Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, January 19, 1968

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday january 19, 1968 foundation Grants 81 groups reap the benefits the Winnipeg foundation paid Grants to 81 groups according to the advisory Board s annual report. The foundation for per manent administration of Trust funds for charitable educational and cultural purposes re corded assets of. In october end of the fiscal year. During the year. It added to capital funds. Foundation funds financed several projects among them a student Field work unit in co operation with the mount Mel clinic and the University of Manitoba school of social work supervised pastoral education co sponsored by the Extension department of the University of Manitoba and the Hospital chaplaincy advisory committee Hir ing an Indian counsellor to work for the John Howard and Elizabeth Fry society and a new kindergarten program at St Joseph s vocational school. And donations to tie foundation in 1967 included the a. A. foundation William j. Dow Ler request Frank and per memorial fund William r e. Beikle bequest Charlotte of , r. H. Wellwood Centennial scholar ship or. Robert . Thew Henry Acheson bequest Grants made in 1967 included care of the aged age and poor Tummy Bureau greater Winnipeg Day Centre Board inc Betel Home foundation Middle Church Home children s and youth service children s Aid society of research Park plan revived continued it will be designed to do applied research Foi Manitoba firms Many of which Aie too Small to economically provide their own research facilities however addition to he gov Eastern Manitoba Chil Dren s Aid society of Winnipeg children s Home of Winnipeg Day Nursery Centre St. Joan of arc Day Nursery. Knowles school for boys Mac Donald Hostel and Dawson House St. A Gnes school for girls St. Joseph s vocational school St. Joseph s Day Nursery Centre arid association for retarded children of. Greater Winnipeg family and general depend ency services Church Home for girls United Way of. Greater Winnipeg fam ily Winnipeg jewish child and family serv ice John Howard and Elizabeth Fry society Bethany Home salvation army salvation army West bloc forming for son continued and Commerce department planners would facilities by individual Cor portions such As has been the Case at Sheridan Park As Well As provide re Seaich facilities for Manitoba Industry government officials Hope it will help Stem Manitoba brain dram and provide a professional Home for graduates of Manitoba universities to do applied research or. Spivak said a Stait on the Park this Yeai would be Concrete evidence to industrialists that Manitoba is Prepa re d to Back up promises that the govern ment is prepared to do everything possible to encourage Industrial develop ment in the province. On tuesday Premier Weir repeated the pledge to a group of businessmen Many of them senior executives from National concerns who attended a one Day Busi Ness Summit conference sponsored by the govern ment. Initially the government estimates the Park would require an expenditure of less than during Fis Cal 1969 which begins april. 1. Or. Spivak said annual expenditures of a p p r o x i mately the same amount would be required for the next five years a total government commit ment. To spend about million in completing establishment of the Park by 1974. With or. Weir s pledge to. Hold the tax line a decision to go ahead with the research Park would necessarily involve a spending. Cut in some other program. When plans for the Park were originally it was slated to be Dev eloped in suburban fort Garry in metro Winnipeg adjacent to the University of Manitoba. However consultants retained by the government recommended that the facility be established in an other part of the City to diversify educational and research institutions. No decision has been reached on whether to proceed with the original site or look elsewhere for a suitable location. In Manitoba it is understood that. Vic president of the Manitoba liberals and Scott Wright vice president Ai e act ively working to promote a native son candidate i Johnston declined to name the Likely candidate but did say he was t a Mam Toban party sources said the native son group would meet with its chosen candidate in Winnipeg Friday and saturday before sunday s convention to map put strategy. It would be terrific if we had an individual who could speak Foi the West or Johnston said. Once we have the Western convention and Leach some conclusions who is going to speak for the West who is going to be our spokesman the idea of the native son candidate is to provide a focal Point a polarisation for the Western delegates i Johnston who was Mani Toba Campaign Chanman for the ameial party during the last Federal election said that Dur ing that election tie party concent ated on a majority based in Quebec have a United Effort next time i it a t Tia t we to spokes a a Foi the West is not Tif non Canadian a separatist Oil anything like that t is a regional approach with we Hope to bring to Beai our Deas and our. Objectives on the Ede Al it is understood the group opes to Gam Strong endow station rom tie convention on the Midei standing that such Endor Patton would t commit the lackeys at the Ottawa National convention in april this the group feels would Ive the favorite son candidate Strong voice during the Campaign As. Well As letting the other candidates know that Western votes might be Avail Hie. And although the Western delegates votes would t be committed to the