Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 1, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition vol 75 107 Price Loc Winnipeg thursday february 1, 1968 forecast Cloudy -10 and ,._ v Tiahrt still to come probe into fire death wants facts on condemning rundown buildings in area a Thiee year old boy died in a fire in an apart ment Block at 278 Laura Street wednesday and mayor Stephen Juba said thursday he will an investigation under Way to find out if Are any buildings in the area which should be condemned but Naven t been i m not saying this is the Case but if it should be i want an the mayor said earlier a 1 r m an Joseph Zuken of Winnipeg said he to find out whether neighbourhood complaints about rundown buildings Ever reached City Council. He also intended to have the. City s medical health office Check to see which buildings in the area should be condemned. Battle rages in Saigon Viet Cong capture parts of several cities 1 i in biggest offensive e of Vietnam War from reifers a pm Saigon units battled forces in Saigon again today As their biggest offensive of the War up and Down South Vietnam for the third Day. It was the in a three year old boy died ravaged tenement at 278 Laura Street wednesday. But Aid. Leonard h. Clayden said such an investigation in t a room on the top Storey of this fire needed because the fue lbs warns . Recession looms non horizon he says Washington a president Johnson called today for a temporary no strike truce Between Industry and labor a tax increase in the next few weeks and a study of possible new wage Price guideposts in his annual economic be port Johnson warned Congress the business Advance is running Loo fast Foi safety the United states must choose quickly he said whether it wants to avoid a feverish Boom Lead ing to a possible financial in Sis and perhaps ultimately a recession the expansion can be Moder prompt enactment of his proposed 10-per-cent income lax ave High but healthy production gain of he said. That would bring 1968 output to a record damage already has been done to interest rates to our Trade surplus and to the level of prices by the failure of con Gress to act last Johnsoa said and added please see Johnson Page 4 pm takes wraps off rights Bill language education i ethnic Equality asked Ottawa government thursday put Forward a constitutional Bill of rights which would be implemented As far As language Educa Tion and egalitarian rights Aie concerned at vary ing rates of Speed at which the various Legisla Tures May feel Able to introduce this legislation of special Powers hinted to contingencies was More a result of human error than of defects in the building. Thirteen families were made homeless by the fire thursday mayor Juba said the blighted condition of the area was the Maudd reason Winnipeg City Council had in ammo sly adopted the final report on a huge plan for Urban renewal and redevelopment., we Are aware that their Are a lot of problems in this particular area but How Many problems can Jou solve at the same tune9 Eaily reports indicated the lire May have been started by could Reid playing with matches re department spokesman Telloo Seftas Little Bov who died m the three Storey apartment Block fire Louie Hope panicked and locked himself m a a Ashi Oom off the Kitchen of a third flow Bailment he and ins father Stanley shared it was in the washroom that the boy s body was later found Aid Zuken said in a Telephone interview he wants a report not Only from the health officer but please see death Page 12 by Carroll Kilpatrick washing ton special tons president Johnson informed a bipartisan congressional group wednesday that he May have to ask for certain new Powers to meet contingencies growing out of North Korea s seizure of the Pueblo at a two hour breakfast meet ing at the White House president also asked the leaders to Speed up the legislative process this year As much As possible. The president and other administration leaders reported on recent developments in Vietnam and Korea to senior members of the House and Senate armed North koreans ready to talk que. Pm attacks Ottawa this Canadian charter human rights was tabled in the commons by prime minister Pearson in Advance of the fed eral provincial constitutional con Ference opening Here monday. The document makes Clear that All English language prov inces would not accept immediately French language and education rights. It said to be effective j the. Proposed Bill must Antici Pate the lates of Speed at which the various Legisla Tures May feel Able to introduce this legislation. It is suggested that the pro armed forces merge today Bill of should assume a Florip which recognizes these Varia posed constitutional rights tons and accommodates title charter proposes that guarantees of language and Edu cation rights of the formula proposed by the Royal commission on bilingualism and . This is that Ontario and new Brunswick declare themselves now As bilingual provinces and that language and Edu cation rights be provided in All districts of English Canada where the French speaking pop Ottawa up with a mini mum of fanfare the Canadian army Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian air Foice officially retire from the. Scene to Day giving Way to the new Cana Dian armed forces. The Bill unifying the forces comes into Law today writing an official close to the histories of the three separate services. All servicemen from now on Are see Page 35 for new insignia members of the Caf under or Ders to Wear a common uniform and to fall under one rank Structure based on army grades. But be any Over night change in the appearance