Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday March 7, 1964 accuse govt. Of padding figures the Manitoba government was accused Friday with padding the figures of its 1964-65 Esti. Mates for work to be done on the greater Winnipeg flood Way. The charges were levelled in the provincial legislature by opposition Leader Gildas Mol Gat and Saul nip St. John s during the final debate on the agriculture department estimates. Or. Cherniack said he was somewhat confused by the government estimates for the last and the current year dealing with anticipated Cost of the flood Way project. Last year he said an Esti mated million was set aside however Only about million had been spent. This year s Esti mates Call for the spending of million. Too much Money How can we expect Mil lion value of work to be done this he asked. He suggested that the figures included in the current estimates Are exaggerated or or. Said that although the government has been main Taining that everything must be done on schedule it contradicts itself when it spends Only million As was the Case last year. The Liberal Leader said the government is padding the Esti mate government officials he charged Are aware that the figures in More about flood Way continued from Page 1 the provincial government was consulted on this decision and was aware that it would not be receiving a contribution of in this year s estimates officials of the department said. The Manitoba government was advised some time ago that this was the policy of the Federal government to even out the expenditures on the flood Way and hold Down the contribution to Manitoba to a More realistic i one informed source said the Manitoba government was Well aware it would not be getting. In the 1964-65 estimates the Federal govern ment is maintaining its role in the flood Vay development. The contribution this year has been raised from in 1963-64 to the in the 1964-65 estimates. Manitoba was asking for a Good Deal More but the minis Ter was in touch with Premier Roblin and it was agreed that in the Light of last year s expenditure and the need to hold Down expenditures this year that an amount of upwards of would be a More realistic i a departmental source said. Or. Laing could not be reached. He was at the West coast however other government officials pointed out that it was an open ended agreement and that if construction work moved along at a much More rapid rate than anticipated in 1964-65 then a supplementary estimate might be introduced to raise the Federal contribution. But in the Light of the Progress on the flood Way last year it is not expected that the Federal contribution will need to be More than the in the estimates. One top government source said that there had been agreement with Manitoba to Pace the work on the flood Way and even out the expenditures so that the amounts expended in any one year did not reach inordinately High figures. Eluded in the estimates Are higher amounts so that the provincial government will be Able to receive rebates from the Federal government he said. In his reply to the opposition attacks. Or. Hutton said some of the contracts called for two year work to be done and the govern ment will not pay the Contra Price until the work is completed. Another Factor that has to considered or. Hutton said that a number of contracts wer late in approval by the Feder government and although Monie were set aside to cover such con tracts they were not called. Money held Back total value of work under con tract to Date is estimated at million or. Hutton said and a additional million is expected to be paid out As Holdback. The reason for the Millio estimate is the fact the minister said that the work of the firs group of contractors will Soo completed then a secon group will Start work on the project while plans will be draw up for a third group. Or. Hutton explained also tha he estimate for the coming Yea would provide Money for Wor not completed last year and pro vide for new work expected. Or. Mol Gat charged that the government will be Able to show a surplus next year because not All the Money allocated in the estimates will have been spent then they la Tell the Public look we re not the big the opposition Leader charged. When asked by or. Mol Gat the minister said that to Date Al contracts have been let at the estimated amount or Al though estimates so far still hold firm the minister said he could not make a statement tha the total Cost of the flood Way estimated at million will remain constant in the future. More about debate continued from Page 1 War planned on ticket racketeers Montreal up the world s airlines have set up their own police like squad to Deal with a mafia tinged Black Market in International airline ticket sales. The International air trans port association announced for mation of the new group at a press conference Friday and named col. J. L. Ford of Lon Don England to head it. Col. Ford is a member of the staff of British overseas airways corporation. Working with Interpol the 13 Man Iata fraud group will at tempt to Deal with ticket swindles that in the past 14 months have Cost airlines release War prisoners Tokyo China announced Friday it had released the last three japanese convicted As War criminals. Radio peking said All three had been released Early because of Good behaviour. The three and their sentences y o s h i o Saito 20 years Jim Taro Tomingas 20 years and Hiroshi Hirono 18 years. More about Nicosia continued from Page 1 take Over from Britain the task of trying to hold apart warring greek and turkish cypriots on the Mediterranean Island. Canada Ireland and Finland have not yet replied. Austria approached by Thant on thurs Day was reported to be pre pared to Supply Only a non com Bat contingent such As a hos Pital unit. External affairs minister Martin told the commons in Ottawa Canada s decision would be made following the return of a three Man in Mission sent to Nicosia for detailed negotiations with the cypriot government and others on the role of the Force. The unannounced dispatch of the