Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba United give the United Way Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 75 no. 27 Price Loc with comics ajl Winnipeg monday october 30, 1967 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast sunny 30 and 45 Thieu plans offer ready to talk peace with Hanoi by William Tuohy Saigon special tons most dramatic news Story when president elect Nguyen Van Thieu is inaugurated on tuesday will be his offer to negotiate a settlement of the Vietnam War with Hanoi. He will also announce such militant moves As extending the draft age informed sources say. But most attention probably will focus on his offer to Hanoi to sit Down and Confer on ways and Means to end the War. However despite his offer for negotiations v i e t n s new president does not expect any positive answer from Hanoi High sources said. Though g e n. Thieu is prof Fering negotiations in Good Faith reliable sources say it is More of a gesture of intentions than a meaningful step to end the War. The fact of the matter is according to Gen. Thieu s Clos est aides his View of the eventual Resolution of the War is much closer to former Ambas Sador Henry Cabot Lodge s than to Many other american commentators who have suggested negotiations with Hanoi As a Way out in Vietnam. Gen. Thieu believes the War will end not by negotiations but by a gradual decline in enemy activity in South Vietnam. Gen. Thieu s View therefore May not set Well with president Johnson who has often indicated that the Way to peace in Vietnam would be through talks with Hanoi. While some key american officials Here talk of Breaks in the War that will be visible in the next six months general the War will not tie won against the enemy main Force for another two years. Water scorns protests by Ward just Denver Colorado special Goldwater in his angriest speech to Date on the debate and dissent accompany ing the Vietnam War saturday urged republicans to support the Johnson administration in its fight against the vietnamese communists. It is an american custom to Back the president when the country is in or. Goldwater said in an extemporaneous peroration to a speech interrupted 20 times by applause. Court order spells end for Westbank shareholder decision backed but lawyer promises Appeal by Egon Fekech the Bank of Western Canada has been ordered a ounce up by Manitoba s court of Queen s Bench. Justice r. J. Or. Justice r. J. Matas in wading through the Legal Jungle of injunctions and court orders surrounding the winding up of the ill fated Bank said monday morning lie could see no reason Why the Bank should not be wound up. The details of the wind up order were yet to be agreed upon but the lawyers for the Bank Canadian finance and investments Ltd. And the York Lambton financial corporation Ltd. Were meeting immediately after court closed in order to get the order signed As soon As possible. It is apparent that the cause for these proceedings is a Battle for control of the Bank by opposing financial the judge said adding that his consideration had to be for the Bank s shareholders and not for the opposing financial factions. He said he could see no substantial irregularity a the sept. 14 shareholders meeting in Winnipeg that voted to wind 1 up the Bank. 1 please see Westbank Page 10 . Denies considering isolation lord Chalfont called Home to explain remarks London a for the second time in 24 hours the British during the week end denied it would consider a disengagement from Europe if France blocks Britain s entry into the common Market. Ceremony signals expo s end record visit to fair Montreal up an unaccustomed still N.S. Lay Over expo s site sunday night a few hours after the 1967 world s fair came to an end. Blackness cloaked most of 74 pavilions that for six months rang to laughter chatter and tears. In 185 Days expo and milled a record for fairs of this Type and duration. Expo s probable deficit will be paid 50 per cent by the Federal government. 