Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 2, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 75 no. 108 Price Loc with comics Winnipeg Friday february 2, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rows . Sun sets main sets . Forecast mostly Cloudy 5 and 15 . Claims win but Viet Cong holding out in Saigon to from a Reuters Saigon a . And South vietnamese officials said today their forces were crushing the biggest Viet Cong Offen Sive of the War with sky rocketing losses to the guerrillas. But the Viet Cong were reported in control of much of Hue the i ancient Imperial capital and South vietnamese dive bombers still roared Over tie streets of Saigon attacking Viet Cong holdouts. Associated press correspond ent John Lengel reported from Hue 50 Miles South of the de militarized zone that four battalions of Viet Cong and North vietnamese controlled most of the streets in the coastal City Lengel said . Marines and infantrymen and South Viet namese troops were battling More to maintain their positions than to oust the Viet Cong. South vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu and ambassador Ellsworth Bunker went on television to assert that the communists were being Defeated with unparalleled losses the . Command said of the Viet Cong had been killed in the four Day countrywide As saults on the cities and towns of South Vietnam. Combined South vietnamese losses were put at 917 dead and wound please see . Page 5 . Agrees to talks Washington Reuters the government thursday accepted a North korean suggestion to Deal with the Pueblo incident through the korean armistice commission. Robert j. Mccloskey state department spokesman isaid he had details yet about Possi ble plans for an armistice com Mission meeting at Panmunjom on the Border Between North and South but indicated the . Would press to get it convened promptly. He hinted this approach would be Giyen priority Over current efforts through the United nations Security Council to solve the crisis Over the North korean capture Jan 23 of the Navy spy ship and its 83-Man Crew. In new York co mums sources at the in said North Korea has rejected outright an afro asian proposal to Send representatives to Geneva to Dis cuss the release of the Pueblo the sources added that Pyong Yang government showed no interest a the idea of partial paling in a Security Council de Bate on the whole korean Issue they added that North Korea would consider returning the Crew in Exchange for an apology from the . And an admission the Pueblo was in North korean Waters when seized. Please see . Agrees Page features today unknown jolts 19 today s Index classified comics deaths finance Jumble movies sports television women 28 to 39 26, 27 o 11 to 13 30 25 18 to 23 24 14 to 16 Abc circulation City. Zone total nearly everyone reads the free press mayor Stephen Juba thursday retaliated against Brian Cory editor of the University of Manitoba Stu dents newspaper the Manitoban for an alleged recent misquote. The mayor got even with or. Cory by shoving a custard pie into his face at a pie auction sponsored by the University s Alpha Epsilon i Frater nity for the March of dimes. Two attempts to hit mayor Juba with pies failed. See Page 3. Medicare i Start Date unchanged but Ottawa to offer premiers i Chance at phased in scheme by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff the july 1 starting Date for the Federal government s medical care insurance plan remains unaltered. The Cabinet decided thurs Day to leave the effective Date As originally set out in the legislation passed by parliament it was Learned today. Prime minister Pearson How Ever will inform the provincial premiers when they Are in Ottawa next week for the Federal provincial constitutional conference that they can have a. Scheme providing they All agree to join july 1, 1968, and they Are All agreed on the provisions of the phased in plan. The likelihood of All provinces agreeing to join the on the set Date is very Remote. It is also very Remote that All 10 provinces would go along with a phase in plan for medicare under which the plan would be launched in stages. Please see medicare Page 7 Manitoba delay expected Manitoba is unlikely to enter the National medical care insurance plan immediately Des pile reports the Federal govern ment has decided to Start the scheme july 1. It was Learned Friday the Manitoba government decided against entering the plan immediately after Ontario announced recently it was opting out of the july 1 starting Date. Manitoba government officials met saturday with Manitoba medical service officials and a position on medicare involving some form of a delay was reportedly hammered out. As soon As prime minister Pearson officially makes tie Federal government s position known Manitoba government officials Are expected to make a statement. A High provincial government source has confirmed privately there is a Good possibility that revisions of Manitoba s existing legislation not yet proclaimed May be proposed when the House meets next month. These revisions would be required to set Back the starting Date for medicare in this province. Rights Bill draws . Warning Bennett fears attack on provincial Powers Vancouver up Premier w. A. C. Bennett of British Colombia has warned the fed eral government he will never agree to incorporation of a Canadian charter on human rights into the Constitution if it infringes in any Way on existing provincial jurisdiction. Mcnamar i urges change in Norat proposes airborne radar system instead of pin tree line compiled from Washington a proposal that the e joint Canada-. Defence system