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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 18, 1962
Page
9
The executive of the Anniversary celebrations urges all committee chairmen to contact secretary Alf Castile immediately with their committee personnel counts. This move is important to organize the August program.
Three weeks ago it was learned that The Town of The Pas lacks municipal act authority to exempt the project from local education tax of about $1300 annually and frontage tax near $550. The Kinsmen Club sponsors the project locally.
The Pas Music Festival Executive postpones its Annual Meeting due to waning interest and worker shortages risking abandonment of the events. A $1850 annual tax could push the project into a near equal yearly deficit, prompting talk of a private Manitoba Legislature act to exempt Kinsmen Homes from education tax and override municipal limits.
The Pas plans a 36 room high school on the eastern town boundary funded by a money by law to be voted with the municipal election. The Kelsey School Board chair Jack Berg confirms land negotiations with Canadian Kodiak Refineries. The plan includes a gym and AV room. elementary space is tight and the present college will become an elementary school after expansion.
The Pas schools will open August 30 and run until September 4 to meet the 200 day term while a Winnipeg Education Department ruling declared August 31 a public holiday. The Kelsey School Board hoped to delay after Labor Day but the decision stands.
Jack Berg won a General Electric television set last Friday at a dance sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. Proceeds benefited the Parochial School. The Knights thank Profit's Furniture and Appliances GE dealer, Cambrian Hotel for parking lot use, attendees and ticket buyers who supported the event.
Town marks fiftieth anniversary with a children's day featuring a half mile girls relay and a mile boys relay at Devon Park Sports Grounds. Morning swimming at Winton Pool, field events at Standard United Soccer Field. Roy Johnston coordinates, relay teams urged to register promptly.
Funeral service for the late George Allard was held yesterday morning from Sacred Heart Cathedral The Pas. Interment was in the family plot in the RC Cemetery. He died at 77 in St Boniface Hospital on Thursday July 12. Survived by three daughters Rita Taylor Vernon Therese Rocan St Boniface Madeline Strand The Pas, four sons Bernard Nelson Charles St Boniface George Flin Flon Emil The Pas, 32 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
The Royal Canadian Legion branch seeks accommodations for August 24 to 26. Wilf Crossley Persons chairs the committee and asks locals in The Pas or cabins at the lake to contact him with available space. Call MA3 3091 days or MA3 3327 evenings to report urgently.
A Wanless fire at dawn endangered nine year old Willie Perry and Granny Partridge. Neighbors Harriet Lind Simon Nabess and Bill Wright aided escape and rescued Granny from the blazing 30 by 40 dwelling after Simon crawled through a window to pull her to safety.
Fallout shelters have been placed in The Pas area with one at Westray. Hagborg Construction under a National Defence contract installed the Westray shelter. The 10 by 20 foot iron structures house a radio, phone, fallout instruments, provisions, and sleeping quarters, partly submerged. They are planned at railway centers and forestry stations as a communications safeguard.
Starting Monday this week The Pas marks its anniversary with publicity through the local post office facilities highlighting community services and municipal events.
Between July 16 and August 26 inclusive all outgoing mail at The Pas will be cancelled. The notice marks 1962 as the Golden Jubilee of The Town and lists local celebration dates August 24 25 26.
Two fires remained out of control at noon with 83 men battling the Narrows Fire between Moose and Talbot Lakes. A helicopter and two Manitoba Government Airways craft operated on scene as the Moose Lake line stretched nine miles and water was airlifted in.
Edmonton’s H E Davies appointed manager of the Unemployment Insurance Office in The Pas succeeding Bill Hanson who moves to Grande Prairie. Davies expected to arrive around August 6 and is married with two teenage sons.
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