Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, July 06, 1966

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 6, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index action line 38 classified 38 to 44 movies 53 comics 31 49 deaths 15 Tele Siwwi so teance is to 25 Winnipeg free press final edition first 1-16 vol-73 no. 240 Price Loc Winnipeg wednesday july 6, 1966 Sun rises . Moon Mes Sun lets . Mot Seu .. Forecast sunny 50 75 stage set for rail strike non operating employees Likely to reject terms liberals draw together plans for seven Days Toronto up the Globe and mail says non operating railway employees will set the stage j for a strike and inevitable government intervention by refusing to accept a wage increase recommended by the chairman of two conciliation boards. J in Ottawa a labor department announcement wednesday said a Federal conciliation Board split three ways in recommending pay increases Over a two year period for non operating railway employees the labor ment announced today. Sharp proposes eventual removal of ceiling on. Loan rates Ottawa. Up finance minister Mitchell Sharp proposed in the com Mons tuesday eventual removal of the six per cent ceiling on Bank loan in Terest rates. Government peppered Ottawa up opposition or. Sharp was flailed for not Bank loan interest removal. He depart parties chose the Shotgun a i spelling out just How far a picture of or. Sharp proach tuesday night to Pepper j plans to raise the interest rate and Watter Gordon former i Board chairman so Craig Munroe a judge of the British Columbia supreme court pro posed pay increases every six months retroactive to Jan. I. 1966, which he estimated would amount to an. Average increase in earnings by the end 1967 of More than 47 cents an hour. The government s proposed Bank act changes. Finance minister Sharp who introduced the Resolution which proposes raising the six per cent ceiling on Bank loan interest rates and eventually eliminating it i opposition Baker fire. Leader die Fen tone of the attack. His proposal called for four i rarely being specific in his Cri Jer cent increases Jan. Ceiling and when will do away with it entirely. Min ister said the Best guide was to fix the amount and Liming to credit conditions and watch the average Market yield on Short term government Bonds. As for the Fine print the min ister said Bill based on the Resolution would Supply most of it. Nance minister heading opposing factions within the caucus. Unity at any Price is apparently the o b j e c t i v e of the amendments that have been decided a great Deal of soothing syrup had Beon applied. See opposition Page 14 the move to be preceded by a shifting increase in the cur tent rate holds the seeds of political controversy. The Issue is said to have stirred conflict within the lib eral party and at times there were reports the minister Leiterman Renews attack on Csc management Toronto up a series of decisions by the Csc involving its dispute Ridden Toronto operations was followed today by an announcement from Douglas Leiterman executive producer of the controversial this hour has seven Days that he is suspending the production of seven Days fall programming Imine Platey. Or. Leiterman also said in a statement that he understands the producers of three other Public affairs programs Are considering similar action. He said the seven Days a was t Able to win the whole forced by tee total hearted support of the caucus. Our j the Csc management which tuesday announced five Deci at a press conference follow is Olla after a director meeting ing his speech on the Resolution preceding introduction of a re Vised Bank word please see storm Page 12 one was an offer to or. Leiter a Man to produce seven Days j again next season. Please see plans Page 14 Johnson exudes optimism Gold bar found find attributed to ramp says chief Maltby the Long lost 12th Gold bar of the great March Gold robbery at Winnipeg International Airport has been recovered. St. James police chief George Maltby in making the announce ment wednesday attributed the find entirely to the ramp. No farther arrests were plan Ned he said. However All police officials Are keeping tight lipped about details of the recovery. Managers of Madsen and Campbell red Lake mines in Ontario had not heard of the recovery when called by i the free press at 11 . Wednesday. Nor had air Canada or a a. We airlines concerned the robbery of the Diefenbaker Drew tic ism of the proposals be j or. July. 1, and Jan. 1, blasted them for not following j chortle As he read from news and six per cent july 1, recommendations of the Porter paper reports of alleged Zberat for a two year total of 18 per Jroy Ai Ott banking caucus disagreement Over the cent. A. Gordon Cooper Board Nom Inee of the Canadian National. Canadian Pacific and six smal Ler railway companies recommended a per cent boost retroactive to Jan. 1, 1s66, with three per cent increases at six month intervals to july 1, 1967, for a total of 12 .2 per cent. He estimated the series of in creases would average 28 cents an hour Over the two year per Rod please see stage Page 10 to seek deferred payment United Grain growers will ask the Federal government to Reinsl tute deferred settlement payments to Farmers to Clear