Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee Breaf by Gene Telpner Winnipeg free press local news by Carrier soc per week monday january 30, 1967 comedian Dave Broadfoot who has played Winnipeg Many times in Spring thaw does have a Crisp sense of humor. Or. Broadfoot was in British Columbia for the official ceremonies connected with the journey of the confederation train. He assembled quite a conglomeration of All Canadian jokes and some of them offered More truth than humor. I a couple that tickled the audience were if you be got a product you sell it even if it s your and in what Way Are canadians different from americans one difference is that the americans have already had their civil surprising How people have suggested that Christmas lighting in the downtown area be left up All year As a Centennial project. I understand the Hydro people have already come up with plans for special Centennial lighting for our streets. Is Mae West asks a Reader. She certainly is. In fact miss West released a Rock n Roll album late in 1966 called wild Christmas. Those who have seen her lately said that she still has perfect Teeth and that the Sands of time Haven t done too much damage to her hour Glass figure. Who will Ever forget her phrase Why Don t you come up and see me some i the sound of Money record sales Are booming and Winnipeg record j stores report a tremendous Christmas. This in to surprising because record sales Are really on the Way up. It s interest ing to see a breakdown on musical tastes although Statis tics Aren t always completely accurate. The latest i be seen for the Public s Choice is pop music be cent Rock n Roll 20 per cent classical 19 per cent jazz nine per cent country Western seven per cent Folk music four per cent. The remaining 14 per cent is divided among children s records religious music and miscellaneous music including Novelty records. Late in 1966 Vancouver had More than 40 consecutive Days of Rainy weather. Quite a few Vancouver ites confessed that the constant downpours depressed them. The falling barometric pressure affects your brain therefore you feel depressed on a Rainy Day. I this comes from scientists called Bio meteorologists who have pinpointed the influence that weather has on the j human body. What about Canada one of tiie common complaints some of our citizens have is that those South of us Don t know too much about Canada. This May often be True although Many of us Aren t exactly experts on the . Yet something did recently occur which aroused my ire. A Survey was taken on Freedom of the press across the world by the Freedom of information Centre at the University of Missouri. This University houses one of the Best schools of journalism in the . The results of the Survey showed that the Netherlands Switzerland. Finland. Norway and Sweden All ranked ahead j of the . In having a free press. After the . Came Denmark. Belgium England West Germany. Ireland and Austria the list included Romania and Albania. Canada was completely ignored on the list although admittedly this is a preliminary study. Some final results i will be released in the Spring and it will be interesting to see where the people in Missouri rank us. Six die on roads and in fire Mother and two a lighters dead after two car collision five people died in traffic accidents and one i died in a fire during the weekend in Manitoba. I three members of one farm family a Mother and two Young j daughters met their deaths in a two car collision near sunday afternoon. Two men had their names added to the traffic toll in car pedestrian accidents one in Rural Manitoba near Cartwright Friday night and one in Winnipeg Sun Day night. Dead Are mrs. Graysville daughters Eva. 4. Nettie Unrau of and her two Kathy 11, and Rena mishaps Hurt 8 eight people were taken to hos 1 Pilalas a result of separate tray Fie accidents in greater Winnipeg during the weekend. Tho first one occurred at j . Friday at the rear of the j Home of Trevor James Bowkett j 35, of 298 Toronto Street. Or. Bowkett who was putting his car hemp at Morden said the two in the garage stepped out to open car crash that killed mrs. Unrau the door be had t put l be William Schwarz 40, of Mather. Alfred James Morissette 48. Of Stonewall. Elizabeth Emilie neck Way 34, of Gillani. Attending a lunch called a Che Yea pay my Che Sho at Eaton s Assembly Hall saturday to see Indian displays were i left to right Walter Bonaire Winnipeg Sharon on son Selkirk and Roger Cut hand Selkirk. The event was sponsored by the Indian Metis Friend ship Centre. Aunt s gift to capsule begins boys countdown and her children occurred two Miles South of Carman near the Junction highways 3 and 23 at 2 . Sunday. The Unrau car driven by Ber Nard Unrau apparently went out of control and veered into the path of a northbound Auto. Or. Unrau was reported in fairly Good condition in Carman memorial Hospital. A third daughter Dorothy. 