Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 27, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 705 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 75 no. 154 Price Loc 15c wednesday March 27, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Mild Schand 50 no Aid Cut for indians Maceachen Steps taken to Clear up earlier misunderstandings Ottawa up health minister Maceachen assured the commons tuesday there will be no deterioration in health services to indians and eskimos in the new fiscal year starting april 1. More Money will be spent on such services in the 1968-69 year or. Maceachen said As the commons began consideration of his department s supple m entry spending estimates. And if More Money was needed during the year it would be forthcoming. He said the department has taken Steps to Clear up any misunderstandings that might have Arisen because of earlier directives. Reported cutbacks in health care to indians and eskimos have been part of every ques Tion period in the commons for the past few weeks. The nip listed the question As one reason it would prolong debate on supplementary Esti mates and delay the adjourn ment of the commons for the Liberal leadership Campaign and the easter recess. Or. Maceachen s statement and prime minister Pearson s Assurance that a government Bill aimed at reducing drug costs was a priority Bill for the please see Indian Page 8 Frk s a step to place Portland Oregon special tons sen. Robert f. Kennedy campaigned through the Northwest tuesday calling for. A negotiated settlement in Vietnam. An end to student draft deferments and higher taxes to help the poor. He told jokes about George Hamilton courting his daughter kidded himself about being ruthless and issued Deadpan appeals for his audiences to escalate their applause. His listeners gasped at his stories about millionaires who pay no income taxes because of loopholes in the Law. They cheered him for taking a share of the blame for . Policies in Vietnam under the Kennedy administration. And from their applause they agreed with the proposals for ending the War put Forward by sen Kennedy tuesday at Portland state col lege. Please see Kennedy Page 14 general sees Johnson Washington special tons Gen. Creighton w Abrams . Deputy com Mander in South Vietnam Anc probable successor to Gen William c. Westmoreland slipped into Washington for private meeting tuesday wit president Johnson. The meeting confirmed Only after Gen. Abrams unannounced visit to Washington a discovered by newsmen Cam in the midst of the administration s secret review of a strategy. A major purpose of the Whit House talk presumably was t give the president the Opportunity to appraise Gen. Abrams a Gen. Westmoreland s replace ment and gain his views o strategy options. President Johnson last Frida announced his intention to appoint Gen. Westmoreland chief of staff on july 2. The president left open the question of who will replace Gen. Wes Moreland As american com Mander in South Vietnam. Senate majority Leader Mik Mansfield on the Senate Floo tuesday expressed new alarm Over any increase in please see general Page 14 session May end today Ottawa amid cries nonsense pleas for Compro ise and echoing the m o n s tuesday night reached an informal and Cebu us agreement to wrap up its Ork today and recess until pril 23. However wednesday is a Hort sitting Day in the House and the agreement could be Hort circuited at the least Rush of frayed nerves and tem ers. After Rushing past most of the remaining items of the list supplemental departmental pending estimates for 1967-68 be edgy commons left two Over today with the informal agreement that they be cleaned p by 4 the House then would Deal Ith an interim Supply motion ranting the government Money pay its Day to Day Bills from pril and May. The Senate which is to sit at j distributor of Power in the far 30 . Cost the same time i Northern Community. S the commons would then b e expected to Deal with the Esti in their 12th Day of commons the sup by Bill virtually in minutes. Three found slain Edmonton my sought by police Edmonton up the bodies of a woman in her 30s and two boys found in a South West Edmonton Home Here were identified today As mrs. Anna Ardouin and her sons Nigel 5, and Nicky 2. The three were found tuesday night in second floor bedrooms the woman and Nicky shot in the Back of the head and Nigel in the Chest. Police said there was no sign of a struggle. Alberta chief Coroner m. M. Cantor said the shootings could have occurred As Early As saturday morning. Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of or. Graham Ardouin 39, on a charge of non capital murder. The bodies were found by a neighbor after she wondered Why the parents of a three yer old girl with whom her Daugh Ter had been playing has not sought their daughter by 8 . Tuesday. Potential new staff members being advised not to sign 68-69 contracts in Winnipeg by John Wildgust the Manitoba teachers society will blacklist the Winnipeg school Board advising teachers not to sign contracts for the 1968-69 school year. Aubrey Asper teachers society president said wednesday the Winnipeg school division had been declared in dispute because the school Board will not recognize the requests of the Winnipeg teachers association to bargain for certain clauses in the 1968 contract. Trustee William Norrie school Board chairman de scribed