Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 21, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Today s action line Jumble contest i. Clarified 27 if comics 20, 21 swis 42 to 47 deaths. 13 Tele Taien 18 23 to 25 women 15. 1c t to Winnipeg free press final Flat Section 1-14 vol. 74 20 Price Loc 15c Winnipeg Friday october 21, 1966 sir Lioi . Moon rim . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast cooler 35 and 50 strike threat abates postmen s head implies settlement Roger Decarie National president of the member letter Carrier s Union indicated in Winni Peg Friday that a threat ened dec. 1 strike will Likely be avoided the government seems ready now to Deal with us in Good Faith and if that is the Case there will be no he said during a press Confer ence at Winnipeg s International Airport. The statement was made just hours after a meeting in Ottawa Between spokesmen for the postal worker s unions and the Treasury Board a committee of the Federal Cabinet. Or. Decarie said that the unions had told the Treasury Board that they were willing to Settle for an interim across the Board pay hike of 50 cents1 an hour in order to avoid a strike. A further increase would be negotiated through collective bargaining some time next year he said. He would give no firm indication that the government had decided to accept the proposal however. The next meeting is slated for next thursday. Or. Decarie was headed for a mass meeting of postal workers in Regina sunday. It was organized to inform Post office employees of developments in the unions negotiations with the government. The letter Carrier s Union and the Cana Dian Union of postal workers Allied As the postal Trade unions Council have been de manding a 39 per cent increase in wages. The civil service commission earlier this week recommended an increase of 6 per cent with further raises to be subject to collective bargaining next year. Lbs Ireland co. Disaster Constable carries injured flu from school at least youngsters smear Bubble top r in Melbourne motorcade Melbourne Australia president John son s Bubble top limousine was bombarded with red an d Green paint today during a Turri Altous motorcade supermarket give a ways v defended abolition would take Romance out of shopping lob Laws Boss Ottawa up a vice president of lob jaws said thursday that abolishing supermarket giveaways would take All the Romance out of grocery shopping kills carriers air role expanded by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff regional air carriers Are to be allowed a considerably expanded role pro Viding regular routes to supple ment the Domestic mainline of rations of air Canada and Cana waterlogged torrent of. Coal dust shale smashes Welsh miners Homes school Aberfan Wales Reuters least 21 persons were killed Andi police reported 130 missing when a Colliery waste Heap flowed into this Welsh mining Virag today burying school and smashing 15 fourteen of the dead and 100 laotian attacks rivals Dian Pacific airlines. Transport minister j. W. Pickersgill announced his new regional air carriers policy in the commons thursday. It will include a limited scale of temporary subsidies for regional routes. They will be based on use it or lose it formula meaning that continuation of any subsidy arrangements will be dependent upon developing and maintaining an adequate volume of traffic. Among the regional carriers involved Are Pacific Western trans air Norair Quebe Cair and Eastern provincial airlines. Greater scope will be allowed regional carriers in the develop ment of services by the following Means where appropriate limited Competition on mainline route segments of air Canada or spa May be permitted to regional carriers if this is consistent with their local route develop ment. In a few cases secondary routes presently operated by air Vientiane laps a laotian air Force planes bombed military installations around Vientiane for 30 minutes today in what appeared to be the culmination of a feud be tween the air Force commander . Thaoma and the High command in the capital. At least 11 persons were re ported killed and three injured. Well informed sources said Gen. Thao sent his planes against his rivals in the capital after arresting Gen. Ouane Rathi Koun the s Comman Der in chief Gen. Boun Oum the inspector general of the and the King s brother Gen. Sayavong at air Force Headquarters in Savannah it in Southern Laos. The sources reported later however that Gen. Ouane Prince Boun Oum and Prince Sayavong who commands the armoured divisions had escaped and were heading South for pause in a jeep. T-28 fighter bombers supplied the air Force by the United states flew Over be tween 8 and find dropped bombs on the Headquarters at phone the City s northeastern suburb the Vientiane also was bombed but damage to was not immediately the laotian