Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 6, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Indian Metis crafts in today s Leisure Section to and radio guide Trade Parley on to Bochner in festival play coloured comic Section Western Canada s finest comics plus All the special features in the regular Section pages j 20 Section pases 21 e4 Section pages 35 54 Section pages 55-68 Index 1 2 3 4 Rulef Nncy entry form a xxx ,40 where fitness counts 10 a look at oj1bwa culture 13 polio victim s Story 21 Are we cheating indians 21 the role of zoos 23 editorial classified obituaries birth notices sports fats decides five Consols entries background 34 deaths 6 sports 55 to 59 Church 32, 33 finance 64 to 44 travel 25 to 27 class. 38 to 53 letters 40 women s comics 34, 37 movies 29 13 to in airline costs overstated province contends Mcgregor out million on base the Thompson commission was told Friday that air Canada president Gordon r. Mcgregor overstated by million the Cost of Basing dc-9 jets in Winnipeg. Arthur Mauro counsel for the Manitoba govern ment made the Contention. Or. Mauro s argument was based on figures in the Dixon Speas report. The report pre pared by the new York Engi Neering management consulting firm in 1963, recommended immediate closing of the Winnipeg base for economic reasons. Retention of discounts in Winnipeg until 1973 would Cost air Canada s30 million the report contended. A million loss would be suffered Between 1963 and 1973 by the a line if both the dc-9 and the based Here the report added. Or. Mauro during Cross examination of or. Mcgregor Friday noted that the Cost difference Between just Basing the discounts Here and Basing both the vis counts and jets was Only Mil lion according to report figures. The discounts overhaul prob ably will remain in Winnipeg until 1973, or. Mcgregor told the commission Friday. Thursday he had said that Basing of the jets in Winnipeg would be. Unthinkable because it would mean a Cost penalty of million to air Canada. Or. Mauro. Also said air can Ada was compelled to keep the discounts in Winnipeg until 1973 because this was now the policy of the Federal government. Or. Mcgregor during his Cross examination claimed that the Only indication we have had from the government concerning the whole matter has been the appointment of this commis he claimed that air Canada had never been told about a Federal government policy. Senator flays Johnson critics Washington democratic Leader Mike mans Field said Friday president Johnson has been subjected to Unwar rant e d embarrassment and badgering because he did not Send vice president Hubert h. Humphrey to sir Winston Churchill s funeral. Discussion of the delegation s composition on the indecent and the ontarian said in a statement. Master by nabbed kuai4 Bumpur. Reuters a master spy said to have links with peking has been arrested at Kuala Bumpur air port malaysian prime minister Turku Abdul Rahman said to Day. He said the agent carried a Large of Money and was to have played a leading part in assisting dissident politicians to set up a rebel Rahman said the spy had International connections including links with peking. However he said he did not want to disclose the nationality or identity of the agent because a government report was being prepared on the affair. Malaysia and Indonesia have been fighting an undeclared War since the federation was. Formed ago., czechs buy million bushels the Canadian wheat. Board Friday announced Sale of about bushels of wheat to Czechoslovakia. At going prices4he no. 3 and no. 4 grades Northern wheat involved is Worth about shipment isto be made through St. Lawrence ports at the Spring opening of Navi gation. The Sale was made under an agreement reached previously Between Czechoslovakia and Canada. Free press final edition phone we 3-9331 Price Loc. With coloured comics 15c vol. .72 no. 112 Winnipeg saturday february 6, 1965 a Jef Sio sunny and colder -10 and -5. Caucus backs to i diet s a Lar m o Elf isl Al -c7. Cd heavy support Given tory Leader As he confronts meeting by Victor Mackie Ottawa progressive conservative Leader John Diefenbaker car ried the fight for his political career into the special meeting of the party s National executive Here saturday taking with him the virtually unanimous vote of Confidence from the tory parliamentary caucus. The National Leader under at tack by a group of conserva Tives who want the chief to step quietly into retirement and pave the Way for a leadership convention was confident he would also win the end oration of the executive. But it would be a Tough fight with a stronger opposition than he had encountered Friday in the caucus. Camp Speaks shortly before 11 . Cost the morning session of the Exi cd Tive meeting broke up for lunch. During the morning Dalton Camp president of the progressive conservative association spoke to the delegates. National Leader John Diefenbaker made a lengthy speech and Leon Balcer Quebec tory Leader read the letter from the Quebec caucus which had called for a convention. Siegfried Enns. My for por Tage Neepawa reported this meeting is certainly not As enthusiastic As the caucus. Or. Diefenbaker is in rare form and has been delving Back into the history of the party. He mentioned or. Balcer by or. Camp said he had no idea when the meeting would finally break up. It could possibly go into sunday. Leon Balcer Quebec tory Leader and the Man who Spirk de the latest revolt against the Diefenbaker leadership attended he executive meeting. He had boycotted the caucus. Parties split f on school Aid Roblin demands grit nip majority favor any shared services legislation a limited form of shared services for Church operated schools in Manitoba including free transportation and text books was recommended Friday by a committee of the legislature but Premier Duff Roblin said his government would not feel obligated to proceed with legislation unless the committee s report receives majority approval of every party in the House. John Diefenbaker hell learn his Fate today Leon Balcer sparked the revolt Victory today shut. Nations pin Hope on Thant United