Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 3, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index action line Page 50 Jumble contest Page 31 classified 29 to 40 movies 21 comics.49, 50 sports 42 to 48 deaths 9 television 20 finance.22, 23 women 13 to in f final edition first Section pages 1-12 vol. 74 no. 31 president Back from Eastern tour by Walter r. Mears Washington a president Johnson Home from his Mission to the far East has appealed for Unity behind . Policy in South Viet Nam for where there is a deep division in a land there is where there is Unity in the land there is John son said in a speech at Dulles International Airport As a crowd braved Rainy weather to Greet him on the winded of a Pacific trip to seven countries. Johnson was at the White House today but not for Long. He is expected to open a fast paced final round of Campaign ing Friday to urge the election of democrats in next tuesday s state and congressional ballot ing. Johnson said the task of the . In South Viet Nam is far from done but asians the people closest to the Arena of that communist aggression there must be Defeated. They know that it is their duty to help the United states keep these fires from spread he said and that Effort will be please see Johnson Page 10 pension data rapped Ottawa up the com Mons was thrown into an up Roar wednesday by complaints of two opposition maps about Lack of information and confusing government statements on income support for the aged. Speaker Lucien Lamoureux ruled out order questions of privilege by Eric Winkler pc Grey Bruce and Stanley Knowles nip Winnipeg North Centre after heated exchanges with health minister Maceachen. The minister accused both men of raising the matter to exploit the plight of the aged for political purposes. Or. Winkler complained that the Toronto Star of tuesday carried a news report setting out details of the government s proposed income support pro Gram which have been repeat edly sought in the commons by maps. Please see pension Page 10 coastal charts involved by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff coastal charts showing the location of rocks and indicating water Depths offshore Are believed to be among documents involved in the latest spy Case to give Canada s capital the jitters. The mines and technical sur Veys division of the Energy department prepares maps and charts of All descriptions. Most such charts and maps Are. Freely obtainable by any member of the Public including representatives of another coun try. They May be purchased directly from the department or from the Queen s Printer. However there Are some classified or secret maps and charts which cannot be Pur chased government officials said thursday. They refused to confirm or deny the report circulating in Ottawa that such classified documents were involved in the new espionage Case where one or More civil servants May have supplied these documents please see coastal Page 10 Winnipeg thursday november 3, 1966 . Moon use forecast Little change 10 and 25 Sun u is . Moon Sels . _ _ _ _ Sharp sees Early wheat payments crop Sale May give West largest Cash return in history Regina up the Sale of Canada s 1965 wheat crop has been completed and will allow the final payment to Western Farmers to be the largest in history finance minister Sharp said wednesday inter or. Sharp in an View said such payments will be made earlier than in past years but declined to specify a Date. The earlier and larger final payment for the 1965 wheat crop is also one of the factors being considered by the wheat Board on the ques Tion of larger initial pay ments for the 1966-67 crop year. The initial Price was set last july at a Bushel for no. 1 Northern in store at the Lakehead and Vancouver. See Early Grain Page 10 Toronto struck by Toronto up outside workers employed by Toronto City and the municipality of metropolitan Toronto went on strike Early today creating a Hodge podge of effects in the area of 13 municipalities and people. By hours after the walkout of major discomforts appeared to have developed. Supervisory staffs were running essential services such water and sewers. The by a metro or a City workers called by the Canadian Union of Public employees. Negotiations broke Down at 3 . With a difference of five cents an hour keeping the disputants apart. The employees wanted 40 cents and were offered 35 on the present base wage of top immediate casualty was garbage disposal in the City of Toronto with residents. The other municipalities each with its own garbage system were not affected. Replace rail lines with roads Mol Gat Ottawa staff the fed eral government should enter in to a program of Cost sharing in the construction of Good All weather roads to substitute for abandoned railway Branch lines suggested Manitoba Liberal Lea Der Gildas Mol Gat wednesday. He believed that if the Federal government joined the provinces i n building such roads it would Speed up both abandonment of some Branch lines and rationalization of the present railway system. I there Are several areas where Branch lines Are to be i protected and continued under the Federal government s policy where i am sure that the Farmers would prefer a Good All weather paved Road. If they had such a connecting Highway they would not object to the Branch railway line being Dis or. Mol Gat was in Ottawa to present the submission of the Manitoba Liberal party to the committee o n transportation and communications which is studying new National transportation legislation. Among the most significant