Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Lend a hand give Bloomi Winnipeg free press vol. 75 no. 96 Price Loc 15c Winnipeg Friday january sign . Moon rises. . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast mild 20 and 35 Russell Horsburgh court Horsburgh cleared. On charges Chatham up Russell Horsburgh s Long fight to Clear his name ended thursday and the former in i t e d Church minister walked out of a courtroom Here determined to forget four years of bitter Legal Battle. Or. H o r s b u r g a 48, was cleared of five charges of contributing to juvenile delinquency decision that followed 107 Days in jail and an Appeal to the supreme court of Canada. On this Day of Victory t Don t want to look Back to look fit the he said in an interview. Faith. Is stronger enlightened and More reasonable than hours the minister at Chat Ham s Park United sentenced to a year in jail on five charges of contributing to juvenile Delin Quency. The charges arose from youth Anonymous a program through which he tried teen agers who bad been in trouble with the Law. After the sentence by judge w. H. Fox of London in juvenile or. Horsburgh was in and out of jail while his Case went through a series of appeals. Canadian Dollar slumps Toronto up the Cana Dian Dollar was quoted at 91.74 cents in terms of United states funds in Early trading at chartered Banks today unchanged from thursday s close. This was the lowest level since the Canadian Dollar was freed from a pegged rate -17 years ago. Bank officials said however there was Little activity in . Currency today. The Canadian Dollar was pegged at 92.50 cents in terms of . Funds at the time of de valuation in 1962. A. Trading please see Canadian Page 8 features today czech hockey science fails to pay 2z today s Index classified. 37 to 37 comics deaths .5 finance. 12 to 14 Jumble 29 movies. 26 sports 20 to 24, 36 o 38 television women 15 to 17 a circular lion City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press big guns flying in to Winnipeg Sharp Sticks to statement on review of medicare finance minister Mitchell Sharp one of the latest 4o declare his candidacy for the Liberal leadership was the first1 of the seven candidates to arrive in Winnipeg Friday morning with Eric one of the first to declare his candidacy 1 hard on his heels on the next plane in. I i two other candidates trans port minister Paul Hellyer and external affairs minister Paul who will also speak sunday at the Western Liberal policy convention Here will arrive on the same saturday morning plane from Ottawa. Or. Sharp announced thurs Day he was in the leadership race running and or. Martin Friday. _ in an i interview at Winnipeg International Airport or. Sharp admitted Many provincial governments Aren t in a financial position to implement medicare by the july 1 deadline. Meanwhile agriculture minis Ter a. J. Greene was expected to enter race at a 2 . Press conference today in Regina. Please see big guns Page 8 Mitchell Sharp r Martin., Sharp hats in ring Ottawa of airs minister Martin today officially launched his second bid for the leadership of the Liberal party dedicating himself to Bennf policy backed by ban Larocque Liberal leadership candidate Eric Kierans arrived in Winni Peg Friday morning and Chal eng Edall candidates to. Speak heir minds on All issues. See picture on Page 3 we Are not vying merely for a party the former Quebec Liberal association president said. We Are vying for the highest political position in the country. Therefore our feelings on All issues must be placed clearly please see Kierans Page 8 Deal with the vital and urgent problem of National the next prime minister will have to have a deep understand ing of the aspirations of both French and English speaking or. Martin 64, told a news conference called to announce his candidacy. The crisis in National Unity could endanger the survival of country. But he. Was confident Canada would meet the Challenge successfully. I believe that with my Back ground in the two official communities of the country and my service in the Public life of the country i have a or. Martin said. He also promised to strengthen the. Liberal party. He would propose a number of changes in1 the. Way it operates. The party should be strength ened and rehabilitated in the West. The Liberal party must be concerned with what we Are As Well As what we he said. Both the institutions of government and the management of government must be devel oped and strengthened. Finance minister Sharp entered the Liberal leadership race in Toronto thursday night with a plea for Equality for French speaking canadians. Please see Martin Page 8 West bloc forms for native son by Sheldon Bowles a Large group of Western Liberal leaders Are planning to tack a native son candidate for prime minister Pearson Job at the party s forthcoming National convention it. Was Learned Friday. Describing themselves As fed up with the Lack of a Strong Western voice in. The party s of programs and leadership the group plans to place its As yet unnamed candidate before sunday s Western Liberal convention to seek official Friday i Arthur Johnston a Winnipeg businessman and a Manitoba Liberal party official said the movement was being spearheaded by John Lamont a past president of the Manitoba Liberal party. Strong support for a native son candidate was swelling in Manitoba Saskatchewan and British Columbia he v support for