High command and Cabinet met in. Emergency session and acting Premier leu am Insisiengmay was re ported in Telephone Contact with Gen. Thao. The laotian government radio later announced the govern ment was in control pealed to the people to remain Calm. In a communique broadcast at 11 ., the radio said six t-28s of the laotian air Force had All officials armed forces and police personnel to report to their posts. Tokyo foreign ministry circles took the View that the action was 5-not an actual coup d eat attempt but an uprising by or a struggle among right Wing in the armed forces. pointed out that the laotian rightist leftist feud was at a Lull at this time since the pro communist Pathe t lao were concentrating on efforts to restore the to Chi Minn infiltration South Ern Viet Nam. Dispatches f to m Bangkok Thailand q u o t e diplomatic sources said rebel planes bombed and. Strafed civilian As Well As military buildings in Vientiane causing heavy dam age. Fierce Battles were re ported Between planes and units Loyal toil Houma s govern ment.-. Of the missing were Young Chil Dren irom the Nursery school. I. J to think of any Furtner survivors Orvyn under the Mountain of water logged Coal slime and i shale. After the collapse Heap dirt Grimes of who. Had children at the school downed tools at a nearby mine and hurried to the claw ing with shovels or Bare hands at the mass of debris. Bulldozers rumbled t of a r d the school. Troops were ordered to stand by. Hours after the huge rubbish the a Valance was still moving slowly through the Village of Aberfan where the school was situated. A state of emergency was declared in the Little mining Vil Lage. Torrents of flood water oozed through the mass of Deb Ris keeping it on the move. It was the rain water which became dammed up. Behind the tip that was believed to have landslide. Afterwards the water poured through the streets often knee High and hampered. Rescue operations please see waste Heap through Melbourne no one in the car was harmed but the car was smeared with paint one end other Bill Moyers White House press Sec r e t a r Yvo said two youngsters about. 14 threw two plastic balloons filled at the car. Another report said one individual was responsible. Secret service agents who were Riding built into the Back bumper of the. Limousine caught the full Force of the paint and. Were bathed in it. The incident occurred As the Johnsons were govern ment House for a reception. They stepped from their car and smiling As though nothing had happened. F the his arrival in Australia s second largest City was greeted by Friendly thou Sands who jammed the Side walks for blocks cheering arid waving . Flags. Police Esti mated the crowd at trouble started after the motorcade left the downtown Section and passed the Campus of Melbourne University. Stu dents waving anti Viet. Nam placards broke through Stout police barricades and dashed toward the Centre of the Street in an attempt to disrupt the motorcade. Secret service agents ordered the cars to Speed up and tha president in effect ran a two Block Gauntlet while cheering youths Shook their fists at him and threw objects at fits a. Otherwise the drive through the City was a Triumph for the president. He and mrs. Johnson Aine from. Canberra to spend our hours in. Melbourne. I a Spaak crowd of about 200 waved flags and cheered As the president walked to his car to Start a 10-mhe drive through the wide streets and blossoming please see lbs Page 6 Brothers charged Melbourne Reuters two Brothers 22 and 24, were charged tonight in connection with the throwing of plastic age of red paint at president Johnson s car. They will appear in court saturday having Back Iii denies playing part in Gold theft police he did t know in office Winnipeg lawyer Harry Backlin told police in a formal statement after his arrest on March 10 that he had nothing to do with the theft of the. Gold from Winnipeg International Airport. Backlin 37, of 119 Balfour was arrested by St. James and Winnipeg police after a bar of Gold was found in his office. Ten bars were found later under four feet of Snow behind his House. He now faces a charge of Possession of 11 stolen Gold bars. Please see Backlin Page 13 reporter assailed and do nothing to lower Privett. The Money now spent on Premium Stamps Lucky draws for free automobiles and sales gimmicks like free chinaware brings More customers into the stores and helps boost tales. If such promotions were out awed supermarkets would have to spend the Money on other forms of advertising. The result said George Meech vice president and Secretary treasurer of Loblaw Gro Ceteria co. Ltd., would be to denude shopping of its attractiveness. How Dull it would be for the housewife to go into a store and see nothing but the merchandise of the Farmer on display. We d lose All the Romance out of or. Meech