Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 26, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 75 no. 153 Price Loc 15c tuesday March 26, 1968 Sun Ristis . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast mild 30 and 50 tax dept. Lags computer switchover blamed Ottawa up the Revenue department said monday that processing of income tax returns is about three weeks behind the 1967 rate due to conver Sion of systems to a new and faster however the first income tax refund cheques Are beginning to move through the mail and the trickle should become a flood once the computer hits its stride the department said. A backlog of More than returns has piled up but the new computer should be Able to process a week. A total of returns Are expected before the april 30 deadline and refunds will be made on 70 per cent or refund returns get priority handling on a first come first served basis the department said in a statement. The three week delay this year was attributed to or problems with the new com Puter. The department said technicians worked around the clock checking the computer and sys tems engineers were flown in from several Points in North America to double Check the new equipment for its Monu mental for Days one Small fault baffled the Best brains in the it added. It was solved by attaching a minute piece of circuitry to the new turning to 1968, a department official said that the cent surtax Defeated feb. 19 in the commons will be collected until april 1. Its successor a three per cent surtax will go into effect then. New payroll deduction tables Are now being mailed to employers. Please see tax Page 6 forestry provokes clash by Barry came Churchill Forest industries developers of contentious s100 million forestry Complex at the Pas a provoked yet another clash Between opposition and government spokesmen in the legislature monday. The protagonists this time in what is fast becoming a time honoured tradition of were the new minister of mines and natural resources Donald w. Craik and the Liberal la from Portage la Prairie Gordon e. Johnston. And the ground rules were much the same As they have been Ever since the government first announced in 1966, the ambitious project to develop a Multi million Forest Industry near the Pas. Please see forestry Page 6 Barley Battles hunger let your imagination roam for a minute. You live in a dirty Shack you sleep on a mud floor your children cry because they re hungry for As Long As you can remember they be been crying because they were hungry. Quite a few children in your neighbor Hood have died. They weren t Strong enough to take it. How Long has it been since you ate your last warm meal you Don t remember. You probably Don t want to. Never mind myself if Only the children did t have to suffer. What have they please see Barley Page 6 nip House Leader Stanley Knowles Back tracks in drug Bill fight anti flooding bids urgent probe told Gimli area resorts farms dying out citizens say by John Heath Gimli Man. Staff Farmers have to sell land along the southwestern shores of Lake Winnipeg at unfair prices and resorts in the area Are folding up because of severe flooding and the threat of renewed flooding the Manitoba water commission was told Here monday. Reeve Adam Franz of Gimli Rural municipality told the com Mission headed by r. H. G. Bonnycastle that we have a prob pm. We know we Are not Large enough to Cope with the commission is directed to present recommendations to the highways not later than March 1, 1969, concerning regulations to control the level of Lake Winnipeg. Judging by speeches and briefs presented to the commis Sion monday a grave problem still exists in the area which suffered severe flooding in 1966. According to Reeve Franz dikes won t solve the problem. The level of the Lake at Gimli will have to be lowered to 712 feet above sea level before it can be considered satisfactory he said. This would allow two feet for. Waves and an additional two feet for any unexpected Rise in the Lake s level. At present he said the Lake level at Gimli is 713.67 feet. However at Camp Husavick four Miles South of Gimli flooding has already destroyed the resort s -900-foot Long Beach to a distance of 150 Yards according to Anthony Bilecki the Camp s director. Please see anti flood Page a features today Trudeau touted As to beat Toba senior curlers break even 20 today s Index classified 22 o 33 comics 12, 13 deaths 6 finance 34 to 36 Jumble 24 movies 11 sports 18 to 21 tax tips 13 television 10 women 14, 15 City zone Tola i nearly everyone reads the free press uniter under the gun the University of Winnipeg Board of regents monday night approved a motion which May put the student v newspaper under administration censor ship. The newspaper the uniter was charged with offences against Good taste and academic dignity Over a recently published satirical Story on lome Tomlinson Dean of the University s collegiate Section. Monday night s motion was to assure All those concerned that it intends to take every action necessary to prevent recurrence of such offence1 against Good taste and academic a spokesman for the regents would not confirm the passage meant a move toward