Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 9, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba C a Ftp prior storage fac Elihw maximum Protection minimum i purity us 3-7171. Winnipeg free press by Carrier 40c per week saturday july 9, 1966 authorized is 2nd mail the . Ottawa and Tot Pasmont postage in. Cash. Fidelity Trust est. 1911 guaranteed Trust the Skoal off Eft expires july it vat Cau 947-0211 for a stalls Victoria Beach then and now Victoria Beach 65 Miles North of Winnipeg on the East Side of Lake Winnipeg had Sand strips like this along its Shore until Coffee break by Gene Telpner the wafer in the Lake began rising a few years ago. In other years vacationers Here have had 75 foot Sand beaches. Search switches to City police in Indiana and Illinois and volunteers who hav e searched a Large portion of the today flood Waters along the Lake Shore have inundated the same Beach. All that is left for summer residents is a narrow strip of Sand at the Edge of Steep Sand Cliffs. High Banks on the East Side of Lake Winnipeg Are protecting resorts. See Page 7. The ethnic jokes have finally out thank goodness. While the grape joke vegetable jokes and even o the Knock knocks May not have been particularly funny at Lake Michigan Shoreline in the least they did t poke fun at any minority groups. It s just. As Well that the Brand of. Humor that picked on certain races woman and her companions has disappeared. Now say they May not be dead now i d like come to another to inv i m certain but in Winnipeg use. Of the term Fink or rat Fink must be embarrassing to h is the citizens who have Ine last name of Fink. There Are 11 of them in Nur Telephone Book and i m sure that they pick top ?715 track nothing funny about the use of the word Fink As. A j winnings s s i i i a o i a unflattering adjective. Why not. Have a be kind to links week just for the Benefit of people named Fink who have mass Btu had to put up with this nonsense for so Long. Ghann Millor and mrs. Jeffrey Bruni 21, both of Chicago Illinois were last in Toronto the rolling stones stayed two at the seen 2 beside a Rached King Edward hotel. You might be interested in what hotel resident manager Joe Downey had to say about his guests. Motor boat at a Lake Michigan resort. Icam Cuk contacted Friday Scotty Ken wonderful clean neat mannerly grateful obliging real Nedy general manager of Assin the hotel housekeeper said of the boys they May not look it but they re spotless. Purse at the Downs june 29 in the. Second race. Miss Blough was Here in Winnipeg june 29 and 30 but flew Back to Chicago without receiving her winnings of about a four year old Chestnut gelding by Bolero u. Baller Ette ran for the first time june 29 and won easily by five lengths. Hank s Trainer is Heap father of miss Blough s Boyfriend Dennis. One of the most interesting plugs i be seen and heard for the pan american games is a record telling All about them narrated by Ray Torgrud. It comes in an attractive cover with a Welcome by mayor Stephen Juba and will go on Sale eventually As a souvenir. A that other California mis Betty h. Davies of 871 Isbister Street St. Diaries has sent me proof that there is a California in England. California is a Small Hamlet located on a Cliff Edge in the Parish of Ormesby St. Margaret in Norfolk. Mrs. Davies received a letter from e. G. Tennan clerk to the Parish Council with a version of How California England got its name. Apparently during the California Rush some i Gold coins turned up on the Beach at the soon it became known As California and the name has stuck. By Friend said in a Lele Ever since. However the local residents refer to it As Cal i. Phone interview he does nut think she is on her Way to Winnipeg. Or sir 1 Don t think so. Nobody else does either. They 12, boat general Matthew Bunker r1dcway Ridgway remembers korean conflict a Jean father he s a Chicago but his is still Here at the the office philosopher says that about the Only Way a Groom can get any attention at a wedding these Days is by not showing up. A Winnipeg woman has a lot of books to give away but she Hopes they will be picked up by a group who wants to Send them overseas. Many Are Chil Dren s books. For details Call 452-8408. Airlines As everyone knows now offer family plans with discounts for other members of the family. But did you know that at one time . Airlines allowed wives to travel free of charge the custom did t last Long for a number of reasons. One of them was that airlines soon discovered that Many ladies accompanying men definitely were hot