stated his View before the joint committee of the commons and Senate on consumer prices and though committee members laughed at his statement he said it with Only a slight smile. Flanked by a score of Loblaw executives or. Meech said advertising and sales promotion Are essential to the supermarket chains. Newspapers Are the Back Bone of our Max salts Man nip Waterloo North asked whether advertisement of trading please see shopping Page 11 grocery guide _ i lists savings Ottawa up it. Ojo fancy labels substitute wisely Here and there and you maj Cut your family s budget Almos i Consumers Assoc Safeway Brown a missile and with Iffe hive behaviour. I Canada and spa May become bombed and machine gunned eligible for Transfer to regional carriers. Please see regional Page 4 the phone Khene and Chinai Hio military Camps and Vientiane s Wattay Airport. The communique requested today s inside stories Indian feud predicted Page 3 Brewer s Hopes brighter editorial Pace the of Britain s nobility by Patrick is or. Pickersgill wringing. Cup by Maurice Western. The postal report Terry Nugent Ottawa hot debate was expected today on a conservative motion to1 sum Mon a parliamentary correspondent before the bar of the com Mons to answer for an article printed a. Week Terry thu gent per Edmonton Strathcona moved thursday that Marcel Pepin of Ottawa be Droit be called to be dealt for allegedly breaching or. Nugent s privileges As an mp.-. The lawyer my said the editor of be Droit also should appear at the commons brass bar be cause he was guilty of allowing such a scurrilous article to be please see Nugent Page 13 scanned Ottawa Canada Safe Way Ltd. Brought the Mosi impressive profit record Aloni with it thursday As the fifth and last food Chain to appear before the Senate commons committee on living costs. Safeway said it reaped 2.56 cents on every Dollar of its sales through Western Canada last year a tidy profit As margin supermarket operations o. Did this indicate Safeway prices Are higher than they might be asked committee counsel John. Urie. Not at All returned Safeway Secretary d. C. Mcgavin. It represented a picture at Low please see Safeway Page 11 Escapee Given 11 years dowry town aur Triclia. A 23 year old Man who escaped from heading Ley jail sept. 1, was sentenced thursday in two Winnipeg courts to 11 years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary on charges of escaping from robbery unlawfully confining per and enter and theft. Provincial magistrate s heard five charges against Archibald Demas labourer of red Lake Indian chg from escape from heading Ley jail earlier in to five years imprisonment by judge 3. Solomon on a charge of. Armed robbery. He had pleaded not guilty at his trial in August to holding up 4. Man at knife Point in and stealing two wallets and in judge Solomon found Dumas guilty and remanded him for a pre sentence report. Defence counsel. Pcs Krindle asked for leniency on the grounds that Demas had t been equipped or properly prepared to live in a White Man s society. Judge Solomon agreed with Crown counsel Jack Montgom Ery. That society had to be protected from criminals. Judge Solomon said Demas s record showed that twice before he had used., violence in cases before courts. It was. Also revealed in court that Demas was sentenced to two years imprisonment in april for armed. Robbery. The record showed escaped custody six months later but was free Only two Days. After judge Sofe Niom so Krapec 6 the cac published details two actual shopping lists for a family of four one totalling and the other the cheaper groceries matched the expensive ones in nutrition but featured store brands instead of National brands less expensive cuts of meat and a variety of other Low Price alternatives the buying trips were made to an Ottawa store in mid october. The cac shopped for a father Mother nine year old boy and 13-year-old girl. It based its purchases on the Canada food guide a single Sheet publication of the Federal health department that is easily please see guide Page 11 crash ends escape two inmates who escaped rom Stony Mountain Penitentiary had their Short lived free Dom curtailed suddenly Friday morning when hey. Rolled a stolen car at the Junco Ftp of Highway and Inkster Boule Vard. The men identified by War Den f. S. Harris As Elmer Henry Daignault and Ronald Birston both 20 years of age fled in a jail car at about . Friday while working in the garage outside the prison Walls. Less than half an hour later they were spotted walking across a Field near Brookland Speedway. They were still Wear ing their prison clothing. Daignault was. Serving a two ear term for breaking enter of and theft and Birston was serving a 26-month term for escaping lawful custody and Teing in unlawful Possession of Tolen property. 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