favorite son would be Likely that the favorite son could deliver number of Western delegates votes if he were to Back out of the race before the first ballot and endorse one of the front run ners. Harbour Light Centre s225 neighbourhood service centres of greater Winnipeg Home welfare association jewish welfare s316. Hospital health and nursing Canadian mental health association Ca Nadian National Institute for the Blind children s hos Pital of Winnipeg Vic Torian order of nurses. Winnipeg general Hospital Manitoba heart foundation Canadian cancer society Canadian arthritis and rheumatism society mount Carmel clinic advancement of social work education and. Cultural projects Community welfare planning Council Manitoba Cen Tennial corporation so Cial service audit University of Manitoba its affiliated colleges universities of Winnipeg and Brandon j. W. Dafoe foundation 795 St. John s Raven court school for boys Grace Hospital Royal Winnipeg Ballet Winnipeg Art gallery Winnipeg sym phony orchestra Mani Toba theatre Centre greater Winnipeg schools or Chestra men s music club5218 others recreation and character building services Indian and Metis Friendship Centre boy scouts association Iii guides of Canada anglican summer Camp United Church fresh air Camp b Nia b Rith fresh air Camp Camp Morton fresh air Camp salvation army. Fresh air Camp Lakeside fresh a Camp s672 Sisters of service girls residential club Young men s Christian. Association Young men s hebrew association Young women s Christian association Manitoba forestry association municipality of Thomp son Junior achievement of Winnipeg other Grants totalled cafe owner robbed the pop Nestor of Harry s lunch. -567 Ellice Avenue was beaten and robbed of by j now is youths thursday night. You mean you Are not a leadership Martin Sharp in race continued Eartha Kitt jolts lady Bird continued the sixth declared candidate for the leadership left vacant by prime minister Pearson s impending retirement said Canada must move ahead boldly to create a genuine sense of partnership Between English and French speaking canadians Diane. The 56-year-old native of Nipes told a news Canada must act on the recommendations of the. Royal com Mission on bilingual sir and by cultural ism including the Crea Tion of a truly bilingual Feder Al capital. He said other measures must follow to give French speaking canadians Equality of Opportunity in All spheres-of-life.-. We must insure tie full de j a elopement of the French Cana Dian society in j or. Sharp who obtained his High school courses through night study and later attended the University of Manitoba was the commons in the Toronto Eglinton Riding in. 1963. He entered the cabinets Trade minister and was " named. Finance minister in. 1965. To re place Walter Gordon. In announcing his candidacy for the party takes pot because there is a War on is a Kook. These Young people Are still juniors they have to be regulated. I Hope we adults Are still in mrs. Hughes added. Mrs Johnson who had miss Kitt -when1 she raised her hand to speak during the discussion was Pale and visibly shaken she stood following mrs. Reply to the Singer. Because there s a War and i Pray a just and honest peace will come it does not give us a free ticket not to try to work on bettering things in this in a firm voice mrs. Johnson continued speaking directly to miss Kitt who had said she had lived in the gutters and knew first hand of what she. Spoke. I cannot identify As much As i mrs. Johnson continued. I have hot lived the background you have nor can i speak As passionately and As we must keep our eyes and our hearts and our energies fixed on constructive areas and try do something that.-Iwill--, make this., a happier healthier better educated land. Violence will not it will Call attention to the problem but violence alone will not solve the first lady added. Pm aides a Odds one City concept has Many advocates Manitoba Liberal Leader Gil Violat in recommending thurs Lay that the principle of amal Araa Tion be accepted for greater Winnipeg joins a Large lumber of officials in favor of he one big City concept for he area. Winnipeg s mayor Stephen tuba is probably the strongest supporter of amalgamation in he Winnipeg area. The Call for amalgamation was part his election platform when he was first elected 11 years ago and. He is constantly pressed for it since then. Winnipeg City Council has rather than As Blanket change passed numerous., resolutions in support of amalgamation. Metro chairman Jack Willis said thursday he was t opposed to amalgamation but would rather see it introduced in stages Complete municipal organization. Councillor Willis said the number of municipalities could be gradually reduced while certain services such As. Police and fire could be brought under the Central body. An unofficial referendum four the City of Mol Gat sets rules continued was used As 4stoolie says Juba continued it in t that we Are setting up roadblocks but the policy conference was established be fore the leadership race and we simply Don t want it turned into continued government social Security poli cies. He repeated earlier state ments that medical care scheduled to go into effect july 1, the assault and robbery took place around 10 30 p m. Police said Jio weapon was involved. The tin be youths hts Etor with Theu Bare hands. The Fust one of the Trio is described As five feet six or seven inches tall and wearing a Short leather jacket. Tie second had Short Blond hair was about Kierans issues Challenge the same height and wore a