Illarion formed 10 per cent of the total. The charter says Liti Gustic unification Day feb. 1, 1968. Rights fall into two categories the Man who wore Navy or the right of an i divid air Force Blue or army Khaki to Ual to Deal with agencies of work wednesday will Wear the same thing probably please see pm takes Page 5 for a year or two to come. Of Canada s servicemen to Mark Quebec up Premier Daniel Johnson wednesday referred to the Federal govern ment s handling of its Broad casting legislation As act of aggression against Quebec on the eve of the Federal provincial constitutional conference. Or. Johnson told a news con Ference Ottawa seems to be Rushing tile Bill for adoption prior to the conference next week when Quebec plans to raise fundamental objections Over what it considers the Bill s intrusion on provincial jurisdiction. The Premier said the Bill pro Vides wide authority for the Federal authority in educational television but Quebec has not been consulted even though Ottawa knows very Well radio and one of Quebec s major please see que. Pm Page 4 dark Green uniforms for the unified Caf Are still undergoing trials. Even after approval of the cloth and color it is expected to take until 1971 to get All servicemen into the new kit. And there won t be special ceremonies at every service base at Home and abroad marking unification Day Vity hauling Down old flags and run Ning up the new unified forces Ensign. There is a new Ensign for the unified services with the Maple Leaf Flag in the upper left and Corner and a Crest showing the naval Anchor crossed swords for the army and Force Eagle in the Fly. A defence spokesman said this Ensign will be brought into general use in stages from feb. 1. But the old distinctive ensigns of the separate services have not been in use for about a year and a half. They were taken out after Canada adopted the Maple Leaf Flag and in line with the new terminology brought in for please see three. Page 4 by Victor Zorza London special the guar Dian a North korean that his government was pre pared to negotiate with the . On the Pueblo Case at sessions of the military armistice com Mission which Are held regularly on the demarcation line Between North and South Korea. Kim Kwang. A Yip a. Central committee member said at a reception for a visiting romanian party delegation Pyongyang that the in had no right to discuss the Pueblo but that there was precedence for the treatment of similar cases at the armistice commission. It May that the first Public comment on this matter by a North korean official should have been made at a reception for the romanian visitors. The which includes the chief party official for International left for North Korea at a time when the . Was making strenuous diplomatic efforts to establish some kind of negotiating Contact with Pyongyang. It is known that romanian leaders have consented to the past to carry american Mes sages to peking and to Hanoi and to bring Back replies if services and appropriations committees. Later one of those who attended the meeting said that the emphasis was on Korea and the efforts to obtain release of the Pueblo and its Crew. He added that he would not be surprised if the president asked Congress for More military Aid for South Korea. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield who was not at the White House meeting said additional funds May be needed to Deal situation m North Korea and in View of the escalation of the War in South Vietnam sen. Mansfield said that North Korea is m better shape militarily than South Korea. The North he said has acquired Many soviet Mig fighter tunes and has a larger ground Force than South , if the letter s troops in South Vietnam Are included. K i White House press Secretary George Christian declined to was the first americans had brought major combat forces into Viet Nam s capital As fighting raged in Saigon the Viet Cong and North Viet namese appeared to have taken control of big parts of several other major government cities and towns.? the situation appeared critical at Many Points. The . warned that the heaviest fight Cong and North vietnamese offensive was still to come. -1 c. Land said the communists werer paying a heavy Price. West Moreland and North vietnamese troop s had been killed since monday than reported for two or weeks. Of fighting. Please see fighting Page it any -1 please see special Page 12 Seoul government getting impatient by Richard Hal Koran i the North korean communist f crimes Canava at Crossroads bal if Iff step by Pete it c. Newman first of a series Ottawa special Constitution making is usually thought of As a game for intellectuals that Doest. Touch the everyday concerns of most citizens. But the constitutional conference which begins Here on monday will drastically alter the relationship of canadians to their governments and the Century old traditions by which we have been ruled. The seminal the Federal government s insistence on making an entrenched Bill of rights the Centrepiece of the conference is that for the first time it will place the rights of individual citizens above the rights of parliament. Once the Bill of rights has been accepted by All of the provinces and it becomes entrenched in our Constitution it will signal a Basic change in our system of government. A Bill of rights with Cross country guarantees will mean that a higher Law has been placed in judgment o v e r the Federal House of commons and Over each of the provincial Legislatures. Once approved the new Bill of rights will allow the supreme court to interpret the Laws of All legislative bodies to judge the claims