Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pages 4, 5 Leisure Magazine Winnipeg free press Finai Canada s leading rotogravure Magazine in defence of federalism Pierre Elliott Trudeau 47, Federal Justice minister and my for Montreal mount Royal opposing divisive forces states his Case in federalism and the French canadians from which weekend Magazine publishes an excerpt for the first time in English. Page 2 Twiggy she won t be 19 until next september but already Twiggy is a smash hit in the world of fashion. She quit school in London and three weeks later was making a week under the manage ship of Nigel John Davis. Now she is on the Way to making her first Page 8 the Boston Bruins Are full of Beans this year the. Loyal hockey fans of Boston finally have something to cheer about. Their beloved Bruins Are. Hit Ting harder enjoying it More with More and penalties. Patrick Nagle tells Why Boston fans Are the Way they Are Page 16 second charge of the Light brigade director Tony Richardson has recreated the crimean War for a new film the charge of the Light brigade dramatizing the incompetence stupidity and vanity which made the disaster of 114 years ago possible. The film is heavy with stars such As Trevor Howard Vanessa Redgrave sir John Gielgud and David Hemmings. Page 28 plus Leisure Magazine concert Hall plans become reality pages 4, 5 society for hippies parents. Page 7 is Junior football dead Page 11 Church news pages 12, 13 the electric car is air pollution Page 18 color comics e to radio guide and elsewhere in the paper Jumble winners 13, entry form 16, Puzzle 34 careers 54, 58 finance 53 to 58 classified 32 to 48 movies 27 comics 16, 17 sports 50 to 52, 59 deaths 13 women 19 to 24 vol. 75 no. 151 Price Loc 15c saturday March 23, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast sunny 45 and 20 ests chief foreign by Jed Stuart Brandon staff Cana Dian indians May seek foreign Aid if Ottawa won t reconsider what seems to be a new Federal government stand or medical services for treaty indians says Arthur Bambi Dee of the Sioux Indian at Griswold. Or. Bambi Dee a councillor of the Oak Lake Reserve about 20 Miles West of Brandon said Friday it is too soon to talk of abrogating the so called Medicine Chest treaty of the last Century whereby treaty indians receive free medical and Hosp ital care because the Indian people As a whole Are still too they would probably seek Aid from Britain the us or even Russia rather than see their numbers decreased through Lack of proper health services he said. Or. Bambi Dee was inter viewed after a joint protest meeting of Brandon area treaty indians held Friday at the local Indian Metis Friendship Centre. Representatives of the Sioux bands at Griswold Pipestone and Birtle were present at the meeting called to protest a recent department of National health and welfare announce ment that in future funds for treaty Indian medical and Hosp ital services will be reduced. This also applies to Canadian eskimos. Treaty indians understand this Means their medical and Hospital Bills will no longer be paid by the Federal government or in other words medically speaking they will be treated As Ordinary citizens. At the Brandon protest meet ing it was decided to Forward a Brief to Allan Maceachran fed eral health and welfare minister. Contents of the Brief Aren t yet Public pending its approval by councils of the Sioux bands in the Brandon area. It was first intended that those attending the protest meeting would March three Short blocks from the Friendship Centre to the Federal building both located in downtown bran Don. The demonstration was can celled when protestors Learned officials of the Federal Indian affairs Branch and of the National health and welfare please see suggests Page 12 Gen. Westmoreland wins and loses Saigon the widespread expectation in the . General officer corps Here is that Gen. Creighton Abrams Deputy to Gen. William c. Westmoreland will take Over As . Commander in Vietnam when Gen. Westmoreland leaves in july. Whoever the new Man is he will inherit Gen. Westmore land s War of attrition strategy but May try to move beyond it. So far. Gen. Westmoreland has been neither a Clear Cut Winner nor a loser As the Vietnam commander. He has won the big Battles when the Viet Cong and North Viet namese chose to fight in Force toe to toe but has Little toward securing the Countryside As a whole. Regarding Gen. Abrams one general said it would t make much sense to pass Over the general who has been working with Westy for a year so he could take but president Johnson facing an election Campaign where Vietnam is the number one Issue May Surprise the generals by naming a fresh face to counter criticism that he has a closed mind on the War. While sen. Westmoreland s Transfer from Vietnam com Mander to army chief of staff can be portrayed As a promo Tion on the. Chain of command Jove will be widely interpreted As a kick upstairs his critics both in the Field Here and on the third floor of the Pentagon in Washington charge his War of attrition amounted to a simplistic Strat egy of kill kill kill in the belief Hanoi would cry Uncle. Please see Vietnam Page 10 Maceachen defines policy . General in Vietnam recalled Johnson names Westmoreland army chief of staff by Ralph Harris Washington Reuters the removal of Gen. William c. Westmoreland from the Vietnam Battle scene is expected to Clear the Way for possible changes in president Johnson s conduct of the War. Johnson told a hastily called press conference at the White House Friday night that West Moreland 54, Field commander in Vietnam for four years is being brought Back in july to take Over As . Army chief of staff at the Pentagon. His successor has not yet Jeen named. Observers said the move was