Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 5, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Today s Index Jumble contest. Page 27 classified 25 to 37 radio to g comics 11, 12 tax tips 11 deaths Al sports 40 to 43, 46 finance 19 to 21 women s 15 to 18 movies 9 eg1 Freel press vol. 71 no. 135 48 pages Price Ioc Winnipeg thursday March 5, 1964 Sun rises 4.m. Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon Sels . Final edition phone we 3-9331 first Section pages 1-14 forecast colder Zero and 5 Tariff talks intact Rumor France to sink Juk round spurned by Bernard d. Noss1ter Washington special tons recent reports from London that the French Are planning to scuttle any Deal on tariffs at the forthcoming Ken Nedy round of Tariff Cut Ting talks were dismissed As unreliable rumours Here wednesday. One official suggested that the stories were floated by an aide in the French foreign office As a bargaining counter. These reactions came prior to smooth the Way for the Forth coming International bargaining Over Trade barriers. On the Agenda Are a discussion of a new . Proposal about outsize tariffs on Industrial goods and an eco suggestion on farm levies. Please see Tariff Page 13 Premier Hoblin said his govern ment had already decided to accept the recommendation of the Board and has included Mil lion in its capital estimates for the next year s studies. He said negotiations Are under Way with the Federal government on Cost sharing for the new Stu Dies and "1 Hope quite soon we a meeting Between leading euro will come to an agree Cal. Pean common Market and . J he said two governments officials Here today to try to win probably share equally in the Cost in the second study As they the first. If the studies Are favourable they could Lead to the first de livery of Power from the Nelson by 1969. The preliminary report reached four conclusions total Power potential of the Nelson is 5.2 million kilo i i Watts up 1.2 million Over orig Inal estimates. F a of this 2 million kilo i Watts would be surplus to Man a Ito a s requirements and availed Able for Export for Between 20 and 25 years. Substantial markets May exist in Southern Ontario and North Central United states and there Are reasonable prospects that Nelson River Power could be delivered to these markets at competitive rates provided sub Stantial blocks Are developed Washington up can a ii estimated that preliminary Ada s Trade minister Mitchell work indicates that Power could Sharp said today that Agricula lure Protection measures in the european common Market could reduce Canadian and . Wheat sales to Europe and create now Competition in world markets from subsidized euro Pean wheat. He said Canada and the United states must work to Gether in the approaching Ken Nedy round International Tariff negotiations to prevent this dangerous in a speech to the annual convention of the National association of Grain and feed dealers Sharp said agricultural protectionism is perhaps the most difficult problem in world both Canada and the . Were insisting that the Kennedy round negotiations under Gatt wednesday that Spain has taken general agreement on tar j t h e necessary appropriate diffs and Trade should not be Steps to keep its ships and Nelson Power study will Cost another to million second planning report encourages More study of Northern River s potential by John Dafoe prospects for a billion Dollar Hydro development on the. Nelson River took on a Bright new glow tuesday As Premier Duff Roblin presented the legislature with the second report of the Federal provincial Nelson River programming Board. The report recommended spending million to million in the next two years for More detailed investigation of the Northern River s Power potential. Joint action autumn of 1969 possible target the proposed Nelson Power project if successful will guarantee Manit Bahs a cheap Supply of Power until the end of the 20th Century Premier Duff wednesday night. Speaking at a conservative party fund raising dinner in the Marlborough hotel or. Roblin said Manitoba has t yet sold any Nelson Power but indications Are that there will be a Happy conclusion to the project. The Premier was commenting on the government s decision announced earlier wednesday to proceed with the second phase of investigations into the Nelson s Power potential. Continued Blease see Roblin Page 7 offer joint Force Scandinavia to create for in use by Flora Lewis London special tons danish minister per Haeker rup wednes Day announced that Scandinavia will create a permanent joint Force reserved use on in peace keeping missions Denmark Sweden and. Norway have agreed to establish and Fin Ance a Force of men he said. Finland has also offered to contribute but has not yet decided whether it will join under the integrated scandinavian com Mand or form an Independent unit. Tar. Haeker rup who is visiting London for government talks said Holland has also decided to earmark troops and Canada and some other countries have shown willingness to do the same. The agreement among the free scandinavian countries pro please see Force Page 13 be provided from the Nel son to the Southern Manitoba Power system at a Cost of about 3 Mills per kilowatt ent average Cost of Power in please see study Page 7 . Aid to Spain resumed Washington special tons the administration announced limited to Tariff cuts on Indus trial products but should in clude the reduction of harriers to Trade in agricultural prod in past Tariff negotiations concessions won for Canadian and . Agricultural exports were frustrated and in Many cases nullified by the whole apparatus of non Tariff barriers in importing countries please see Sharp Page 4 City air Hub of West by Roger Newman the Manitoba