Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 27, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Who ital by Nin Nikin Mon a cubits us 3-7171 by Carrier soc per week Rui Iberta v i Quirt 2nd claim mail by the . Dept., thursday october i Otuwa and. For payment of postage in Cash. Coffee to protect the innocent no names will be mentioned. But i sincerely Hope those involved recognize themselves and do something to rectify this situation. There s a Blind couple both old age pensioners and because of their Handicap they have to phone in their food orders. Frequently they receive spoiled food which certainly reflects Dis credit on the parties filling the order. The Blind housewife needs new dentures. For a year she has been getting the run around from various authorities. If anyone is truly concerned about this i shall be Happy to pass on the name of the couple. In the recent controversy Over prices one Winnipeg woman walked into her store and bought three giant sized boxes of soap powder. She explained to her grocer i wanted to have enough on hand in Case we decided to on a similar subject one Reader suggested to me that perhaps the heavy theft of expensive grocery shopping carts is responsible for higher prices passed on to Consumers. I would imagine losses run into thousands of dollars yearly. Make a note to give what you can to the Young Unicof canvassers who will be coming around. Mrs. J. O. Turner Manitoba chairman of Unicof has outlined to me the Many Good uses of the Money for children of the world. Even a Penny can buy five glasses of milk for a needy child beat of the City at least one Winnipeg landlord has solved the problem of increasing property taxes. He s renting one of his buildings to the City for use As a Library Branch at a rental of a month. But in the lease which was jus approved by the City Council if taxes go up they Are simply added to the rent. I would imagine though that this is Standard in contracts of this Type. Several people have commented on a suggestion tha War hero Tommy Prince appear at the opening of the pan american games. Said Leslie Monroe of 198 Furby Street Tommy Prince is a great grandson of chief pegu is whose memory commemorated by the statue in Kildonan Park pegu is was the great chief of the Salteau indians who befriended the Selkirk Idris Evans has a new record out called Idris Evans at the Holiday inn. He s had his Minneapolis contract extended to 20 More weeks then is booked for three months in the Bahamas. Anyone who wants some free michaelmas roots can Cal or. Jones at Whitehall 3-7893 Bob Noble claims an honest politician is one who once bought stays bought sorry but it is against airline regulations to promote private charter Tours so i can do nothing for the parties who wrote Young folks Are reminded to carry a flashlight halloween night to avoid accidents in the dark and to ensure being seen by motorists. It s also a. Good practice to Wear White. On the personal Side notes to you Charles Comfort of the National gallery of Canada in Ottawa is seeking information about a Winnipeg concert. He wants the Date and details of concert Many years ago by Walter Damrosch and the new York philharmonic performed at Central congregational Church. If you remember Call miss Joan pert at the Winnipeg Public Library Whitehall 2-0151. Speaking of churches quite a few readers have verified that there was a holy roller Church called old Knox on the site of the liquor store at Donald Street and Ellice Avenue. The pastor was a Rev. Frank Small. There was also a Bank on the location at one time a club called the Cave and investors Syndicate. Other people who called said that father Christmas preached at that Church but father Christmas used to speak at Market Square. He was a free press newsboy who sold papers at Portage and main until his death. Weather synopsis valid until Friday Midnight a disturbance Over northeastern Montana in keeping fairly mild air Over the Southeastern Prairie. In fhe Wake of this system Cool Arctic air is becoming firmly entrenched Over the Western Prairie and by tomorrow evening will cover All of the Eastern Prairies and Northwest Ontario. At the same time some moderation is Likely to begin occurring again in Western districts. Most of the Cloud and Snow accompanying an outbreak of cold Arctic air in far Northern regions has spread eastward Over Hudson Bay. As a result More settled but cold weather will continue to dominate most of the regions in area for the next Day or so. Forecast sunny with Cloudy periods and a Little cooler in Friday. Winds Northeast at 20 ., becoming Light on Friday morning. Low and High for Gimli 30 and 40 for Carman and Winnipeg 30 and 45. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 7 thursday Vancouver Calgary 66 Edmonton 39 Regina 69 Brandon the Pas 40 Winnipeg 61 fort Withiam 47 Kenora 51 Max. Min. Pre. 53 46 .02 30 23 22 30 34 28 37 Max. Min. In. Ottawa 51 35 Toronto 54 29 Montreal 53 34 Halifax 56 32 Chicago 62 .41 Miami. 