changes in the new transportation Bill Are the sections dealing with Branch line band Backlin sentenced to 7 years hard to think of worse Case of Possession judge says Winnipeg lawyer Harry Dennis Backlin was sentenced Here thursday to seven years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary on a charge of Possession of stolen Gold. He appeared before or. Justice Israel Nitikman in Assize court. It is difficult to conceive a worse Case of Possession than the judge said As he passed sentence. The sentencing was the Cli Max of a trial which lasted 14 Days. Backlin had denied the charge of possessing 11 bars of stolen Gold Worth about the Gold was stolen March 1 from Winnipeg International Airport. A jury of 11 men and one woman had found Backlin guilty last thursday but he had been remanded a week for sentencing. Ozment or. Mol Gat noted. He said the Bill was a big improve ment Over the earlier Bill particularly in the Section Deal ing with Branch lines. See All weather Page 8 Lew Hayman Heads Argos Toronto up managing director Lew Hayman was moved into the president s of fice today and head coach Bob Shaw was Given Complete operating control of the Toronto argonauts football club. Rail rate proposal backed by Bill Morriss Ottawa staff the Liber Al party of Manitoba has endorsed the proposed Freedom of can Adian railways to compete by Way of freight rate structures As set out in Bill c 231 but has suggested that the commons committee on transport and communication be strengthened and augmented. Appearing before the transport and communications committee wednesday Manitoba Liberal Leader Gildas Mol Gat congratulated the government on producing legislation which will permit the different modes of transportation to operate with greater Freedom from regulation. Fears had been expressed that by granting the railways More Freedom to compete for business the other modes of transport would be made to suffer said or. Mol Gat. Please see rail rates Page 11 maximum for the offence is 10 years imprisonment. Defence counsel Roland pen Ner has asked for leave to Appeal the conviction and sentence. It was thought he would appear be tories to prevent party Battle reported trying to heal split on leadership Issue Ottawa up senior conservatives Are at work trying to head off the expected clash Over John Diefenbaker s leadership at the party s an Nual meeting nov. 14 16. Informants said wednesday the discussions focussing on the fight for the party presi Dency Between incumbent Dalton Camp and challenger Arthur Maloney. Occurred in formally in Toronto at this week s meeting of the Ontario progressive conservative association. Or. Maloney. A Toronto Law yer opposes or. Camp s Campaign for a reassessment of the leadership of or. Diefenbaker. One Man reported to have at tended the Toronto meeting senator Allister Grosart said that he will do what i can to heal the others reported at the Tor onto meeting were senator David Walker senator Lionel Choquette and Richard Bell my for Carleton and former conservative immigration min ister. Or. Bell declined comment when asked whether a Compro Mise is being tried. If there were anything can you think of a better Way of ruining it than by he Arthur Maloney challenges Camp asked. The Toronto Telegram said m a Story wednesday a behind scenes Deal to save the parly from a Public Bloodbath involves the appointment of sen Ator Grosart As mediator be tween the two candidates for president. Please see tories Page 9 Liberal outrider it in flies High by Anthony Howard Washington special owns mid term elections in the . Normally tend to be Dull and drab affairs and superficially this year s has been no exception. For the past two months droves of candidates running for anything from slate governor to drains commissioner have been plodding their ways towards their rendezvous with the voters on nov. 8. For the most part their activities and efforts have succeeded Only in making a local Impact and that a soggy one. One unprecedented per Sonal phenomenon has differentiated this autumn s Campaign from any that has gone before. That phenom Enon has been the role played in it by sen. Robert Kennedy who while running for no office himself has emerged As the dominant personality a the whole elec Tion. From the beginning Bobby Kennedy As the whole of the United states knows him has denied that he has any political ambitions beyond continuing to be a Good United states yet he can hardly escape some measure of personal responsibility for the pronounced sceptics is with which this claim is increasingly being greeted. The 94-sealer whisper Jet plane in which he sweeps across the length and breadth of the United states tie professionalism and in some cases the toughness Wilh which his please see Kennedy Page 11 Welo Lienju Jikit lie j fore a judge of the Manitoba a j Sion of stolen Gold. Board vetoes Block a five year zoning hassle Between homeowners and metro has ended with a decision both sides like. But the action May have a sting in its Tail two Law suits against metro. The Manitoba municipal Board handed Down a decision wednesday upholding o b j e c tons by Crescent Wood Home owners association to a metro rezoning bylaw. The bylaw would have allowed construction of a High apart ment Block at Academy Road Inui Suay and Wellington Crescent in the of Appeal less than an hour j River Heights area of South after or. Justice Israel Nitika j Winnipeg. Man sentenced Winnipeg lawyer it was second rezoning Harry Dennis Backlin to seven Hsiaw for the site metro had years