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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Lend a hand give blood Winnipeg free press final edition vol 75 no. 95 Price Loc with comics Winnipeg 18, 1968 Sun rises . Mon Rise Sun sets . Moon sets . . Forecast sunny 15 and 35 Russia . Work out a pact draft treaty bans spread of arms Geneva Reuters Russia and the United states today introduced a Complete draft treaty ban Ning the spread of nuclear weapons climaxing More than two years of negotiations. The draft which must be Dis cussed by the 17-nation disarm Ament conference Here before going to. The United nations in new York includes for the first time a clause on safeguards to police the treaty. This vital inspection clause was left Blank when Russia and the . Introduced identical drafts last August. Three amendments and three completely new articles incorporated in the drafts presented to the. Conference today called on All to the treaty to negotiate on an end to the arms race and Complete and general disarmament and made it pos sible opt out of amendments to the treaty. It declared the treaty did not prejudice regional non nuclear , called for the provision of mislead explosives at Cut Price Retes. For civil engineering projects in non nuclear countries which sign the treaty and provided for the fullest possible Exchange of scientific and technical information on nuclear Energy. It also imposed a 25-year-term on the treaty which was of in definite duration in the August drafts in his opening statement chief .. Fisher said negotiator Adrian the time has now decisive action to Stop the spread of nuclear weapons and the world will expect us to re Spond please see Russia Page 16 replies to Hanoi peace crash kills a president Johnson stresses Point in state of the Union message bombing Likely to go on mishaps claim 3 lives ramp reported three fatal accidents wednesday a car train collision Northwest of bran Don wednesday afternoon a shooting Accident on the Lizard Point Indian Reserve Early wednesday and a car pedestrian Acci Dent near Sussell tuesday night. Dead Are Mervin Glen Long claws 49, of the Russell District. Reginald Arnold 21, of the Lizard Point Indian Reserve. Fred Joseph Fleury 68, of Uno Man. The ramp said or. Fleury appeared to waiting at the Uno crossing for one in train to pass and then was hit As he crossed the track by a second train going the opposite Way. Uno is 75 Miles. Northwest of Brandon. Or. Cearsky died in Hospital in Russell Early wednesday about six hours after an Accident with a gun the ramp said. Also in the Russell area or. Long claws was in collision with a car As he walked on Highway 83 late tuesday night. The Acci Dent scene was a half mile North of Russell. Russell and District Coroner or. H. L. Lange has ordered inquests into both fatalities in the area. Russell is 85 Miles Northwest of Brandon. By Murrey Marder Washington special tons president Johnson said wednesday night that North Vietnam not take advantage of. Our restraint As. They have in the past if the United states halts its bombing in Exchange for peace talks. Right now we Are exploring the meaning of Hanoi a recent the president told Congress in his state of the Union message. His stiffened Emilia Sis on the need for Matching military action by North Vietnam coincided with information from other sources that the United states and North Vietnam Al ready have exchanged messages h r o u g h diplomatic channels dec. 29 bid for ease talks. The president s guarded com ments suggested that the administration does not regard Hanoi s answers so far As sufficiently reciprocal to justify a halt in the bombing. Publicly North Vietnam s envoys in Paris have provided some amplification of the Hanoi offer to hold talks with the United states if. It stops unconditionally the bombing and All other acts of War against North Vietnam. But a North vietnamese spokesmen in Paris have said that any agreement for a reciprocal de looking for a nov Blower this want and under Snow blowers 59b sacrifice Sale. T . Snow slower like new. Vernon 2-6087. Is among the hundreds of bar gains in. Today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Escalation by Hanoi in Advance of the bombing halt is ruled out. To diplomatic specialists in president John son s statements wednesday night appeared to be designed for two purposes to prevent the United states from being drawn into a one sided military de escalation and endless talks in which North Vietnam could fight and which captured documents state is the North vietnamese objective to states in a favourable Public position in event the attempt to initiate please see bombing Page 8 state of Union message grim by Stuart Loory Washington Spe Cial tons noting a a e r t a i n restless Ness in the land