Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • 3

i mam ca urn For a Steaming Cup of tea I Call in to FaJlVk' xclusivi TO BIRKS IA iHtON JMlLlln tI THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 19S Slioivgirl Gives Birlh Backstage 1 POPULATION OF CITY 70,843 Fee Hike By Doctors Predicted Prince George, B.C., with a five-year population increase from from 4,703 to 10,395, showed a record gain of 121 per cent. The figures were contained in the latest interim report issued by the federal bureau of statistics on the census taken last spring the first national count ever made on a five-year basis. Previously the national census was made every 10 years, Hie report gave only a partial picture of the growth of Canadas communities. The final tabulation is expected to show the countrys side the city limits, nor farmers who stay In the city only in the winter months. persons in this category are included, Saskatoon's present population Is around the 73,000 mark, census officials estimate.

REGINA 88,797 In the same five-year period Reginas population grew to 88,797 persons from 71,319 in 1951 a gain of 24.5 per cent. Drummondville, today has a population of 26,242 compared with 14,341 five years ago, an increase of 84.2 per cent. And Saskatoon's rale of growth, according to census figure relented from Ottawa today, I not only keeping pace with larger Canadian centre, but surpassing tome of them In the nation' tead population rise. The figure for instance, disclose that Saskatoon Increased It population by 33 per cent In the five year up to last June 1. It present population 1 70,813 persons compared with 33,268.

The Ottawa statistics do not include students at the University of Saskatchewan, which Is out continued. Saskatoon would reach the 100,000 mark long before 1981, the date which his department forecast In its long-range population curve. He added that the range of error had been about five per cent and felt it was better to come out below the official figure than above it. Here are some of the figures, with the 1951 census count in hrflrkflt Prince' Albert 20,172 North Battleford 8.855 Weybum 7,616 Melville 896 (4 458); Humboldt 2,877 Kamsack 2,797 Kindersley 2,544 population at or near the mark, compared with In the 1951 census. The report did indicate that while big cities might adcf their tens of thousands of people, some of the smaller centres proportionately were doing as well or even better.

Their rates of growth surpassed those of some of the metropolitan areas hemmed in by suburbs. In the sarpe period Montreal, expanded 6.5 per cent, Vancouver five per cent. Winnipeg 8.5 per cent and Hamilton, 10.7 per cent Commenting this morning the Saskatoon figures, City Planner Bill Graham noted they were 3,874 higher than predicted by his department in 1952 when it prepared charts and expansion curves for the guidance of City Council. The city planning departments analysis had anticipated the 70,000 population mark would not be reached until 1959. Inclusion of the fringe areas and Sutherland undoubtedly had helped to change the picture, but the present census figures indicated other factors that would make for a more rapid expansion in the next 25 years.

On the basis of the pre sent census figures, he commented, if normal conditions Doctors fees for private medical insurance companies will rise by about 15 to 20 per cent it was predicted at the 49th annual convention of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Wednesday at The Bessborough. The increaed rate is already in effect in private practice. Dr. M. H.

Smith-Windsor, chairman of the tariffs committee, said. The new rate was being used as a basis for negotiation for new contracts with private medical Insurance companies. The matter had been under study for five years, but action had been delayed because of economic conditions in the province. The increased costs of providing medical care had built up to such a point that action had to be taken. Dr.

Smith-Windsor pointed out that doctors had until this year accepted a fee of $3 for house calis which was less than the fee charged by plumbers, radio repairmen and other tradesmen for house calls. Saskatchewan doctors were two years behind every other province in Canada in regard to fee increases, he said. Regional Mental Hospitals Suggested by Physicians H. Blaine To New Govt. Job now pertained, would be eliminated.

