Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 25, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free press tuesday october 25, 1965 3-Day trip by Boxcar an ordeal for Ronnie Ronnie Moor Idause is Back a school in fort William Toda. After a rail trip to Dee Vood man., and an air plane trip Baci to the Lakehead. The plane ride was fun but the railway ride turned out to be a Little cold and trying. Ronnie was one of four 11 year old boys in St. Joseph s residential school fort Wil Liam who at 10 . Wednesday Ronnie Moon Ause 1 i took ride in Boxcar writer looks Back at depression welfare Job plans redundant two motions calling for employment programs for welfare recipients were quietly filed by Winnipeg City Council monday night. One motion by Alderman Leonard h. Claydon recommended that willing welfare recipients Bev put to work next summer to keep the City s streets clean. The second motion by Al Isadore Wolch called for a extended planned employment program for welfare recipients poorly paid workers and Hig school and University students. The City s Public health an welfare committee which studied the motions reported t Council that Aid. Claydon motion is already in the committee said the recommendations contained in Aid Welch s motion now Are incorporated in a Brief before the provincial government. Decided to take a trip. Indian affairs officials said tuesday All four apparently tried to jump the same West bound freight train just outside fort William but Ronnie could t make it. So he followed Bis friends on the next train. The first three boys got As far As Winnipeg before they decided to head Back borne according to Alan Mcwhinnie fort William District school superintendent. But by the time they had reached Kenora he said they apparently ran out of steam. At any. The boys turned himself in to Kenora police sunday afternoon and his two companions were discovered soon after in the Kenora area he said. Ronnie s trip was a Little More arduous. Or. Mcwhinnie i said apparently the door on the Boxcar the boy bad jumped into jammed closed soon after the train left fort William. Next time be saw Daylight was . Saturday when he was discovered shivering and hungry under some old newspapers in a Corner of the Boxcar when it was inspected at Deerwood 55 Miles South West of Winnipeg before it was loaded with Grain. Ronnie was turned Over to the ramp who drove him into the children s Aid society in Winnipeg. The Indian affairs department took Over from there and at 7 . Monday after a supper of hamburgers and ice Cream Ronnie was flown Home. Or. Mcwhinnie explained tuesday that most of the 65 boarders at St. Joseph s school Are the children of trappers who work in Northern Ontario. They re a pretty adventurous lot of be said. This sort of thing is not common but it s not unheard of Simpsons Sears Polo Park eyes examined Contact lenses filled Elliot. Koblin optometrist up 5-7011, ext 288 vote wed., oct. 26 re elect in Ward one Alderman Leonard h. Claydon your Man for Ward 1 by i Claydon Leonard h. 11 broadcaster journalist James h. Gray is one of the thousands of canadians who lived through the riots and the demonstrations and the Monotony of the Depres Sion in Winnipeg and for two pression or. Gray said. So Little has been written on Canada and there Are so Many fascinating things to be written about. It s important for canadians years lined up at the Wood Yard to know about an Era like the on Elgin Avenue for his weekly 30s, because the kind of Canada Relief payment. I have today is largely a two years ago or. Gray result of what happened then quit his Job As Public relations the big Hope for Canada officer for a. Oil company to j is to get the people interested in Mitchell Copp eyes examined Contact lenses fitted Harold m. Black optometrist phone we 2-5108 open daily 9 . To . Concentrate on writing a Book about his experiences during those years. He found among other things that it is impossible to find a photograph of the Elgin Avenue Wood Yard taken during that period. In fact it s difficult to find records of an kind relating to the depression years he said monday in an interview. No one would believe the amount of research that had to be done on a Book that sounds like it was written off the top of my there Are few pictures of the riots demonstrations