Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 25, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index Jumble contest classified 43 to 52 movies -5 comics. 41 42 television 24 finance.57 to61 women.33 to 35 deaths.28 sports 52, 54 to 56 b Winnipeg free press an am edition v jui.y2a-auo.7j vol. 74 no. 101 Winnipeg wednesday january 25, 1967 Bun n e . Moon rises . Sun it 5 10 . Moon sets probe role rejected9 by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff Trade min ister Robert Winters had the Opportunity to serve on the special Cabinet committee which will study foreign ownership and in vestment in Canada but turned it Down it was Learned from ill formed sources tuesday. Or. Winters As minister of Trade and Commerce declined to have anything to do with the committee probe. It is understood the minister did not want to be associated with any such study which might add to the strains already imposed on the relationships Between the United states and Canada. It is regarded Here As significant that or. Winters the member of the Cabinet who is possibly More involved in his departmental work than any other minister with the Struc Ture iof Canadian Industry especially with the Impact of foreign ownership and control is not a member of the Cabinet committee. A spokesman for or. Winters who was in san Francisco tuesday said the minister could have taken part but turned it Down Flat. In san Francisco tuesday night or. Winters addressed the inaugural dinner meeting of the Canadian american association of Northern California. He assured . Investors that can Ada welcomes foreign capital regardless of doubt provoking remarks to the contrary from time to or. Winters made no refer ence to the task Force on the extent of foreign ownership set up monday under the chairman ship of Walter Gordon former finance minister. The government would encourage canadians to invest More in business Enterprise and ask subsidiaries of foreign companies to Demon Strate Good corporate or. Winters said. It did not propose however to attack foreign interests with negative or punitive Legisla he said the majority of . Owned subsidiaries in Canada adhere closely to. The Basic in tent of 14 guidelines of Cana Dian corporate citizenship an quit race Nourice last year. He told members that can Ada s deficit in commercial re lations with the United states please see Winters Page .9 Rockefeller and Macfadden did t ask to step in mercantile was t relying on state department to Settle Row with Canada Rockefeller says by vie tag Mac Kiev Ottawa staff James , a member of the american family of financial titans rejected suggestions tuesday night that he was re lying on the . State department to resolve his quarrel with Canada Over the mercantile Bank. By Hubert Beyer Fergus Falls. Minn. Staff a major crisis which came to its Climax tuesday night resulted in the withdrawal wednesday morning of 28 Drivers from the 500-mile Winnipeg to St. Paul Minnesota snowmobile race. Representatives of three major snowmobile manufacturers sent telegrams to the St. Paul Winter carnival association wednesday morning informing officials that they had withdrawn their Drivers. The Telegram said. The companies Felt it was the most ethical thing to do. We feel that a certain competitor did t adhere to the rules of the the Telegram said. A spokesman for one of the firms that withdrew said at a press conference that they would not enter the race next year unless rigid rules were established and the assurances Given that the rules would been forced. Left in the race Are the machines of one company and several independents. They left Here on schedule wednesday on the third Lap from Here to St. Cloud. Some of the charges being levelled include transporting machines on trailers during the race changing motors on the Way continued please see 28 Page 19 the Day Long committee hear ing saw Sharp exchanges Early in its opening session and late in the evening Between members of finance com Mittee and or. Rockefeller chairman of the first National. City Bank of new York. Two proofs Dennison hearings with or. Rockefeller were completed in extended sittings of the committee up to 10 . Cost tuesday. After the six hour session the committee appeared still divided with Many members strongly opposed to lowering the proposed to foreign Banks in Lua. Liberal maps suggested the barriers Canada. Transfer of the mercantile Bank from dutch interests to . Interests was deliberately pre sent Echo former finance mini Ster waiter. Gordon As wait a comply. They contended or. Rockerfeller and his associates had been made