Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 8, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index action 1inb.28 classified 23 to 36 movies Sparta. 16 to z9 deaths 5 television finance 101013 women .13 vol. 73 no. 242 comics winning july 8, 1966 Sun rises Moon rises . Sun lets . Sets 11 20 final edit ice forecast sunny 60 and 80 airline strike , machinist ution Downs tools Washington a machinist Union members began walking off their jobs today in a strike against five major . Airlines. The International association of machinists Al Gio or dered its members work ing for Eastern Northwest National trans world and United airlines to leave their jobs at 6 . Local time. The five airlines normally carry More than Passen Gers daily according to an air lines Survey on flights in the United states and spanning the Globe. President Johnlson. Ordered the civil aeronautics Board to work to minimize inconvenience to the Public and told the defence department to report immediately on any problems that arise. Please see airlines Page 2 Ford workers lid blows off dispute Watson Reeves Haggan resign in protest 4severi Days reported finished Toronto up Douglas Leiterman has lost his Job with the Csc and Reeves Haggan and Patrick Watern have resigned from the corporation. The Csc announced today it has refused to rehire or. Lei Terman As executive producer of the controversial television pro Gram this hour has be v e n Days or. Watson a co Host of seven Days and producer of the pro Gram document said he re signed because he could not re main with lie Csc As it is at present earlier or Haggan resigned As general supervisor of Public affairs at the Csc Over that he called the sordid Maneu j Vres the corporation has been j going to get rid of i or. Leizerman. J it s the end of the or. Leiterman said seven Days is finished and it s sad but that s the please see Csc Page 2 Churchill bolsters tory Edge deferred vote it nip opponent Hudson metro head resigning business requires time says Bonnycastle by Barry came r. H. G. Bonny Cashe 63, will resign from his Post As metro chairman next Friday f almost six years to the Day after he took office. An interim chairman is to be chosen july 18, or. Bonnycastle Reading from a prepared statement told a meeting of metro s finance committee thursday that be cause his business which is about to expand operations into the United states will require much attention much work and involve a great Deal of travel he will have to give up the metro Post before his term expires oct. 26. I feel obliged to resign at this time because of mounting pressures in my personal Busi Ness which Are preventing me i rom devoting the necessary attention to the affairs of the his business interests Are understood to be connected with Tough Battle ahead govern ment s blueprint to Spur com petition i banking and finance May bring higher Bank loan interest rates next year appears destined for months of Idle Cleveland More than Ford motor co. Hourly employees at 13 plants in five states and Canada were Idle today As a result of strike by some employees at the e o m p a n y s three suburban Cleveland plants. Two engine plants and a foun dry were struck wednesday by local 1h50 of the United. Auto workers following a All night bargaining session. A company spokesman said the Union rejected a Ford offer in the final m in utes before a strike the company said operations at its other plants must be fial Ted during the strike in or Der to adjust parts production and Assembly activities to the reduced availability of engines. Dormancy and then a Lough political fight. Finance minister Sharp on the third Day of intermittent de Thompson Man. Up Manitoba s progressive conservative government which won re election j two weeks ago bolstered its slim majority thurs by retaining Churchill constituency in a deferred on Ariss to a Douglas Leiterman won t be rehired please see Tord Page 2 rail men 1 re election conservative i Gordon Beard was reported by i the Canadian press one hour Jand 49 minutes after the 8pm 1cdt close of polls. At that time he held a Small but steadily increasing margin Over his Lone wik Hudson the new democratic party. When counting ended for the night or. Beard was ahead by 2 330 Voles to for or. Hud son with 31 of 42 polls counted. The conservative v i c t o r y gives Premier Duff Roblin s fourth term administration an Over All majority of Fiir in the 57-Meitiber House after appoint ment of a speaker. The liberals did not have a candidate in was disqualified by the returning of seer because his nomination papers were incomplete and it lies have announced they plan court action aimed at invalidating thursday s vote. Though the test of Manitoba