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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 10, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday february 10, 1968 crop insurance program expanded agriculture minister Harry Enns announced Friday that Manitoba s crop insurance pro Gram now in its ninth year will be further expanded in 1968. A government press release said or. Enns was gratified with the High degree of accept Ance of the plan by Farmers in the province explaining that the cancellation rate in 1967 was Only 4.4 per cent. This was chiefly by Farmers who had sold their land and were no longer farming. The minister announced that three More crops will be provided All risk Protection in 1968. Rapeseed and tame mus Tard Are to be included As Well As fall Rye As previously announced. This will bring the number of crops covered under Khe Sanh Airfield closed continued Reuters quoted a . Com Mand spokesman As saying that the raid was not considered a raid on the port area and add ing we have not bombed tar gets in Hanoi or Haiphong since Jan. 4 when we hit Bridges in Side both cities this was a strike by one air Craft. Attacks on Hanoi or Hai Phong Are characterized by Large numbers of aircraft strik ing in visual was a radar strike in bad fighting from that Campaign against major South Viet namese cities has died out in All but Hue and Saigon where the combined .-South Viet namese forces reported some Success in efforts to Clear out con Monist Beld areas. The . Command said the Viet Cong North vietnamese death toll climbed by Fri Day reaching a total of since Jan. 29. The combined forces death toll was reported As including 920 Ameri cans South vietnamese and 54 other forces. The president s bombing ban applied to the areas around Hanoi the North vietnamese capital and Haiphong the key port City officials in washing ton said. The american raid. Friday was on the Cambi Airfield four Miles Southeast of heavy overcast and darkness prevented damage assessment. Other air targets included the Uong by electric Power Plant 15 Miles North of Haiphong a trans shipment Point 35 Miles Southwest of the port the Kep Airfield 38 Miles Northeast of Hanoi and an army Barracks 65 Miles the capital. In continuing fighting in the cities . Infantrymen squeezed in on Viet Cong guerrillas moving in and out of Sai gon and reported killing 303 Fri Day. . Marines re captured the railway station and the soccer stadium in Hue 400 Miles North East of Saigon and held All of the Southern part of the City except one Viet Cong pocket along Highway 1 near the an cuu Bridge. The Viet Cong was flying its Flag in the one third of the old walled Citadel which it still controls in fighting against South vietnamese attackers. The plan to eight. Wheat Oats Barley flax and sugar beets were covered in previous years. Or. Enns described this As another step in the government program to provide Protection to As Many crops As possible. He said that with the Protection afforded by crop insurance Manitoba Are encouraged to make larger invest ments to utilize the latest techniques and fertilizers. The coverage of the additional crops in 1968 is in line with the Grain f a r m e r s attempt to diversify crop production to reduce the problem of surpluses resulting from a one or two crop Enterprise the minister pointed out. In the past few years rape seed and tame Mustard particularly have assumed economic importance in Manitoba s Agri cultural production. In 1967 rapeseed was grown on approximately acres while approximately acres of tame Mustard were planted. Trudeau smash hts continued one candidate consumer affairs minister Turner arrived late because of parliamentary duties in the capital. His apology to the crowd recognized the big Trudeau Shadow As the Montreal minister noted that he arrived in Toronto just As an other Mon Trealer left or. Turner at 38 the Young est declared candidate got the longest ovation but external affairs minister Martin at 64 the oldest candidate aroused the crowd with such lines As we want experience not exp ii ment in the highest office of the in a pre talk question period that warmed the crowd up agriculture minister j., Greene told a questioner the general decision to remove the six per cent ceiling on personal Bank Loans deserved review. There was talk that or. Greene might have violated the traditional Cabinet Solidarity Rule that has prevented Cabinet aspirants from criticizing gov or. Mackasey assumes re possibility for labor at a time Hen the commons labor com Mittee is getting its Teeth into controversial government legis a t i o n affecting country wide bargaining units. The Bill would change the Structure of the Canada labor relations Board and remove my it the final decision on applications for regional bargain no units. With or. Nicholson planning o retire from Federal politics dlr. Mackasey a handling of the ouch Bill is