aware of the Canadian government s objections to Purchase of the Bank the Rockefeller interests Learned of the Canadian government s objections to the proposed Deal in a meeting with Louis Ras Minky governor of the Bank of Canada june. 20. Or. Kasminsky suggested the proposed . Purchase would _ Ruvi n open. W r the Gates for charter minister Junta strives to Avert crisis general s aides arrested Saigon a South Vietnam s ruling Mili tary Junta tried to head off another political crisis today following the ouster of . Nguyen Huu co he had been Deputy Premier defence minister and the leading southerner in the Junta dominated by the refugees from North Vietnam. Informed vietnamese sources said 20 to 30 supporters of co most of them military person Nel had under to. 2 arrest and assistants of his on he defence staff were being transferred or watched by Security police. Saigon although filled with rumours was quiet and there was no indication that the directory of ruling generals was breaking up. But some Dis fun element at the ouster of the Southern general was reported among Southern leaders in Sai gon who resent the northerners domination no troop movements were re ported. Some officers of the 7th vietnamese division headquartered at my Tho 30 Miles South of the capital were among those arrested sources said. Chief of state Nguyen Van Thieu was reported trav ailing in the Mekong Delta. Premier Nguyen Cao by was winding up a tour of new zealand and was expected Back late thursday or Early Friday. Vietnamese sources said by was present when the Junta met before he left and decided to fire co. Co was on an official visit to Formosa when the Junta cabled him sunday not to return to Vietnam. The message suggested he visit Tokyo and Seoul. Co got As far As Hong Kong please see top Saigon Page 19 gets note confirming curbs Washington up prime minister Pear. Would . State department today was handed a note reaffirming Canada s determination to proceed with legislation restricting operations of the mercantile open ulc i Liui applications by other american i Banff of Banks. He also suggested the Joje note rejects formal confidential nature of the rela i protests from the state depart sons of the governor with the i Antiawn late Canadian Banks would be disrupted by the presence of a please see did t Call Page 9 Mao reluctant to use pipers join band Ottawa up defence minister Hellyer today be. Elected Robbie Burns Day to announce that bagpipers the armed forces will hence Forth be classed As musicians. He thus reversed a Previ Ous decision of the defence staff to put pipers in a Dif Ferent Trade classification than the 900 musicians in the armed forces. As a result pipers now will receive the same pay As musicians a month More than they have been getting. By David Oancia peking staff pledges of military support for actions involving the seizure of Power from opponents of chairman Mao tse Tung s Radical policies May have been deliberately vague for the simple reason that use of troops to crush the opposition would inevitably be interpreted As Bonapartis and an admission of the failure of chairman Mao s mass line concept of ruling. The carefully worded articles Given front Page prominence in peking newspapers t s d a raised the Prospect of use of the armed forces in the most extreme circumstances t they placed most of the emphasis on. The nerdier Prolet Arian revolutionary rebels to unite and to pick off one by one those bastions where those in authority taking the. Capitalist Road and those clinging reactionary line Are in the message conveyed is that the chinese army is Prole tarian revolutionary army built and led by chairman Mao himself and that it will always of in the the stand at the Side revolutionary rebels current Power struggle. We revolutionary fighters will raise still higher the great red Banner of Mao tse Tung s thought heighten our vigilance a Hundred fold stand fast at our fighting posts pledge to be. A staunch backing for the Prole tarian revolutionary rebels sup port their Strug by for seizing please. See Mao Page 9 3 tremors Joli Tashkent Moscow three minor Earth tremors hit the so Viet Uzbekistan capital of Tash Kent Early today and were also Felt some 250 Miles away. Hance capital of the neighbor tag Tadzik republic., the first of the three was the 716th Shock to be Kent since a .quake1 ment received in Ottawa late last year which pro posed curbs on the Bank purchased in 1963 by first National City Bank of new York Retro Active discrimination. George Kidd minister for eco nomic affairs at the Canadian delivered tile note to John Secretary of