expected to encourage the belief he president was reviewing the Over All Vietnam situation in response to pressure from new York senator Robert f. Ken Nedy and the War critics in the democratic party. The recall of the general also set off speculation that the elec Tion Campaign of dissatisfaction with his handling of the War persuaded Johnson to think about a change. Kennedy and Minnesota Sena Tor Eugene m. Mccarthy John son s two challengers for the democratic presidential Nomi nation in the november elec Tion want him to de escalate the conflict move away from a War of attrition and do More to open negotiations with the communists. Please see Westy Page 10 invasion of North hinted aboard the .s. Kitty Hawk in Tonkin Bay special tons South Viet namese vice president Nguyen Cao by said Friday he believes an invasion of North Vietnam and Laos by ground troops would be necessary to gain a decisive military Victory in the War. Such invasions however Are against the policy of the South vietnamese government for the time he added. Asked if Saigon would change that policy or seek to impress the United states with the desirability of invading North Vietnam vice president by re plied that president Nguyen Van Thieu should be asked that question. He also said Friday he stil expects the enemy to attack soon around Saigon or near the demilitarized zone Doz that divides North and South Viet Nam. Please see invasion Page 10 it is the Job of canadians to help indians become self support ing health minister Allan a. J. Maceachen Liberal leadership candidate and health minister told a press conference in Winnipeg Friday. He said the Federal govern ment was willing to provide a medical service for indians but if they could afford to provide their own it would be doing them a disservice not to let them do so. He said the higher mortality rate among indians was due to their environment. Regarding the welfare serv ices generally he said that the government had been working for some time to make benefits according to income. By making it More selective it has become More effective. It is now working very he said. Not raising the amount of Money allotted for Indian med ical Aid was in no Way a Means of forcing anyone s hand into medicare he said. Some people were under the impression that the amount spent had actually been Cut. This he said was not True last year there was an increase of 14 per cent. Increases had not been made this year because of the present financial situation. It is Clear to me that if the Indian population is going to become integrated into the main Stream of the Canadian Community they should be treated As Ordinary the minister was to leave Winnipeg saturday for Regina Saskatoon Edmonton and Cal Gary. Indians March again a delegation of indians visited the Manitoba legislature Friday to protest the announced curtailment of health services by the Federal government. David Courchene president of the Manitoba Indian brother Hood said it appears to us that some of our White Brothers have again spoken to us with forked the 35 indians carrying placards met with provincial welfare minister j. B. Carroll and other members of the legislature to outline their grievances on the reduction of medical services to indians. Or. Courchene said it was the responsibility of the Federal government to look after the health services of indians and that funds should be provided t o support the increased costs of health ser vices. If services Are being curtailed the reasons should be explained precisely or. Courchene said. Or. Carroll said the provincial government., was attempting to get clarification of the Federal government s policy on health services for indians because conflicting statements have been made by Federal administrators. Liberal Leader Gil Mol Gat said there is no excuse for a change in policy without Consul Ting the persons involved. Barley saves lives the symptoms of hunger Are simple a gnawing pain in the stomach pathetically thin be that Are hardly Able to support the body and bulging bellies. The end is usually death Anc considering the pain hunger causes death May be the Besl solution. This May sound morbid to you but ask the Mother in Kores whose three children died of starvation. She will substantiate it. The maddening Point is thai one Dollar s Worth of food could have saved her children. Just one Dollar. J think about that and ask yourself whose responsibility the starving children Are. Should the politicians do More to help them please see your gift Page 13 Gold Price shaky new purchases could wreck agreement by Hobart Rowen Washington Spe some of the seven Gold Pool nations Are considering regular purchases of newly mined Gold from South Africa despite High level assurances last weekend that they were out of the Gold buying Busi the . Government vigorously opposes the idea it was Learned Friday night. The fear Here is that the Price of Gold in the free markets deprived of much of the South african Gold would1 soar and make it impossible to hold the official Price at an ounce. It would come close to destroying last weekend s one key source said Friday night. Please see Gold Page 13 no. Home Burns 6 missing firemen Hunt bodies Beresford . Up firemen were searching for bodies today in the smoulder ing ruins of a Home in this Northern new Brunswick Community where six persons Are presumed to have perished late Friday. Missing and presumed dead Are Samuel Frenette jr., 33, his four 10 James 9 Steven 6 and Cynthia a maid Brigitte Elourdes 18, of St. Sauveur . Mrs. Frenette a nurse s Aid at hotel Dieu Hospital in Bath urst five Miles away was at work when the fire broke out in the modern Bungalow. Two fire trucks from Bathurst fought the Blaze but it was Well under Way arrived. Please see . Page 10 cuban coach candidates unleashed Pearson frees ministers despite House deadlock by Joyce Fairbairn Ottawa staff x prime minister Pearson has lifted the escape Hatch to Cabinet leadership candidates for campaigning even though the commons re Mains deadlocked in debate.? the prime minister opened he door late Friday after it became Clear that All deals were off As the new democrats almost single hand edly kept debate going on the govern ment s supplementary spending estimates. With the Prospect of the souse still at work next week or. Pearson s press Secretary Romeo Leblanc told newsmen of the prime minister s Deci Sion. Or. Pearson feels that the candidates Are entitled to at least two weeks of full Cam or. Leblanc said. The prime minister feels that the office for which the candidates Are competing just Down by Dan la Rocq Tje the Man who coached the cuban National rowing team to two Bronze medals then defected to Canada has been signed As coach of the Winnipeg rowing club. Nestor Carbonell who abandoned the cuban pan american team during the 1967 games aug. 7, will take Over full time May 1. At a press conference Friday afternoon club president Art Monk predicted signing of the diminutive cuban would be the catalyst to the Heady Heights of please see rowing Page 10 top newsmen View Liberal hopefuls with the adjournment of parliament imminent the race for the leadership of the Liberal party is now getting under Way in Earnest. In today s free press three of Canada s Foremost political writers assess this stage of the race. Free press Ottawa correspondent Victor Mackie in the first of a series on the serious contenders tells How external affairs minister Paul Martin s organizers feel about his Chance. Peter Newman releases the results of an exclusive poll of Liberal maps on who they Are supporting and political analyst Peter Regenstreif gives his assessment of How the Battle is pro Gressing on the Prairies. For their articles please turn to Page 49. United nations up members of the in Security Council weary after two Days of Marathon meetings and Pri vate consultations on the latest outbreak of fighting in the mid dle East pushed ahead today with their search for a Resolution critical of Israel that All could accept. The Council meets at noon est after it decided at about . That there was no Hope for immediate agreement. Council members had begun their sessions Friday shortly after noon after ithe Day before that had lasted past Midnight. Diplomatic sources said it was generally agreed among members of the 15-Natiqn coun cil that Israel s retaliatory at tack on Jordan thursday should be condemned the sources said the major obstacle to agreement was Western Call for a general refer ence to Arab terrorist raids into Israel arid israeli occupied Arab territory which preceded is please see. Mideast Page 12 legislature reports government scored Over medicare. Page 13. Education minister throws Damper on plans for education committee. Page 2. Lire television in North by 1969 Mclean. Page 2. Government Cool on go go girls. Page 6. 0 nip Bac Bencher Calls for education Parks. Page 13. Kaw Clink urges expansion of Canadian wheat Board. Page 2. Liberal wants review of sales tax. Page 13 amendment to fior Ned cattle act gets second read ing. Page 13. Manwaring appointed Dauphin magistrate. Page 2. Censor Board should be abolished Hanuschak. Page 2. Indians protest curtail ment of health services. I Page 13. Ivies the idea that they should get out to meet the he said. This feeling is shared by Many members on both sides of the or. Leblanc said the need for the eight Cabinet ministers to have a Clear two weeks on the Liberal hustings before april 6, had been understood _ by All parties except please see Liberal Page 13 agriculture minister j. J. Greene was unhurt Friday when his chartered aircraft ran off a private runway and crashed in a Field three Miles West of Woodstock ont. The five passenger Beechraft 18 with a Crew of two failed to lift off the ground Tore through a barbed wire Fence and ended up nose Down in the Middle of a Frozen Field. Or. Greene a Liberal leadership candidate who was travelling to meet convention delegates in Goderich and. Wing Ham said he Felt the plane was not going to get airborne As it reached the. End of the runway. Martin knocks Weir by Wade Rowland Paul Martin Canada s Exter Nal affairs minister and a front running candidate for the Liber Al leadership Friday took Issue with Premier Walter Weir on the constitutionality of Federal medicare legislation. Or. Martin speaking at a news conference in the fort Garry hotel told reporters he can t see How the legislation can be unconstitutional. I can t see How the Federal government is guilty of passing an. Unconstitutional measure when the a legislation simply allows the to take advantage of Grants of up to. 50 per cent of the Cost of financing Universal medical care. Please see medicare Page 10 Camp co., not Camp got paid National conservative pres rident Dalton Camp received no fee from the Manitoba govern ment for handling a tourist promotion account for the province during the current fiscal year. However or. Camp s Toronto advertising Agency did receive roughly As a result of the account in the form of a Standard 15 per cent Kickback from the publications most of them located in the United states that carried the ads. The information was disclosed in the legislature Friday when tourism and recreation min ister Sterling r. Lyon tabled an order for return requested last week by new democratic party Leader a. R. Russ Paulley. Or. Paulley had asked for a detailed breakdown of the pay j ment of the contract with a specific request concerning paid to Dalton k. Camp and associates of Toronto. Please see Camp co. Page 12 ;