Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Growing to beat 70 r Winnipeg free press filial edition 75 100 Price Loc january 1968 f forecast Little change 25 and 30 new asian crisis Navy photo of vessel seized by North koreans car plants struck Chrysler men walk off jobs in Windsor Windsor Chrysler Canada employees walked off the Job a few hours be fore a noon strike about 900 workers walked out of the company truck Plant at 9 and another employees left their jobs in the Chrysler engine Plant an hour a Legal strike starting at noon appeared imminent despite an Al night bargaining the Al night session came after 15 Days of intensive bar gaining towards a new three year about Chrysler employees at plants in Ajax and Etobicoke were expected to walk off their jobs at the noon establish picket lines and bring the company car jobless pay hikes proposed to be asked to pay unemployment insurance Ottawa up another work those with salaries Between and a would be added to compulsory unemployment insurance coverage june 30 under a Bill introduced in the commons tuesday by labor min ister ban act deals spurned Ottawa up Justice minister Trudeau said tuesday night the Federal government will allow no Munich in its negotiations with the provinces the he said in a Csc television interview that there can be no open ended negotiations with the first Amend ment to the unemployment insurance act in almost nine also provides for in creased weekly unemployment benefits and revises the Premium cutting rates on Low incomes and imposing higher ones on the upper there How Are an estimated Canadian workers insured under the Federal this would jump to june 30 if the Bill is approved by total labor Force is just Over the changes Are designed to faring the legislation More in line with the increased salaries manufacturing operations to the Chrysler talks were announced by the Union As having been established to set a pattern for negotiations at Ford of can Ada and general motors of can Ada both companies continuing production following the expiration of contracts with the Law last the unions previous three year contract with Chrysler expired but production has continued since then under two temporary extensions of the former 69 Days past the original expiring the Union entered the negotiations with Chrysler with its please see car Page 10 a seek additional rights and immediately ask for one of the jobs of the Federal government was to redistribute if it could not do please see ban act Page 10 on now being paid in i maximum benefits would be increased to s53 a week from for married workers and to from for single this top rate generally applies to those earning Over a the minimum Benefit would Rise to a week married and applying to workers please see jobless Page 2 Grecs absence Sparks Battle editor Dies new York Reuters will chief of life Maga Zines Domestic and foreign news bureaus for the last four died of a heart attack monday while skiing with his wife and daughter in the Magazine an features today to seek a newer Dineen and Oshea ruled 36 49 today Index classified 37 to 46 comics 36 deaths 9 finance Jumble movies sports television women 31 to 34 39 Ali 48 to 51 52 17 to 23 Abc circulation City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press 3wi six Winnipeg school trustees exposed Gwen trustees sponsored by the greater Winas a group which will Stop at Nipes election committee have been accused of rank irresponsibility for not attending a special Board meeting the new chapter in the Long series of infighting on the Board opened tuesday with charges from trustee senior member of the new democratic party group on the the six nip trustees and communist trustee Mary Kar dash showed up for tuesdays despite a Call from school Board offices saying there was not the required eight trustee not one of the eight Gwen trustees two of them in Hospital came to the meeting called to examine the million school Board budget estimates for also on the Agenda was an nip motion to Speed a Settle ment with Winnipeg teachers who Are boycotting afterschool skating until they Are please see absence Page 13 teachers deplore action the Winnipeg teachers association Council has passed a motion deploring the action of school Board members who failed to attend a Board meeting by doing trustees pre vented further discussion of a motion designed to Speed a settlement with the teachers on Speed trustee Jenkins said he figured the Gwen had agreed not to attend the meeting be cause they control extracurricular due to be discussed was a motion calling for settlement teachers boycotting the s Speed skating Boycott is in response to Washington thunderstruck Over capture of naval intelligence vessel by Robert Donovan Washington special tons in a new asian crisis of incalculable an american naval task Force steamed toward North Korea tuesday night after North koreans had captured a naval intelligence vessel in the sea of the task Force included the nuclear powered Carrier the no Clear powered frigate Truxton and several originally southward bound for the Enterprise was turned