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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press vol. 75 no. 51 comics 15c Winnipeg monday november 27, 1967 Sun uses . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast cold -5 and 5 above face off today three runners up congratulate Premier elect Walter Weir. Left to right Are Sterling r. Lyon or. George Johnson or. Weir and Stewart e. Mclean. Photo by Jack a lilt rewrite ban act provinces Robarts Johnson take Lead in bid for new Constitution Toronto up five provinces called for a revised Constitution today. Two others said they were willing to consider changes. One said a More Funda mental problem is How to change the Constitution. Two had not yet spoken their piece when the confederation of tomorrow conference concluded its. Opening session on the 54th floor of a new Toronto sky scraper. Premiers Daniel Johnson of Quebec and John Robarts of on Tario were the most definite in urging a new Constitution to As sure Effual rights for French and English speaking canadians across Canada. Or. Johnson said it is Basic in a country like ours that the Constitution recognize the collective rights of both meet split hinted Toronto up if two statements issued saturday set the tone of the confederation of tomorrow conference unanimity will be a forlorn Hope. Basic of the conference which opened today will be to come to grips with at least two problems that have always con fronted confederation Quebec s role in it and the proper distribution of Powers Between the Federal govern ments. The premiers of Canada s maritime provinces met Here saturday arid issued a state ment deploring the glaring Dis parities in Levels and stand Ards of services and develop ment among the 10 provinces. De Gaulle lectures Ottawa conditions for free Quebec outlined for newsmen please see meet Page 8 please cultural communities. The British North american act included a number of guarantees for the English speaking minority in Quebec but scarcely any for French Minori ties in the other provinces. Thus rather than provide Equality the Constitution has tended to Force French speaking people and their Way of life Back inside Quebec s boundaries. Responsibility for establish ing this Equality does not rest with the Quebec government alone. It is shared with us by the other provinces and the fed eral or. Robarts said Ontario has no intention of undermining the Primacy of the Federal govern from re ulcers a Paris up French president Charles de Gaulle today accused the Canadian Federal government of being partial in ils treatment of French speaking a i i i canadians. During a trip to Quebec last july de Gaulle shouted the que Bec separatist slogan. Vive be Quebec live free Quebec. Do Gaulle took the same tack today. J describing his trip to French speaking Canada he said he i found such indescribable in j thus in his presence thai i France had a sacred duty to reply w i t h o which i i Sec de Gaulle Page 18 Gold Pool hits Back mines resources to Craik extra1 highways Job for Eivins by Barry came Manitoba s newly elected Premier Walter Weir was expected to add a new face to the provincial Cabinet this afternoon Donald w. Craik the member of the legislature for St. Vital who managed or. Weir s Campaign for the progressive conservative leadership. Or. Craik 36, was expected to become mines and natural resources minister in one of Only two Cabinet changes to take effect after or. Weir was sworn in As Premier monday afternoon. Or. Weir was expected to boost the status of agriculture minister Harry j. Enns by handing him the highways portfolio As Well As the Agri culture department. Sources close to the new Leader indicate that no other major reshuffling of Cabinet duties Are contemplated for the immediate future Al l h o us h rumours persisted during the leadership Campaign that or. Weir would carry out More changes if elected. Both or. Craik and or. Enns were key workers in the Well oiled organization that engineered or. Weir s Victory at the convention saturday. And both Are new Mem Bers of the legislature being elected for the first time in 1966. A mechanical Engineer and former associate professor at please Sec dual Page a Lyon to keep Post Sterling r. Lyon Defeated provincial progressive conserva Tive leadership candidate is expected to retain his government Post As Manitoba s attorney Gen Donald w. Craik for photo coverage of the leadership Conven Tion and other stories please see Page 15. Eral when a new Cabinet is appointed by the successful candidate Walter Weir. Or. Lyon after nine Success Ful years in politics suffered his first major setback saturday. He was Defeated 280 to 183 Voles on lie third ballot at the con please see Lyon Page 18 floods kill 250 slums collapse under weight of Rains Lisbon a grieving portuguese buried their dead and dug away today at the muck and mire left by heavy weekend Rains and floods that killed More than 250 persons and destroyed thousands of dwell Ings in heavy populated Lisbon and surrounding villages. Hundreds More were injured and Many Are missing under tons of debris and mud. Mud caked bodies were still being re covered in slums of Lisbon s suburbs and