This was said vitally important. The family physician lost contact with a patient when he entered either North Battleford or Weybum. This contact would be restored if regional institutions were erected. The general practitioner could then care for the patient's physical ills and the psychiatrist his mental ailment. The aims of the College regard ing expansion of psychiatric treatment were said to be endorsed by many medical and lay societies.

mental institutions. If the mental hospital was alongside the regional general hospital the public would not allow similar conditions to develop as now pertained in the existing mental institutions. But, to date in this province and elsewhere. it had been a case of out-of-sight, out-of-mind" so far as mentally ill patients were concerned. Then! were other benefits In mind for mentally ill patients by placing them in smaller, regional institutions.

The isolation from their respective families which Girl Admits Lying on Witness Stand Pay-As-See TV Plan For N.B. THIS Jersey bull calf was born at midnight Wed-, nesday at the livestock pavilion at the Exhibition Grounds. The youngster, whose mother was brought here for the dairy cattle show, ipas photographed morning with his proud parent, Asquith Prosperity Lassie. They are owned by Henry Olsen of Asquith. -Star-Phoenix Photo.

Surplus Board, $127,350 By Fair Steve Cautious The appointment of H. B. Blaine to the position of director of government travel and information services for the Saskatchewan government was announced today by Hon. Russ Brown, provincial secretary and minister in charge of the Bureau of Publications. Mr, Blaine, who lias been director of publicity and public relations for the Saskatchewan Power Corporation for a number of years, will assume his duties later this month.

In addition to serving as director of the Bureau of Publications Mr. Brown -said, it is anticipated Mr. Blaine will be avilable as general public relations and publicity advisor to all government departments, One of his first tasks will be to study and recommend constitutional and administrative changes in the Bureau of Publications. i We feel that, with his wide experience in writing, radio and general public relations practice, Mr. Blaine is eminently suited to reconstitute the publicity activities of government agencies, Mr.

Brown said. The minister pointed out the Bureau of Publications Act had been in existence for a number of years with virtually little change in its operations during that time. For some time now, Mr. Brown stated, the government had ion-templated a revision in the administrative set-up of the bureau with a view to providing more adequate travel and information services. We have realized that with our rapidly expanding industrialization and resource development, with consequent expansion of government services, greater, attention must be given to government informational services in order that specialized services of government departments may be made known to a greater degree to citizens of Bleak Outlook Seen For Farmers if Wheat Piles Up Exhibition board manager, Steve MacEachern warned the board of directors at a meeting Wednesday night to beware of increasing expenditures and possible future financial loss despite the exhibition's record $127,350 year.

"The future puts us almost entirely on our own resources, he said, indicating the board had all but exhausted the federal and provincial government grants corning to it. 'If we hadnt been fortunate in A sharp decline in the world price of wheat, is inevitable if carryovers continue to mount, says the Canadian Bank of Commerce in its September commercial letter. The College of Physicians and Burgeons of Saskatchewan In convention here Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution recommending the provincial government embark on a plan for erection of regional community mental hospitals. Instead of large Institution like those at North Battleord and Weybum, the recommendation was for 300-bed mental hospitals to be erected adjacent to exisiting general hospitals in various regions. The Immediate aim was for five of these hospitals suggested for Regina, Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Yorkton and Swift Current, with similar institutions erected later at Moosomln, Wadena and Melfort as the need arose.

In presenting the reslution to the medical convention being held in The Bessborough, Dr. F. E. Coburn, associate professor of psy chiatry and director of the psychiatric outpatient department at the university hospital, said that the facilities for treatment of the mentally ill in this province were woefully Inadequate and disgraceful. These unfortunate people were herded and housed in slum sur-roundings." The two mental hospitals at North Battleford and Weybum were built according to the stan darda of 50 years ago, for custodial care and incarceration, rather than treatment, Dr, Cobum said Each now housed 1.800 patients twice the number Intended.

Ulus, trating the disgraceful condi tions. Dr. Cobum pointed out that general hospitals operated on per diem cost per patient of $15, but the per diem cost in these mental hospitals was $3 and this included cost of clothing, recreation and occupational therapy. Proper segregation and super vision were said to be completely impossible in the two institutions, leading to conditions of neglect and depravity almost as bad as de scribed by Charles Dickens 100 years ago." Dr. Coburn said these conditions were not the fault of the administration and other medical personnel.