administration censorship. An informed source did say the possibility of censorship in some form had been considered. We would not like to remove the democratic principles from the student administration of the newspaper. But we have a responsibility to ourselves and the student Public to see that they Are not affronted by such Low level please see uniter Page 6 nip lifts commons blockade threat of party split halts House filibuster Ottawa up the Way was opened Mon Day for an Early parliamentary recess As the nip voluntarily lifted its blockade against Money Bills in the commons. Stanley Knowles Nipes North party House Leader said outside the commons monday that his party would Settle for a commit Poland fires profs fight against intellectuals pressed by Martin Zucker Warsaw a the polish government fired seven intellectuals monday in the biggest stroke of a purge following recent student demonstrations and Street rioting. The government ousted six teachers at Warsaw University on charges of implanting in their students political views contrary to the states the offi Cial news Agency Pap reported. There was no explanation for the ouster of the seventh intellectual but he has been under fire for some time because of unorthodox marxist views. The regime now has ousted 12 persons most of them jews since disturbances began March 8, growing out of student unrest Over the closing of a play which had some lines construed by censors As anti soviet. The students have charged police brutality accused the offi Cial press of lying and demanded More Freedom. No new demonstrations have been reported since three w a r s a w sit ins ended saturday. The latest move was further evidence of the government s in Tention to Root out so called reactionary elements zionists ment by prime minister Pear son that the drug Bill would be called by the government soon after april 28. He added that there is no indication yet that we Are going to get this was a far cry from what or. Knowles had demanded in a commons speech last wednes Day. He said then he was fed up with government promises that certain things would be done because they never followed through. Faced by a split within party ranks the new democrats called a halt to their near Fili Buster of Bills to tidy up the government s 1967-68 spending and to give it Money to meet Day to Day Bills during april and May. The nip staged the blockade in an attempt to get the govern ment to act now on its Bill to lower drug prices. The party lifted it monday without the solid Assurance it had demanded that the drug Bill would not be allowed to die on the Vine. Barring last minute hitches most observers figured adjourn ment could come today or wednesday. The developments pointed up a Clear switch in position within the nip. Manitoba Hydro reveals electricity More individual not Industrial consumer Likely to Bear the Brunt Stephens Hydro rates Are going up d. M. Stephens chairman of Manitoba Hydro told the legislature s standing committee on Public utilities and natural resources tuesday. We intend shortly to increase some of our he said the Manitoba Hydro Board has decided rate Struc Tures should be revised As Early As practicable in. The fiscal year 1968-69, which begins april 1. Manitoba Hydro serves the province outside Winnipeg proper. This will be the first rate increase in the history of electricity in Manitoba a Hydro official said later. Outside the committee meet ing or. Stephens said the rate increase Likely will be borne mostly by the individual con Sumer rather than the Industrial consumer. He could t say precisely which rates Wilt be changed by How much or when. But Mani Toba Hydro had the right to increase rates without holding Public hearings. Later a spokesman for Winnipeg Hydro which serves Winnipeg proper said there was no word at present about a rate increase for Winni Eggers. Or. Stephens told the Legisla Tive committee. Manitoba Hydro has been under shooting its Reserve requirements by que. House wire taps confirmed Johnson spokesman admits ministers lines bugged rivals condemn Trudeau by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff the tac tics of Justice minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau s organization and his chief supporter Man Power minister Jean Marchand in drumming up delegates votes has aroused the ire of Many opponents in the Liberal leadership Campaign. In addition the stand or. Trudeau has adopted on Quebec is causing grave concern among several of his Cabinet colleagues who Are also running for the office of prime minister and demagogues whom it a they Feal. That if he persists in cases of starting the trouble. His p6sition toward Quebec and some Western observers feel however that the student unrest has Given the party leadership an Opportunity to strike Back against opponents of its policy. Wins the top Post in the Liberal party it could Lead to the secession of Quebec. This has led to other Candi dates from the Cabinet launch heart ening Story from the patient the Only Man to survive a heart transplant South african or. Philip Blaiberg has written a first person account of his operation and what followed. Or. Blaiberg in a series Start ing this