president Johnson talked wednesday night to the United states of As he delivered an election year state of the Union message. The accent was on the negative he offered Little Hope for a Quick peace in Vietnam As he engaged in another round of semantic dueling with the North vietnamese leaders. He offered no new Dom Estic programs to the general population and Only expanded old ones to the impoverished in the Urban ghettos. He renewed his demands 1 for a tax increase and Protee Iton of. The Dollar to fight inflation and the balance of payments problems. He said he will ask Congress to repeal the Law which requires a 25 per cent Gold cover for dollars in circulation. He said this would free . Gold reserves and hold steady the International Exchange value of the Dollar. -.0 he asked Congress to Dea with such consumer problems As unsafe and substandard goods rising medical costs Anc crime in the streets. He disclosed the budget Foi the 1969 fiscal year to be sent to Congress shortly will Call Foi spending of billion under a please see peace Page 12 president stands on Centre by Robert j. Donovan Washington tons in so Many words president Johnson said in his state of the Union message wednesday night s. Grant had said during the Union Campaign in Virginia in 1864 i propose to fight it out on this line if it takes All summer ten months before the next presidential election the line Lyndon b. Johnson proposed to fight it out on right Down the Middle of the political Road As he sees it. Nothing particularly new in the message. Nothing really drastic. No retreats but no bold new programs either. Recommended sex touring pc head pushes for Unity by Barry came Brandon Man. Dire need for new Legal political incentive to Cement Canadian Unity emerged As the major theme of National progressive conservative Leader Robert Stanfield s of tile province wednesday. The opposition Leader in a frantic dash through the Princi pal centres of Southern Mani Toba took particular pains to stress at each of his Brief stops his belief that the country is rapidly approaching a Cross roads that could spell the breakup of confederation. Although Many of his Stop overs were whirlwind affairs and the subject of his speeches ranged from simple chitchat to discourses on federalism or. Stanfield repeatedly emphasized that the key question facing Canada today revolved around National Unity. He told the 140 people at similar appeals were launched before 200 people at a Coffee party in Neepawa and in front of 150 residents of Minnedosa who attended a luncheon in his Honor. And during the delivery of two major speeches in Brandon wednesday evening he took the time to diverge from his Central topic to dwell heavily on the Unity theme. The real test of our federa system is to come and think it will come in this he told 400 University of Brandon students during an address on Canadian Federal ism. There is no doubt that we should begin to face this test Al the conference in february the forthcoming Federal provincial constitutional meet and then is no doubt that our ability to an Early morning breakfast j work out a satisfactory a meeting at Portage la Prairie ran gement Between French and was highlighted by his Call for English in Canada will be a was highlighted by Cool Heads to Case the current French English tension. Let s keep our tempers and keep our a a English proof of our longer de Trmina please see Stanfield Page 8 pension of existing Domestic programs to be sure but no daring innovations in the face of extraordinary and accumulating problems. On Vietnam no giving in to the Hawks but neither any tagging along with the doves nor yielding to their pres sures for an immediate cessation of bombing and Der escalation in the ground fighting. Nor by the Way any Hope for an Early settlement. In the Early Days of the Vietnam War or. Johnson s state of the e Union messages used to be characterized As and butter pronounce ments. characteristic of this election year message was distinctly bread and butter More jobs More housing More Fri agents More health facilities More Federal Aid for impoverished College students and More of other similar benefits that Are the bread and butter of a demo cratic presidential Candi Date. Most candidates for office tills year Are highly Sensi Tive to Middle class Wrath Over violence in the streets. The Issue could be decisive features today Masterton memorial fund in building stages 25 today s Index classified 31 to 49 comics 29, deaths h finance. 