Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rive Mii Umno Farmers Boycott May have effect by John Heath the Farmers Boycott of farm machinery May have resulted in the 10 per cent drop in farm machinery sales in both Mani Toba and Saskatchewan Las the president of the Manitoba and Lakehead farm equipment retail dealers association conceded in Winnipeg William Whitmore said in an interview at the International where the association is holding its 28th annual Conven that before last years Boycott sales had risen slightly Between 1965 and in the first nine months of Worth of farm machinery and parts were sold in this declined by per cent in the first nine months of 1967 to sales of farm machinery and parts in Saskatchewan in the first three quarters fell by per cent Between 1966 and from to the Boycott was organized by various provincial Farmers Whitmore said there was no Validity to claims that implement dealers were making excessive he said the average dealer earns a net profit of Between one and three per he said the Canadian Farmer is caught in a cos Price squeeze that he must buy his equipment on the higher priced North american Market but sell his produce to a much poorer foreign Market at correspondingly lower the Farmer is probably not getting prices for his product that represent his full Cost of in other words the farm equipment built to suit his Standard of requirement is largely built in the North american Economy where the Standard of living and costs of production is fairly but he has to sell his Cereal in world markets and Many of the importing countries with millions of hungry people to feed Are hard pressed to buy bread grains at existing let alone to pay a higher Price which would relieve the Western Canadian Farmer of some of his cos Price in a speech delivered to about 40 delegates of the farm implement dealers As Whitmore criticized a suggestion made by Ken president of the Manitoba Farmers that manufacturers be required 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Only would the litigation take in the manufacturer of the machinery but also the dealer if the difficulty arose from a transportation the transportation company could be tied in As he said difficulties could be solved by men of Good will rather than through he said the pressure of Competition was the greatest incentive to dealers to maintain Good Whitmore also criticized those briefs presented to the committee which complain of an inadequate sup ply of implement he Bend Over backwards to service parts because theres Money to be made in the parts commenting on several recommendations from Farmers that machine warranties should be extended beyond their pre sent 12month statutory Whitmore said extended coverage would result in higher prices he there Are plenty of tractors on the Fields which Are or even 20 years Whitmore said he sup ported a Resolution passed by lie association monday after noon to request the provincial government to organize schools on preventive maintenance of Arm machinery for Young such a he would help in preserving farm machinery reducing replacement the association also passed a Resolution requesting the Federal government to maintain Long 1 o w c o s t government financing under the farm improvement Loans under this he armers can obtain Loans to finance new build water systems and land Clearing operations from local Anks at five per cent annual interest if they Are he it would now while there has Een no official statements from the Banks that in View of the much higher rates they Lave to pay the Bank of Canada 6 per he said they Are considering raising their lower How can they logically keep their ate a five cent he noted that a major of new equipment purchased by Western Canadian Farmers has been financed through the farm improvement Loans Prince denied car England a a spokesman for Cambridge University made it Plain sunday that Prince Charles will not be Able to drive his new sports car in the heir to the a freshman at Trinity is Only 19 and the rules say students must be at least 22 before being allowed to drive a car within a 25mile radius of the Charles can apply for a trial permission but Alexis who is in charge of re Guiting motor vehicles at the said on the face of i cannot see a Case for interest on daily balance savings earn the highest True interest i in a savings Deposit receipt account no other account in Canada earns you so much that because guaranty Trust calculates interest on the minimum daily there Are no chequing privileges but withdrawals can be made any minimum balance guaranty Trust federally incorporated and capital and Reserve deposits in excess of 430 Portage Avenue 9422586 Roy Brown who Lias been elected illustrious potentate of the shrines Khartum Temple and a member of the Board of the shrines other officials elected Are John chief Rabbin assistant Rabbin Harold High priest and Prophet Robert Oriental guide John treasurer and Henry peking stays out of crisis continued since the official statement and a general report of Washington reaction on peking has been silent on the the official statement declared the chinese government and people firmly support the just stand by the korean govern ment and people in countering flagrant pro in comp arism with Normal chinese communist that statement is not merely Flat and it All but notifies the North koreans that they need not count on chinese intervention if a renewed War should break out in the korean which has known an uneasy peace since the last conflict was halted by a truce in much stronger chinese expressions of support for North Vietnam and even Cambodia have produced a significant Supply of but no troop for the Viet namese the who vehement to Are the normally Point of have certainly made it Clear by their language that they do not feel themselves compelled by their treaty relations with the Pyongyang regime to offer any Concrete assistance in the confrontation with the tone of the chinese statement was almost although it had been expected that the chinese would refrain from associating themselves positively with their former allies in North the tone of their statement surprised analysts in Hong Kong some they had expected a More forceful document whose significance would be exactly the same As the significance of the document that finally it appeared that the forces of represented by the professional cadre of toe foreign office and the generals who now hold a disrupted China together Are in the ascendant in the chinese were primarily interested in proving the incur Rig ability of the United states for Domestic consumption argued that the Pueblo intruded into Korea territorial Waters because to save them selves from inevitable defeat on uie Vietnam Battlefield toe aggressors Are plotting to sex Jand their War of aggression against Vietnam and stepping up their aggressive activities throughout while confidently predicting that toe United states would be Defeated on All peking did not even Emit its usual