Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 31, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Our counselling met on your next a Cutty Torace us 3-7171 Winnipeg free by Carrier j0c per week monday october 31, 1966 authorized As 2nd class mall by the . Dept. Straw a and for payment of postage in Cash. Fioelity5 Trust _ savings 70 accounts phone 947-0211 for the Branch net Rait you. Coffee him break by Gene Telpner this is not a pleasant Story. Not Long ago a or motion picture was made of an automobile striking a tree at 55 Miles an hour. That s a Speed which most motorists con Sider a Dummy was used in the test car and its actions similar to a humans provided a vivid frightening picture. Photographed at frames a second this is exactly what happened to the car and its Driver one tenth of a second front bumper and Chrome frosting of Grille collapse. Steel slivers penetrate the tree to a depth of nearly two inches. Two tenths of a second Hood crumples and rises smashing into Windshield. Spinning rear wheels leave the ground. Grille disintegrates. Fenders come into Contact with tree forcing parts to splay out Over the front door. Dri ver s body continues to move Forward with a Force 20 times child loses that of Gravity his body now weighing pounds. His legs held straight out snap at the Knees. Three tenths of a second Driver s body now off the seat Torso upright. Plastic and steel Frame of the steering wheel Bend under his death grip. Four tenths of a second car s front is completely which did t Stop. Demolished but the rear end is still moving at 35 Miles an car had t been found at hour. The half ton motor Block crunches into the tree Minnedosa traffic victim Dies six year old Nicole Marie Walker of Minnedosa Man., died in Winnipeg children s Hospital Satur Day two Days after she was struck Down by a car rear of car rises High enough to scrape bark off lower branches. Five tenths of a second Driver s hands Bend steer ing wheel Shaft. His lungs and arteries Are punctured. Six tenths of a second Driver s feet Are ripped out of laced shoes the Brake pedal shears off at the floor. Chassis bends in the Middle Driver s head smashes into Windshield. Seven tenths of a second entire car body forced out of shape hinges tear doors Spring open. Seat rams Forward pinning Driver against steering Shaft. Be is dead. Names in the news Carol Slater wife of lawyer Ronald Slater was sporting a most unusual cigarette Holder the other night at the Harold Genser testimonial dinner. It was a Gold ring with an attached Stem and the cigarette goes through the ring. Said mrs. Slater my husband bought it for me at a Little antique shop in Oxford during a visit to eng people who have phoned me about father Chris Mas have apparently been slightly confused about the real identity of the Man. His full name was Walter Elliott chrismas and his son still lives in Winnipeg. Father chrismas was also a Faith healer and at one time held Large meetings at the old Manitoba hotel. A Winnipeg businessman just Back from a lengthy trip to Las vegas san Francisco los Angeles and other Large cities wore a pan american games pin in his Lapel All the time. Only once did someone ask about it he said and she was a cocktail waitress in a Las vegas hotel. What the girl said was my that s a new and different Type of red Cross Button in t on the Southeast Corner of main Street and Mcdermot Avenue stands the old Bank of Hamilton. If you look closely near the Grille work at the main Entrance you can read the words i Advance Commerce prudence and is this proof that Hamilton had the motto first. On the personal Side notes to you an attraction coming nov. 19, is the Royal Highland Fusiliers at the Winnipeg Arena. This group seems to capture the imagination of everyone and they have been playing to packed houses across Canada. Winnipeg philharmonic youth choir conducted by or. Melville Cook is seeking More singers. It s for mixed voices aged 16 to 22. Interested singers can Call 775-3223. Rehear Sals Are monday nights in All Saint s Parish Hall from on. Press time monday and there were no known witnesses said. Nicole was found sprawled in a Pool of blood near the inter Section of third Avenue North East and fourth Street almost in front of her Home thursday. Her shoes were found on third Avenue 264 feet away from what police believe was the Point of Impact. Nicole was taken to Minnedosa Hospital by a Motorist then transferred to children s Hospital by ambulance at 7 . The same Day. She is reported to have suffered a fractured Skull and a broken left leg. A Young boy said he saw a Blue car in the area at the time of the Accident. Police checked several similar vehicles in min Nedosa but said none was connected with the incident. Leishman was allowed out of this cell and into the cell Block corridor because Iii lawyer had complained that tie Only exercise Leishman got was his walk to and from the courtroom every tuesday. Controls for the cell door lock were in the same steel Box outside the exercise corridor door As the lock for the corridor door which Leishman opened. Painted Over jail lock is mystery key to escape accidents kill six Manitoban 2 others injured earlier die toll includes soccer Champion six Manitoban including a soccer Champion lost their lives As the result of accidents during the week end and two others died after being injured in traffic accidents earlier last week. Vigil at boy s bedside Nicole Marie Walker weather synopsis valid until tuesday Midnight Cloudy skies and brisk Northwest winds covered the Prairies from