in the Black would Cost a lot of Money. Still it s an old showplace one which people who Hwe stayed there would hate to see disappear from the Victoria scene. By the Way it has 570 rooms and occupies 10 acres in the heart of the inner Harbor area. It has played Host to the Rich famous and Royalty Over the years. A. K. Senf of 555 Elmhurst Road displayed a letter from the Quebec tourist Bureau addressed to Charleswood Man., . It came to a neighbor boy who wrote to Quebec for More information about that province. But or. Senf feels they should know better about the location of Manitoba. People and places notes to you the March of dimes collection at the Winnipeg Airport is showing an International flavor Accord ing to Hazel Forbes of the March office. Some of the coins collected there have come from Pakistan Mexico Holland course the All donated by tourists Between planes. By the Way the suggestion has come in for a new name for the annual mothers March. One was said it should be called the March of won t be Long until the Hollywood oscars will be presented on to and the official Date which i be received is monday. April 5. Canadian Bob Goulet gave up in bookings so he could spend Christ Mas and new years with his wife and baby. Expensive Holiday. I got a kick out of Phil Stone s recollections about his new year s resolutions. In his column Stone s throws he said last year i resolved to give up smoking drinking and looking at girls honestly it was the most miserable afternoon of my i Dianne James who recently made the front cover of Bob Noble s to Section has the Back cover of the current Issue of the musical publication bpm. Apparently she is going places As a Singer speaking of singing look for lome Greene to have a big new hit very soon on the Market. The Good old Days mrs. E. A. Edwards of 721 Maryland Street came across an old grocery circular from the Lanark grocery on Maryland and it must be from Many years ago. This gives a Good idea of food costs in the dirty writes mrs. Edwards but of course in those Days salaries weren t so High either. But just As a pure historical footnote i la repeat some of the prices for the Benefit of those who weren t around in those Days. Bacon was 24 cents a Pound round Steak 19 cents a Pound Tbone steaks were More expensive 23 cents a Pound eggs Cost 41 cents for two dozen and butter was 27 cents a Pound. Ground round Steak Cost All. Of 20 cents a Pound and Pink Salmon was two big cans for 25 cents. Corn flakes were three packs for 20 cents and sardines two nine cents. I guess you could cae it the Good old Days hut somehow i wonder. Mrs. Harry Lenton of Ridgeville Man., who always sends me philosophical pieces writer a Good Sermon helps in two ways. Some Rise from it strengthened others Wake from it. Refreshed she also sends this one one Good turn gets most of the Story making the rounds i Toronto is that Juliette has to take time off to rest her voice. Apparently the doctors fear it will go completely unless she takes a break from her singing chores. The weather Snow flurries. Milder for Early next week by j. H. Judson below freezing temperatures have now gripped Winnipeg for eighty Days. The last above freezing weather came on no vember-25 when the maximum thermometer registered 35. A feeble wave of Milder air raised the temperature Early this week but it failed to break out thawing Point of 32 degrees f. Monday s High reached 22 above from a Low of eight a Low pressure system i in Alberta circulated southerly winds Over Manitoba. This system moved eastward 1 on tuesday and brought Milder air with Snow flurries. The temperature stayed above Zero during the night and Rose to a High. Of 27 but the warming trend was soon Cut off by colder weather. Toenip erasures on wednesday ranged from a High of eight above to a Low of 12 below. They continued on Down to 17 below. A moved into Saskatchewan that was expected to bring Milder weather to Winnipeg but it Cut sharply southward to the Dakotas and allowed Arctic air to return. Friday s Low dipped to 19 below. The Outlook for the Taxt few Days indicates a return to Milder weather and Snow flurries Early next week. Weather systems entering the Yukon Are expected to bring insider air Inland from the pacifier temperatures on sunday should Rise to near normally in the third week of february Winnipeg s tempera Tures average daily lows of four below and 14 above. In 1930 a mild spell sent the temperature Over 40 above for three Days february 18 to 20. On the extreme cold Side the temperature hit. A Low of 38 be Low of february 16, 1936. New operation successful heart team saves patients by Gene Telpner two patients at St. Boniface Hospital have had their lives saved by a new operation per formed Here for the first time. New it has not. Been reported in Canadian medical journals was a surgical approach to the treatment of hardening of the arteries. One of the patients. 