voted june 23, the balloting in the Church ill Riding was deferred because of transportation complications arising out of the Spring break up in the North. The conservatives a and the nip threw their biggest guns into a desperate fight for the 57th seat. Premier Roblin and nip Leader Russ Paulley both made p i i Montreal Gen eral conference committee of the associated non operating railway unions representing 000 railway workers belonging to 15 different unions have voted unanimously to reject a conciliation Board report handed Down wednesday by Justice Craig Munroe of Vancouver. The committee also authorized the taking of a strike vote. Under Federal labor Law a strike May be called seven Days after the labor minister receives a conciliation report. A Union spokesman said the complicated process of taking the vote across 4he country probably last a month. Please see Rae Fen Page 4 deat cuts duty by Ken Clark Ottawa up the com bion Leahh Caribbean Canada conference has worked out a new Trade Deal that includes the elimination of Canada s import duty on Caribbean sugar. Formal announcement of the new arrangements is expected today at the conference attended by Canada and j3 common wealth Caribbean countries. Sources say the new agree ment commits Canada to re move the 29 cent a Hundred _ House probe blasted by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff irate Over the Whitewash of Canadian broadcasting. Corporation pro it tiers that emerged m the com pro Britt ral sed a suggestion that Mons broadcasting committee s june Federal government provide report after its inquiry into the Hving allowances in the North opposition parties but social credit opposed it. V the Bill s main feature is the detailed formula by which the present six per cent ceiling on Bank loan interest rates will be raised and when interest rates generally Are lower will be eliminated. If the formula were applied under current scarce credit conditions the interest ceiling Ivor Bonnycastle s i concerns in the Industry. I although he touched Only briefly on the political Back biting which has dogged his six years with metro it is known that this also played some part in his decision to resign. Special meeting faced with the imminent departure of the Man who has charted metro s course since its inception in 1960, members of finance committee which is a comm ure of the whole Council would be seven per but j agreed to hold a special the present six per cent ceiling meeting at . July is to prevails until the new Bank an interim chairman. If passed comes into effect Early next year. Assuming parliament will adjourn shortly for a summer re Cess the Bank act revision will remain on the shelf until fall when it will come up for second j metro chairman r. H. C. Bonnycastle retires for business reasons own paper cups used at the Start metro chairman. With or. Bonny eastly the Man who first breathed life into the dry pages of a government act will go the last of the two of the metro the appointee to be selected Experiment in greater Winnipeg by Barry came j politician was handed he reins i of Power july 19, i960, As a Winnie Eggers will witness p r o v i no i a. 1 g o v e rement appointee during the six years less Only four Days that he will have ser Ved at the policy making Helm. End of an Era of local govern ment next Friday when r. H. G. Bonnycastle Steps Down As by. A majority of the 10 during its formative years. I councillors from own with metro s first sex ranks Anil handle the Job until director Elswood Bole after the oct. 26 metro election retired a cordon Beard beats out wifi Hudson 8nd then go to the commons i government j finance committee. Metro. Please see Tough Page 4 if Council can t agree of a i five Vears or Bonnycastle can new chairman the appointment be Credner with laying the will be made by the provincial which own extremely i competent the fi3-year-old businessman please see metro Page 4 who never quite became a Nightmare descends from sky lethal Spray blankets town by Tim Traynor Argyle Minnesota for the 840 residents of this farming Community 120 Miles due South of Winnipeg. Wednes Day night and thursday morning advert entry used before it was was at first greeted with Dis a noticed. Belief. Cooked out of doors directly under the falling insecticide. As or. Johnson described it i he Ami his relatives had just thursday afternoon the news finished eating their Steak i please see Nightmare Page 4 personal appearances and or. I were a continuing Nightmare. Seven Days controversy some Mern Bers charged Thra Day thai it did not accurately represent the Reeung of a majority of that Calm Nutter some behave that encourage to Taice he Strong land As is done by the soviet