Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 701 vol. 75 no. 147 Winnipeg free press final edition tuesday March 19, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast colder 10 and 20 us. Budget Tough ceiling clamped on dividends wages London Reuters Roy Jenkins Chancellor of the exchequer announced today a 3y2-per-cent Ceil ing on wage increases and company dividends As part of a budget which he said would mean two years of hard sacrifice for a much firmer policy for control of prices incomes and Divi by Extension of the government s Power to enforce essential at least until the end of 1969, Jenkins said in introducing the annual British budget to parliament. Jenkins said the budget is de signed to make a major contribution to the stability of the world monetary system in the Wake of devaluation of the Brit ish Pound nov. 18 and the re cent Gold crisis. He said1 that of achieve an Ideal annual balance of pay ments surplus of about Pound is Worth government has to budget for an annual Cut in consumption of about two per cent. A reduction of this size Means extremely severe increases in he said. Jenkins told parliament Laws will be introduced As soon As possible to impose a Svi per please see . Page 5 walkout protests firings Thompson Man. Up sixty members of the International brotherhood of electrical workers local 2085, walked off their jobs Here monday in protest of what was termed the mistreatment by Security police of two Union members. A Union spokesman said the men Are of Indian descent and were fired by their employer foundation co. Of Canada Ltd. They were ejected from the International Nickel com Pany of Canada Ltd. Construction site by Security police because they sat at a table which had ostensibly been reserved for foundation staff., the Union feels this smacks a Little of said Dale. Tilling Secretary of United please see protest Page 4 United states marines a Khe Sanh use sniper Scopes attached to their m-16 rifles to do some Sharp shooting at the North vietnamese who encircle the base. The powerful Scopes Are capable of making the enemy a bigger target and result in More accurate sniping. Weir Mav take Ottawa to court medicare tax without consent seen As unconstitutional by Bob Lis Way the Federal governments medical care insurance plan May be tested in the courts if implemented As proposed now Premier Walter Weir suggested in the Manitoba legislature monday. He said if no changes were made in the Federal govern ment s program it would be unconstitutional to tax Manitoban for a service outside its constitutional authority without provincial consent. Further study will be required to confirm this position if a test before the courts is require he said his government sup ported a medical care insurance plan but was concerned about costs. Present estimates indicated they could exceed a person compared with originally estimated. He said the medicare Bill passed by the legislature last year was passed with the under standing All provincial govern ments would participate. Since that time eight provinces have decided to defer the Premier said he expects the Federal government to make changes to allow medicare in co operation with provinces. Please see medicare Page 5 phoney tax experts at work says govt. Ottawa up the reve nue department warned monday that phoney income tax experts Are at work again in several parts of Canada. They generally pose As accountants or financial specialists and some falsely represent themselves As employees of the Revenue department s Taxa Tion division. They prepare income tax forms for a fee and seem to features today Kirton s foot saves canadians is today s Index classified 22 to 32 comics 20, 21 deaths 4 finance 33 to 35 Jumble 24 movies 9 sports 14 to 19 tax tips 21 television 8 women 10, 11 a b City zone total c circulation nearly everyone reads the free press escalation halt no sellout Frk prey mainly on Small income earners whose tax liability is Small or non existent. The Revenue department said All government personnel Deal ing in taxes carry identification cards which include their photo. And government tax men Are barred by Law from filling out a tax return for an individual or from accepting any fees for advice. A spokesman for the depart ment said there Are reputable tax advisory firms but the Pho Neys have been operating recently in Eastern Quebec and the Ottawa Cornwall area. Last year they were working in southwestern Ontario and the Prairie farm areas. In one Case a Farmer was charged for preparing his tax returns for three his total income was less than needed to require him to file any return. The Farmer was warned by the phoney tax expert that unless he took certain Steps some of his farm a animals would be seized by the department. No proper representative of the Revenue department can make such a threat. The department said anyone who doubts the credentials of an income tax agent should Check with the nearest District Taxa Tion office for verification. A department spokesman said another difficulty being enc Oun please see phoney Page 5 Manhattan Kansas Robert f. Kennedy said monday that he does not propose to sell out american interests in Vietnam or simply withdraw or raise the while Flag of Johnson urges austerity Minneapolis special h n s o n Creed on the american people monday to join in a total National Effort to win the War to win the peace and to Complete the Job at he assailed those who would Divide the nation in a time of peril and said that All Ameri cans must join in a program of National the president did not spell out what he meant by a total National but it appeared that he had in mind mainly the tax and Economy programs he is now attempting to work out with Congress. He did not indicate what other austerity measures he would ask. The