Mission Friday. The announcement said the three Man team would discuss administrative details with Gen. Gyani who is already in Cyprus As Thant s personal representative. Up from Reuters a turkish cypriots held As hostages by greek cypriots today were handed Over to a representative of the International red Cross. Archbishop Makarios greek cypriot president ordered re lease of the hostages Friday in an Effort to Calm Cyprus Turk ish minority. H e said they would be turned Over to the International red Cross today. As new fighting resulted in two More deaths Makarios also promised his government will make every Effort and will take All necessary measures in order o suppress any unlawful acts and to enforce Law and Gen Gyani said the release of hostages by both sides will help he situation Here or. Fazil Kutchuk turkish cypriot vice president said the turks will free their few greek hostages if Makarios carries out his pledge. Kutchuk said the greeks had 207 Turk ish cypriots. But Kutchuk said even the re lease of hostages would not solve the Cyprus problem. He police greek Community before the turks Lay Down their arms. Said the proposed in Force must disarm the Ceylon doctors Call off strike Colombo in Ceylon s state run hospitals called off a 16-Day strike today after the government threatened o Fin them if they failed to re urn to work toy monday. The government threat was under a state of emergency declared thursday to Cope with the doctors strike and another by electrical engineers. The doctors protested a pro posed ban on private practice. The engineers sought risk allowances but went Back to work Friday after their 24-hour strike was declared illegal. Western provinces into a Sec Ond rate melting or. Fisher Drew the biggest reaction when he said English speaking canadians Are waiting for inspiration from French canadians leaders so we go on As one country. The whole is greater than the or. Levesque said he coi Ilc not accept this concept the parts Are More vital than the whole and if satisfied then the whole can his last speech or Levesque opened his 30 minute segment of the debate by announcing this was his Lase speech on what English speak ing canadians should under stand about French Canada s aspirations. I m fed up with b and bilingualism and he said. French speaking Cana Dian spokesmen trying to explain their grievances to eng Lish Canada were not making things any clearer. Outside the Hall members of the separatist group be Brassem element pour 1 Independence National handed out leaflets saying Canada should break its ties with the British Royal family. Or. Fisher said most English speaking canadians wanted to be a hyphenated canadians. Or. Levesque did not believe in this saying the Only reason the Federal system was adopted in the first place was that it was recognized that French canadians had to accept the Constitution. If you think about this a Little bit this should make you think twice about being Undy phen ated or. Levesque stressed que Jec s need for More Money and said Premier Lesage s target of 25 per cent of income tax and 25 per cent of corporation taxes was Only a he repeated previous assertions he Ould become a separatist if Quebec s needs were not met but set no time limit. Or. Fisher Felt there were grave dangers that violent state ments by Quebec leaders would provoke a Strong reaction against French Canada and that canadians in other provinces would be strongly against opposition to needed Federal Wel fare measures by Quebec for reasons of provincial autonomy. Or. Levesque said Quebec wanted Only the share of tax Money it would receive on a per capita basis under joint fed eral provincial schemes which it lid not join. Ottawa s contribution to flood Way building is unchanged Roblin african rail men strike Lusaka Reuters some ,000 african railway workers went on strike indefinitely in Northern Rhodesia Friday to protest the alleged maltreat ment of african rail workers by fellow employees. A government spokesman said be strike appeared to be be throughout Northern Hho Esia. As far As was known he Aid All trains were at a stand till. The strike was called by the Airway african workers in on. It arose Over incidents at Livingstone where a Union spokesman charged White rail Cay workers had insulted and n some cases beaten african orders Ehya Mwanza the Union s As Stant Secretary general told a reporter that the stoppage Ould last we have put up our ease t the railways do not seem to ant to he said. Conga Tula tons Oldfield. Kirby Gardner limited Moody Moore partners architects and consulting engineers 295 Broad Vray troops get data on Cyprus Ottawa defence department Friday honed Down s operation Cyprus plan to the finest details. The army has even issued in formation pamphlets giving by 1 a t i o a historical background and the current political Situa Tion about All that the department can do now is wait for the government to decide whether to meet the United nations request for a Canadian manpower contribution to the Cyprus peace keeping Force. External affairs minister Martin informed the commons Friday that no decision can be reached until a three Man in team returns from Cyprus with More information on the responsibilities of the Force. Canada will not shirk its responsibility As a member of the United or. Martin asserted. The in has not informed Canada yet what find or size of contribution it wants from this country infantrymen or technical personnel such As Signaller. Canada has not sent infantry men to any in operation since Korea. The in requests have been for technicians in Egypt the Congo and other trouble spots. The Federal government has in no Way reduced its contribution toward construction of the greater. Winnipeg flood Way Premier Duff Roblin told the legislature Friday. Or. Roblin said an apparent discrepancy in Manitoba Ottawa flood Way estimates has been caused due to a misunderstand ing about the timing of Federal payments. However he added that regardless of timing fed eral contributions have in no Way the Premier was commenting on