Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Has anyone seen the Mcgoun cup the University of Manitoba debating team is speechless almost. The team cannot explain tue disappearance of the Mcgoun cup after the University team won it in inter provincial com petition in 1961. And now there is possibility that another debating trophy has been misplaced. When the University of Alberta team won the debates in 1962 it expected the Mcgoun trophy As Well As the Honor but the team never got it. According to the University of Manitoba students Union newspaper the Manitoban Eva Kennedy Umsu executive Sec Queen sends condolences London a the Queen and Prince Philip sent a Mes Sage of sympathy monday to the families of the three american astronauts killed Friday in a fire in their Apollo space Cap sule at Cape Kennedy. Winnipeg free mess. Monday. 30, 1967 arms committee _ a the sales he said were m rotary May have been the last person to see the cup. Mrs. Kennedy is quoted As saying she May have taken the cup to Birks jewellers to be engraved. She said she was sure she never picked it up. D. C. Dingwall president of Birks is just As certain the cup was engraved and picked up when it was last in the shop about four or five years ago. We have had three people turning the shop upside Down for three Days looking for the he said saturday in a Telephone interview. The staff distinctly remembers the cup coming in and going out again. We can t put our hands on the instruction Sheet because it has probably been destroyed. We have had a few floods in our basement in the past four or five years. Without the name of the person who paid for the work it could take months to go through our other records and we Are right in the Middle of inventory. The University in t sure the cup was Ever brought in Here and i can say for sure it in t Here or. Dingwall said. As a Point of interest i would be interested to know the whereabouts of the Dingwall trophy a cup presented for debating within the University. It must be about four or five years since we last heard of that. I suggest the University backtrack through its records to find the last person to whome the cup was rebels reported crushed or in less bureaucratic Lan Guage the United states must take another searching look from All at this whole arms Selling the arms sales worries voiced by the foreign relations commit tee s staff May be voiced again later when its Parent body starts reviewing american poli cies abroad. American arms commitments overseas Are Only one of the concerns of the committee chairman sen. William Fulbright Democrat sales abroad the staff study of . Arms sales abroad was issued Only a few Days after defence Secretary Robert Mcnamara discussed that subject in his annual defence posture statement. He evinced no undue apprehension Over the sales. No arms Sale abroad is approved he said if it Threa tens peace or stability or endangers any foreign policy consideration held or sought by the United states. Further he said each pro posed Sale is reviewed at the highest Levels of and approved Only if it is in our Best National interest and that of the purchasing country the volume of . Arms sales abroad is As imprecise Complex and Uncertain As some of the transactions involved the Senate staff study indicated. Additionally the staff was concerned about what it called military sales programs a Sharp turn from gifts to sales of weapons and a Drift toward a policy of preemptive Selling rather than the More difficult alternative of arms denial. The study outlined various procedures and committees through which the administration and Congress should be Able to Check the military political economic and arms control implications of . Weapons sales overseas. Little information but there is a woeful Lack of information about the arms sales program the study complained plus Many uncertainties about some of the transactions involved plus puzzlement Over the roles of some government agencies supposedly inter linked in weapons sales policies. Neither the Senate staff s 12 and one half Page study on arms sales and foreign policy nor or. Mcnamara s comments on that subject helped greatly to define with precision the volume of such transactions. The study put the fiscal year 1961-1966 total but inexplicably excluded fiscal year 1962 at some six to seven billion a dramatic shift in sunni dollars or. Mcnamara said the fiscal year 1962-1966 sales totalled billion. In Addi he went on we have outstanding sales commitments amounting to about the sales he reported have thus far netted the United states Over billion in Cash. And More than 80 per cent of the sales he said were made to Australia Canada France Italy Japan Britain and West Germany. For the Senate staff some or the most disturbing aspects of the . Arms sales program abroad were its implications for America s relations with its highly developed allies and the underdeveloped nations and its complexities. Who s who thus it noted with perplexity some f-86 Sabre Jet fighters purchased by Vene Zuela from West Germany were manufactured in Italy under a . Licensing arrange thereby imparting at least some american flavor to the transaction. And the some f-86 s sold to Iran but which mysteriously seem to actually belong to Pakistan despite . Efforts to halt the flow of arms into Pakistan were manufactured in imparting a who s who flavor to that Deal. The study described the Pentagon s International logistic negotiations in office As the Centre of american arms sales abroad. It said the office s sales Force of some 21 officers is divided into four teams red Grey Blue and White and labelled them crack salesmen. The measure on in s Suc Cess is the 600 per cent increase in annual military sales Over the Levels of the the study reported. Study continued West Germany continued but that Success is raising outcries in Britain and resent ment in West Germany the study went on and May also be a major cause of the increasing interest of europeans in competing for arms markets in developing regions of the thus the study continued at a moment when the United states is attempting to slow the Pace of military aircraft sales to latin America France has been actively pushing in the area its Casault Mirage 3, Sweden the Saab j-35 Draken and Britain the Hawker Hunter and lightning Mark-3." All Are Jet fighters. The study suggested the Pentagon s arms salesmen were resorting to preemptive sell ing to exclude other weapons merchants from the underdeveloped nations said the proceeds from such sales were not significant. The study s authors had no patience with the Contention of some unnamed theorists the authors did not identify any of them who contend that under developed nations May turn to the soviet Union or some other country if the United states refuses to sell them weapons. Avant Garde films three Short films showing Avante Garde experiments in i animation will be shown at . Feb. 2 in the Assembly Hall of the Winnipeg Art gallery. Weekend fires damage buildings two separate fires extensively damaged a Home and the business premises of a fur com Pany