Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition 75 105 Price Loc with comics january 1968 Sun rises Moon rises Sun sets Moon sets forecast sunny 10 and steady near 5 Gordon move jolts Cabinet Promise to publicize report on investment irks colleagues by Victor 3iackie Ottawa staff Cabinet already shaken by the was strained again when privy Council president Walter Gordon announced that a task Force report on foreign investment would be made it was Learned from informed sources Many of Gordons col leagues in the Cabinet do not go along with his Strong views on foreign they were suspicious of his great desire to get the task Force report released even before members of the special Cabinet committee had a Chance to thoroughly study by his speech in Toronto last made it Clear that he wants to get the Issue of foreign control of the Canadian Economy into the Liberal leadership the quickest Way to do this was to have the task Force report tabled in parliament but some members of the Cabinet Are concerned that Gordon May try to leave the impression that the task Force report has been approved by the please see Gordon Page 5 Tariff scheme attacked Ottawa up the Cana Dian importers association said today a new government plan to admit machinery into Canada duty free is so cumbersome it might be an impediment to the development of Canadian Indus the in a Brief to the commons finance and Trade also said the machinery import plan might be used As a protectionist device in the organization representing More than 600 importers and firms engaged in serving the import As the chartered customs brokers please see Tariff Page 5 vote will be March 4 Premier waiter Weir announced a provincial by election in the Southern Manitoba Riding of Turtle Mountain will be held March following tuesdays resignation of de who had been elected in 1966 to represent the nominations will close polls in the constituency will be open from 8 to 8 March the returning officer will be Harry Gall of a officially vacated the seat at tuesday when he handed his resignation to James speaker of the Manitoba legis in immediately notified the Cabinet and a writ calling for a March 4 by election was the development was brought about by a court of Queens Bench decision nullifying the june election in the Riding because of irregularities on the part of the returning the court said there was no taint whatsoever on Dows Good both liberals and progressive conservatives Are already pre paring for the Liberal Leader Gil Mol Gat announced tuesday that a nominating convention to choose a candidate will be held at 8 8 in at Dow is the Only contender but he told a press conference tuesday he please see by election Page 8 China stays out North koreans get tepid support by elegant Hong Kong Spe Cial tons the chinese communists have carefully dissociated themselves from the North Korea Nam Erica crisis Over the capture of the intelligence ship with great circumspection the chinese have refrained from making any real commitment to the in spite of their comprehensive treaty of Mutual they have in a statement addressed primarily to those chinese who doubt the supernal Wisdom of the thoughts of Mao that the United states is a dangerous and determined maoist now widely questioned within rests in its external application on the implacable and incorrigible hostility of the United states toward peking first official state issued sunday was More concerned to relate the Pueblo incident to the War in Vietnam than it was to offer the North koreans any Assurance of chinese assistance in the event of hostilities with the United so cautious were the chinese toward the incident that they refrained even from reporting the Pueblos capture until though the ship was taken on More More More please see peking Page 9 quite a patient says by Arlene Billinkoff a Winnipeg Man May retain his severed right Arm through the efforts of a Winnipeg general Hospital oper John of 654 Atlantic lost his Arm at the Elbow saturday morning when he caught it in a conveyor Jelt at Manitoba Bridge and engineering 845 Logan shortly an opera ing team linked his broken Jones with a Metal re aired blood joined leaves and grafted skin to the it wont be known for a month whether the operation will be successful and it wont be known for two years whether Kominowski will be Able to use the one member of the team said the operation was the first Complete rejoining of a limb in cheerfully sitting up in bed in a recovery room said the fact he still has his Arm is quite a you dont know whats happened until you see its gone i was pretty Lucky to get it the Arm out at the Elbow and not at the shoulder j Kominowski and the severed Arm were brought into please see doctors Page 5 Multi pronged assault Viet Cong hit key centres vietnamese Are caught off guard South Vietnam John Kominowski was Happy and hopeful tuesday following an operation to rejoin his severed softens terms for halt in bombing from a Reuters Saigon the Viet Cong at tacked seven Provin Cial South Vietnam second Lar Gest City