37 2 1 per cent by he Quebec Provin government and 2vi per Cial please see ceremony Page 6 mrs. Maithe Racine of suburban Montreal was the 50 Millionth visitor to expo saturday. With her husband Alexandre she checked through the turn Stiles just before 7 . To win an expenses paid trip to expo 70 in Japan. World bids goodbye Montreal up like the world came to us and children departing some Long i How it s going away loved the shivering j said Giselle Fournier a Blue crowds left expo 67 sunday eyed blonde Mon Trealer who night with Many backward was close to tears As she and looks. J her hush a and Gilles gazed mayors suggest housing solution the Canadian federation of mayors and municipalities next monday will present prime minister Lester Pearson with a program they Hope will end the nation s housing crisis. The free press has Learned that in a directly worded submission to the government the municipalities ask immediate action on a program that would make Homes More available to the Low and Middle income family. The methods provide substantially More subsidized Low rent housing. Set up a three year direct incentive program for private Home builders. Start an. All level govern ment drive to snip spiralling a land costs. The suggestions Are part of a Brief months in the preparation and just now in the hands of mayors and Reeves across the please see suggests Page 6 is the . Deliberately ignoring a Basic communist precondition for peace talks in Vietnam in an Effort to stall negotiations Hanoi thinks so As David Schoenbein Points out in the second of a series of six stories from inside North Vietnam appearing to Day on Page 13. And on Page 29, a seasoned Vietnam War reporter looks at the wide disparity Between official Washington s View of How the War is going and the views of Saigon correspondents. Snow will vanish there was Good news from the Weatherman monday. The 2.9 Inch snowfall that blanketed Winnipeg and most of meet on indians proposed Regina up representatives of. The four Western prov inces have decided to ask the Federal government to Convene an urgent meeting on Indian problems. Ministers and officials from Hie three Prairie provinces and i one representative from British Columbia issued a statement that the present situation is unsatisfactory and that no pro postal yet advanced by Ottawa is adequate to meet the problems faced by the indians and the governments the meeting would be to seek common understanding j and joint action on serious in-1 Dian problems the release Fol j i lowing a meeting Friday said. Manitoba Over the weekend will Illch a meet. Probably disappear before any the development came after lord Chalfont. Britain s chief common. Market negotiator was summoned Home to explain the circumstances and Content of an informal talk with British reporters in Switzerland thurs Day. Following that background Chat British newspapers carried reports Friday that Britain s exclusion from the common Larket might be followed by a Radical revision of foreign policy that could result in withdrawal from nato withdrawal of Britain s army from Germany and recognition of the communist regime of East Germany and of the Oder Neisse line As Poland s Western Frontier. Chalfont r c t u r n e d to the foreign office Day ahead of schedule. He conferred with foreign Secretary George Brown As a full scale political and diplomatic storm began to rage in British newspapers. J associates reported Chalfont s i explanation was accepted by Brown and prime minister i Wilson. Jon the the foreign office meantime j hand issued a statement strongly Botn Batch Bride wounded sex suitor Dies across the expo grounds. Look at the faces of the peo she said. This subdued mood seemed general at expo on the final Day and probably made easier the task of police and Security men in getting the 221.554 visitors off the site without Seri Ous incident. The presence of so Many men of the expo Security Force Montreal and Quebec police and ramp also was calculated to discourage souvenir Hunters who might walk off with valuables before the shoot the officers ambled around the j various pavilions where theft was considered possible. When the pavilions closed at Cleveland Digap the bedroom pointed suitor shot himself to eng. Death today after wounding a Bald hem woman Vouge Bride he held captive at gunpoint since saturday night in at gunpoint since shoot _ ramp officers joined so fee exp sex dense crowds Caldwell wounded in jostled for position and ther the face was in fair condition in was some risk of Accident if too Hospital police said he Ridenti Many were allowed on the ele fied Batch As the person who rated platforms at one time shot him. Expo s passing had its funny mrs. Smith had Down to j As Well As its sad moments. Yunpu Lull. Allyl a in _ his third door suburban apart Jing her husband. Charles 18, in j Security men at t ment police said. The newlyweds apartment Po-1 press stations. D Robert Batch. 