Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba St. Patrick honoured with fld. Holiday Canadian press correspondent Burin fld. Up March 17 May be anything but Spring like in Newfoundland but for the Island s people of Irish extraction who make up a Large part of the population St. Patrick s takes on some of the characteristics a Spring festival. It is the first Public Holiday of the year after new year s Day Newfoundland being the Only province to designate it As such. This year celebrations honouring Ireland s Patron Saint will be held monday since the 17th Falls on sunday. The feast of St. Patrick has been marked in Newfoundland Ever since the first irishmen came to fish for cod in the Early Days of the Island s history and established themselves As per manent residents along its rugged coastline. Despite the fact Winter still grips. Newfoundland in mid March the 17th nearly coincides with the Vernal Equinox and with Good weather the ice and Snow begin to dissolve under Westerly winds and a stronger Sun. It s a great Day for thousands of newfound Landers no matter what the weather and a great procession still swings Down the Indian policy hit continued he said the plight of the Canadian Indian was a blot on the history of development in our or. Carroll called for an Early meeting Between All Levels of government and the Indian people. He said such a meeting was a must if we Are to help our Indian people and improve their Way of he suggested that indians leaving the Reserve should be allowed to take some of their special rights with them in order to Aid their transition into society. The Indian people Are in trouble and an Early Confer ence on their problems would help alleviate the situation he said. He said there were Many roadblocks in front of an Indian before he could take his place in society. Or. Carroll said there was a Lack of jobs a language problem and discrimination All things the Indian had to contend with. They have a different sys tem of values inadequate hous ing segregation and a different social Standard to contend said the minister. To begin with we can accept the Indian As a Man of dignity. You know we d be part of the United states today if it was t for the outside the House or. Carroll said that no reply had been received to a Telegram sent to prime minister Pearson thurs Day demanding clarification of conflicting statements about reduced medical services for indians. He said that a five year Federal housing program for indians ending in had allocated for on Reserve housing but Only 000 for off Reserve housing. There has to be much better balance Between the two not suggesting cutting Down the on Reserve Grants just boosting the Money available for indians or. Carroll said that Indian and Metis people Hac indicated they wanted to move off of the reserves of number indians. Streets of old St. John s while smaller but no less enthusiastic grades brighten the numerous coastal outposts. Prelates statesmen business and professional men of Irish birth or descent have made notable contributions to new Sundland s development and the St. Patrick s Day Holiday is a formal Way of paying them tribute. While most of the Brogue has gone from the third and fourth generations most Newfoundland Ders Are indoctrinated to some degree with Irish manners of speech and a Good Deal of the Luxor for which the Irish Are Amous. For those who have known the spontaneity of Newfoundland is vitality it is no mystery St. Patrick s Day is generally a time for m e r r y a a k i n g in Homes throughout the province. In it s an Irish Tea party the Able will be covered in Emerald Reen and the occasion Spring ded with the symbols of Irish Shamrock Harp courts eying norths and Ligh hearted Barneys Paddy hats shillelagh Clay pipes and curly tailed pigs not to forget the Leprechaun. They All appear i the form of sweets and favors n colourful and captivating array. Right from the beginning of Irish settlement in newfound and emigrants from the Emer Ald Isle started setting their Cul ural roots contributing to the province s heritage in All walks of life. Today the Island is get ing a fresh sprinkling of Irish blood through the doctors nurses teachers and professors who come for permanent work. The St. Patrick s Day traditions will Likely live Long in Newfoundland. The benevolent Irish society now in its 162nd year and the oldest organization n the province is Active in keeping the spirit of the Auld Sod alive and healthy. A great two Days for Irish continued More than 50 bagpipe bands arid other units. In Boston thousands of marchers including City and slate officials and brass bands military units will Parade sunday in South Boston historically an Irish settlement. In Ireland the big weekend starts sunday with everybody taking monday off. Big Prades acid heavy sports schedules get the lion s share of attention with a goodly attend Ance expected in the Irish re Public s More than pubs. California observes the Occa Sion sunday with the Irish Flag flying Over los Angeles City Hall and Mickey o mouse Lead ing a Parade of clog dancers leprechauns and others at Disney land. In Chicago the civic Centre Plaza Fountain already is squirt ing Green water. Shamrock tex., always goes All out on the big Day celebrating today As the population of swells of some per sons for the festivities. Winnipeg free press saturday a Farch 16, i i i Canadian Gold production f second world War first world War Canada s Gold Industry has fallen on hard times since the end of the second world War. Production reached a Peak of ounces in 1941 when there were 146 mines in operation. By 1966, the number of mines operating had dropped to 33, with production Down to ounces. 