married to them although it probably did t happen it s interesting to picture a Sultan accompanied by his 40 wives trying to Board a plane with All of them As free passengers. Does anyone know if Canadian airlines Ever had this big bargain Good old i had an interesting letter from a Man who signs himself Winnipeg old timer but there s not room for All of it. He recalls such things As grand opera presented Here in the 1890s, actor. Louis James who appeared in spartacus and Many other events. Part of his letter goes like this there was an open air theatre just East of where the Union station stands today. A Large company of South sea islanders once appeared there and. I remember their big Heads of fuzzy hair. One of the finest theatrical treats i recall in Winnipeg was Richard Mansfield playing superbly in Monsieur Beaucaire. I wonder who remembers six Day Bike races in the of Mclntyre rink on Albert Street later torn Down to make Way for Jerry Robinson s department store and the Ham mond Block. Especially those six Day races for women. The crowds really turned for citizen s Day at. The old exhibition Ort Selkirk Avenue As Many As in a Day came to see harness races among other things. Boys of my school were drilled by a capt. Billman so we could March in the Parade for Queen Victoria s Diamond the gentleman who wrote the letter has asked me to pass on his. Identity to anyone who cares to correspond with him about those Winnipeg Days of Long ago. Someone suggested a plot to Bob for an Ideal to show. It s about a Cowboy i a hillbilly space ship who throws pies in a monster surgeon s lace. That covers just about everything on to or. Kenned y said miss by Wade Rowland Blough was the Girlfriend Ota general Matthew b. Bidgway i i the soft spoken military Tacti Cian who had whipped a beaten and demoralized United nations army in Korea into a winning team in 1951, was in Winnipeg Friday on his Way to some fishing at great slave Lake in the Northwest territories. The 71-year-old retired Gen eral displayed a vigor and Energy that would be More befitting a Man half his age As he was interviewed at the International inn and to spoke with a humor and frankness that made it easy to understand Why he was held in such High esteem by his troops. Gen. Ridgway was placed in Cornland of the in troops is Korea in 1951 the dismissal of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur by former president Harry s. Truman. He was also appointed supreme commander of the Allied Powers and . Army chief of staff he retired there five men went swimming in Lake Mich Igan in their swimming suits. They found their car on the Shore with All their clothes and in Cash. Now i think if she was plan Ning to come up Here she would have put on her clothes and come up Here on a. Plane just it s not in her like she did last time. Likely she d Start out bathing Winnipeg City police say they have not been contacted for assistance in finding miss Blough and her friends. No missing per sons report has been filed and in 1955 police knew nothing of the Case. A spokesman for the Indian a ohs Star Indianapolis in Diana said Friday that friends of the missing women say it s quite Likely that All three just took French leave and headed for he Sakl police Are always four right behind you had been searching the Lake and Shoreline for the past week but had discovered no sign of the missing women. Or Kennedy said he bad not been in Contact with miss Blough about her winnings and said she had never been Back to collect As far hot in the said the winnings would be held by Assiniboia Downs for a reason Able time and then mailed to miss b1 o u g h s Home. As we know she is Westchester window breaking costs him an 18-year-old who broke the front windows of the House where he was staying because no one there would give him bus fare to go i act Cost him a John Boyer of 677 David Street Assiniboia pleaded guilty in provincial police court wednesday to damaging the windows and was fined he was also ordered to make restitution in amount of the general s trademark during the korean conflict was a live hand grenade taped to his right shoulder. It was a Handy thing to have around. When you re coming Down in a Parachute or flying around in a fight plane As i did in Korea you never know what Yogi re Likely to land in.1 Gen Ridgway said lie is an avid believer in the philosophy that a commander s place is where the pressure even the newest private is entitled to the Best Chance of survival his Abni Mande can give him. When you re right what Deci made and you re a