slate for european affairs who also has responsibility for the Canadian division at the state department. American officials have indicated they will watch proceed Ings in com Mons finance1 committee is studying a Bank act revision which includes the proposed curb before making any further move. There have been. Unsubstantiated reports Here of. Plans to draw up retaliatory legislation imposing further restrictions on the Canadian Banks now Al Lowed to operate son last week said there would be no later today Republican sen Ator Jacob javits of new York is to submit again to Congress a Bill placing Federal control Over foreign Banks now regu laced by the sales. This Bill blast lobby Hopes Greene Renews objection to subsidies by Egon Fekech Canada s agriculture minister j. J. Greene put another wet plan Ket tuesday on farm ers Hopes that they May get More Federal subsidies to improve their income position. Forecast Little. Chian be -10 and 5 above backbench revolt May face Roblin provincial Cabinet pay hikes causing friction in party by Bill Morriss Premier Duff Roblin s progressive conservative administration is treading a narrow line Between survival and a backbench revolt Over recent salary i increases to the Cabinet. Wages Row flares by Peter Raeside the Liberal assault on plans to r i s e the salaries of Manitoba s two opposition party leaders blew into a major storm in the legislature tuesday. Accused the using Black the liberals government of mail an offering Liberal Leader Gildas Mol Gat and new demo cratic party Leader a. R. Russ Paulley increased indemnities after Premier Roblin boosted Cabinet allow ances last september. Premier Roblin stoutly defended the Liming of both raises claiming the higher salaries for his Cabinet while delegates to the to what the Job is Dian federation of agriculture s reasonably with a voting margin of tour seals Over the combined opposition in the legislature As a result of last june s election the government faces a perilous situation As a result of the Liberal alack launched tues Day on the salary increases granted by without reference to the Legisla Ture. That four vote margin Lias been Cut to three with the of Harry p. Showman who is in ill health and has been away since the current session started. Adding to or. Roblin s dilemma is the fact that the present Liberal motion to Cut Cabinet salaries Back to their former Lei Al is before committee of the whole House. This Means that Deputy speaker a u. Watt pc is in the Char and would Vole in the event of a tie. This Means that the government s Over All majority is now two votes. At least five government backbench ers have criticized the Cabinet salary raises in statements outside the House. See Bac Bencher Page 9 annual meeting Here were talk ing about milk producers subsidies higher wheat prices and the shrinking share of the National food Dollar that goes to the Farmer or. Greene looked into his Crystal Ball and saw a coming world food shortage and a seller s Market for Farmers. He issued a veiled warning to delegates not to make the federation Iulo a Mere lobby group for higher farm income and stressed that farm policies must be made in the Light of the coming seller s Market not the situation that existed in the past. Speaking Nipa Dvine Widico. which got nowhere last year is Sidy purposes designed javits says to encourage reciprocity for Ameri can Banks abroad. Here a week ago or. Greene had told the Dairy Farmers of Canada that he saw Little likelihood of Dairy Farmers getting total dollars from the government for direct sub Aad in the heat of debate or. Mol Gat strongly denied be called the Premier s infer ence thai he had agreed in Advance of the current session to the salary raise. The furore was sparked when t. P. Hilhouse a Selkirk introduced a Resolution to change education minister George Johnson s new salary of including expenses to the former level of s12.soo. The Resolution referred to the first item in the Odu eation department estimates dealing with the minister s salary Aud the Liberal member stressed it was no personal slight on or. Johnson. Please see salaries Page 9 please see subsidy Page 12 livestock futures Market opposed the Canadian federation of agriculture decided wednesday it is opposed to the Winnipeg Grain Exchange plan to set up a livestock futures Market in Winnipeg in the autumn. The federation in a closely fought Battle turned a sub milled Resolution proposing a study of such a Market into one of opposition to the idea. E. K. The sask at 50 states. Such is de Nied by officials. An embassy spokesman said nil tin pm Ujj the