Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, February 29, 1964

Issue date: Saturday, February 29, 1964
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 29, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday de town final edition Jumble winners rules and entry form 26 first Section 1-20 Paris has a Way 15 Magazine Section 21 30 digging storm sewers 21 poisons in the air 22 Early Days of Elm Park 23 third Section 31 50 editorial classified fourth Section 51 6o background 10 Church 28, 29 class. 34 49 comics 12, 13 deaths 2 22 18 finance letters movies science profile 56-58 32, 33 27 29 51 sports the arts travel weddings women s 15 18 8, 9 17 youth Page 30 seafood dishes architect s Home make a Bird House including to Rae a books Homes Kec Lpes Gardoni coloured comics phone we 3-9331 All vol. .131 pages Winnipeg saturday february 29, 1964 Sun . Moon rises Smyj . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast mild 15 and 30 Hospital remodelling tight Security on lbs trip threat May have prompted extra Florida precautions by Robert e. Thompson Washington special tons Johnson was kept under unusually heavy protective guard during his political trip to Florida thursday because of a Security the White House Dis closed Friday. Columbia duping denied Victoria says deficiencies could endanger patient care by Noel Swann in a do or die Brief to Premier Duff Roblin his Cabinet metro and the City the Victoria general Hospital has pointed out. That deficiencies at the Hospital will soon Lead to deterioration of standards of care. The Brief asks co operation in solving the financial crisis hold ing up the Hospital s reconstruction program. The Hospital describes its problem Asun prec dented and the Brief lists 11 major areas of deficiency in the building and says although the Hospital and medical staff Are aware of these deficiencies they take them into consideration continually in the fulfilment their duties. In spite of these deficiencies the Quality of care achieved has been High the Brief refers to the fact that the Hospital has been fully accredited by the Canadian Council on Hospital accredit however the atrophy ing pro Cess of the Plant will thwart All efforts of the staff to maintain the present satisfactory level of patient it adds. Please see Hospital Page 4 military chiefs meet greek govt. Warns turks students stage demonstrations in Athens Athens Reuters greek foreign minister Stavros Costopoulos held an emergency meeting Here today on the Cyprus dispute with top greek civil and military defence chiefs and then conferred with Premier George Papandreou. The reason according to the Miami Herald was a threat allegedly made on the president s life by an sex convict sympathetic to cuban Premier Fidel Castro and now living in Miami. The Herald said that Miami j police received a request from the secret service before the Coroner orders inquest Toronto or. Morton Shulman metropolitan Toron to s chief Coroner has ordered an inquest into the death of a three year old boy who died in St. Michael s Hospital dec. 3 after a tonsil operation. Ont. Farm revolt forces closing of tobacco auctions Tillsonburg ont. Up revolt sparked by fluctuations in the Market Price of Tobac co forced the closing Fri Day of two auction centres in the heart of Ontario s tobacco growing country. Another auction Exchange was shut Down because of an Anonymous bomb threat. A group of Farmers marched on the Delhi Centre shortly after noon and threatened Vio Lence unless it stopped operating. It closed As the protesting group swelled to 150 persons. Some of Hie Farmers then drove 10 Miles to this comm for cypriot succeeded in forcing a spokesman for Papandreou i a auction sex said Friday that Papandreou Flange Here had told a Western Power that George Demeyere chairman the meetings were intended to co ordinate verbal warn Ings against turkish intervention in Cyprus Given yesterday with physical readiness to meet any emergency. The meetings took place As greek students shouted anti american and anti British slogans at a demonstration in the greek capital. They called if Turkey opens the door to of the Ontario flue cured to the insane Asylum Greece will Bacco growers marketing showed Washington Bennett former chief . Negotiator on the Columbia River treaty said Friday night that his delegation was at no time fooled or deceived by Canadian stories or figures dealing with the Columbia River project. We worked from our own arrest the sex convict. The suspect was not identified in the Story. Miami police however have not yet been Able to locate the Man. The Man called the police when he him. He told them he likes or. Castro wants to go to Cuba and told them to stay away from his House the Herald related. Breaking precedent the White House did not release a detailed projection of or. Johnson s a Beach. Beach and Miami figures and from our own en-1 tons in Advance of the trip said Bennett who which took the president to pal was undersecretary of the Inte j rior in the Eisenhower administration. He now practises Law j in Washington. There have been reports emanating from Ottawa that at one time Canadian negotiators deliberately leaked High figures on the purported Cost of one of the dams and had threatened to divert the Columbia into the Fraser River to increase apprehension among american negotiators about Canada s intentions. Bennett death after the operation. The family was not satisfied with the explanation of the. Death. On investigating i found circumstances i Felt warranted i a full Public or. Shulman said Friday. The chief Coroner said he overruled Coroner or. Kenneth Baxter who decided an inquest was not necessary. After i d investigated the matter myself and discussed it with him he changed his or. Shulman said. He said or. Baxter will con duct the inquest april 2. This will be the second in a to quest insisted upon by or. Since president Kennedy s As Shulman into a Hospital death greek students March through downtown Athens today carrying