Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 3, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Give the United Way Winnipeg free press filial edition vol. 75 no. 31 Price Loc with comics Winnipeg Friday november 3, 1967 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast cold 15 and 35 purge planned Heads to Roll Csc warned some segments Lamar Sli tells commons by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff a purge is planned within senior ranks of the Canadian broadcasting corporation after new broadcasting legislation has been passed by Judy Lamarsh lag in Industry foreseen Industry and Commerce mini Ster Sidney Spivak said thurs Day he foresees the possibility of a further slowdown in Mani Toba Industry particularly construction. He based his opinion on general economic conditions and potential Federal government curbs on spending. The situation however is one government officials Don t seem unduly concerned about. Commenting on layoffs announced this week at the Canada Cement Plant and the in or. Spivak said there is no doubt that the government has indicated that certain brakes will be applied and this will have its effect on business activity and. Some adjustments will have to be however he said Manitoba was m a because of fortunate its Low position parliament state Secretary Judy in the commons thursday. The Blunt warning came when the minister who reports to parliament for the Csc was confronted with her declaration made wednesday that some segments of Csc management Are opposition members leaped to their feet As soon As the House convened thursday to demand an explanation from miss la Marsh of her Public indictment of the Csc management. Miss Lamarsh came out of 1 her Corner fighting. The term Rotten she told the commons was not too Strong or too colourful language to use in this Case. She Lamarsh warned 3.38 Mill tax hike estimated 68 metro operating costs May necessitate increase by Bob Lis Way metro Winnipeg taxpayers May have to pay at least 3.38 Mills More in 1968 to cover metro s operating costs which May go up More than 34 per cent. Hopes up for peace talks . Concedes a major communist demand would allow Elf a voice in negotiations by Murrey Marder Washington special tons the United states opened up new possibilities for negotiations on Vietnam thursday by publicly conceding a voice in peace talks to the National liberation front of South Vietnam. Ambassador Arthur j. Gold staff gets memo ment rate of 1.9 per cent of the work Force and expanding Industrial development. Wilh our Low unemployment cur prospects for further Industrial growth our new developments in the North at the Pas and Thompson anyone who wants to work should be in a position to find or. Spivak noted that Industry and Commerce figures for the end of september list Job vacancies in the province. Please see Industry Page 10 layoffs seasonal official added it is really in the past two weeks that some exception ally knowledgeable people have Given me some examples which cause the use of language which might otherwise be too this brought howls of protest from conservative and new democratic party benches. Miss Lamarsh continued there is a reasonable probability that within the next few weeks or months there will be some changes in personnel and presumably some great changes within the corporation s later outside the commons when surrounded by newspaper men she explained her use of the term she said that it did not involve anything but had undoubtedly resulted in loss of Money to the taxpayer among other in the House miss Lamarsh had the apparent support of prime minister Pearson. The broadcasting critic for the offi Cial opposition Gordon fair weather pc Royal demanded the reaction of the prime minister to the sweeping indictment of the Csc or. Pearson Ottawa left pull together memo has been sent the indicated tax increase contained in metro s preliminary spending estimates for 1968 presented to the corporation s finance committee thursday would Cost the average Home owner with property assessed i at about More than his 1967 taxes. J the preliminary estimates indicated metro will have to j Levy 516.837.738 on area Munici a parities in 1968 or More than the 1967 Levy of 512.525.528. Increased a s s e s s j ments will cover of the increased Levy but will still have to be raised by a i direct tax rate increase. J. R. Mcinnes metro s executive director and treasurer said in his budget report. The corporation will end this . Gov t. Suffers setbacks year with a deficit of according to the estimates. Will be the fourth straight a rare metro has incurred a deficit. The estimates indicate metro will spend a total of s18.309.883 in 1968. Compared with s13.986.278 in 1937. Revenue from permit fees and and Federal Grants will