37-year-old Claude Gerard a Miner from Bissett Man., expects to be Back at work within a month. The other a 62-year-old Winnipeg woman has been released from Hospital and is already Able to resume her household duties. Members of the heart surgical team at St. Boniface who made the diagnosis per formed the operation said Only a handful of the operations have been successfully completed in North America. No re ports to their knowledge have been made of previous Success Ful operations of this Type in Canada. The coronary artery disease both patients had was of the Type that annually causes death in at least people across the country in the age group of .35 to 50. In an interview with members of the surgical team it was Learned that the two operations required lengthy planning intricate diagnosis then a Long operation with use of the heart lung machine bypass which re placed the action of both lungs and hearts. Main arteries there Are two main arteries that feed into the heart and each of these patients had Block Ages in these arteries. This causes severe crippling pain and if the passage closes then it May cause instant death. To diagnose the cases properly meant introducing a tube in to an artery then inject ing a Dye which passed through the main arteries. Through use of a rays it was determined that the patients could possibly be operated on successfully with the new technique. Although there Are Many other patients. With this Type of Dis ease the diagnosis is difficult and slow because the Hospital is hampered of equip ment. Adequate to diagnose other a member of the team would Cost up to when the diagnosis was made the operation was then completely diagrammed to ensure a Correct procedure would be made. Both patients were opened in the Standard open heart then the hearts were liberals to urge wheat the Liberal party of Manitoba has stated it favors a two Price system for wheat with a guaranteed minimum payment of a Bushel for no. 1 Northern basis the Lakehead. The party will present a re solution to the legislature feb. 22 urging that the Canadian wheat Board and the Federal government be asked to Institute a two Price system. The Resolution says the move is necessary to protect the Grain producers and thereby further stabilize the Canadian Economy and world food Liberal Leader Gildas Mol Gat said in a press release announcing the Resolution that the can Adian Farmer is the Only pro Ducer among major wheat exporting nations who does not receive the Benefit of a stabilized Price. By Means of Protection tariffs Industry in Canada has enjoyed a stable Market Over the years and it is Only proper that agriculture should also be Given Assurance of a minimum Stan Dard i the production of Agri cultural the release says. Under a two Price system the producer is guaranteed a mini mum per Bushel payment for his Grain regardless of the world Market Price. At present per Bushel prices paid to Farmers for wheat Oats and Barley. Are tied to the Price which their products fetch on the world mar Ket. weather 1 mainly Cloudy with Drifting Mew today and sunday. A few Florrin Lato tonight and sunday morning. Turning a lir Rio colder again sunday afternoon. Winds South it 30 and gutting today. Shifting to Welt 25 tonight and to Northwest 20 sunday. Temperatures for Carman Winnipeg and Brandon rising slowly to 15 above this evening and to 25 above sunday morning and dropping again to 15 above sunday afternoon. Temperatures for the 24-hour period ending at . Saturday Max. Min. Pre. Vancouver -----43 40 .29 Calgary 36 34 Edmonton -------25 18 8-14 .01 Brandon 0-14 the Pas -6-20 .01 Winnipeg -1 -4 Kenora .4-16 fort William 8-29 Max. Min. Prs. Ottawa 45 11 .01 Toronto 46 18 .06 Montreal 41 25 .20 Halifax 30. 30 is Chicago 43 12 Miami 80 70 us Angeles 59 41 Minneapolis 11-11 new York 44 38 .01 placed at rest by use of the heart lung machine. Clot located through the a rays the exact location of the faulty passages were and the arteries were then surgically opened at the Point of. Obstruction. Then an operation was carried put on the limb of each apportion of vein was removed from the limb to damaged area of permit the Claude Gerard 37 loses bid to renew bail Michael Gingera lost a bid to regain his Freedom in a court application Friday afternoon. The former Winnipeg lawyer had been arrested earlier in the Day on a warrant issued thursday by court of Queen s Bench judge or. Justice f. M. Bastin who was. Told Gingera was alleged to have committed a fraud offence in Winnipeg while on bail from the current assizes. He has been found guilty on five counts arising out of mortgage deals but sentence has been deferred pending two fur ther trials. Fri Lay lawyer Harry Backlin appeared before or. Justice Bas tin in a move to have Gingera s bail renewed. He said the application was to enable Gingera to assist his counsel to prepare his defence in the outstanding trials and to Home for senior citizens set for Carman provincial welfare minister John Carroe announced Friday that approval in principle had been Given to a combined Hostel and personal care Home for elderly persons at car Man Man. Sponsored by the Boyne Valley Hostel corporation a non profit citizens group Hostel is based on a detailed study of the needs of elderly persons in car Man and the surrounding municipalities of Dufferin Grey Macdonald Morris and roland., it will provide accommodation for 70 senior citizens by Way of 45 Hostel and 25 personal care Beds. Local ratepayers will provide in financial support. The province will assist with Grants of the balance will be covered by Way of a Long term Low interest loan from the Cen trial mortgage and housing corporation. Cic to hear or. Wiles the chemical Institute of Canada will meet at 8 . Monday in the Board room of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Or. J3. R. Dues of Carleton University Ottawa will address the meeting.