nations Britain disclosed Friday that with a number of other Mem Ber countries it had proposed to United nations Secretary general u Thant he take the initiative in trying to reach an agreement on the problem of in . Thant was told that this would provide the Best Hope of averting a . Soviet show Down Over. General Assembly voting rights that might do grave and perhaps lasting dam age to the in no matter who won. Lord Cardon the chief in British Delegate gave the suggestions to Thant. A British delegation spokes Man would not say How Many member countries were associated in the move. But he said please see in Page 5 or. Balcer was hopeful As the executive meeting got underway that members of the executive rom across the country would confirm his belief that there was mounting opposition to or. Kie a Baker remaining at the Helm. There were persistent reports hat an influential group of tories might try to persuade the chief to go soon with dig but or. Diefenbaker was con Vinced that the executive would get the message from the Cau Cus. The message that overwhelmingly the caucus had voiced Confidence in his Leader ship. He had emerged from the tour hour caucus Friday Delight a temporary reprieve Only by Peter c. Newman Ottawa special this weekend John Diefenbaker faces the most serious insurrection Ever mounted against he Leader of a major Canadian political movement. As this report is being the outcome of the latest Challenge to his Leader ship is unknown but every indication Points to a Victory for the indomitable Man from Prince Albert. If it comes it Wil i be a hollowed and exultant Over the support j Triumph because be based he had received. Not on John Diefenbaker s Abil Ity to reunify his party but rather on the sheer strength of yes votes he met his critics head on in the show Down caucus. He took he floor at the outset of the no and dealt scornfully with he Back stabbing attacks that he conservative party was prone to make on its leaders. He did not plead for support. As he had a year ago at the conservative association s annual meeting he said he knew where he stood but he wanted to know where the caucus stood. He wanted it Laid on the line that the caucus was supporting him he was not tendering any resignation nor was he suggest no that he was prepared to go on. Indefinitely. But he wanted the caucus to show him in no Uncertain terms hat it was behind him. He got hat stand up vote at the end of the meeting. Several sources said that when it came time for a vote Only the yes votes were called for leaving a number of members the estimate varied from 12 to 20 without a Chance to Register their vote. Please see die Page 5 his personality and on the failure of tie conservative dissidents to Field an alternate Leader. Despite the drama of he moment it will be a temporary reprieve which will sea Rudy interrupt the erosion of John Diefenbaker s Public or private reputation. The events that led up to this most recent attempt to unseat him prove that or. Die on Baker s View of Canada and his place in it is no longer 1he same As that of most thoughtful conservatives. They remain his debtors for having saved their party from oblivion but they also recognize his fatal flaw that he desires Power with single minded ferocity and believes it can be perpetuated through a continuing series of backroom manoeuvres such As Are on display in Ottawa this weekend. Limited View while he was prime minister of Canada John Diefenbaker s limited View of the political Willis term extended As lieutenant governor Errick Willis by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff Hon. Or Rick Willis lieutenant governor of Manitoba since Jan. 15, 1960 has been asked to carry on in that High office until june 30, it Learned Here saturday from government sources. Prime. Minister l. A. Pearson has sounded out the lieutenant governor to see if he would be prepared to continue in1 office until this summer and has agreed. This Means that there will be no appoint sent of a successor to or. Willis until the summer and he will take office on july 1 -.appointed, by it. Pri. He was prune minister. Process was clearly evident Only to those who sat with him in the Cabinet chamber but his behaviour in opposition has prompted widespread disillusionment m the rank and file of his party culminating in the current leadership crisis. I Eyer since that april morn reals for having robbed him of my 22 months ago when he to goves Merit House to give up his Seal of office John Diefert bakery has dedicated his very considerable political talents to one All consuming Pas Sion revenge against the lib a new Leader in near future by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff the conservative in the Federal Field is on the Way to having a. New National loader in the not suggests Liaison body by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff opposition Leader John Diefken Baycer has proposed to the National executive the establishment of two committees to keep the National executive in closer touch with the Leader and caucus to Cope with problems that come up frequently during the session. The committees would consist of an advisory committee and a policy committee and in or. Diefenbaker s words arid would keep them in closer touch with the grass or. Diefenbaker circulated among the Large corps of re porters and among the delegates at the noon hour break up of the National executive meeting. He exchanged quips with news men said he never Felt better but refused to discuss the ques Tion of his leadership. Asked if he believed that a general election was close at hand fact that prime minister Pearson denies the possibility assures me of its several delegates described or. Diefenbaker s committee proposals As a diversionary ploy designed to take the attention away from the leadership ques e. Davie Fulton British Columbia progressive1 conservative Leader said the atmosphere during the morning session was very the meeting was attended by Over 120 delegates. Several Dele Gates declared they had been sent with specific instructions from their local organizations on How to vote indicating in