Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 29, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 75 no. 156 Price Loc 15c Friday March 29, 1968 Sun . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast and 50 secret . Plane missing to. Vietnamese claim gunners shot it Down Saigon a North Vietnam said today that its armed forces had shot Down an the controversial new . Air plane which was put into combat for the first time this week. . Authorities had reported earlier that one of the million planes was overdue after a Mission. The North vietnamese claim heard in a Hanoi broadcast monitored in Tokyo said the supersonic swing Wing aircraft had been shattered Down thursday Over a Tinh prov Ince 100 Miles Northwest of the demilitarized zone near the Laos Border. The broadcast made no men Tion of the Fate of the two Man Crew. One senior . Military offi Cial did not Rule out the possibility when asked before the Hanoi announcement whether the plane might have been shot Down. Six of the fellas capable of speeds of More than twice the Speed of sound with bomb loads greater than any other . Plane except the b-52 Stratfor Tress arrived at take air base in Thailand March 17 and a flight of them presumably four made their first combat missions monday. Please see secret Page 14 Battle rages along Jordan israeli planes hit jordanian artillery from Reuters a Tel Aviv up jordanian and israeli forces were reported locked in Battle today along the entire length of the Jordan River from the sea of Galilee in the North to the dead sea in the South a front of More than 60 Miles. An army spokesman Here said the jordanian forces extended the fighting which began in the Northern sector of the Regina move seen Westbank May open shop if court allows the Bank of Western Canada will relocate its head office in Regina pro Viding a court application for a stay in its Windup proceedings is successful it was announced in re Gina by Westbank Securi ties limited a Saskatchewan company with head office in Regina. At a press conference to clarify a news Story originating in Ottawa wednesday Sinclair m. Stevens of Toronto said tha through Westbank securities shareholders and former direct ors of the Bank of Western Canada have entered into an agreement with York Lambton corporation Ltd., of Toronto t which subject to court approx latest reports indicated full ,1. Ottawa s Sanction and share Memphis policeman Levels Nightstick on looter during racial violence thursday negro you i la shot Iii Memphis riot senator supports Sharp by the Canadian press with the Liberal leadership convention in Ottawa less than a week away at least three candidates received declarations of support thursday. Senator John Connelly government Leader in the Senate announced he is supporting finance minister Sharp. Or. Connelly is the fourth Cabinet minister to announce his support for or. Sharp1. The oth ers Are Revenue minister Chretien Industry minister Drury and mines minister Pepin. The Campaign committee for transport minister Hellyer announced that 19 Liberal Back benches Are supporting or. Hellyer. In addition three Cabinet min Secretary la Marsh defence minister Cadieux and labor minister Nichol announced they Are behind or. Hellyer. Please see senator Page 14 Memphis Tenn. A troop protected fire trucks and stringent police patrols kept guard on Memphis but fires flickered sporadically in the wreckage left by a riot which claimed one life. The violence began on historic Beale Street thursday morning when a March by negroes led by Rev. Martin Luther King jr., in support of striking Gar Bage collectors turned into a riot and continued through the Day and night despite tightly enforced curfew. Another possible confrontation Between marchers and police was expected today with negro leaders saying they would stage another one limited to sidewalks As were those held almost daily since the City s sanitation workers struck feb. 12. Only police state trooper and National guard vehicles moved on the major streets during the night but the alleys and Back treets were alive with youths lasting Forth to set fires and Lone fire trucks. At Midnight a fire depart ment spokesman said 148 fire arms had been turned in from he downtown area. In a sniping incident five shots were fired at police Sta toned at the intersection of 3eale Street and Hernando ave nue the Day s main trouble violence upsets Panama Panama a a riot thursday night with tear Gas and gunshots after a silent pro test by women was the lat est episode in a Complex Story Here. The main elements Are two claimants to the presidency a restive National guard and decisive supreme court session starting monday. The women s March of f mourning protested the arrests of opposition party members in