the teachers society move As a desperate one obviously with a View to Force acceptance of the salary and other demands but or. Asper at a news conference said the blacklist ing the first for Winnipeg in 10 years has nothing to do with salary. He said International Advertis ing against the school Board was approved because the school Board refused to include the following in contract negotiations secretarial help for teach ers. T school parking for teach ers. Allowances for teachers who Are department Heads. Permanent appointments to fill administrative vacancies principalship which occur in mid year and appointment of senior school personnel to open posts in the school. Winnipeg could offer 20 per cent salary increases to their teachers right now and it would pensions overhaul please see session Page 8 Czechoslovakia s new Liberal minded communist leaders pushed ahead tuesday with a eries of Radical reforms aimed at creating a More democratic regime and putting an end to he party s rigid dictatorial Rule. They went ahead with their unprecedented shakeup despite signs of deep anxiety among heir allies within the soviet Loc in Eastern Europe. A communique issued tues Day said that the communist arty s powerful presidium of he Central committee had decided to create new Laws and practices that would make the Ivil government the supreme Jody of state Power rather iian the rubber stamp exec Ive it has been in the past aking its orders from the party losses. How far this will go in actual practice remains to be seen but the communists under their new chief Alexander Churchill Power shift Manitoba Hydro is negotiating with the Federal government for the takeover q f Power facilities in Churchill Man. W. D. Fallis general manager of the Hydro system disclosed tuesday that it is Likely Manitoba Hydro will soon become the sole i please see Page 8 diphtheria cases reported seven cases of diphtheria in children have been reported in Winnipeg in the past two weeks and health officials Are urging parents to make sure their children Are immunized against the highly communicable he told the legislature s Public utilities committee that negotiations Are under Way with the Federal department of Public works for the Transfer of the please see Churchill Page 8 czechs press liberalization Prague special tons Dubcek appear to be making features today Sharp swinging hard in bid 2 Butch plans to stay in one piece. 58 All the right motions toward real democratization under their guidance rather than under their dictate. Please see czechs Page 14 today s Index classified 40 to 51 comics 65, 66 deaths 5 finance 67 to 71 Jumble 42 movies 17 sports 58 to 63 tax tips 65 television is women 21 to 26, 30 City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press vote claims at Odds Ottawa up while the nine major candidates for the Liberal leadership scour the country for Delegate support organizers at their Campaign Headquarters carefully count up the Likely score. Their often conflicting claims i indicate no candidate has a Safe area. It will take a simple majority of the possible Delegate votes to win the election on the final Day of the april 4-6 Leader ship convention in the new Otta please see vote Page 14 report urges new Deal for Canadian veterans Ottawa up a massive detailed report calling for an overhaul veterans pensions Legisla was tabled in the commons tuesday. The special study 2y2 years in the making set out 48 specific recommendations in its pages. It called for higher pensions in a number of Cate Gories lifting of the shroud of it says has surrounded veterans pensions administration new it governor general Roland Michener was met by a in orphan guard of Honor tuesday on his arrival at Canadian forces base Winnipeg. Please see Page 3 for Story and other pictures disease. Or. Roper g. Cadham the City s chief medical officer said wednesday none of the children who had contracted the disease had been immunized. It has been Many years since we have experienced so Many cases in such Short space of time and it is cause for con said or. Cadham. Two of the seven children he said had undergone surgery. All of them Hospital. Were in children s see diphtheria Page 8 legislature reports government defeats 40 hour work week proposal. Page 3. No Hight to the Pas for Las. Page 66. No boundaries report this session. Page 1. Governor general visits legislature. Page 3. Johnston says disband information services Branch. Page 66. Naper wants live Tele vision and radio coverage of legislature. Page 3. Ontario meat stores raided 17 held on fraud counts Toronto up seventeen persons the majority of them United states citizens tuesday were charged with fraud or conspiracy to defraud the Public following simultaneous raids on seven Ontario discount meat stores. In local Winnipeg manager feb. 14, the of Bee town Freezer meats Bannerman Avenue and Mcgregor Street was charged in Winnipeg magi Strate s court with defrauding the Public by failing to deliver agreed quantities of meat. The offences were alleged to have taken place Between March 1967, and Jan. 19, 1968. The manager William Bennett was freed on bail. Two other company employees were held As material witnesses then released on their own recognizance. The Case has been remanded to april in Toronto police and Provin Cial and Federal government officials made the raids following months of investigation