40 to 43 Jumble 33 movies 15 sports 24 to 28 television 14 women 17 to 21 Abc circulation City zone total 12s.1m nearly everyone reads the free press next november. Not altogether surprisingly therefore the president devoted slightly More of his address to crime than to Vietnam. And clearly he knew his audience. The members of Congress saved their loudest applause for his statement we at every level of government in this nation know that the american people have had enough of rising crime and lawlessness in this in fact it was More than applause. Senators and representatives cheered. Time and again he was please see stands Page ii Canadian Jlong air victims mint North Dakota a a. Gen eral and eight other air Force officers including a Canadian were among 12 per sons killed wednesday when a. Huge Tanker plane crashed on take off from fog shrouded Minot air Force base. There was one survivor. An air Force investigating earn sought the cause of the crash the seven Crew members Anc in pass in g e r s were from Larch air Force base near , Calif. Charles m. Eisen Lart 53, of the 15th air Force died when the into flames upon Impact around 9 . An explosion followed spewing bodies and parts of the plane More Nan feet in several direct on. The death list also included Siree colonels three lieutenant colonels a major a Captain Anc three non commissioner person Nel the Canadian killed . F. G. Mauch 51, of Edmonton. The survivor was sgt. William g. Wright 34, the plane s Ste Ward. Please see 12 die Page 7 Pearson lays Down the Law Cabinet leadership candidates told to Stop policy feuding by Victor Mackie Ottawa prime minister Pearson has has rebuked his Cabinet colleagues for the that has developed in government ranks or party leadership Campaign. He stressed the need for Abinet Solidarity and Cabinet members agreed during a 90 minute meeting at his Home tuesday night it was Learned wednesday. There was an undertaking among ministers in the party leadership race not to go for each other s jugular at the Western l i b e r a ,1 conference meeting in Winnipeg this week end. A Cabinet session wednesday was devoted primarily to a discussion on the forthcoming constitutional conference next Turner enters race Ottawa staff consumer affairs minister John Turner announced his candidature for the Liberal leadership today and hoped there would be a two or three week period before the convention when Cabinet minis ter candidates would be free to discuss All issues openly. Members of the government who disagreed with government policy on such questions As medicare of other issues should he suggested. Or Turner refused to be drawn into a discussion on personalities during a press conference in the National press please see Turner Page 16 Mol Gat endorses amalgamated City Manitoba Liberal Leader Gil y 5 Mol Gat thursday called for a single amalgamated municipal government for greater Winni Peg. Speaking at a press Confer ence or. Mol Gat said that after considering Many alternative solutions i have come to the conclusion that amalgamated municipal government would seem to be the most logical vehicle to conduct municipal government or. Mol Gat said his stand is not official Liberal party policy but does have caucus backing in principle. He. Said a special Urban committee of the party headed by Winnipeg business Man Arthur Johnston is studying present greater Winni Peg government methods. The Liberal Leader emphasized that important cultural aspects particularly of St. Boniface must be preserved no matter what form total amalgamation takes. The existing names and Grey Bruce Roblin silent month. It was agreed to put off he medicare discussion. Until Oday. Please see Pearson Page 7 Manitoba s former Premier Duff Roblin replied with a non committal of that s interest when asked to comment last night on rumours that he d seek entry into the House of commons by running in the Ontario Riding of Grey Bruce. His speaking engagement to Morrow in Hanover ont., at the Centre of Grey Bruce Riding now without a member of parliament had prompted the rumours. Or. Roblin was in Edmonton yesterday to speak to a progressive meeting Toronto for members in conservative party and then flew to talks with party Southern Ontario. Hanover is 100 Miles Northwest of Toronto. The Grey Bruce seat has been vacant since autumn when my Eric Winkler former conserva Tive whip in the commons resigned. Reached by Telephone in Edmonton last night and asked if there were any truth in the rumours or. Roblin said of interesting. I la comment i Don t on that that s think but according to political observers the former Manitoba Premier May have to give up his original plan of running for Federal office in a Riding in his own province if he wants to enter parliament before the next Federal election. After he was narrowly Defeated for the. National leadership. Of the party by former Nova Scotia Premier Robert Stanfield at the progressive conservative Leader ship conference in Toronto in september or. Roblin stated his intention to enter Federal politics. He was almost immediately offered the