13-Mill increase unlikely predictions of a 13-Mill in crease in the City s Mill rate Are unfounded mayor Stephen Juba of Winnipeg said Friday. Although it was too Early to make predictions an increase of about eight or nine Mills was More Likely the mayor said in an interview. We Don t know exactly what the school budget s increase will be but it looks like the City s increase won t be More than three or four predictions of a 13-Mill in crease had been made by the City s finance committee chair Man Alderman Mark h. Danzker. Unless the current estimates were drastically Cut a Rise of 13 Mills in the City s Mill rate was inevitable Aid. Danzker had warned. Finance committee is expected to finish preliminary estimates by the end of next week. They will then be presented to City Council. Bankers holding talks continued Michael Stewart j new . Foreign Secretary Brown quits Cabinet Market chaos delays Sale of debentures chaotic conditions on inter National Money markets have delayed Sale of in serial debentures by metro Council. On a suggestion by councillor Thomas b. Findlay Council thursday referred the Sale to finance committee for further continued w e treaty he said that under the present setup if they stayed at Home on the reserves they would have a much better Chance of getting or. Carroll will coi Lemue his fonday. Speech when the resumes debate on the chaotic conditions Money Market the study. In the present time is most Inopportune for Selling count Findlay argued. He said that interest rates might run As High As eight per if we were Able to sell the debentures at income tax service Ltd. Complete tax return 4 up do you know How the tax Law applies to your particular set of deductions and exemptions visit our office today for accurate service. 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Then earlier this week it be came known some officials at the foreign office were disgruntled at the Way Brown was apparently reshuffling the Diplo Matic service. Brown said in his letter of i resignation to Wilson the events of last night and the Early hours of this morning have brought to a head a really serious Issue which has As you know been troubling me for years. It is in Short the Way this government is run and the Man Ner in which we reach our Deci Sions. You and i have discussed this More than Brown continued i regard this general Issue As much More fundamental than any particular item of policy. For this reason i think i better that we should part com As in every other respect i shall regret it it goes without saying that i shall take every Opportunity to serve our movement and the country As loyally in future As i be tried to do in the past yours it was not the first time Brown threatened to resign by previously he changed his mind before putting it into table during the financial crisis of july 1966. The resignation coming in the Middle Money years Mills has admitted nothing publicly but is known to have conferred at length with chair Man George h. Mahon dem. Tex of the House appropriations committee. Mahon favors the double edged plan. President Johnson has repeat edly thrown his personal Back ing behind . Guarantees to go on trading Gold with foreign Banks at the rate. Treasury Secretary Henry h. Fowler pledged thursday that the Dol Lar won t be Washington buzzed with re mors about the possible Aterna lives open to the Bank Gover nors As they prepared to Start their two Day meeting with a luncheon in the Small fourth floor private dining room of the Federal Reserve Board. After lunch the Bankers planned to discuss proposals to solve the crisis around a 39-foot mahogany conference table in the Federal Reserve Board room. . Officials kept strict is ence on whatever plans Feder Al Reserve chairman William to Vcchesney Martin planned to it to his european colleagues jut there were reliable Indica ions he would Call for Funda mental reforms in private Gold fading. Some official said the London Gold Market closed Friday at Washington s request after sales soared to an estimated 200 tons none Day might never be Al owed to reopen except under rigid rules to curb speculative buying. Johnson originally planning a weekend trip to his Texas ranch was said to be consider ing staying in the capital to keep in close touch with the Bankers meeting. Financial observers predicted a devastating flight from paper currencies if the London crisis clearly devaluation would Hurt czechs purge govt. Continued i this theory would break Down to some extent in Canada How Ever because so Many of the goods sold Are either imported or depend on imports some where in their production. Would mean economists say higher prices would Start spreading through the country quickly. Prices would be in creased to absorb the Cost of dollars paid out to cover the new import Costi. These higher prices would add fresh fuel to the inflationary pressures that Are still Strong in the Canadian Economy. Economists say All this theorizing assumes that the Cana Dian Dollar were devalued by it self. If other countries especially the their Curren cies at about the same time a chaotic condition could develop in which predictions would be impossible to make until Confidence in the