-, t humane society the annual meeting of the Winnipeg humane society will be . Feb. 22 in the Parish Hall of All Saint s anglican Church at Broadway and Colony streets. Deal with numerous matters. Turning Down bail or. Jus Tice Bastin said it was not us Ual for an accused person to re main out on bail after conviction and he Felt the information he had been Given thursday had fully justified him refusing Gin Gera s earlier application. Gingera was led from the court handcuffed to a sheriff s officer. Normal flow of blood. This is what causes the severe pain in a heart attack when the flow of blood is hindered or restricted by hardening arteries thus causing the heart to receive insufficient blood to permit it proper operation. In both cases there was indication that Normal circulation was being restored in the patients. Total time of the operations was close to eight hours and in both cases from six to eight units of blood were needed from donors which were furnished through the facilities of the Manitoba red Cross. Prior to the Man was unable to walk even through the Hospital corridor because of severe pain and weakness. When this reporter met him Friday he was continually walk ing around and stated that he no longer Felt any pain from his previous illness. Not All patients Are suitable for this Type of operation pointed out members of the surgical team. The Only Way you can determine is by a complicated test and we Are limited in our ability to test Many patients in the then he added we Are work ing on a shoestring. If we had the proper equipment we could study All of the patients who re quire this live saving Type of operation. This Lack of equip ment is definitely holding up surgical or. Gerard is expected to be released from Hospital within a few Days. The Date of his operation was Jan. 29. Trials near end for teens in their fourth month in and out St. Boniface magistrate s court the unlawful Assembly trials of Timothy Cockburn 18, of 18 Bronston Boulevard and Wayne Borley 18, 118 Crow son Bay St. Vital neared a close Friday morning As defence counsel offered no defence. Lawyer for the accused Lionel Green told court that Crown counsel Edgar Thomas had failed to prove unlawful Assembly had taken place on the evening of oct. 13, or that the accused had been connected with other events that evening. On oct. 13, More than 50 St. Vital and St. Boniface teen agers were rounded up by St. Boniface police who feared a gang Bat the. A second charge of Possession of an offensive weapon was read to Cockburn Friday. He pleaded not guilty. Decisions on that and the unlawful Assembly charges May be delivered by magistrate Henri Lacerte next Friday. Training course urged o by Dent Urist speaker regulations and training Simi Lar to optometrists should be set up for Den tourists a spokesman for the association of dental technicians of Manitoba de naturists said saturday. In a prepared statement he said a Compromise to. This effect should be action of the legislative commit tee now considering the ques Tion of dental services in the province. He _ said newspaper reports have suggested that. The com Mittee which has so far been unable to agree on a report to be presented to the Legisla Ture might decide on a com Promise. This would allow Den tourists to Deal directly with the Public but under strict regu lations and educational require Jet Pilot parachutes to safety a 22-fear-old-Rcaf officer Ca det from Quebec parachuted to safety Friday afternoon As aircraft crashed about 80 Miles Northwest of Winnipeg. Richard of quc., telephoned his location from a farm House after his t-33 Jet Trainer crashed at ., Craf said. He was then picked up by ambulance. The extent of any in juries he May have suffered is not yet known Cadet Pete rat was based at Gimli where a number of nato cadets in addition personnel Are training. The Craf said the crash occur red near Eriksdale about 50 Miles West of Gimli. Ments possibly including a University course and examination the spokesman said the Den tourist association favored this Type of a solution and had been trying to get legislation of this Type enacted since 1955. It would put the Dent Urist on the same level As the optometrist he said As the optometrist is trainee to detect disease in the Eye Anc refer the patient to an Eye Doc Tor so should the Dent Urist be further trained to detect any abnormal condition and refer the patient to the proper medical the spokesman said. At no time has a. Dentures belonging to the present association proceeded to make a Den Tare if the Oral cavity has shown any sign of disease or infection the association w a s in Ful agreement with Compromise sol ution along these lines the spokes Man said. We sincerely Hope that this will be the outcome of this Long and trying Examina at present de naturists and Den Tal mechanics require a dentist s prescription before making false Teeth for a client. New municipal Hospital part of City plan million five year program announced by commission by Don Newman the City of Winnipeg is planning to build a new 200-bed municipal Hospital in the City it was Learned-1 Friday. The Hospital is part of a million Hospital build i ing program which is planned for greater in the next five years. Included in the plans Are he rebuilding of the Concordia Hospital expanded emergency extended treatment and Psychia tric facilities at the Winnipeg general Hospital and the Geloca Ion of the Grace and Victoria general Hospital. The present Grace Hospital on Arlington Street will be renovated to provide a modern 242 3ed Hospital which will be run in conjunction with the 258-bed hos Pital being built on the Western Edge of St. James. Plans announced plans were recently announced o move the Victoria general Hospital from its present River Avenue location to a new site in fort Garry. Exact locations of the new Concordia and municipal hospitals is. A closely guarded secret. Chairman of the Board of the Concordia general Hospital r. J. Willms said in a Telephone interview that negotiations were under Way on a site and any announcement of location could prejudice the hos Pital s position. He