Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Coffee break by John Robertson .1 was sitting at Home last night quietly Reading a pocketbook and noisily munching on an Apple when my wife walks by my favorite easy chair nudges me and says hey you re a columnist Aren t ill have you i said that when history books record this Century ill be known As the fifth columnist of Coffee Tell me she said. If you re such a big shot How come you. Never go to lunch with any celebrities you know darned Well Why i i said. You Only make me one Sandwich usually baloney and cheese i might add and you put it in this Crummy Brown bag and if you think i m going to invite any celebrity to break bread with me on the curb in front of the free press Well you re mind she interrupted. Just look at you sprawled there in dungarees a Beethoven sweat shirt and a pair of Mocas sins that did t quite survive your last fire dance at the Beach other columnists take their wives to the theatre get invites to night clubs and go to the Ballet even. But you you do calling the Centennial arts Centre a joint now is that getting Back to the celebrity for lunch thing i said somewhat exasperated. Nick Ubray the old boxing promoter is coming to town and he s trying to line up a fight Here Between pretty boy Felstein and George Chu Valoi the she sniffed. The last time he was Here he asked me to work As a second in one of the Corners can t you just see me standing up there with a water bucket and a bottle of water in front of All those. Ill lend you my Beethoven sweat i said. She said. It s about time you acquired a Little sophistication. Imagine a Man 34 years old coming Home and saying to his wife we re invited out tonight and it s supposed to be Black tie. What s Black tie now Yoi know Why we did t get an invitation to the opening of the arts at this Point i m getting pretty mad. You think i Don t know what a Tutu is or a Pas de Deus or a Rouette watch your she said. Other big shot columnists i know move in High society that Small but very in Middle class group Tom Hendry of the Mac was talking about on television. They get cards from people holidaying All Over the world. Name George Knudson sent me a Ball Point pen from Florida i said. I left it in his room see and since he figured that it had a lot of sentimental value Well he George Knudson is not a she said. He s a Friend. Big names Don t count if they Are also i said. What about that week i spent with Gene Kiniski. Now there s a big name. A world Champion. You think that just anyone can Call Gene Kiniski and have him say hello like he meant some she sniffed. Your neck is still sore from that Sleeper hold he put on you in that hotel room in Norfolk Virginia Gene makes a i said. Which is pretty Good As but he talks with his so do my friends Are starting to whisper about she says. We get invited to parties and you Are supposed to be the intellectual. Stroke your Chin and make profound comments. But you sit there like a very Large hot dog and talk about hockey and go go girls. I heard one of the people at the last party you d never know that John Over there was a creative Type of person it s All your i said. You be never forgiven me since i went out and bought us a registered German Shephard for reduced from and then she had pups and we found out that she said. The dog will hear you maybe she does t know that she s of what s the look i said putting my Apple Core in the Ash tray. From now on i will try to be your idea of a very intellectual columnist. I will rent a Penguin suit i will cultivate Mait Steinkopf and the gang Down at that Centen Nial joint error or arts Centre. And we will make a Small donation to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. We can have the gang Over for a Little Barb Cue. I la even speak to Tom Hendry to see if he can sneak us on that list of Middle class people. And i Promise to take a celebrity for lunch at least once a week. I hear the Kitten As Back in town and. Pilot passenger survive this air crash both the Pilot and his passenger survived the crash of this Light aircraft on Lake Winnipeg eight Days ago. Klaus Stouff ocher of Nutley Man., who was flying the twin engined Anson and Wal Ter Serguis of Winnipeg suffered cuts and head injuries in the Accident. Or. Serguis is reported in fairly Good condition in Winnipeg general Hospital. The Pilot was released earlier this week. Both Are employed by Northland fisheries Ltd. The men had been on a flight from Island Lake to Netley when they were forced Down near Hecla Island. Program it Iii i i if cd i i Jack Shapiro returns to comment Mon t t 0 Day at 7 . 