23. Was dead on arrival in Hospital a Bullet wound in his heart. Lida Caldwell 19, was wounded in the Chest and taken to sur Gery where doctors reported her in reasonably Good condition. University Heights police sgt. Chris Schopt said Batch s Mother Martha Smith of Johnstown pa., talked to the boy from his Kitchen and told him she loved him and would protect him. J we heard two shots and we Schopt said. J Cleveland detective capt. Pat-1 Rick l. Garrity said that when he entered the bedroom the girl j was still standing although please see Abductor Page 6 Auto wage parity showdown nears Garrity said Batch was lying Detroit United Auto workers negotiating with their no. 2 strike target Chrys Ler corp. Are expected to press door the gun in Only major thing they i did t win from their no. 1 and mrs. Caldwell it Camlai Nav for Cana tar for Canadian denying that Chalfont. In talking were carried from the Home on j and american workers. With reporters had at any time. I stretchers. Suggested any change of British police said Batch had refused foreign policy is being con to to his Mother. A emulated or would take place i go away and leave us More arrives. Plenty of Sunshine seasonable temperatures and Little wind is forecast for tuesday with temperatures ranging around t h e Mark. The Only Omi Nous possibility ing would be to establish a per manent mechanism for continuous consultation Between the Federal and provincial govern ments and the Indian people. While no details were re leased it was understood one of the main items discussed was How Best to work out machinery is a weather system in the far West which which would allow the provinces could cause trouble but so far i to Lake Over payment of welfare standing merely kicking up Clouds. It i to indians now handled by the should be Here with whatever i Federal government it brings by the weekend., the a weather office says. Western Manitoba and bran he received a Tina from republicans when in an emotional and lib lie lashed out at the demonstrators at the Pentagon i in Washington Las weekend i paltry Lousy ratty Little to about 2li inches while most Snow fell in Northern Manitoba. Almost five inches were record features today a reporter in hindi Lions rams share local spotlight 13 27 today s Index classified 35 to 43 comics deaths finance Jumble movies sports television women 16, 17 43 32 to 34 .17 15 25 to .10 14 21 to 24 a b City zone total c circulation 92.7js 125.1w nearly everyone reads the free press mrs. Caldwell said from 7 machine guns stolen from Minto armory six Bren guns and a Browning .30 calibre machine gun were stolen during the weekend from Minto Armor police said Mon a Day. The guns belonging to Trio j Royal Winnipeg rifles Leroi taken from a rack in room 37 of the armory s basement. N o ammunition was stolen police said. A caretaker discovered tin theft at . Monday. Two bars had been Cut out of u basement window Well and a transom Over the door of the room had been broken. A caretaker and a fireman Are on duty 24 hours a Day police said. Canadian wage parity is going to be a very crucial Issue in these negotiations. It s a top priority Douglas Fraser a adj Chrysler department i i Rector said after the Union i decided to take the contract won from its no. 1 target Ford 1 motor co., to Chrysler before going to general motors. After the Ford agreement j Walter p. Reuther Union presi Dent said Canadian wage parity was the Only major tiling we did t gets life term family crisis bared housing Lack splits parents children Toronto families on below average incomes Are being Separ ated in Toronto s housing crisis Lloyd Richardson director of the children s Aid society of metropolitan Toronto said today. John Melichercik assistant executive director of the roman Catholic children s Aid society agreed the housing shortage has reached crisis proportions. Or. Richardson said parents with Low income and Large families Are unable to afford Suita ble accommodation. To Cope with the situation he said Many have been asking Cas to find other Homes for some of their family. It should never have to Hap he said in an interview. I the Foster Homes May be Bel Ter for the children physically but nothing can replace the love and affection of the True one of the most serious cases he said is that of or. And mrs. David Mclellan five of whose seven children have been placed in Foster Homes. We have approximately 165 children in care because of the housing s i t u a t i o or. I the Law contract at Chrys i Chardson said Ler s Canadian firm runs out or. Melichercik said his Agen of 15 by does not take children from Large families into care because please see showdown Page 6 of a Lack of accommodation. Please see world Page 6 the Union did. Not press that demand at Ford Reuther said because Ford of Canada is not a wholly owned subsidiary of its Parent company As Are Chrysler and pm of Canada. And he added the Union s Canadian contract at Ford does not expire