Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 25, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index action line Page 14 Jumble contest Page 28 classified 26 to 37 movies 17 comics 14, 15 sports 22 to 25, 37 deaths 7 television is finance 8 to 10 women 11 to 13 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 74 no. 23 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon . Winnipeg tuesday october 25, 1966 prtpf1 Lor with f tilt a. Axtt. Com1cs forecast cooler 25 and 4o premiers oppose govt. Plan reject Pearson is scheme on education tax deals by vector Mackie staff prime minister Pearson s Constitution Ottawa move to redefine education under the ran into a Brick Wall at the Federal provincial fiscal conference monday. F the premiers were practically unanimous in. Rejecting the suggestion that a new interpretation be placed on Educa Tion so that toe training and retraining of adults for participation in the labor Force do not come within the meaning of the premiers of British co Lumbia Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba said in effect monday that Federal proposals presented to them will make Little difference in terms of new Money for education. Basically their comment was that the Federal proposals looked Good at first glance but after study they took away Al most As much As they gave. Al Berta and British Columbia found that they would receive Littie More than they receive now from the senior government in Grants for the various Fields of education. Manitoba Premier Duff Rob Lin said in effect it was a Good try but we Don t buy please see premiers Page 4 Roblin slams proposal by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff Premier Duff Roblin said tuesday he was considerably disappointed with the education formula presented to the Federal provincial conference. I must say it is too Clever by half and what we ought to be doing is leaving technical vocational training alone and getting Back to support for the universities which is Why we Cam Down Here in the first or. Roblin said that from what he had been Able to determine by studying the proposal was that it now appeared the Federal government was proposing to shift support from technical vocational schools to the universities and colleges the provincial governments however had to meet the Tota Bills for both kinds of education. So i must say i am considerably disappointed with the formula that has been presented to Manitoba stands to gain by Only a year if the new Federal government proposals on higher education assistance proposals Are put into effect. See would gain Page 18 fear air strike Board blames news Media politicians by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff sensationalized reporting and careless editorial writ ing in the news Media and opportunistic statements by opposing politicians have brought about a la Bor situation dangerous to the Canadian Economy a Federal conciliation Board found the Board blamed these Factor in part for its failure to Mak any Progress in resolving a wage dispute Between air Canada Ane of its employees As represented by the International association of machinists. It voiced grave concern thai a strike appeared to loom ahead for air Canada. The Union is preparing for a strike vote to be completed nov., 7. Please see air strike Page wives lobby City 200 request support for prices protest t by Michael Grieve a 200-member Dele Gat n from the housewives protest committee asked Winnipeg City Council monday for its sup port in focussing at Tention on the difficulties of running a the group s president. Gale Pearse told Council that House wives and Consumers in general Are at the mercy of Well organized powerfully backed Chain re Tail and distributing firms and we Are trying to do some thing about we Are asking you to help protect the people who put you into office and would suggest a letter to Ottawa from City coun said mrs. Pearse. However a motion by Alder Man Joseph Zuken suggesting that Council support the group was tabled when the meeting was adjourned at . As required by a procedure bylaw. Aid. Zuken protested the meet ing s adjournment saying his please see housewives Page 7 Gale Pearse homemakers protest committee president seeks City Council s support in fight against rising food prices Manila talks end scheme annoys Quebec by Stan Mcdowell Ottawa staff to Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson the Federal govern ment s education proposals to this week s Federal provincial conference amount to federalism As Practised by people who Don t believe in member of que Bec s delegation took an even More aggressive tone they won t get away with Quebec did not like the Advance proposals on the financing of higher Educa Tion that the Federal govern ment submitted to the con _ Ference. Nor did it like the Way they were made. The Quebec reaction was predictable. If the distinction Between War and diplomacy is that diplomacy always leaves the other Side a face saving Way out then the Federal posture toward see proposals Page 18 inquiry motion rejected by Bonald Lebel Ottawa a two. Hour debate the commons decided monday against a com Mittee investigation of a i Porter and his newspaper article. The House Defeated 103 to 47 a conservative motion to sum Mon reporter Marcel Pepin be fore the privileges committee for questioning about an article published oct. 14 in be Droit a French language Ottawa daily. The 47 conservatives voting were opposed by 80 new democrats five Credi Sites four social credit Mem Bers and Independent. My Gilles Gregoire. Government House Leader Al Claraith said a Broad commit be probe would interfere with the right of members of the Iress to freely report the pro endings in this House As they be please see inquiry Page 6 Tanker Burns Morgan City la. The burning Tanker Gulf Stag still a potential King sized bomb wallowed in