nearby villages. The poor living in Flim Sily constructed dwellings suffered most. As the downpour col lapsed House after House there were relatively few casualties in better built buildings. Please see 250 die Page 6 continued see rewrite Page 6 estates general backs Cue. Break by Hobart Rowen Washington special tons the United states Britain Germany and the other Gold Pool nations sunday took the counter offensive to defend the existing International Mone tary system including the pro sent value of the Dollar. In an extraordinary state ment these nations made Clear that they desire to isolate the French in their recent efforts to Force an increase in the Price of Gold. In addition to the ., great Britain and Germany the nations taking this position Are Belgium Italy the nether lands and Switzerland. Governors of the Central Banks of the seven nations met sunday at Frankfurt Germany and issued a formal communique pledging support to the Effort to hold the Price of Pearson swats Paris Weir sworn into office As fifth pc Premier Liy Neil Louttit Premier elect Walter Weir was sworn into office monday afternoon As Manitoba s 16th Premier less than is hours after being elected head of Manitoba s progressive conservative party. Or. Weir said in an interview sunday that he had not yet met office will be attending the confederation of t o m o r r o w conference now taking place in Toronto. He will Fly to Toronto tuesday and return thursday evening however provincial treasurer Gurney Evans will be Manitoba s official spokesman at the conference. Or. Weir 38, is the second with the Cabinet As a whole but youngest Premier in the prov bad spoken to individual Mem-1 Ince s history. John Norquay j bars. The new Cabinet was 37 when he was elected to i expected to include at least one office in 1878. By Tim Traynor London staff Prim no minister Pearson monday de j Liv cred a three pronged rebuke to French president Charles do Gaulle i n an unexpectedly Strong speech in London. Or. Pearson came Down hard toward British entry to the european common new face will be sworn into office after or. Weir. His first Job in the executive highways minister in former Premer Duff Roblin s Cabinet or. Weir Defeated attorney Gen on gaullist policies Canada nato and Cral Sterling Lyon by a margin 230 to 183 on the third ballot in convention. Or. Weir led from the first ballot when he polled 167 to or. Lyon s 141. Provincial Secretary Stewart e. Mclean received 87 votes and education minister George Johnson 71. On the second ballot or. Weir s total swelled to 220 while or. Lyon s increased Only by 29 to 170. Or. Mclean dropped to 73 on the second round. In his calmly delivered acceptance speech or. Weir prom ised Manitoban they can expect hold the line policies with a realistic balance Sheet in government spending. Enthusiastic applause from the 470 delegates and about please see Weir Page 18 Gold at an ounce. J Market. He did not mention the obviously it was intended As general by name but it was a warning to French president Charles de Gaulle who will hold a news conference today in Paris that the major nations in please Sec Gold Page k Montreal up the estates general of French Canada emerged sunday from a four Day debate on the French Ca Nadian nation with a program of resolutions As startling As anything Ever advocated by Quebec s separatist parties. And organizers of Rene Levesque s Sovereign Quebec movement declared that the estates general resolutions will be studied As Basic material for the former welfare minister s proposed Independent party. Or. Levesque the Independent la for Laurier who left the Liberal party when it rejected his Sovereign Quebec propos Al received thunderous applause when he made a Brief appearance before delegates to the privately organized forum assembled to plug for constitutional change. At a press conference held in a room containing at least As Nar at York University s Glen Many Levesque supporters As j Don College that Ontario would reporters the former minister j soon have a Sovereign nation on said its Eastern Border. Ble. One gets the impression there s a mass which is ready to embark on the Road to a free and Independent please see Quebec Page 6 self Rule for que. Doubted Toronto up two be. Parati St leaders and a number of Quebec University students failed to convince several Hun dred persons attending a Semi we Aren t very far away from becoming a country. I con Sider this inevitable and for the most were As sceptical As Claud. Ryan editor and publish first time in our history Possi please see self Rule Page 6 below Zero expected tonight it might still officially be autumn in Winnipeg but with an 11 . Temperature of Zero today it feels More like Winter. And the forecast is for even More cold. According to the Winnipeg weather office the Mercury is expected to dip to five below overnight. If it goes below Zero it will be the first Lime this season. Tomorrow s High is expected to be five above with Light winds and some Cloud. A spokesman at the weather office said it s Winter. The whole Northwest is under cold but the predicted overnight Low of five1 below is a far cry from the All time Low of -33.4 recorded in 