Canadian note position already men t that me the Resolution be changed told the federations 31sl annual meeting in the fort thai speculators pkem1kr says who Deal in futures Aren t in business to. Give Peter a Newman vis travelling across talking with premiers their advisors verities constituents. He. Calls the premiers the new fathers of concede ratio the first article series Premier Joey Smallwood of Newfoundland has subset Agni articles Willruf appear periodically Halifax ther he wants to be Robert of has in Noya Scotia politics for the is Strong contender ship of i the Federal conservative succession to John Diefenbaker sitting in his unpretentious Halifax office like some careful principal in a sparsely furnished when i asked possibility of him about the contesting the Peter interviews m Nety fathers of confederation i can t help but notice the kind olives the ministers have me the Farmer Money but to make a profit for themselves. He argued that a fun lures Markot could put artificial pressure on the cattle Market and result in lower Over All prices to the producer. W. J. Parker of Manitoba Pool elevators who said his company deals in Many cattle feeding operations countered that a futures Market would provide the cattle feeder Wilh insurance against a drop in the Market Price Between the time he bought his cattle and the time he was ready to sell them. Many of our customers have asked us if there in t some Way they can insure themselves against this sort of he said. As far As t know a futures Markel is the Way. The feeder would sell his cattle the Day he purchased them Anc they were ready for Markel Al please see livestock Page 19 t he would deliver them at the Lime jul sep me that Attrel r Markel at up there and if you read country school he painstakingly divided his answer. Into two parts that were All but marked uti m w v Creighton s life of Macdonald or Schull s life of Laurier you wonder Why anybody in his right mind would want to get to. The top of the Heap. Those two men were adept at politics and government yet it was a torture for then shuffling his words carefully he added still no doubt there Are Circum stances in which person should do what he thinks is consider getting into Federal two tics unless i thought it was awfully please. See Stanfield Page 19 school lax rebate re solution a hollow gesture Page 25. Desjardins asks for vote for 18-year-Olds Page 25. Nip members Call for orderly Highway develop ment Page 25. Mcc Llor seeks increase in wheat Price Page 25. 1 9 Cherniack Calls for Aid for debtors Page 25. 0 Liberal asks for in crease in the minimum wage 25. De Gaulle Hedges on eco by Tim Traynor Paris de Gaulle gave British prime mini Ster Harold Wilson a cordial Welcome tuesday but reportedly told him Fiat by accepting Britain As a member the european common Market would transform itself into something different. France and its five eco partners would therefore have to decide whether such a reorganization would be n their interests. The conference Between the to leaders which lasted just Tver one and three Quarter ours was the first stage in a to Day round of discussions on he possibility of Britain adhering to the trealy of Rome on which the eco is based. The please see de Gaulle Page 12 redistribution study May be set for late Spring Page 25. Carroll hits Back at Forest Industry critics 25. Private schools for gotten do Jardins claims Page 3. Research of Educa Tion department ruffed Page 52. Storm erupts Over salary increases Paje 1. Today s inside stories jury praises pair. 10 background on China Jacqueline Kennedy series goodbye hello Butch Page 55 7 editorial Pace ideology and the Maurice Western Bank proves Truscott evidence reviewed by Stuart Lake Ottawa supreme court of Canada heard a Stop by step review today of the Evi Dence by witnesses who saw Steven Truscott Aud Lynn har per together the night she Dis appeared in june 1959. Defence counsel g. Arthur Martin recited the evidence As he began final argument m Hie court s unprecedented review of Truscott s conviction for Mur Der in the sex slaying. Or. Martin contended that the conviction was unreasonable and unsupported by the Evi dance. Hence the step by step review of testimony. Truscott was convicted at me age of 14 of strangling the 12 Vear old Harper girl in a Bush lot near the Clinton onl., air s the youth his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment went to work As usual today m the machine shop at the Colins Bay ont., prison while his Law yers made their final argue a cols in the government or dered review by the country s highest court ;