the presidential crisis. It led to rioting and looting. National guard troops broke up the fray with tear Gas and shots fired in the policemen put on bulletproof vests and National guardsmen with sniper Scopes moved into the area. No further shots were reported. Thursday s March began As a peaceful demonstration. Its readers and police say the Vio ence was the work of a splinter group of negro youths. Frank Holloman Memphis police director said the trouble started when 200 youths separated from the main group and went on a window breaking and looting Binge. Police retaliated with clubs and riot Gas. In the struggle that followed and continued through the night 16-y e a r of 1 d negro Larry Payne was shot to death. More than 150 arrests were made and at least 50 persons were injured five shot and one stabbed. Holloman said he was told Payne was shot after charging a policeman with a Butcher knife when the youth was caught looting. The stabbing victim was an unidentified City bus Driver leading the Memphis transit authority to halt All bus service. Gov. Buford Ellington ordered in 4.000-riot-trained National guardsmen and put another 000 on Alert. Airline fares May Rise Montreal up air can Ada said today fares on All North american routes will be raised by 10 per cent effective april 28. At the same time a half Price will be introduced for youths Between 12 and 21 years where space is available in air Craft and a discount fare will be magistrate Isaac Rice time when we did t have nine available in North America for Rice declares War on robbery wave the March broke apart less than half an hour after it started As negro youths throw ing clubs and rocks smashed windows in downtown stores and began grabbing out merchandise on display. The scale Battles with artillery duels at several Points River. V israeli planes silenced Jor Danian artillery positions which shelled a string of israeli vol Lages in the Beisan Valley sooth of the sea of Galilee the army command Here reported. In Amman Jordan military spokesman said jordanian anti aircraft guns opened up on israeli planes strafing Jordan Ian Border positions today. The jordanian spokesman accused the israelis having started the firing opening up with machine guns and then blasting the jordanian positions with tank and mortar fire. Both sides used heavier guns As the fight progressed. After the machine guns mortars and tank fire the israelis opened up please see Battle Page 7 holders ratification would re suit in the re activation of the Bank and the relocation of it head office from Winnipeg to Regina. Or. Stevens said always been intended it a that the mortgage rate like predicted Nha lending Levy May Rise to Ottawa up the National housing act lending rate is expected to increase monday to nine or 9% per cent potentially eliminating Nha mortgage s for most individuals with incomes of less than year., the Nha rate now per cent is what insurance Compa Nies and other private lending institutions May charge for mortgage Loans guaranteed by the government against default. The rate is Teisei As Neces sary every three months on the basis of Market yields for Feder Al government Bonds. A final set of figures published thursday by the Bank of Canada indicated the change that will occur monday april 1. No official announcement by inc May Cut staff Bank would serve the people of Western Canada and a group of Western directors and share holders including mayor Sid voters Rock British govt. London special tons the labor government suffered defeats in four by elections thursday of even More stagger ing dimensions than its expectations which already were the gloomiest. In three of the ballots for places in parliament vacated by death labor or resignation seats passed former to the conservatives in swings ranging from 15 to 21 per cent. One constituency Dudley in Central England had been considered one of the labor party s safest seats. In the last general election labor s major Ity was 59.1 per cent. Friday the tory candidate took 58 per i cent of the vote. Buckwold of Saskatoon John Shanski of Winnipeg and j. Leslie Bodie of Edmonton have worked for the revival of the Jank and have gained support rom the majority shareholder n the Bank to relocate the head office in Regina. This group favors the establishment of the Bank s head office in Regina because the Jank will primarily be Active in Jie three Prairie provinces and Regina is a convenient Geo graphical Point to serve not Only Saskatchewan but also Manitoba and said or. Stevens. He added another decisive Factor was the enthusiastic support of the government of Saskatchewan and the Prosperity of Saskatchewan. On a per capita basis Saskatchewan has become one of the prosperous provinces in Cana or. Stevens said. Premier