Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index action line s2 classified 14 to 27 sports 41 to 49 comics a 52 stay s deaths. Television 34 finance. 37 to 39 Garden column 32 movies. 35 Winnipeg free press final edition first Section pages 1-12 vol. 73 no. 247 10r with inc comics Winnipeg thursday july 14, 1966 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun. Sets . Moon sets forecast Cloudy 55 and 80 medical care Bill shelved Pearson gets House Leader off parliamentary Hook Ottawa up prime minister Pearson re versed ground on the government s medical care Bill wednesday to bail out his House Leader George Mcilraith from troubles with the opposition conservative party informants say. They say an apparent mis understanding with. Michael Starr the conservative House Leader might have permanently damaged or. Mell Raith s reputation with the conservatives had the medical care Bill been pushed Forward to second read in principle. Instead health minister Mac-1 each a told the commons when i it opened wednesday the government would not insist on Sec Ond Reading As he had announced tuesday night. Informants say or. Mac Eachen based his tuesday night announcement of a weekend meeting at Harrington the prime minister s summer continued please see medical Page 9 eight bloc not the Molat Western. Liberals Are not interested in forming a Power bloc to go to Ottawa and demand things. Liberal Leader Gildas Mol Gat said thursday. At a press conference after his return from a planning meeting of Western Liberal leaders in Calgary wednesday the Manitoba Leader said a full scale conference in Saskatoon next month would at sound proposals to Benefit All Canada and not just Gimme sixty to 70 Manitoba liberals Are expected to attend the policy conference aug. 12 and 13 in the bes Borough hotel Sas Katoon to Hammer out a new Western voice of liberalism. The chairman will be Roy Matas president of the Liberal party of Manitoba. Please see Power bloc age 10 Hospital strike deferred Montreal up e strike threatened for today by non medical workers of 139 Quebec hospitals was re ported deferred Fox. An unspecified period As Lith hour meet Ings continued. Yves Pratte provincially appointed mediator of the dispute sparked the meeting. The strike originally was scheduled to begin at Midnight wednesday. The deadline then was deferred until 7 . Edt today. Word coming out of the Over night meeting indicated the 7 . Deadline had been sus Pended. Reporters waiting Side room received Little exact information about the strike s status. Apparently the deadline was to be put Back on an hour to. Hour basis consistent with How the talks progressed. Or. Pratte during the Early hours of the meet in g was briefed on the workers de mands by Emile Dalipe of the confederation of National Trade unions Cantu to which the employees Union the National federation of services is affiliated. Negotiations were reported to have begun after the briefing. Management was represented by Paul Emile Olivier head of the hospitals negotiating com Mittee. The talks were scheduled to resume about 10 . Despite the deferment report there was fear that some of the employees involved might not get any official message to that effect in time to avoid their passing up work. I Carazo Amurao sole survivor girls strangled knifed in Nightmare Isle massacre police tracking Down tall Young Man Chicago a eight student nurses were strangled and knifed to death in their dormitory Early today in what one official called the crime of the one girl escaped to Tell of the horror. Police sought a Man described As to Jug and tall in connection with the massacre. A Man wearing a blood stained White shirt was seized in mid morning in downtown Chicago after he had attempted to Purchase an airline ticket to new Orleans. However police said later lie did not match the description of the Man sought. In what Fri officials termed the worst crime within their recollection the victims aged 21 to 23, were killed singly ing a. Slaughter Binge. One Young woman was strangled in a downstairs living room of the two Storey Brick town House on East 100th Street used by South Chicago Hospital As a dormitory. The scene is a Liddle class neighbourhood in the City s far Southeast Section. The survivor miss Carazo Amurao 23. An Exchange Stu Dent from the Philippines said she escaped death by hiding under a bed. She was in a Semi hysterical condition when she told her Story to police but she described a Lone killer with blonde hair six feet one Inch tall and weighing about 170 pounds. Miss Amurao said she was one of several girls penned in an upstairs of three bedrooms on the second floor she said she was up stairs House when Gloria Davy 23, of Dyer first encountered the killer. It was first believed that miss Davy opened the door to the killer but e d w a r d sheeny South Chuago p o 1 i c e com Mander said that it appeared he had entered through a rear Kitchen window on the first floor. Miss Amurao was quoted As saying she overheard him say that he Only wanted Money to go to new Orleans and that he would not Hurt As far As police could reconstruct the crime immediately the intruder strangled miss Davy and then went upstairs where five of the girls were in bed or ready to retire. This was at about . The killer bound the wrists of the five with stockings and locked them in the bedroom within an hour three other Stu Dent nurses returned to the Dor Mitory after finishing their night shift duties at the Hospi Tal afew blocks away please see maniac Page 10 record Grain crop planted Farmers get Good Breaks on moisture markets Ottawa Farmers respond ing to favourable moisture and Market conditions have planted a record acres of wheat the Dominion Bureau of statistics reports. Most of the crop is making Good Progress. J the 1966 total exceeded pension hiked to by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff health minister Allan Maceachen announced in the commons today a new program pro Viding a guaranteed mini mum monthly income of for old age the program will Likely Start Jan. 1, 1967. Details Are now being worked oat. They will be presented to parliament for approval this fall. Estimated annual Cost to the Treasury will be around at the Start. Britain props Pound the 1966 total exceeded the previous High of acres established in 1964. The record total is also seven Pel cent higher than the 1965 acreage of and far High than the 1954-s3 average of included in the current total is acres of durum wheat a 35 per cent increase last year. The Survey by the Federal Agency also showed a Sharp de Cline in acreage sown to Sev eral other grains. Oat acreage of was