the Gulf of Mexico s Calm swells today. The . Coast guard said seven dead men apparently were aboard. It is believed that All missing persons were trapped in their said Larry l. La Rue Captain of the 572-foot Gulf Oil corp. Tanker. The fire erupted after two explosions apparently in the engine room or pump room at about 3 . Monday. The Gulf Stag was about 30 Miles South of Morgan City at the time. It was feared flames would touch off the barrels of gasoline aboard. The engine room and Crews living quarters Are in the Stern. Allies agree on peace terms ready to withdraw troops in South if North vietnamese pull Back from a Reuters Manila up president Johnson and the other foreign anti communist allies in the Viet Nam War today announced their readiness to with draw their forces from South Viet Nam within six months if the North pulled Back its troops halted infiltration and reduced the level of its violence. Johnson and the leaders of the six other nations at the Manila conference signed a final com Munique at the end of their two Day Summit meeting declaring the government of South Viet Nam stated that it will ask their allies to remove their forces and evacuate their bases As the military and subversive forces of North Viet Nam Are withdrawn infiltration ceases and violence thus subsides. Allied nations responded to this statement by making it Clear that withdrawal would come within six months under the stated the communique and two companion goals of Freedom and Declara Tion on peace and Progress in Asia and the Pacific were signed at a televised ceremony i Malac Anang Palace by the american president chief of state Nguyen Van Thieu of South Viet Nam president Chung Hee Park of South Korea prime minister Harold Holt of Australia prime minister Keith Holyoake of new zealand Premier Thanom Kitti Fachorn please see allies i age 6 Hungary silent on peace rumours Spain relaxes Frontier ban Gibraltar Reuters tons Spanish authorities today lightly eased a new ban on Road traffic across the Frontier o Gibraltar to prevent Span so workers from getting foot Ore. British officials were told Dur no the night that buses could iring spaniards who work in Gibraltar As far As the twin order fences that run across he isthmus linking the British territory to the Mainland. When the restrictions went nto effect monday night it a Jeared that no vehicles would allowed past the Mainland own of la Linea leaving the Panish workers a walk of a mile and a half to the Frontier. The new restrictions barring i vehicle traffic across the fron tier Are the latest stage in Spain s dispute with Britain Over sovereignty of the foot held by Britain since 1704. In fact spam s two year slowdown and harassment of Gibraltar has already brought Border traffic almost to a standstill so that the immediate economic effects on. The Colony Are not Likely to be very noticeable. But Gibraltar is now nevertheless effectively Cut off from the outside world except by air and sea. The scene at the crossing Point is rather like a less sin please see Rock Page 6 by Louis Fleming United nations special tons foreign minister Janos Peter of Hungary secretly visited North Viet Nam last month but he returned with no new peace plan according to East european sources. His trip has never been confirmed by hungarian officials. Hungarian sources at the United nations declined to com ment monday on reports from Jie Manila conference that a new peace initiative had been Aken Here by the hungarian foreign minister. Or. Peter alluded to direct contacts Between Hungary and North Viet Nam and the National liberation front Viet Cong i a speech to the in general Assembly oct. 18 and there have been Broad hints from unofficial hungarian sources since then that some sort of a peace proposal was intended. But East european sources indicated monday that North Viet Nam is unable any commitment at this time. The leaders in Hanoi Are unwilling to commit themselves even to their close allies on tangible proposals. The Eastern europeans who have been proposing a suspension of Amer ican bombing in North Viet Nam have not been asked to communist China which Hanoi is eager to avoid. Eastern europeans Are now fearful that the United states will misinterpret the sino soviet split and assume that the deep and increasing division within the communist world Wilf per Mit the United states to escalate the War in Viet Nam without fear of reprisal. Speculation in Manila that the hungarians had revealed a new basis for an armistice in Viet Nam through their activities last week is discounted by informed diplomats. Or. Peter himself insisted that the Only message he brought to the general As Sembly on behalf of North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong was to report their feeling that no real and valid peace offer has so far been made on the part of the United in his speech or. Peter also Analysed the three Point proposal which . Ambassador please see Hungary Page 6 Price dip for wheat hinted Large russian crop Likely to hit . Trade Washington cuts in world wheat prices appear indicated due to larger than usual crops in Russia and other communist countries the United states agriculture department says in a quarterly re port it also envisages More North India hungry also envisages More Competition from Canada Australia and Argentina in the Market for sold for Cash. It estimated world wheat output this year at a record bushels including Canada s record Harvest of bushels. It said global Trade in wheat and flour should decline for the year begun last year july 1 primarily As the result of excellent harvests in the .s.r. And several of the Eastern european however it predicts an in crease in buying elsewhere with Japan. China India Morocco Algeria and Tun Isia in the forefront. The three african countries nor Mally Export a Little wheat but crops have been Bati. The report says . Stocks