Likely to affect his chances for Cabinet Advance ment or for re appointment under the new Liberal prime minister to be chosen in april. In an interview after his a Xuy nement he said he is certain be Bill can be improved in Ommittee. But he rejected the new that it would add to the Abor Board s Powers to frag ment National bargaining units aying the Board already has this Power. The Canadian labor Congress poses it vigorously on the rounds it would open the Way or the Quebec based Conedera Ion of National Trade unions to Ake Over some Quebec workers who now belong to National bar dining units. Or. Mackasey a native of Luebec City and onetime Ama eur Boxer entered the com Mons in 1962 after serving As president of a sporting goods manufacturing company and As an Alderman in Verdun. Fluently bilingual and repro enting a Riding that is More than half French or. Mackasey As been an outspoken critic of Quebec separatism and an and of. Extending bilingual so. He has campaigned for what he Calls a counter offensive against separatism through stepped up development of que inc s poorer areas. Ern ment policy. 1 n re try Sharp s speech was in a lower key than the High powered Martin and Greene talks and that of trans port minister Helyer. Or. Hellyer promised to find a Way to keep prime minister Pearson Active in International diplomacy following the Leader s retirement after the april 4-6 leadership convention. Similarly Low key was que Bee s Erie Kierans who Laid Down his wealth producing policy to make Canada economically and politically Independent. It was the third platform confrontation at provincial Liberal conventions for leadership candidates and Many said it was the most successful Lionel Laframboise a Politi Cal unknown from Elliott Lake ont., made his Campaign debug with a rambling talk that included the information that he was the seventh of 13 children. A French Canadian he talked in both English and French. Authorities said at least five j a questioner asked the Short civilians and one known to have been executed by communists in Hue. At Plesku in the Central High lands Viet Cong mortar men fired 30 rounds into the . Army s Camp Holloway killing four soldiers and wounding 36, . Headquarters reported. Man in a Blue suit about his air policy. It is Over my he admitted and that was that. Health minister Maceachen and Clergyman Lloyd Hender son also spoke. Only Absentee was Hod Woodcock an unemployed camera Salesman who declined the invitation to appear. Take a minute and think about the colleges you May never think about. joins Cabinet continued 24 flee ship new York up the 22 Man Crew and two passengers of a Canadian coastal freighter abandoned ship Friday night in the Stormy Atlantic some 550 Miles off Cape Hatteras n.c., the . Coast guard reported. The Crew and the passengers a Man and his wife Clung to life rafts being knocked about by eight foot Waves the coast guard said. A coast guard plane sighted the 24 persons near the listing ship. The norwegian freighter Vinni was then two hours from he scene. The first Call for help from the Charny out of Quebec was received at . It said the ship was leaking had four feet of water in one hold and could remain afloat for Only four hours. Then just 10 minutes later the coast guard said the Captain radioed again and said he would abandon ship in 10 minutes. I think we May turn the Captain radioed. When we abandon ship Well try and stay close to the vessel. I will give the order to abandon ship in 10 the master indicated he would remain with his ship. That was the last radio con tact the coast guard had with the ship. The coast guard plane Hov ered Over the life rafts and dropped flares to Light up the scene for Rescue ships. Aircraft raced for the scene from Bermuda and port Eliza Beth n.j., after the coast guard received the initial distress Call. Con Odion military College Royal Roach. Victoria think about the regular officer Ling plan. Think about the Opportunity you Wii to earn a College education with a degree in arts science or engineering and an officer s commission in the Canadian armed forces. Think about and then come and see us Canadian forces recruiting Centre 2m7, Pott office building 266 Graham Avenue Winnipeg 1, Manitoba go with us. The Canadian armed forces. Wilson Pearson huddle com tired i raw her troops from East of Suez or. Pearson told the commons Friday. Or. Pearson said i am sure or. Wilson will want to sex he said it is a matter f concern to the Canadian the prime minister also said Lis government would be interested in hearing from prime minister Wilson about his talks president Lyndon Johnson on Vietnam. He assured the commons that the Canadian government was doing All it could to try and promote a peaceful settlement. He said he would like to Sec n the world an escalation of the feeling that the War should be brought to an or. Pearson said that Canada s senior representative