Carillon News (Newspaper) - November 1, 1963, Steinbach, Manitoba CARILLON NEWS AND WESTERN WEEKLY Serving Southeastern Manitoba VOLUME XVIII e copies 10 cents each 1963 28 PAGES NUMBER 44 Swindle Takes Many Forms There mems to no end to the which think up tn their at tempts to make In the pant thu paper warned people who sold shiny looking watch en as hot that had to be of in un der In beer we have reported on salesmen of no good in wholesale hous es which would enable farmer to buy at wholesale we ha ve told about swindlers who told farm women that they had been ax of the year and sold them loads of muff in with that werent Southeastern Manitoba had Its share of magazine nales knit ting machine and even who sold powdered milk with a high bea ter which helped the mixing pro Thr newest racket haa to do with purchasing old which n 79 year old semiretired gentle man told us about this He has been collecting coins for some and been lucky en ough to sell some at a good pro His latest encounter with coin he any wan not too pro Our informant tells us that in answer to an advertisement in one of the national farm papers he sent in 05 shiny new nickels of various which were sup posed to be worth 25c But instead of getting the he got back 95 old scratched up nickels of the same to gether with a long letter stating that they could not use beat rusty This of he already knew since he had been collecting and selling coins for some but he hnd never before been this man The company he dealt with through the advertisement had no It merely gave a Box number The moral of the story know whom youre dealing Spellers And Orators Hold Big Crowd In Suspence After years service to its own and surrounding the Ambulance was handed over Wednesday to the Steinbach and District Hospital Board who will be operating it from now Left to right in photo are Walter Reim er of the Mayor Jaycee President Hospital Board Chairman Ernie Hospital Matron Jose phine nurses Nora Frances Margaret and Hospital Peter Hospital To Operate Former Jaycee Ambulance In giving up the ambulance the said that although a few new drivers have been found in he past couple of they till felt their organization would bo of more benefit the town if hey handed over the ambulance o someone else and looked for new Some mentioned Beginning 1 the Steini difficulty due to lack of suitable bach and District Hospital Board j volunteer will assume responsibility for operation of the former Jaycee Ambulance it was an It is understood that in taking over the ambulance the hospital board will follow a suggestion made by the Jaycee organization and assign the ing job to one of its employees as a parttime The decision followed three weeks of negotiation between the hospital the town and municipal councils and the Juni or Chamber of Commerce which has operated the ambulance for The Jaycees asked to be ed of the responsibility three weeks ago following a period of Bullet Penetrates Walls Strikes Girl In A special rifle bullet fired accidentally from a hunting rif penetrated two walls in a frame house in Lister West School District Saturday night and struck a young girl in the Sarah was taken to hospital in Steinbach with a flesh wound which doctors said could have paralyzed her from the waist down had it gone a little further and struck her spinal As it was the wound was not expected to do any per manent The mishap occurred about 8 while Cornelius Friesen and his son were checking the le ver action on a new 32 special rifle in their front The gun discharged and the bullet passed through a room anc two walls separating the front room from the kitchen where Sa rah was It was not known what caused the gun to dischar Lister West is five miles south of Oldest Reeve Elected In Office For 44 Years as possibilities were litter baskets at Intervals along Main to be carried out next and a Christmas decora tion project to help beautify the town during the approaching fes tive The Jaycees estimate the pre sent value of the ambulance and its attendant assets at about 685 with the vehicle being valued at all accounts at and a sixmonth insuran ce premium valued at Ambulance and assets are being turned over to the hospital with no strings Funds to pay for the ce came originally from munici pal and town grants from the Hospital Womens Aid and Canadian and money raised through Jaycee The cream of Hanover School Divisions spellers and orators held an overflow audience in suspense for over two hours at Friday nights division finals in the spelling and oratorical Superb spelling by a and a student kept the pronouncer on the floor for a full until Elaine Barkman of Grade 8 at Blumen hof missed a leaving Dian ne Stoesz of Grade 7 Niverville as champion of the In the