2, was re ported in satisfactory condition in Morden District general hos Pital. A teen aged passenger. Abe Wiebe. An Unrau farm employee. The Law of the land not Loci Uio i mentioned that Barbers m Nebraska Are forbidden to eat onions Between 7 and 7 d m several local Barbers commented on this Law and said that Winnipeg Barbers avoid garlic and onions during working hours. And this mention of an obscure Law brought a of comment about others from readers. For instance in u i Beil Clits . Or peanuts in Church or to use tomatoes when making Clam chowder. Houston Texas still has a Law on the statute books forbidding the Sale of Rye bread Goose liver or Limburger cheese on sunday. In Hammond Indiana you can t legally pop water Melon seeds on the sidewalk. I wonder How Many Winni Eggers would like to see that Law apply Here to the most unusual of ail is a Law in Connecticut. There it is illegal to sell pickles which collapse in their own juice when dropped from a height of 12 weather report temperatures i Vancouver Calgary min. Pre. 38 .37 4 3 .09 15 .04 11 9 .01 13 .01 -18 7 a temper min. Toronto f 18 20 21 37 30 73 60 22 3 3 9 20 26 50 57 19 25 Brandon Miami the Pas Winnipeg fort William Angeles York comparisons highest on a .09 Normal -0.2 hailed Brandon staff _ canadians should Stop hiding behind their National Borders and real ize that the United states has something to contribute to their country More than 200 persons attending the second annual mid Winter conference at Brandon College were told saturday. The message was driven Home by several speakers at the con Ference among them or of. Mason Wade of the University of Western Ontario prof. Dale c. Thomson chairman of the University of Montreal s political science department and prof. Norman Ward of the University of Saskatchewan. Rather than deploring the americanization of Canada should we not be grateful that we can Benefit from their accomplishments and their mis takes to enrich our own Way of asked prof. Thomson. He said there is a danger that Canada will become a . Satellite but it would be More Dan l serous to curb . Investment in Canada if that Means an even wider Gap in the Standard of Liv j i ing Between the two countries. Canada can exist Only As Long As it keeps running the economic race with the United states he said. Hiding behind our National Borders is no solution to the problems of 1984, which Are the problems we should be facing prof. Wade speaking at the conference luncheon said canadians have used anti american ism As a Crutch to build nationalism. Anti americanism has always been common to English French i and he said. I am sure i that if there had not been a ., Canada would have found it necessary to invent one just to i have something to j prof. Ward speaking during a panel discussion saturday after 1 noon also Felt canadians show far too much fear of being the threat of american dominance seems largely exaggerated in relation to the amount of political Independence Canada he said. By Ron Campbell Penelope is a Masonite space capsule designed to hold four boys in the Middle of August. She is 14 feet tall taper ing from an Highl foot base to a three foot top and requires no launching pad. Penelope i will Start her existence in Nick Newman s Wolseley Avenue Back Yard where she will be built. Nick a is one of four Grade 7 boys from Gordon Bell school who will stay three or four Days in Penelope i this August As a Centennial project. He and 12-year-Olds Terry Mackay Blair Roberts and Gutter Thaul Hauser want to beat the t w o a a y s i n a capsule record set by Nash Ville Tennessee youngsters. If anyone Breaks our says Terry Well do it he reckons the Gordon Bell attempt is Only the third in North american school history. Next easter the boys want to duplicate their feat at Polo Park s school Sci ence fair to win a prize. Right now they re engrossed in plans for financing building and equipping the capsule. The capsule will have a control room store room and a recreation sleeping room at the Bottom. The control room will have a tape