Ross Thatcher said his government would be very pleased if the reorganized Bank should decide to locate its head office i Regina. Would consider such a move would be an expression of please see Westbank Page 14 thursday he was declaring War the increasing wave of robberies in the City. Noting that nine of the 23 cases on the docket in Winnipeg magistrate s court were robber ies he said. There used to be robberies in a year. I travellers in groups. In tie darkest Days of the conservatives 1959 parliament the biggest swings against them in by elections were of the order of 12 per cent including one that followed on the heels of the Profumo scandal in which a tory minister was involved in a prostitute ring. In the fourth election thurs Day for the traditionally conservative seat at Warwick in the midlands conservatives in creased a 51.6 per cent Lead in the general election of 1965 to 68, almost trebling their major Ity. The labor and Liberal contenders each took about 16 Pel cent. The other two labor defeats were in the London suburb of Acton and in Meriden. The three losses have Little Impact on the labor parly s he had just sentenced Lloyd All changes Are subject to a control of parliament where its Ralph Bone 19, of 453 Logan Cep Tance by the air transport Avenue to six years and committee of the Canadian Joseph Lloyd Contois 20, of 506 transport commission. Burrows Avenue to a four year j the airline said under the term for robbery theft of a j new youth fare plan a Iden Quantity of Oil and car theft. J Tity card will permit students needed your help a pack of cigarettes will last you a Day. In Korea the Money for one pack of cigarettes will feed a hungry child for a week. It might even save a child s life. As in previous years the from a car free press in co operation with near Selkirk the unitarian service commit j salted and robbed a Man. They Crown counsel Howard Collar Man had asked for a six year term for each of the youths on the robbery charges. He said the increasing number of beatings and robber ies in the City had caused Many Winni Eggers to be afraid of going out at night. Court was told 13 Gallons of Oil valued at s10, were stolen at about . March 27 from a service station at 940 Mcphil lips Street after a car pulled in for Gas. Later the same morning court was told. Bone Pontois and a number of youths alighted on Salter Street Avenue and As-1 continued please see airline Page 14 legislature to tee of Canada has launched its Barley for Korea Campaign. More than three boxcars have already been filled with the life saving Grain. We live in an affluent country and we have just about every thing we can wish for. Please see your Page 7 took about from him. Tie maa suffered bruises and cuts to the face but did t require Hospital treatment. After a trip in the country court was told Bone crossed the wires of a car in West Kildonan and they drove off in it. Please see Rice Page 4 Winnie off school boar i Tea hers dispute questioned by Naper. Page 3. Mailland b. Kleinkopf praised. Page 3. Professional workers com Milter in activated. Page 44. Sidney Green urges Early study on plans in Export Manitoba water. Page 44. New democratic party chief flays government for delay on of Iii marketing Board. Page 44. Churchill Forest Indus tries under fire again. Page 44. Working majority now reducer to about 75, is still ample against any foreseeable interim contests Between now and the next general election. But the psychological effect is stunning indicative of the extraordinary unpopularity prime minister Harold Wilson s government has garnered. Ottawa up hard up International control com Mission in Vietnam wants to re Duce its the recall of canadians will require Cana Dian government approval an external affairs department spokesman said today. The made up of Canada India and Poland has decided it will have to reduce its personnel by about one third because of Lack of Money he said but this decision has not yet been submitted to the Cabinet Here. Since 1954, when the inc was created to supervise the cease fire that ended the indochinese wars against French Rifle can Ada alone had advanced it beyond what it was obligated to pay. Government sources had indicated at first the decision to trim the Canadian delegation to the inc was made but they said later it has not been considered by the Cabinet. Central mortgage and housing corp. Is expected before the new rate officially takes effect. A nine per Clint rate on a maximum Nha loan of Over 25 years amounts to principal and interest charges of a month. Property taxes for Nha Bor Are s134.19 a month winging principal interest and taxes to a month. Although there is some flexibility in the policy Chc is in Likely to guarantee a Home owner loan if Moni