2 by Carrier soc per week saturday March 23, 1968 authorized As 2nd class mail by the . Dept., Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. Jack Shapiro returns to comment Mon Day at 7 . U of w sends 350 Home Over paper University of Winnipeg s 350 collegiate students were sent Home from classes Friday after noon As underground editions of the student paper threatened to touch off another skirmish be tween collegiate and University students on the Campus. The underground sheets circulated Friday were part of the year end satirical edition of thursday printing an attack on the collegiate Dean lome Tom Linson. Thursday the 350 collegiate students who attend Grade 11 and 12 classes in the University walked out of classrooms staged a mass protest meeting and a few scuffled with univer sity students because " of the attack. About 300 editions of the paper the uniter issued league opposes Check the credit Union legue of Manitoba is hoping to by pass the annual inspection of its books by the provincial govern ment. Its members maintain that the inspection serves no purpose and is an unnecessary expense. At the league s annual meet ing held in the International inn thursday t a Resolution was passed that the league should study the possibility of establishing an audit department to provide service for larger credit unions and that fees charged by the government for audits be cancelled. When the credit unions first started the provincial govern ment carried out a yearly audit but As the credit unions grew in size and complexity there Are now Over 250 in Manitoba in became an inspection. The retiring president Jack Seymour said there have i been instances where the government inspection should have found certain discrepancies. Ii we had had an audit we could have prevented certain losses that or. Seymour s successor is thursday As the Knighter were burned by collegiate Stu dents in the quadrangle in the Centre of the Campus. The newly appointed editor of the paper Ron Robinson was fired by students Council. The administration averted the resignation of the offended Dean Tomlinson by expressing full Confidence in him and his program. The student newspaper also published a special edition Fri Day apologizing for the thurs Day attack. But the underground editions carrying the same attack were bootlegged through out tie Campus. We dismissed classes Early because there were a number of illicit or underground sheets being circulated among the students Dean Tomlinson said in an interview Friday night. We were afraid these might Lead to disturbances similar to those of thursday. Classes Are to resume Mon Day although Dean Tomlinson said he had no evidence of who circulated the sheets Friday. However he said he believed it was the same group University students who played major roles in publishing thursday s paper. The attack in thursday s paper was a Story based on a fictitious riot in which collegiate students Hung Dean Tomlinson but not by the neck. The collegiate students interpreted the attack Vas the last Straw in the Long running feud Between collegiate and University students. Rivers shooting capt. And mrs. Mccann at wedding Mccann friends recall wedding Beautiful Bible the Winnipeg free press will present what have been described As the most Beauty Bible stories of modern times. These works of Art by Cima and Gior Gio Sansoni in the great italian tradition will be seen for the first time in this area in the pages of the free press. Follow these stories starting saturday March 30, in the Winnipeg free press Magnacca s condition improved Brandon staff Brandon mayor s. A. Magnacca reported in improved but still guarded condition saturday morning following a slight stroke two Days ago. Or. Magnacca was taken to Brandon g e or e r a 1 Hospital thursday from a luncheon meeting at Assiniboine Hospital in Brandon. It is believed the mayor left the meeting and was found about 20 minutes later sitting slumped in a chair in another room. Oxygen was administered to Bill Burrows of the air Canada mayor Magnacca in route credit Union. I the Hospital. To by Jed Stuart Rivers Man. Staff capt. Reginald Willis Mccann 25, an army signals corps Pilot stationed near Here at Canadian forces base Obodo is in Royal Canadian mounted police Cus Tody in Brandon charged with non capital murder in the shoot ing death of his 27-year-old wife. The body of Barbara Anne Mccann was found by cab Obodo military police at mid night thursday As the result of a Telephone Call. Calibre of the weapon has t been released. The body was found in the upstairs hallway of the couple s Small two Storey House at 32 Parkway drive in the married quarters of the Western Mani Toba base. Time of death has been established at about . Thursday and there was no time lapse Between then and when the alleged crime was reported a spokesman for the base said Friday in an inter View. Mrs. Mccann originally from Sussex n.b., has been employed As a Teller in the local Royal Bank of Canada Branch the Only Bank in this town of capt. Mccann is a native Nova Scotia. He and mrs Mccann were married at first Baptist Church Brandon in july 1965, not Long after the officer was posted to cab Obodo. They had no children. Their Large White samoyed dog is in the Pound at the base or. Mccann was last seen by friends at 11 . Thursday at a fashion show in the Camp mess neighbors say they heard no shots. The Mccanns kept to them selves both while living at Camp and when they previously rented in Brandon before married quarters were available in the Obodo residential Section. Or. And mrs. Dale Mac Farlane 8 Baker Bay Brandon remember mrs. Mccann As very Superior girl and Oapl Mccann As highly intelligent1 but a Little mrs. Macfarlane worked wit mrs. Mccann at the Bank o Nova Scotia in Brandon before the Mccanns moved to the has at Rivers before Christmas 1966. The Macfarlanee said the were the Only guests at the Mccanns wedding about thre years ago because the Mccann were new to Manitoba wit family and friends unable t attend the Down ceremony from girls won t go go for vets by Ron