They did the best under the circumstances, but there were only 24 physicians to care for 3,600 mental patients, as well as admin-Ster the two hospitals. Dr. Cobum said the present low cost system, in addition to being Inadequate, was still wasteful. The patients could not be treated and cured. There was a psychiatric ward In the university hospital and In one year only one patient has been isolated for violence.

Dr. Coburn emphasized mentally ill patients could be treated and cured. Both he and Dr, D. G. llowden.

Maple Creek, who seconded the resolution, were convinced that more members of the profession would take up psychiatry if facilities and working conditions in that phase of medicine were improved. They had a good start in Saskatchewan by removing a previous bottleneck through training of psychiatric nurses. Dr. Cobum pointed out the general medical profession were ignorant of the conditions in NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. (CP) The North Battleford council has approved in principle the operation of pay-as-you-see closed circuit television system in this city, 80 miles west of Saskatoon.

Trans-Canada Telemeters and Famous Players Corp. the proposed operators, however, must still have an agreement for the system formally ratified by the council. The city solicitor is to study the tentative agreement and report back to council. The closed circuit TV could be available within a year, depending on the availability of materials and agreements with power and telephone companies. The promoters said about 40 hours of films would be broadcast weekly on two TV channels.

The signals would be sent scrambled by a Saskatoon television station. To unscramble the picture on their home screens, subscribers would deposit a coin in their set. For the service, viewers would pay about for alterations to their ordinary TV sets and a monthly fee tentatively set at between $4 and $5. Thirteen centres in western Canada are said to have been selected by Famous Players for the project, all of them in centres like North Battleford where TV reception is inadequate. As in all matters relating to radio and TV, final approval of the project, rests with the department of transport.

But it replies that In the face of changing conditions it may be seriously questioned whether the size of the farm income is still a major determinant of national prosperity. The bank notes that in 1931 farm production made up 26 per cent of the national income. However, last year farm income amounted to 5.24 per cent of the gross national product, and while prairie To Speak Here The 19-year-old informant inr the first of two rape charges against Bing Selmas of Saskatoon answered yes to a suggestion by Defence Counsel J. G. Crepeau today that she was lying when she testified Wednesday.

During a lengthy cross examination today, Mr. Crepeau made the suggestion when she said the accused had had a knife in his hand and had threatened her in a bedroom of a Rivers dale house where the offence is said to have occcurred. She said she had seen a knife earlier that evening when the accused had told her to take off her coat or he would "slit off, she said. The incident with the coat had occurred at a party in the downstairs part of the house. Selmas had pressed button on the side of the knife and it had sprung open that time, she said.

Accused again by Mr. Crepeau of "lying she denjed it. She said Selmas had forced her upstairs to a bedroom after she had taken off her coat and danced few, fmes at He said he would use a knife while you were in the bedroom? Mr. Crepeau asked. Yes," she said.

I say you are deliberately lying when you say the accused made any reference to a knife in the bedroom, Mr. Crepeau said. No, she said. Mr. Crepeau then' asked her how the accused had forced her upstairs and she said Selmas had taken her by the wrist, holding her arm behind her back.

He had hurt her at the time, but her wrist had not been sore since. Wednesday morning Mr. Crepeau had argued against the presentation of a conspiracy to commit rape charge against Selmas and Charles Prudent before the three rape charges arising out of incidents occurring at the party were heard. Selmas faces two rape charges and Prudent one. Wednesday afternoon Crown Prosecutor H.

C. Rees, QC, said he would proceed with the first charge against Selmas and prefer the conspiracy charge later. OUTLOOK Continued on Page 14 Column Outstanding BLAINE Continued pn Page 14, Column 5 Cattle at Show Here receiving thos grants our surplus would be considerably less than it is now. The directors voted to place the entire 1956 surplus into the extension and replacement reserve fund which Mr. MacEachern said, will look pretty small fjve years from now." He urged the retention of the present surplus against possible exhibition extensions.