Many that they would be Vot ing for i1 leadership convention. Too Distant future. That impression was gained by several tories who attended the caucus Friday arid Enthus voted Confidence in the leadership of it. Hon. John Diefenbaker. The impression was just with those who wanted the chief to retire now but was privately voiced by others who strongly support him in the cur rent leadership crisis. The Quebec group that had launched the move to try and push or. Diefenbaker out of his Post had moved at the wrong was the consensus among a number of conservatives re counting their reactions to the four hour caucus. Had the men who want or. Diefenbaker sided their time the party would have been More ready later Date to accept the idea of the departure of the Man who led please see Mackie Page 6 what he considers to have been his unexpired mandate from the Canadian people. In this he has been spectacularly successful. The Pearson stunned by the unrelenting Diefenbaker Brand of criticism has staggered from crisis to crisis scarcely Able to govern. Aided by his colleagues the conservative Leader has succeeded in revealing some astonishing lapses of judgment among the Liberal front Bench ers. But the Man who leads her majesty s opposition has a higher duty than the destruction of the government in Power and it is in his failure to recognize this fact that John Diefenbaker has damaged his reputation. Caucus cheers no matter How rousing will not revive it. In the past 22 months John Diefenbaker has shown himself incapable of formulating Altern ate government policies. By his devious tactics he has tarnished his name As a parliamentarian. Worst of All by his heedless alienation of French Canada he s proven himself to be a Man who can unite neither his party nor the. Country at Large. Opposition leaders unlike prime ministers operate away from the compromising pres sures of governing. They can act according to their own ethics and draft their own version of the Canadian future. Instead of advocating bold new policies or. Diefenbaker has attempted to resolve nation Al issues simply by attacking the liberals and coming Down please see Newman Page 6 this Means that a simple majority vote in the House will not Lead to enactment of the shared services plan which Premier Roblin introduced into the legis lature last year. The Premier s position which would set a precedent in Mani Toba brought charges that the government was trying to put the onus of passing the shared services legislation on the opposition. Manitoba new democratic party Leader Russ Paulley a member of the committee declared that the suggestion by Premier Roblin that the govern ment would not feel bound to act even if it had a majority in the House was most first you say that this ques Tion must be resolved without becoming involved in party poli tics and on the highest plane and then you say the onus is on the said or. Paul Levy Douglas Campbell also a committee Mem Ber agreed with or. Paulley if the government follows this pro please see committee Page 5 school scheme rapped Catholic protestant and Educa Tion Thaye unanimously rejected proposed shared services pro Gram just approved by a legislature committee. The program passed by the committees government majority Friday will offer free texts transportation and other Public school services to private and parochial students. It will now be submitted for consideration at the despite the committee s action members of various me rested groups said saturday they Don t think the proposed program will be a Success. Catholic spokes men said the program does t go far enough while protestant and Public school officials criticized grounds of representing the Catholic View Point Arthur Mauro of the Mani Toba association for Equality in education said the shared ser vices scheme does t begin to solve the problems of parochial students and then parents. Or. Mauro said the offering of free text Sand transportation will slightly Case the financial Burden on Catholic parents. He said he strongly favors this move but it does t come any where near to a solution to the problem. Our idea was that parochial institutions should be treated As Catholic Public schools. Then the Catholic schools would be eligible for such other needed benefits such As teacher he said. Winnipeg school trustee and Rew said the shared services program is absolutely please see reaction Page 5 free textbooks and bus covered in conclusions a draft recommendation on How shared services to parochial schools should operate in Mani Toba was passed by a legislative committee Friday with dissenting votes from the. Liberal and new democratic party members of. The committee. Here Are the draft conclusions in full conclusions 1. The principle of shared ser vices May no usefully be considered in isolation from its practical operations. 2. Problems in the practical operations of shared services anticipated by the briefs were Many and varied although Sonie thought that with an Effort of Goodwill and commen sense those problems might be overcome. 3. A limited form of shared service has been operated in the school Winnipeg St. Vital and Kelsey Detri ment to the Public school sys tem. 4. In one school District both Public and private school authorities expressed a desire to Experiment with the practical oper looking for an a Toboggan this want and under miscellaneous. Articles for Sale 50 a Toboggan Reg i Jar Selling for 5750. Castle-2_-3437, is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you and save in free press action of shared services in their District 5. The following recommendations Are made shared services Are now offered they should be allowed to continue in addition to Ca where divisions or districts wish to undertake shared services on an experimental and voluntary they should be allowed to do so provided the service is a regular service normally offered within the Public schools and under the control and management of the Public school authorities and provided fur ther that As a Protection to the Public school system tie private is an elementary school at least one class please see report Page 5 ;