to inalienable rights Canadian citizens. Parlia ment and the Legislatures will be prevented from enacting those measures which run counter to the rights Bill. This will represent a Radical departure from the British system which accepts the supremacy of parliament to the american system which uses its own supreme court to protect the inalienable rights of the until now the constitutional function of the supreme court has been limited please see rights Page a housing loan Aid planned Ottawa up Treasury Board president Benson hoped Speed a legislative Amend ment through parliament this month that could halve Down payments on Nha Homes. He is looking for informal pledges from the conservatives and new democrats to pass the measure with the government will at All costs avoid a full scale housing de Bate before the current session of parliament ends in March or. Benson who took a possibility for housing policy from labor minister Nicholson on Jan. Is will sponsor a sub Stantial revision of the National housing act later in 1968. He said in an interview that his current Nha amendment would Only be a Stop Gap Meas ure. It could Cut Down on the amount of Cash necessary into a Home but it would do nothing to reduce monthly carrying charges. The government now insures mortgage Loans extended by institutional lenders on a formula under which the Home buyer May borrow 95 per cent of the first of the assessed lending value of the property and 70 per cent of the balance to a loan limit of on a Home with an assessed lending value of the existing formula would provide a maximum loan of Indi please see housing Page 5 Seoul South Korea special tons with the United states confronted by the major flare up m Vietnam and the continuing korean crisis Here Seoul. Wednesday saw growing South korean impatience with . Diplomatic manoeuvres and an authoritative statement that there is no indication of North Korea re leasing the captured intelligence ship Pueblo or its Crew. Increasing demands for Independent South korean retaliation against North coupled with a senior official s warning that half Way . Military measures would Lead to War and therefore a pre Emp Ive strike should be under taken. South korean officials and diplomatic observers making a direct if undefined connection Between the daring attacks in Vietnam with the Jan. 21 North korean attempt to assassinate South korean president Chung Hee Park and the successful seizure of the Pueblo. South korean foreign min ister Choe Kyu a said the Best solution for settling the korean crisis is to apply Foice against regime if diplomatic efforts fail Choe told korean newsmen that a diplomatic Effort should be made. He however that past experience suggested that Only Power is for punishing communist provocation. Accord reached Windsor ont. Chrysler Ltd up and the United Auto workers reached agreement today on a new three year contract a Chrysler spokes Man said the spokesman said no details would be released until Union members ratify the agreement members of local 444, Law m Windsor Weie to meet this morning to vote on the new con tract. Hidden camera films grocery store Holdup Ottawa hemp has complained of Complete disregard Tor the Law Ings by the beat Genera Tion. But it says there Serk Ous addiction problem among juveniles. The annual report of ramp commissioner 3vi. Say tabled in the commons by solicitor general p e nil Al it showed a 71.8-per-cent increase in offences under the narcotics control act during the 1966-67 fiscal ended last March 31. This compares with at 14.9 per cent increase in investigations of criminal code offences to from the pre Vious year. 0 f f e n s against property r showed the greatest increase in the criminal code Section up., 17 2 per cent. Sex offences in creased by 14 7 per cent and of fences against persons by per cent murder attempted f murders and 5.9 per cent., j f discussing the increase1 in drug crimes the report says the beat generation became a fact in Canada in this trait of human Betia Vior was evident in virtually institution of higher and in every larger the queer dress and the Long hair is of no concern to police beat Genera Tion however poses a police problem in that i serves As a Hosi to persons abuse of 7 by the Law the report says the beatnik deprive themselves of a Normal future. During 1966, a per sons were charged with offences please see drug Page 5 by John Heath a hidden movie camera re corded the recent Holdup of a Central Winnipeg grocery store it was Learned thursday. The camera was Only 20 feet from the Cash till. Winnipeg police now Are developing the film. The grocery store is one of eight in Central Winnipeg which have been held up since Jan. 7. The camera was installed on a a St. James Man whose father operates the store which was later robbed had the idea. And now he said in an interview he s working toward making it easier for any grocery store to have a similar device. The camera can be operated by a variety of Remote control devices without any Chance of a robber knowing his actions Are being recorded the Man suggested that after police had processed the film it could be turned Over to news papers. Publication of pictures of the robber might Lead to his arrest the Man said however Winnipeg City police apparently do not agree with this suggestion. Thursday detective superintendent Norman Stewart refused to make any comment on the suggestion or of what use was being made of the film. I the St. James mail who asked that he not be identified said there d been a rash of robberies near his father s store and. 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