Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 20, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index Jumble contest. 26 serach Sver part 12.Page 10 classified 24 to 35 movies. Comics.-10.11 sports 18 to 33 to 14 deaths 35 women . Plans for Banks stun Ottawa High level hints at restrictions Shock Canadian officials by Jack Brooks Washington staff the United states is preparing High level action against Canada in the Case of the mercantile the move has shocked Cana Dian officials who up to now believed . Anger at Canada s restrictions was not shared by the White House or top administration officials. Capitol Hil sources said this week the administration is now looking for a Democrat on the Hill to introduce a Bill bringing All foreign Banks under Federal control. Administration s o u r c e s re fused to fully confirm the move but called it a plausible possibility. Some officials admitted it could be More threat than substance at this stage depending on what Canada does in the commons banking committee Jan. 24. But it was stressed the . Is gop spurns tax Rise by Andrew Glass Washington special tons Republican leaders in Congress thursday night spurned president Johnson s proposed tax increase and demanded that the administration end the Vietnam War in the shortest possible but it was the Republican appraisal of prepared to go ahead with it if i the president s state of the Annada Oes ahead with its Union message which will curb proposals. The adminis j serve As a political blueprint for be in addition the minority Parx the oth Sun sets . Moon Seta Winnipeg Friday january 20, 1967 Lun rises . Moon rises . Industrialist says Europe menaced Low John slogan of the 1958 Campaign final edition forecast Cloudy -5 and 5 above la Ulutu it to one being proposed by new York Republican senator Jacob javits. His office said tuesday he will propose within a week America and another Bill giving Washington tons for the seventies foreign banking control. Please see . Page 2 to reject protests Bylls. By Victor mache Ottawa staff Canada Wil firmly but politely reject the protests of the United states government against proposed Canadian legislation restricting the growth of the mercantile lilt 11 mint ave Congress cast aside the John Sonia great society and called instead for a new direction for America and sensible Solu on for the i House minority Leader Gerald i Ford Michigan asserted that j the president has failed to make i a convincing Case for his tax increase and added until he i does we Are against j while rep. Ford criticized the president s Domestic policies and advanced a Host of Republican alternatives his Senate counterpart minority Leader Everett Mckinley Dirksen Illi Nois focused on foreign affairs and especially the dilemma of Ford and sen. Dirksen each read 13-minute excerpts from their speeches in the old supreme court chamber at the Capitol before an audience that included Many of the 64 new gop senators and congressmen elected last november. But they failed to wrest the live television coverage that the networks gave to the president s Jan. 10 address to the Congress. London up the trend toward United states domination of British and european Industry took a drubbing along the whole political spectrum this week. Sir Paul Chambers regarded 5 Britain s top industrialist delivered the most vigorous at tack when he said in a Paris speech thursday night . Eco nomic expansion is a menace to the whole Economy of Western Europe. Prime minister Wilson stressed in Rome tuesday his labor government s loyalty to the North Atlantic charter. Then he added we Don t believe that any thing in it requires us to accept the domination of european industrialist and eco nomic life by american Indus trial Wilson s remarks were published Side by Side in newspapers Here with an announce ment that Chrysler has obtained voting control of Rootes the British car firm. Three giant -. Companies general motors Ford and Chrysler now control about the Canadian diplomatic note in reply to two Stern . Notes of protest is expected to be sent from Ottawa Over the it was Learned Friday. Prime minister Pearson has made it Clear the Canadian government has no intention of backing Down. We do not intend to Retreat on this he said. The american protests were aroused by proposed Amend ments to the Bank act which would restrict expansion of the j mercantile Bank in Canada. The Jan. instead the networks taped the Republican presentation for delayed viewing. Carmen ask Flike of 35% mercantile i Ottawa up a demand Bank is a wholly owned sub std or a 3_ per cent wage increase Ary of the first National City. A three year period Bank of new York. The Canadian government wants to get its reply to the american government before mercantile Bank representatives inv cd j has been served on the car by the Independent brotherhood of locomotive engineers j it is expected to set the Pat Tern for negotiations opening Leo. Present three year contracts Between the railways and their locomotive Crews expire in the Spring. A study by the Dominion Bureau of statistics shows the average annual wage of engineers now is on passenger engines on freight engines and in Yard service. Continued appear before the commons j next month on new contracts committee on finance tuesday. For locomotive engineers and fireman on a major Canadian please see to reject Page 2 sacred Unity sought by Ronald Lebel Ottawa up tentative Steps toward a reunification of the social credit movement Are being taken behind the scenes. Credit Ste Leader real Caouette who broke away from the social credit party in the fall of 1963 disclosed thursday that he has invited social credit officials to attend the annual executive meeting of his Ralzie ment credit Ste Here feb. 12. He said in an interview that he has asked the social credit half Britain s car production chairman of Imperial Chemi Cal industries Britain s largest Industrial concern. Chambers made Many of French presi Dent