Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, March 18, 1968

Issue date: Monday, March 18, 1968
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 18, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday March 18, Dollar Swap okayed continued Ter National monetary fund rules. It Trade Between 91.575 and 92.425, and last week averaged 92.065. M r. Kasminsky announced that the Bank of Canada and its counterpart in the ., the Federal Reserve Board have agreed to a currency Swap arrangement totalling instead of this is an a r r a n g e m e it whereby either country Call on the other to Exchange its cur Rency freely up to the limit when the foreign dollars Are needed to offset swings in for eign Exchange rates. Canadian Drew Dollars in a Swap for Canadian dollars in support the Canadian Dollar when it dropped As Low As 91.743 cents. Or. Sharp said he was greatly relieved by the Washington decision and found it constructive. Uncertainty about the future of Gold and the Dollar had been unsettling and part of the reason for High interest rates he said. It also had threatened Canadian foreign Trade. Solution of the crisis the finance minister said May mean a lowering of interest rates. It also removed the threat to Trade and to jobs in Canadian Export oriented business. Or. Sharp asked the Banks and other Gold traders to sus Pend trading Friday in line with the closing of the London Market and most other old markets. Sunday right he sent Tele Grams to the Banks and traders King them to continue the sus pension until further the government was review no its Gold mine subsidy machinery to determine How it will e affected by the two Price sys so. Mines that deliver Gold to the Loyal Canadian mint Are Eligi be for a Cost of production sub Idy averaging an ounce and amounting in the Case of ome High Cost mines to Canada produces about ounces of Gold a year for Export and keeps about Worth in its foreign change fund. West to Sway vote continued which will elect a new prime minister. There is speculation Here that younger liberals Are trying to take Over Delegate selection from the Western old guard and throw their support behind one of the younger candidates possibly Justice minister tru Deau. The four Western provinces will have 684 delegates at the convention compared with 731 from Ontario 627 from Quebec and 407 from the four Atlantic provinces. A concerted move by the West could give one candidate Hall the number of votes he would need to win the leadership. The other regions appear badly split among the nine Seri Ous Cabinet ministers and Eric Kierans for Mer Quebec health Andi Revenue minister. One look for heavy pres sure on Western delegates by Al the candidates in the closing Days of the Campaign. Horsing around with John Lepage by the time a Man finds Greener pastures he climb the Fence there is some medical Evi Dence that wrinkles Are hereditary and it May be tha parents inherit them Iron their children. Psychiatrists assert that it is not Good to keep too much to ourselves. The income tax officials Tell us the Sam thing you will not keep to any Mare when you discover Hov great it is to be our at the paddock restaurant and Enjo Good food in surround Ings. Introducing an exciting new Talent from the .a. R. L. Thomas singing guitarist dinner show . Lounge show 9 . 1 . 4kffl cops youths scream continued Ning to action dissolved into words As hundreds of voices began to chant "174" the badge num Ber of the beleaguered policeman. We left him standing defiantly in the door Well shoulder to shoulder with the Man who had been attacked. The atmosphere was the same throughout the after noon at Trafalgar Square on Oxford Street and finally at the american embassy in Grosvenor Square. In front of the embassy demonstrators rained mud and Sticks on mounted1 police who retaliated with Short arrests ran into the hundreds and it was not uncommon to see bloody faces. One Constable told me he had never known Oxford Street As it was on sunday. Nor was the explosiveness of the marchers possibly in number regarded As spontaneous. This is said a second Bobbie. Demonstrators continually pounded and sat on car roofs and fenders. But the police were the main target. One youth. Speculated mat Ter of factly on the numbers who would be killed ill bet at least 50. Coppers get it he said. These demonstrations attract every sort of protest banners but the great majority of sunday s bore communist or anarchist slogans. There was a Strong Continental flavor some of the most aggressive groups were from Berlin Paris and Spain. The d demonstration is bound to compound concern Here about recent student behaviour. There have been a series of violent scenes in recent months culminating in an incident at Cambridge in which students mobbed the defence minister Denis Healey. Rhodesian skirmish kills 10 Salisbury Reuters nine african nationalist guerillas and one policeman were killed in violent clashes near the Zambesi River the rhodesian government announced today. The statement said there has been an infiltration of terrorists