a Large drawing of presi Dent Johnson in a turkish Fez. They claimed the . Was taking Turkey s Side in the Cyprus crisis. A priest carrying the leads the Parade the students were demonstrating also in support of their government s stand on Cyprus and against nato. J mob soviet Airliner Cyprus reds rejoice by Michael Wall Nicosia special the guar Dian it was a Happy Day for cypriot communists. Friday morning in cars and buses they said he knew All along that the Cost of diverting the Columbia into the Fraser Sass nation last nov. 22. The secret service has inaugurated a number of new Security precautions to protect the president. But there had been no attempt on or. Johnson s recent trips to los Angeles Palm Springs St. Louis and new York to shroud his movements in mystery. It is possible that the turbulent situation involving cuban Refu gees in the Miami area could have been responsible for the extra guard. Goes begging me oui Muia Niue Unis Richael i m c-7 would be too High to make Sce Johnson Page Al Ottawa up canadians this year. Thursday night a five Man Coroner s jury found or. Ken Neth a. Brown responsible for leaving a surgical Clamp in the body of Patricia Morgan 32, after an operation last oct. 18 at Toronto East general Hospi Tal. Economically feasible As an i immediate or near term please see reply Page b legislature Road data kept secret. Page 3. Evans gets Tea Larne. Page 1. Floods unlikely. Page b. More eat butter less Marge. Page 21. Plumbing program hit. Page 21. No probe in Bodt Case. Page 1. Party line Battle on Vot ing age. Page 21. Ombudsman resold stolen Page 21. Paulley wants second sugar Plant. Page 21. Social allowances to be raised. Page 3. New programs to in crease cattle Industry. Page 21. Drop double letters Moscow a so Viet spelling Reform the word communist communist will be spelled one m. The newspaper Vecher Naya moskva evening Moscow says eliminating double and other unnecessary letters will save paper of which the soviet Union is Short. Have forgotten lost track of or just Plain ignored nearly 000 in Bank savings deposits other Bank accounts and Money orders. The finance department re ported this to the commons Friday As it made Public a de tailed list of thousands of individual amounts owed by Banks to individuals and not touched for the last nine years. Spurns help9 opposition raps Evans on Tea by John Dafoe Industry and Commerce minis Ter Gurney Evans who last week attacked the Federal government and trans Canada air lines for Tea s plans to move its Over haul base out of Winnipeg Fri Day caught some of the blame himself from two opposition Back i quenchers. J Larry Desjardins Boni face called him the i did it boy and part of the ill do it alone gang and charged that he did t want anyone else to help in the fight to retain the base. De Schreyer nip broken head accused or. Evans of keep ing his complaints about the move to a Low moan in the Days when the conservatives were in Power federally. Both members were speaking on a Resolution backing the government s efforts to keep the base in Winnipeg. Or. Desjardins said that when efforts to retain the base be Gan for o nce i Felt at least a show of Unity i Felt we were All fighting for the same or. Evans however he charged was not satisfied with this he apparently a Fol not want any one else to talk about he was the i did it please see Evans Page 4 says no probe required attorney general Stewart Mclean said Friday that As far As i am aware no investigation is required into the Case of a St. Vital Man who was held in Cus Tody for two weeks on a Coro Ner s warrant and then released on the orders of or. Mclean. Elman Guttormson l St. George who asked the minister if an investigation was planned also asked him Why the Man Otto Boldt was held in custody so Long. He remained until the Neces sary investigations were carried out by the attorney general s department and then or. Mclean said. Morris Gray Inkster in an apparent reference to the refusal of the St. Vital Coroner to release or. Boldt despite or. Mclean s order asked who had the authority for administration of the Law in Manitoba the at Torney general or a doctor in a subordinate the attorney a e n e r a 1 is charged with the responsibility of Law administration in this prov or. Mclean replied i streamed out to Nicosia Airport to shout and wave a Welcome to the Turbo prop Ilus Yian eighteen which was the first civil russian aircraft to land on cypriot soil. It flew in on a test Landing on its Way from Damascus to mos cow in anticipation of a civil air Zens of the soviet Union clapping Back As they stepped Down from the plane. The Leader of the soviet Dele gation on air talks was there with the soviet ambassador to see the plane land and he did not miss the Opportunity to Tell be forced to follow suit no statement was issued Fol lowing today s meetings but authoritative sources said no additional measures regarding the preparedness of the greek armed forces have been please see Greece Page 6 to air new plan by Louis b. Fleming United nations special tons five members of the Security Council agreed privately to a peace plan for Cyprus and will present it to the Security Council on monday for a show Down in the nine week old crisis according to diplomatic sources Here. The group of five led by ambassador Carlos a. Bernardes of Brazil will hold critical consultations will the key parties today and Hope to present a final draft of their peace plan Resolution to the secretariat Over the weekend. Their initiative has raised Board ordered it closed to prevent any possible blood shed sell through Board under Ontario government regulations All tobacco in the province must be marketed through the Board set up in 1957. Individual sales Are for j Bidden. J earlier in the Day provincial police closed the nearby Aylmer Centre after manager Rob 1 Ert Howse received a Telephone j Call that a bomb would explode in the Exchange. No bomb was found. The disgruntled Farmers were apparently protesting the buy