Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Winnipeg filial edition Winnipeg Friday january 27, 1967 Sun Rise. . Moon rises . Sunsets . Moon sets . Forecast sunny -15 and 10 above lbs urges Price wage restraint Price stability key task . President warns Washington special tons president Johnson warned thursday that a return toward Price stability is a major task for the 1967 Economy which he predicted will score More moderate but better bal gains than in inflation plagued 1966. Or. Johnson in his annual econ Omic message appealed to. Busi Ness and labor to use utmost restraint in Price and wage decisions to help Check the Steep Rise in living costs. But the president conceded that the thrust of inflation fed by heavy Vietnam War costs and the six year Boom is already too Strong to be stopped cold without risking an economic downturn. He said that while inflation is show Iii Welcome signs of slow ing Down some inflation is part of the Price to be paid for further economic growth in 1967. Even if business and labor co fiercest invective yet chinese blast trapped in peking mob shouts outside russian embassy press compares Moscow leaders to Hitler peking thousands of red guards and students demonstrated outside the soviet embassy Here today As China unleashed its fiercest invective yet against the soviet revisionist Swine in the Kremlin. A people s daily editorial on alleged beatings of chinese Stu by Moscow police said operate to Brake inflation he predicted consumer prices Are Likely to Rise this year by another 2.5 per cent _ less than last year s 3.3 per cent but More than double the 1960-65 rate. Please see lbs Page 4 gushing lashes jesuits Boston car Dinal gushing rom an Catholic r archbishop of Boston accuses the Jesuit order of spreading colossal lies about North american motives for aiding Catholic missions in latin an Erica. He cites Jesuit charges that american Bishops have Force-1 fed funds into latin american Mission work and attempted to superimpose . Culture on latin America. Cardinal Cushing s comments j thursday were directed at an article in a recent Issue of j America a Magazine published by the Jesuit order. The article was designed to pull the Rug out from under the fourth annual conference of the Catholic inter american co operation program now meeting in Boston he told prelates nuns and Layment who have Assem bled for the conference from throughout the hemisphere. Cardinal Cushing s remarks were made As he read an official reply to the article by archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi Pope Paul s apostolic Delegate to the United states. The letter said North Ameri can catholics Are helping mis Sions in latin America because the late Pope John Xxiii asked a meeting of the Bishops of can Ada and the . To answer a request from latin american Bishops for Aid. Crawford Gordon dead Toronto up Crawford Gordon 52, Winnipeg born industrialist who directed the ill fated Avro Arrow supersonic bomber program died thurs Day in new York City where he was living in Semi retirement. Or. Gordon resigned As Dent and general manager of a. V Roe Canada Ltd. In 1959 when the Federal government cancelled production of the controversial Arrow said at the time to be one of the Best super sonic fighter planes in exist dents their atrocious bloody sup pression of the chinese students resembles the atrocities committed by the Czar by Hitler and by the Kun flux the editorial quoted by the new China news Agency urged its readers to hit Back hard at the violent provocations of the filthy soviet revisionist today s demonstration outside the soviet embassy followed a similar 10-hour protest thurs Day night and Early today. The demonstration which went on All Day appeared to be the biggest Ever staged outside the embassy. Statements this week before the commons finance committee by James s. Rockefeller chairman of first National and Robert p. Macfadden a vice president of first National and president of the mercantile Bank of Canada. Committee chairman Herbert Gray a Essex West described the new evidence As the memorandum was writ ten by or. Macfadden follow ing a meeting june 20, 1963, with Louis Kasminsky governor a car was never shaken. He spoke of. The strange arrangement of Lynne Harper s clothing at the death scene. Close beside her partially nude Bank memo May weaken . Case confidential document conflicts with testimony by Victor Ottawa staff a dramatic development occurred in the mercantile Bank controversy thursday with the disclosure of a confidential memorandum in which first National City Bank of new York asked the clearance of former finance minister Walter Gordon before moving into Canada. The memo conflicted with of the Bank of Canada. Paragraph four states he or. Kasminsky proved the sequence of Steps we propose to take and i assured him we would come Back to him when the Deal is firm and before signing and at the same time to Clear with the minister of the memorandum appeared to weaken the basis on which the United states government had lodged two vigorous formal protests with the Canadian government Over the treatment of the mercantile Bank in proposed amendments to the Bank act. The legislation would restrict mercantile s expansion. First National known As Citibank purchased