or. Sharp a e was no concerned about possible deval we must b e Gih to concen trate our resources on the pock Els poverty that remain on those people who need it Cir. Reiterated the government s position that Canada should do everything in its Power to bring about a negotiated settlement of. The Vietnam War. Or. Sharp said he was not that or. Pearson once wanted to reprimand a Cabinet minister for a but decided against it for fear that the news of the reprimand would be leaked As Well. There has been Cabinet in beige jacket the third was about five feet 10 inches tall and had Black wore a hat at the Lime of the robbery. All were about 18 years old. They were last seen running North on Furby Street towards Sargent Avenue. Two youths were picked up nation of the Canadian Dollar under pressure because of the ., balance of payments pro Gram and the devaluation of. The Pound in Britain. I m not worried about the Canadian Dollar. We have Ade quate reserves to meet All de for questioning by Winnipeg police detectives about 15 min utes later on the parking lot of the supermarket at the Corner of Isabel Street Dame Avenue. And notre guns continued before. The people not. Just. Before Liberal Dele he did t feel voicing of the stands by e a n d i d a f e s who might happen to be Cabinet was disloyalty to or. Pearson or his government. Medicare is an Issue or. Kierans said must be clearly defined by All candidates. He said Cabinet loyalties must give Way to what would be a continued the finance minister reiterated his earlier statements that tie National medical health Assurance plan in t compulsory and As a result won t impose an undue Burden on any province which does t wish to enter the plan. But in response to representations from the provinces the Federal government is carrying out a review of the existing program and will report in due course he said. The position of medicare is very simple medicare is now the Law and the provinces have pointed out their feelings Aboul the plan and asked us for. A candidate s personal program if review and we Are currently in map of that he said fundamental tax re forms will not be effected until 1969 and he believes the ment is not waiting too Long to make changes. A leadership he said we just Don t want the. Two leadership race and policy Dis to interfere with each other at least eight candidates for the prime minister s Job Are expected to speak to conference delegates sunday night. The lineup to Date includes transport m i n i s t e i Paul Hellyer consumer affairs min ister John Turner agriculture minister j. J. Greene finance minister Mitchell Sharp health minister Allan Maceachen external affairs minister Paul Martin Lloyd Henderson of Portage la Prairie and Eric Kierans a member of the Quebec legislature. Or Mol Gat said plans for each candidate to speak for 15 j minutes at the conference May have to be changed depending ton How Many turned up the element would be critical. Mol Gat denied a Rumor at prime minister Pearson a had. Squelched plans for the a candidates to be asked questions i from floor. There were never any plans for candidates to answer questions from the floor and the prime minister has t contacted me on this he said. A question period had been considered Only briefly because proposed live television Cov years ago Winnipeg of voters were in favor of amalgamation m. Conservative party Bac Bencher in the legislature who represents the provincial Riding of St. James last year called for a three City plan for the metro area. Individual been made by municipalities to try to amalgamate. Brooklands and St. James amalgamated last year. But no Large scale amalgamation has been completed although a number of cities have held preliminary discus Sions. But not All officials Are in favor of amalgamation mayor Joseph Guay of St. Boniface has strongly voiced his opposition to the one City concept for the area As has coun. B. R. Wolfe of metro. Them for v warrant he was told there was a six month old one at the Portage school. The police left and i was furious. Its. Always been my policy that anyone seeking help or advice can come and see me. And i m going to see to it that this remains so without people running the danger of being arrested. It s after the mayor had sent policemen away he telephoned the woman and she returned to his office. After that she returned to her parents Home where she was at report. The arrest never was carried out. The mayor said or. Tavener could at least have had the Courtesy to Tell him that he does t Trust Lum and would Send Over the Price. Mayor Juba said he did t set himself up As an authority on the woman s she is a disturbed girl troubled and i m and not fighting for some two years i e age but was dropped when it Over the succession . Pear son the u a leaks have usually contrived to put one minister or group of ministers in a bad Light. Or. Pearson objected strenuously on More than one Occa Sion to ministers beginning to strive publicly for the Leader ship before he announced plans. The Climax came at a Liberal meeting fall when he instructed three minis ters who were not to did t. They were external affairs minister Martin minister Sharp and transport minister Hellyer. Consumer affairs minister Turner also cancelled his Edmonton appearance the latest Cabinet troubles concern responsibility for announced government policies. Health minister Maceachen chief protagonist. Of medical Caie insurance was apparently the first to see there might be Public Cabinet argument on the Issue of its implementation