Ihly charges exceed per cent of the borrow. Or s income. Please see mortgage Page 7 Timmins ont. Up external affairs minister Martin said today there is no intention in any Way of weakening can Ada s position or authority on the International control com Mission in Vietnam. There is no proposal at the present time to make any reductions that would not Corre Spond to the personnel of other he added. India and Poland the other two countries on the commission Are making p a r a 1 1 reductions because there is not enough Money available to maintain the group at its present strength. Allies must share Load Nixon says Milwaukee Richard m. Special tons Nixon charted thursday a transition role for the United states from its current world wide involvement to a status which would recognize the new realities of Power in the continuing confrontation Between communist ambition and Western the War in Vietnam he is the latest and the Grimm est Battlefield in a larger continuing struggle but that War must be the last agony of the old the former vice president insisted that what he was Outlin ing As a new Way for maintain ing the conditions of peace was not a Retreat into a new or. Nixon gave his views in a pre recorded nation wide radio address thursday evening As he wound up his final two Days of campaigning in Wisconsin be fore next tuesday s presidential his radio speech during talks earlier thursday before cheer ing Republican groups in Osh Kosh and Sheboygan. At Losh Kosh or. Nixon was roundly applauded when he declare that it s time the rest of the free world assumes More of the responsibility for the defence o his most specific statement thursday about Vietnam was let s end it on a basis Liat Wil discourage More i sunday radio speech will Deal in More detail with the War he elections Law warns Ford by the Canadian press it was two Down and one to go for the United Auto workers Union thursday As work ers ratified a new working agreement with general motors of Canada Ltd. Hours later however it was announced that the Union has Given Ford motor co. Of Canada six come to terms fore More than workers go on strike in Ontario plants at Windsor . The teas and Niagara Falls. The Union signed a new agree ment with Chrysler Canada Ltd. On feb. 1 after a nine Day strike. The 48-Day strike against pm shut Down plants at Toronto Oshawa London St. Catharines Windsor and Ste. Therese que. An estimated 9irper cent of the Union workers ratified the agreement although a Small local was still to vote at a Mckinnon industries Ltd. Subsidiary Plant in Windsor. Primary. Please see labor Page 14 he touched on the theme of War has told newsmen. Thursday night s radio talk also touched on Domestic prob lems. The Only Way to set right the Power balance in our said or. Nixon is to put a greater measure of Power in the but he said he was not speaking of Black the Power of hate and of the Power that ghetto please see Nixon Page 4 till ii i paint 01 4jiai state fit Laos fighting sharper Vientiane Laos Spe Cial tons sharper fighting in Laos by the communist Patchet lao and their North vietnamese allies is part of Gen. To Nguyen g i a p s Over All strategy for the Vietnam War most Laos leaders and Western observers Here be Lieve. Gen. Giap Hanoi s de Fence minister is an old hand at coordinating action in Vietnam and Laos. He used the same strategy 14 years ago when he stirred up fighting in Laos As a diversion while tying up French forces if the then French Colony while he Defeated the French in the climactic Battle at Dien Bieti Piliu just across the Border from Northern Laos. The parallel with Khe Sanh in South Vietnam where american mar Ines Are under siege does t quite fit however. For there Are no american combat troops in Laos which could come to the Relief of. Khe Sanh. There Are no organized . Ground combat units in either Laos or next door to the West in thai land despite reports to the contrary. One of Gen. Giap s moves in Laos must after the year began was to eliminate the Only Royal lao government Strong Point which could affect the Khe Sanh Battle. His North Vietnam army Nova regulars using tanks for the first time in Laos overran the Royal lao Bat please see laotian Page 4 by elections set for june Ottawa staff Federal in four constituencies to be held monday june 17 were announced today by prime minister Pearson. The writs Are for by elections in Grey Bruce out. And three Quebec constituencies Saint Jacques a Taphelia Matane and Sherbrooke. Features today Maceachen counts on maritime Quebec and Lesage Era 13 today s Index classified 28 to 42 comics 43, 44 deaths. 14 finance 15 to 17 Jumble 30 movies 11 sports 22 to 27, 45 tax 43 television 12 women. 18. 19 Abc City zone total circulation nearly everyone reads the free press ;