government will fight to establish Winnipeg As the air transport Centre of West Ern Canada Premier Duff Rob Lin said wednesday night. Or. Roblin in a televised address said Winnipeg the i apartment spokesman Robert my planes out of the Cuba Trade. The state department refused to comment on the nature of the Steps hut said military assist Ance going to Spain would be. Resumed. Aid to Spain was temporarily suspended two weeks ago under a congressional provision that also affected several other countries. Congress wrote into the foreign Aid Bill last december language requiring the government to Cut off economic military assist Ance to countries refusing to take appropriate Steps to end air and sea Trade with Cuba. The Brief official announce ment said following Conversa Tion the purpose which was to clarify Steps taken by the government of Spain with regard to the transport of commodities to and from Cuba on Spanish Flag vessels and aircraft the United Stales has concluded that the Steps taken by the government of Spain Are appropriate within the meaning of the foreign assistance act of 1963." Spain in recent months has traded with Havana and More Over has announced its intention to continue this relationship Des Pite Washington s objections. Just How Washington managed to get around the Spanish Posi Tion is still not Clear. State de please see Gateway to the West must Closkey said he become a major air Centre be cause it is situated at the Cross roads of Many International i routes. Besides facing the to cameras or. Roblin was also j speaking to about 300 Enthusias-1 tic conservative party ers who attended a a plate fund raising dinner in the Marl Borough hotel. In his remarks the Premier outlined the main Points in his a government s new air policy which was introduced in the legislature wednesday afternoon. Please see fight Page 13 would not be Spain Page 7 looking for a piano this want and under musical instruments 49a piano-5125. Phone 253-w10. Is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads for Cyprus in seeking peace Canada 4 others called on for troops Indian Likely Choice As Leader United nations up diplomats buckled Down today to the task of putting together a new United nations peace Force this time for the Mediterranean Island country of Cyprus. . As worried As Ever Over dangers ahead conviction shocks Hof f a will Appeal Chattanooga Tenn. A r. Hoffa president of the largest . Labor Union stared in grim disbelief wednes Day when he heard himself declared guilty of trying to Rig a Federal court jury. It first conviction in five trials. We will Hoffa Tol d reporters. His lawyers said motions for a new trial would be fixed within four Days. The conviction could mean 10 years in prison and a Fine for Hoffa the International brotherhood of the judge has set no Date for passing sentence. The verdict brought congratulations to the prosecutors from attorney general Robert f. Long accused by Hoffa of waging a vendetta against him. Hoffa told reporters that de you think he has no intention of relinquishing the presidency of the teamsters an Independent Union with members including several thou Sand in Canada. I can rest assured of one he said that the membership will be behind Hoffa in the fight All the scheduled to go on trial april 27 in Chicago on charges of misusing in Union pension funds became president of the teamsters after his predecessor Dave Beck went to prison for income tax fraud. Hoffa s Bond was raised to from by judge please see Hoffa Page 4 James r. Hoffa team sters president talks to newsmen alter a jury wednesday returned a verdict of guilty in trying to fix the jury which heard Hoffa s conspiracy trial in Nashville Tenn., in 1962. Others convicted with Holla Ewing King Larry Campbell and Thomas Parks. V v by Richard Purser free press staff writer London staff International reaction to the in Cyprus Resolution today left Whitehall As apprehensive As Ever about the dangers ahead. Cyprus president Makarios said it paved the Way for a final Solu Tion by showing that the agree ment previously imposed on Cyprus had ceased to be considered unchangeable. The struggle will continue with vigor until the rights of the cypriot people Are a turkish cypriot official spokesman took the opposite View that the greek attempt to Abro Gate the treaty of guarantee has been but archbishop Makarios said it removes British Power to act w without the consent of the Cyprus this Power is contained in the Premier Papandreou said the Resolution guaranteed the peace and integrity of cyp rus but Ankara sees the word integrity in the Mouth of a greek to Rule out partition. Britain is relieved that their troops will not have to Bear alone the impeding Helle Nic nationalism. Yet also assumes or. Papandreou claim that the Resolution has restored greek relations with Britain and . Was a signal for ending the anti Western demonstrations in Greece. The conflicting National inter ests Are exactly As they were before the in acted. While the British Are far from adopting a blackly pessimistic attitude alter this first Advance they feel the in mediator will need a Miracle within three months. Otherwise there is danger of a soviet veto and an explosion of the extremism. 