Manitoba through Saskatchewan to northeastern Alberta this morning. Scattered Snow flurries will be general in this Cool air although precipitation amounts will remain Low. The exceptions to the general picture Are. Southern Alberta which will be sunny and mild anon the peace River country will be Cool but receive some Sunshine. Coddling remark hit people who Call the treatment of alcoholism coddling drunks were criticized Here sunday. Tommy Breen assistant director of. The alcoholism foundation of Manitoba said at a meeting in the Royal Alexandra hotel the remark was usually us w expressed from a High platform forecast Cloudy today. Scattered Snow flurries becoming widely scattered this evening. Mainly Cloudy tuesday. A few Snow flurries ending in the morning. Little temperature change. Winds northerly at 25 . With gusts becoming northwesterly 15 . Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight for Gimli Carman and Winnipeg 20, High tuesday 25. Temperatures for the 48-hour period which ended at 6 . Monday Max. Min. Pre. Max. Min. Pre. Vancouver 54 45 Ottawa 34 21 .08 Calgary 54 24 Toronto 44 34 Edmonton 51 37 Montreal 36 24 Rogina 58 31 to. Halifax 48 29 Brandon. Chicago 52 43 the Pas 32 24 .21 Miami 83 67 Winnipeg 55 28 to. Los Angeles 72 ,58 fort Wiiliam 44 33 .01 Minneapolis 5.0 44 Kenora 47 24 .08 new York 46 38 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. Min. Mean highest on record oct. 30 55.1 30.7 42.9 72 in 1950 last year 44.3 28.0 36.2 lowest on record Normal 51.7 40.0 0.6 in 1941 of ignorance. Or. Breen was addressing a Public meeting part of the annual convention of alcoholics Anonymous of Manitoba held during the weekend. He said the comment was usually made by people who should know better but people who pay lip service to the disease aspect of alcohol ism. It is a disease and should be recognized As a treatable Dis or. Breen said it had been known for Many years that the Only approach which could be successful with alcoholism was honesty truth and frankness. That has nothing to do with the Community As a whole should be interested in alcohol ism understanding alcoholism As a disease and understanding the alcoholic As a sick person. He said a was the greatest ally of the alcoholism foundation formed to bring help to alcoholics. The foundation considered that the Way of life of an a member was the most method of keeping an alcoholic sober in Many cases of alcoholism there be a need for an alcoholic to live in a Home for alcoholics for some time during his Early treatment. This would ensure he was in an atmosphere of understanding or. Breen said. He said that if alcoholics were . Helped More effectively doctors medical scientists and social workers should learn More about the disease and. The Fellowship of a As a successful answer to it. By Egon Thech guards at the Vaughan Street jail scraped tie paint from a Long unused lock monday morning one which might have kept Kenneth Leishman from making his break for free Dom sunday night. We Haven t used it for said a guard. It had been painted Over so Many times it could t be moved but a close inspection of the bar and lock that had been opened Leishman when he made his break for Freedom a few minutes after 7 . Failed to show How he could have opened it from inside the exercise corridor. Lishman had been Al Lowed out of his cell and into the corridor of the cell Block after he had asked his special guard if he could see one of the regular guards upstairs. The special guard had left the basement area of the jail and when he resumed Leishman had somehow opened the door and was outside. The heavy steel door at the end of the exercise corridor was held shut by a Bolt. The end of the Bolt went through a Slot into a steel Box at tie Side of the door. A Small Horseshoe shaped steel bar was slipped through a Hole in the end of the Bolt and pre vented the end of the Bolt from being drawn out of the Box. The Box was locked with a key kept in a locked cup Board in the upstairs guard room. How did Leishman open the door no one seems to know. If anyone does know it s being Well tie excuse that the police Javen t finished their investigation one of the guards theor might Box where the Bolt slides in. He would then somehow have to have drawn the Bolt Back but it can be activated Only from the outside. He would have had to do All this i the time it took for the special guard to walk upstairs talk to the regular guard and return. The second lock being cleaned by the guards Mon Day morning would have Slid across the Bottom of the door. It is designed kept i place by a padlock. The cell Block at the jail was empty when reporters were allowed to see it monday morning. At press time monday Leishman was being kept in a Ceil in the Public safety building after being remanded for a week on a charge of escaping lawful custody. Have used a thin piece of wire to jiggle the horse shoe shaped piece of steel from the end of the Bolt. To do this he would first have had to thread the wire through the mesh in the door which has holes Little More than two inches Square and then through the Slot in the Side of the dead Are John Demery 72, Minne Dosa. Peter James Mckay 25, of Rublin. Brian Swan 19, of West Kildonan. Thomas Al Earington of Brandon. Michael Prokopowich 34, of St. James. Norman Trudeau 42, of tie Power View District. Carol Harap Stead 20, of Swan River. Nicole Marie Walker 6, of Minnedosa. Or. Demery was killed Sun Day night when he was involved in a collision with a car As he walked along Highway 4 near Minnedosa which is about 130 