mercantile Bank from its dutch owners m june 1963, without consulting or. Gordon. Or. Macfadden informed the committee he met with or. Kasminsky on june 20, 1963, of inform him that Citibank was negotiating to buy mercantile. Committee members Felt he had not understood the governor wanted him to see or. Gordon before completing the Purchase. At a press conference wednesday or. Macfadden was questioned about the Conversa Tion. He said he did not know a. What please see chinese Page 4 defence presents theory by Stuart Lake Ottawa Law yen Arthur Martin said today a rational conclusion from evidence in the Steven Truscott Case is that Lynne Harper was murdered hours after Truscott saw her get into a car. He advanced his theory As the supreme court of Canada went into its third Day of hear ing final arguments on the government ordered review of trus Cott s conviction of slaying the 12-year-old girl in Clinton out., in 1959. The Crown contends the girl was raped and murdered at . June 9, 1959, and advanced evidence that Truscott then 14, was with her about that time. Or. Martin said that trus of the Cott s Story he saw her get into Marc Anli Lei can find a ready Market in Canada for Mercan tile shares if it would be willing to reduce its holding to 25 per in the governor s mind but he did t get the impression he had to see or. Gordon before making the Deal. Or. Rockefeller told the com Mittee he could t remember the conversation but he was sure or. Macfadden had re ported on the talk with or. Kasminsky or. Rockefeller commented we had the impression from Kasminsky we did not need to go through Gordon until after the Deal was made. That might have been a false Assumption otherwise we would have done it. We were not trying to get away with please see Bank Page 8 it Sharp advises Bank to Cut holdings to 25% Ottawa up finance min ister Sharp said thursday night the government won t be bullied into changing its proposed legislative restraint on the growth of the mercantile Bank of Canada. He also said he believes the first National City Bank of new cent. Or. Sharp said that if Mer _ please see defence Page 8 Cantile were 75 per cent owned farm group urges pesticide program the a Ancanan act requested agriculture wants the government to with government to Start an education Al program on the use of pesticides which it says Are causing serious contamination of Canada s soils and Waterways. They expressed support for the Canadian Turkey federa Tion s request that expo 67 officials include turkeys in their poultry exhibit asked that the the Federal government to with draw its 11 per cent tax on building materials take Meas ures to control inflation and resolved to lend their support to the groups who want medical insurance in 1967. They asked for. A. Change in Canada pension plan regulations which would allow Farmers to make larger than required five worker s killed new York a Rescue workers recovered today the bodies of three More men killed in thursday s collapse of a Century old four Storey apart ment House under demolition. In All five workmen were killed. One body was recovered thursday. The fifth Man died in Hospital less than an hour after being pulled out alive. Rescue teams worked through the night under floodlights. Thousands of persons Gath ered near 54th Street just East of Broadway to watch More than 300 fire police and Hospital workers dig their Way through the debris Brick by Brick in an Effort to free those entombed. Stephen Wojcicky one of those pulled alive from the debris told photographers As he was being carried away on a Stretcher take a Good picture of he died less than an hour later of his injuries. Campbe1x i poultry Exi Nuu a i tolls be removed from the St. Contributions to the plan be i Lawrence Seaway and that cause of their 1 More use be made of port come while at the same time Churchill and resolved to press petitioning the government to the senior governments for a exempt them from making. _ to. Anil a Man of destiny Arrow in the final test flight stage when it died in the Avro Plant at suburban Malton had a Speed potential of least see Cit Awford 4 system of Low interest Loans to Farmers. They wanted Mink farming pension plan contributions arid please see group Page 8 today s inside stories capital works set j Jacqueline Kennedy series Page in Bruins win hard Way Page 22 editorial Pace caution All round at Britain after today s inde3c classified 27 t. 37 fat Bce sport to 26 comics Jumble carte it telex real deaths s to semen Tim Trayno. 