Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 22, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 75 no. 150 Price Loc 15c Friday March 22, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon suit . Forecast sunny and Milder 10 and 35 minutes after resign ing As minister of High ways for British Colum Bia Phil Gaglardi met the press in his office thurs Day. On his desk is a Model of the Lear executive Jet or. Gaglardi admitted flew his daughter in Law to Dallas Texas to visit her parents. Pre Mier w. A. C. Sworn in As minister of highways to succeed or. Gaglardi announced the government plane would be grounded on return to . Carman crushed to death a 57-year-old Canadian Pacific railway employee was killed thursday when a Pound Flat car hitch he was repairing at the railway s West on shops fell on him. Dead is Bernard Kraft of 1094 Bannerman Avenue. Or. Kraft worked As a Slinger in the freight car department of the Weston shops. The used for securing Semi trailers to railway Flatcar in Piggy Back hauling had been raised to a height of about four feet by two men who were preparing to lower it for repairs when it fell on or. Kraft. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Winnipeg general Hospital. An inquest was to be held by or. I. 0. Fryer at today in. Winnipeg general Hospital. Accused of wife s murder Rivers Man. Up capt. Reginald Willis Mccann 25, the Royal Canadian signal corps was charged with non capital murder Friday in the shooting death of his wife thursday night at the nearby Canadian forces base. Ramp said Barbara Anne Mccann 27, originally from new Brunswick was shot a . In a Home in the residential area of. The Western Manitoba base. Police said capt. Mccann in custody in Brandon is originally from Nova Scotia. An investigation was continuing. Brandon mayor in Hospital mayor Stephen a. Magnacca of Brandon was on the critical list in Brandon general Hospital Friday. The mayor was taken t Hospital thursday afternoon after suffering what was de scribed As a slight stroke. The full extent of his illness i not yet known a member of the family said. Mayor Magnacca is to hav Complete rest and no visitor for the time being. Threatens newspaper reporter Guelph ont. Up magistrate Lucien Kurata f Toronto Centre of a controversy Over one of his court decisions two years ago has run into another. He barred the press from his ourt Here wednesday when vet eran court reporter Verne my wraith of Guelph Mercury said be. Could not obey magistrate Kurata s order to suppress the names of three Guelph motor its charged with serious traffic offences. Before my wraith was excluded from the court All three had pleaded me Ara a student to driving while disqualified Harvey Carleton 24, to impaired driving and driving while under suspension and James r. Winfield 44, to a charge of impaired driving. The court was told it was Winfield s e c o n d impaired driving of Fence. Please see judge Page 5 shielding under fire Gaglardi quits Post . Highways chief resigns t Over Jet use land Deal rows Victoria up Philip Arthur Gaglardi British Columbia s highways minister thursday resigned his portfolio took an pay Cut and had his department s executive Jet grounded. The Short stature but Vola tile voiced politician resigned after he became embroiled in criticism regarding the leased jut s use and involvement of his sons in land deals along . To highways. Premier w. A. C. announced the resignation in the legislature. He said or. Gaglardi would remain in the social credit Cabinet As a minister without portfolio. The Premier who is also min ister of finance assumed the to highways portfolio. He then grounded the Lear Jet until further and said he is possible Termina Tion of the lease. He told reporters or. Gaglardi would receive the Sal Ary paid ministers without port Folio plus his indemnity As an la. As highways minis Ter he was paid s17.500 plus the session Al indemnity. Or. Bennett said the reason for the minister s resignation was ill health. Or. Gaglardi is recovering from surgery for an former vice president Richard Nixon says he s running for president but this double billboard on . Highway 41 West of Appleton Wisconsin casts a ittle doubt on the matter. The Beer and at right is not part of the Nixon one at left. Boy Kurata Guelph out. Up mag Strate Lucien Kurata said Early Oday his Only reason for order no a reporter from his court room thursday was an accused Man s seven year ild son. Verne Mcilwraith a reporter or the Guelph Mercury was ordered from court by Magis trate Kurata during the hearing of an impaired driving charge against James r. Winfield 44, of Guelph. It was Winfield s second conviction on the charge and he was Given the mandatory 14 please see shielding Page 6 impacted tooth and a jaw cyst. Or. Gaglardi however said his reason for resigning concern that the government was being damaged by attacks on him. He criticized the press for its ceaseless hounding o me.1 Premier Bennett termed or. Gaglardi one of British Colum Bia s great men for building some of the Best highways and Bridges in the whole he has saved not hundreds not thousands not millions bu1 tens and tens of millions of Dol Lars with non patronage policies and hard work. The 55-year-old minister left his portfolio admitting to a million mistakes but boomed to reporters i be got nothing to the statements by the minis Ter and the Premier did t satisfy the opposition. Opposition Leader Robert Strachan of the new demo cratic party asked the Premier to