-Among these was the paving of the midway, construction of a band shell for afternoon and evening band con certs, a new administration building and grandstand improvements. None of these improvements was imminent, but with the rapid growth of the city, indicating a population of 125,000 in 25 years, the improvements would prove necessary, The 1956 surplus was from a gross revenue of more 'than Expenditures amounted fo $231,000. Last years net revenue was $127,210. -Board president, J. A.

Mighton, urged consideration of adding to the contingent reserve for "a rainy day season. The contingent reserve is a fund to defray expenses of an unsuccessful exhibition. Costs of operating the exhibition have risen by $80,000 since 1950, Mr. Mighton said, adding that the increases were general and not due. to anything specific.

If we had a bad week, the present $125,000 fund might not be enough," he said. He also emphasized the need for careful control of capital expenditure. The paving of the midway and subsequent improving of the midway drainage system were of primary importance with other pos sible capital expenditures foreseen. The possibility of building band shell interested the directors. The Star-Phoenix was later told a board committee had tried to obtain large bands in past years, but had been turned down.

Among the reasons for this was lack of prooer concert facilities. Mr. MacEachern said concerts by various bands in the afternoon and evening would add to the growing number of attractions, but he did not think any other activities would suffer. The band shell would be expected to cost between $40,000 and $50,000, he said. The wheat carryovers will get larger so long as national policies remain unaltered, the letter adds.

This pressure would force a drop in prices and the burden of such a drop must inevitably fall on the farmers of such countries as Canada. The bank suggests Canada could forestall this threat to farmers by exerting its power to move the World price down from its present level of $1.75 a bushel to the $1.50 minimum under the intejrnational wheat agreement. This would do much to relieve the situation of its dangers, says the letter. Such a move 'would not "increase greatly the volume of wheat traded, but in the longer run it would increase thd international movement of wheat, decrease world production and begin to shrink surpluses. It could also induce the United Kingdom to re-enter the IWA, bringing assurance of greater stability and reducing the quantity of wheat to be traded at free prices should a break still be unavoidable.

The bank foresees objections that the proposal would mean the farm community must accept a lower gross return than usual, with a consequent restriction on the economic activity of manu facturing areas. Chest Over One-Third Emma Brown, 93, Died Wednesday The funeral will be held at two oclock Friday afternoon from the chapel of the Saskatoon Funeral home for Emma Brown, 93, who died Wednesday in hospital here. It will be conducted by Rev. G. Duncan Wilkie.

Miss Brown was born in London and came to Canada in 1906. In 1912 she arrived in the west from Ontario to take over the proprietorship of the Arlington Hotel at Asquith. She carried on its management until coming to make her home in Saskatoon about 10 years ago. She is survived by several nieces and nephews, among them Leslie and Ernest Cutts of Saskatoon. Burial will take place in Wood-lawn Cemetery.

It has been requested that thpre bo no flowers. The eighth annual show of the Saskatchewan Dairy Cattle Breeders drew some outstanding exhibits to the Exhibition grounds this morning, according to the judge, Fred Thompson of Fairlight. He praised highly the entries in the female championship class and said they were a credit to the Holstein-Friesian Association. He hoped these animals would fetch good prices at the sale in the afternoon. Mr.

Thompson also described the four animals In the one bull class as outstanding." The female championship was won by Marie Dekel Vale, a pure bred Holstein entered by F. E. Woodside and Son, Asquith. The reserve championship went to Of Target AIR VICE MARSHAL F. G.

WAIT who will be guest speaker at the 602 Wing RCAF Association knonthly meeting at 6 oclock Friday evening in the station officers' mess. AVM Wait is president of the association. He was bora in Ottawa in 1902 and attended Royal Military College in Kingston. He is a graduate in civil engineering from McGill University. He served in the Second World War and was appointed a commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1945 for outstanding service.

CATTLE Continued on Page 14, Column 5 350 Expected At Conference Says Pupils Here Well With Those Compare Elsewhere Accident Research Plan Outlined The objectives of the proposed traffic acccident research foundation of the Canadian Medical Association were outlined Wednesday by Dr. C. H. Andrews, Prince Albert, to the 49th annual convention of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan. The convention had been asked previously by the Hon.