out Grain being held of farms for income tax reasons and to Speed up rail shipment of Grain. In a Telephone interview wednesday Louis Driscoll general manager of unit e d Grain cowers said that from 194t to 1961 Farmers were allowed to deliver Grain to an elevator and. In return they would be Given a document stating the Grain s Worth. Please see to seek Page 10 Nicklaus under Par has Lead Mil afield Scotland up Jack Nicklaus the favorite to Day took an Early Lead in the first round of the 72-Hole British open Golf championship with a 70. Nicklaus 26-year-old Ameri can who has won All the ranking tournaments except the British open reached the turn in 37, one Over Par but came Home in a Brilliant defending Champion Peter Thomson 36, of Australia who has won the event five times in his career also took 37 on the outward half and finished with a 73. Earlier Doug slanders of the United states and Scotland s 27-year-old Amateur Champion Ronnie Shade had shared the Lead with Early rounds of 71. Banks business slam proposals by the Canadian press a. Earle Mclaughlin chair Man and president of the Royal Bank of Canada said tuesday night the proposed establish ment of a new Crown Corpora Tion to insure deposits in chartered Banks is a Shock and is unnecessary. The proposed action by the Federal government was announced in the commons by finance minister Sharp who said the corporation also would in sure deposits in other federally incorporated institutions accept ing deposits from the Public. Or. Mclaughlin said in an interview in Montreal that the proposal As it affects chartered Banks is an unnecessary re Flection on the Canadian chartered has t been a Bank thur Hill votes thursday voters in the top half of Manitoba will begin flocking to the polls thursday in a deferred election to decide just How much leeway the Roblin administration will have in the next legislature. With eligible voters in the Over Square Miles of the Churchill constituency the vote is expected to be heavy. Progressive conservative a Cumbest Gordon Beard 44, a Thompson business Man is facing a Tough fight with new democratic party candidate Wilf Hudson 37, a Lynn Lake Mill Mechanic for the Berritt. Gordon Nickel mines. If or. Hudson should upset or. It would Cut the Over All majority held by the conservatives in the Manitoba legislature to two votes. Should or. Beard hold his own in the face of a predicted Strong Union vote from the mining towns the Roblin administration would have an advantage of four votes in the House. Present standings in the 57 seat House As a result the june 23 general election in the rest of the province Are conservatives 30 liberals 14 nip 11 and social credit one. Please see Churchill Page 14 a Deposit insurance is not he said. It would be a tax on the efficient for the Bene fit of the Charles Neapolen president of the Montreal and Canadian Slock exchanges said com petition and not controls is the Way to regulate interest j rates. He said lie disagrees with or. Sharp s statement that Large borrowers who could and should be seeking funds in the Market Are obtaining funds from the Banks which would otherwise be available to the Small Bor or Neapolen said every single Bank has tried to make sure that the Small fellow is be Jig looked Marcel Faribault president of the Trust general do Canada said the ceiling on Bank loan in Terest rates should be raised but its total disappearance is an other or. Faribault said the pro posed insurance of deposits in please see Bank Page 1.4 Johnson City Texas i Tomo r. A t u Cial tons John b in route from the mines son told an outdoor news con to the Royal Canadian mint Ference at his ranch Home tues Day that . Diplomatic reports indicate the communist forces in Viet Nam no longer expect a military if we could Only solve the problem in Viet Nam and we think we Are on the Way to doing that we could have a world that is rather peaceful and generally the president said. Otherwise the president re fused to speculate about future except to say in another connection that additional men and equipment will be required in Viet Nam. Trans air was named owner of the Gold in charges against the five men charged in the robbery. A spokesman said i wish you could Tell us where it was found. I d like to in a conversation with the ramp Here the free press asked up Why the silence Are you hoping to arrest More people ramp i understand chief Maltby has released a statement about that we have the statement to other police de 100 communists killed thai police claim Bangkok Reuters thai police officials said wednesday Thrier men helped by army troops killed More than 100 communists captured about 800 suspects and received the surrenders of some during the last two weeks in drives in North Eastern and Southern Thailand. To open Stampede Calgary . Sen Ator Robert f. Kennedy his family and some guests flew to the Rocky Mountain resort Cen tre of Jasper alta., after a Brief Airport Stopover Here tuesday night. One of sen. Kennedy s first concerns on meeting City and Calgary Stampede officials was to discover where he could spend some time fishing and camping. Accompanied by his wife and seven of their nine children he was to return to Calgary Fri Day flight. He is scheduled to open the six