Winnipeg Free Press

Tuesday, March 03, 1964

Issue date: Tuesday, March 3, 1964
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Carries Cauls a submarine Cable stretching Miles Between England and the . Can carry 128 Telephone messages simultaneously. Winnipeg free press tuesday March 3, 1964 roller skating saturday afternoon and every night except monday at the Winnipeg roller rink Portage at landside province asks protest epilepsy press kit for control of the new Marlborough hotel Bill Saunders Trio in the Golden Crown lounge appearing Tiroly til 12 . In the rendezvous room nicely Dusty Despins singing guitarist tonight auditorium . Celebrity concerts presents Cesare Siepi Basso Star of the metropolitan opera scats 52.50 students si.00 celebrity Box office. Mezz. Floor Hudson s Bay company store pm. Up 5-2484 or at auditorium from Mph. Us 3-7155 s March 9 auditorium . The Brothers four Green Fields Blue water on Columbia record. Res. Scats 3.50, 3.00. 2.50, 2.00 celebrity Box office Hudson s Bav company store Mezz. Floor phone up 5-24s4 Manitoba is lighting for Previn Cial autonomy in the Imp Jeme Nta Tion of the Federal government agricultural rehabilitation ant development Aca agriculture minister George Button Sai monday. He told the legislature tha Manitoba took the View that once the Federal government Laid Down the general format of shared programs under the act i should be up to the province to decide which projects should be supported by Arda funds. He said the government has taken this attitude both with the present Federal government and with the previous conservative administration. The minister was answering questions from d. L. Campbel who noted that government announcements on Arda projects implied that provincial efforts were being limited by the Federal government s interpretation of the Federal Provin Cial agreement or. Hutton said that the Manitoba government places a Little wider interpretation on the Arda agreement than does the Federal government. Ottawa demands that Arda projects have a direct application to agriculture Manitoba he said feels that there Are projects which do not on the surface com ply with the Federal requirements but which Are of real Benefit to agriculture. He said that so far we Are not doing too badly in getting Manitoba s Point of View accepted by Ottawa. However he said when Mani playhouse theatre last performance of season March 19 20 21 . Tours. Sat. . Featuring world premiere of q0jr.r. Quartet Brian Macdonald i aimez Vous Bach repeat performance variations for Lovely theme Coppelia excerpts special children s matinee sat. March 21 prices is. 00 featuring Swan Lake Unet in font Deus Les we oops de Doo tickets now on Sale celebrity Box office. Hudson s Bay co. 53.25. 2.75, 1.75. 1.25 pressing govt. On scholarships the Canadian Union of Studen intends to hold the govern me to its Promise of scholarships Dave Jankins t Union s president said Here saturday afternoon. He was speaking at the Fin meeting of the 1963-64 University of Manitoba students Union Coin cil. Or. Jankins said the government had promised t make scholarship s of each available to University Stu dents but no action has Bee taken. He conveyed Best wishes t next year s Council which a just been officially installed. Walter Kleinschmidt a secon year Commerce student was Elet std Secretary and Jim Smith third year arts student vice pre sident., Rochard Good a thir year arts student was chose president by acclamation to weeks ago. Funds Toba recommends an Arda pro Gram the Federal government re serves the right either to approve it or disapprove it. He said he Felt that if Manir Toba were willing to put up 50 or so percent of the total costs of the project this fact should be in Oulu to convince the Federal government that it was Worth while. We Are close to the scene we know the needs of the local new democratic party Leader a. K. Russ Paulley said he could not see Why once a project had been approved by the provincial government and the municipality concerned it should require the added blessings of bureaucrats Down in f. Button replied that on the question of provincial autonomy and provincial i. Paulley was absolutely by Gene Blake Dallas special tons exasperation matched the perspiration in the Jack Ruby murder trial monday As no headway was made toward seating the last two jurors. With everyone mopping their brows in the sweltering court room defence attorneys broke up the afternoon session with pro tests against distribution of liter tile 11th juror a woman was accepted today she in my. Aileen b. Shields a Divorcee who is employed by a Telephone com Pany in the engineering department. Urge More tests town n country Airliner now appearing Jose my Viking lounge plus sensational entertainment on stage sir stars of stage screen and to starring the Mills Brothers world s most popular vocal group the International pantomime Star Gene Sheldon in jul Lin Das acrobatic feats Washington Cap the White House released without comment monday night a re Ort recommending that the United states program to develop a supersonic Airliner be rearranged to provide for by elopement of two full scale lying prototypes for at