in greater Winnipeg Over the weekend. No one was injured. Both blazes Are of unknown origin and Are under investigation. Some damage was done to the Silverman Brothers fur company premises at 1420 main Street when fire struck shortly after 1 . Saturday. A fire department official said the Walls ceiling and contents of the second floor were gutted. The first floor of the Good Earth restaurant 1422 main Street suffered some Waier dam age. A collection of furs was said to be involved in the dam age figure. The owners of the business Hyman and Percy Sil Verman were in the building at the time but escaped injury. A House fire hit the Home of or. And mrs. John St. Onge of 50 Cuthbertson Avenue Tuxedo at 5 . Sunday. Tuxedo police said the Mother father and three of the four Chil Dren of the family were watch ing television when the fire broke out. They had a few anxious moments when the youngest one a four year old boy could t be found immediately. But the youngster turned up in time in another part of the House and All escaped safely. The Winnipeg fire department which also serves the town of Tuxedo had the Blaze under control in 20 minutes. The living room and Kitchen of the House vere completely gutted and the rest of the two Storey Structure suffered heavy smoke damage the fire department said. Thieves raid jewel store London a thieves broke into a London jewelry store during the weekend and stole Worth of Gold and gems police said monday. The robbery was discovered this morning. Theodore Wil Liams managing director of the Williams and son said the store was cleaned out of Gold. School rules belief Ibadan Survey in Nigeria found that educational level governs attitudes to Birllie control in Ibadan the african country s largest City. Among uneducated women 97 per cent disapprove of contraceptive methods of family planning but 55 per cent of educated women approve of their use. Bobby Baker will Appeal Baker to fight conviction we of course Are going to the United states appeals court and All the Way to the supreme court if said Baker s lawyer Edward Bennett Wil Liams. One Justice department offi Cial speculated the Appeal pro Cess could consume two years. The trial lasted three weeks and centred around in Campaign funds contributed by California savings and loan executives. President Johnson was refer red to in testimony by Baker though not by names of other political figures dotted the proceedings. Seven senators and a representative appeared one Day to testify. The verdict was delivered b six men and six women All present or retired government workers. The Baker Story contended that he collected Cash from California savings Anc loan executives in 1962 and turned it Over to the late sen Ator Bobert s. Kerr Oklahoma Democrat. This William stressed was after Kerr a ceased pushing a tax Bill provi Sion which would have cos added millions of dollars i taxes to savings and loan associations owned by stockholders the government contender Baker kept the Money which the savings and loan men Sai was sent As senatorial Campaign the government said Baker diverted piles of Bills to his own purposes principally his financially hard pressed Carousel Motel at Ocean City my. Baker also was convicted of evading in income taxes for 1961 and 1962, assisting in the preparation of a fraudulent 1963 tax return for his onetime associate Wayne l. Bromley and conspiring to obstruct the tax collection function of the government. Caught on slowly trondheim Norway a the Man in court told the judge he thought the Road was a bit bumpy but All the roads in our District Are like when told that he drove his car for half a mile along the main railway line towards an express train he said he must have turned at a level crossing. He got 40 Days for drunk driving. Continued nationalist China s official Central daily news in Taipei suggested that the russians might enter the China strife on behalf of anti Mao generals. It said the Sinkiang com Mander Gen. Wang in Mao lad warned Mao against trying o use the nuclear installations there As a threat to his enemies. China s ave atomic explosions ook place in Sinkiang. More than 100 persons were reported killed last week in Sinkiang. Wall newspapers said sunday that 12 of 68 persons treated in an army Hospital also lad died. Kyodo news Agency told of Wall newspapers saying that this situation in Shi Hotze focus of the trouble last week still was fluid saturday. The clashes were said to have involved the aug. 1 Field army Loyal to Liu and the pro Mao 2nd motorized battalion. Truce negotiations were suspended Friday the Wall reports said. The pro Mao troops demanded that both sides turn in their arms that murderers be turned Over and prisoners re leased. Members of the aug. 1 Field army vanished after this and had not returned for talks the papers said. The Wall posters added the attitude of the Sinkiang military District representatives was not Clear. They said a certain Leader presumably Gen. Wang was not following Chou in Lai s instructions. The posters said the army had occupied the 8th agricultural but that its officers had fled. Seven of the eight Sinkiang military District divisions were earlier reported leaning toward Liu. Report Mao moves reports from peking told of other moves at Home and abroad by Mao to Shore up his offensive against president Liu. One of them could backfire. It was the cancellation of holi Days for chinese workers Dur ing the lunar new year ginning feb. 9. Peking radio suggested the cancellation was ordered to forestall efforts to get the workers to extend the holi Day indefinitely. The workers already have skin itch Vyff a Lemmem or Bogg yuppies. Woo Sid quickly relieved by Kotso derail. Anti Motlo action heal skin softer. Alt your a nudist for Jurod bpm ointment top. Help clean or Tush nor Kiln. Look better Zut. Illy Ivel. J j staged anti Mao walkouts strikes and sabotage across the nation. The order to stay on the Job could trigger More since new year s is traditionally the most important and sometimes the Only Holiday for working chinese. Mao s second Long step to secure his Power was to create a new administration for be chinese up of Loyal peasants workers military men students and businessmen. His third was to order Chi Nese students abroad to return Home presumably to i n d e c t fresh Young blood into his Campaign against Liu. Evidence that the students already Are on the move. Brawling and protesting As they in reports from several world capitals. No reason was Gien for Call ing them Back and their num Ber was not specified. Japanese correspondents said Wall news papers reported the communist party Central committee made the decision Jan. 17. Pay through nose income tax in Britain on an of is More than 83 per cent. Somebody by an m g every time we think we re on our Way to the top something happens to remind us we still have a Long Way to go. When we make an Embarrass ing mistake we charge it to our growing pains. But not to our customers. So we Check and double Check and triple Check our rental agree ments. 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