Miles West of Winnipeg. An in quest has been ordered. Or. Mckay was killed Satur Day when he fell from a Hay Slack while putting up Hay on a Roblin District farm about 215 Miles Northwest of Winnipeg. Or. Swan and a companion Jayne Cary 19, of Poughkeepsie new York were both killed when their vehicle was involved in a four car crash near Cooperstown new York saturday night. State police said a car crossed the Centre of route 28 and collided with three other cars including the one carrying or. Swan and miss Cary. Or. Swan a member of Manitoba s Champion soccer team this year has been attending Hart Wick College in Oneonta. New York on a soccer scholar ship. The youth s parents. Or. And mrs. Andrew Swan live at 171 Newton Avenue West Kildonan. Or. Flemington was killed and two others injured saturday when staff at St. Boniface general Hospital Are maintaining a con Stant watch Over a six year old St. Vital boy. Waiting for him to show signs of consciousness. Since wednesday morning when 1 he was in collision with a car Kenneth Hutchison has lain unconscious in tie Post operation room at the Hospital. On thursday he had to have a tube inserted in his Throat be cause saliva he could not Clear was hindering his breathing. Sunday night Kenneth who suffered brain bruising a broken and cuts in the Accident was said in fairly Good condition. His parents Don Hutchison 38, and his wife. Marge 36, of 1920 Mary s Road spend hour after hour at the bedside of their son each Day waiting for him to show some sign of. Life. Or. Hutchison said we Are hoping there is no necessity for brain surgery. We Are waiting for signs that indicate it is not mrs. Hutchison said he is getting the Best of care. What Ever can be done is being Kenneth was injured at . Wednesday on St. Mary s Road near its Junction with Vista Road. Police said he ran from behind his Mother s car after climbing out into the Side of a of Strath air Man., 155 Miles j southbound automobile West Eft Winnipeg i Driver of the car was Garry police said the injured were Jones of 52 Stranmillis Avenue the Driver Earl Babey 23, of j St. Vital police said. J Strathclair and James Richard Stothart 20, of Brandon. Botn were reported in Good condition in Hospital. Or. Prokopowich died at . Friday after he was crushed by an elevator at the Marl Borough Par master at Smith Street and Ellice Avenue. Police said or. Prokopowich was working at the Bottom of an elevator Shaft when the Cage was lowered pinning him against tie Side of the Shaft. He suffered severe abdominal injuries. Provincial Coroner or. I. 0. Their car left Highway 4 and rolled into a ditch a mile North Kenneth Leishman somehow opened this door in his break for Freedom. The steel Box into which the end of the Bolt slides is shown at left. Bottom left is a second Bolt which had been painted Over and could not be used but was cleaned by guards monday morning. Fryer has ordered an inquest. Or. Trudell died at . Friday after he was thrown from his tractor As it was in a rear end collision with a car on Highway 11, two Miles East of St. George. Mrs. Harap Stead died Friday from injuries she sustained thursday in a two car collision 15 Miles Northwest of Swan River. Nicole Walker died in Winnipeg children s Hospital saturday from injuries suffered thursday when she was struck Down in Minnedosa. By a car that did t Stop. Schools vote backed the Winnipeg school Board has decided to write education minister George Johnson congratulating him on Hie govern ment s decision to hold a provincial referendum on single District school divisions. The Board also decided at a special meeting thursday to express the Hope the referendum meets with Success and that Multi District school Divi Sions will disappear in Manitoba. Piper dance competitions set for City the Manitoba Highland Dane ers association is planning the mid Canada Centennial competitions for dancers pipers drum mers and Amateur pipe bands in North America next year. More than 200 competitors Are expected in Winnipeg for the event probably in july. Permission is being sought from the scottish official Board of Highland dancing in Edin Burgh to have the dancing competitions recognized As the mid Canada open Champion ships. 80 expected to Register for talks the ninth annual Western Canadian traffic and parking association convention opened sunday in the Maryborough hotel. Inspector a. N. Clarke of the Winnipeg City police association president said in an interview the association afforded All those dealing with traffic and parking problems an Opportunity to get together to discuss problems and to licit solutions. Reporters look Over the spot where scaled the Wall of the exercise Yard after overpowering taste the jail. The Wall and Fence Are about 12 feet High. Two of wire at the top of the face had been torn Loose. Free press meetings meetings held tues Day in the free press building Are retired air Canada employees "65" club in the Board room 2 . Sorbet Mist club Busi Ness meeting Board room . Free press Bridge club clubroom 8. . U students give University of Manitoba Stu dents were canvassed for the first time for the United Way wednesday and was raised in two hours. Because the United Way has operated on the basis of payroll deductions there had previously been no contribution from the University student body. The idea of the canvass this year was devised by John Gibson former president of the Date fraternity Council. A fraternity men on Campus were organized by Bob vice president of the Council and was raised in two hours and collected the it , ;