against attacking enemy bombers be scrapped and replaced with airborne radar was made thursday by . Defence Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara. I Mcnamara in his Mili tary posture statement to con Gress suggested that guiding planes stuffed with electronic gear accompanied by the modernized f-10li fighter pro Mise to be a much cheaper More effective system of detecting and tracking incoming enemy bombers than the pre sent system of land based radar units used by the North american air defence com Mand Norad Many of the present ground based radar units which pro vide continuous overlapping tracking of an enemy bomber from the moment it is detected Are based in Canada. Although the mid Canada line tactics charged Toronto up Amend ments to tie criminal code awaiting second Reading by the House of commons contain police state legislation that interferes with peaceful use of and threatens the existence of an Industry say spokesmen for Canadian shoot ing organizations. At least four organizations Are preparing briefs critical of some Federal proposals for tighter controls Over use of firearms and one spokesman said the., Justice department has received a deluge of individual protests. All organizations said How Ever that changes in existing regulations Are necessary and Many of the criminal code amendments contained in an omnibus Bill presented by jus Tice minister Trudeau Are Good ones. The Bill was Given first read ing by the commons dec. 21. Basic criticisms Are that the new firearms regulations give too much uncontrolled authority to the Federal Cabinet and the issuers of permits interfere the peaceful use of fire arms and Are lacking in de tailed definitions. If the amendments pass parliament unchanged these things were predicted in interviews this week please see police Page 7 the Premier is. Expected to make a Strong defence of his stand Pat approach to the Constitution and the British North America ban act at next week s Federal provincial constitutional conference in Ottawa. Or. Bennett suspects1 that Ottawa might use the human rights charter of tuned in the commons thursday As a smokescreen to invade areas re served for the provinces under the terms of the ban act. Some constitutional experts say that if the document affects areas of provincial jurisdiction it would require unanimous rate divorce changes okayed Ottawa up a govern ment Bill extending the grounds for divorce in Canada received Royal assent thursday night and fiction by the provinces to be probably become Law in the come Law. Please see Bennett Page 5 timing off que. Pm by Stan Mcdowell Quebec City staff a new division of Powers Between Ottawa and tie provinces is a matter More pressing than a j constitutional Bill of rights. I Premier Daniel Johnson .011 Quebec said thursday. The Premier reacted quickly but with cautious Reserve to the White paper on civil rights tabled in parliament thursday by Justice minister. Pierre Elliott Trudeau. At a press conference timed to coincide with the tabling of the document in. Ottawa or. Please see timing Page 5 of tracking radars was phased out of the defence picture about 1962 and the Distant Early warning Dew line has been Cut Back drastically 25 of the ground radars a the pin tree Lane remain in Canada. Most of the radar stations were built by the United states air Force and at first manned by . Troops jut have since turned Over o Canada. One of the newer radar lines s the ballistic missile Early warning system so sensitive it can spot a missile As soon As it s fired in Russia. It consists of three one at Clear Alaska one at Thule Greenland and England. Or Mcnamara said in his statement to Congress that the present radar system cannot detect or track1 Low flying air Craft until they come quite close. Radar works on a line of sight and is limited in Range by the curvature the Earth if he approaching plane is flying Elow the horizon the radar would not be Able to spot it however radar units in High Hying aircraft would be Able to see much further because in effect the Highie one gets the Urther the horizon is away. It is expected that the radar equipped Craft and their accompanying fighters would probably refuel at Canadian Jases. Or. Mcnamara estimated the Cost of the airborne radar system to be about million annually compared to the billion annual Cost of the present system. Spring. The last clause of the new act says it cannot be proclaimed Law until three months after it received Royal assent. To adultery virtually the Only ground for divorce in Canada now will be added sodomy bes 11 a 1 i t a rape homosexuality bigamy physical and mental cruelty carefully defined circumstances marriage break Down. Under manage breakdown a variety of conditions Are listed desertion imprisonment Alco holism drug addiction and non consummation of the marriage please see divorce Page 5 ail interview with to Uleau the Central figure at next week s Ottawa conference on the Constitution will be Pierre Elliott Trudeau Canada s minister of Justice. He will be charged with leading the delicate negotiations that will give canadians a new Bill of rights and a . On Page 10 in an exclusive interview with political analyst Peter c. Newman he discusses the Federal government s position. Session set for March by Barry came Premier Walter Weir s first legislative session will probably be Light tight and late. The new Premier heading into his first the opposition parties As the progressive conservative govern ments chief is aiming for Brief session which would Cui the introduction of new govern i i ment sponsored legislation to a i baie minimum is and