oratorical contest which the lone girl Mabel Kreutzer of Grade 12 won the judges ap proval with a out and talk The Voting Age Should be Lowered to in the was Ken Grade 12 of who spoke on Com As A Two other contestants were Marvin Penner of Grade 9 at Landmark who spoke on Astronomy and Bert Penner of Grade 11 at Blumenort who spoke in favor of abolition of capital Over 450 people crowded the Consolidated School auditorium to hear the suspense filled spelling match and judging by the enthusiasm they showed they were not They stood in rows along al the walls and filled the outside The 12 spelling al winners and from their respective held on for the first five minutes as pro David Voth pitched rel easy words at all took advantage of the rule which now permits them to use a blackboard am write their words if they wish rather than to spell Helen Wiebe of Grade 8 a Lister East was first to collaps When she misspelled the wore Second down was Edith Zulak of Grade Steinbach Central who missed the word budgeted which she wrote as For the next 15 minutes i looked as if the contestants were all just too good for the English Then pronouncer Voth caught Dicky Penner of Carruth ers School on MaryLynn of Twin reek went down shortly after Mayor Fern Lavergne Reeve Louis Marcoux Reeve Audet MAYOR ACCEPT GOOD ROADS TROPHY By Elaine Penner oldest and most ex Edward Hender son of was returned to office for his 23rd consecutive term in last weeks municipal Henderson received a 60 vote majority over his Lome Knopf of River He is 86 years old and if he comple tes his present he will haye served 46 years as Henderson came to Cana da front England in 1893 with his who sett led in the Whitemouth The municipality was organized in 1893 and in 1919 Hender son became its third He has held office continually since then and has never been defeated in an He takes pride m the fact that in 1935 Whitemouth became the first rural municipality in the province to enjoy the benefits of rural to any ex Reeve Henderson Is widely known for as a veterina ry and served the farming community of Whitemouth in this capacity almost as long as he has in the reeves Lost Wednesdays voting saw a tip in Ward 2 of the of Whitemouth which takes in the town of William and William McLean were the two A re count will be taken this week to determine the In Ward the incumbent George He defeated his only Oscar Reeve Henderson The reeves of two southeastern Manitoba municipalities and one town accepted awards on behalf of their municipalities at the Manitoba Good Roads Associa tion banquet last Reeve Audet accepted the Birks Trophy Division Bj on behalf of the Rural Munici of In recog of its winning the com petition for the system of municipal roads in the 50 to 100 mile in the It was the third time that Pierre has won the Birks They won it previously in 1954 and in Reeve Audet is third of the Good Roads The Willis Trophy for muni cipal road maintenance in the range under 50 miles went to the of Reeve Louis Marcoux accepted the honor on behalf of his He had just been returned to office the previous day in a landslide Mayor Fern Lavergne of Pierre accepted the Banf ield Cup on behalf of his village as the village showing the most im Thieves Snatch 100 Leave Without Trace Two men who visited Steinbach 5c Store as customers on Friday afternoon are being sought for questioning in connection with the disappearance of from the store about the time of their The two men came in at the front around walked to the accounting department at the back and asked David Toews who works if the store had a small printing set in Toews got up to serve the men and one of them followed him to look at the article while the other lingered near the accounting David got the man the item he asked for and he and his friend then the Thinking that something about the men seemed David opened the drawer in the account ing desk where a supply of change for the tills is Missing was a bag containing exactly 100 dollars change which was being kept for the following days Local police were notified immediately but nothing more of men or money has been seen as provement in the Associations Town and Village Beautification Pierre won this honor once in Teachers Hear Speaker Discuss Blind Problem Members of the Hanover Divi sion Teachers Association last Friday saw a firsthand demon stration of how the blind over come their Me public relations officer of the Canadian National te for the Blind and himself spoke to the monthly supper meeting of the Association held at He demonstrated on a Braille a tape recorder and other aids used by blind persons in adjusting to normal living and earning a These modern Me Pherson were being used to help educate the blind to help We should not