a son candidate was t quite As Strong in Alberta he said. It is understood the Winnipeg group has been in touch with liberals throughout the West and that Saskatchewan Premier Ross Thatcher a Liberal is lending his full support to the please see West bloc Page 8 Mol Gat sets vote Wilson but labor left unhappy Over policies by Alfred Friendly London special tons a morose and dissatisfied labor party approved thurs Day night its. Govern. Merit s newest roster of spending cuts which end Britain s world Power Fole ,.anct halt. Its rising social1. Wel fare outlays in the first of two parliamentary votes on the issues the government aided by nine votes from the Liberal party Defeated a tory motion condemning the military slashes. The tally was 334 to 229, a majority of 105 on a final vote of Confidence the conservatives resorted to a remarkable and unusual technique abstaining from the pro Cess. The result accordingly was 304 in support and. Nine the liberals opposed. One purpose of the conserve Tives abstaining from the voting in opposition was it appeared to reveal the extent of dissidence in the labor party itself. Comparisons Between the votes suggested that about .-24 labor party members had themselves abstained when it came to a question of supporting their government.1 aides at Odds Ottawa up relations Between prime minister Pear Sun and some of his. Cabinet ministers Are reported to be under severe Strain. Informants say that or Pear son at times has teen furious about leaks to the press about Cabinet discussions. They say it was for this Rea son that or. Pearson left a cab inet meeting about noon dec. 14 to Tell a news conference half an hour later of his Spring retirement plans. The sources say he told the Cabine about his plans Joist be fore leaving the meeting and went directly to the conference so there could be no leak before he Lii self made tie announce ment Public. Continued please see pm Page s soviet styx May blast . Fleet mayor blasts dept. For arrest order a Young woman was nearly arrested Thuis Day in the office of major Stephen Juba of Winnipeg. But the mayor told police they would have to arrest Himy too if they anted to go through with it. The arrest was t made. He said was unthinkable that a citizen could be arrested while seeking help from the mayor. Shaking with anger the mayor accused the provincial health department of misusing his Trust and setting him up As a Stool Pigeon. In 11 years of office i be never. Been handed. A dirtier Deal than today and i m going to it that this tiling is thrown wide open if All hell Breaks the mayor said in an interview the Case revolves around a 22-year-old woman who escaped from the Manitoba. School for Retar dates at Portage la Prairie More than six. Months ago. A warrant had been issued under the mental health act but although the woman had been living with her parents and a woman Friend All the time police failed to locate her. The woman got in touch with mayor Juba thursday morning to ask him for help because she Felt that her relatives were trying to Force her to return to the Portage school. Before she came and saw me i got in touch with the provincial health department to ask them for advice and guidance because they have All the details of the mayor Juba said i talked to her for about 15 minutes and then sent her Home. I told her i would phone her later in the Day and then she could go with me to the legislative building that was the arrangement with or. Tav ener or. R. H. Tavener provincial psychiatrist of the department s mental health ser vices five minutes after the woman left i m informed that several policemen Are waiting downstairs to arrest her. Mayor Juba told that they would have to arrest him too if they tried to arrest the woman. He asked please see was used Page 8 Huband now a Liberal metro councillor Charles r. Huband until Friday a Promin ent member of Manitoba s progressive conservative Paity has announced he will seek the Liberal nomination to contest a provincial by election in Wols Eley constituency when former Premier Duff Roblin vacates his seat. Or Huband a former presi Dent of the Manitoba Young progressive conservative association said he had Over some considerable period of time gradually leached the conclusion that the Liberal party Best represents my Aims and objective s for Manitoba and in particular the Urban area of greater the vice chairman of Metio Council Reading from a prepared statement at a press conference Friday Rooming criticized the conservative party for its Lack of support for metro and its Gen eral policies and programs. Please see Huband Page 18 Earth a Kitt lashes out lady Bird jolted by Marie Smith Vand Carolyn Lewis x Washington special tons Singer Earth a Kitt challenged president Johnson thursday to answer a question about delinquent parents and shouted at mrs. Johnson that the pre sent rebellion of american youth is caused by the War in Vietnam. The Surprise impassioned outburst of the 40-year-old South Carolina Singer a negro came to a women doers luncheon at the White. House Given by mrs. John son for 50 women to discuss Manitoba Liberal Leader i Mol Gat said Friday no Road blocks had been set for Liberal leadership candidates at this weekend s Western Liberal pol icy conferee c e Here jus ground at a press conference in his office or. Mol Gat said the Winnipeg meet was designed for policy discussions and would t be overshadowed