progressive con by for Serva Tive nomination in Alberta Riding where a election was scheduled november. However or. Roblin turned the offer Down saying that he d rather run in a Manitoba Riding and that he wanted to stay on As Premier of Manitoba until his successor had been chosen at the Manitoba leadership 25 a Alberta few by convention nov. Days after the election. The my for the Manitoba rid ing of Marquette Nicholas Mandziuk offered to resign his seat to pave or. Roblin s Way to Ottawa. But party officials did not consider the seat Safe enough please see Roblin Page 16 identities of the geographic areas such As St. James for Garry the Kildonan and other could of course be preserved. A area of concern which would arise and for which specific provision would have t be made. Would be Tiv Protection of the historical am cultural nature of St. Boniface.1 or. Mol Gat said amalgamation would involve Many problems but if taxpayers Are t receive maximum efficiency of their dollars it would have t come in the end. The Public is highly concerned about he said under the present Structure metro government and individual municipal we have All the problems and no he said amalgamation would end duplication of administration and political officials and would allow area wide planning and development it would permit the areas resources to on a sensible basis to provide for future growth. Or Mol Gat said tax equalization would give the various school divisions of the area equal Access to funds and would Correct current imbalances. No. Change in school divisions would be. Necessary unless it was on a. Voluntary basis. I recommend to the Liberal party the acceptance of the principles of or. Mol Gat said. Details of the program will have to be worked out at a later Date or. Mol Gat said. He said he would Welcome the support of any individual or group willing to press for amalgamation. The opposition Leader said there would be several changes in the current Structure of municipal government if amalgamation were adopted. He did t elaborate. In my opinion none of the existing institutions is now equipped to take Over. The functions of an amalgamated he said. A new concept of Urban government is required. The taxpayers cannot afford to continue with two Levels of local government metro and Mun be russians Teu . Moscow Reuters the Kremlin 16 a y warned the United states to keep its Hanuka off Cambodia and Laos and claimed Washington was plan Ning military action against the two Southeast asian states. The charges were made in a government statement recently handed to the . Depart ment in Washington and published Here today. Tass the soviet news Agency said the statement was delivered to the state department several Days ago but gave no exact Date. The s t a t e m e n t expressed profound concern Over the fur ther aggravation of the situation in Southeast the Agency added. The War unleashed by the United states in Vietnam the american government s present course of further intensifying and expanding the scale of this War is the source of the growing tension in the the state ment declared or Mol Gat suggested the greater Winnipeg of tomorrow might possibly be known As win Peg St. Boniface like the Sisters cities Minneapolis St. Paul Minnesota. It would be a great Boon for our tourist or. Mol Gat said. Cabinet roles shuffled by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff Treasury Board president e. J. Benson also becomes the minister responsible for housing i Canada under a minor Cabinet shuffle announced today by prime minister Pearson. Jean Chretien minister with out portfolio has been named minister of National Revenue taking Over the Post formerly held by or. Benson. Or. Pearson said that some time ago labor minister John r. Nicholson asked to be relieved of the extra duties for housing in View of his heavy responsibilities for labor. Or. Benson while remaining president of the Treasury Board takes Over the Job of reporting to parliament for the Crown owned Central mortgage and housing corporation. He relinquishes his Post As National Revenue minister. Or. Nicholson is 66. He was ill for a period last fall. Some months ago he asked or. Pearson to ease jigs ministerial Load by removing responsibility for the National housing act. Or. Pearson agreed but asked or. Nicholson to carry on until the Federal provincial conference in Decem of t e r housing Ber. I _ or. Pearson released the Exchange of car Respondence with or. Nicholson. In his letter he said he was. Agreeable to or. Nicholson s request. He thanked or. Nicholson most sincerely and very warmly for your dedicated and effective work in the housing Field i know How difficult this work has been and i am All the More grateful to you for what you have done to ensure sound and continuing ;