accept his responsibility Anc Tell the people of British Colum Bia everything they should know and must know Liberal Leader Ray Perrault demanded the government launch a judicial inquiry into the resignation because the min ister would no longer be Able to answer questions pertaining the highways department on the floor of the House. Cyril Shelford the social credit member for Domineca said he did not think or. Gaglardi should have been retained in the Cabinet after resigning his portfolio. The opposition had been Ham Mering at or. Gaglardi since the session opened Over the involvement of his sons in Lant deals. Then the questions switches to the use of the Jet. It was Dis closed wednesday the Jet car please see . Page 5 counterfeit drugs on Sale says my by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff counterfeit drugs that Are not Safe Are being distributed on a Large scale in Canada or. L. M. Brand progressive conserva Tive member of parliament for Saskatoon told the commons thursday. Outside the House he said the counterfeit drugs were being sold mainly in Eastern Canada but some had been reported in Winnipeg. Or. Brand asked health minister Allan Maceachen if he was aware of the serious threat to Public health posed by the distribution of the counterfeit drugs. The minister said he was t aware of Large scale counterfeit sales and asked for details. Or. Brand said he would Supply them to the minister. He said outside the House that drug counterfeiting was a Laise operation i the United states but it had not been uncovered in Canada until quite recently. The drugs Are Tranquili Zers made to look like the properly manufactured drug an packaged in the same manner. Legislature its q government attacked for delaying action on important legislation. Page 10. Agriculture minister Harry Enns scolds Manitoba Farmers Union. Page 10. Fifty Industrial accidents in Manitoba in 1967. Page 5. Education financing plan under heavy opposition fire. Paso 1. Czech president resigns Novotny quits after new leaders told of soviet non intervention Prague Reuters Antonin Novotny an old line stalinist has resigned As president to dear the last major obstacle from Czechoslovakia s surge toward a More democratic form of communism. The official news Agency cute to today announced the presidium of the communist party accepted Novotny s resignation offered thursday on grounds of ill health. The resignation followed Public clamor unprecedented in communist country that the president should go. The associated press said that Novotny quit after the czech party s new leadership received soviet assurances of non intervention in their Liberal nation drive. Novotny stepped Down less than 48 hours after Deputy pre Mier Oldrich Cernik returned rom Moscow where top soviet officials including Premier Alexei Kosygin told him they would not interfere in Czecho Slovakia s Liberal new course of socialist the a said. The 63-year-old Novotny had ruled the country with an Iron hand for 15 years and 1957 held the presidency since along with the most powerful Post in the first Secretary ship of the communist party. Please see czech Page 6 Korea awaits Barley by Hubert Beyer there seems to be no end to the line of people patiently awaiting their turn. For several hours they have been waiting quietly and Hope fully. All of them carry a thin Container and slowly they move Forward. They Are koreans. They Are hungry people who Are waiting to get a share of Barley which May decide Between life and death for their children at Home. Where does the Barley come from from you. Your contribution will enable the unitarian service commit tee of. Canada to feed the hungry. Do you know what a Mother must feel at the sight of those Large bags with the familiar Canadian insignia on them the bags which contain food for her starving children she does t know free press readers have made this pos sible. But that does t matter. It s not the important tiling. What she does know and what is important to her is thai someone somewhere in the world has not forgotten her. It is hard to understand that Barley Means so much to her most canadians would t look too Happy if All they had to eat was Barley. But they Don t know what hunger is. Please see koreans Page 6 trapped Miler gives up Buffalo . A fugitive convicted killer Winston Moseley gave himself up to police thursday after he was trapped in an apartment build ing on suburban grand Island. Moseley serving a life term or killing a new York City bar maid surrendered after police entered the building and con Vinced him he could not escape alive police said. Moseley who escaped Mon Day was cornered thursday morning a few hours after he allegedly raped a Buffalo woman and stole her Automo bile. He fled to grand Island which is in the Niagara River about five Miles North Buffalo. Police found the getaway car near the apartment building. Several Bridges the Only escape routes from the Island were sealed off by state troop ers. Moseley held mrs. E. James Patmos and her Young daughter As hostages for about two hours on grand Island neighbors said but the two were releases unharmed shortly before he gave himself up. Earlier thursday Moseley had held a husband and wife captive in a housein Centra. Buffalo for More than an hour police said mrs. Matthew Kulaga reported that he raped her after binding her husband with ropes. Bows out not campaigning for presidency he says new York special gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller thurs