Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index Jumble contest Page 25 classified 23 to 32 movies 9 . 14. 15 sports 20 to 22, 32 finance.10 to 12 television deaths final edition vol. 74 no. 100 probe set on foreign ownership Gordon named to head special Cabinet committee by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff prime minister Pearson announced monday the formation of a special Cabinet committee headed by Walter Gordon to examine the Structure of Canadian Industry with special reference to foreign ownership and control. Initial studies on this subject for the Cabinet committee will be conducted by a task Force to be established for Thi purpose said or. Pearson. An inter departmental com Mittee of senior officials will consult with the task Force from time to time he said. The study will include the significance both political and economic of foreign invest ment in the development of our country As Well As ways to encourage greater Canadian please see Gordon Page 4 Mol Gat protests Choice Sun rises . Moon rises . sets . Moon Seu 7.31 . Winnipeg. Tuesday january m. Im7 amendments opposed forecast sunny -20 and Zero. Would Widen plans Purchase Deal made a month before warning says president of institution staff by Victor Mackie National City Bank of new York was firmly the commons Liberal Leader Gil Das Mol Gat said tuesday that an Examina Tion of the Structure of Cana Dian Industry with special reference to foreign ownership and control will be valuable but he does not believe that Walter Gordon minister without port Folio in the Pearson Cabinet is the Man to do the Job. Prime minister Pearson announced appointment of a com Mittee of Cabinet monday to do the study and said it would be headed by or. Gordon. Or. Mol Gat said in an inter View that i m a pro Canadian and a Canadian nationalist but i Don t believe the appointment of Walter Gordon to do this particular Job is a proper Way of or. Mol Gat said he wanted to see canadians retain control of their Economy and political Structure and that the proposed study would be valuable. But the ver fact that or. Gordon had been labelled As anti american and an isolationist by his own Choice would make his report suspect in the eyes of Many people. Whether we like it or not we Are going to be neighbors of the United states. I Don t want to Bow Down to them but i see no need to needlessly slap them in the said or. Mol Gat. Referring to the mercantile Bank controversy the Manitoba please see Mol Gat Page 6 Wilson stresses need to curb. a Reuters by foreign Secretary. From of deniers h and foreign my Paris minister Wilson told president de Gaulle today Britain sees its entry into the european common Market As a Way of curbing american Industrial domination in Europe and of developing an Active partnership with Eastern euro Pean communist countries. In response de Gaulle quizzed Wilson about various aspects of Britain s european policies but without giving any indication of whether he will support or oppose British entry. The two men met at the Ely see Palace in a 105-minute ses Sion in which the British Case for joining the european eco nomic Community was outlined with Force by Wilson. Diplomats gave this account which was also Vij George Brown and foreign ister Maurice Couve de Mur Ville of France Wilson opened the proceedings with a. 30-minute statement in which he argued that try would Only Benefit his country but All members of the Community. Without producing any new stressed the need for a pan european Effort in the technological Field As a Means of heading off the Dan Oer As he saw it of american domination. He said Britain s skills and technological re sources including its knowhow in the Field of civilian nuclear development could bolster an All european Effort. Please see Wilson Page 4 full Story on loan demanded by Green Rescue workers remove the bodies of passengers from a bus 33 Miles from Rio de Janerio monday after it was swept off the Road by flood Waters and by the Swol Paraiba River. The floods Iau cd by Torren tial Rains have brought to the flood toll mounts Rio de Janeiro about 150 bodies have been re covered following disastrous floods around Rio de Janeiro and one police estimate said As Many As .500 May have died. With hundreds reported miss ing rescue., workers combed through mud and debris. No exact casualty figures were Dent of . Owned mercantile Bank said in his Brief to the committee that first National City Bank of new York Citibank made the binding written agreement on june 26, 1963. He said he had the documents to prove the agree ment existed and would produce them. This was in direct conflict i with statements by the former i finance minister and by two senior civil servants who at tended a meeting in or. Gor Don s office on july 18, 1963. That meeting was held with James s. Rockefeller then pres rident and now chairman of Citibank. Or. Gordon and the two senior civil servants claim or. Rockefeller said he had an arrangement to Purchase the mercantile Bank from its dutch owners but at that time had made no firm commitment. This clash has resulted in an International dispute with the government protesting pro posed Canadian government retroactive amendments to the Bank act which would restrict the future growth of the Mer Cantile Bank. The dispute was discussed today in the commons continued please see warning Page 4 White haired Adela Vargas Espinoza 89, tells her Story after emerging from a hotel in Managua Nicaragua monday where rebels had held for Eigners As hostages. They have been released. See details . Congress gets record budget Johnson warns against trying to slash spending programs Bill proposes broadening car insurance by Bill