Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press vol. 74 no. 106 Price Loc 15c Home Loans ready million available for building Ottawa up a shot in the Arm was administered monday to the lagging Home construction Indus try. Labor minister Nicholson announced in the commons a Spe Cial two month Spring program of direct government Loans to builders for the construction of 20.000 housing units without the usual resale requirement. It would be limited to 16.000 _ _ single family Homes and 4.000 1 Falls began during the evening with Loans to be and Kosygin dangles in fire loudspeakers in peking harass diplomats by David Oancia peking staff fiery crosses with spread Eagle effigies of Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin made of Straw pinned to them adorned the Iron Gates of the soviet embassy monday night As anti revisionist demonstrations moved into the sixth Day in the eerie Light of the burning effigies demonstrators vented their anger against soviet leaders following last week s clash in Moscow s red j Square Between soviet police j and chinese students who started to read chairman Mao tse Tung s works in the Lenin mausoleum. One of peking s rare Snow granted Between april 1 and i embassy s front May 31. Similar programs were adopted to Spur Winter Home building during the last two Gate dwindled. But the attack continued in a new form. Powerful loudspeakers were in stalled along the perimeter of the spacious embassy compound to work. Please see Kosygin Page 4 i years. They involved i booming the marxist gospel units and in 1965 j according to Mao into the area 37.000 units and in diploma and theim 1966. Opposition spokesmen said the move did t go far enough to meet what they termed a National crisis. Said nip Leader Douglas the proposal is about As adequate to meet a housing crisis As it would be to feed a Peanut to an elephant in Hope of assuaging its George Chatterton Quimlat Stanich complained that the Cost of housing has in creased so rapidly the average wage earner cannot afford a National housing act loan or a House built with one. Raymond Langlois credit site Megantic likened the plan to using a plastic Bandage when Ottawa policy assailed Valley said it was Only a Small please see govt. Page 5 strike cripples Montreal Montreal 4.500 White Collar workers employed by the City of Montreal Are pre paring for a Long strike after walking off the Job monday. A plea for relaxation of the Federal government s unrealistic and discriminatory Immi Gration policy was made tues Day in Ottawa by Manitoba s Industry minister Sidney Spivak. Or. Spivak. Addressing the joint Senate commons commit tee on immigration accused the Federal government of Ham stringing the economic growth of Manitoba and proposed a five Point revision of immigration policies. His remarks were contained in a copy of his speech released in Winnipeg. He charged both the present policy and set Winnipeg tuesday january 31, 196? watched Hanoi hints at talks american officials Hail first signs of North Vietnam flexibility by Chalmers Roberts special tons american officials showed intense interest the United states about How negotiations night be buried the midst of abusive language about the United states the latest of Hanoi s Public statements Are being read Here As indicative of a new flexibility about negotiating conditions. As one official put it they thrown us a baseball it s Only a Marsh Mallow but it s the first m a r s h m a 11 o w they be whether these clues Are related to uie secret talks which sen. Robert Kennedy said on sunday in England Are going on could nol be confirmed. Officials claim no knowledge of what sen. Kennedy meant but some do agree with his remark that the next three or four weeks will be critical in the search for peace. Please see Hanoi Page 4 Airport Bridges planned final edition forecast colder -15 and 5 above testimony by Bankers challenged Kasminsky says financiers promised to see Gordon Ottawa up Louis Kasminsky governor of the Bank of Canada monday night gave testimony in Sharp conflict with statements by two prominent american Bankers Over the 1963 Purchase of the Mer Cantile Bank of Canada. He said he had twice urged received pledges representatives of the first National City Bank of new York see Walter Gordon then finance minister before concluding the Deal. He offered documents directly contradicting Citibank vice Killbuck . Gordon Auto defects revealed Ottawa up documents were tabled in the commons House of commons White paper Justice committee today show on immigration tailed to take ing scores of thousands of de by Victor Hacib Hamilton cp1 foreign