J. T. Bentley, minister of social wel- An estimated 350 United Church young people from all parts of the province are expected to register this weekend for the opening of sessions of the 20th annual convention of. the Saskatchewan Conference Young Peoples Union. The convention opens Friday night, continuing to Sunday afternoon.

Sessions will be held at Grace United Church. The theme of this years convention is Advance and the agenda calls for the discussion of ways and means of advancing Christian fellowship. These addresses will be given by tije Rev. Rex Dolan, minister of Westminster United Church. Mr.

Dolans first theme address will be entitled "How to Win Friends and Influence People for Christ. SELLING 29 LOTS Aid. Bill Gray, chairman of councils real estate committee, announced this morning that the city is selling 29 additional sites for construction of low cost houses by the Home Development Company of Winnipeg. The sale will mean an additional $9,000 revenue for Saskatoon since the purchase price is $6.50 a foot, for average 50-foot lots. The sites are adjacent to the 25 purchased earlier by the same company and located on Avenue between Ryl-ston Road and Twenty-Ninth Street, just west of Jubilee Pupils in Saskatoon public schools compare favorably with children elsewhere in the quality of their performance in reading, writing, spelling, language and arithmetic, Supt.

F. J. Gather-cole told the annual ratepayers meeting Wednesday. Emphasizing that the primary responsibility of the elementary school was always, the giving of sound basic instruction in the three Rs, Mr. Gathercole said achievement testing programs each year revealed Saska toon pupils compared well with others.

He mentioned a city- wide survey of arithemtic com-i putation in grades five to eight conducted last January. It showed that in all four grades Saskatoon pupils were considerably above the norms set for the test. This was particularly true in grades six and seven. It is not sufficient that we concern ourselves merely with equalling or exceeding test norms. We must always ask whether we are doing the best we can for the children.

Averages may be very misleading. Our aim should be to secure for each child the maximum fare and formerly of public health, what the profession was doing towards prevention of deaths and injury from traffic Dr. Andrews said the CMA had no responsibility for prevention of traffic accidents, that was the job for traffic engineers, law enforcement officers and licence officials. the foundation would study the cause of injuries and death resulting from traffic accidents. It would be actually a large scale statistical study of the factors involved in accidents.

The information pointing out cause of injury and death would be analyzed and correlated. The research could result in recommendations regarding present dnvers with eye defects, epileptics, drivers with a missing, drivers who were beyond a certain age and drivers who were addicted to drink. Whats on The Community Chest today passed the one-third mark in the current appeal for on behalf of 14 agencies. As the campaign reached its ninth day, it was reported that contributions amounting to $36,559, or 36.5 per cent, had been received, with $3,845 coming in since Wednesday. At the same time last year $33,380 was recorded.

Saskatoon has passed at least one western city in the race to see which will reach its objective first. News from Winnipeg was that the Community Chest campaign there had reached $327,733 or 34.6 per cent of the $947,000 sought. However, Wednesday two cities "passed the 40 per cent mark. Chest officials in Regina said volunteer canvassers had collected $64,183 or 41.4 per cent of the city's $155,000 target. The Regina drive began a week earlier than here.

In Edmonton the Chest drivo reached 40 per cent of Us quota, with collections totalling towards the $392,000 objective. With less than two weeks remaining in the 19-day campaign Vancouver collections total pr 35.4 per cent ol a quota. The Chest drive in that city represents 59 agencies. Returns by the general business division here now amount" to $3,000. The chairman.

Jack Douglas, said only a few of the 46 teams had made any substantial returns, but this amount was equal to the ninth day of last years campaign. Present indications showed small increase were general in company donations and there was an increasing number of employee contributions. Among larger ccontributions received today were: A. A. Murphy and Sons Ltd.

