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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 17, 1963
Page
1
The Trappers Festival annual meeting set for Monday evening April 22 at 8 p.m. in the Hall will review the 1963 Festival and discuss financials. Local groups the notice invites to attend and each represented group may name three directors. Two weeks after the meeting directors will elect a ten member executive committee.
TransAir will commence Viscount turbo-prop service into northern Manitoba starting Monday. The airline also takes over two prairie runs from Trans Canada Airlines, Winnipeg to Calgary and Regina to Prince Albert via Saskatoon. Under the old plan the Winnipeg Calgary leg began in Winnipeg at 8 a.m. six days weekly. TransAir reshapes schedules to meet community needs with Regina to Winnipeg and Regina to Calgary round trips.
Rotary Club of Winnipeg sponsors two MUNA participants as part of a youth service and international project. Minnesota and North Dakota Rotary Clubs select and fund high school pairs to attend the Model United Nations Assembly in Winnipeg.
Dr Roth C Major of Anderson animal hospital Winnipeg will hold a two day animal clinic in The Pas at the Cambrian Hotel on April 22 and 23. Office hours are 10 to 12, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. For surgeries contact the clinic on Monday.
The Pas joins centers in Manitoba and the United States in welcoming newcomers including children through the Welcome Wagon service. Olive Smith is appointed hostess to acquaint newcomers with local services and merchants like Kerrs Furs sponsor the effort. Tokens are provided by subscribing merchants and the hostess shares information on churches and community resources. The Welcome Wagon also operates in Flin Flon and Swan River.
The Town Council struck the mill rate at a special meeting and plans formal budget adoption tonight. A $2,000 parks allocation funds a picnic area east of the Saskatchewan River bridge with stages for development and facilities. A $4,000 rink reserve is set aside and the skating rink budget totals $7,300 with actual spend $3,300 this year. A new $1,700 fire truck is sought, with possible transfer of $10,000 from the sinking fund, derived largely from profits from the Penn a Power Plant sale to Mania Hydro.
Three boy scouts from The Pas are to be invested as Queen Scouts this Saturday. Ronald will receive the honor in Winnipeg after a luncheon at the Marlborough Hotel. His Honor Lt. Governor Errick Willis will make the presentations.
A three hall Bingo event is planned for Saturday by The Pas Lions Club. Tickets cost $2.00 and are sold at local outlets. Each hall Legion Elk's and Guy has a different colored ticket. The games total 20 with $1,000 in prizes including a $500 game. The event begins at 8 p.m. with all halls linked by telephone.
Manitoba Teachers Society-Kelsey Association submits a brief to Kelsey School Division urging a five percent wage increase. The document cites salaries in The Pas from 3300 to 5100 dollars, with 6000 as the top basic wage, and notes graduate teacher average pay in 1961 62 at the secondary level was 6192 dollars, lower than five western provinces.
The Pas Kinsmen Club advances a $100000 senior citizens home to be built beside Kelsey School with work likely by mid summer. Tax exemption attempts faltered as council could not cancel school taxes and a private act was rejected.
A meeting to organize Little League Baseball in The Pas drew only four attendees, two sponsors. Hugh Gallagher, leading the effort, will retry with a new meeting set for Monday April 29 at 8 p.m. in the Cambrian Hotel sample room.
A town wide clean up in The Pas runs May 13 to May 27 organized by Tom Clark with help from the Chamber of Commerce and local groups. Paint donations from two companies will be used to brighten homes of elderly residents as service clubs repaint houses. A school poster contest offers prizes of 15, 10 and 5 dollars and special garbage pickups will be announced.
The Chamber of Commerce schedules a dinner for Wednesday April 24 with Bud Weeks of the Retail Merchants Association for Manitoba as guest speaker. Members expect discussion on uniform store hours including summer Monday openings.
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