Manitoba s lawmakers j j won t begin their session in the. 11 House this month they Wil j have to wait until the first week 5 of March at least. J originally the government j had planned on calling the House into session shortly after nex week s constitutional conference in Ottawa but when it was decided to Call a by election u please see session Page i rocket this by George c. Wilson Washington special tons the soviet Union has doubled its icbms Force in1 the last year but has limited its missile defence to Moscow defence Secretary j Robert s Mcnamara. Said thursday in holding out Hope Foi an arms control agreement. The of soviet strength Are mails in or Mcnamara s valid Story 220-Page military pot iture state ment he started presenting to Congress a Strong plea for reason in weapons budding runs through his Fina White paper by defence to put it Blun Tiv Ito Ilta death i i votes Linke partly aldermen s fault Wolch Alderman Isadora Wolch of Winnipeg accused several of his fellow Alder men. Friday of being in some Way responsible for he death of a three year. Old boy in an apartment Block fire at 278 Laura Street wednesday. Aid Wolch linked the fatality with the fact that fire units Aren t required in Winnipeg apartment blocks. _ the allegation was made at Friday s meeting of civic utilities and personnel committee after _ committee had heard report of the fire from Winni Peg fire chief c. N. I Shewan. It was received As information. Near the end of the heated debate chief Shewan said there is More involved in the fire than is evident from the a discuss this closed Mcnamara said soviet Union nor or. Neither the Pijie United states can now attack the other even by Surprise without suffering massive damage in retaliation he said both the us. Am soviet Union have Arcade their icbms so Bard to destroy Tia each Hasan actual and i please Page 9 j estate tax ban liberals nominate Koteles by Barry came Winnipeg lawyer Julius Koteles aided by two bus loads of Youthful supporters disrupted the political strategy of both the Manitoba Liberal party Hierarchy and Metto vice chairman. Councillor Charles r Huband thursday evening or. Koteles delivered tie blow when he engineered an 18 vote Victory Over coun Huband in a two Way contest to select the Liberal party s candidate for the next election in the Provin Cial constituency of Wolseley. Please see liberals Page 5 1 Manitoba Liberal header i Mol Gat called thursday nigh for the immediate elimination o All Pio Vocial estate j taxes As a Means of luring a vestment capital to the province or Mol Gat a i Ressig Liberal convention in the provincial constituency o Wolseley pledged his party support for a drive to sweep away the estate Tux at tin coming session of the Legisla sure. The removal of estate taxes Facto in retaining and attracting new he told the 275 people attending the meeting at mul vey school held to the party s Standard bearer at the next election. The Liberal Leader Chamiec the present tax levied on estates of or More when they change hands because o death is forcing the Sale o Many Small Matt Aba owned and operated businesses. In addition he charged tin tax is causing serious prob lems in passing family farm from father to son is depriving widows of the Bent fits of a lifetime of hard work please see estate Page please see aldermen Page 5 air base to stay till 73 minister representatives of air employees at overhaul1 base thursday that the Federal government will continue the base until 1973, either under air Canadas operation or with another operation. He met the delegation in Ottawa. Don Mill president of the save the headed the group. It included Rhys Davies Winnipeg Horald Ottawa of the International association of machinists they ther transfers of employees by air Canada from Winnipeg to Montreal. I please see Hellyer Page 8 threat noted by Wade Rowland _ Stonewall transport minister Paul two weeks late but running hard thursday joined other major con tenders for the leadership of the Federal Liberal party in trying to impress on westerners the Seri Quebec s threat of separation or Hellyer was speaking to the annual meeting of the Portage Liberal association at Stonewall where he hoped his flying visit would help to pick up some of the ground lost to other candidates whet illness forced him to miss last month s Western Liberal policy Confer ence in Winnipeg. Please see warning Page 7 not romantic critic huffs peek a bosom blouses London a males attuned to mini skirted Gills lifted i heir sights to higher things today As the Bra less see through Blouse hit London. The new fashion was unveiled so to speak at a Bou Tique on London s Carnaby Street where three girl assist a wore no bras under Low Cut Chiffon blouses in no time it All the Bou Tique had att acted a Large number of potential custom ers and inter i Ted males. Do feel a Little embarrassed wearing said one of the shop girls Marlene Mcdonald of to Ronto it s a bit of a Shock to look up and see a Man looking straight at Tot in1 the eyes. I i would never Wear one outside in the Street. But i might at a swinging party when there were other girls in the same predicament Christopher Ward Colum nist in the daily gave this verdict on the see through my own View is that when i take a girl out to dinner i do not want to see her naked bosom hovering Over the spa Ghetti for one thing it would spoil a perfectly Good Appe Tite and for another it in t actually very romantic. There is a time and a place for Bare a restaurant has never in my opinion been the v _ a lot of men however would Call Ward a spoil sport. London designer Ossie please see blouses Page t ;