about after North koreans boarded and seized the Pueblo with four patrol boats and with two Mig Jet fighters circling presumably by four Amer ican crewmen among the 83 officers and men on the Pueblo were one then the first seagoing Amer ican vessel to have been boarded and seized since the civil War was forced toward the North korean port of the United states claimed that the ship had been seized illegally in International while North koreans charged that she had entered their territorial Washington was thunderstruck by the which burst upon the capital even As a Momen Tous Battle was developing thousands of Miles to the South in the new incident raised the horrifying possibility with Luck it May never be More than that of a two front land War in despite the turnabout of the Enterprise and despite cries of piracy and act of War in the Johnson administration proceeded apparently the Only decision taken was on a first step to follow traditional avenues of diplomacy to obtain the release j of the ship and presume please see ships Page 13 spy gear fills ferret Vietnam troops mass from Reuter sap Saigon up at least 000 North vietnamese troops were reported massing near the key Marine base at Khe Sanh in South Vietnam forcing the possibility of an american a spokesman said the marines May abandon Khe Sanh in Western Quang Tri province rather than get involved in full scale Mobile warfare a major Battle looks Immi he there Are about marines at Khe including a Battal Ion flown in the spokesman before the North vietnamese occupied the town of Khe three Miles from the the marines helped evacuate More than civilians from the town to the but several thousand Montag Nard tribesmen chose to remain on the outskirts of the the spokesman information from a captured North vietnamese officer at Khe Sanh indicated defence minister to Nguyen who surrounded and Defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu during the Indochina was leading troops in Quang the spokesman said the North vietnamese believed to be a told his captors the object of the North Viet namese offensive was to destroy All forces in the two North Ern provinces of South tie Victory would be Fol Lowed by and the Campaign was of sufficient in please see spy gear Page 10 Ortance to be directed by the by George Wilson Washington special tons the Pueblo is one of a big Fleet of ferret ships the United states has plying the oceans As part of its worldwide intelligence the 179foot Long ship carries a wide array of secret equipment which enables the Crew to listen in on communications from Between ships and from the Pueblo was patrolling the North korean coast when chances Are the ship was trying to keep track of the traffic going into North Korea and also supplying information on ships headed toward North Vietnam arid Standard ferret practice is for the intercepted communications to be recorded on tapes in the the tapes Are then flown to Shore intelligence centres for translation and Efalua defence the spokes Man quoted the officer As say other official american sources reported that Giap has not been seen in Hanoi for the last one to two the spokesman described the action thus far at Khe 420 Miles Northeast of As a series of probing he estimated that two North Viet namese divisions moved into the province blight fight details go to City transforming William Homes part of plan by Hubert Beyer the final report on a massive Winnipeg Urban re development plan designed to combat the degeneration of a huge chunk of the City went to civic Urban re Newal and redevelopment committee the report gives detailed information on the proposed redevelopment scheme for an area bounded by the Canadian Pacific railway tracks on the notre Dame Avenue on the main Street on the East and Arlington Street on the known As area prepared by Murray Jones and associates a Toronto firm of Urban and regional the report proposes sweeping changes Over the next 25 involving hundreds of millions of some of the main projects involved Are a program to construct dwelling replacing a 28acre educational Park with a High a Community a Park playground and recreation an Industrial Park of about 115 reconstruction of William Avenue into the Broadway of downtown widening it to 120 feet with a treeline Centre redevelopment of the Down town chinese business and residential Community into a shop Ping and entertainment area with Strong ethnic flavors a variety of ethnic gift shops and other establishments and a weather protected pedestrian a government office com with the civic Centre As its to provide other government Levels with adequate office major reconstruction of the wholesale and service Industry sector Between Bannatyne and notre Dame avenues and Albert and Hargrave streets a 12 Storey motor hotel and Centre North of William Avenue Between Furby and Sherbrook paramedical and other facilities As part of an expanded medical heres what the report suggests be done within the next five acquire the Midland rail Way acquire the needed to Widen property William a and Complete that part of William Between Mam and please see blight