de Gaulle s arguments his own in relation to the . Addressing the Institute of banking and financial studies Chambers urged that Britain move closer to Europe even if she fails to gain full fledged common Market membership. Please see Europe Page 5 chinese brass suicide Tokyo Wall news paper put up in peking by a unit of China s army reported today that to Jui Ching purged general staff chief and vice Premier to i to committed Sui cide. Japanese correspondents in the chinese capital said the extra issued by the 235th army detachment also re ported Teng Hsiao Ping communist party general Secretary and one of the chief targets of Mao tse lung s purge and Yang Hsiu Feng president of the supreme people s court at tempted suicide. Earlier today one of Mao s mouthpieces the theoretical journal red Flag disclosed that some nominal followers of the party chairman have become alarmed by the turmoil sweep ing the chinese Mainland say ing you Are going too far and you Are making a. Mess giant tory Battle shaping up on meeting time site composition of convention at Issue Ottawa up conservative party sources Are predicting a clash Between the John Diefenbaker and Dalton Camp factions Over the Date the place and the composition for a leadership convention. Both sides feel three factors will strongly influence the outcome Roblin mum on die Job age urged province wide uniform Standard Levy and shift of tax Burden Are proposed by Barry came a plan to Ary school system most of its support saving possible Roblin Premier Duff Roblin said Friday that he would not claim that his government s new school financing formula would result in lower school taxes for All Manitoban but he gave an example of How a Homeowner in Winnipeg would save Over last year despite rising school costs. At a press conference he gave this example of a unveiled Ture Friday. Under the proposal made in a government White paper tabled by education minister George Johnson there would be a dras ii ally revised foundation pro Gram for primary schools in All single District school divisions. The million foundation pro Gram million More than was spent on education last year in Manitoba would draw 65 per cent of its financial support of the race. The party s executive commit tee will meet in Montreal feb. 3 and 4 to prepare plans for the meeting. Former defence minister Gor Don Churchill one of or. Diefenbaker s closest lieutenants said thursday he favors an april convention in his Home City of Winnipeg. Other Diefenbaker loyalists echoed this View. Party president Dalton Camp said in a Csc television inter View thursday night he hones the convention will be held in Montreal after expo 67 winds up oct. 24. A Spring convention in Winnipeg would involve Many advantages for or. Diefenbaker s supporters. The Prairie Region is the chiefs political bastion and thousands of his admirers could be expected to descend on Winnipeg. Please see tory Page 4 Home valued at with an equalized assessment of 500. The Mill rate for school taxes in Winnipeg last year was 34 Mills resulting in a schoo tax of s221. With the present school to rebate the Homeowner received Back resulting in a net tax but the official peking daily quoted a Shang Hai red guard As saying we will give the enemy no Quarter and will not quit until Complete Roblin needs million by Bill Orkiss Manitoba s spending estimates of from the province and 35 per cent from the real property taxes of the local taxpayer. In real terms if the program is enacted this year the province would pay million and local taxpayers million. The proposal outlined in the White paper will be introduced in the legislature in the form of a government Bill next week. The proposal is interlocked with a plan to raise 35 per cent of the Cost by Means of a prov Ince wide uniform Standard Levy and the government wants the Levy graduated to provide re Lief for Over burdened Home owners and Farmers. Under the revised system pro posed by or. Johnson a person paying real properly tax in a single District division would pay a uniform Standard Levy calculated on the basis of the equalized assessment of nine Mills on consumer credit Protection victims of for the coming year soared to million up a delay hinted by Bill Morriss civil remedies t a for Manitoba. Have fallen victim to a Broad new code proposed whopping million Over the record spending of million during the last year. Principal cause of the huge increase which almost matched the record breaking increase of million fore cast. Last year was an increase of million in education which will Cost the province almost. Million in the coming year. Details of the expenditures were revealed in uie Manitoba legislature thursday As provincial treasurer Gurney Evans tabled the estimates of current expenditure of the province for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1968. While substantial increases in government spending had been predicted the. Size of the increase took most observers by Premier Duff Roblin refused thursday to comment on the possibility he May be a Candi Date for the leadership of the National progressive conserva Tive party. The present Leader John Diefenbaker has just issued a Call for an Early leadership convention. It s a Good thing that both National executive and the National Leader Are in agree ment on this the Prem Ier said in an interview. Asked if he would be a candidate at the convention when it was held. Or. Roblin replied that is As far As i care to go at this Quaker Aid ban denied Ottawa Cabinet ministers denied in the commons today that air Canada has re fused to carry medical supplies bound for North Vietnam or thai drug companies have been ordered by their . Parents not to sell medical supplies to quakers for shipment to North Vietnam. Transport minister pickers Gill said International regulations prevented air Canada priorities. Chill Tell i . Spending Surprise. There had been talk of Nam. Span increase of million to s40 i he said from meeting