on he International control com Mission has been in Hanoi for three weeks longer than had been expected. It has been difficult to get a plane from Saigon to Hanoi to get him Back to South Vietnam. The prime minister said the Canadian government has not heard from or. Dier in recent Days. Or. Pearson said he would prefer not to make any comment on or. Dier s Mission what might come of that Mission until a report had been received. Or. Pearson rejected a suggestion from the opposition benches that consideration be Given to increasing the size of the control commission in Viet Nam. He said an expansion of that commission or of its formal authority would be of Little value at this moment especially in View of what is happening in the demilitarized zone. He assured the House these matters would be discussed with or. Wilson. Or. Pearson said he was confident or. Wilson would want to explain the Circum stances that made it necessary for the United kingdom govern ment to withdraw its forces from East of Suez. He described As a regrettable this is a matter of course for the . To decide. What i would feel like doing is to express my regret that the circumstances were such that a decision of this kind had to be made which on the face of it might seem to minimize British influence in that part of the governor belts mayor new York a Gover nor Nelson Rockefeller accused mayor John Lindsay Friday night of a breach of position in new York City s sanitation strike but conceded that i can Call out the National guard and if necessary i will Call out the National guard to handle the massive garbage pile up. The governor added in a television address to the City s people there Are very real risks As far As the stability and Structure of organized labor and organized Community life is Rockefeller said his own for Mula would Cost the City Only More than it is pre pared to pay striking sanitation workers. Metro okays pact with transit Union metro Council gave final approval thursday to a new two year contract with local 1505 amalgamated transit Union Al Cio Csc which provides for a 12 per cent pay increase retroactive to dec. 31, 1967, am an additional 10 per Cen increase effective dec. 29, 1968 the new contract was approved by Union members Las week. About 61 per cent of the 770 bus Drivers and 241 maintenance men voted to accept metro s offer. The increased wages will cos an additional this year the Drivers had asked for a 35 per cent increase. The decision he added to present 3-act comedy it s great to be crazy will be presented by Gle Lawn col i Legate Little theatre group at 8 . Wednesday thursday and Friday. The three act comedy will be presented in the Glen Lawn collegiate auditorium. Atikokan youth wins academic awards Atikokan ont. Special scholarships with a total Valu of More than and othe bursaries and award s will b presented feb. 14 at Waterloo lutheran University at water Loo ont., vice president fran Peters has announced. Among the 27 students enter ing with 80 per cent average in four subjects is an Atikokan youth Charles Bruce Buie. The 27 will receive faculty boar scholarships valued at providing free tuition and in Cash. Students receiving them have already been awarded Ontario bursaries. Or. Buie i one of them. Forty six proficiency scholar ships providing free tuition will be received by another 46 students 16 of whom entered Waterloo University after Grade j 12 As a part of a special Early admission policy for talented i students. Proficiency scholar ships valued at Are awarded those getting averages of 75 per cent in their final year of High school. Hijack attempt continued Iron Ore gains 17 pct. Pretoria South Africa s production of Iron Ore in 196g increased 17 per cent Over 1965 to about 6.5 million Short tons. According to co Pilot Archer the Young Marine Blond Stocky and wearing a Black leather jacket Levis and boots called up to him from ground to cockpit. Where is this flight Hong replied the co Pilot. The Marine then identified himself Asah employee of air America a civilian airline in Vietnam under government contract and he asked How Many Crew members were in the cock pit. Said co Pilot Archer believing he was simply making aviator chit Chat with another airman. In the flight Cabin beside co Pilot Archer was the flight Captain P. Hones of new York City and the Engineer r. H. Clack of Midland Michigan. Minutes later the Man suddenly burst through the door separating the cockpit from the passenger Cabin bolted it shut pulled out the .45 and ordered we re going to Hong Kong capt. Jones notified the Tower and base authorities of the situation. The plane was evacuated of All the men going on leave. For the next two hours the Wing commander at Danang col. Paul Watson of Washington d.c., a Chap lain and a doctor All talked to the cockpit Over the intercom from the rear of the plane trying to persuade the gunman to give up his weapon. They