700 Turk villagers still under siege by Webb Mckinley Polis apr the siege continues for 700 turkish cypriots in the town of Polis. More than a Rno nth ago out numbered turkish families from polls and nearby villages gathered in a school seeking safety from the undeclared civil War Between the greek and turkish communities on Cyprus. They still Are there. Village elders mothers fathers youths and babies _ Are huddled in the two Storey building with Little apparent Hope of returning to their Homes. Without escorts by British troops we car hot move any principal Cahit c a v b go u. We Are sur the trouble with Polis is the trouble with this bloody is said a British officer. Both sides say they will not harm each other and neither believes a bloody word of at the last crossroad inside the Village is the command Post of capt. Michael Creighton of the Royal artillery. Two Hun dred Yards Uphill on the Edge re run of Oswald slaying film enters Rizhy trial Dallas a District. At-1 hear Ruby say he hoped Oswald Torney Henry m. Wade pre pared today to show the jury in Jack Ruby s murder Ruby film the wild moment when. Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald nov. 24. The film was recorded by television cameras in the base ment of the Dallas City Hall seen live by some viewers and in re runs by countless others. But Ruby will be look ing at it for the first time said his lawyer Melvin Belli. Wade said he expects to com plete the state s Case today. Defence will have its turn. As today s testimony got under Way a police officer quoted Jack Ruby As saying within minutes after he shot Lele Harvey Oswald that i Intel idea to shoot him three j police officer l. A Graves walking alongside Oswald when Ruby skit him said he did not died. The other officer alongside Oswald j. R. Leavelle testified Jack Ruby Calm wednesday that Ruby said he hoped Oswald would die. Did you hear Leavelle say to Oswald i Hope someone shoots you you son of a asked Melvin Belli chief de Fence counsel for Ruby. Graves said he did not did you hear him say some one shoots you i Hope they shoot As straight As you Robelli asked. Graves denied this too. Belli led Graves to the Point concerning which Finger Ruby used in pulling the trigger. Taking the pistol in his right hand the lawyer put his second Finger on the trigger and asked whether Graves had Ever known anyone to fire a gun in that that would be most would t Belli manner unusual Graves said that it would be for him but that he could t speak for others. Please see trial Page 4 of the Village is the turkish school. Inside 112 families Are jammed into a building where 270 pupils attended classes. In one classroom live 12 fam Ilies. Each family does its Cook ing on a portable Oil stove. In the Small office of the Prin Cipal Cavusoglu Speaks the greeks say come Back and we will live together. But we can never get along again. Never at All the turks say the greeks drove them out of their Homes in a bloody Battle and destroyed some houses with an armoured Bulldozer despite a truce. The last time they tried to go into please see Cyprus Page 7 King Paul near death up from a Reuters Athens King Paul of Greece was Given holy communion today As he hovered be tween life and death. Athens radio announced that a Palace priest gave communion to the 62-year-old King the world s Only reigning orthodox Monarch after a mass in the Chapel at Tatoli Palace. The radio said the King is fighting with death and his wife Queen Frederika is at his bedside As he suffers his a Palace bulletin this morn ing said there was change in the condition of the King who collapsed five Days ago with complications following an operation. Feb., 21 for a stomach ulcer. Reports circulated during the night that the 62-year-old Mon Arch had gone into a coma. At 1 ., the chief of the King s political Cabinet Constan Tine Hoidas issued a special statement denying rumours that tre King had died. Hoidas said the King s condition was critic special prayers were said throughout the country for the ailing King. A 52-year-old Indian general appeared almost certain to com Mand the peace Force but at least six men were being mentioned for the tougher Job of political mediator Between the greek and turkish cypriots. Diplomatic sources said Secretary general u Thant had chosen Prem Singh Gyani. To command the Force but was withholding an announcement until he receives replies from five countries including Canada he asked to con tribute troops. A in spokesman said none of i he Ireland Sweden Brazil and had Given any immediate reply. Britain is to provide the main contingent. The United states would provide transportation and other logistical support. Please see in Page 13 Pearson insists on terms by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff i prime min ister Pearson said thursday that before any Canadian troops Are assigned to the Cyprus peace keeping Force the United nations must meet Canada s five conditions. On his Way into a Cabinet meeting where the request a Canadian contribution was to be studied the prime minister told reporters he was sticking to the five conditions he had Laid Down last month in parliament. We believe they Are reason Able terms and we will stand by he said. Please see Pearson Page 4 Hudson wins 5th straight Charlottetown Mani Toba s Bruce Hudson rink scored two Points on the final end this morning to defeat new Bruns Wick 8-7 in the seventh round of play the Canadian Curling championships. It was Manitoba s fifth straight win after two opening defeats and left Hudson in third place be Hind British Columbia and Saskatchewan tied for the Lead with six wins and no losses. . Whip Ped Nova Scotia 12-6 this morn ing and Saskatchewan trampled Newfoundland 1g-5. In other games Ontario Defeated Prince Edward Island a-6 and Quebec surprised Northern Ontario 12-8. Had the Bye. Manitoba was playing . This afternoon. Legislature Nelson Power prospects Good. Page 1. Government backs Down on utilities. Page 12. Mellic wants talks on radar base closing. Page 12. Schreyer raps economic plans. Page 12. L gov f. Backs speaker s Rul ing. Page -12. House approves traffic com Mittee proposal. Page -12
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