and four airfields usher ing in the lunar new year with the biggest coordinated assault of the Vietnam by the Gerril Montreal up Premier Las were reported still in control Daniel Johnson said monday Johnson lashes Trude Aii of parts of two coastal Nha 190 Miles Northeast of and hoi 315 Miles Northeast of the some fighting also was reported still going on at in the Central while the situation was not Clear at Kon Tum and ban me both in the and at coastal Tuy Hoa and qui associated press correspond ent Robert Ohman reported that South vietnamese hangers and marines wiped out the last pocket of guerrilla resist Ance in a South Viet name second and reported 63 Viet Cong president Nguyen Van Thieu halt showdown hinted Over medicare no pact on Korea Martin by Victor Mackie Ottawa has no specific commitment Toj Ottawa up the Federal Cabinet was to meet this morn ing and informants predicted a showdown on the Fate of medi Cal care two ministerial factions Are said to have been jockeying for advantage since prime minister Pearson agreed to demands of provincial governments for a re View of the Pearson is said to have shifted in recent weeks from support of the july 1 starting Date to a belief that some Grad Ual implementation of Ottawa plan would be he was questioned about med ical care in the commons Mon he said Only that his ill Ness last week prevented the j Cabinet from dealing with the i the Cabinet is said to have j three choices i to stand by the plan As no matter How provinces by Chalmers Roberts Washington special tons the state department monday for Mally softened the Johnson administrations month record terms for a in bombing of North it did so by endorsing the definition Given last week by defence Secretary designate Clark Clifford of what the United states would expect in the Way of reciprocal Clifford was explaining what was meant by president Johnsons san Antonio speech formula in which Johnson had said he would assume North Vietnam would not take cancelled the rest of the 36hour truce he had proclaimed for the new year festival he had already modified it before it to exclude the coun try five northernmost prov please see Viet Cong Page 8 Pierre Elliott to ideas had excuse for using the tag Empire for Quebec and he accused the Federal Justice minis Ter of playing partisan politics on a constitutional the Quebec Premier said in he has refrained from making anything but Gen Era statements about the Feder a provincial constitutional con Ference scheduled to open in Ottawa next i feel rather uneasy about seeing so much partisan politics mixed with the situation re Johnson re Ferring to a weekend conference of the Quebec Wing of the nation Al Liberal robber surrenders 7 hostages Safe the Union nation ale Premier and the Liberal Justice minister Are scheduled to meet today As winds up a countrywide visiting provincial premiers in Advance of the Otta i a Trudeau told the Liberal conference sunday night there must be no confusion Between the rights of French canadians with the or provincial government to build a Empire for new Prince Edward Island and Ontario have said they will not enter the scheme in 1968 and Quebec says it will not be ready by july Premier Thatcher has not j committed Saskatchewan to a i course of it is the Only province with a plan which now meets the requirements of Cov nonprofit operation and portability prescribed by Otap threatening death to seven hos shoot them one at a i time if i have frustrated advantage of an end to the Bandit led officers on an 250mile Chase then initial Westbank payment Toronto up Bank of Western Canada shareholders will receive an initial payment j of s13 a share it was announced payments totalling about j will be mailed to the Banks shareholders by Clarkson and Courtay pointed liquidator of the Banks at a meeting in Winnipeg last shareholders voted to wind up the Bank that Neier opened for business and Distri Bute its shareholders paid c i the cabinets decision May be i a share for the Supply Fri Story forces or equip1 left Unm after the Liberal shares a total of ment should the critical or snap convention Here april most Clifford told his Senate confirmation hearing that under that formula he would expect the communists to continue to transport the Normal amount of surrendered to a captive police sergeant when his commandeered Hospital Van ran out of Daniel of Dett was jailed for investigation of armed kidnapping to South and with a deadly his Louis the implication thus was that what the United states wanted please see Page 9 come in july 1 and qualify to receive from Ottawa half the per capita costs of their pro to change the requirement that 90 per cent of a provinces population be a lower larget would permit Low income groups to be covered the Federal Al ready postponed a could be put off perhaps to situation in Korea explode into armed external affairs minister Paul Martin assured the commons the dispute is essentially one Between the United states and North the minister said in a prepared statement read to the he had been