Campbell the go go girls who were to go go for veterans at Deer Lodge Hospital this sunday won t perform be cause of a dispute Over whether their acts Are the disagreement arose Friday in a Telephone conversation Between Molly Mitchell superintendent of red Cross Lodge at the Hospital and Reg Balsillie of Balsillie entertainment Agency the show s promoters. Or. Balsillie said he tried to get mrs. Mitchell to define what proper was but she would t commit herself. I asked her have you Ever seen them the girls and she said no who is she to sit there and say what is proper for or. Balsillie asked. Sure i m mad about it i did a lot of work on he said four go go girls from the Dakota Village motor hotel were to go out to the Hospital sunday along with singers Bobbi Sherron de Ulmer and two bands. They were to perform for the veterans in the red Cross Lodge s auditorium the Only facility at the Hospital for such a show according to Hospital recreation director Gordon do Val. Or. Due Al said the red Cross Felt uneasy about the nature of the the veterans were looking Forward to the show or. Duval said. He Felt it was a bit much for the red Cross to Book the act then put restrictions on it. Roy h. Snyder red Cross commissioner for Manitoba said mrs. Mitchell had contacted Iris Allen chair Man of the red Cross Lodge committee regarding the show. All they asked me was that it the show be reasonably or. Snyder said. He said he Felt this was a reasonable request since the show was being held on a sunday on red Cross prop erty and for veterans. But the promoters said they would t be dictated to and would put on any kind of show they red Cross Lodge auditorium is not a night mrs. Mitchell said in con firming or. Snyder s account of the incident. She said the promoters advertised the show which they did t have any Busi Ness whatever to do. Or. Balsillie said the show was t advertised " at he. Said he saw it mentioned Only in the Coffee break column in the free press. As a Consolation for the veterans or. Balsillie said there will be a go go show for them a week from mis sunday on March 31, at 2 . At the Dakota Village motor hotel. Meanwhile he s hurling epithets such As smug and unfair at red Gross officials for cancelling this sunday s show. Two in despite bargain try blow says he refused to heed Calls to Swap men for guns two men Are still being held. In criminal charges in. Winnipeg Ity jail after an Anonymous Cauer twice tried to bargain Vith Winnipeg police chief George blow for their release. The Man said he would produce the seven automatic uns stolen from Minto armory oct. 29 if the men were released. But chief blow said he to bargain with the Man 0th times. I Don t believe in bargaining with the criminal the first Call came to his office mid december when the unidentified Man tried using the guns to free a prisoner. The caller hinted stolen weapons were in St. Boniface. After an Anonymous phone tip to St. Boniface detective in Spector Elmer Nordal Jan. 24, five of the guns were found in a Metal trunk on a vacant lot in South St. Boniface. Then a month ago chief blow said an Anonymous caller phoned to offer the remaining two guns in Exchange for another prisoner. The chief declined to name the two prisoners or to say what charges they face. He said no other similar using stolen goods As bait had been offered him Ori other members of the police department. The guns and their Breed he blocks were stolen after thieves climbed a wire Fence sawed two bars on a basement window and Cut a screen on the quartermaster s store. After sawing chains which locked the rifles into a rack the thieves took the Breech blocks from a locked cupboard but forgot to take Anu Mitita for the Osborne River 453-3232 Portage 6 Simcoe 774-2471 614 St. James Street of Poilu Polo Park 7i6-6s91 weather report by j. H. Judson Winter left tuesday with Snow flurries that blasted through the City on a 50 . Gale and Spring made the scene. The next few Days should be warm and dry. Winter ended monday with temperatures above Normal at 25 to 35 colder air came tuesday As a Low pressure storm moved out of the Central skirted by to the Southeast but North winds picked up to Peak gusts of 52 . Snow flurries amounted to .7 inches and the temperature began to drop. It ranged from 19 Down to four above wednesday and 18 Down to one below morning registered the week s minimum of two below but a warning trend began to show on weather maps. Synopsis valid until Midnight sunday rain is forecast for Southern Ontario and the West coast today but generally mild weather is expected for other Canadian Points. A High of 60 is forecast for Edmonton of 45 for greater Winnipeg and tempera Tures in the 30s Are expected in the Atlantic Region. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 . Saturday forecast mainly sunny today and sunday Little Milder tomorrow. Winds Southwest is today southerly 15 tomorrow. High today and Low to night for Gimli and Winnipeg 45 and 20. Temperatures for the 24-hour period which ended at 6 saturday. Max. Min. Pre. Vancouver 59 46 Calgary 68 34 Edmonton 63 30 Regina 52 25 Brandon 31 20 the Pas 43 23 Winnipeg 19 fort william.27 6 Kenora 28 10 Ottawa Toronto Montreal 35 Halifax 34 Chicago 33 Miami 78 los Angeles 75 Minneapolis 26 new York -47 Max. Min. Pre. 37 32 .24 33 28 .34 32 31 24. 69 50 17 39 .24 1.1 .02 to ;