deny blind children an he and a blind person with out an education suffers under a double Up for discussion by the tea chers at the same meeting was a from the Manitoba Teachers Society to be voted on at their convention next spring which would increase the fees the teachers pay the Society by ap proximately Pur post of the increase would be to cover coats of such things as im in the Societys ad ministrative headquarters and research on drowned which she spelled Karen Penner of Grade 7 at Kleefeld lost out by misspelling the word simultaneous as Continued on page 7 Recovery Is Slow For Burn Victims Recovery will bo a slow pro ess for at least four of the seven burned during the flash ire which swept the Kehler Feed Seed plant at last The most Ja ob who suffered some was still be ng fed intravenously at the be ginning of this His bums vere serious enough that there vas considerable doubt that he would ibe out of the hospital for at least three Some of his burns were the re sult of inhaling air filled with burning dust Also seriously burned was Pe ter Enns whom doctors said would have to be hospitalized at least until Ho suffer ed some third degree bums but was off intravenous feeding by Menno whose hands were seriously will prob ably also be in hospital at least until Reason for the long hospitalization in the case of burn is that skin grafting requires such a long time to Continued on page 7 Explosion Reports Show Fire Brigade Saved Mill Dog Saves Two From Mad Bull By Alex Sherman The family dog at farm gets the credit thi week for saving two members o the family from possible deal from an angry The bull attacked Koro tash last Monday while she was bringing the cows in for th morning It knocked he to the ground and she called loudly as she could for Her daughter Rose heard her call and sent the dog after the The dog distracted the bull by dashing in and snapping at its Then the bull tunned on but because of the dogs success ful attacks against the enraged Rose was able to get a The dog kept chasing the bull till it at a safe Korotash was moved to Vita Hospital where she was found to be suffering from a bad ly bruised head and body but so far no other serious injuries have been At the time of this report she was still in the hospi Extremely fast action on the part of the Fire Bri gade last week prevented des of at least worth of equipment after the ex plosion and fire at the Kehler Feed and Seed A roundup which carrie too per showed that the firemen ar rived exactly three minutes after the explosion which filled the building with The ceiling of the main part of the mill was already blazing In two places and the firemen dowsed these From then on till 4 in the small fires kept breaking out all through the the result of smoldering piles of grain dust which could not be located until they burst in to Using only water tanks with which their two trucks are equip ped one holding 1000 and the other 500 the firemen extinguished each blaze as it They then set up a watch on the building which was not relaxed until 24 hours after the For several of the men on brigade who are firefighting literally means neg their own business In dor to save their neighbors plao w i Chief John Enns who operates the Enns Garage has two pf hla employees on the Wil liam and Sons have two Assistant Chief in Da ve Stoesz who operates le In addition to the chief and his members are Harold Howard Jake Cave Dyck and Vio A building inspection made the day after the explosion revealed that the whole upper half of the Kehler Feed and Seed building will have to be The Kehler could be as high as or Some electri cal wiring will have to be Train Smashes Car 3 Out Of 4 Three members of a family of four were injured but none of them fatally when a westbound CNR freight struck their car at a Anne siding Thursday morning about Melvin Anne gravel truck hia wife and two boys Wade and Glen were all taken to Boniface Hospital following the The car was Towers suffered extensive lacerations and To wers was shaken Wade had a possible broken leg and some bruises and Glen a possible slight The freight that hit them was pulling onto the siding to make way for a passenger The accident occurred at the south end of Hospital in Station Paid For Trip In a report on town council proceedings last it waa said that council despatched a re presentative to Ottawa to plead the case for application for a satellite station in Steinbach at the towns It was later pointed out that this information was not The trip was paid for by Radio Station and Councillor Peter donated hla own time for the A Anne and Melvin Towers and two sons Cfr when a CNR freight smashed into it at Anne about Thursday to hospital but no one was injured The car was a 1954