add up to d please see .1.38 Mills Page 7 to Csc staff from the Board of directors in the Wake of state Secretary Judy Lamarsh s criticism of corporation manage ment. The memo issued by the Board thursday says Public statements by miss Lamarsh. Who reports to parliament for the Csc in no Way alter the corporation and its people in the provision of the National Broad casting it is signed by Csc president j. Alphonse Ouimet As chair Man of the Board. Miss Lamarsh said on television wednesday night the Csc suffers in Many areas from Rotten the Csc later reported that to. Alphonse Ouimet Csc presi Dent demanded and got a meet ing with prime minister Pear Truro . The two son because of the incident. J candidates running As i depend it reported or. Pearson As cuts in the Federal Colchester saying that he had assured or. Hants inflection monday say Ouimet the government approx 1 they have been offered bribes to cited the Job being done by the i withdraw from the contest. The Csc. Third candidate is progressive the Mono says criticism conservative Leader Robert should not Blind staff and Man Stanfield. Gement to the excellent per 1 Elwood Smith of Sudbury Mormance of All Csc services As ont., campaigning As an int a n Kenneth Marks Winston Churchill offered bribes to quit . Candidates charge i do not think anything sweeping pendent despite membership in it adds j the new democratic party said in carrying out your respond 1 thursday he has sent a letter 10 replied calmly. Sibili ties As individuals you have chief electoral officer j. M. There about this the support and Confidence of Hamel in Ottawa asking for an management. In turn manage ment enjoys the continued conf and support of this please see Heads Page 7 me to withdraw from j would be paid my nomination fee and possibly additional the Campaign. The offer indicated that i Gordon warns party nurses Lack blamed on work Load., pay Money to cover by John Leblanc London labor s Confidence in its grip on the British electorate was badly punctured today in the Wake of a stunning series of by election results. On the heels of two losses late last month the Wilson govern ment dropped two More seats thursday and barely held a third against a Strong thrust from conservative Winston Churchill neophyte grandson of the late prime minister. The scottish Home Rule party that has t been heard in parliament since Scotland s second safest labor seat with a woman candidate and the tories took a prosperous midlands Industrial Riding that seemingly had not much to grumble about from the government s Belt tightening economic policies. While the results still left i prime minister Wilson with a Handy majority of 87 in the 630 member commons they gave government strategists plenty to worry about. Everywhere the labor vote plunged dizzily in seats that were comfortably in the government column in the 1966 general election. The new setbacks came As Wilson already was beset on several other unemployment wage Price relationship trouble Over european j. Berg said that if members of the United nations Security Council believe the Elf ought to be invited to in peace talks which the United states has sought in vain to initiate we would join in the Elf is the political of the Viet Cong. The United states would not initiate an or. Goldberg told the Senate foreign. Relations committee but our vote would be available if necessary to bring the Elf or any other group into peace talks at the in. Perhaps More significantly or. Goldberg said the United states would recognize the competence of Britain and the soviet Union As co chairmen of the 1954 and 1962 Geneva conferences to decide the invitees and the scope of any conference to seek peace in South East Asia. Please see concedes Page 7 or. Kirk told him he had also been offered Money to with draw. Or. Smith said he sent another letter to or. Homel wednes Day requesting disqualification of the by election because Deci please see bribes Page 8 he save that on two occasions common Market reflect at least in part disenchant ment Over some or All of these. Several of his ministers Are in hot water and a Large segment of the National press has been baying particularly loudly at the heels of foreign Secretary please see . Govt. Page 7 Toronto Gor Don president of the privy Council warned thursday the Liberal government May lose support of the Ordinary people if i it backs Down on medicare. Speaking to a group of University of Toronto alumni he said his government should Honor its july 1, 1968, deadline for introduction of a compre by Egon Frech Manitoba s nursing shortage i is a vicious Circle of diminishing dimensions from which there is Only one escape salaries. This is the opinion of working nurses following the announce ment of a scheme where closed because