10 18, 19 Charlottetown . Special for off islanders the fact about Alex Ander Bradshaw Campbell is that when he became Premier of Prince Edward Island on july 28, 1966, he was still four months shy of his 33rd birthday. At. A time when our Federal parties Are led by men whose ideologies and experience were forged by the hardships of the Here is a politician who even born until the mid thirties and who was still a Law student at Dalhousie. University in 1957 when the Pear son Diefenbaker Era began i or. Campbell s office on the top floor of the province s administrative building in Charlottetown reflects the contemporary thrust of the Man who occupies it. Walnut e i i r act Chain indirect lighting and or. Campbell own matter of fact mawr an All More with Knarf establishment that might be run by the hustling Young president of an expanding Peter Newman the new fathers of confederation and Agency than the Premier of Canada s smallest and least wealthy province. And yet or Campbell who became Premier in an unexpected election upset last summer is so effectively bridging the Gap Between his. Ideals and his environment that he seems destined to become the Man who can drag i Prinice Edward Island into the 20th Century. I Don t suppose i really any amount of told it by canadians it would be open to unlimited growth in which the new York Bank would be Able to share. Or Sharp was interviewed on the Csc to program Twenty million questions. A transcript was Given to re porters in Advance of broadcast. It was the minister s first pub Lic comment on the hassle Over legislative restraints the govern ment intends to put on Mercan tile s growth. The new York Bank bought mercantile from its original dutch owners in 1963 and was told the government Here opposed entry of the United states second largest Bank into Cana Dian banking. Citibank says it did not know the full extent of the government s opposition until after it signed the Purchase Deal in Rotterdam. Please see reduce. Page 8 tories plan polls preference on Leader to be shown by Ronald Lebel Ottawa new weapon has been brought into the conservative leadership Battle an informal version of the american presidential primaries. The party s student federation and several maps Are planning to hold mock elections in which conservative supporters will cast ballots for their Choice As party Leader. Anti conserva Tives Are confident such Straw polls will reveal a dramatic drop in John Diefenbaker s popularity and influence him to re tire before the party leadership convention later this year. Several pro Diefenbaker maps from the Prairies Are also toying with the idea but for the opposite reason. They regard the chief As the Friend of the Little Guy and the enemy of the Eastern please see tories Page 8 meeting Battle expected by Ken Clark Ottawa up conserva live Leader Diefenbaker will be on a Florida Holiday while the p a r t y s executive committee Battles Over vital details of a convention that could remove him from his Job. The 71-year-old politician and his wife Fly South today to do a Little surf fishing and visit Ca Nadian friends. He returns to the capital wednesday. Meanwhile his lieutenants Are preparing for this weekend s meeting of the 25-member executive committee in Toronto. It was called by Dalton Camp the association president to Dis cuss timing site and other de tails of the leadership Conven Tion ordered by last november s annual meeting. Please see Straw Page 8 reports hundreds of Canadian corporations and Many cities that administer larger budgets than ours million a but 1 Hope that my government will break the depression psychology that has pervaded the Island All my life. In the past we be been too inclined to blame Ottawa or someone else for our difficulties. My Hope is to push the 80 per cent of our budget now spent on such non productive purposes As welfare into aspects of our political and economic life that will enable our people to develop their own opportune despite his youth or. Camp Bell is no swinger. He s a cautious Middle of the roader determined to turn , from an extended Village into a viable province while at the same time acting As unofficial ombudsman for those islanders who can to help themselves. Plum so Campbell 4 Centennial school Holiday under study Johnson Page 3. Rebate collection permitted for those in arrears 3. 4 Interlake area May get same education plan As Resl of province Page 17. Desjardins refuses to support school referendum Page 17. Potash taxation Bills get second Reading Page 17. Johnson says liberals Don t Trust government s judgment on Loans Page 17. Low Highway tenders bankrupt contractors says Mol Gat Page 17. Jail Security reports ready but can t go to Bouse Page 17. Will not personally Call Larm a Eft says Roblin 17. 0 government reviewing to Pond Granta schedule for Teachen Pafe 17. Howe wins award new York a Gordie Howe the National hockey league s All time scoring King today was named the second Winner of the Patrick trophy for outstanding contribution to hockey in the United states. Howu s comments on hockey appears three times weekly on the free press sports pages Howe who has scored 703 goals in 21 seasons with de troit red wings was the unanimous Choice of a six Man selection committee headed by nil president Clarence Camp Bell. The 38 year old right Winger will receive the trophy at the second annual Lester Patrick award dinner in new York feb. 20. The award is presented in memory of Patrick one of the game s great names As a player. And manager of new York rangers. Decision due on inquiry Ottawa announce ment will be made in a Day or two of the Cabinet s decision on a request for a Royal com Mission study into the status of women prime minister Pearson told the commons thursday. A group of women s organizations asked for the move last month in a joint Brief to the government on Equality for women. Replying to nip Leader Douglas the prime minister said either he or state Secre tary Judy Lamarsh will make the statement
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