new Democrat party Leader a. R. Russ Paulley s charges that the provincial government has made a error in calculating this year s Federal support for flood Way work. Or. Paulley says provincial Esti mates list Federal Aid As million the real amount As announced in press reports is Only million. Later data explaining the differential or. Roblin said the province s estimate Book was prepared too Early to include the latest in formation from Ottawa. After the Dook was completed he added Manitoba received a letter say ing that Ottawa s contribution in 1964 will be million. Under our joint agreement Ottawa will make payments As lie work or. Roblin said. No specific amount has to be paid in any one year. And if contributions Are smaller this line Ottawa will make up for t in subsequent although Only million has been allocated to Date or. Rob Lin expected that the whole ?7.4 million will eventually show up in this year s Federal estimates. According to the Premier the Federal government has t yet finalized estimates for several projects including the flood Way. Or. Paulley was t Able to de Bate the Premier s statement As or. Roblin spoke during the question period. However the nip Leader thanked the Premier for his explanation although there s still some in other business the govern ment majority voted Down a lib eral member s Resolution calling for the Roblin administration to finance the building and main Taining of secondary highways in the province. The Resolution was by John Tanchak l Emer son who said Highway financing is too heavy a Burden on municipalities. Complaint made Detroit a Charles o Bannion spent 200 Days of 1963 in jail for drunkenness. Judge Paul e. Krause sentenced him to another 90 Days Friday on the same charge. Headed Back to jail o Bannion old the judge you re awful ree with other people s this plastic bags such As used by cleaners should still find Vic ims among Small children who May use them As space helmets f there Are children in the House hese bags should be destroyed As soon As they Are emptied if he bag is Large enough to fit Over a youngster s head. More about Johnson continued from Page 1 or. Johnson told the soviet Premier that his letter of feb. 7 based upon a serious mistaken appreciation both of the situation in Cyprus and of the Aims of the United states he said that the . Had Only one aim that of helping the cypriots to. Restore a peaceful situation in their Island. The president at the same time agreed with Premier Khrushchev that it was in the interest of All of us that the tension in Cyprus be eased. Or. Johnson s letter was dated March 4. The White House in making it Public Friday offered no explanation of Why he waited almost a month before sending it to Moscow. Likely reason a Likely explanation of Why he sent his reply on March 4 was that it was on that Day that Flie Security Council of the in voted unanimously to Dis Patch a in peace keeping Force and a mediator to Cyprus. The Council members including those of the soviet Union and Czechoslovakia voted to give Secretary general u Thant Al most unlimited authority to try and Settle the dispute. President Johnson hailed the action of the Security Council As a major step toward the Washington Post haywire world fort Collins Colo. A quote of the Day mrs. Cora Howerth one of the United states first women physicians lad this comment on her 100th birthday Friday the world is about the same. It s haywire most of the wore about Sauve continued from Page 1 yer sly of Manitoba a consensus is developing across Canada for government action in the eco nomic social and cultural spheres. Economic the Federal and provincial governments will have the undertake unprecedented planning and regional development to wipe1 out Pov erty in Many Large depressed areas. Regional variations in ave rage income and unemployment Are straining National Unity. Revolutionary or unpalatable government measures will have to be taken soon to assure balanced growth. Social canadians must be assured of Security of employment and welfare for a minimum level of dignity. This entails measures to reduce unemployment pensions medical insurance and greater government Industry co operation in hous ing. Cultural the Federal govern ment is spending about 000 on a National theatre in Ottawa and similar arts centres in the 10 provincial capitals As part of Centennial preparations. Some people were already muttering about White elephants and deficits but these will forge a cultural revolution that could do More to unite canadians than any other institution since the creation of the Csc. If we accept these goals they will provide a unifying Force. If wet concentrate our energies on the Means to achieve them we will unite this country. Let us not concentrate on what divides nations or 10 nations. Let us concentrate on one More about King continued from Page 1 silent or. Guthman said should be free to select his own run Ning mate. The attorney general there the statement added wishes to discourage any efforts on his behalf in new Hampshire or Friday gov. King reacted by saying that halting the write in Campaign now would be like try ing to Stop a Forest fire. Natural contender new Hampshire voters be he said that the attorney general is a natural contender for the office of vice president. They recall the strength of the Kennedy Johnson ticket in 1960, and the Johnson Kennedy ticket in 1964 will be equally the governor said that new Hampshire democrats did not wish to Embarrass or. Johnson or detract from his prerogative in selecting his own running expressions May be in or. King said but we have Only one Opportunity to express that will be in the primary tuesday. The governor is urging democrats write in or. Johnson s name for president As Well As Kennedy s for vice president. He told reporters today he thought it unlikely that the attorney general would get More votes than the president. A month or so ago there was Only a scattering of talk through out new Hampshire about a Kennedy write in. 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