morr1ss Manitoba motorists will be Able to obtain additional insurance coverage at extra Cost if a Bill now before the Manitoba legis lature is passed. The measure for extended coverage part of uniform legislation recommended for All the provinces except Quebec by the association of superintendents of insurance for the provinces of Canada came up Reading monday. Provincial treasurer Gurney Evans who introduced the Bill which amends the Manitoba insurance act said the legislation would allow insurance companies to offer coverage in three new areas. They Are medical payments coverage for personal injuries. Extension of coverage to include uninsured Motorist coverage and a form of personal Accident compensation payable without regard to fault. This would allow motorists to Purchase coverage for them selves and passengers in the please see insurance Page 6 govt. Protection for buyer asked Washington a president Johnson called today for higher taxes higher Portal tales and higher pay Cheque deductions to help finance the biggest . Budget in spending blueprint for fiscal 1968, the year starting next july 1, the president sent Ai hands off a Arning to Congress members who Are grumbling by at rising deficits. By David Oancia deep budget cuts could cause peking special Pic a recession instead of the ex-1 Ture of growing confusion com petted seventh successive year j placated by dramatic reports of of record Prosperity Johnson s struggles is emerging As Corn in i annual budget message said. Junist China s cultural drive he said the Economy the j and purge move into a phase class War heralded Toronto Way Over Many years who has fought for some areas it remained Wuu Lau i f Vears for a better break for Consumers told a special parliamentary committee today the government should create a full fledged department of con Sumer affairs. Mrs. A. F. W. Plump re a past president of the Consumers association of Canada said in a Brief to the Senate commons committee on con some areas it remained Inaue-1 he saw me am no let split or dual jurisdiction budget and the Aims of our so described As tale great Mart of Over matters of consumer in piety would be jeopardized by the nation wide All round c ass Terest lessened consumer pro i ulcer a arge tax increase or struggle to be unfolded this 1 by Large slashes in military or i Lection. As an example she said the cac found in 1964 that some milk fruit juice and other drinks were being sold in car tons that overstated the amount of the contents. In this Case the weights and 111 uu3 surfer prices such a department meal Les division of the federa should have four Mam Respousi-1 Lade depart nent. The Federal abilities food and drug directorate the Consumers Nom Federal agriculture department health hazards and. Fraud. J and provincial government ensuring free Competition Muk were All m i., the Market or controlling those areas where Competition is against the Best interests of the Economy. Maintaining an information solved the food and drug directorate told the cac it had been aware of the inaccurate labels for 10 maintaining an in formation ire said. And service and investigating and Wing for Correl replying to complaints and in quiries. Initiating and carrying out lion. Exact casualty figures were 0 initiating and carrying oui i m available however because no research As a basis for con agric Ture was being jul la ip0islatl0n. Illus mall lol i tic Canada department of no word on envoy switch Montreal external affairs minister Martin said monday he knows of no foun Dation for any reports that Canada might ask the United states to replace the present . Ambassador in Ottawa. During the weekend the Washington Post quoted an unidentified top Leader in Ottawa As saying the . State department had treated Canada like a banana Republic in the controversy involving the Mer Cantile Bank of Canada which is owned by . Interests. The Post quoted the Canad n official As saying the present . Ambassador to Canada w. Walton Butterworth had pm loved Ham handed methods and has thrown his weight Martin in Montreal for a speech was questioned by re porters one of whom cited what he called reports that Canada might ask for the replacement the opposition parties in the Manitoba legislature Are continuing to press for full disclosure of Loans made by the Manitoba development fund. Sidney Green nip Inkster argued monday that Premier Duff r o b 1 i n s administration was entitled under the Manitoba development fund act to in quire into details of Loans made by the fund and was. Obligated to reveal them to the House. He was speaking on the third Day of a debate which arose when Liberal Leader Gildas Mol Gat sought details for any Loans or financial commitments made to Monoca a. G., or any subsidiary firms in of v a 11 a a Central tabulation was being it is not at s length from the government and we say Rains sunday night that this is raging Waters and set or Green charged that the of landslides which swept one government was saying that the crowded bus off a Highway into people of Manitoba Lead invested swollen Paraiba River 33 millions of dollars into the development fund and then did please see details Page 6 of its of or. Butterworth. Of i -----7 undertaking a forestry Complex development in the North. The liberals sought the in formation in an order of return filed last week. But or. Roblin has maintained that the fund operates at s length from the govern ment and that under the act he or his ministers could not inquire into details of any Loans. Or. Green a lawyer said he would stake his Legal reputation on his interpretation of Section 30, subsection 2, of the Manitoba development fund act that the Cabinet had a right to demand arid