85 69 los Angeles 79 62 Minneapolis 70 43 new York. 62 46 oct. 26 Lair year Normal Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean highest on record 60.7 55.8 47.2 26.9 28.1 30.0 43.8 42.0 38.6 78.0 in 1924 lowest on record -5.2 in 1936 House starts Cut Home buyers hit by fall in building by Sheldon Bowles House construction has been slashed by 50 per cent for the com ing Winter by Winni Peg builders due to increased costs and the curtailment of the Winter works Gram. In addition Home buyers can expect to pay up to extra next Spring on a new Home now Selling for said Myles Robinson president of metro Politan Homes wednesday in an interview. In Early june the Federal government announced it had decided against continuing the Winter House building incentive program. The Bonus started during the 1963-64 Winter paid for each House built during the Winter months. Its main purpose was to create jobs during the Peak period of unemployment. The program was stopped said the government because builders had been successful in stabilizing employment in the Industry by shifting a Large portion of House construction to the Winter months. Although the Bonus system ended this fall the government said that Between aug. 1 and dec. 1 the Central mortgage and housing corporation would make available direct mortgage Loans to merchant builders without a pre Sale requirement. To qualify for this loan the houses must not have Gressed beyond the foundation and the first floor Joist stage before nov. 1. A spokesman for the Winnipeg House builders1 association said that these Loans had come on the Market sept. 13 but had been withdrawn oct. 11. No builder had received enough the spokesman said and they certainly feel they have been badly these Loans say Winnipeg builders Are the same Loans As have been made for Winter works projects in past years without the Bonus. The availability of these Loans is forcing the builder to build in the Winter months when construction is More expensive they said. As Well As extra Winter costs inflation was playing a Large role in the cutback of Winter building programs said or. Robinson. The Cost of men and materials was running about 5 per cent higher now than at this time last year he said. Because of this Large jump in costs plus the extra Cost of a Home now that the Bonus had ended or. Robinson described the Industry As scared stiff when it came to constructing new Homes. There in t a builder who in t cutting Back substantial by. October is usually a slow month for Selling Homes but right now sales Are tremendous. If people put off buying for just six months they will be paying quite a said or. Robinson. In september the Central mortgage and housing Corpora Tion reported that Only 184 new Homes had been started As compared with 302 during sep tember last year. Because the corporation had Cut off mortgage Money on oct. 11 an official of the Winnipeg House builders. Association predicted that october starts would drop to practically nil. Sprinkler charge tossed out mrs. Elizabeth Steeple whose creeping Lawn Sprink Ler cooled Down pedestrians and heated up neighbors her 155 Birchdale Avenue Home was found guilty in St. Boniface to Agni strata s court tuesday. Mrs., Steeple bad a plus costs Fine imposed of her sept. 28 when found guilty of two bylaw charges involving the noisy radios. A charge of creating a disturbance involving the sprinkler was remanded at that time tuesday magistrate f. Manwaring threw out the sprinkler charges and dampened Crown counsel Mel Merer Slih an adm Okum about bring tag that kind of Case into court. Fid tally Trust savings accounts phone 947-0211 for Branch Ami. Me for Grain predicted switch from trains certain Pickersgill tells Pool men Federal transport minister j. W. Pickersgill predicted wednesday that pipelines would eventually solve problems of transporting Western Grain f to consumer centres. Record volume handled the 214 co operative elevator associations operating through Manitoba Pool elevators handled bushels of speaking at the 41st annual meeting of the Manitoba Pool elevators at the Marlborough hotel the minister said that Farmers will someday consider transportation other than rail roads. Pipelines would be in answer and it might not be a bad idea for the Pool to have a look at the possibility instead of letting the car build the first Grain for quite a few years to come railroads would be the major transportation Media for Grain but he was sure the i Grain during ended july 31. Bill Krawetz and Beth Garner rehearse Lor their Lead roles in Nell Simon s comedy. Come blow your Horn. The play produced by studio 22 formerly the Craf drama is directed by Paul Verden. It runs thursday f. Saturday in the theatre past the Sharpe Boulevard Entrance to the Canadian forces base Winnipeg. It