Page 10 new downtown buildings in offing a major building Complex is due to get under Way on european talks proposed from Reuter sap Moscow prime minister Wilson said today Bri Tain and Russia have agreed to begin joint discussions on preparations for a european secur Ity please see european Page 13 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg in the immediate future and negotiations Are thought to be almost Complete for the Sale of another Large downtown business although no official announce ment has been officials of famous players Canadian corporation and Western theatres virtually con firmed wednesday that they Are ready to go ahead with their proposed 10storey building on the Southwest Corner of Portage Avenue and Smith the building Complex is to include a two motion picture theatres and parking and will extend from the lyceum theatre East to please see downtown Page 2 Roblin against medicare plan the Tuou la pc e t it does seem a bit ludicrous he braid s apparent failure to to believe that seven people can be Here but not one of the up to an agreement in the 1967 contract to provide a greater Winnipeg election fund for extracurricular committee trustees can be Jenkins said As nip i the teachers motion said trustees looked at empty seats absent members were stalling around the Board j the possibility of reaching a in a prepared news trustee Kardash said this outrageous autocratic action by Barry came former Manitoba Premier Duff Roblin came out firmly against the Federal govern ments medicare scheme tues he said implementation of the plan will scuttle other necessary social medicare will cause taxes to Rise to such an unprecedented i he that provincial governments will be prevented from devoting revenues for social legislation in other addressing a luncheon meet ing of uie Winnipeg kiwanis please see teachers Page 13 Roblin conceded that Canada requires a better National program to provide medical care for those in but he told the 100 business men at the luncheon that the compulsory plan should be scrapped in favor of a scheme that would serve Only those whose financial position pre vented the provision of adequate health and he went a step further by declaring that the decision about the specific Type of medical insurance plan needed should be authorities left to instead provincial of being imposed by Roblin said the medicare Issue underlined the severe Lack of adequate machinery to allow Federal and provincial govern ments to arrive at joint decisions on How Public Money should be we need a system that will impose a discipline of priorities on the Public he both Federal and Provin Cial governments must do first things elaborating on the subject that has been the theme of a series of Public speeches he has been making across the country the former Premier said the need for intergovernmental priorities and coordination is we must invent institutions that will make consultation Between governments meaning Ful and the creation of these new institutions must be approached with the innovation same that daring and characterized insurance Bius rile Ottawa up insurance companies seeking Federal in corporation or increased capitalization Are Likely to run into heavy political weather in Par the new democratic party threatened tuesday to Block Bills sponsored by private maps which would incorporate private insurance Auto or what have increase capitalization of existing insurance the nip can easily carry out such a threat because private maps Bills Are debated for Only one hour at a time and As few As two members can filibuster and kill it took Only two nip Mem Bers a few years ago to Force one Type of private of the commons for the new democrats joined tuesday in the private Mem Bers hour in the commons to for a second a Bill sponsored by Warren Almand Notreda Mede Grace to change the name of British owned British Northwestern insurance to Eagle Star and increase its share capital to from please see insurance Page 10 separate Quebec upheld Quebec nationhood May be the Only Way to Stop Canada from falling apart at its regional and provincial Quebec separatist Leader Rene Levesque told University students wed in a speech to a University of Manitoba conference on inter nation Levesque Canada is Well on its Way to becoming a series of potentates As Ottawa caters to the whims of individual pro Vinces and there is no serious reason for nine out of 10 provinces to necessity of a Central authority in please see Levesque Page 2 the efforts of those who founded the country 100 years added in his coordination of Public spending is a major part of the Challenge to firm up please see Roblin Page 10 forecast flirting with 40 near record temperatures Are expected in Winnipeg tomorrow and the warming trend May continue until the end of the the says a spokesman for the Dominion Public weather office in Winni is expected to flirt with 40 but this the official forecast put tomorrows High at Only 30 after an expected Over night Low of the report follows a nine hour storm that swept in on the City late yesterday please see flirting Page 2 ;