Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 26, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index action line. Page 30 Jumble contest Page 42 classified 39 to 51 movies 29 comics 30, 31 sports 54 to 59 deaths. 16 television 28 finance 59 to 61 women 33 to 39 final edition first Section 1-20 Winnipeg wednesday october -26, Sun . Moi rim 5t40 . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast sunny 30 and 55f from has jeep to shake hands with . Servicemen today a Outh Viet Nam. At his Side is Gen. commander v visit to Cam Ranh Bay in South net . L Ion . Forces in Viet Nam. The president flew from Philippines to the . Base 180 Miles from Saigon. Heavy vote seen in Early turnout Early indications Are there ballots in the first two hours of be a better turnout of voters at the polls in today s greater Winnipeg elections than in the previous two elections. Generally the Early turnout polling. A total of 26 persons voted at the civic Centre by . A total of 700 Ward 2 persons Are eligible to vote at the civic has been heavier today than in i Centre. In 3964 when the previous two civic persons were eligible to vote 46 a Cordin to a Survey of polling persons cast ballots by noon. J stations. Polls in Ward of persons Are 3 also showed a slight increase eligible to vote. The polls which lbs flies Secre to Viet please see Early Page 16 gets death sentence Jakarta a political Catt opened at 1c ., close at 9 . Today. In Ward 1, election officers at two selected polling stations reported a steady Stream people arriving to vote Early today. At Kelvin technical High school 150 persons out of a total electorate registered at the polling station had voted by . In the 1964 elections Only 83 voters out of eligible had cast their ballots by noon election Day. Election officials at Gordon Bell High school said 89 out of a i total of voters registered j speculated today that at the of Taxon had j president Sukarno of Indonesia will never sign the execution or Der for his former closest aide Mclntyre High and adviser or. Sub Andrio. Sub Andrio Sukarno s Deputy Premier until last March and Indonesia s foreign minister for nine years was to. Death tuesday night for treason by a military tribunal which found him guilty of aiding the attempted communist coup last october. When asked by the court if he wanted to Appeal his sen tence sub Andrio said but i the court allowed him 30 Days to Appeal to Sukarno for Clem ency. Please see sub Andrio Page 6 by noon. At Danie school in Ward 2, 50 voters cast their ballots by . In the 1964 election 67 voters cast forestry Complex growing plans to establish a forestry Complex at the Pas Man., Are going ahead and Churchill Forest industries is proceeding even More rapidly in some respects than required under its agreement with the Manitoba government according to Sidney Spivak. Or. Spivak Manitoba min ister of Industry and Commerce said in a letter to the Pas town Council that Churchill Forest troops cheer lustily during president s two hour visit Cam Ranh Bay Johnson who likes surprises made a secret flight to this . Military base 180 Miles Northeast of Saigon the South vietnamese capital. Johnson who flew aboard his am presidential plane from the a j ii Ila Summit conference and i later returned to the philippine capital was ashore at Gam Ranh Bay for two hours and 24 minutes. The president ate with . Troops visited with the wounded pinned medals signed scores of autographs Shook hundreds of hands and delivered an emotional speech. Several thousand of 000 . Troops Are in dress grinned. Broadly chef red a-s1 Johnson move dram png1 them both on foot arid itt fan open jeep on his arrival the president said i oame Here today with Only one regret that i could not be Gin to personally thank every Man in Viet Nam for what he is please see Johnson Page 6 Hanoi., China Pentagon foresees Long hard War Tokyo Cap Viet Nam kept official sit Lence today on the. Manila con Ference s troop withdrawal of Fer. Pravda and Tass discounted the proposal and there were new Calls for suspension of the . Bombing of North Viet Nam. Neither Hanoi nor peking broadcasts mentioned the com Munique signed tuesday by the anti communist Viet Nam allies pledging to withdraw their troops from South Viet Nam six months after North vietnamese forces quit the War. Elsewhere the communique brought a mixed reaction at the United nations disappointment in Tokyo faint optimism in Lon Don and Little excitement in Sai please see Hanoi Page 6 due provinces in school Aid Money to be used in construction of buildings for technical and vocational training Ottawa up prime minister Pearson announced today an extra will be made available for technical and vocational school construction under the Federal plan to phase but its support of these pro Grams. Manitoba would get an extra under the plan. This will double the value of Council endorses protest City to press Ottawa for consumer Price Board by Michael Grieve Winnipeg mayor Stephen Juba and nine City aldermen tuesday endorsed the housewives pro test movement by adding their signatures to the committee s petition after the phase out arrangements offered the provinces As part of the shift o-2 Federal Aid from the secondary school level to higher education. Or. Pearson made the announcement at the Federal provincial fiscal conference after two Days of pressure from the premiers. The offer increases total available payments to 000 from the grand total of in capital Grants for Manitoba includes approximately already available to Manitoba under the previous program. The Federal government in doubling the phase out Grants will provide an additional amount of new Money amounting to about please see provinces Page 6 t probe Auto Deal govt. Studies car import transaction Ottawa up Industry minister Drury told the commons tuesday the r e v e n u e department is conducting a Semi Judi Cial investigation into a car import transaction involving Studebaker and. Volkswagen. Revenue minister Benson con firmed that the transaction is under investigation. Neither minister offered a direct reply when t. C. Douglas nip Leader asked whether they were aware the transaction involved Studebaker of Canada buying Volkswagen in the ., importing them into Canada duty free under the Canada-. Auto agreement and then ing them to Volkswagen at a handsome profit. Please see Auto Page 12 by George Wilson the argument goes Are the Washington special number of enemy killed and the tons the Pentagon s inter extent of terror. While the industries had lived up to tation of the latest Battlefield i enemy killed in South a ,.