is the studio s first of four productions planned Lor the season. the Law s Long Arm bullet9 radar set aimed at speeders an ramp crackdown on speeding Drivers in Charles Wood becomes effective nov. 1. A new portable radar set that plugs into a patrol car s cigarette lighter will be operational by that Date. New roadways in the municipality including an Extension of Grant Avenue and widening of Koblin Boule Vard made the move a necessity according to ramp. The radar set is similar to those used by ramp in Portage la Prairie heading Ley and Selkirk. The unit geared to give the speeding Driver a two Edge Over the operator must be mounted in Clear View by Law. But this does t mean that the Bullet shaped device will Dangle conspicuously from a Side window of the patrol car. It May also be mounted on any nearby sign or Fence Post. Crime problem still Here Rice a scientific approach instead of the lash has been used in the past 20 years in the fight against crime and juvenile delinquency but the problem still remains magistrate Isaac Rice said wednesday night. Magistrate Rice was speaking to the ukrainian professional and business men s club meet ing in the Dakota Village motor hotel 1105 St. Mary s Road St. Vital. He said the lash was a Good deterrent against crime but the and the civil rights groups were against it. It was a mistake to take the strap from schools he said magistrate Rice said Winni Peg was facing a serious problem of crime among the Young. He said this year there was 100 More cars last year. This was an example of. Crime among the Young people he said. He said he had been criticised for saying that High school students had Een drinking at the football1 games. He had expected the Public to Back him Rice said it was deplorable that ragout cent. Of the drunks appear before him. On the of being drunk in Public were on welfare drinking our some people seemed to think there should be no interference with their private lives he said. As a. Result Winnipeg was faced with a wave of vandalism and purse snatchers. Magistrate Rice said last Winter a conference was held on the problems of crime juvenile delinquency and drunkenness. A newspaper Man was at this discussion and had reported him wrongly. Another conference of this nature was called but magistrate Rice said lie was t invited. Chairman of this conference was Bud. Sherman member of parliament for South. It had under discussion such matters As juvenile offenders and society should the school help to prevent juvenile Delin Quency police. And the Community the alcoholic and con sumption of liquor by teen agers. Magistrate Rice asked what do these people know about it. None of them had Ever appeared court see the serious Ness of the chairman y night s meeting was Gregory Patuski. President of the club. Spivak reports Progress Industry and c o m m e r c e minister Sidney Spivak said thursday that preliminary work on establishment of the new forestry Industry in Northern Manitoba is right on target. The development firm Churchill Forest industries is honouring agreement with the province in All respects he said in an interview. Or. Spivak confirmed details of a press report thursday outlining Progress on the forestry Complex. The details were taken from a letter written oct. 3 to the Pas town Council. Or. Spivak said under the agreement the company must make periodic Progress reports to the government. To Date there Are no problems so difficult that they cannot be the department of Industry and Commerce will Issue a report within the next few weeks of Progress made in establishment of the Industry or. Spivak said. Fines is Only new Man by Bob Lis Way the civic election will Likely make Only one change in the makeup of the City Council. Although results Are not yet final and three positions Are officially in doubt until second Choice votes Are transferred Gordon r. Fines will probably be the Only newcomer on City Council. Or. Finest a former Winnipeg Alderman topped the polls in Ward 2 to be elected on first count. Incumbents aldermen Ernest j. Enns and Lillian Hallonquist were also elected on first count to fill Aldermani vacancies in Ward 2. Aid. Grant Mcleod was Defeated in Ward 2. He completes his second term of office when he retires dec. 31 to make Way for or. Fines. Both Aid. Mcleod arid or. Fines Are new. Democratic party members. The political makeup of the. Council will not change or fines a school teacher and president of the Winnipeg association of Community Cen he will work for an expanded recreation program in the City. Also interested in Urban renewal. Or. Fines was Alderman from 1953 to 60, but he retired to take up further studies in teaching. He was a member of the Manitoba legislature 53. His Victory was not an upset. Many City Hall observers Felt he would be elected but not with As big majority received. The crop year change would come. As Long As the railroads