Day took himself out of the running for the Republican presidential nomination. York governor stunned a National television audience with the unexpected disclosure All a news conference that he Wai not a candidate campaigning in the presidency. Gov Rockefeller s carefully worded statement left slim possibility of a last minute draft at the Republican National convention. But he himself conceded in answer to questions that his action All but clinched the nomination for former vice president Richard m. Nixon. Gov. Rockefeller gave four reasons forms decision Republican party professionals had made it Clear that their Choice was or. Nixon. His candidacy would Only create division within the party at a time of perilous National a confrontation with me. Nixon in the May 28 Oregon primary the Only meaningful primary left in which the two could compete would by necessity focus on personalities rather than issues and would almost certainly prove distorted and gov. Rockefeller said he had signed the affidavit removing his name from the Oregon ballot. Please sei2 Rocky Page 4 of Israel opposed Strong afro asian Resolution rejected by Britain . United nations Reuters afro asian Mem Bers of the Security Council today canvassed for a Strong Resolution against Israel but faced objections from veto holding Western Powers. Although both Britain and the . Severely criticized Israel for an attack on Jordan thurs Day they were reported con Sider a draft calling for Meas ures against Israel unacceptable. The afro asians draft that condemned Israel for the attack were understood to have sanctions against Israel in mind with then Call for Steps and Canadian ambassador George Ignatieff and the latin Ameri can representatives were also Tel Aviv a israeli israeli troops return Aviv a forces fought their Way Back Home thursday claiming they wiped out four Rilla bases and killed 150 terrorists in their 15-hour invasion of jordanian territory on the East Side of the River Jordan. The israelis said they lost Only 30 men. The jordanians claimed 200 invaders killed and said Only 20 jordanians were dead. The jordanians also claimed they knocked out most of the israeli tanks and vehicles which crossed the Jordan. As the fighting ended the arabs and israelis Deb ated be fore the in Security Council and sought support in the Corri Dors and lounges at in head quarters in new York. Please see israeli Page 6 said to have termed the afro asian proposal unacceptable. The afro asian m e m b e r a spearheaded by Algeria India please see blaming Page 6 govt. Levy hike big hoax Mill rates for the school foundation Prog a were being boosted charged the govern by Derek Hodgson the n provincial government was accused thursday of perpetrating one big hoax on the province by hiking municipal levies by 4.1 Mills this year. Opposition Leader Gil Mol Gat speaking in a Stormy emergency debate in the legislature prompted by an announcement earlier in the week that uniform Winston Moseley features today scots win showdown with the owl 15 today s Index classified 23 to 36, 38 comics. 10, 11 deaths 14 finance 39 to 42 Jumble. 25 movies 9 sports 15 to 22 tax tips. 11 television. 7 women 12, 13 a b City zone total c circulation nearly everyone reads the free press Public schools finance appointed last year filibuster prolongs session Ottawa up govern ment Hopes for an adjournment of parliament today apparently have been blocked by a Persis tent nip Campaign aimed at speeding passage of the govern ment drug Bill. Health minister Maceachen government House Leader and one of eight Cabinet ministers campaigning for the Liberal said in an interview thursday night the Outlook is Bleak for a Quick adjourn. Ment. Please see filibuster Page 6 ment with coaxing the Popula Tion and said the government was hiding behind the legalistic terms of the both Liberal and new demo cratic party members hurled accusations at the government d u r i n g the 90 minute debate. Education minister George Johnson defended the education financing plan and the increased costs with table thumping Orat Ory. The House was told last tuesday that a province wide increase was necessary to ensure that local governments paid for 35 per cent of the education foundation program that was set up last year. The Board increased the nine Mill Levy on residential property to 13.1 Mills and the 33-Mill Levy on com Mercial property to 37 Mills. Or. Mol Gat said the people of i water everywhere Manitoba had Good reason to Niagara Falls . A believe the Mill rate for. The j _ firemen were called to t. Fire school foundation program were at a Large souvenir and fixed. Tiosh building on Goat Island Saul Miller nip seven Oaks j less than 100. Yards from the said the government was guilty american Falls where 6 straight for Hay of Scotland Montreal Scotland s de fending Champion Chuck Hay posted his sixth straight Victory in the world Curling Champion ships Here Friday morning Early turning aside Switzerland 19-8. Canada s Ron Northcott who lost to Hay thursday night remained in second place trouncing West Germany 19-6. Northcott has a 5-1 record. Meanwhile Bud Ville s its. Champions remained in c o n t e nation by whipping France 14-6. Of either Gross miscalculation or bamboozle ment of the Public and the legislature. He said the government must have been please see hike Page 5 Gallons of water plunge Over the Crest every second. They bed no pumping equipment with them and had to Call in a nearby Volunteer department to extinguish the flames ;