Date now scheduled for. July 1 this year. He proposed to or. Pearson some ground rules for the leadership Campaign including cab inet Solidarity on poli cies and limited time on the Road. Apparently or. Pearson did riot have time to act before the Halifax Liberal meeting Satur Day when a Public dispute erupted Over tie. Medical care was Learned there would be no such coverage of the session we thought of intermingling the candidates speeches throughout the said or Mol Gat. But we cancelled this idea because it would e completely Des troyed the policy end of the conference. All four Western provinces Liberal leaders will speak As the two Day. Conference opens Winters offers apology Ottawa up Trade min ister Winters unhappy with press reports of what he said last week about government Fis Cal policy has sent a transcript of his remarks to air Cabinet members. Reporters met or. Winters Jan 12 after he announced he would not run for the Liberal leadership and would resign his portfolio about March 31 the Trade minister urged a return to the old fashioned concept of balanced budgets and fiscal in reply to a question he said that if he had been finance min ister in the last two years the sunday in hotel they the win Marlborough be followed immediately by prime minister Pearson who will keynote address. Workshops have been scheduled on Urban affairs Industrial and resource development and education. The. Workshops begin sunday afternoon and adjourn to monday making Way for the candidates night. Speeches sunday quarrelling with the medical authorities on their judgment. My complaint is that first i m advised to come Over to the provincial health department with her and the next thing that happens is that the police Are picked on Heron my office in an interview the woman gave an account of her life she said she was married when she was 16 years old to a Man three1 times her age an of army buddy of her father s. She has two children a girl of six and a Hoy of four. Three years ago her relatives had admitted her to the Portage school from which she had escaped several times the last tune six months ago. Her husband3 died shortly before that she said. Or Tavener said a a month army pension and a substantial estate left to her by her husband Are administered by the province mayor Juba said the woman had been scheduled for release As soon As a Home could be found for her a Home suitable for. Rehabilitation. Would have balanced mayor Juba surprised the said he was police had t he were prime minister. J or. Kierans accompanied by his wife will position on All facing Canada major issues at sunday s on Western Liberal floods follow Amman a blizzards that paralysed Jordan the last three Days took 18 lives All refugees of the june War in the Middle East. The subsequent thaw brought danger of flooding on the Banks of the Jordan and assail Rivers. Conference policy. He feels he has considerable Western backing in his Leader ship bid but believes Quebec is his main base of support. On medicare the former Quebec health minister said the government must realize each province has limited funds and a list of priorities. To some it May be housing or regional development. To others it May Well be medicare. The various priorities must be considered and the Federal government must be prepared to subsidize medicare where the provinces simply can t afford the process of that review sir. Sharp was in Winnipeg to address the weekend Liberal policy conference and to address the Canadian club Friday. The finance minister dismissed recent charges that Cabinet Solidarity has broken Down Over the medicare Issue. Although he did t elaborate further on his statement he was critical of the charges that had been made by National progressive conservative Leader Robert Stanfield. T hardly think it is appropriate for the Leader of tie conservative party to be lecture f o. J. W. Holmes air crash claims local Man an Craf Pilot from greater Winnipeg based Al Lahr West Germany died thursday when the Craf Cf-104-starfighter he was flying crashed near tilt Belgium. An Craf spokesman in Soest Wesl Germany identified the Pilot As of j. W. Holmes 22, of the 441st Craf Squadron. The mishap occurred when the Star fighter hit the roof of a House in a Village near tilt bounced into a Meadow and exploded the. Spokesman said. Part of the plane s engine landed in the living room of a nearby House. One person a resident of the plan among present. There had Cabinet ministers seemed to be a no liberals in this Field j Village was slightly injured particularly since Unity in the i of Holmes received part of conservative party has never his training at cold Lake alta., been Strong. And at Chatham i Don t think or. Die Fen i s f a ther Goldwin s. Baker and Stanfield have Holmes lives at 2736 Henderson Ever seen Eye to Highway North Kildonan. General understanding that of the Cabinet ministers Only or. Maceachen would go to Hali fax where he was to announce his candidacy. But some misunderstanding about the understanding cropped suddenly four Cabinet ministers joined or. Maceachen. They were or. Or. Martin or. Hellyer and agriculture minister Greene. At least some of the four decided Only at the last minute to go to Halifax and were ill prepared. There were Bot ind to be differences under the Circum one Liberal party worker said. The upshot was that or. Pearson summoned to his Home several leadership candidates in his Cabinet tuesday night Anc lectured them on the Issue of Cabinet Solidarity. Or. Pearson is said to be Wor ried