by hoopla for the candidates. Please see Mol Gat Page 8 lady Bird How to Stop crime in the streets. I think we live missed the main Point at this miss told the first lady and her guests we have forgotten the main reason we have juvenile delinquency. The Young people Are angry and the parents Are angry because they Are being so highly taxed and there s a War going on and americans Don t know Why. The youth is not rebelling for no reason at All Uliey Are rebelling against some thing and we can t Camou Flage what it the Petite Singer said. Boys i know across the nation feel it does t pay to be a Good Guy. They figure that with a record they Don t have to go off to she declared and then pointing a Finger at mrs. Johnson continued you Are a too although you have had daughters and not sons. I am a Mother and i know the feeling of having a baby come out my gut. I have a baby and then you Send him off to War. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot and mrs. Johnson in Case you Don t understand the Lingo that s the women guests listened in shocked silence until mrs. Richard Hughes wife of the governor new Eartha Kitt Jersey stood and interrupted the fiery Singer who some guests said sat in seemingly angry silence earlier in the luncheon. Mrs. Hughes said miss Kilt did not speak for All the Young people or All the mrs. Hughes the Mother of eight sons one in tie air Force said they Are willing to serve their country and i feel that my children Are in the i think anybody who please see. Eartha Page 8 baby girl was found in a shopping bag at Montreal International Airport wednesday night and placed in an orphanage where nuns named her Rose. The baby about 10 Days old will be offered for adoption if authorities fail to locate her parents. A Cambodia charges intrusion phenom penh Reuters Cambodia said today that and South vietnamese traded 200 Yards cambo Dian territory thursday killing three cambodians the charge came Only Houis after the official cambodian news Agency said the us had assured Cambodia that it would do everything possible to avoid incursions into cambodian Terri tory the International c o n 11 o 1 commission was scheduled to go to the scene of the alleged intrusion saturday the inc is made up of Canada Poland and India. An information ministry state ment said that South vietnamese forces sup ported by four planes entered cambodian tent Oil in pie Veng province at 5 thursday by Ltd a hoax Harrisburg Pennsyl Vania special tons gov. Raymond p. Shafer confessed thursday that his administration s a i s c o v Ery of six College students who had gone Blind after taking Ltd was a hoax. Gov. Shafer said the fictional tale was made up by the state commissioner " for the Blind Norman Yoder. Or Yoder has been sus Pended and has entered a Philadelphia psychiatric hos Pital the governor said. Or. Yoder and a Secre tary who helped prepare false records in support of the blinding Story face. Possible criminal Prosceo Tion for falsification of state records. The governor said or. Yoder is distraught and sick now but for nearly a week this hoax has. Been a National conversation piece. _ please see blinding Page 18 Hanoi believed getting russian missiles by George c. Wilson Washington special tons the Pentagon Lias fresh evidence that the is sending styx surface surface missiles into North Viet Nam i was Learned thurs Day. Such missiles would Post a real threat to United states aircraft carriers lying off North Vietnam now As Well As the battleship new Jersey slated to go there any massive use of such missiles would escalate the Vietnam Jav a r and possibly change its character. But it is too Early to say this is in Prospect please see soviet Page 18 research Park idea revived 1 v the Manitoba government has revived plans to develop an Industrial research Park in greater Winnipeg and construction could Start Oil the project sometime thus year. Industry minister Sidney Spivak said thursday that he will bring the proposal for the Park before the provincial Cabinet in the next few weeks. One year ago the Cabinet pared plans to develop the Park from the government s program As its strove to reduce expenditures since that Fame Walter Weir has succeeded Duff Flo bin As Premier on a Campaign pledged to hold the line on government expenditures however with the additional impetus that or Weir has promised to give Industrial development in Manitoba or. Spivak is hopeful that his Collea gues will see fit to order a Start on the Industrial Park. If Industrial development is to be our highest priority this is the kind of thing we or Spivak said in an interview. Plans for the Industrial research Park which tie government Hopes will eventually resemble Sheridan Paik a Toronto were first announced by or. Boyhn during the 1966 provincial election Campaign in this province. Please see research Page 8 Csc chief appointed Ottawa up prime minister Pearson announced today the appointment of George f. Davidson a vet eran civil servant As Preir Dent of the Canadian Broad casting corp. Laurent a. Picard a Mem Ber of the committee for higher education of the Superior Council of education in Quebec was named vice pre. Side it. Four nabbed in . Four juvenile escapees from the Manitoba Home Portage la Prairie have been apprehended by the ramp at Castlegar , the Emp in Winnipeg said Friday. An ramp official said the boys were taken to Alberta to stand trial of theft. L ;