Day. Calgary Stam Pede monday. The senator has been invited to attend either a Barbecue or a football g4me saturday pre Stampede breakfast thrown annually by senator Harry Hays of Calgary sunday morning. Kennedy s Host is newspaper publisher Max Bell of Calgary. Senator and mrs. Robert Kennedy were presented with White Cowboy hats during a Brief stay in Calgary tuesday night. They were in route to Jasper Alberta. Calgary s mayor Jack Leslie made the presentation. Bieh just 5 Bays Sydney Australia at for five Days mrs. Tingle of suburban Northbridge had the largest private Bant account in Australia and did not know it. Her fleeting Good Fortune came to an end when she went to her Branch of the Commonwealth savings Bank to make a withdrawal. I waited patiently for about 15 mrs. Tin Gle said. Then i noticed several of the tellers looking at me surreptitiously. T went Over and asked them Why there was a delay. A Feller asked me whether i had made a Deposit recently and i said yes f 26.45. He then asked me whether i had not made a mis take and deposited instead. Unfortunately the mistake was tha Bank a not mine. Their machine had added a Row of zeros to the balance in my Bank Book. Stilt it is Nice to have been a even though if was Only for five he called on the american people As he did in speeches last week in Omaha and Des Moines to give greater support to their fighting men. The president announced that Secretary of defence Robert Mcnamara expected to be Able to Cut Back on the production of ammunition and Aerial weapons in the next three to six months. Or. Mcnamara s the president said informed him that the production of ammunition and Aerial weapons this month will exceed consumption. It May prove desirable to reduce the planned rates of production substantially to avoid the kind of expensive surplus of equipment on hand at the end of the korean conflict the presi Dent said. At the time or. Mcnamara s report said there was approximately Billioni Worth of surplus and useless material on hand. Please see Johnson Page 14 he then know the facts ramp i can t add to that. Up can you say whether it was Winnipeg ramp or another detachment ramp i can t add to that up again Why Are you being silent please see Gold Page 14 negroes shot Whites held Sacramento Calif Shotgun blasts from a moving car killed two negro transients tuesday night in Sacramento s skid Road area. Police arrested three White men but said they had notes a abolished a motive police chief Joseph Rooney said there were no Over tones to the shooting. . Jets Dodge missiles Saigon a american warplanes dodged 27 to 29 so Viet made missiles Over North Viet Nam tuesday during one of the heaviest raiding Days of the War a . Spokesman announced. It was the largest number of surface to air missiles expended in one Day but the american spokesman said none of the american raiders were hit by the Sams. The missiles were fired from Sites in the red River Valley 50 to 115 Mijes North and North West of Hanoi. . Air pilots reported wrecking four of the Sites and also hitting two filet depots within 33 Miles of the North vietnamese capital. Oae of the Oil storage areas was 28 mites North of Hanoi the other 33 Miles Northwest. Please see us. Jets Page 10 gop hopefuls cavort at meet today s inside stories dog strangled Page 3 favourites dominate ladies. Page 46 editorial Pace the Caim Jian revolution Bruce Hutchison news cordon Holland general de Jullo visit tha .s.r. . Cire Patton City Zow sz.s99 total 1z7.35k Reagan purrs for press As Romney evangelizes9 gov. Coerce Romney by Julius Duscha los Angeles special tons two rising Republican stars an evangelist and an actor held Centre stage at the National Gover nors conference tuesday. The evangelist George Romney of Michigan delivered a rousing revivalist speech on the sins of big Federal government and the p r o m i s e d land of responsible St a the govern ment. His pulpit was the meeting of the los Angeles town Hall forum. The actor Ronald Rea Gan the Republican nominee for governor of California read its political lines in a polished performance at a press conference. The Bof Juey and Reagan styles Are markedly diff but their ser inns were surprisingly the same All government must do less with the Federal govern ment relinquishing Power to the states. Gov. Romney the the kind of Man who can make a political cliche such As the l Khoiee is ours sound like a sentence from the Sermon on the mount. Conservatively but expend Shacty dressed his grading hair and jutting him the look of a fictional governor or president gov. Romney flailed his arms and shouted his by now Well known and Well worn message at Bis town Hall audience of several Hundred we 11 a r e s s e d men and women. Or Reagan wearing a dark Blue Blazer with gleaming Gold buttons spoke quietly As he gave familiar answers to equally familiar questions about the issues in California his personal political philosophy and his political Sumbi Tiosh. As or. Reagan talked it was hard to believe that he was Only four years younger than the gov Romney. With his Black hair flecked with just a touch of Gray at the temples and his relatively unlined face or Reagan seemed to be hardly 40. Despite or. Reagan s pro please see Reagan Page 10 Reagan ;