least i year of flight testing before entering into the costly pro action program. Re oriented to have the ederal government pay up to 0 per cent of the initial de elopement costs instead of the 5 per cent now contemplated his easing the financial risk to the aircraft Industry. Taken out of the hands of the Federal aviation Agency and entrusted to a Small temporary Agency to be known As the supersonic transport authority reporting directly to the president. The report based on a study ordered last summer by presi Dent Kennedy also would toss overboard the program under which the Faa has been assign ing delivery positions to the airlines in the order in which they Deposit for each plane. To Date the Faa has received from 13 Poten tial airline customers As Token payments on 72 aircraft. The report was prepared by Eugene r. Black former presi Dent of the world Bank and Stanley de j. Osbourne who re signed recently As Board chair Man of Olin Mathieson Corpora Tion. Dutch wait for England the Hague Reuters 3utch political leaders have re used to discuss further Steps on european political Union with visiting West German Chancel or Ludwig Erhard until after he forthcoming British general election informed sources said monday. At the opening session of is to Day meeting dutch for Ign minister Joseph lims was reported to have told Erhard and a West German delegation Here should be no discussion bout european political Union less Britain puts Forth its position. But he said this could of be done until after the Brit so election not yet set but due o be held by november. Luns who recently visited ome said Italy shared the View on the situation. The sources said the dutch and West German delegations voted their time to reviewing policy on Berlin Cuba East Vest tensions and the creation f a multilateral nato nuclear Irce. There was Complete agree ent that there should be no Ade with Cuba and no Trade credits should be granted to communist countries the maces said. Nature by the . National Epi Lepsy league in the corridors. The defence has indicated it will attempt to show Ruby was insane at the time of the. Shoot ing of accused presidential As Sassin Lee Harvey Oswald be cause he is a victim of psycho motor a memorandum to news Media signed by Maurice a. Melford National director of the league and an accompanying fact Shee on epilepsy prepared by a Public relations firm touched off the juror. I defence charge defence attorneys Melvin Bell and Joe Tonahill charged the material was being offered to prospective jurors waiting to be called into the courtroom for questioning. The defence demanded that District judge Joe b Brown de Clare a mistrial Transfer the trial elsewhere and cite distributors of the material for con tempt. Judge Brown determining that sheriff s deputies prevented the material from getting to prospective jurors denied All motions. The process of jury selection proceeded but without Suc Cess. Or. Belli and or. Tonahill were fuming with anger Over distribution of the material which called attention to the de Fence claims made on behalf of Ruby and termed them non they demanded a grand jury investigation. This is one of the most dastardly acts known to said or. Tonahill. Grandstand play this is a grandstand play by or. Said District attorney Henry Wade. Judge Brown ordered the distribution of the material in the corridors stopped and suggested or. Melford get on a plane and return to his Headquarters in Chicago. But the defence served subpoenas on or. Melford and two employees of the Public relations firm Tom Armstrong and Mickey Sullivan who were distributing the material. Theme of the material was that the defence claims As to Ruby s condition Are putting an estimated 1.8 million . Epileptics on trial epileptics Are not criminals anti social or prone to become subject to acts of uncontrollable violence by virtue of their Afflic Tion any More than heart a i tents or polio victims Are Crim-1 finals or it said. Meanwhile the defence used the last of its peremptory Chal Lenges of prospective jurors Ane was granted no More but the next 15 candidates were excused either for Legal cause or by prosecution challenges. The prosecution used three peremptory challenges two of them against negroes to run its total to 11. It has four remaining. The defence exhausted its peremptory challenges during a fruitless morning session and District judge Joe b. Turned Down pleas by Ruby s attorneys for More. Judge brawn last Friday granted the defence three additional challenges bringing the total to 18, defence attorney Melvin Belli asked monday for As Many As 15 More but the judge refused not even asked defence attorney Joe Tonali ill holding up one Finger. The judge Shook his head. E a few minutes earlier the judge held or. Tonahill in con Honor top a of students Rod Beehler fifth year honors political science student and Pat Dennis fourth year Home economics were named the year s outstanding graduates at the University of Manitoba students Union awards banquet saturday evening. Or. Beehler recent Winner of a Commonwealth scholarship hag been Active in extra curricular activities throughout his five years on Campus. He was chairman of