receive details of Loans made from the fund. That Section is As Cleara Section As any lawyer Ever came face to face with he said. There is no doubt it. Knew of Noi he added that one of 1 1c a w Miles West of Rio and. Buried another under mud and rocks. Fifty bodies were recovered. A construction Camp in the same area was engulfed by a tributary of the Paraiba. At least 300 persons were reported living rat. The area before Sumer policy and legislation mrs. Plump re said Protection Given Cor developed in a civilian programs. On one hand leaders appear limn Piotti Anijo. Uduc the budget bears what John entry still in effective Power ave son called the deep imprint emphasizing the need to main of Vietnam. Acknowledging that. Tain production consider please see . Page 4 acted alone Moieties his m alter of Federal i so nothing had has i Vancouver up Ortance and ramp officers monday told a done. Royal commission investigating he electronic at crop Outlook Good Farmers Are told Man. Special see consumer Page 4 a pulp Union s Vancouver convention that they got into trouble with in Cir superiors for their part in the affair. Corporal Harry Reed and Constable Eugene p. Ouellette testified they acted depend no official involve recommending a private detective to Pat o Neal i organizer for the International 1 brotherhood of pulp and sul and paper Mill workers. China s International prestige and avoid a nation wide wave of takeovers of g o v c r n m e u t organizations and factories. On the other hand there Are reports of red guard takeover of the peking police depart ment or radio stations news papers factories and railway stations reports of an unremitting struggle against men branded As the opponents of chairman Mao tse Tung s line and of the decimation of once powerful organizations including such vitally important branches of the communist party As two those handling organization and propaganda. In its weekend editorial the people s daily Organ of Trio communist part y s Central committee. Described the Seiz ure of Power from Tives of Hie bourgeoisie As Hie Central Issue. Please see class Page 4 0 Enns to ask for Survey of stocks of. Stahi Tryba wheat Page 15. 0 rain line abandonment applications will be studied Page 15. Budget May not come Down until next week says Evans 1. 0 extended extra Cost Auto insurance coverage proposed Page 1. 0 opposition continues to press for of by Macho of develop debt Hind Page 1. 7 Miles West of rip de Janeiro was among hit. Were homeless and 200 were reported missing. In Volta a steel. Town Gera is state a raft ferrying 26 passengers across the a r a i b a River flipped Over sunday killing 13 persons about 70 per cent of the Rio s Power was knocked out. King to visit Britain London Reuters Buck Ingham Palace announced Mon Day King Feisal of saudi Ara begin a nine Day visit to Britain May opposition critics fire Oil school reorganization ports or. The government has Tion of changing our. Position regarding the mercantile Bank. courage the owner sept capital to invest in tie province. Education i n i George Johnson defends but Farmers not turn away from secondary crops Manitoba s agriculture minister Harry j. Enns told representatives attending the fourth annual farm Outlook conference held Here monday. Farmers were told that the expected higher wheat prices if realized will increase returns per acre however they were cautioned part of the increase will be offset by rising costs of production and higher allowance for labor and management but part of it will be capitalized into higher prices for since land is the Basic re of determine what other crops will be competing with wheat but the main factors will be foreign demand and prices. This will apply especially to the oilseed crops. Feed grains will be Able to compete with wheat Only if returns Are comparable which will depend on yield and prices Only a Small percentage of our feed grains Are exported outside of Canada because Corn is cheaper so the prices will depend on our National demand. This demand agricultural experts predicted will be deter mined mainly by the size of our livestock production in Canada and the availability of Susti today s inside stories dump proposed Jacqueline Kennedy series Spiel entries dragging Page 3 Page 14 Fage 21 for our feed grains. Farmers May find it More economical to prepare part of our need for livestock feed. Production of All livestock products will keep increasing to meet the Contino ugly rising demand. A very Large percen gence Branch members con firmed earlier testimony by or. O Neal that he asked them to suggest someone who could help him obtain information at the please see acted Page 4 budget next week provincial treasurer Gurney Evans said monday that the province s budget expected to re veal new taxes to cover the record estimated spending of Tage of our produced As cattle will be a rebels release hostages Managua ap5 a 20-hour uprising in which at least 21 nicaraguans were reported killed and More than 100 wounded ended monday night with the freeing of 117 foreign j hostages including 89 North americans. The besieged rebels Wen released after they surrendered their arms. The rebels protesting against the Spinoza family which has ruled Nicaragua for More than 30 years had holed up with s354.5 million May not come Down until next week. Replying to a question from Liberal Leader Gildas Mol Gal in the Manitoba legislature or. Evans said he would being in the budget within a few Days. Dent Lorenzo Guerrero. Their hostages in the Gran hotel. They agreed to surrender their arms if allowed to go free. National guardsmen with tanks surrounded the hotel while insurgent leaders negotiated representatives of presi Farmers or ;