___-i Mam in rising and already obligations to establish a saw. Mill and pulp Miti at the Pas. Please see the Pas Page 6 Carrier 9 Blaze kills 43 Saigon ravaged the . Aircraft Carrier Oris Kany off the North vietnamese coast today killing 43 of her officers and men and putting the ship out of action an american spokesman announced. Sixteen other men were severely injured. The fire started a few hours before president Johnson made a flying visit to the big . Base at Cam Ranh Bay 180 Miles Northeast of Saigon. Then he flew safely to Manila. The fire broke out shortly after Dawn in a locker contain ing flares. It raged out of control for an hour. The flames erupted on the hangar deck just below the flight deck and then spread rapidly to envelop five decks statistics and diplomatic signals is that the United states is still in for a Long hard War in Viet Nam. This topside View coincides with the Resolute Tenor of president Johnson and asian leaders As they closed the Manila peace conference tues Day but contrasts with earlier spurts of optimism about a Quick settlement of the. War. Those Pentagon officials with Access to All the figures refuse to become optimistic about an Early end to the War on the basis of such isolated statistics As a rising number of enemy captured or a Lull in ground actions. The More important figures j Viet Nam is rising and already exceeds the 1965 total the rate is not considered High enough to Force the enemy to give up. The defence department figures for enemy killed Are of course estimates. But they Are considered reliable for sensing a trend. In 1965, the enemy killed total was this year the total is for the first months As for terror incidents the Pentagon believes they Are on the Rise As the enemy continues to lose actions. The move came Council officially backed an amended motion requesting the Canadian government to establish a Price review and consumer Protection Board. In moving the original motion Alderman Joseph Zuken said increased food prices Are picking the pockets of Julie Consumers and such a Board would be in the Best interests of All citizens. V he suggested the Board be composed of representatives of labor management and Consumers but emphasized that this original motion is Broad and should not be bogged Down in protest committee presi Dent Gale Pearse re affirmed after the meeting that housewives will push for a drastic reduction in food prices by boycotting Winnipeg and. Area Chain supermarkets. Stores included in the Boycott slated to begin Friday and continue indefinitely include a and a Dominion lob Laws shop easy Safeway and Iga mrs. Pearse said. Please see Council Page 6 revisions vowed on medicare Bill by Bob Mackenzie govern ment s controversial medical care Bill sailed thro ugh a Stormy commons to a relatively Calm Victory tuesday winning approval in principle by an overwhelming vote of 182 to 21. But there were indications the Calm is Only a Lull before the storm Breaks out again when the measure comes before the commons health committee for detailed study. Opposition critics who sup ported the Bill in principle Dur ing eight Days of debate have warned they will be armed with amendments when the commit tee study starts. The Roll Call vote on second Reading split the forced by the nip conservative and so Cial credit parties although most conservatives joined the liberals and nip members in supporting the legislation. Opposition Leader die Fen Large scale military please see Pentagon Page 16 Backlin s intent argued before packed courtroom Winnipeg s Assize courtroom 11 no. 2 was packed wednesday when counsel in the Case of City lawyer Harry Dennis Backlin began their addresses to the jury. Or. Backlin 37, of 119 Balfour Avenue has pleaded not guilty to Possession of 11 bars of stolen Gold March 10, Worth about the 11 bars were part of a shipment stolen March at Winnipeg the Case was entering its twelfth Day. The Crown concluded Friday but defence counsel Roland see earlier Story on Page 18 Penner took another two Days. Or. Roland Penner for the defence said the word posses Sion As it was used in the International charge meant Possession with guilty knowledge to use for the Navy said. Two helicopters were destroyed by the Blaze and an undisclosed number of t-4e sky Hawk Jet fighter bombers were damaged. Hear father Ottawa up carrying his Campaign against drunk Drivers to parliament Robert Malkin told legislators tuesday he does not want a police state Only an effective Legal deter rent. The 53-year-old former Busi Nessman told the commons Justice committee he wants a compulsory scientific test for motorists suspected of drinking. Included would be a precise definition of what constitutes impairment. The Vancouver witness said he is Content to let profession als decide what amount of Alco hol in . Determines in Parment. But the cold hard fact is we must have a deterrent in Law that would deter the Drunken. or. Malkin began his Campaign after his son was killed by a drunk Driver in a .1963 Auto crash in California. Sold his Vancouver lumber business to devote his full time to the Cru Sade. He delivered a. Practised emotional Appeal to the commit tee which is considering a Bill Barry Mather nip new Westminster for compulsory breath a n a 1 y s is tests. Or. Malkin showed pictures of his dead son and the wrecked death car which Hie towed1 to California to display As part of his Campaign. It helped win a form of compulsory test in that state. He rejected As specious the argument that police. Might abuse a compulsory test Law. If the police one could in certainly do not smant a police still feel that to e greatest deterrent to the Drunken Driver Man with t or. Malkin said breath Analy Sis tests Aren t infallible How Ever errors tended to favor the accused under new California Law drinking suspects have a Choice of three. Breath urine. He disagreed with the Sugges Tion that loss of driving licence is a sufficient deterrent to the drinking Driver. In b.c., it is easier to. Get a licence than it is to get a card from lie Library. If you look to be Over 21, not one scrap of Ridenti he. A suggestion by or. Mather that it would be a Good idea to seek the support of women for compulsory test ing. Women had swung. The change in California. Himself or someone else hide it or dispose of the Gold. Of the 10 bars of Gold found in ;