from Zambia and Secu Rity forces Are now in Contact with a undisclosed number of guerrillas were captured and one seriously wounded the statement said. Two members of the Security Force were also wounded. Rhodesian forces also were said to be pursuing the remain Der of the infiltrators. Notices flashed on movie screens in Salisbury sunday night ordered All soldiers on leave ill the breakaway British Colony Back to their units and military police patrols searched other places of entertainment for off duty men. The guerrillas were reported seen crossing Lake Kariba in canoes. Will hold talks Kuala Bumpur Reuters Australia new zealand Singapore and Malaysia Wii hold an area defence conference Here in May malaysian pre Mier Tun Abdul razed said. The talks were called in Light of the British decision to withdraw its military forces from the far East by late 1971. Wait Winters asks Liberal delegates by the Canadian press time is running out for the lard travelling contenders for he Liberal leadership but at East one in t in a hurry for leadership convention delegates to make up their minds. Trade minister Winters Dur ing the weekend told Saskatchewan delegates who will help pick a new Leader in Ottawa april 4-6, they should not com Mit themselves until they Are on the scene. Take the Opportunity to As sess All the candidates and then make the he said at a Regina meeting saturday. The new Leader should be chosen to fit not Only one occasion but All occasions. Confronted with 35 Vancouver pickets demonstrating against the War in Vietnam Justice minister Trudeau told them they were being morally com he said at a later news Ference it s one thing to be opposed to it. It s another to find a solution to if he won the leadership and became prime minister he doubted he could do More to end the War he said. There was not much that prime minister Pearson had not already tried. Two other candidates were in new Brunswick one in Quebec and two in Ontario. In Edmundston n.b., health minister Allan Macea Sheri told a meeting of convention Dele Gates he had never threatened the prime minister with his res ignation if the Universal medical care insurance plan was not started july 1. Or. Mareachen said the Feder. Al government was not trying to Force the provinces to join the program. Agriculture minister j. J. Greene meeting with delegates in Saint John n.b., said the next two decades will see More economic growth than we have yet seen in this Skeleton of girl identified continued the remains were found nov. 13 by three Deer Hunters at the Edge of a Roadside Clearing. Laboratory tests proved them to be those of a Little girl White with Light Brown hair and Between three and five years old. It was surmised that she had died Between the late fall of 1966 and the summer of 1967. Her clothing nearly intact provided the Best potential clue to tracking Down her identity. She was wearing a Black Cotton cowgirl Vest and skirt a Blue Cardigan and Brown leather shoes. Photographs were taken of a child s mannequin dressed in the clothes and were widely distributed by Pok be in the Hope that somewhere a spark of recognition would be struck. But whether this did Aid in the identification was not known. Scheme will fail continued was announced 16 Days later by the United states Treasury. Or. Myers said the two Price Gold system will not work because it proved futile with Silver. Or. Myers recommended that world financial officials revalue Gold so that countries will not suffer an upset in their own currencies. Gold should be Pegge d at a different Dollar i ice then All other monies would adjust their own values according to the Dollar. Unless governments follow this Avenue they will end up in an awful mess because if they Trade in different prices for an ounce of Gold on world markets the result will be Gold will find its own level and one Price will emerge regard less. Or. Myers last month fount himself at Odds with the Federal securities commission for conducting a financial counselling service by mail in the Or. Myers was summoned to answer the charge in court a Baltimore md., March ,27, but his reply was the commission could go to he announced he would no1 appear and later said he a requested the court to dismiss the charge. On wrong train Westbury England up an embarrassed trainman missed his own train. A Passen or on a Cardif bound night express discovered he was on the wrong train pulled the emergency lever and jumped the train. I he trainman chased him along he track but dropped his signal Light with the showing. The Engineer started up and the Rainman had a Long cold walk Tough Wiltshire to catch the train at the next Stop along the line. 2 cities latitude same Salt Lake City the capital of Utah is in exactly the same latitude As new York City. Former teacher wins scholarship Glen Dixon former teacher at Earl Grey school has been awarded a musician s scholar ship to study for a master at education degree at the Eliot Pearson department of child study at Tufts University bos ton. 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