Down six. Per cent from last year. Eye at was Down 16 per cent. Flaxseed dropped off 16 per cent to and rapeseed three per cent to i running Agai St the trend i Barley was up a. Huge 20 per cent at More than off setting the oat decline to pro please see record Page 12 jobless total Nota revision asked Loir blows. London map Britain to Day raised the official Bank in Terest rate to seven per cent from six per cent to make Money tighter at Home and prop up the sagging Pound. The move came As prime minister Wilson sought to Check inflation and inspire Confidence n the Pound Sterling to foreign Exchange markets. The rate sets the pattern for interest rates throughout the Sterling bloc. Official sources reported the labor government also is considering a still lower ceiling on its wage guideline increase but has ruled out a wage and Price freeze for the present emergency measures were under review As Britain appeared heading into a new eco nomic crisis of stagnant production rising wages and pres sure on the Pound. The increase in the Bank rate had been generally expected. Please see Britain. Page 12 drops Ottawa up unemployment at mid june dropped to from in May and 257.000 in Jane of last year it was reported today. The unemployed rate was 3.1 per cent of the labor Force compared with 3.3 per cent a month earlier and 3.5 per cent in june 1965. Adjusted to eliminate seasonal factors the mid june rate was 3.7 per cent. Men and women found new employment in a Broad Indus trial Range most notably serv ice construction and maa fac Turing industries. Employment in agriculture dropped slightly. For unemployed persons years of age and Over jobs opened up a june. But this was largely offset with the entry of teen agers into the labor Market As schools closed. Please see jobless Page 9 this the scene outside the town House dormitory on Chicago s South Side where eight student nurses were found slain Early today. De gauge blasts . Over Viet Nam War by Waverley Root Paris special tons has never been so total Between Gen. De gauge and a front Page head line in Paris Presse said wednesday night. This is the conclusion drawn nato crisis Over Ball tells senators by Mark Etc Marder w a s h in g t 0 n special tons undersecretary of state George Ball hopefully peered Over the tall head of Charles de Gaulle wednesday to conclude that reversions to nationalism Are a localized and transient phenomenon. Or. Ball told the Senate foreign relations committee there is no evidence that the French president s recent Moscow trip produced any soviet French Deal on Europe. Diplomat Ball blanched Zynen sen. Bourke b. Hickenlooper Republican Iowa bluntly suggested that Gen. De Gaulle probably tried to work out a Nutcracker relationship with the soviet Union to put Germany in the said or. Ball i would t put it that he said he understood that France and Russia simply stated separate views on Europe. A permanent East West settlement cannot be achieved by please see nato Page n from a comparison Between president Johnson s statements on Viet Nam tuesday and what Gen. De. Gaulle said the same Day on the occasion of visit to Paris of King Savang Vatthana of Laos Gen. De Gaulle s remarks took the strongest anti american position he has yet assumed. His harshest pronouncement came in the Toast he proposed after the state dinner at the Elysee in which he said. France condemns this War and Wenfong to do so in four Long paragraphs clearly critics of the United states. Opinions Are divided Here about Why Gea. De Gaulle is pushing the Viet Nam theme s urgently now despite what hat seemed a general French belie that a go Tia tons Are no presently possible. Opinion Here is that it is the american escalation in the North which is making Peao Premier Duff Boblin. Has asked Ottawa to lower the initial enrolment level for the proposed Canada wide medicare plan to to per cent. In a Telegram wednesday to prime minister Pearson the Premier urged the change from the present 90 per cent enrol ment requirement. Copies of the Telegram were ent to All provincial premiers and to members of parliament rom Manitoba. Or. Roblin said that health minister Allan Maceachern had Een quoted tuesday As saying Universal coverage should not be confused with compulsory with the qualifying initial enrolment set at 90. Per cent his statement could be mis Reading the Premier s Telegram said if provinces Are to be Given a reasonable Opportunity of introducing Universal availability without compulsion we czech spies please Sec de gau1xe Page 12 please see quota Page 9 by Robert Donovan Washington special tons v when it comes to espionage no one can accuse the embassy in Washington failing to think big. Let the russians hide microphones behind pictures in the . Embassy in Moscow. Let soviet agents As was alleged tuesday try to pry atomic secrets from a lieutenant colonel working for the joint chiefs of staff for the czechs however nothing but the Best Chuck the lesser stuff and Bug the . State department itself. Try to get a secret transmitter into the very office of undersecretary of state George w. Ball and sit Back and listen to what he has to say. Slip a listening device under a Bookcase in the. Office of Raymond Lisle today s inside stories Bissett insurance woes Page .3 who loves America Page 33 Winton toes colds to Victory Page 45 editorial Pace the and my Hare _ Maurice Western Selling the school a Biwott Tom Saunders threat of retaliation Aga hit . Circulation City zone 92.599 director of the office of Eastern european affairs arid tune in on the deepest american secrets about that part of the world. That is espionage Par excellence when it works. Unfortunately for the czechs it did t work. The United states blew the plot wide open wednesday making two czech diplomats look like Laurel and Hardy spies and Makr ing a hero out of an obscure state department official who duped them by playing the part of a double agent for four years. In a word Frank j. Mrkva pronounced Mirk who works in the passport division made perfect Ftp is of Zdenek Pisk former second Secretary of the czech embassy and Jiri Opatrny one of the embassy s a 1 1 a c h e s to Gether they were accused by the . Government of paying my mrkva a total of for rather worthless documents and for ostensibly planting listen tag de vices in the state depart ment while the Federal Bureau of investigation looked on with relish. When the state depart tent announced the break ing of the ease wednesday the accomplishments of their latest attempted spy ing appeared As follows 1. Or. Opatrny whose name ironically Means in czech was please see czech Page 9 Frank John mrkva korean War Veteran ;