a Quaker request to carry free of charge or at a reduced rate medical supplies to Moscow for shipment to Viet that Aeroflot. The a White paper outlining the code and including provision for please see saving Page 16 a Bali mistake Ottawa cup reve nue minister Benson objected in the commons to Day to being identified in an Ottawa newspaper photo., caption As Dalton Camp president of the conserva Tive party. I would simply like to say that there is no similarity in that to has t got any hair said the smiling minister. He and or. Camp have two of the longest foreheads in Canadian politics. Zeas Farmland and Homes and of 33 j compensation to Mills on other real property m cry my provision of expanded ,1 in which his in Irli cents and the the municipality in which his property is located. Government spokesmen emphasized that the new plan would Only pay 100 per cent of the Cost of a Basic educational program and any extras above the stand Ard would have to be paid for by special levies. Therefore the real property taxpayer would probably pay a special Levy the size of which please see school Page 5 Legal Aid to indigents and the setting up of a legislative commissioner for Nistra please see code Page 16 an increase of 53u Mii inn to Oil no Mil on even this might have russian airline which makes a meant a five per cent retail i weekly Al she. 1 is tax to balance the budget. Is bound by no such but taxpayers won t find out or. Pic Korssell to d nip what new , if any they Leader Douglas hat a can will have to pay to meet the Ada can carry the Phi if the quakers pay the full Fiji file rate. He said International air transport association regulations allow a reduced or Freo record expenditures budget conies Down. Until the St Johns Newfoundland special it is Only proper to begin this voyage of political exploration o 11 this rugged Island whose people exist even More than most canadians m daily denial of the harsh reality which is our environment. The definition of a Canadian identity which has been our i for a Hundred he has asked the social we Cui. I years now de in t seem so leagues of new Brunswick on elusive As you walk up water Taro Manitoba and Alberta to Street in St. Johns huddled Send to the against the Northern nigh your meeting to discuss Mutual co breath smoking in the cold air. Operation in Federal politics. And what if consists of this to invite social Canadia ism of ours is. A Joey sma1xwood says confederation. Safe that has made us because it has Given us All a j feeling that there is a kind of valor in us in our stand against the Grey and Black arid White of Ottawa in perspective v w Peter c. Newman clean no victories also s is the Winter against the vastness the land. The struggle that Hiis formed our National character has not been a contest against-thj3 land and yields postponement of defeats. It we s Marshall Mcluhan who once told me that Newfoundland was the most politically literate part of Canada in the sense of politics being the Only culture they have because they re not metropolitan enough to Ever have experienced a nineteenth i m still not sure what or. Mcluhan meant but i went right to the the Hon. Joseph r the Man who invented modern newfound i legislature h land. .1 see Smallwood Page 16 estimates of g o v e r n ment spending Rise to re Cord 1. 0 civil remedies code implementation May be delayed Page 1. 0 opposition leaders and civil service due for raises Page 4. 0 p r o a i n c i a 1 trea surer apologizes to House Lor pre release of spending estimates Page 4. 0 Literals fail to reopen throne speech debate Page 10. 0 development inn hassle continues Page 4. Regulation breach cd Baizley Page 10. 0 Pavilion. To be named for Page 3. 0 Roblin promises Check on Smellie s dual role lawyer and boundaries cum Mission chairman strike disrupts Aden Aden Reuters violent demonstrations and a paralysing strike hit Aden thursday the 128th anniversary of British occupation of South Arabia. Eleven Arab policemen and one Arab civilian were injured in one of 11 grenade explosions in several parts of Aden. Four vehicles of the South arabian Federal government were set ablaze and an Aden broadcasting service Van was hit by gunfire. No one was Hurt. Or. Evans has indicated that the budget May be expected within a week. It will probably be brought Down next thursday. But one thing became certain from the spending estimates either the local school Grants to municipalities will be increased by million or the school tax rebate to homeowners is to be doubled. Last year the government estimated million in school tax rebates and million in educational Grants to local districts areas and divisions. This year the figures were lumped under school Grants and other to show estimated spending of As opposed to an actual expend iture of last year. Education minister George Johnson was expected to Dis close this morning what the new formula is in a White paper please see Quaker Page 2 on education. Please see Roblin Page 4 today s inside stories u of m Reading classes Caha forced to think big editorial Pace or. and the Force of Drake Heidi Back to port or. Roblin s spending for the tear Page 3 Page 21 Western Brian nursing program proposed the Cost of Hospital services Manitoba May be pushed even higher nurses May and have registered to work Abc circulation City zone 1m my llliii3v.o harder for their pay if the recommendations of a recently completed study on the Supply of nurses in the province Are adopted. The report on the year Long study tabled in the provincial legislature thursday by health minister c. H. Witney recommends that student nurses be excluded from Hospital operations in the province and that their course of studies be Cut to two years. Student nurses who perform a Large part of the nursing work in Manitoba hospitals in return for their room and Board and tuition would be working with patients Only As much As required for their training under the proposed program. Please see nursing Page 4 ;