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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 10, 1965
Page
1
The Pas Ladies Curling Club hosts its annual Bonspiel from February 12 to 14. Vern Alm is drawmaster. first draw at 7 PM Friday. Social banquet in Legion Hall with four events plus Grand Aggregate. main event is Vickery. Local merchants funded prizes, 91 contributors listed.
Funeral held at Westminster United Church for Herman Henry Premachuk who died Saturday February 6 while at his General Store on Edwards Avenue. Born September 1903 in Troyanovka White Russia he came to Canada in 1923 and settled in The Pas where he later opened his own store. He was active in Trappers Festival pageants and is survived by wife Alexandra, son Herman of Toronto, sister Pearl, and brothers William Fred and Oscar.
DIANE ARLOTT is Miss Snow Lake in the Trappers Festival Queen Contest. Eighteen years old, she is a niece to Mayor Jack Freedman of Flin Flon. Born at St Boniface she has spent much of her life in northern Manitoba and completed high school at Snow Lake while studying in Flin Flon and Montreal. She is an active curler skater swimmer and water skier and a member of the Snow Lake Glee Club and Drama Club.
Two Lamb Airways crash survivors from a January 7 incident on Little Cross Lake are in Winnipeg General Hospital in good spirits after limbs were amputated. Fred Wark, 32, lost both feet above the ankles. Lyle Gibson, the pilot, lost fingers and part of thumbs plus feet in the whiteout crash en route from The Pas to Grand Rapids, also killing passenger Don Snider.
A letter from John Constant describes Kelsey School constructing three curling rinks fifty by seven feet using gravel filled cans as rocks and broom handles as cues. Nearly two hundred students play during recess and keep score in the classroom as winter sports take hold.
Residents on Fischer Avenue report milk money and milk tickets disappearing from homes in the south end. At least one house saw thefts on three occasions, with 50 cents missing last Saturday and earlier incidents including three dollars intended for milk tickets. Three boys, aged about 10 to 12, were seen nearby one week earlier, and all incidents occurred between seven and eight in the morning.
Police say Kematch was run over twice by a CNR switching train on a spur beside National Fruit and Keystone Fish. Allan Harris 19 Dorothy Cook 26 Robert Bignell 38 are held on Coroner's Warrant as police seek a fourth party and await Winnipeg post mortem results. An inquest is ordered with no date set. Rematch was married. his wife resides in Easterville. The incident occurred around 6 30 P M the night in question.
Bud Simpson MP for Churchill Riding told The Pas Progressive Conservative Association annual meeting that Parliament sat 244 days before adjournment, 33 days longer than a recess, making it one of Canada's longest sessions begun February 18 1964. He called it evasive and a Liberals cake and eat it session, accusing Liberal leaders of claiming credit while blaming obstruction.
Clearwater Lake Hospital staff upset after Manitoba Senatorium Board officials inform them services no longer required. Nursing personnel from four to six lose jobs, engineering crew may stay until May 1, with department heads ending service by February 15. Kitchen and cook staff finished this week. several key personnel kept briefly in Winnipeg. Continued on page 7.
The Pas grocery and meat trades announce closures on February 18 to allow staff to attend the Trappers Festival activities. Stores will reopen for regular hours on the following Friday.
The Pas Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion presented checks totaling $1000 to local groups last week. Attendees included Ted Scales, Jack Heard, Bob Campbell, Marion Pinuita, and Micky Shannon, with donations to Kin Kewt, the School for Retarded Children, the March of Dimes, and the Salvation Army.
Harding S. Brock-Smith will be the guest speaker at the Mushers Banquet kicking off the 1965 Trappers Festival. The Cham ber of Commerce sponsors the event in Guy Hall at 7 P.M. Brock-Smith, Region One manager for Investor's Syndicate of Canada Limited, was born in Carberry and is son of the late Reverend Canon Ernest Brock-Smith. He grew up in Saskatoon, studied there Seattle and New York, taught elementary school, spent eight years in Canadian newspapers, and held multiple roles at Hudson's Bay Company before joining Investor's Syndicate in 1950. He was later drafted to head Manitoba Flood Fu ha public relations.
The M.A.H.A playdowns start in The Pas with Midget and Juvenile All stars hosting on Saturday at 8 30 in The Pas Arena. Swan River faces The Pas Midget Allstars, and Sunday February 14 at 1 30 Thompson Juveniles visit The Pas. Officials expect two exciting crowd pleasers with adults 75 cents and children 25 cents.
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