value of Money had been restored. Prague special tons the czechoslovak revolution rolled Onward Friday sweeping away remnants of police Rule and censorship. The minister of the Interior Josef Kudrna and the prosecutor general Jan Bartuska were officially sacked. They had been denounced thursday by the presidium of the czechoslovak National Assembly for having blocked a t h o r o u g h re examination of the trials of the Stalin Era. Of some persons tried Between 1948 and 1953, it was disclosed Only some have been rehabilitated. At the same time Assembly deputies charged or. Bartuska with negligence in permitting the escape of Gen. Jan Sejna to the United states. The newspaper rude Provo called for the separation of the criminal police from the state Security organization urged strict limitations on the letter s functions and guarantees against abuse of its Powers. The communist party Organ also published an interview with the chairman of the anti fascist fighters Union demanding the rehabilitation of some 30 to persons including non communists who fought in the West or alongside the Western allies in the two world wars. The communists of the. Cen trial publication Board the main censorship body passed a Resolution declaring that preventive political censorship should be the Resolution disclosed thai the Central publication Board and a preceding censorship body were headed by senior Security officials who ran the boards by a system of according to the official czechoslovak news Agency this created an atmosphere a breathable for the Strong blame was placed on Jiri Hendrych former right hand Man of president Antonin Novotny and still a member of the party presidium though a fortnight. A go As Ide logic a last 50 years an important and Reat figure in Many other in fast to v i n g action throughout the country or. Cestmir Cisar a Liber former minister of culture and education was named chief 3f the department of education science and culture in the communist party Central com Mittee. Or. Cisar had been politically exiled by or. Novotny As ambassador to Bucharest in 1964. The weeklies 5 r a g u e simultaneously pub shed an interview with rebel slovak writer Ladislav Znacko who left the country last summer for Israel protesting he Novotny government s stand on the Middle East War. In the interview Given in Vienna or. Znacko expressed the desire to return quietly and to continue where i have never informed sources in Prague said that the Only charge made against or. Znacko which possibly re valid was failure to extend his exit visa. A Novotny Market without reopened next firm decisions week from Washington. Rumours Here included the possibility of a total embargo on Gold sales or a general Price Rise which could open the Way to devaluation in Many com tries. Whatever is decided is almost certain to be kept until sunday. Officials said a state ment was expected before the european Bankers returned Home. Storm warnings Asper continued where negotiations had been unsuccessful in the past. According to the its presi Dent the Manitoba salary teachers must be of the work for nearly 40 put an extra Strain on the labor government. Two men Hurt As car skids police say Ron Adey 23, of 55 Peterborough Bay a passenger in a vehicle driven by Fred Pawluk 39, of 499 Cherrier Street suffered cuts to his face when his head struck the car Windshield. The car struck a Hydro pole constantly increased just to stay even with salary increases being Given to teachers in other associations across Canada. Getting away from discus Sions of salaries or. Asper Sale that it would be at least two or three More years before the Ful potential of the unitary school divisions was reached. The period of adjust Mem would be necessary to allow Foi a Long enough time for. A greater Range of courses to be developed within much larger better equipped schools. Citing a 1967 report tha indicated that smaller schoo divisions have a greater turn Over of teachers than unitary divisions or. Asper the after skidding out of control in its expect a significant de front of 373 Marion Street at crease in the number of teacher 1.30 . Drop outs in 1968. Or. Pawluk was. Also con from the same report or eyed to Hospital but was re Asper said a great percentage of those teachers who drop of of multiple school divisions enc up quitting teaching All to Gether while Many of those teachers dropping out of a unitary division end up going Back to University for additional training. Two men were Boniface Hospital Day morning and taken to St. Early Satur one was detained for observation following a one car Accident on Marion Street. Leased after treatment for slight i facial injuries. Nil probe urged Ottawa up Robert collapse i of censorship Mccleave Montreal says canadians and to Ronto Maple Leafs have conspired to see that Vancouver does not get a National hockey league franchise. He urged consumer affairs minister Turner in the Mons Friday to reconsider his earlier View that the govern ment cannot Deal with the mater under combines Law. Perhaps the restrictive Trade practices commission should e looking at this situation to see whether we cannot get Van Couver that particular hockey or. Mccreave said the new member for Halifax said he believes the lure of television Money hassled the Montreal and Toronto clubs to conspire together against the National interest of canadians. Vancouver s application was by the nil governors Evhen the league accepted six new