recorder log to be used every 15 minutes an intercom set and a device for communication with the outside. There will be a revolving Globe that completes a turn every 10 minutes turning Constellation maps a phony sonar system and Friend Tutor Drivers needed 1 the Volunteer Bureau of the greater Winnipeg welfare plan Ning Council says it needs a number of voluntary helpers. Listed Are a person to give guitar lessons to a boy perhaps once a week. A Man with a family of his own to befriend an 11-year-old boy who the Bureau says is personable but hard to get along with it fuel air pressure and Retro rocket controls. In the store room will be food clothing and budding. They could t get concentrated food spacemen use so they la cat soup crackers and other no Cook foods. Biair said. Battery operated fans will control temperature. They think s30 is needed to build and equip their spacecraft. Blair s aunt Penelope has already donated s10. So they named the Craft after her. She has promised the rest if the boys can t raise it in their publicity Campaign for the project. Terry s Clad a former Carpenter will help erect the capsule s Frame of two by los. And tack on the Masonite exterior. The boys hit on the capsule endurance idea Jan. 1 after Reading about it in school. We be been planning this Ever since after school during study periods Early in the said Blair. Was transferred from Carman Hospital to Winnipeg general Hospital later sunday. Kathy Unrau was killed on in brakes on. The car rolled and pinned his right leg against the garage Wall. He was taken to Victoria general Hospital with a broken at . Friday Lames or nest thread Hill. 57, of 605 Minto Street was crossing i Ortasse Avenue at Minto when he was in an Accident with a West bound car police said. The Driver was identified As John Liv Wicki. Of 303 Queen Street. St. Lames. Or. Thread Hill was taken id Grace Hospital with broken Lens i pact while Eva died shortly after saturday Una u i admittance to Morden Hospital. 552il, Selkirk ave and possible internal injuries. His condition was described As fairly Good monday morning. Police said that at . Delaronde. Of. Avenue was in col mrs. Unrau died at . I Sion Wilh a car As she crossed sunday in Winnipeg general Selkirk Avenue Between Andrews where she had been transferred Mcgregor streets. The car from Carman Hospital. " ii Iii the three occupants of the Allier car. Or. And mrs. Henry Leikau of Morden and their daughter Grace. 15, were in mor Den Hospital. Or. Leikau had face and Chest injuries. His wife and daughter sustained head cuts. Police said or. Pekau had been driving. Or. W. M. Covert Coroner at East St. Paul has assessment problem while most of the metro area the municipality became Parton municipalities finalized their have All but assessment Morden opened an inquest into the Unrau deaths sunday even ing. It will be continued after autopsies. An Accident on Highway 3. One mile West of Cartwright claimed the life of or. Schwarz Friday night. Ramp at Killarney said or. Schwarz died of Shock at was driven by Gerald in. Of Duffer Avenue police said. The woman was taken to Winnipeg general Hospital with in juries to the hip. She was reported in fairly Good condition. A passenger in a two car Colli Sion at . Sunday at main Street and Euclid Avenue suffered a broken Pelvis. Police said Eli Kuzenko. 50, of 411. Gar pics Street was in fairly Good condition in Winnipeg general hos Pital. Or. Kuzenko was a passenger in a northbound car driven by John Gurd Iwaniuk. 41. Of 104 Evanson Street police said and the other Driver involved was received their notices from the figures for this year metro dropout East St. Paul is still deeply involved in the biggest tax headache in its history. It s been 10 years since the last tax revision took place in the municipality and when ratepayers assessment department of municipal affairs in october their eyes bulged at increases of anywhere from 10 to 200 per cent in the assessed value of their holdings. When the court of revision the municipal Council assisted by representatives from the department of municipal affairs opened in december 200 angry ratepayers about a Quarter of the area s population were demanding to be heard. The last of them had his say and now metro s jurisdiction. In 1964. Metro began its own assessment j at 9-15 . In Hospital in Killar-1 Peter Dagdick 47, of 922 Bur Ney More than an hour after the the area but the municipal Council decided to withdraw before the Job could be