1891. And it s even farther from the record High of 46.2 set in 1899. Clear throughout that he was the object of the prime minis Ter s criticism. He also called on Greece and Turkey to draw Back from the Brink of War Over Cyprus. In a thinly veiled reference to general de Gaulle s summer foray into the Field of Canadian Federal provincial relations or. Said the problems of please see Pearson Page 18 features today a cads spell Stamps doom 23 today s Index classified 28 to 38 deaths 8 comics 26, 27 finance 12 to 14 Jumble 30 movies 11 sports 22 to 25, 38 television 10 women in. 17 Abc circulation City zone 92.7jj total 125.164 nearly everyone reads the free press with Christmas less than a month away Winnipeg families Are Busy preparing for the Holiday. However some people be cause of Lack of funds Are unable to celebrate with the same spirit. The number of needy teaching Standard raised Manitoba High school teachers will soon have to be within one year of achieving an education degree before they will be hired. Education minister George Johnson announced monday. Requirements for provincial High school teachers will shortly demand that they arc within one year of achieving a degree in education before they will be1 hired and they will be expected to Complete studies toward such a said or. Johnson. Film magnate robbed London a burglars broke into the Home of sir Philip warier British film exec live during the weekend Ami made off with jewelry Worth i sir Philip is chairman of associate cd British pictures corp. Families in the City in creases each year and the Christmas cheer Board with the help of More fortunate Winnipeg cars ensures they too will have a merry Christmas. Last year the Board sup plied food hampers and toys to families and Ham pers for 869 senior citizens. The value of the hampers was estimated at More than . In addition gift certificates totalling were Given to another 365 famil ies. Names of needy families arc continuing to arrive at the Board but through the help of free press readers it is hoped to keep donations in Pace with the growing numbers. Cash donations to the newspaper Are sent directly to the Board. The Board seeks about from readers. Donations May be sent to free press Christmas cheer fund 300 Carlton Street. Winnipeg 2, or brought to the business counter. Food and toy parcels May be left at 460 main Street or 394 Portage Avenue in the offices of the Eastern and chartered Trust company. Pick up service May be arranged by telephoning 942 0951. People wishing to take care of a family by them selves May phone the same number for details. Bif says notice not Given the fight to keep the Bank of Western Canada alive doctors feud on claim Toronto Cdr. Gor Don Murray who set off a hot medical controversy with his claim that he had found a to repair the spinal Cord says the most outspoken sceptic in the Case does t know what he s talking or. Murray denied sunday in a broadcast interview that he had Ever claimed to have re moved a Vertebra from a patient s spine. Or. William a. Drucker sur Geon in chief at Toronto general Hospital said saturday that x rays and Hospital records showed that the spine of truck Driver Bertrand Proulx operated on by or. Murray had net been shortened by removal of a Vertebra. Please see doctors Page 6 russian flays us. By Richard Reston Moscow special tons a ranking soviet army marshal sunday portrayed the american position in Vietnam As a hopeless failure and ruled out a decisive role for red China in any serious political efforts to halt the War. Marshal Vasily d. Sokolovs warned the United states that there Are limits to soviet patience in the Southeast Asia crisis. He described the political and military mood of the Kremlin As one of rising irritation and anger. Marshal Sokolovsky struck at president Johnson Secretary of state Dean Rusk defence Secretary Robert Mcnamara and other Civilian advisers As stretch Cut for a few Days More j people confused and misguided a result of a the american military is _ to abolishment. Queen s Bench a at least As Manitoba of action monday. Or. Justice r. J. Matas decided he could t immediately appoint Clarkson co. Ltd. As permanent liquidator for the Bank after an objection had been raised by Philip b. Mac Donald of Toronto. Or. Macdonald objected to the appointment of any permanent liquidator alleging in an affidavit that proper notice has t been Given to the creditors of the Bank. I j. F. O Sullivan. Representing or. Macdonald said his client i is executive vice president of British International finance Canada Ltd. And that West Bank owes Bis company a total of or. Macdonald alleged in the affidavit that Bif was never served notice of the appointment of the liquidator. Please see Bif Page 6 a former chief of the general staff and now a member o f the prestigious inspector general staff put Forth these and other views in a two Lour interview that dealt exclusively with soviet reaction to the War in Vietnam. A talk such As this is Seldom granted in Moscow. Please see russian Page 8 looking for a pet this want and under dogs cats Birds livestock 16 Beagle pups 3 males left. Alpine 6-0377. 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