said the new Hospital would have about 200 Beds compared with the present 80-bed Hospital located on the Banks of the bed River Southeast of the Louise Bridge. While the site of the new building is unknown or. Willms said it would be in t h e same general area As the present bos Pital presumably in Elm pod lie said a Start on the new con Cordia could be made within three years. Alderman1 Edith chair Man of Winnipeg City Council s municipal hospitals commission said details of the planned new municipal Hospital were still be Oret although she did acknowledge plans were under Way. Besides the new hospitals and. He major additions to the Lieg general extensive auction is also planned for St. Boniface general Hospital and the Winnipeg children s hos Pital. Plans at St. Boniface Call for additional areas for additional Laboratory space and increased quarters for the radiology physiotherapy and Dietry depart will provide for 30 emergency Ibling Beds 200 additional sex sided treatment Beds. And 75 psychiatric Beds., additions at the children a hos ital will bring " the Beds in. The Hospital up 300 and provide increased 1 la oratory and radiology treatment space.-. While dates for the various projects Are not known figures prepared by the Manitoba hos Pital commiss Ioil indicate the amounts of Money swill be spent forr Hospital buildings and equipment in the next five years -1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 000 and 1970 under legislation passed at the special summer session of the legislature last year the metro corporation is empowered to contribute up to 20 per cent of new Hospital Cost. This is particularly important As any group planning new Hospital construe Tion must have raised 20 per cent of the capital Cost of the pro u Jet before Squali lying for Federal and provincial Grants. Metro Council and the Mani Toba Hospital commission met this week to discuss ways they might integrate their operations to meet Hospital requirements of the greater Winnipeg area. As yet no operation has been agreed upon car registration deadline feb. 26 Manitoba motorists were re minded Friday Mon Day there will be Only. 10 licencing Days left to Complete motor vehicle registrations and that the motorists should get their validating strips before the March 1 beginning of the new licencing year. Because March 1 Falls on a monday deadline for issuing new validating strips is the proceed ing Friday feb. 26. Utilities minister Maitland b. Steinkopf said the do it by mail system of registering has become More popular and this has helped to Speed up processing and to reduce lineups at the counter. Up to wednesday mail order registrations had been received As against on the same Date in the comparable 1963. During 1964 he said there was an Early rash of registrations because new plates with new numbers were being issued. Over the counter registrations this year to Date total compared with in 1963. J or. Steinkopf said the Peg office alone through mail orders and counter registrations i is expected to handle about 000 registrations by March this number have been processed leaving close to applications still come in. He suggested prompt registrations to avoid a last minute flurry. To Speed up the process application forms should be fully completed he said to avoid a return of applications for additional information. Motorists this year Are successfully coping additional information concern sing insurance data that is required x on the application forms and the percentage of errors is no higher than i Vious years. The mail in he said was operating satisfactorily. Of. Farmer not guilty of murder attempt burst Wate Mairi floods Highway part of Pembina Highway i fort Garry was turned into a treacherous skid Way Friday night a Watermain burst flooding the Road. Police said the Watermain in front of 1668 Pembina Highway broke about . The Cascade of water was stopped shortly afterwards by municipal Public works depart ment employees but the Frozen Lake across the divided Highway remained., police said cars were detoured Down Waverley Street while the debris was cleared up. Rembrandt District Farmer Michael Ambrose 43, was or dered Friday to be detained in Selkirk mental Hospital during the lieutenant governor s plea sure after being cleared by a Winnipeg Assize jury of the at tempted murder of an ramp officer j. Or. Ambrose was found not guilty by reason of insanity on three further counts discharging a firearm at sgt. Thomas Carter whom he was alleged to have tried to kill and Constable Wasyl Kereluk and possessing an offensive weapon. The charges related to an incident at Ambrose s farm Jan. 21, 1964, in which the accused was said Tiv hive a Rifle at car the two officers who had gone to the Farmr to ask him about a traffic shortly afterwards Brose entered Selkirk mental Hospital for treatment. A psychiatrist at the Hospital or. Gerald James Creasey Testi fied or. Ambrose would have been legally insane at the time iof the incident and Unac countable for his actions he added the Farmer had had a persecution Complex which included delusions that the ramp were poisoning his cattle would torture him. On the morn-7 ing of the incident he had received a message from the Tele machine in his head that the police were coming to harm i him. Defence counsel Ken Houston submitted it had not been proved that it was or. Ambrose who fired the shots and that on the was no evidence to show they had been aimed at sgt. Carter specifically. F _ j j or. Ambrose has been stay bag with a brother in Winnipeg Whereat War took drugs daily to prevent a recur his state of mind that existed Early last year. A ;