saturday in the free press tells readers what his feel Ings were before the operation and How he Felt during recuperation. The first article in the series an introduction is written by mrs. Blaiberg. The retired dentist who underwent the trans Plant and left Hospital March 16 74 Days later picks up the Story in the second and subsequent articles. Don t miss this exciting series exclusive in the free press in this area. Do. Blaiberg Seoul expects violence South Korea tense by Richard Halloran Seoul special tons though life in this City appears to be skipping along in its normally energetic and enthusiastic Way underneath there is a mood of taut apprehension. The koreans and the americans Here Are preparing As unobtrusively As possible for the North korean Campaign of terror sabotage and subversion that everyone Here expects to begin within a few weeks. People Here Are waiting for the communists to hit and it s the waiting that causes Knotting in the Stom Ach and tightening around the eyes. Skilled observers Here say they Sec no setup in North korean propaganda and agent training though there s been a Lull in activity since the crisis of late january and Early february. The tension is More noticeable at night when the military police Are More vigilant ulan Ever. People out after the Midnight cur please see Seoul Page 6 Quebec up a spokesman for Premier Daniel Johnson monday confirmed rumours that Telephone espionage is going on in the offices of several Cabinet ministers. He said in a Telephone inter View wiretapping was Practised in government circles just As it was being carried out in world affairs. However he did not elaborate or say who would profit by tap Ping Telephone lines in the legis lature building. Without saying whether the government is launching or will launch an inquiry into who May be behind the wiretapping the spokesman said the situation had been under surveillance for some time. His r e m a r k s came after Montreal la Presse published a Story saying members of or. Johnson s Cabinet believed their office telephones were being tapped and Bell Telephone co. Of Canada last week had begun an investigation requested by the ministers. Sag attacks on the Man who is regarded As a front runner in the race represent natives of please see Trudeau Page 6 a two year old boy fell monday from this third Storey window at his Home it Slie Brook Street suite 19. William David Robert son son of or. And mrs. William Robertson leaned against the storm window and fell 30 feet Landing on the other Side of the car. The youngster suffered slight bruises but no Bones were broken. France reported isolated Brussels a with three Days until the Stockholm conference that seeks final Accord on paper Gold As inter National credit France called today for a conference to create a monetary system ruled by real Gold. France however was completely dutch finance minister Hendrik Witteveen said after French finance minister Michel Debre argued his Point at a dinner Here monday night. Debre told his colleagues from the common Market coun tries that special drawing rights on the International monetary fund were not a solution to the please see France Page 8 reports no indications of red River flood. Page 3. University paper attacked by la. Page 12. Interim Money Supply requested by government. Page 12. Government clashes with liberals Over Churchill for est industries. Page 1. Doern wants teeny toppers on the censor Board. Page 8. Target Date for fish marketing Board announced in House. Page 12. Breathalyzer benefits could be oversold says me lean. Page 12. Johnson to probe reports some Hutt Crite schools May close. Page 8. Million to s3.5 million a year. Increasing the total Revenue from Powers sales by this much would amount to an eight to 10 per cent increase in Gross Revenue for Manitoba Hydro. See electricity Page 6 Power station Cost up Manitoba Hydro chairman d. M. Stephens announced tuesday that another million has been added to the million Price tag for construction of the first stage of the Nelson Hiver Power project at Kettle rapids. Or. Stephens told the Legisla Ture s Public utilities committee that the increased Cost resulted from geological faults in the Bedrock at the site of the proposed Kettle rapids generating station. In addition discovery of the foundation conditions necessitated a revised construction schedule which increased the difficulty of putting the generating station in operation by the original target Date of late 1971. Please see Power Page 8 Gordon backs Trudeau by the Canadian press Justice minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau Learned monday that he will have the backing of a former Cabinet minister in Ottawa april 4-6 when liberals gather to select a Man to replace prime minister Pearson. Walter Gordon member of parliament for Toronto Daven port who quit the Cabinet two weeks ago said that he would support or. Trudeau when he was questioned on the Csc to show front Page Challenge. But or. Gordon former finance minister and i Ivy coun cil president said it was highly speculative that he would rejoin the Cabinet if or. Trudeau assumes leadership of the liberals. Please see Gordon Page 6 ;