Union. The victorious or. Beard is 44, a Thompson businessman who first entered the House in 1962, succeeding fellow conserve stands they have this week against Csc management leading to what is in effect an open revolt. Continued please see House Page j. Or. Hudson is 37, a Mill Mechanic in Lynn Lake with the Sherritt Gordon Nickel mines. Please see Churchill Page 2 Bank will for by Victor Board certificate authorize it to commence business Ottawa staff the be granted until a Cert of Western Canada plans is also issued to the have its Headquarters opened Bank of British Winnipeg and ready to this will not be until the fall deposits before this year because the Bank Coyne expected to has not been passed by the named president of the and Senate. New Bank to be formed by said the group had looked Canadian group in 50 years said Here premises in Winnipeg As possible locations for the new the act to incorporate office. Bank received third and Reading to the Senate f earlier this week it had it " Given third Reading in the commons. It is expected to receive Royal assent in night. It is two years and eight months since first Steps employees Shannon shaffers taken to establish the before the new Bank Iok actually Start doing banking business it has to be issued a certificate by the Sharp and the Biriki or. It tired rusting Iran curtain Between and . Wednesday they had gone out on their front lawns to a Low flying plane make pass after pass Over the town. As participants recalled after it was All Over they had ally known what was going on. The town was getting its annual dusting Down with insecticide to Clit the Mosquito menace. In the Park a Tad gone on undisturbed. On dozens of lawns children turned their faces skyward and thrilled to the aircraft s Roar. In his front Yard de Lane Johnson his sister and brother in Law and their four children had been barbecuing steaks. Then without warning they were being told they had mistakenly been sprayed with Poi son. Members of the Volunteer fire department were going from dentally dropped the wrong insecticide. Instead of a mild mixture of malathion and Dot insecticides the plane they had seen Over head had been spraying the town with potentially deadly Parathion. It was Learned later that an order for malathion was filled but one of three cans contained i the deadly mixture and. Main Street of Argyle Minnesota looked Fike a ghost town thursday. Page Page by Maurice Western Ellen Simmons please so Deal Page 2 Board. Or Coyne at a press con Ference Here thursday said it was the understanding of tace Bank organizers Fiat trea circulation City 92.sb9 j total 3 18 Volunteer department photos by Caine washes Down Hie afre ets of Argyle Minnesota he has seen metro Frow from Small beginnings in a one desk office on the second floor of the Imperial Oil building at 100 main Street to the present Multi million Dollar setup which ebb ploys thousands of people. Here s How he described tils first offices during Al interview shortly after his appointment they Imperial Oil Lent me a desk and a chair. I stole some paper envelopes paper clips and so on from my own Busi Ness. Then 1 contributed of my own Money to establish a Petty Cash fund for myself i went but and bought some Carbon paper and things out of my own pocket. I hired a temporary stenographer and rented a typewriter for her i did t know at this Point if i need place for a staff of 20 or i put the Steno to work some of the Early letters and so on that s when i began to lose contrast that situation with the present metro setup in that same building. See businessman Page 4 Wilson Downs critics by Karl Meyer London special to pets Harold Wilson the cocky prime minister of great Britain dealt with three kinds of Viet Nam difficulties thursday right and australian and managed somehow to keep Ali of them under control. His big Victory was in the House of commons where is policy of qualified support for the United states in Viet Nani was endorsed by a vote of 299 to 230. Total left Wing abstention was estimated from 25 to 30 votes meaning he carried his labor party overwhelmingly with him. Earlier parliament had rejected by to 230 an opposition conservative party motion that criticized his government for not being pro american enough. Finally or Wilson dealt indirectly with another visiting prime minister Harold halt who in a press conference thursday had expressed disappointment that Britain disassociated itself from United states raids on Oil depots near Hanoi and Haiphong. In parliament or Wilson maintained that Britain was in quite a different position irem Australia Sinee this country is co chairman with the soviet Union of the Geneva conference cent please set Wal Joyc ;