ing practices of tobacco companies and said they want action to counter current Low auction prices. A protest meeting of Farmers has been called in Delhi for to night. One Farmer said we had to act before we were All financially please see Farmers Page 6 Banks Power curbed a. . I m in i j.1iuu i iu111lj in it la 1 i it t agreement since concluded be print reporters that they intend Llopes Lal a settlement is at mom real in a re j tween the cypriot and soviet de to offer cheap fares for by j hand. The acid lest however j port it is preparing for Parlia i governments. I even Yuri print students going to Moscow will be the reactions of Turkey Gagarin himself and would be taking a cypriot and Cyprus neither had seen could not have had More Enthus Man to Moscow for an spastic Welcome than thai which for round Tlle new As spastic Welcome than thai which for round trip. I greeted the passengers who but at the Back of the cheering alighted from the russian plane. Communists there were some 1 looking for a persian Lamb jacket this want and under clothing. 50b Grey Persia n Lamb Ket size 14, very reasonable. Globe 2-9883. Is among the hundreds of gains in today s classified Sec Tion. No you need shop and free press want i to the crowd of some 700 men it did not matter that there were French Spanish and syrians among the embarrassed looking people who had to push their Way through the clapping throng to the Airport lounge they had their Chance to shout Down with Britain up with Russia and to see the round faced smiling Citi Csc to Man fined Nicosia a Philip Charles Pendry a Canadian broadcasting corporation Tele vision cameraman was fined by a Nicosia court Friday for attempting to smug Gle a valuable did Church tray out of Cyprus without from the antiquities department. The tray described by a Cyprus antiquities department expert As unique and Worth several thousand was confiscated by the court the conviction of Pendry who works for the Csc out of Lon Don came on a Day when the greek cypriot press gave prominence to a police report stating a rare old Church icon valued at which was believed stolen from a greek Church was found in the Possession of another Csc Man news correspondent Stan Ley Burke. Burke told police he had bought the icon from a turkish by pro villager. Continued serious and worried faces. A Young businessman from a Well known cypriot political fam j ily said do you see what is i happening it will spread and i spread unless you do something j everybody now is saying our Only friends Are in the Eastern j bloc. Every minister in the gov-1 of on Pleane see in Page i Britain assigns men to Milf have depended Britain s Friendship and now we feel we continued please see Cyprus Page 6 i provide incentive i Moscow a Premier Khrushchev urged Friday that j soviet farm workers be Given i More incentive to produce. He i said communism serves As a . Destroyer Biddle in june for the experimental mixed manned nato nuclear surface vessel Force an admiralty spokesman said Here Friday. Ment. The Federal Board of Mari time trustees is expected to indicate it Jias curbed the Power Hal c. Banks exerts Over an estimated 9.000 members of the seafarers International Union of Canada without hav ing removed him As president. The trustees Are said to feel the directives they have issued since taking office last october and Federal legislation will go a Long Way toward restoring peace on the great lakes. The trustees set up Load minister the Siu and four Mari time unions affiliated with the Canadian labor Congress Are scheduled to submit a report on their mandate during the cur both officers have min sweep j rent session of parliament ing experience and speak i the Federal inquiry report on French. Under the Experiment 18 officers and 315 men from the United states Britain West Germany Italy Greece Turkey maritime labor violence by or. Justice t. G. Norris recommended the the trustees establishment of and pointed out moral stimulus to workers j and the Netherlands will Man abuses of Power by Banks. Or. But the great Force of maj the Biddle to evaluate the effec-1 Justice Norris Felt the goal of nato mixed continued trial stimulus must also be used i Riveness of a for its creation i manned Force. Please see Banks Page 4 other . Moves bog Down to attack teen smoking by Harold Morrison published a number of Legisla courage Washington Mas tors swiftly drafted a variety of crease it. To in Sive 10-year educational pro Bills aimed at curbing cigarette surgeon general Luther Terry Gram to warn teen agers sales or digging deep into to against the dangers of smoking is being planned by the . Health department while the Federal Trade commission pre pares demands that cigarette manufacturers put health Haz Ard warning labels on cigarette packages. These actions currently com prise the bulk of the Federal at tack against tobacco following the conclusions last month of the surgeon general s advisory committee that cigarette smok ing is a major cause of lung cancer and other critical Dis ease. When the report was first Bacco research. Most of these Bills now Are gathering dust. With the Glare of publicity shifting to other issues con Gressional concern Over tile smoking problem appears to have declined. One Bill that had wide sup port among tobacco state legis get the government to spend Raore Money on How to make tobacco safer for smokers was shot Down in committee stage As Public criticism voluntary health and other agencies argued that More important than research was the need to Dis says that for the adult the question of stopping smoking is something each must solve for the educational drive will be aimed at the teen Ager before he gets the smoking habit. Through school lectures ral lies speeches and other Means Federal officials working with revolutionary heart cancer and other organizations will urge youngsters to turn away from cigarettes. Meanwhile the Federal Trade commission will open hearings March 16 As the first step be please see smoking Page 6 ;