totalling bushels last july 1, a 12-year Low should decline less this year but the size of govern ment Export programs is an unknown Factor. The . Twice authorized larger wheat acreages this year As stocks declined chiefly due to shipment of tons of wheat to India for famine Relief. Re ports say India still is badly in need of wheat for the future. Meets Vanier Ottawa Alif Gebara new ambassador of Leba non presented his credentials to governor general Vanier Mon Day. New Delhi Strous famine is imminent in Bihar and some adjoining areas of Northern India senior officials said Here today. Monsoon failure and devastating floods from Rivers flowing Down from the Himalayas have virtually destroyed whole crops which last year totalled tons in Bihar about h5q Miles East of Here. Observers fear that whole populations May have to move through Lack of drinking water. The parched ground is too hard for sowing Winter crops. Backlin testifies in Bullion Case Winnipeg lawyer Harry j i l 4. A j make this proposal by Hanoi it monday took the wit was Learned from Eastern. European diplomats. The North vietnamese government will not say and May not know what its own reaction would be if the United states suspends the bombing of North Viet Nam. Hanoi is depicted As feeling dangerously threatened on two fronts by the american bomb ing and by the Prospect of More direct intrusion into the War by fatal to probe Juk death san Francisco ramparts Magazine Reuters says at East 10 persons connected with the assassination of president Kennedy have since met violent or unusual formerly a roman Catholic Aymeric s publication but. Now secular oriented ramparts had his to say about the 10 Jim Kochie the Young Dallas reporter lad been writing a Book on the assassination. His body was found wrapped in a Blanket in his apartment sept. 21. Police Aid cause of death was asphyxiation from a broken Bone at the base of the neck apparently he result of a karate votes for the Book were miss ing. Within a week a 22-year-old sex con Reno named Larry Earl was picked up Selling Koethe s personal effects and held on suspicion of murder however Reno was never indicted for murder but sentenced to life imprisonment for robbing a hotel. Today s inside stories crash tests plan Page new fight to Clear fiasco Page editorial Pace 3 23 premiers Eye retraining Assurance not War in California. Wednesday s elections Maurice Western. Christopher Dafoe Abc circulation City zone. Bill Hunter a police reporter with a Knack for getting along with he covered the Kennedy assassination. Hunter was accidentally shot by. A policeman april 23, 1964, Only a few hours after a witness testified before the War Ren commission about a meet ing in Jack Ruby s apartment attended by Hunter and Koethe. Detective Creighton Wiggins said he had been playing cops and robbers when his gun started to slip from his fingers and it Wiggins was Given a suspended sentence for involuntary manslaughter Tom Howard he was Ruby s leading lawyer please see pro bibs to Ness stand at his Assize court trial and pleaded with the jury to believe in his innocence. Or. Backlin 37, of 119 Balfour Avenue is charged with illegal Possession of 11 of the 12 bars of Gold stolen from Winnipeg International Airport March 1. The Crown closed its Case against him Friday. He was the first defence witness monday. Or. Backlin said in his defence 0 that he tried to Contact chief Constable George Maltby of the St. James police immediately after he discovered there was a bar of Gold in his office. That he never told any policeman i know i m guilty of that he had been out of town on holidays from feb. 18 to March 5 of this year. The Airport Gold robbery was committed that he did not find out until the evening of March 9 the Day before his arrest that he was virtually sitting on Worth of Gold Bullion. That he got this information through a Long distance Call from a client whose name he was not at Liberty to disclose. That his dealings with a certain William Kenneth Leish Man at the end of february and the first week of March were a legitimate business venture. Or. Leishman and he were planning to Start a Beauty parlor business he said. Or. Backlin asked the jury to understand that he had been faced with a dilemma Ever since he knew Gold Bullion had been left in his office and the Back Yard of his House., i was quite concerned about the position i was in. I wanted to co operate with the police but i did t know How to do it. I had to think about my own position but also about the position of my client. I did not want to expose my client. But i i dirt try to hide the Gold from the police. Maybe i should have. I could very easily have got rid of that briefcase and thrown it away. Maybe i please see Man Page 6 tomorrow is election Day polls open 10, . Close at 9 . Be to sure vote saluting changes outlined the age old tradition of Salut ing a uniform or the Queen s commission is on its Way out for the Canadian armed forces says Gen. Jean auard chief of defence staff. Speaking at a press Confer ence in Winnipeg Gen. Allard said that in future the Canadian Soldier Sailor or airman will Salute because he respects the Man. In the uniform not because he respects uie uniform or the commission. Saluting on the Parade Square will remain As before the general said but for the rest of please see saluting Page 7 estonian faces libel suit Toronto estonian immigrant currently suing an agent of the United states Cen trial intelligence Agency for slander for calling him a rus Sian spy has been added As a defendant in a libel action in the Ontario supreme court. Or. Justice w. A. Donohue ordered a new trial monday when Erik Heine 46, of Toronto was added As a defendant in the suit launched by two estonians now living in Toronto who claim they were defamed in three Anonymous pamphlets two years ago As being soft on communism. Please see estonian 7 ;