offered to let him go to Hong Kong if he would surrender his gun but pet. Clark declined. He said it was a trick. Meanwhile the Crew were As co Pilot Archer said trying to keep him relaxed so the gun would t go off. It was pointed at the Engineer s Engineer Clack said we talk him into in Cocking it for a moment then he d cock the gun after the plane revved up its engines to take off with the and As Gen. Westmoreland s order shut them Down again cd acc said that move forced his hand. He either had to shoot us or give up. There was nothing then the Crew could do about the since pet. Clark s identity was not then known col. Watson thought there was a possibility that once in the air the plane could be ordered to Fly elsewhere perhaps even to Hanoi. This line of thinking apparently convinced Gen. Westmoreland not to let the plane leave the base at All. Two ramps were then wheeled up on either Side of the cockpit on each of them were two armed air policemen. A half dozen other air policemen surrounded the plane on the flight line. When i saw the ramps c o m ing up with the said co Pilot Archer i guessed they would try to use tear Gas. I stood up and said that i just had to stretch my legs. The Guy then Bent Down to look out my window to see what was going on Down blow. I grabbed his Arm with the gun and pointed it against the Side of the Cabin. I took it away from him. He said Okay Okay i give up " As the gunman was led away w i the his arms manacled behind him the three stewardesses rushed up to congratulate the three flight crewmen. In the background the 83 servicemen who had been taken off the plane waited patiently for the tear Gas to be c 1 e a re d from the passenger Cabin. I Hope we can get aboard that plane pretty soon said one Marine that . Has made us Cut Down on our party time in Hong Good year for Boissevain Boissevain Mani special the financial statement for 1967 presented at the meeting tuesday of Boissevain Council showed the town had a Success Ful year of operation. Actual Revenue for the year was while the original estimated Revenue was leaving a Revenue surplus of the budget surplus was thus making a credit balance of for the year. The water Utility also showed a credit balance. Actual Revenue was while estimated Revenue from this was leaving a Revenue surplus of the budget deficit was thus giving a credit balance of dinner to Honor die wife Brandon Man. Special the Brandon Young progressive conservative association in con Junction with the Brandon Souris progressive conservative association and women s association announced Friday that a Public testimonial dinner will be held to Honor John g. Diefenbaker and mrs. Diefenbaker on Friday March 1, at the Prince Edward hotel. A reception will be held at . And will be followed by the dinner at . A press release said that at this dinner a presentation will be made to or. And mrs. Diefenbaker and that anyone wishing to contribute to this presentation contribution Send their to the die Fen Bakers presentation fund co Bank of Nova Scotia Brandon. The release said it is hoped that citizens of Western Manit Oba regardless of political affiliation will turn out to Honor two great tickets will be limited in number and can be purchased at the Prince Edward hotel or by writing to the Diefenbaker Public testimonial dinner Prince Edward hotel Brandon. Decision is up to Johnson feud Over continued then he added i Hope it would not be seriously entertained by the or. Christian was asked by a reporter at the White House Friday about sen. Mccarthy s statement and whether the joint chiefs of staff or in authority had requested author Ity to use tactical nuclear weapons so far As could be Learned sen. Mccarthy had said nothing about a request from the joint or. Christian gave this reply to the reporter s question i said his sen Mccarthy s statement is false. I think All of you know that decisions of this nature rest with the president. The president has. Considered no this nature. I might add that irresponsible discussion and speculation Are a disservice to the country and i Don t intend to say anything More about the sub or. Christ an said sen. Continued Gen. Wheeler it was Learned made his response to questions about whether he was willing to use last resort weapons to save Khe Sanh it is a new measure of the importance he attaches to holding Khe Sanh. Even if president Johnson should receive a request to use nuclear weapons in the Kne Sanh Battle Pentagon weapons experts contend the technical problems Are almost As Large As the political ones. Small nuclear weapons Are dirty since they Splitt the atomic ingredients for their Power landscape with spewing the radioactivity. The close quarters fighting of Khe Sanh would seem to Rule out their use on these grounds. The weapons could be made but this carries penal president Johnson has the final say in the use of nuclear weapons not the military com Manders. Had