there won t be j not name. The higher j enough nurses to staff them. I made by Telephone and became i married nurses working now Viola no had to get the say the Hospital s idea of providing Nursery service for Winnipeg s children s Hospital Hopes to get married former nurses Back to work. Nurses children does t go far enough and won t attract enough married nurses to make a difference. Unemployment problems caused by a Large Canadian National railways Layoff and the impending closing of Cana Dian Pacific s Royal Alexandra hotel May not be As critical As first thought. One rail official said the Layoff was seasonal. According to officials of the manpower department s place ment office Job prospects for i Many of the 250 to 275 in i layoffs May not be too bad in the greater Winnipeg area. Placement officers Are scanning their records and listings As they Wail for the of in Lay offs. The employment possibility picture for Many of the men could be less than disastrous manpower personnel said in Telephone interviews. Personnel officials with Cana Dian National said there has been no final decision As to How Many men will be Laid off in the eco Nomy cutback by the railway. But it was pointed out in Tele Phon interviews that Many of the men to go were fully aware that seasonal layoffs which happen every year were bound to come up. But it was added that it would be impossible to draw a line at a figure. Please see layoffs Page 8 Chrysler warned by Law by Robert w. Irvin Detroit special tons the United Auto workers Union i told Chrysler thursday that it must reach agreement on a new contract by Midnight nov. 8. Or face a strike by workers. The wednesday strike dead line was announced by Douglas Fraser the Union s chief bar gainer at Chrysler. It came As bar gainers for the Union and Ford were trying to Settle the final disputes that Are holding up a return to production by the firm closed since sept. 6 by a Law strike. Or. Fraser said Ford was very close to resuming car production. The company said that As soon As disputes Are settled at three stamping and transmission plants in Ohio please see Chrysler Page 10 according to two such nurses j feat the work Load on the present staff is Loo heavy causing More nurses to leave and a heavier work Load then results. They blame the Cycle on salaries claiming Manitoba nurses Are paid far less than their counterparts in Ontario. Many left for the higher Salar ies there. He says in the letter he is pre pared to name the persons involved in the bribery offer to an inquiry. Robert Kirk an Independent Liberal who came last at the polls when Colchester Hants was won by conservative Cyril Kennedy in the 1956 election said thursday he too had been offered bribes. He said in con firming the report. He was j pensive medical care plan i urged to withdraw by not Only medicare was a major Plank i j bribery but by threats of j in the Liberal election platform the bribes were offered in. In 1955. Or. Gordon said some govern programs should be put off in the need to Cut Federal i spending As a step in combat Ting inflation. J but when you agree to go through with one you should live up to it especially if it was made during an election Campaign. I believe that if the govern ment and members of Parlia ment Are to retain the conf Brown endures Stern rebuke Johnson hints at veto by David Kraslow Washington special tons president Johnson in a striking shift in tactics personally invited the american people thursday Congress to pass crease proposal to pressure his tax in and defeat by Alfred Friendly London special tons George Brown Britain s battling and embattled foreign Secretary survived an unexpectedly mild ordeal in Parli Ament thursday on the heels of Hospital officials warned that if the plan does t work some Hospital Beds will have to be j person by individuals he would doctor to come and give my wife a Needle for her however. Or. Kirk said he would make no pre election pro test because it might hurl his chances. The election might be called off and i think i can de the byc Lection was called after or. Kennedy who represented the Riding since 1957, re signed to give or. Stanfield a Chance at a commons seat. Or. Stanfield resigned As Nova Scotia Premier following his Victory Dence of the Ordinary people who elect them then for psychological reasons As Well As others they must not put off again a program that can moan Indian talks nov. 15 a meeting that could Lead to a Federal provincial conference on the plight of Canada s indians will be held nov. 15 in Ottawa Between Federal officials and his most recent Public flare up but his political future remained in doubt. He from received a former Stern rebuke conservative More of sorrow and or. Brown than prime minister sir Alec Douglas Home but it was delivered