a position to make them you can drink in the Situa Tion with All your he described How on one occasion during the korean War he flew 29 Miles behind communist lines in a Light plane to do some Advance reconnaissance himself to preparation for a Large scale Advance. He was asked if episodes such Jas there you see Sions have to be the time Back in Washington. We did t them where we were he smiled. Was Wise for a army commander to risk Lus life in the frontline take Over. No Man is indispensable. And besides there is no greater boost to an army s morale than a dead general on the the general said he did not think it would be proper to comment on Viet Nam or nato while in Canada. He said that since Liis retirement he had been Cut off from the Many sources of information then available to him As army chief of staff. Only in formation i have is what you gentlemen in the papers and on the radio and to. The world is full of people with lots of advice to give and no responsibility for what Hap pens and i Don t want to add to their on the korean Gen. Ridgway said that Only time will Tell if it was a Good solution. We could have pressed on to the Yalu River or gone on to invade the decision taken was aimed at retaining the s up p or t of the non con nudist world a the the general said he had been opposed to the idea of a preventative War with communist China which he has described As moral bankruptcy at its he said he had advised against the use of nuclear weapons in Korea. I gave my advice on strictly military grounds. There were no remunerative would he have advised the use of nuclear weapons if there had been remunerative targets any weapon in the posses Sion of a military Power will be used if the situation is sufficiently critical. The Sii rival of Large numbers of troops or the territorial integrity of the uni Ted states would have to be at stake. If the territorial Security of the United states is at Issue that justifies the use of nuclear he said. Gen Ridgway said he had been a frequent visitor to Canada Over the years. His first trip North of the Border was in 1922 when he brought a West Point team to Kingston .out., to play hockey against a team from the Royal military col lege. We took a pretty bad he Sam. By Ray Sinclair her australian Gran d Mother Lold us we could Contact her through neigh Bor Dave Walker at Gimli. Or. Walker was in his Bath. Poor of a. Said mrs. Elizabeth Braith Waite. He let the phone ring -.17 times before he answered. Then he ran to Tell us it was urgent it was for 12-year old Barbara Braithwaite spending her summer vacation at Gimli. We told her she had just won a l2vi-foot Motorboat in the free press red Cross in a boat Competition. I won the she cried to her Mother then repeated. I won the mrs. Braithwaite and Barbara were both Over come by excitement but Barbara As her Mother Baid is Fortune s Many people pick up fishing floats but Barbara picked one up with a Dollar Bill rolled and at the red rim sex she found at her feet. Everything she touches turns out Well for Barbara s excited Mother said. She was convinced she would via it. She asked whether it would be hers or everybody s when she whose daddy s Barbara does t remember the figures she used in coming closest to toe Correct forecast for Mim rum and maximum temperatures for july 1. She sent in gentries. While Many Many entries correctly forecast the Correct High temperature of .77. Deg Rees no one hit the Mark on the minimum of 65.4. Bar Bara s winning entry named the Correct maximum of 77 and was Only six tenth of a degree off on the Low. She forecast 66 degrees. Barbara who lives at 100 Harvard Avenue has three Sisters and two Brothers. Their cottage is on the Lakeshore and mrs. Braith Waite said this is just wonderful. I still Don t believe it. Is it True we have a Large family and we always wanted a boat. We could t Hope to buy one with our family. You Don t know Bow much it Means to would she come Back to Winnipeg for the presen tation we d be Nappy said her Mother. Stay alive by Jean Carper every year avoidable accidents kill More than 000 people and injure More than others in Canada and the. United states. Learn How you can prevent this needless tragedy and stay alive. Beginning today. The free press presents an in formative and useful series taken from the Book stay alive by Jean Carper former editor of the United states National safety Council s widely circulated Magazine family safety Jean Carper did you know that throughout the United. a child eats a. 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