until dec. 1. Poops warning diversify farms please see action. Not reports. Needed Bunch of people who do not j represent or. Goldwater s came at a morning meeting of the Western states Republican conference a three Day series of seminars aimed at building Confidence for a Republican Victory in 1968, the chief participants were Michigan gov. George Romney Illinois sen. Charles Percy Senate minority Leader Everett Dirk sea party chairman Ray Bliss and or. Goldwater. The principal thrust of the or. Goldwater speech appeared aimed at the doves in his own party. He appealed to republicans not to believe Hie tempt please see Goldwater Page 10 de at the and Thompson. Meanwhile winds averaged More than 20 Miles an hour and driving was hazardous. Spacecraft linked up Moscow a the so Viet Union said today it had successfully joined together in orbit two unmanned space Craft another first for soviet space scientists. By Joyce Fairbairn first of a series Ottawa staff the latest study of Canada s indians. Eskimos and Metis offers Lite new or startling information on the plight of these native Peoples. This time it was a Survey on the relationship Between indians and the Law con ducted by the Canadian corrections association and made Public by the govern ment last week. Last year there was the lengthy ctr others report on the development of self government in the North West territories. The direction of these studies was obviously Dif Ferent but the information and observations contained in them remained basically and depressingly the same. Be it the Law or govern ment the stumbling blocks have not changed much in substance for generations. Poverty Lack of education and Opportunity deeply in Gary George Davies. 25, formerly of Springhill. N.s., was sentenced to a life term in Penitentiary monday by or. Justice Gordon c. Hall after he pleaded guilty to non capital murder. Appearing in Assize court. Or. Davies. Represented by his counsel. Ken Houston pleaded not guilty to capital murder but guilty to the lesser charge Iii connection with the fatal shoot Marlborough hotel ing of Myron Mycoski last dec. He told the Farmer w. J. Parker president of j Manitoba Manitoba Pool elevators warned Manitoba Farmers Friday that j they could not live indefinitely on Cash Grain production alone. In a plea for diversification of the farm Economy he predicted j that the Market and consumption of meat and poultry j products would increase More i rapidly than the consumption of j wheat. It is Basic that you need a livestock Industry in Western or. Parker told Dele Gates at the conclusion of the five Day annual meeting of Manitoba Pool elevators in the Pool elevators Sug warning Page 6 no mail saturday possible delegates by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff in pro j Spect a five Day monday to More attention to the or. Justice Hall accepted Luiei conclusions drawn in the annual Ujj report adopted by the meeting i at the closing session. Grained suspicion of White society antagonism Over ancient treaty rights discrimination within the White c m u n i t a frustration apathy and disillusionment arc still the Root causes preventing native Peoples from understanding and accepting tie rules which govern the rest of Canadian life. All Liis is Well known by governments and educated Kissick 56, of 595 Dufferine foreseeing such possibilities Avenue who recovered from is and As one practical Means for please see Indian Page 7 wounds. I prevention of such occurrences plea on the lesser charge imposed sentence. Maurice Gordon Baxter. 23, formerly of Hamilton out., jointly charged with Davies. Elected jury trial which started Laic monday morning. Or. Mycoski 46, died shortly after he was shot in a Small Shack at 46 Mcgregor Street the offices of King Transfer Ltd., during a Holdup attempt by two men. Also shot was John those conclusions signed by the seven Pool directors said it was doubtful that Western Cana Dian Farmers can be assured of unlimited markets for wheat in the foreseeable future. Large carryovers coupled with limited wheat quota deliveries will undoubtedly recur from through Friday mail delivery service. The Canadian Council of postal unions is going to make a drive to get the five Day service established cutting out saturday deliveries in its collective bargaining with the Public service staff relations Board a spokesman for the unions said today. Already the Post office department has Slu died some of the economics involved in drop time to time in future years the Ping the one Day. It would report predicted. Result in a saving of about million a year. Please see no mail Page ;