in terms anger bonded to it meekly and As if he had expected something much worse. Meantime however the Lon Don press which is engaged in a blood feud with him and is in i Large part openly or covertly hostile to the labor govern i ment bayed for his ousting like computers programmed by Madame Defarge. At the same time reports multiplied Here that or. Brown was in fact at Odds with his Boss prime minister Harold Wilson on their degree of dedication to the goal of Bri Tain s entry into the european common Market and the Desir efforts to restrict foreign imports. All but said that if Trade protectionist measures somehow survived in Congress lie would veto them. These Bills must not become pres. Johnson said in a j speech Here to some j delegates to the consumer Assembly an association of consumer interest groups. Then pounding the lectern the president and ribbed and they will not become Law As Long As i am president of this the president again raised the Specter of inflation to support his request for a 10 per cent income tax surcharge. He said inflation and the protectionist Campaign Are two issues which now demand your attention and which threate Nour con Sumers and our it was on these issues that the at the pc leadership Conven Liou i better health care and the a the three Prairie welfare mini aet pou5calhuuaballoo, in his in september in his letter in or. Many of our citizens. Smith says that on oct. 24 j i please Sec work pay Page an offer of Money was Madr to. Please see Gordon Page 10 sence of financial worry for Sorters says Manitoba welfare minister j. B. Carroll. Negotiator. It was arranged after a president sought to backfire on capital Light a Hill by chief common Market making a direct Appeal for help to what he referred to As the consumer it was a rare move for a president who has relied Princi Pally on his own Powers of persuasion in his bargaining with Congress. Twice Johnson make their views on the tax and Trade issues known to Congress loud and As he put it. In la s speech or. Urged americans to mks. Kex Edy applauded beauties5 meet by William Tuohy phenom penh. Special tons two of the world s great beauties gazed at each other across the footlights in the Royal theatre thursday night. Each looked absolutely smashing. Each apparently was appreciative of the other. In the audience As guest of Prince Norodom Sihanouk was mrs. John f. Kennedy who came to Cambodia thursday on a private visit. On was the Prince s daughter Princess Buppa the Star of the Royal cambodian Ballet a dancer and Beauty of world renown. Princess Devi smiled at mrs. Kennedy. The Lale president s widow applauded the Ballet performance Given especially for mrs. Kennedy after a dinner Given at the Royal Palace by Prince. Sihanouk who is his nation s chief of slate. The Royal Palace along the Mekong River was with lights setting off the glittering Emerald Sapphire and Golden hued roofs of the pavilions within the Palace Walls. The Hoyal theatre itself was filled to its 900 seat capacity when at . Prince Sihanouk dressed in a Black dinner jacket and tie. Accompanied mrs. Ken Nedy to the two Royal chairs set slightly Forward of the theatre seats. Mrs. Kennedy wore a j Ull in North Lime Green off the shoulder gown and what appeared to be Long Diamond earrings. As she i please see great Page 7 meeting of the three Prairie ministers monday in Regina. Air. Carroll said the provincial ministers expect to meet with Indian affairs minister Arthur Laing and health minister Allan Macea Cheti. They Hope to discuss problems facing indians in general he said. The is to have the Federal government look realistically at the problems indians face and show the Federal government that the provinces Are very seriously interested in finding ways to help he said a Federal provincial conference on indians could be one of the topics discussed. I have Long advocated a conference of this kind to discuss the differences and difficulties indians face in moving into our or. Carroll said. We have to j develop better tools to help please see Indian Page 5 please see Brown Page s Russia after fifty years this year is the 50th anniversary of the bolshevik revolution in the soviet Union. What do the russian people themselves think of the new world created for them by that Small band of communist revolutionaries in november 1917? in sat urday s free press Moscow correspondent Richard res ton interviews russians from All walks of life for their views on contemporary life in the soviet Union. Features today a reporter in Hanoi Plon Good bet to return in 68 today s Index classified .35 to 45 comics 28, 29 deaths 20 finance 30 to 32 Jumble 35 movies 14 sports.22 to 27 television 13 16 to 19 Abc circulation City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press i ;