Active year Boissevain Man. Special Centennial year 1967 was an Active one for the Library miss Bernice Pettypiece librarian said in the ninth annual report at the Boissevain and Morton regional Library meeting. Bor rowers took out books and periodicals. The biggest lending month was March the report said with books going out. This Library has largest per capita circulation 9.46, of any Library in Manitoba. Of the borrowers 715 were adults 104 Young adults and 531 children the report said. Mccarthy s statement is false and also unfair to the armed he said he would not answer a reporter s question about How the statement was unfair to the arms forces. Also involved in the question however Vas a private session with newsmen earlier in the week by sen. Mccarthy. The Minnesota Democrat reportedly said then that he understood that nuclear weapons might be stockpiled in South Vietnam or be on the Way. There. Sen. J. William Fulbright Democrat also a critic of . War policy and chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee echoed that report Friday. Sen. Ful right wrote Secretary of state Dean Rusk for information about a Rumor that . Tactical nuclear weapons Are being introduced into South Vietnam. Sen. Fulbright said his inquiry arose from a secret committee discussion of a report that a nuclear weapons specialist gone to South Vietnam last weekend. A similar allegation was published in the St. Louis port dispatch. Under a Washington dateline the newspaper also said that reports persist thai the United states has stockpiled atomic weapons in Vietnam. Defence officials refused to comment on the report. Phil g Goulding assistant defence Secretary for Public affairs noted that . Atomic Law forbids any discussion of the location nuclear weapons. But or. Goulding l denied any Pentagon specialists or scientists had gone to South Vietnam to discuss nuclear matters he said civilian scientists periodically Are dispatched to Saigon on research projects that some scientists so dispatched May have backgrounds in atomic matters but that none had been sent to Vietnam in connection with any nuclear weapons matters. The term tactical nuclear weapon is normally used for devices in the lower yield explosive Power Range As compared to the powerful City destroying destructive Power of strategic nuclear weapons. The explosive Power of a tactical nuclear device could be in the sub Hoton a Kiloton is equal to tons of int Range for artillery ammunition with a Lettai diameter at Impact of a few Hundred Yards up to several Kilotons delivered by air planes or tactical i informed sources termed the Dea of placing nuclear weapons n an unstable environment such As Vietnam ridiculous. High military sources Laid nuclear weapons Are available elsewhere in Asia. Exactly where they Are stored Las never been officially reported. It is known however that arge quantities Are stored in special ammunition bunkers on Okinawa. It is believed that Okinawa storehouses contain Aerial ordnance and nut ear artillery ammunition. Air orce Mace missiles which can reach the chinese mainly Meare based on Okinawa. They have nuclear warheads. F other nuclear ammunition both for artillery and aircraft also is stored in Korea. The 4th missile command based j at Chinchon in the Centre of the Peninsula is equipped with nuclear tipped honest John missiles. It has always been expected by military ency planners that if the korean armistice were to be broken by North Korea with red chinese troop assistance the United states would use nuclear weapons to redress manpower differences. Naval magazines on Guam a few hours flying time from Vietnam also Are believed to shelter quantities of nuclear ordnance. There May also be nuclear ammunition for planes and naval ships at the big . Base at Cubi Point in the Philippines. A ships of the 7th Fleet . Naval vessels world also carry nuclear weapons. Not Only do aircraft carriers carry nuclear bombs for use by Navy Jet bombers in Case All out War Breaks out but other surface ships carry nuclear depth charges for anti submarine warfare and nuclear shells for the guns of the Fleet. Naval ammunition ships travelling with task forces Abo normally have nuclear weapons in their holds presumably ships slated to Call at japanese ports unload nuclear weapons onto ammunition ships before Docking then reload when they Are again Clear of the the . Japanese Steu Rity treaty forbids storage of nuclear weapons in Japan although conventional ammunition is in . Magazines there. In War game scenarios created by joint chiefs of staff planners use of nuclear weapons in various combat situations has been plotted not Only for Southeast Bot for conflicts in virtually every part . _ Optimist Clatt i Bingo i in prizes s game no. 15 l m today s Rte buy a Ouw it Fla pc Ift r a for As Low m Deposit your can earn As High 7% interest. 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