thunders promising that China would contrive that czechs continued suspected of committing the the czechs Are now try ing to persuade the West that they Are being forced to cover up for the rus this new attitude by the czech authorities to the softens terms continued was Only that the communists not take advantage by increasing the inflow from North to asked about the Clifford for state department spokesman Robert Mccloskey called it certainly consistent with the san Antonio asked if the state department thus was endorsing the Clifford Mccloskey Ever since Clifford made his remarks last thursday administration officials have been contending that it represented no change in they also reported that the Clifford formulation had been known to the Hanoi when asked whether the Clifford formulation had been conveyed to Mccloskey replied that we Are confident that Hanoi under stands the Duck question he ducked a question As to whether Hanoi had been Given More detailed information than has been Given the american he also denied a apr i vietnamese charge that the United states has ignored the 31 Hanoi proposal to talk if the bombing is while there is reason to believe that the Clifford formulation represents what has been administration policy for a Long it had never before been put so clearly on the Public record by a top a year ago this coming Friday president Johnson re marked at a press conference that All he wanted by Way of reciprocity for a suspension of the bombing was just almost any in his letter to North vietnamese president to Chi Minh Johnson offered to order a cessation of bombing and the stopping of further aug mention of forces in South Viet Nam once he was assured that infiltration into South Viet Nam by land and by sea has the san Antonio formula of last 29 represented a considerable whittling of those i his state of the Union address on Johnson tightened his terms by saying that the other Side must not take advantage of our restraint liberals warn kooks9 continued Juanita Marie Gosbee who has been missing from her Home at 847 Home Street since anyone having information about the whereabouts of the 12yearold girl is asked to Call the Winnipeg police inquiry division in the Public safety Start rounding up enough Signa some delegates might be inclined to sign up for these people just for laughs toe tories wound up with one at their vencention last the top brass Hopes that the possibility of Public Glare will deter any inclination along these lines at the meeting to find prime minister pearsons Liberal federation president senator John Nichol already has said the party wants to try to keep out those running just for publicity but without trampling on democratic former Portage la Prairie Lloyd is running in the but is not exactly an he competed in the 1958 exactly one an Elliott toe ninth and an unemployed Edmonton sales Man who says he will run Are totally but they will require 50 signatures to make the the National executive also approved the recommendation agreed to by toe policy com Mittee meeting at toe Western meeting in Winnipeg to hold a major policy conference this no Date has been but it is expected to be Between 15 and 15 in the party decided that be cause o f the overpowering leadership interest at the april it would be better to divorce this from the making of new by the time of this toe party will have had a Clear outline of the future plans of the new in the convention will be broken up into workshops on toe first Day at which the delegates will be Able to Pepper toe candidates with questions about current pressing prob i Jab at russians Jordan mystery suggests that the new Prague Leader ship is determined not Only to Clear its reputation and repair the damage caused by tile Jordan affair but also now feels Strong enough to Challenge the underground activities of the soviet secret police on czechoslovak Moscow special Psi Czechoslovakia new communist party Alexander flew into Moscow Mon Day morning for a Brief visit and got a Royal a 46yearold slovak who succeeded Veteran conservative Antonin Novotny was greeted at Vnuk ovo Airport by soviet communist party general Secretary Leonid chief of state Nikolai foreign mini Ster Andrei Gromyko and other High Dubcek is expected to Brief soviet leaders on the changes that May be expected within Czechoslovakia As Well As the new teams approach to the German problem and to the International communist consultative meeting scheduled to open in Budapest a sincere Effort at Harmony is expected from both Al though it is no secret that Dubcek is More sympathetic to the heretic yugoslavs and and less responsive to the Hartline East than was the High level soviet attention to Dubcek clearly demonstrated not Only Kremlin curiosity about the newest and youngest communist Leader but the continuing Europe first orientation of soviet policy by Way of none of the top Saviet leaders has said a Public word about the Pueblo and a North korean delegation that was Here when it broke out was received Only at the Deputy minister i seminar on tree disease set a today seminar prepared for Manitoba Urban officials on maintaining Trees throughout the province will take place March 5 and 6 at the University of Manitoba agriculture auditor a Manitoba department of agriculture press release says special emphasis is to be placed on the prevention and identification of dutch Elm an Ever present threat that has not yet made inroads in this James associate professor of the University of Manitoba botany will describe the pro Gress and control of dutch Elm he will describe the disease so that those attending can learn How to Sample for How to identify it and How to control the disease if it Ever enters pruning and maintaining of Trees is important if the Trees Are to but How does one go about it representatives of the Parks and Protection Board of metropolitan Winnipeg will give a pruning demonstration at the tree maintenance this seminar is being presented through the cooperation of the Canada department of University of Manito Manitoba department of agriculture and the metro Cor two killed in riot India a two persons were killed and five injured when police fired on an anti hindi mob of several thousand saturday at in the Border Between Andora Pravesh and Madras official reports said 40 including two were injured when the demonstrators threw stones at the demonstrators objected to the new place Given the hindi Lan Guage by the Central govern ment in new they favor English and regional shaggy a officers stopped Oscar for erratic driving and told him the permit he produced required a licensed Driver in the car with Ive got he pointing to his dog sporting a License tag on his col Larrson was charged with Drunken wants father freed West Germany a Wolf son of Rudolf demonstrated outside a soviet photographic exhibit saturday for the release of his 73yearold father from berlins Spandau hitlers Deputy who flew to Britain in the 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