the conference in Commonwealth affairs in Janu Ary was a Mcgowan cup de Bater and has represented St. Paul s College on the Umsu Council. Miss Dennis was editor of this fear s Telephone directory and Las been Active in the women s association at the University for a number of years. Bruce Doern current president of Umsu Council presented the Gavel to Richard Good third year arts student who will head next year s student government. Tempt fined him for hurling hit Pencil Down on the counsel table and interrupting assistant District attorney a. D. Belli offered or. Ton Attl the use of my credit card but lawyer paid in Cash. Meanwhile the prosecution used the ninth of its .15 peremptory challenges dismiss the sixth negro called in for questioning mrs Bohemia Allen a beautician no opinion tvs Aljen wag the first of the negroes to say she had no qualms about voting the. Death penalty if the facts warrant it she said she had not seen the shooting on television had not read or discussed much about it and had formed no opinion. With the defence out of dial Engew mrs Alleri would have been accepted for the jury had it not been for the Challenge exercised by District attorney Henry Wade. They just Don t take coloured people in or. Belli said later a charge repeatedly denied by or. Wade. Earlier mrs. Mary e. Had Cliffe elderly widow and i mrs Bettie l. Joshua wife of a Baptist minister and the fifth negro questioned were dismissed for opposing the death penalty. New names since president Kennedy s assassination towns streets an Airport and even a pubic water works in Yemen have been re named in his Honor. Stab dibs Chapel Hill Norman cordon 60, one time choir boy who became Roffol attn opera Star died of a heart attack sunday at Home Here. He was with the met for 12 years and retired in 1mb. Swedish steel Sweden s production of crude steel Rose by 7.9 per cent to tons during 1963. Norwegian sea Rescue society Crimm Nevi 45 pc runs from drowning and 16 it tales from wreckage during ims. I i i Tony Curtly list of Adrian mass incur Howard enl color of Thi trip viol Foto Nite every tues wed i at theatres to giants unit show a mind studio a i . 1964 Academy award nomination actor it actress this sport we Richard Harris Rachel Roberts to College 7th mpg. Week Star land Lack Lemmon under the Yum Yum tree ado to selected shorts Rose closed for innovations pm dumb Jivok of Buccal Kaiui fight Llwis Retei Toren a Boccacio 10" ref base to Homo Konc fo1w.n1te Mclart Adwill a Virv pihvatj5 Ataik he bawl of Vassion Odeon Morton held Over 3rd Weeke 5 Academy award nominations including Koft picture Boft actor and beit supporting actress f St a tool sign tit Kotiw Al 1963 Botin film regular_admi55ion feature 6, 8 and 10 . Portage Berry general 888-1344 w Maccia athe Way of the be studio b restricted to 18 years and Over Complete mud Zymund if vision b Clay world s heavyweight championship Palace time to plus Buccan Vincent much Ricamo mow Kuam lyceum at Palace at and starts tomorrow now a lost world becomes a new world of adventurer. I k m o a in a sea of swords clash gleaming in the Sun As the screen recreates a lost world where pyramids touch the ski passions touch the Heights. These were the people of the plumed Serpent masters of mountains. Kings of the Sun i poodles see the Mercury space capsule and exhibit of Marsh Phimister . 3 shows daily 1 Jack Shapira and the Auto show orchestra admission exhibition mrs. 1 pm till list to pre Sthool fret with parents Winnipeg Arena thieves steal typewriter radio Winnipeg police reported one break in in the City Over the weekend. Thieves broke into Miller Brown hardware ltd., 660 Tal Bot Avenue through a rear win Dow and made off with a Type writer and radio. Value of the goods is still undetermined. Deep m the lunges of Yucatan flourished the ancient unknown mayan a bomb a the 1s destined to Warrior chief another Steve Are nations and the woman fated to be Queen. George Chakiris in Man Richard Basehart us does Peter Sellers George c. Scott Stanley or. Strange love the hot line Osuol a Brilliant Nightmare open . Spirtt at 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Smith near Ellice phone we 3-4743 Stu tabs tomorrow 3 performances . Charles Dickens a tale of two cities Ronald Colman cast of thousands regular prices tickets now on Sale for evening performance Only at Portage ave. Box office a famous players theatre famous Peaters theatres filed Richarch robbtr1ml6nb Capitol Boon future at moult of that professor s apprentice mews for moms general plan big coaster Mexico City a officials of Chapultepec amuse ment Park plan construction of the biggest roller coaster in Mexico. It will Rise to a height of 99 feet and have More than a mile of swoops and swirls. T Skorno no rat at Tot Chivi in Only Bobby Johnny to Lotien Walt Disney the it Ujj adv nov los of Jomes Artmud Fly bunk Vista Diuri Butym ij963 f open 11 30 . Feature 5.-os, ithe fms t my of stood him Garrick just for fun last showing today 2 hilarious hits----2 on the girls take Over Odeon drive in re opens tomorrow at . hiatus sunni id to drive in theatre on Portage West of the perimeter Hwy. 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