Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday August 8, 1963 More about wheat continued from Page 1 Prairie oat plantings declined 14 per cent at acres. Prairie Barley was ahead 16 per cent at and Prairie summer allow Down one per cent at the Canadian potato crop acreage is Down slightly at from last year s most of this drop occurred in the Prairies. Apart from a drop in Manitoba flax seed plantings Rose sharply in All flax seed areas. More Oil seeds soy Beans have been planted on acres three per cent increase. Sugar Heets Are up 16 per cent at Prairie Plant Ings of Sunflower of the oilseed ahead 65 per cent at acres. The Prairie seeding picture in Harvest general soon the provincial agriculture d apartment said wednesday har vesting in Central and Nort Western regions is t be general by the end of nex week. In its weekly crop report the department said scathing c Cereal crops has started in Man districts including the Alton and Melita districts where crop Are maturing rapidly and com with brackets 1962 figures in Manitoba wheat acres Oats Barley Rye flax buckwheat 000 peas potatoes rapeseed Corn sugar beets 500 summer allow 000 Oats Barley Rye flax peas potatoes rapeseed sum me fallow Oats Barley Rye flax 5 potatoes 500 rapeseed. Sugar beets summer allow 000 Bines Are now operating. The report said Rye Swath in is Complete in All but Northwest regions and threshing is Gener ally under Way. Excessive rain and Hail wer received at a number of Points causing crop damage with area just North of Portage la Prairi most severely hit. Leaf rust is reported As heavy on both durum and Spring when and it is expected that crop will be reduced to some extent coarse grains and flax hav also been affected by rust by damage does not appear to be serious. Hay operations Are generally Complete throughout the prov Ince. More about Haiti continued from Page 1 private sources in port a Prince claimed Cantave still was on haitian soil pressing his drive to topple Duvalier. A rebel spokesman in the dominican Republic accused Duvalier s regime of issuing false Victory claims to try and Dis courage haitians from joining the invaders. Exile sources in the Domini can capital of Santo Domingo insisted two rebel columns had thrust Down past Cap haitian Haiti s second City and a third was moving across the North West Peninsula in an apparent squeeze on gon Aives the coun try s third largest City. Rebel informants claimed the invasion Force started at 500 Strong but was swelled As it advanced by defections from Duvalier s forces. More about nip continued from Page 1 Baker fined Sam Yurkiw of Holsum bread 755 Selkirk Avenue pleaded guilty last week to a charge of failing to Forward his books to the unemployment insurance commission office when asked to do so. He was fined Gram of genuine economic and social planning aimed at producing the human and Socia benefits arising from adequate growth a fairer distribution o income social Security and Ful George Brown Deputy Leader of the British labor party urged delegates to do every thing possible to get their party into Power in the next few years. He said the new democrats in the two years since their founding made greater strides at the polls than the British labor party made in several decades after its birth. President Alf Cleave of the National farm Union said no Canadian party offers a pro Gram to meet the challenges of distribution of wealth and Dis placement of Farmer and worker. He ruled out a political Alli Ance with the nip on grounds that the farm Union must be free to Deal with governments of any political Stripe. Boy 5, Hurt going across Talbot Avenue William Robert Fawcett 5, of 395 Talbot Avenue was reported in fair condition in Winnipeg Chil Dren s Hospital after a car pedestrian Accident on Talbot near his Home wednesday afternoon. Police said the boy was Cross ing Talbot from South to North Between Allan and Watt streets about . When he collided with a westbound Auto driven by Stanley Solkoski 42, of 421 Victoria Avenue East i Transcona. More about robbery continued from Page 1 it was obviously a very . It leaves Glasgow a clonal said detective Ewart Vanina. Fess ional said detective supt. Malcolm Fewtrell of Buckinghamshire. They seemed to know their railway the 12-coach train known As the travelling Post carried 75 postal workers to sort the mail in route from Glasgow to London a distance of 400 Miles. The masked bandits stopped the train at 3 . Near this tiny Rural Village of about 500 people 40 Miles Northwest of London by tampering with Sig nals at a crossing. The robbers attacked the train Crew forced them to drive the locomotive and first two coaches a Short distance further along the line leaving behind 10 coaches which carried most of the postal workers. Then they ransacked the two mail coaches unloading More than 100 bags of registered Matt of waiting cars and made their getaway. The bandits covered the Green signal at the crossing with a and put batteries behind the red signal to Light it. They also Cut railway Telephone wires. 4 tied up when Engineer Jack Mills 57, stopped the diesel engine some of the gang attacked him and Lis assistant while others smashed windows of the first two mail coaches and climbed aboard. They tied up the four mail Sorters. The gang then uncoupled the to coaches from the remaining 10 on the train. The Engineer and his assistant were hand cuffed together and forced to drive the engine and the first two coaches a mile farther South. The gang dropped the mail jags off the crossing Bridge to cars waiting on the narrow country Road 15 feet below the Evel of the tracks. Detectives thought the gang night have set up its own temporary sorting o f f i c e in ome isolated building near the Cene to sift through the plunder. Banks Check exact value of the amount Tolen cannot be determined until the authorities make a Heck with Banks and Commer Ial firms. Registered mail often is used o get jewellery Bank notes and ther valuables across country. A Post office spokesman said in value of the stolen mail must run into thousands of funds. A spokesman for the general Ost office said it was prob Bly the first successful robbery f a travelling Post office train in their 125-year the alarm was Given by a postal worker who ran to Ched in ton station about a mile from the scene. Police arrived with tracker ogs. Roadblocks were set up n Buckinghamshire and neigh Oring counties. The Engineer and his assist it were taken to a Hospital in Darby Aylesbury. Mills was de ined with head injuries. His of Driver was discharged after Estment. Firemen were called Cut off the Handcuffs from e two Crew members. The mail train carries no every with overnight mail for London. The engine and first car of ton when the rest of the train the train bedding went on to London. Knew too much says fired Union official Montreal up Bernard Boulanger former administrator of the welfare plan of the seafarers International Union says fired be cause Union Boss Hal Banks thought he was popular with the rank and file members. Boulanger was dismissed by the six Man Board of trustees who manage the welfare fund last week on grounds that he disobeyed orders and involved the. Welfare fund in unauthorized expenditures. In an interview Boulanger said he does t accept these As the real reasons. 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