Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 12, 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Winnipeg free press tuesday june 12, 1962 traffic snarled by cavalcade free press want adjust dial we 3-9831 for an experienced want and taker Winnipeg free press Western Canada s greatest newspaper by Victor macros Montreal i prime minister John Diefenbaker moved his Campaign into Montreal a the head of a motorcade of 10 earn monday that gave of his party a weird wild ride through the snarling traffic racing through red Light and narrowly avoiding collisions motorists blocked by the Horn honking cavalcade frequently hurled abuse and curses at the passing progressive conserva Tives. The Day of hectic act tivies was climaxed by a mass rally attended by a crowd of nearly packed into Craig Street Armor ies. They heard or. Diefenbaker deliver a hard hitting political speech in the steaming hum id atmosphere in which he claimed the liberals were run Ning scared desperate to gain Power and were worried they were losing the election. Preaching the need for National Unity and declaring his determination to eradicate discrimination everywhere in Canada he charged in his address to a ukrainian Hall audience that the liberals in distorting his name were in bulging in a form of racial Dis rumination. I Don t know what the Liber is would do for fun if i did t ave the name i do have. By laying with my name ate what they think of those that o not have names of French or English he was obviously referring to the terms die Enjo Ker and coined in Ottawa the latter was coined by an Ottawa journal reporter refer ring to or. Diefenbaker a bomb shelter and was picked up and headlined by the Toronto Tele Gram another conservative newspaper. The prime minister speaking in the ukrainian Hall to an audience of about 500 in the Montreal constituency of Cartier earlier in the Day said he had spent a lifetime fighting discrimination and would go on opposing it to the end. He told the new canadians of his determination to say what he thought at the United nations despite the fact he had been warned he would antagonize Premier Khrushchev of the . He suggested that it was in protest Over his demand that the russians free their satellites that the soviet Leader pounded his desktop at the in with his shoe. Or. Diefenbaker made his speech at the in. Several Days be fore or. Khrushchev pounded his shoe on his desk during the address of another Delegate to the United nations plans Resolution the prime minister promised his applauding audience that he would return to the United nations again this fall and move a Ormal Resolution demanding that he soviet Union free its captive nations. His audience cheered and applauded. O the prime minister after rest ing sunday took off fro Nvotta in his special chartered up. Aircraft for Montreal. He was greeted at the Montreal Airport by a Large crowd of Progre Wivi conservatives and the cavalcade of 100 cars seas formed. Included were convertibles carrying representative of canadians who had moved Here in recent years from Germany China Italy and the Ukraine. Were dressed in their National costumes. The motorcade raced into Montreal. Members of the press in cars near the rear of. The lengthy cavalcade had a wild ride As their Drivers raced to keep up Snag passerby the cavalcade travelled through six Ridings. Sometimes it had police escort often it had no escort. Winding in and out of traffic it acted As a whiplash with those rear cars racing other cars to the intersections to More about a test continued from Page 1 the first High Altitude test shot ended disastrously june 4 when a Thor missile carrying the warhead aloft was destroyed after the rocket tracking sys tem developed trouble. Seek information the presence of three rus Sian instrument ships within 10 to 15 Miles of the Pacific test area was announced by the de Fence department 18 Days ago. It said they were obviously on a Large scale military Intelli gence collection asked about this the Penta gon said the three ships still Are there and that they have been reinforced by a fourth vessel. The new russian ship was identified As the a. K. Bogey Kov a sister ship of the Sho Malskiy the largest of the three research vessels which took up stations during May. This Means the to Neykov Dis places about tons and is equipped with extensive scientific instrumentation. Because the russians Are in International Waters there is nothing the United states can do to shoo them away. Planes Fly close since the Pentagon knows the name of the fourth vessel it was apparent that . Patrol planes Cross often against red lights. At one Point a City bus got mixed up in the Parade another time a Deli very truck was involved and even a City Street cleaner on a bicycle found himself peddling curiously to avoid the cars. First Stop was at a Home for he aged father Dowd Home. Here the prime minister was greeted by miss Pearl polish Huck whose Home was near Rince Albert sask. He told the girl he had known her father and named him. Earlier at a press conference the prime minister said the decision of Premier Jean Lesage to form a committee in an Effort to obtain the world fair for Montreal in 1967 was a Good he said his government would await the committee s suggestions and recommendations before taking action. Proceeding to the muted Tal Mund torah school he addressed audience of jewish school children. The students All Wear ing skill Caps cheered him and Sang Ocanada and two Heb Rew songs. He _ presented the school with a framed copy of the Bill of rights. At the ukrainian Hall he handed out 30 More copies to representatives of 30 different ethnic groups. Cheered by children the motorcade made its Way through Busy streets to Delormier stadium formerly a baseball there a crowd of around to school children More about Pearson continued from Page i the Liberal Leader was at his campaigning Best during his Busy in which flew from Quebec City to Saint John from Saint John to Fredericton. And from Fredericton to Moncton Side trips on the Way. He continued Bis attack on the government s handling of valuation bringing a new ment into the Gesting some debate by companies Park. Howled their greetings. They had been transported to the stadium by busloads from various constituencies of Montreal and cheered so loudly that the remarks made by the prime minister were drowned out. Wearing White cardboard Diefenbaker hats they mobbed the White convertible carrying or. And mrs. Diefenbaker