president spoke before the annual meeting of the National Fame is Union in the Leamington hotel Here after a flight from la s Texas ranch. Vice president Hubert h. Humphrey introduced him. Development fund policy revamped Spivak announces Loans open to Cabinet scrutiny by Derik Hodgson the provincial government has announced a major reversal of its Manitoba development fund policy. Loans made through the fund Are now open scrutiny. Minister of Industry and com Merce Sidney Spivak monday night announced new regulations to cover the government sponsored fund during the throne speech debate. The government last year fought off attempts by the opposition to inquire into details of Loans. I am hot suggesting that and i Don t. Think any other r e a son and responsible american is suggesting he said in an Alfred m. Landon former Premier Duff Roblin maintained the fund operated at s length from the govern lecture at Kansas state univer ment and that under the act sity Here. Neither he nor his ministers he asserted however that he could inquire into loan details. Please see fund Page 7 Johnson s Etc protest rejected Ottawa. Up prime minister Pear son has strongly rejected the Quebec government claim that Federal policy on educational television Etc is an infringe ment of provincial jurisdiction. In a letter to Premier Daniel Johnson made Public monday or. Warned that Quebec s picking away at a judicial decision on broadcast ing could bring constitutional chaos. He appealed to or. Johnson to work with Federal officials to resolve Etc problems without or. Pearson sent the letter March 8 in reply to a feb. 16 Telegram for or. Johnson. The Johnson Telegram was a formal protest against Ottawa s outline for Federal legislation on educational broadcasting which is currently being studied by the commons broadcasting commit tee. It proposes that the Federal government provide funds to set up educational to stations. These facilities would be turned Over to the provinces which would be responsible for the program. Or. Johnson made three Points in his feb. 16 protest. He said education is a Clear responsibility of the province noted that to is a Field where the French culture and the interests of Quebec Are deeply in solved and claimed that Federal jurisdiction i n broadcasting rests solely on a decision by the Imperial privy Council in 1932 and thus has no real constitutional backing. Or. Pearson agreed with the first Point but rejected or. Johnson s views on the other two. The Federal govern ment is very conscious of the fact that broadcasting and Tele vision have a significant Impact on the development of French culture in Canada As indeed on culture in or. Pearson wrote. It does not follow however that the Federal government has wants to Call a halt to Escala Tion and to negotiate with the National liberation front whereas president Johnson plunges deeper into the swamp under the illusion that a military Victory can be won. The democratic presidential contender spoke to a crowd of students and educators at Kansas state and later to at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. The crowd at Kansas state greeted him with please see Kennedy Page 4 budget due shortly Manitoban will know within three weeks How big a bite the provincial government will be taking out of their wallets. Premier Walter Weir told the legislature monday that the budget would Likely be brought two or three the Premier was replying to a question by Liberal Leader Gil Mol Gat. Neither the please see authority nor the Pearson Page Lamarsh cites Cabinet failings by Victor Mackie of state Jude Lamarsh said today one of the real shortcomings of the Liberal government had been the Lack of organization and within the Cabinet. She favors a smaller i Cabinet or one organized along the British system of an inner and outer Cabinet. But she concedes this would be difficult to bring about under the Canadian sys tem of Cabinet organization where All members Are paid the same salary. Miss Lamarsh declared her whole hearted support for transport minister Paul Hellyer As next Leader of the Liberal party. She was confident he would properly organize the Cabinet. She was also confident that convention delegates would real ize that Justice minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and consumer and corporate affairs minister John Turner did not have the necessary experience. The Only Way you can get Flowers Jam rifles Chicago special tons anti War forces and Flower toting troops won what they count a major Victory Mon Day at the museum of science and Industry Here. The museum facing rapid escalation by anti War protestors locked up a new army helicopter on display sealed off its guns and took under consideration a proposal to remove from its newest War display Viet namese huts which sight seers at the museum were allowed to shoot at with the helicopter s machine guns. During the weekend the anti War demonstrators had picketed the huge South Side museum and sunday they succeeded in staging a frontal attack on the exhibit which they finally infiltrated and occupied for More than 30 minutes before Chicago police dragged them away. For Many years the museum has been the prime attraction of museum visit ors in the City far out distancing All other museums in the area. Until Disneyland came along it was commonly considered the nation s Foremost Mir Acle of gadgetry where the millions of visitors could push buttons to do such things As creating lightning running enormous Industrial machines operating milking machines and mining Coal. But until this year there was no army exhibit. The please see Chicago Page 7 that i guess is by living she believes or. Hellyer has All the characteristics necessary to make a Good Leader a Man who would be acknowledged As their Leader