Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 26, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee by Gene Telpner Thomas j. Bennett of 23i came. To Winnipeg in 1892. He of those remarkable people gifted with a Clear recollection of winning s Early Days found some of his stories and would like to hear some of them particularly those about the thriving Market which stood in the present location of our new City this time of. Year the butchers in that Day Market used to make marvellous displays of. Sides of beef turkeys and geese. They were trimmed with coloured papier tinsel Spruce bows brilliantly lighted. No similar display could be found anywhere in Canada. I in those Days round Steak sold three pounds for a you were regular customer the Butcher most Likely would toss in half a Pound of liver to feed the cat. Starting at the Southwest Corner of the City Market the first stall was occupied by Brownrigg and son next was j. B. Lawson then came Kobold and son. On the North Side was Gallagher Holman and la France the firm that eventually became Canada packers. A Fri Harrington operated what he called a provision store where you could buy sea biscuits Fay the barrel Tea by the Caddy or dried beef by the Case. More of the memories continued my. Bennett about the Only biscuits to be had were soda biscuits packed in barrels Ginger snaps and arrowroot biscuits in 40-Pound boxes or in bulk. You bought Coffee in and if you did t have a grinder you could use one in the store. Harrington sold Many barrels of apples As they were about the Only fresh fruit available in Winnipeg around this time of the Snow apples were a barrel. Or. Harrington s delivery Man was George Thurston a most resourceful Young Man who earned a week. But or. Thurston made much More than his salary every week by betting All Comers that he could lift a 98 Pound sack of Guvie s flour with his Teeth. This he could do with the greatest of ease. It might be of interest., to your readers to know that or Thurston was later employed by the free press in the Rural delivery Here s a recollection of my own. Once in Minneapolis i saw the real Minnesota fats the Man Jackie Gleason portrayed in the Hustler play an exhibition game. His name is Rudolf Wanderone who weighed 269 pounds at the time. Now Rudolf or fats As his friends Call him has Given up trying to make a living shooting Pool. Said fats since the film came out i Haven t had any peace and no living human will now play me for warm up your pets a Winnipeg woman wrote me about a practical use she made of those Little cardboard egg crates that you buy at the stores. She sprayed it with a Bright coloured paint now uses it for a trinket Case newest thing for Ani Mals which Goodyear has put out is an electric pad for your pet to sleep Don t know if they re available yet in Winnipeg. There s a lot of talk these Days about Graffiti which is the word for those scribblings you see on Walls or in restrooms around the City. Did you know the title who s afraid of Virginia Woolf came from a bit of Wall writing according to author Edward Albee. I had always thought there was much More to the title than thai in new York City there s a full time Crew of 40 who go around trying to erase the writings or defacing in the Manhattan subways. There was an interesting sociological trend revealed m the recent testimony of a private Eye before a congressional investigating committee in Washington . He said that five years ago half of All his Domestic cases involved wives who wanted to Check up on their husbands. Today 80 per cent of his business concerns husbands checking up on their wives. Make of it what you will. _ while or. Radinovsky is engaged in a complicated study of the effects of mites on rodents in stored Grain his wife won t be exactly Idle. In the Community of Somgur 35 Miles Northwest of Calcutta she has volunteered As an English teacher. Or. Radinovsky s Mother lives in Winnipeg Jimmy Damon who has appeared often at the towers is slated for two television shows originating in Winnipeg. Hell be a guest on the network Peggy Neville show and Jose Soneira s pan americana both on the Csc. By Carrier Sec per week january 26. 1967 m Iii Iii h my mum weather report synopsis thu radio Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Regina Brandon the Pas Winnipeg fort William Max. Min. Pre. 32 4 -6 -7 -18 0 -20 2 -19 -22 0 0 15 -4 s -14 Ottawa Toronto Montreal Halifax Chicago Miami los Angeles. Minneapolis tie i York Muci. Part. A .22 m 31 44 .35 .22 in. 60 57 39 72 .23 doubled food Aid urged the Canadian federation of agriculture Canada to double its contributions to the world s food and technological Aid programs. The federation Reeve a. C. Christen sen of West St. Paul inspects a breach in a metro sludge drying bed Dike wednesday after noon. The sludge is pumped into the Beds from metro s sewage treatment Plant. West St. Paul residents feared that the escaping fluid would contaminate Low lying Wells in the municipality. Sewage break threatens West St. Paul Wells at its 31st j.11c annual meeting in the fort Garry hotel wednesday passed a Resolution that Canada in crease its Aid in this Field to a minimum annual amount of one Jer cent of the Gross National product. Delegates representing More than 90 per cent of Canadian Farmers were told this would mean about spent on such Aid annually or about double the amount spent now. Joint statement the federation also decided to bring to the government s Atten Tion the joint statement on the world food problem recently issued by the International co operative Alliance the inter National federation of Agri cultural producers and the International confederation of free Trade unions. Delegates further resolved to work closely with National labor and co operative organizations to take joint action in combat Ting the world food shortage and urged the. Government to give International leadership and press for More effective action by. Ail countries. The International b o die s statement read to the delegates reported that despite efforts to increase food production