$500; 105 subscriptions from employees of A. A. Murphy and Sons $480; Piggott Construction Company $150; "McClocklin Real Estate $125; Empire Fuels Limited $100; employees of Early Seed and Feed Limited $100, 18 subscriptions. Tonight Editorial Consultant on Literary Fishing foundland and which will take him development of which he is capable. Furthermore, we must not think that such modern inventions as calculating machines, television, radio and so on make the three Rs less important today than in the past.

The truth is that the child of today has even greater need of mastery of computation, spelling, language and reading than did his parents or grandparents, Mr. Gather-cole declared. The superintendent mentioned that since 1929 Saskatoon public schools had provided special instruction for slow-1 earning pupils. Eight such classes were in operation at present. Saskatoon was one of thefew Canadian cities that provided special classes for pupils of sup erior ability.

Two classes had been in operation for a number of Both were located in Victoria school, but the children in them came from all parts of the city. During the current year the problem of educating the brighter children was being ex amined by the administrative staff. While the school board did not operate clasfp for the severely retarded children, it did make contribution towards classes set up by community agencies for this purpose. This was made on behalf of retarded children en rolled in the John Dolan school In addition, during 1956-57, similar contribution is to made on behalf of those attend ing a class operated by the Sas for crippled Ingles. I called it Angles on ings and get them to support me.

I SEE Ingles' and it was a success with everyone except the subject. The first caricature led to others and he soon had a collection of more than 20 drawings of well-known citizens distinguished and otherwise. These were shown 'in exhibition and won the artist considerable publicity when a lady, infuriated by what she saw, tore her caricatured image off the walL The collection was published with the title Lions and Lambs of Wellington, and Reeve was on his way to fortune and Australia. In Australia, said Mr. Reeves Surprisingly, the kindness of many of the more distinguished people I met justified that optimism.

From Australia to Europe was a long hop, but he made it. Then followed more caricaturing with exhibitions in Monte Carlo, London, Dublin and other famous centres. His first job with a mag azine was as art editor of illustrated, and English magazine somewhat similar to Life. Later he worked as a caricaturist in Hollywood and New York, and in 1941 paid his first visit to Canada where he caricatured the as far as Vancouver and Victoria. The object, he explained, was to meet artists, writers and photographers in other words, a literary fishing expedition.

Mr. Reeve has had wide experience in his chosen profession as caricaturist, author, reporter and editor. Bora in Wellington, New Zealand, Mr. Reeve, as a very young man, was employed in an architects office. But I found calculus and figuring structural strains and stresses depressing, he recourted.

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SPORTS Badminton Clul Magazines, particularly the illustrated ones, are known and read by nearly everybody nowadays. But few individuals are as familiar with the how and why" as is Alan Reeve of Montreal, who visited Saskatoon this week. Alan Reeve and his wife, Elizabeth, are editorial consultants something new and different in the Canadian publishing field. He told a Star-Phoemx reporter who interviewed him that he believes they are the only people in Canada who act exclusively as professional editors for companies ana publishers. Their work entails editing extra company magazines for firms which, as part of public relations.

Wish to reach a wider circulation than that embraced by The annual fall show of paintings by Saskatoon artists will be officially opened by Wynona Mulcaster at 8.15 oclock Friday evening at the Art Centre. The public Is he visited Sidney, Melbourne and Canadian cabinet of those days young artist embarked him on a other cities, caricaturing unusual for the Southam press. One of the coincidences of his present tnp was meeting Senator Tom Crerar one of those caricatured in career that was to send him adventuring across tfie world. Young Reeve turned his hand to caricature, choosing as his first subject a well-known New Zealand people and getting a local store or hotel to stage an exhibition. "I had the ootimism, he confessed, to think I could go around the world making impertinent re UNION MEETING Local 333 of the Building Ser- vices Employees International I trade publications or house organs.

Union will meet at 8 o'clock this His visit to Saskatoon was one evening in the YMCA. stop in a tour that began in New- CONSULTANT Continued on Page 14, Column 5 children and adults jkatchewan Council motor-car magnate by the Came of, marks aoout people in line draw- Vs.