and Par Ades that erupted across the Prairies and no reports of the meetings of the committee of the Manitoba legislature on farm Relief or of the committee on farm debt he said. Even the Prairie newspaper where Back editions of the paper Are filed yielded Little material on the period. It s a Story that never got said or. Gray who worked at one time As the free press s Ottawa correspondent. The reason newspaper coverage the depression is so sparse is that it simply too big a Story to write he said. Every one was off acted and it went on year after year there was Seldom a Peg to hang a news Story on. And besides no one really understood what was happening at the time he said. Or. Gray also found that because of. The shortage of office space during the 30s. Most government records on the meetings committees which dealt with the problems of the times were destroyed As soon As it was legally permissible and have been lost to posterity. Bat in spite of the research problems the Book was completed and published earlier this month under the title the Winter years. It now represents a substantial portion of the sum of Canadian literature on the de their no one will Likely accuse or. Not doing his bit if this is the Case he s writing a Book on what he Calls one of the greatest Success stories Ever told. It s about the agricultural techniques and equipment developed on the defeat the drought in the dust bowl. And after that he says there Are at least three More books about the Prairies he wants to write. Or. Gray lives and writes on a farm near Calgary. He was in Winnipeg on his Way Back to Ai Berla from a business trip to by s. H. Cray Bailiff s auction Sale near new 9x15 beige broadloom Rug with rubber pad 9x12 carved Broad loom Rug and pad 12 it. Broad loom runner 17 in. Portable t.v., 21 in. T.v., to pc. Modern bedroom set oiled Walnut sex. Table and leaves chaise lounge up. Tub chair Wing Back Upha chair. Small size Elee. Fridge. Drop front comb desk Iron mantel clock 2 Elco. Fridges. 3-3 Continental bed 5 pc. Chrome kit. Set 2 studio Daven ports. Knee Bole desk 2 tank vacuum dressers and Chest of drawers Maple table. Piano Bench round Coffee table studio lounge Mangette Kitchen cab inet Singer sewing machine Ping Pong table. Power Lawn Mower drapes 4 trunks. Baby crib .303 Rifle Glass gossip seat Case of Flat Ware blankets bedding else Heaters. Drapes curtains glassware China Etc. Cray s auction Mart 91 Albert St. Wed., oct. 26th at 2 . Terms Cash we 2-2371 Canadian credit control bailiffs s. H. Cray auctioneer Valuator efficient administration reduced taxation on Homes higher standards of living new democrats o .6 candidates endorsed by organized labor metropolitan Council division 3 division 4 division 3 a division 6 division 8 w. Puloski m. Feuer Rev. Malinowski r. Gou Luck school Board Ward one word two Ward three v. Kwalheim w. Rayner w. Jenkins City Council word two Sobti Sudol for information Call Central office 786-4857-8 Ward one 284-4729 Ward two up 2-5795 Ward three 582-5372 582-5421 Ward three Ted Sherbrook Grant Mcleod g. R. Fines Stan Bedosky or. I. Wolch we get the Deal of a lifetime during the lowest prices Sunbeam of shies highest trades Iii. Awards dinner nov. 5 ten Manitoban will receive Good citizenship awards from the Manitoba Golden boys movement in Winnipeg nov. 5. The recipients of the award will remain Anonymous until they Are announced at the awards banquet says a state ment from the movement. The Academy awards of Manitoba will be presented by Manitoba s lieutenant governor Richard s. Bowles. Five of the recipients will be from the greater Winnipeg area and one each from Brandon Killarney Kenton Alexander and flin flon. The award banquet open to the Public attracts nearly guests every year. The move ment suggests interested groups make Early reservations. The 78th battalion association will hold a dinner to commemorate the 49th anniversary of the Battle of pass Hendele at . Friday in the St. Regis hotel. Imp sports Edam Sedan walk right up see the amazing the fantastic the incredible dealing that s taking place on the sizzling 67 sunbeams. Prices were never allowances never higher than right now. Call in on your Sunbeam dealer real soon. The Only imports with 5 Alpine e. J. Matthon motors limited 574 Erin St., at Portage. 786-3458 ;