about the government s impression on the Public if Cabi net ministers continue arguing Over already settled policies. An estimated people Are. Expected to attend the Confer nce including about 130-news conscience is. Career is Alienie what happens to a. German Ligh school student living in 3ast Germany whose political views conflict with those of other students is the theme of a German movie Frage 7 question 7 shown wednes Day evening at the German society Flora Avenue. The film was produced in 1961 by americans for the United states. The sound track has also been dubbed in German. It cannot be denied the movie has propaganda one must keep in mind the film was primarily produced to familiarize americans with some of the conditions in East Germany. The Central figure in ques Tion 7 is Peter the talented son of a Clergyman living in East Germany who wants to become a music teacher. His whole future depends on his political views. When it comes to answering production begins hello Down theve an Ivan tors comedy is before the color camera s studio in North Miami Fla. Question seven in a High school questionnaire a question about Bis political attitude Peter is desperate if he is truthful hell ruin his career if he answers according to the communist Doc Trine he will never be at peace with himself. So he escapes to West Germany. The producer is Stuart Rosen Berg Christian plays Peter and Erik Schumann his teacher. By filming question .7 near the Border dividing East and West Germany the movie Mak ers added authenticity to this1 honest and serious film. Budgets his goal and was confident he could have succeeded or. Winters letter to other members of the Cabinet thurs Day expressed regret that his remarks had been misinterpreted in some newspapers he said he stood by his re Marks As contained in the Tran script which was prepared from Ladio tapes of the session in. His office. The references to budget policy were interpreted in some quarters As an attack on finance minister Sharp who is budgeting for a Defi Cit in 1967-68 after a Federal deficit in 1966-67 of following is the transcript of that portion of his press Confer ence dealing with fiscal policy As supplied by the minister s of fice question do you have any particular sort of philosophy that the Leader would have whom you would want to have or. Winters i would like to be him go in for sound fiscal integrity i think that is one of the tilings this country needs i i deplore the fact that we have never been Able to balance the budget during this period of my tenure in Ottawa. It is a matter of regret to me. I think we be got to get Back to. The old fashioned concept of balanced budgets and fiscal integrity i believe in Strong Liberal principles of the Nova Scotia variety. I believe in doing More for More people but we can do More for More people Only to the extent that we can afford it. I m not one of those who believes that the wealth should not be More fully distributed be cause i firmly believe in that but we can distribute it the extent that. We generate it would you have balanced the budget during this period if you had been finance or. Winters i would certainly have made that my goal a no i am confident could have been done. It would have been difficult to do because of so Many Over hanging commitments prior to the last election and this is a product of too Many general elections in too Short a time Bui it certainly would have been a primary goal of mine had i been minister of found her for six months and then All of a. Sudden they were so anxious to pick her up. They could t have been looking she was with her family of now they want to shut her up quickly. F you d think i had Dia eed 999 that s How fast they were Here to pick her the order to Send the police had been Given by or. Tavener to miss Florence Thompson at the Winnipeg general Hospital s psychiatric Ward the mayor said r or. Tavener said in a Tele phone interview he had indeed Given this order but had later placed a second Telephone Call cancelling the request for the arrest. This Call must have come in too or. Tavener said. He defended his and the police department s action saying they oth had acted within their rights and responsibilities. They in t want a controversy with Layor Juba. There is no need for a controversy. I Don t think that be mayor is a Stool hey were Only the woman s welfare. He said he Hopes the woman vill get in touch with him. In a Telephone interview miss Hompson. Who placed the Call o the police said i be nothing taxes to be lowered Kinshasa Congo congolese taxpayers have goo news for the 196 budget promulgated by presi Dent Joseph d. Mobutu shows surplus and finance minister part mus Hiete says in come taxes will be lowered Dur ing the year. Of say absolutely no com asked Why she would t make any comment on the matter miss Thompson replied be cause of the Way it s abused no Canadian Dollar slumps continued Range of one per cent on either Side of Liis is allowed. The Dollar thursday was .17 cents above. The limit with the Bank of Canada reported using some of its foreign Exchange re serves to buy Canadian dollars to stabilize the Price. The Bank is have used up to in the last five Days to support the Ca Nadian Dollar. But economists and finance minister Sharp saw no cause for alarm. Or. Sharp said thursday pressure on the Dollar was Only one aspect of world uncertainty brought on by the recent Ster Ling devaluation and the Balance of payments problem. He said Canada s foreign Exchange reserves Are adequate to defend the Dollar ;