at the head of the motorcade. It wound its Way at a Snail s Pace in and out of the Park to avoid hitting any of the children. The prime minister was scheduled to remain at the stadium for an hour. But he arrived late and Cut his visit to 15 minutes. Most of the children received ice Cream Cones and ice Cream bars but Many missed out on the treats. They leaned into the cars asking members of the press to Point out the prime minister and voicing complaints that they had not got any ice Cream. Thousands pressed Forward to shake the prime minister s hand. Must have flown rather close to it among other things the to Neykov is understood to be fit de with a pad for launching meteorological rockets to study he effects of nuclear explosions on the upper atmosphere present location and the Shokal from their he to Neykov Kiy Are Able to Analyse the Tell ale debris from .. Nuclear explosions. The defence department has Aid such radio chemical Analy is by the so Okalski s 16 lab stories could provide inform on on bomb design yield and similar data which have significant military other information can be leaned from optical observe on of High Altitude bursts and rom devices measuring sound Waves from the bursts. Big target despite the old adage Light Ning has struck the top of new Cork s Empire state building s often As 12 times in 20 min Tes. V Many succeeded. The picnic was organized by the progressive conservative candidates on Mont real Island. It was the final Stop in some five hours and 35 Miles of driving around Montreal Ridings. Stragglers lost when the motorcade finally arrived at the Queen Elizabeth hotel the 100-car cavalcade was reduced to about a dozen cars. Many had been lost in the heavy traffic of Canada s largest City. Others had Given up. Later at the mass rally in the armoires prime minister Diefenbaker was in Good form. He spoke 30 minutes some 10 minutes in French. There was a steady hum of conversation carried on by members of the audience at the Back of the Hall. He was cheered and applause Many times and pronounced i one of the Best and most enthusiastic gatherings he had addressed in the Campaign. At Thi close of his speech he thanked the crowd for your wonderful at he noted that the liberals a been criticizing the conservative government for pegging the Dol Lar at cents. He said the liberals had demanded that the Dollar be devalued and now that it had been done by the govern ment they were trying to twist it to their political advantage by claiming yet would Force up prices. This he said was typical of their gloom and doom approach. Fewer jobless he claimed that by mid sum Ner unemployment in Canada would be the lowest in Many it had been going Down steadily he claimed. Meantime employment was rising and More and More canadians were work no. He charged that or. Pearson would come to Montreal to make promises and try and win votes y making promises. Already he lad made a total of 119 promises hat would Cost Over o. Implement. They would. Raise come taxes by 51% per cent he claimed if they were carried out. Switching from Canadian to other currencies out of fear that the Canadian Dollar is going to be devalued further. He turned government accusations that the liberals were Lurting Confidence in the Dollar against the government charging the government itself was weakening Confidence with its straight fumbling Plain foolish Ness and indecision. First reference and he made his first refer ence although it was indirect to last week s successful Elbrt by Newfoundland Premier Joey Smallwood to prevent Fin Ance minister Donald Fleming rom addressing a rotary meet. No on devaluation in St. John s. Or. Fleming had charged remier Smallwood with join no Liberal efforts to deny Reedom of speech. The liberals declared or. Earson saw a new conserva Ive Campaign approach in hich the tories attempted to Martyr themselves. We liberals believe in giving Man a fair hearing no matter of much you disagree with he said. But the idea that r. Fleming is a victim of free of of speech was not e said. Oyne affair this was the same Fleming a. Pearson said who Intro used a Bill in parliament to irow out former Bank of can a governor James e. Coyne without a Chance of being heard in any it was t a question of whether or. Coyne was right or said the Liberal Leader. It was a question of trying to destroy a Man without giving him a Chance to speak before the body which was asked to condemn him. And yet he complains that he was denied Freedom of or. Pearson later returned to this same theme noting that or. Fleming took two hours and 40 minutes in introducing his last budget but permitted the opposition Leader Only ten min utes to reply to it. And even then the budget was not brought Forward for debate at any time in the he said. Or. Pearson s emphasis on the devaluation question appeared to be a ground gainer for the liberals. Audiences agree each time he mentioned it in sharply critical terms he received enthusiastic signs of agreement from his audiences. There was wild applause at Moncton when he said about a special statement. On the Dollar made at the weekend by or. Fleming i think it will be one of the last things or. Fleming says As minister of in his statement or. Fleming had answered a Pearson Chal Lenge to say whether the Dollar would be devalued further in the Light of a disclosure by agriculture minister Alvin Hamil ton that some members of the Cabinet had wanted the Dollar at 90 cents american rather than the pegged rate of 92.5 cents. Or. Fleming said there was no intention of further devaluation. But or. Pearson said it was Clear the finance minister had rivals who Are working for a 90 cent what respect can anyone have for a government which the affairs of the country that or. Pearson asked. How can anyone have Confidence in a government that s so divided and so confused Exchange fund what has been happening to the Exchange fund under the influence of or. Hamilton s Alk How Many companies Are following financial advice and switching to other currencies instead of dollars because some ministers of the Crown want to devalue those dollars further we won t know an to that question to what is happening to Pur Exchange Reserve until after june 18. But i m worried about the answer As every responsible Canadian must in his Day of electioneering or. Pearson was making an in Tensive Effort for substantial gains in Liberal representation in the commons Brunswick. 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