Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 31, 1964, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published Dally except sunday by Winnipeg free press company limited. 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. John Sifton president Shane i Mckay executive editor r. S. Malone publisher and vice president associate Western Peter Mcl Sitock Winnipeg thursday december 31, 1964 Ottawa Twitt and shout s diary for 1964 commentary by Ellen Simmons Jan. Around the world 1964 was to be a year of readjustments realignments and new liaisons. In the typically grand Man Ner Gen. De Gaulle recognized red China and put the . In a diplomatic Flap. Feb. In Manitoba Premier Roblin recognized Aid to separate schools Only to find that his enthusiasm for the shared services plan was shared by almost no one and everybody recognized the beatles. In Ottawa parliament opened with a Low keyed throne speech. The beat picked up fast however and the. Minority Liberal government soon found out that debate in what eventually turned out to be the longest parliamentary session in Canadian history was to be a great Deal pudd Lier and More Liveris than liverpudlian. How come five beatles Kuch explains that the one on the left is an optical illusion a trick of faulty vision so to speak a ghost who refused to leave Ottawa after the i want to know your stand performance at the tory convention earlier in the month. Mar. This is the cpr-1s81 special. It runs tax free through most of the Prairie West thanks to a Federal statute of that year. Neither o the hold up men nor their cohorts in the Boxcar got any loot prob ably because they were under the impression that the train was holding them up. Quick. Do something apr. In his budget speech or. Walter Gordon said that he had no intention of going on indefinitely shelling out to the provinces. However when the premiers descended on Quebec City for the Federal provincial conference they came loaded for Bear and had every intention of going Back loaded with Federal Money. Or. Gordon thought of something All right the term co operative to make his defeat look less like a rout. In june the Flag epic in. Parliament lasted longer but the film spectacular had More zip. Unlike poor Laocoon or. Pearson was t quite done in by the celluloid Serpent but the rating was As the year wore on ferment around the world increased. There disturbances riots and strife in diverse places civil War continued to rack Viet Nam in Cyprus turks and greeks were methodically eliminating each other Indonesia attacked Malaysia rebellion bubbled in the Congo and in a dozen emerging nations trouble threatened. The in already hard put to keep the lid on the Seething world cauldron was further hampered by the belligerent refusal of Russia and France to pay up their peaces keeping dues. Apr. Puff and Huff and steam the Federal representatives at the Quebec Confer ence did but there was no Way to blow away a of a phrase like contracting however there was no derailment either. Ontario and Quebec agreed to Hook onto the pension train now scheduled to i arrive in 1966. May Premier Roblin came away from the Quebec conference a bit of a hero by Courtesy of his tax Structure committee proposal which was accepted. At Home his position was a Little More awkward. July or. Pearson s Promise of a distinctive National Flag by Christmas was an Uncertain trumpet. Between him and the final joyous proclamation stood five months a tory filibuster and the dwindling of his three Maple leaves to one. Sept. Just about every political technique scientific and otherwise was employed in the no holds barred . Presidential Campaign. The traditionalists in politics were enormously cheered however by the still devastating effect of a Good old fashioned Don t be tossed into an opponent s oratory. That in effect is what president Johnson said to senator Goldwater and the senator s previously inflammatory talk of an atomic Bushfire quickly fizzled. New Tiar oct. The news that red China had exploded its own nuclear device and so forced its admittance into the nuclear club promptly set a number of other nations to nuclear dreaming. In Russia Nikita Khrushchev s dreams for the world were abruptly Over he was peremptorily ousted. Oct. The tax increases announced by Premier Rob Lin higher levies on gasoline tobacco fuel liquor telephones set a lot of Manitoban to recalculating their budgets. The above is Kucys for economic survival. Nov. In the Canadian parliament the Flag debate dragged on. When the now unanimous now not Una Nighous Flag com Mittee brought in its report a number of tory maps who unlike their Leader recognized that the red Ensign was magic carpet Back to Power bailed out. For Britain s tories there was no magic carpet just an Ordinary political Rug pulled out from under them by or. Wilson s labor party. In the ., the political was without Paral Lel. On november 3, president Johnson carried the democratic party to a landslide Victory proving that the majority of americans thought there was considerably More h20 than a in the Coldwater formula for american greatness. Dec. For old Warrior Charlotte was a dark month the electors of Ottawa decisively commanded her an idea that she like Macarthur found unthinkable. In Parlia ment the Marathon Flag debate finally ended and the new single Maple Leaf Banner was hoisted to the top of the Senate flagpole to proclaim that Canada at last had a distinctive Flag with which to wave in a very Happy new year ;