in developing countries there has been no per capita increase in such production in the last seven years and per capita production has actually declined in the most populated countries. The statement called for master plan to produce food for developing countries in1 other countries where an efficient production potential already exists these necessary supplies by Sheldon Bowles metro sludge drying Beds in West St. Paul burst monday allowing sludge to Drain into Roadside ditches. It also triggered an alarm that the sewage would con laminate water supplies. _ metro inspectors reported the reach closed by . Wednesday the drainage Frozen in he ditches and the situation cleared with health inspectors the drying Beds Are North Vest of the Mcphilips Street Corner. West St. Paul is not a member metro and is not connected to water or sewage ervice. Most hones have own deep Wells and sewage tanks. Said West St. Paul Reeve a. E Christensea when the break ook place the dikes were hastily built and they broke on the Mcphillips Street Side spew no it All out Over this effluent is going into the ditch and will Drain into Grasmere Creek. What bothers us is that the contaminated water will pass through residential property and might contaminate Low lying water metro should Stop using the Beds from the Plant before contamination creeps through he Countryside. The thing that bothers me is that Winnipeg is Okay but to hell with. West St. Said jeeves Christensen. Alexander Penman director i of waterworks and waste disposal for metro while admitting to trouble took a slightly differ ent View of the situation. It broke into the ditch where should to longer irom. Surpluses Winn Pic temperature comparisons., mix. Milt. Highest. Be expected haphazardly accumulated through the Price support policies of a few the statement said the three organizations com mended the food and Agri culture organization for. progressive Steps v in dealing with the needs of countries where food shortages exist by said the funds made available t the organization Are. To sufficient. The ultimate goal should a the establishment of a Worl food authority thou gee which the most i urgent needs of the tool statement said the Man Hurt in Holdup attempt an elderly employee of a Bil Liard parlor had his Arm slashed with a 10-Inch Butcher knife wednesday night during an at tempted Holdup. Ray Chapman of 454 Sargent Avenue suite 0, manager of the mall billiards parlor in the basement of the bus terminal received a deep wound in his right Arm when he ignored a threat from a Young assailant. Witnesses said a youth about six feet tall pulled the held it in front of or. Chapman. Open that said the youth As he pointed to a room where valuables and Money were kept you re not going to slab or. Chapman replied and grabbed for the knife slash ing his wrist. The assailant fled. He dropped a second smaller knife Way out -. He had to pass several1 people on his escape route to Portage Avenue but nobody made an attempt to Stop him. Or. Chap Man s gave but when he lost sight of him. The e apartment Block transit talks set Sujiyo Tanaka vice president of Mitsubishi Canada ltd., was flying into Winnipeg today to address metro Council tonight concerning the 15 Mitsubishi buses metro bought and did t like. S the purpose of the trip is to expand our position on the or. Tanaka who is based in Vancouver said in a Telephone interview from there last night. We found the Canadian Cli mate and other conditions were far More severe than we expected when the buses were he said Mitsubishi which was the third largest company in the world was trying hard to improve the Standard of its buses for Export. Whether or. Tanaka will try to convince metro it should buy More of the buses in t known. Metro had ordered Mitsubishi vehicles in april 1965. Last week d. I. Macdonald metro it has now Frozen solid he said. We were out there with the health officer who agreed to us using scrapers to get it out of the ditch. As far As we re concerned that s the end of the scrapers were already cleaning the sludge Beds said or. Penman. The liquid would normally freeze solid but we had been pumping some in on monday and it goes out of the Plant around 90 it was the liquid that forms on top of the sludge that had leaked out he said. Fears that the liquid would run into Grasmere Creek which empties into the red River after passing through West St. Paul were discounted by or. Penman. The liquid described As a Small went into the ditch and started to flow South said or. Penman. The Grasmere Creek is about a mile to the North of where the leak ukrainian Day july 29 emphasis will be placed on ukrainian Canadian contributions to the nation july 29, which has been designated ukrainian Day at expo 67 in Montreal senator Paul Tuzyk said wednesday night. He told the annual meeting of the ukrainian professional and transit metro s director streets committee that the buses were fuel gobblers and breakdown prone. He said the buses had been 500 cheaper to buy than the general motors vehicles metro normally bought but would prove More costly in the Long run. Reported to business men s club that Handi and transit i crafts Folk dancers and musicians from Many parts of Canada would appear. The request for a ukrainian Day. Had come from the Ukrain Ian Canadian committee a body representing about 30 National ukrainian Canadian organizations. On Furby St feet and threatened a 16-year-old girl with the ,.knife. She fled suite the youth. Her. With in his v the girl s1- another then appeared but was knocked Down. Police1? arc steam youth away up in arms Over shorts one Winnipeg Parent has a Long complaint about a shorts situation. Kenneth Smith 299 Lindsay Street said wednesday that his. Nine year old son must Wear shorts to physical Edu cation classes at Queenston school. His son along with the rest of his Grade 4 classmates wears his shorts Over his Long underwear during the Winter months. The school does t have dressing room facilities. Or. Smith objects to should they take off their Long pants and get their underwear h. T. Edwards