ownership of Canadian Industry i will be a major Issue in the next t Federal election Walter Gordon w old a Mcmaster University aug Idiece monday night. Asked by a student if Canada would continue to Buck the United slates on the question he replied the former minister of finance who recently rejoined the Federal Cabinet As minister with out portfolio told an overflow crowd of More than 400 students that any party which ignored the Issue of foreign control would be committing political he said the problem must be worked out gradually Over a period of years. Progress had been achieved on the foreign ownership prob Lem through legislation giving guidelines for Canadian subsidiaries and controlling ownership of Banks newspapers Maga Zines insurance Trust and loan companies. The latest move was the establishment last week of a president Bobert p. Macfadden about the arrangement of the subsequent meeting with or. J Gordon. I the governor challenged four s Alec nos by the Citibank account of the unique regional Canadian cars in uie claiming that the province a Canadian car would need an estimated ers Ford Chrysler Uene Rai he said present policy cuts off Supply and the social department. The strike is due to a dispute Over wages. It brought Munici pal government to a standstill. The City s manual work ers have set a walkout for feb. 10 to Back up their pay de mands. Representatives of the .3.400 member Montreal policemen s brotherhood were scheduled to meet today to reconsider salary proposals which the men rejected the first time round. Their contract expired dec. 1 and Union spokesmen say the police May have to hold study sessions if their demands Are not met. Please see strike Page 5 8 players traded suggest an alternative. Or. Spivak said the policy proposed in the White paper does in fact discriminate against the kind of people Manitoba needs today to enable our Economy to expand and please see manpower Page 2 defects in information supplied by them at the request of the committee. The documents were tabled without any immediate com ment by committee members. There is no indication whether president Johnson offers condolences to the widow of air Force . Virgil Grissom today As she holds the american Flag from the casket of her astronaut at right wiping tears from his eyes is the astronaut s youngest sort Mark. Stand ing behind mrs. Crissom is fellow astronaut Navy capt. Walter Schirra who is now prime Pilot on the first Apo to Mission. We re on fire get us out of Here York a the Hatch and escape the inferno in that the last words i their Apollo cockpit the source w that they had not promised to Clear the Purchase of Mer a Cantil with Waller Gordon then finance minister. That they did not know of or. Gordon s Strong views against foreign ownership of Canadian Hanking before their meeting with him july 18, 19g3. Please see Kasminsky Page 4 red bloc termed shattered by Tom Lambert Washington special ministerial committee Neanea itans former ambassador Ottawa staff enclosed by himself which Wil examine George Kennan portrayed the loading Bridges to protect Pas j the foreign ownership and con j communist world monday an sengers from icy wintry blasts tool question. Irreparably shattered Joe a when leaving and boarding j Joe said that press reports humbly dumpy a i aircraft at Winnipeg Interna-1 pressures and retaliation i not and cannot be tonal Airport Are in the the United slates on the Ning stage. They May be j mercantile Bank question were j there arc advocates of peace installed this Winter a transport i exaggerated. I in uie fragmented red world. Kennan told the Senate department tuesday. Spokesman said new times says heard from the three Apollo 1 astronauts who were killed in said. But the Hatch was unyielding he said and they had no time Dav were we re on fire.------. Us out of to reach for uie the shrill voice was believed j used to to be that . Roger thei a was b Chaffee the times says in a dispatch from Cape Kennedy Fla. There Are some special prob lems at the Winnipeg Airport however because this involves connecting the platform to the second level. This Means de signing a suitable enclosed loading and unloading Bridge that would slope from the second level to the level of the aircraft doors. Loading Bridges Are now being installed by the transport department at. Montreal s air port. The department also plans to install Bridges at the Toronto and Vancouver airports. The timetable for installations at Toronto Winnipeg and Van Couver has not been determined. I Toronto up former finance minister Walter Gordon i Ilii i. F r p r relations committee. Prop Lollis conflict