by his ministers unlike some of the other candidates. She sees or. Hellyer As the Best Man to Lead the libera party. She said he is not Only relatively Young 44 years o age but he has the party experience and the experience in government. This is some thing that those who Are being described As Young swinging candidates Lack he is a unique candidate Young in years but old ii she said. Pressed to say who would be her Secor Choice she said he was nol please see Lamarsh Page 4 major Mfd policy re Versal announced. Page 1. Two Bills get second Reading. Page z. Government needs More ready Cash. Page 7. Seven boundaries com Mission hearings scheduled. Page 7. Minister loses Symington Yard. Page z. Budget to be brought Down in three weeks. Page 1. Information services under fire again. Page 2. Medicare May face court test Weir. Page 1. Government defeats non Confidence motion Page 7. Johnston blasts taxation policies. Page 7. Rhodesian jets bomb n invaders in schedules new debate As guerrillas strike from a renters Salisbury up Rhodesia s White minority government sent Jet bombers and fighters into today against african nationalist guerrillas. State of siege declared Guatemala City a the guatemalan government suspended constitutional Guarr a tees for 30 Days monday night n the Wake of the kidnapping of the roman Catholic archbishop of Guatemala saturday. The state of siege declared monday night also puts the to. Ice under army control and Al lows the president to militarize other Public services. The government declared thai lie kidnapping of archbishop Mario Casariego is an offence to the people and a Challenge to the it blamed the a snapping on subversive ele ments guilty of persistent at tacks against social ins Titu meaning p r o a a s to o guerrillas. A local newspaper published what it said were letters which said the 58-year-old prelate is All right but because of his High blood pressure expects the visit of a doctor and needs Medicine. The also asked for cloth tog. They gave no clue to the Rea son for the kidnapping or conditions for the archbishop s re lease. Archbishop Casariego was on Bis Way Home from the Nuncio s Home when he and his chauffeur were seized saturday. He was the first ranking Churchman to be abducted although dozens of wealthy guatemalans have been held fors Ansom by guerrillas in recent years. Norwegian Prince to wed commoner Oslo King Olav v of Norway tuesday announced the engagement of his Only son 31-year-old Crown Prince har old to Blond commoner Sonja Haraldsen 30. The King s two daughters married commoners. The couple first met at a party 10 years ago. At least 50 guerrillas were re ported pinned Down near the Zambesi River 250 Miles North of Salisbury. Fourteen were reported killed and several More captured. Rhodesian Security forces said one of their men a Nephew of defence Secretary e. C. W. Try flip had been killed. The guerrillas Are believed to have crossed the Zambesi from Zambia last week. Authorities Here gave no de tails of guerrilla strength but reliable sources put it at Proba Bly 100, and unofficial reports suggested higher figures v it was the first major strike into Rhodesia guerrillas since August 1967. Rhodesian african nationalist leaders Ini _ exile in Zambia have threatened revenge for the recent hangings in Salisbury of five negroes convicted or murder. At tons the Security Council today prepared for a hew debate Rhodesia 2 . As Gates kept close watch ports of the fighting. Paris press hunger great enemy hunger is the greatest enemy in Asia. Young children their bellies distended with air their Large Black eyes Bleak with suffering wait patient Lay for hours for a ration of Barley. To these children with legs b be matchsticks it s not just Barley they wait for it s life. What do they know of poli tics they never heard of capitalism and communism they Don t know what state control versus free Enterprise Means. Please see hunger Page 4 Paris special tons the Odd Man out on the world monetary scene greeted the adoption of a new two Price system for Gold monday with a mixture of scepticism and suspicion. The government of president Charles de Gaulle declined any official statement on the agree ment. But the French press including faithful gaullist organs suggested flatly that it would t and could t work. Be Figaro in a front Page editorial said that the Reform would Only Lead to a devaluation of All currencies and aggravate economic uncertainty. The gaullist nation called the two Price system insufficient Una Apted to the real be has waged a relentless War on the existing monetary system said the new agreement created an unstable situation and declared that the superficial unanimity behind the Accord should deceive no the two Price system was agreed on in Washington sunday by the United states Britain Belgium Italy West Switzerland and the nether lands with France conspicuously absent. Please see Paris Page 5 the hungry half a world away look to us for help. City on Edge of storm at Emerson and Morris in Southern Manitoba this morning blowing Snow Cut visibility almost to Zero and motorists were advised to stay off the highways. Drifting Snow was reported. A Little farther South in North Dakota driving rain covered a wide area of the red River Valley in a Sheet of ice overnight and Early today. Widespread Power and Tele phone blackouts were reported. Driving Snow was reported in some places. So despite a forecast for Light Snow this afternoon and Snow Flur Ries this evening North winds at 30 m.p.h., with gusts and a High temperature for the Day in the Low 20s, the Winnipeg area was Lucky. The Dominion Public weather office in Winnipeg said greater Winnipeg was on the outside Edge of the storm this morning and was unlikely to get the full Brunt of it. Please see City pact 5 f ;