asked i by the official opposition last week to outline Canadas please see no pact Page 5 most provinces oppose univer Sal medical care insurance at this arguing there Are More important things to do or that it would be the liquidator indicated a total payout of a a further payout of about a share is expected later this j i features today Robert Kennedy series 12 wheaties continue to upset top clubs 19 today Index classified 25 to 33 12 14 finance 22 to 24 Jumble 27 movies 11 18 to 22 television 10 women 16 Abc circulation City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press was arrested at the scene of a bungled Denver supermarket Holdup that the he was held for investigation of armed store employees were getting ready to open when the two gunmen slipped in behind a de livery they ordered every one into the but one employee slipped away and signalled their predicament to two passing girls who notified to one gunman got the drop on Denver police Lawrence Morahan and forced the officer to drive him away along with three other men in a Ponce twice during the subsequent Chase the g in m a n switched ending up in the Hospital j by the time the gunman and his captive band made their winding seven hour tour of the Eastern Colorado two the hostages had been three had been released and the rest of the party was within four Miles of the supermarket where it All neither of the two shooting victims was injured one was released shortly after the shooting and taken by Heli liberals kooks copter to the other was among the four persons please see robber Page 5 de Gaulle approves strategy murder file reopened czech looking for a pet this want and under livestock 16 registered Seal Point male siamese is among the hundreds of bar gains in today classified Sec no matter what you shop and save in free press want by Lajos Lederer London Specia Lofas Czechoslovakia has unexpectedly reopened the my Sterious Case of the death of Charles 59yearold director general of the american joint distribution committee the leading jewish Relief Agency whose body was found last August in the Vltava three Miles from strengthened by recent changes in the political leadership in the czech authorities have been giving Strong hints that responsibility for Jordans death lies not with the czech secret As was earlier assumed As was suggested last with one of the Arab in Prague but with the russian counter intelligence the czechs have now offered closer cooperation with the american joint distribution committee in solving the mystery and have admitted that Jordan did not commit suicide and that they knew Liis from the very they also gave Strong hints that foreign agents Are now officially j please see czechs Page 9 Rhodesia Unity cracking by John Worrall Salisbury special the distinct cracks showed monday in the facade of i Unity presented by Rhodesia i nine High court judges during their two year conflict with the Smith five Appeal judges in the Marathon constitutional test Case ruled unanimously that by Donald Louchheim special tons president de Gaulle was re ported monday to have put his official Seal of approval on a new All azimuth strategy the strategy would enable the French to deliver a nuclear blow anywhere in the the endorsement was Given in a weekend address to officers at the Ecol Mili the French Centre for advanced strategic he our strategy must be All azimuth your studies and your state of mind must become accustomed to the All or Omni strategy was first publicly spelled out in Decem Ber by the French chief of Charles Villeret explained that such a strategy would be an by Ian Macdonald Ottawa staff the Liberal party will turn the spotlight on sponsors names if threatened by a clutch of Kookie leadership the National executive agreed Here monday that every Candi Date will require the names of 50 voting delegates on his application to run in the april 4 6 nomination p be r s always have been available for in but Liberal officials will consider putting them on full Public display if too Many unknowns and publicity seekers please see Liberal Page 9 j a Vii a anal Togy Ueall i Daniel Vadzim Zamuto and Leo integral part of Frances new Baron Long ago released and Inow living in Britain were posture of Independence from the United he also said i unlawfully an the j that the postwar Western policy i appeals of the two were upheld i of a defence directed solely with costs payable by the please see Rhodesia Page 8 against communist aggression was out of please see Degaulle Page 8 planning race bid Edmonton up 21 year old unemployed Salesman monday declared his intention to seek the Federal Liberal Lead i Haven yet sent a Telegram of declaration to senator John which i understand candidates have to but this is no Rod Woodcock said in an the senator is presi Dent of the Liberal federation of just returned after attending a convention of the Quebec Wing the federa said he would stand a Good Chance of winning the Leader ship if Youthful delegates at the april convention rallied behind please see Page 8 to it ;