imprisonment for posses appeals within an hour notice of Appeal against conviction and sentence was filed thursday in the Manitoba court peal court thursday afternoon to try to arrange bail for his client. Passing sentence or. Justice Nitikman said Backlin had been faithless to his oath As a lawyer and Stern measures were needed when a lawyer please see Backlin Page 9 the notice of Appeal claims the sentence was excessive and harsh. It suggests the trial judge misdirected the jury by instructing it that the question of honest or dishonest Possession was governed to a quite marked continued please see appeals Page it the first also allowing the building Block had been finally lost last year on a technicality. The homeowners association bad . Jobs shrink mass layoffs at car plants feared London a grew today that a total of Auto workers May lose their jobs As a slow paralysis grips the strike bound British motor corporation. Production was halted or disrupted at j4 Bic plants in eng land Scotland and Wales. At least workers already have been Laid off. Strikes by 650 delivery Drivers at Birmingham and 190 Radia Tor makers at Oxford were Crip pling the company. The strikers Are protesting plans to dismiss some of the workers in a management Cut caused by the la Bor government s economic squeeze. The result could be layoffs on a massive scale. Industry sources said Bic workers could be out of a Job in the end. The effects such a production shutdown would snowball through Compo nent Supply firms and bring enforced idleness to another men. The government has declined to intervene in an attempt to end the strikes. Prospects were that the Bic crisis would push Britain s total unemployed Over the Mark. Last month work ers were listed jobless. Handling costs May Rise by Hubert Beyer although United Grain growers reported records in earnings and Grain handling this year the profits Aren t nearly High enough to replace a dangerously obsolete elevator system according to James f. Mants the ugg s manager of country operations. More than 60 per cent of All elevators in Western Canada Are More than 40 years old and at Are badly in need of replace of the ment or malls said in an inti " period. Please see Board Page 8 ads say pictures support testimony on Kennedy death by John Mackenzie Washington president Kennedy have concluded that newly available photographs of the Bear 01 Manders Thornton pictures Boswell for the Humes saw tuesday afternoon a Day after they were turned Over to the National archives by the Ken Nedy family. If the doctors evaluation the pictures is pictures bolster of Correct the their official autopsy report the who performed the autopsy on Warren report backed by Tim Traynor for columnist Drew Pearson often a scathing critic of . Officialdom there s no question about the truth of the findings of the commission which probed the Kennedy assassination. There in t the slightest Scintella of evidence that these men hushed anything he said of the members of the Warren com Mission during an interview at the fort Garry hotel wednesday j Daoust Quebec s most wanted furthermore he added criminal who had vowed never cles of evidence just released to to be taken alive was Recap commission not see the the the is attending ugg s annual meeting at Royal Alexandra hotel Royal Alexandra hotel fought it to the supreme court diced the Grain handling of Canada Over a four year f b ,.bad Snape Industry will be in bad shape unless the handling margin of 4m cents a Bushel is soon increased. Our handling margin is Tho same As 20 years ago. The Only reason we were Able to manage without an increase so far was adaptation and consolidation in the he said there were 30 to 40 Grain handling companies 20 years ago but Only 10 major companies were doing the Busi Ness today. Soon we will have reached where no further concluded j least or fugitive swallows Poison Montreal up Andre the i gov. John Cornally were wounded by the same Bullet which passed through the presi Dent s neck before striking the governor. This single Bullet theory was vigorously attacked by commis Sion critics who suggested that there was a second Assassin and other Rifle shots from another direction. Critics faulted the commission handling nations of the world and depends vitally on the Elfi Cliency of its handling system. Smoother Grain movement is required. United Grain growers has 750 elevators. Taking into consideration that some old Eleva tors will be consolidated we will probably end up Wilh having to replace 500 Eleva for relying on the doctors on the of past a Peri without insisting on seeing the Macei u would take to 60 autopsy pictures. Some hinted years to replace All the Eleva that the failure to use and i tors. This is too Long or. Mants publish the pictures was part of said. Please see photos Page 8 please see handling Page 10 the National archives in Washington Bear out the commission s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald slew the Young president without Aid. Examination of the clothes the victim was wearing would show please see columnist Page 9 tured Early today and taken to Hospital where several hours later he remained unconscious. A spokesman for St. Luc hos Pital said his condition 10 hours after the Midnight capture was very very please see captured Page 10 today s inside stories police uniform debated Page Nigeria on Brink of anarchy Page Maloney die s Man Page editorial Pace 3 6 19 or. Sharp the abominable no Man third generation in the . Merro t new chairman Bruce Hutchison Joseph Kraft ;