principal of the school said he had t received any complaints. He had attended a Home and school meeting on physical education tuesday. There had been no comment from parents. He said the. Shorts even Over the underwear were less confining than heavy Over pants. Shorts Are a logical dress or. Smith also complained about the inconsistent pol icy regarding shorts in elementary school. One of his sons a Grade 6 student in another school did t need shorts until this year. The son in Queenston s Grade 4 class had to Wear shorts last year in Grade 3, but a third son now in Grade 3, does t need them. Kas Vitruk director of physical education for Winni Peg said the wearing of shorts is encouraged in All schools but we Don t press it hard in elementary in most cases the policy is up to the teachers discretion in earlier grades. He had received no complaints front or. Smith and. Did t know of the Queen soon shorts dilemma. V local news Row pares race Field 38 left by Hubert Bebee St. Cloud Minn. Staff with the third Lap of the 489-mile snowmobile race from Winnipeg to St. Paul finished Jerry Reese of Roseau Minn., is still leading. Only 38 contestants Are left. Clem Deschene also of Roseau placed second in total elapsed time. Don Drews of Oconto Falls wisc on Sih is third. What started out As an endurance contest monday Between 110 Hardy Drivers turned into a mods log my free for All late tuesday Between manufacturers of different makes of snowmobiles. The race suffered a serious blow wednesday morning when 20 Drivers were withdrawn. Others quit of their own Accord. Charges of violating race rules were hurled at one company. When the race committee refused to Dis qualify a number of company sponsored Drivers of the firm in question the three firms withdrew their Drivers. At a Drivers meeting wednesday night an official of the St. Paul Winter carnival association said that he was t Happy about the incidents. The race will go on. They did t Hurt the carnival. They Hurt an said John p. Geisler managing director of the association. The decision to pull out of the race was unfair to the Drivers who were still in it. As far Asim concerned the men Are still in the race the mice have he also said that the decision to withdraw was kind of like picking up your marbles and going Home. Or. Geisler said that some companies might have expected the association to Bow to pressure. There in t enough Money in this country that could make us do what the manufacturer wants. This is a Drivers race not a manufacturers he said the race would certainly be held next year and he was sure it was going to be a Success. Earlier in an interview Allan Hetteen president of Polaris of Canada ltd., a snowmobile manufacturing company said that he Felt it was about time to set the record straight. To be quite sure there Are seven manufacturers left in the race. So not everybody Felt the same Way the three companies did who withdrew from the or Hetteen said he was t going to join the the Drivers who were still in the race had done a marvellous Job and they deserved credit for their endurance. He said he was not going to investigate the allegations made against Polaris by the other manufacturers. No i will not go after this. I Don t think we should Honor the accusations by acknowledging them. Polaris was accused by other manufacturers of helping Drivers change their motors and of having transported snowmobiles on trailers during the race. Drivers described wednesday s Lap As the Best of the three. The course was Good and the temperature and 108-mile Lap were right they said. This morning they will tackle the final 95-mile leg. Their arrival at the St. Paul finish line win Mark the official opening of the Winter carnival two men fined for securities offences two men have been fined in provincial magistrate s court for admitted offences under the securities act. Graeme t. Haig 191 Oak can Boulevard St. James was fined and costs tuesday by magistrate Harold Gyles. The charge Haig faced was that Between sept. 8, 1964, and sept 17, 1965, he unlawfully acted As an official of Argus budget control ltd., in connection with trading in Argus securities when neither he nor the company was registered As a broker. The second Man William Peter Mitchell was fined the charge against him was that Between aug. 20, 1964, and sept. 17, 1965, at Brandon Man., not being registered As a broker or Salesman he unlawfully traded in the securities of Argus budget control. Court was told the men should have been registered with the Public utilities Board. Neither appeared personally in court. Both were represented by coun Sel. Crown counsel Ray Felt told uie court that Mitchell had been a securities Salesman since 1940. In connection with the charge before the court he bad sold shares to 10 people in the southwestern part of Manitoba and in Saskatchewan while not registered with the Board. Court was told was involved. This Money had been loaned to Mitchell motors As a unsecured loan. The company had gone bankrupt in december 1965. Court was told Haig was president of Argus budget control. He had uought the Deal Ings with the 10 people would be through a Syndicate which was not required to be registered with the Public utilities Board. Dalton Camp who will be guest speaker at the annual dinner of the Winnipeg real estate Board feb. 7. Or. Camp is National president of the progressive conservative party. The dinner will be held in con Junction with the annual meet ing and conference of the Manitoba real estate association at the Marlborough hotel feb. C and 7. Burns termed voice of Freedom a. Montague israels Winni Peg barrister and guest of Honor at the Burns Day dinner of the Winnipeg Burns club said the reason for what he called the Universal Appeal of uie scottish poet is Fiat his is the authentic voice of Freedom and democracy. Or. Israels was giving uie Toast to the immortal Mem the club s president Bill Shaw gave the Toast to Canada. Free press meetings the Winnipeg District com Mittee no. 15, sons of Scot land will meet at 8.. Fri Day in the Board room. Free press building ;