cities in 1966, doubling its size. All six new teams Are in the United states. Now Oakland seals one of the new teams Are. In financial trouble and John Labatt Ltd. Breweries has offered to buy the franchise it to Vancouver. Or. Mccreave said the nil s 1966 decision to in the United states excluding Vancouver has never been satisfactorily it deserved far More attention in parliament than it had so far received. Air. Turner told the commons earlier Friday he has sent a Telegram nil president Clarence Campbell saying he would like Vancouver in the league. Brit he said in reply to Barry Mather Westminster that he sees no possibility of government Legal action. Professional sport classified As a service Industry did not come under his jurisdiction for purposes of anti Trust i Vestiga or. Mccreave said he suspected at the time of the nil s 1966 decision that Montreal and to Ronto were unwilling to give up their share of the Revenue that could be derived from National television broadcasting in can the canadians and Leafs own ers their Eye on the almighty Buck instead of any National Pride in this i think when we examine the motives of the Toronto and Montreal people who made the decision to support inter ests rather than British Colum Bia interests they were motivated by whatever Cash could be divided Between them rather than by any other Boss. The was evident As the czech film corporation released the first o a series of films on the 50th anniversary of the czechoslovak Republic to be celebrated Thi fall. This first film shown Friday night was devoted to Czechoslovakia s first president or. Thomas g. Masaryk whose name was unmentionable from the communist seizure of Power in 1948 until a few years ago he remained controversial even a few months ago. According to the film Corpora Tion the documentary portrays or. Masaryk As a philosopher political thinker professor ant above All As a asked whether there might soon statues of or. I Masaryk in czechoslovak town s Quarti again a Prague editor said yes perhaps. Why or. Masaryk s closest associate and successor As president or. Eduard Benes was also praised. Historian Milan Hub wrote that from a professional Point of View or. Benes a the Best qualified foreign min ister we have had Over thes chief Liberal literary in Bratislava and tvo women attacked v two Young women were attacked in separate incidents Friday night by men who used ropes in an attempt to subdue them. Both women escaped uninjured. Police said it appeared the incidents were related since both began at the same bus Stop William Avenue arid Sherbrook Street. One Man followed a 22-year old1 woman As she got off a bus and attacked her As she got close to her Home. He put a rope around her neck but fled when she fell to her Knees. A second Man got on a bus with a 19-Yeartold girl at the same intersection. He followed her when she got off the bus and attempted to choke girl however got a hand under the rope and her attacker was scared off by Motorist no arrests had been made police said. Decree had stripped him of his citizenship. The Bratislav party daily Ravda republished in full the so called Kosice program of i under which coalition government of communists social democrats catholics and agrarian turned after the nazi Ion the program guaranteed full autonomy for Lubomir Holecek one of he rebel student leaders told he youth paper Malda Fronta that the official Union of czech youth has lost the students Confidence and that the main responsibility Falls upon the communist party and its. Atti tide toward the or. Holecek was expelled from the youth Union two years ago for urging Independent autonomous student and other youth organizations a course now Likely to be followed. I communists of the Kle Ghent Gottwald in an open letter demanded that defence min ister Bohumir Lomsky should himself suggest to the Leader ship of the party to make a change in the Post of minister of 9 communist party District and regional meetings continued to be held with new defends for the removal of or. Novotny political democratization and economic Reform. There Wal be 59 party District conferences in All 10 czech regions Over the weekend. I the party presidium Dis closed that at a meeting thursday it had been decided to Speed up completion of its draft of political and economic. Programs new meeting of committee before this month. The the Central end of mini Hamlet the Manitoba theatre cent sunday will present a mini Ham let at 8 . The theatre. Across the Street directed by Keith actors from Mac will present scenes from Ham let which will later be Analysed by a panel of English professors from the University of Manitoba. Admission is free. The Central committee was to have met in mid March Bat the session was then postponed to april. Party leaders have Evi Dently recognized the need to present their new As soon As possible. Informed sources believed the Central committee meeting might take place about March 28, and that or. Novotny s formal ouster president of the Republic would be decided then. Gen. Lupik a non party figure who commanded the czech legion which fought alongside the soviet army in the second world year is mentioned As a possible successor. Gen. Svoboda is widely respected not Only for his War service but for his virtual disgrace during the High tide of stalinism. Refinished mahogany panelling for cottages and rumpus rooms rec now Reg. 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