Promp Ted by complaints from people who had answered advertise ments for bargain beef. Some housewives said they did not get the meat they had ordered and that other cuts were substituted. Others said they weight when the got fat Low trimmed. Quality of the meat was another complaint. The raids made on three Toronto stores and others at London St. Catharines Bridge port and Carville in the Ottawa Valley police said the stores were managed by . Citizens with permits to work in Canada. Staff supt. James Erskine of the provincial police anti rack ets Branch said his department hepr1sal policy questioned Israel rethinks tactics by Harold Jackson Tel Aviv special the guardian As peace along Israel s Border with Jordan continues to be shattered by incidents a command car hit a mine tuesday wounding one Man the government is considering new methods of fighting the Al Fatah raiders. Government ministers Are said to be Dis Turbed at reports of Public dissatisfaction about the conduct of the raid on Karama last week and to be vigorously defending Mili tary conduct of the opera Tion. But tuesday the authoritative Independent paper a Areliz commented fairly sharply on the failure of monday s parliamentary de Bate to concentrate on a serious analysis the most effective Means of solving the Security prob lems along the Jordan Border. Although this is not the first time the israeli policy of reprisal has been questioned Here it has never been subjected to such wide scale doubts. Started by please see Israel Page 14 your Chance to help hunger is responsible for Many diseases in the impoverished parts of the world. If we want to help the two thirds of the world s population that is starving we must feed them first and then give medi Cal Aid. Barley is the magic word in Korea. Barley can cure Many ills. It brings smiles to Little children s faces it gives them reason to Hope life is More than hunger and frustration. Once again the free press in co operation with the unitarian service committee of Canada has launched its annual Barley for Korea Campaign. Through the contributions of free press readers almost three boxcars have already been filled with Barley. Donations Are still coming in and before the week is Over four boxcars May be filled. Anyone wishing to contribute May donate Cash or Senc cheques or Money orders to the free press Barley for Korea please see help fill Page 8 investigated after inquiries venue m Ade by the provincial department of agriculture and the Edera department of Trade and Commerce. Those arrested in Toronto each face four charges of a t Empting to defraud the Public. Those arrested outside of Toron o were charged wih conspiracy to defraud the Public. Raiding squads consisted of our police officers one Provin Cial government veterinarian one Federal government meat trader and one Federal govern ment measures of icer. Raided were beef City meats Atharine twin City meats Bridgeport near water Loo and beef City meats Lon please see 17 held Page 14 municipal affairs minister Thelma Forbes told the. Legisla Ture tuesday that a report on metropolitan Winnipeg bound. Aries will not be in aisle during the current session. Municipal boundaries through province have been under review since 1966 by the local government boundaries1 commis Sion. The commission s first report a provisional plan for education in the Interlake Region dealing with school District boundaries was announced March 8. On another subject mrs. Forbes told the House that reports from the provincial committee investigating the status of women will be presented to her thursday. These will be considered in drafting a Brief for the Federal Royal commission on the status of women. Mrs. Forbes in answer to opposition questions said the women working on the investigation have volunteered their services and she Only aided in coordinating the Effort. Gas co. To gut rates a reduction in natural Gas rates to become effective by the Start of the next heating season was announced wednes Day by the greater Winnipeg Gas company. The company s announcement came after ruling of the Public utilities Board of Manitoba permitting it to reduce its rates to customers by based on its 1965 sales just what this Means in terms of dollars and cents savings to Domestic or commercial users is not stated. However the Gas company said it will be submit Ting revised rate schedules for the Board s approval within the next 70 Days. Now Imori a go go i by Dudley Magnus an american Union organizer who May organize the City s 150 or More go go dancers into an entertainment employees Union s expected in Winnipeg shortly it was Learned wednesday. The information came in a Telephone Call to Minneapolis. Roger Young representative of the american Guild of variety artists in Minneapolis an Al Cio Csc organization was not available when the office in Minneapolis was Tele phoned tuesday but a Secre tary said a new Man would be in office next monday. Minneapolis area representatives cover the Saskatchewan and Manitoba Field of operations for the Guild the Secretary said. Asked what she knew of plans to look into the Prospect of organizing the go go girls into the Union the Secretary who asked that her name be with held said we expect a representative to cover the area Winnipeg in the very near the Guild at present has entertainers As members under contract Only at Morocco please see now Page 8 ;