Are compared to in the previous year. The directors report to the annual meeting wednesday 1ucu Jurij of. Including terminal operations in the picture we must make Thev had total net earnings of tremendous improvements in every aspect of transporting although there had been a j vast development of Pacific disclosed that the 1965-66 terminals facilities were still handling was the largest on hopelessly inadequate record and represented 56.2 per the minister said both rail cent of All Grain delivered to country elevators in Manitoba during the crop year. Three District directors were elected. W. J. Parker of Ste. Agathe me president retained his directorship As did j. D. Deveson of Arden and George Franklin of Deloraine. Harvey Scott acting manager of Pool packers Ltd. In Brandon told delegates a concerted being made to establish regular sales of meat products through co operative and other channels. J the year old packing enter prise has so far had mainly carcass meat sales to Prairie outlets. Parker said Canadian Farmers Are a Long Way from having a say in meat prices. They will have no effective voice until the Brandon Plant is augmented by several More in the Region and amalgamated with Coop packing plants Eastern Canada. In Candy Dandy but. Switching to the Candy with a Hole to. Curb the Drain on expenses caused by smoking is a move that May have backfired. According to a wholesaler Here lifesavers have just had a suggested retail Price of 10 cents slapped on them. The lifesavers Selling for a dime is the same package that sold for six cents three weeks ago. The 10 cent Roll available before no longer exists said the wholesaler. The jump in Price is caused by the hike in the Cost of a Carton of life savers by the manufacturer. Three weeks ago a Carton of lifesavers Cost the re Tailer 86 cents the latest Bill received by one retail outlet is s1.35 Carton. Anyone for a smoke ways had done More for transportation in the past year than they thought would be physically possible. When the news broke about the last huge Grain crop i was afraid the railways would Tell me they could t do it. I want to say that they did an excellent another aspect of improving the network of transportation in Canada he said was the rebuilding of some parts of the St. Lawrence Seaway not Only at the locks but the construction of an entirely new canal from Niagara to Lake Ontario. I talked my colleagues into letting me expropriate the land before the speculators could come he said that while for most people the world was getting smaller As a result of the Jet age it was expanding for the Western Canadian Grain grower. New markets were found for Canadian Grain and today there is no country in the world that in t a potential Market maybe not profitable yet but he said that never again would Canada be faced with Long term worries of disposing of Grain. There May be some difficulties in marketing but we will certainly be Able to sell All the food we can he said. Germans discuss project German canadians have been invited to a meeting at the German society auditorium. Flora Avenue 8-11 . Nov. 2 to discuss plans for their Centennial project. It had been decided earlier by the German Canadian Centen Nial Council of Winnipeg to erect a life size Gingerbread House in Kildonan Park. It would be similar to the one in the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale. Der nor Westen the Canadian polish Congress has filed suit for a libel award against the German newspaper Der nor Westen in court of Queen s Bench Here. In an article published june 26 in Der nor Westen remarks were made about the polish canadians plans to erect a statue of the polish astronomer Copernicus at expo 67. This article is the basis of the libel the statement of claim against the newspaper filed wednesday alleges that the article was falsely and maliciously printed. It claims it also injured the Canadian polish Congress in its credit and reputation As a patriotic and cultural and anti communist organization. _ the Congress also says it has lost members and contributions toward the fund drive for the Monument As a result of the the Winnipeg distributors of the National publishers Ltd., 462 Haw ave Street As the defendant in the libel suit the Congress claims in Gen eral damages in addition to special damages. A similar suit was filed in court of Queen s Bench wednesday on behalf of two officers of the Canadian polish Congress or. George Korey Krzeczowski and. Eugeniusz Adam Baranowski both of Montreal. Both say they have been Active in the fund drive for the Monument for Copernicus and have been injured in their reputation personally. No Date has been set As yet for a hearing of the Case. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Friday in the free press building Are Board room Winnipeg District committee no. 15, sons of Scotland clubroom ladies past presi dents Curling club ;