and Nance Muse am prop Lollis conc says quite a number of Una acc states Smisl on our nary canadians understand the act lev work Watn continued see will Buck Page 5 the defects ranged from faulty drive shafts to omission please see Auto Page 2 trapped whale requires help the National aeronautics and space administration that the last words from an unidentified voice were fire in the space the times Story gives this account the astronauts last moments clocked at 12 seconds were de scribed by an Engineer who spent most of the Day listening a. Cording to the source came in almost casual tones. Continued please see get Page 5 crash kills plane Crew i ton Fin whale trapped in a Salt water Pond. The mammal became trapped while pursuing a school of her ring 10 Days ago. Author naturalist Farley Mowat who appointed himself its guardian said monday it Edmonton up Edmon ton eskimos today announced an e i g h t a 1 a y e r Trade with Hamilton Tiger cats that included an Exchange of Quarter backs and sent All Star end Tom my Joe Coffey to the East Ern football conference club. Besides Coffey a Canadian i football league All Star Offen-1 Sive end four times in the last i five years the Tiger cats re c e i v e d quarterback defensive half Bill Redell and two other defensive backs Marshall Starks and de turek. In return the eskimos acquired quarterback Frank Cosentino offensive halfback Gerry Mcdougall and defensive backs Billy Wayte and Don Sutherin. Sunday liquor for ont. Diners Toronto will have the option of wine Beer j or liquor with their meals in about 500 Ontario restaurants starting sunday. I h. J. Browne registrar of the Ontario liquor licence Board said monday about 600 operators have written for permission to serve drinks with meals and Only 100 will be turned Down. There Are about establishments in the province Eligi ble to apply for sunday Privi Leges. Telephone communications to Burgeo on the isolated South coast of Newfoundland broke Down monday shortly after or. Mowat told of the mammal. Surgeo a Hamlet of has no Road connections and is linked to the outside world by. Weekly Steamer. The plight of the whale has been brought to the attention of uie Newfoundland government by or. Mowat who feels it should provide for the animal. Feeding the whale would not be a permanent solution just a Way of keeping him alive until we can work out some method of getting him he san Antonio Tex. Plane carrying . Air Force test Ana no priority cargo crashed in heavy from men on the launching pad j fog tuesday and All three Crew members were killed. The Craft a dc-6 operated by Saturn up in a pasture two Miles North of san Antonio s International Airport. At the time of the tragedy. Chaffee and . Virgil i Gus Grissom and Edward h. White ii of the air Force were scrambling clawing and pounding to open the sealed climbers die in Avalanche Prague t routers up Vii czechoslovak film liars. Indrid ing one woman were killed in an Avalanche in the Tara mountains monday. The official news Agency Teteka reported to Day. Former. I communism s Inot entirely a find it to Ilio said the Connor american i envoy to the soviet Union and Yugoslavia Ami author of this country s Post second world War contain Miil policy it is in part what we make of i the t filed suites should adjust its policies to the in elements in germans get thumbs Down by Alan Harvey London staff German veterans Are to be advised against any organized participation in ceremonies marking legislature or. Mowat believes it is the first time a Fin whale second to the Blue whale As the world s largest animal has been trapped in North America. He said that before lie intervened residents were using the whale for target practice with High powered rifles. Continued please see whale Page -4 a today s inside stories premiums same govt Page ufos visions or visitors Page pros clamor for Mars Borak Page editorial Pace 3 9 15 a or program for Ontario the bombers Welcome conservatives today s Index Jumble contest 23 finance 18 to 20 classified 21 to 30 deaths 5 comics 8, 9 movies Harold Greer Maurice Western television 6 women 10, 11 sports 14 to 17 a 9 Luminous licence plates studied Page 5. 0 no increase in Hospital insurance premiums Witney Page 3. Mol Gat presses for probe into school Reader instruction Page 3. 9 House wraps up discus Sion on education program Page 5. Legislation forthcoming on Dan jurists Page 3. Desjardins stalls plan to enforce uniform time stand Ard Page 5. 0 jump in Nelson River Cost estimates denied Page 3. Liberals to fight la scaling on proposed water commission Page 5. Convictions for illegal use of purple Gas Rise Page 5 ;