completed. And it was another two years before the provincial govern ment was Able to Send out its own assessors again. During the 10-year vacuum municipal affairs department spokesmen say property values in the municipality soared As the outer limits of metro Winnipeg gradually became built up and the search for land moved farther East. Likely to be hardest hit in the lax shakeup although the final decision is up to the court of revision Are Large landowners and Market gardeners. Since land values Are subject to Supply and demand land assessment will probably be up or. Schwarz had parked his car without lights on the Side of the Road and was trying to open the trunk when he was struck from the rear by another car police said. Driver of the other car was identified As lome Todd of Cartwright. Or. E. G. Gow Coroner at Killarney has ordered an in quest. There will also be an inquest in the Morissette death. The Stonewall Man was walk ing along Keewatin Street just North of Selkirk Avenue when he was in collision with an Auto just after 7 . Sunday police said. Rows Avenue. Neither was injured. At . A Mother of five was injured in a two car head on collision on Dawson Road. St. Boniface. St. Boniface police said Elizabeth Reimer of Arbori Man., was in fair condition in St. Boniface general Hospital. The Reimer car was driven by mrs. Reimer s husband Friesen. He and the five children in the car escaped injury. The Driver of the other car William Harasymchuk of 733 Mccalman ave nue had a bruised leg but was not detained in Hospital. A three car collision on Hen Derson Highway at Fortier Avenue i n North Kildonan saturday resulted in injuries to a t appeals to uphold and Winch to big Ger the percent deny increase in the taxpayer s the deadline for their decision i is set by the provincial govern ment at july 8. And according to Reeve n. C. Jackson Council won t be Able to Complete its work much before that time. It s a very difficult matter and something we Don t want to Rush at. It seems quite difficult to understand How 10 years could elapse Between the Reeve says but it s just due to aider i . Tju Urc saturday resulted in injuries 10 he was pronounced dead at win the Driver Anc a passenger in Nipes general Hospital at c of cars involved. Police . Aro withholding details of Tho the Auto which was proceed i acc Jdant pending completion of ing North on Keewatin. Was drive j investigation. In by August Joseph Richaud 45, of or 2. Box 10. Winnipeg police said. No further details were released. In Winnipeg general Hospital monday in fairly Good condition was Reginald p. of i Barber Street. Hospital author j Tii the last assessment in East six months for indecent assault Brandon Man. A Camp Shilo Man was sentenced Friday to six months in Brandon provincial jail on a s. In sufi a. So the tiny Community has no fire 1 Oral fighting service. 1 activities. Tutor to help a Grade 1 student in St. Vital in the mrs. Neck Way was alone in the Home of her Uncle Simion i Beardy. An inquest was held at Gillam saturday with Coroner or. N. G. Willson of flin flon presiding. The jury ruled the death Acci i Thuv Juliai. A Ai via Sci Lucil. Of indecently assaulting evidence showed mrs. Necko was a juvenile whose name was being withheld by police. He was released after treatment for minor injuries. The Accident occurred at it ., police said. Two fined s25 Hoy. Court of Queen s Bench judge a lamp starting the fire. Way had apparently knocked Over hard planners meet Studem in of. Viii Cuis enaire method of teaching the annual meeting of me rom Munith welfare planning arithmetic. Car Drivers for an hour a week to drive older people to social functions. Community welfare planning Council takes place at the International inn Wellington and Berry feb. 14. Roberts after hearing evidence thursday by the boy his father and two other juvenile wit Nesses. Roberts denied the charges All through the trial but was convicted on evidence brought against him by other witnesses. Free press meetings meetings to be held at 8 . Tuesday a the free press building Are Board room samoyed association of Manitoba clubroom free press Bridge club. Auto limited. M4.1 Arlington Street and Patrick construction. 233 Albany Street. St. James were each fined i and costs in provincial police i court recently for offences under the unemployment insurance act. Both were found to have withheld information re Garding the stamping of unemployment insurance books and the number of insurable employees ;