Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 20, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to 701 Winnipeg free press vol. 75 no. 227 10r with 1uc thursday june 20, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast cooler 60 and 75 cheer pm at rallies in Toronto Pearson Trudeau together on platform for first time by Stan Mcdowell Toronto staff Toronto turned out in throngs for Pierre Trudeau wednesday. At Day s end his at Tendance score for three major rallies was nearing and More had seen him at in Between stops. I he had or More at Centennial Park in Scarborough Early wednesday evening. An hour later at North York Centennial Centre the turnout filled the seats and jammed the aisles and entrances. Both Toronto afternoon news papers reported a Atten dance at the outdoor noon hour i 1 rally at City Hall. But the or consensus among estimates on the scene was in the neighbor Hood of Trudeau disowns by Stan Mcdowell Toronto staff prime minister Trudeau wednesday accused conservatives and the at North York or. Trudeau shared a platform for this first time in the Campaign with former prime minister Lester Pearson who introduced him As new democratic party of Camj a Man for All paining on one constitutional i or. Trudeau made a Blis platform in Quebec and another tearing attack at North York on elsewhere in the country. The conservatives and the new but he said he accepted the democratic party whom he word of Robert Stanfield that he called the old line parties did t stand for two nations. With ocl Lucas and old policies. T he called on All canadians to insofar As any Libra Artic Pat building a be advertising has accused Robert b wave in new democratic party Leader t. C. Douglas crop future Good prospects depend on rainfall seeding has been completed on the Prairies and prospects in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta Range from fair to excellent. The seeding season was a Good one sufficient rain fell to promote fairly even Germina Tion but immediate general Rains will be needed to develop a Good Normal crop sub soil moisture is scarce and wild Oats a major problem. There has not been any serious insect damage. For detailed reports on Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta by free press Cor respondents see Page Prairie Farmers sowed an estimated acres of wheat Down 4.56 per cent from 1967. The acreage sown to flax is up from in 1967 to this year. Rapeseed acreage is Down More than 21 per cent and there has been a slight increase in the acreage left for summer allow. More Oats and Barley have also been i sown with an average increase closed since 2 . June 13. Lbs signs gun control legislation legislators try anew with Bills to control Sale of Long guns Washington a not satisfied with the gun restrictions in the crime Bill signed into Law by president Johnson advocates of stiffer firearms control drove today to ban the mail order Sale of rifles and shotguns. Tie judiciary committees of both the Senate and House of representatives had such Bills before them less than 24 hours after Johnson signed a Bill wednesday that prohibits the mail order Sale of pistols. The Senate had knocked out of the crime Bill a similar prohibition affecting rifles and shot guns shortly before senator Robert f. Kennedy was killed Early this month. Metro is considering putting a temporary Bailey Bridge Over the Assiniboine River alongside Maryland Bridge if tests Indi j Cate the old Bridge can t be j repaired. Metro chairman Jack Willis said thursday. Maryland Bridge has been please see Johnson Page 5 Clanfield of standing for two he said at a meeting in Scarborough and i insofar As i take his word that he does to i repudiate such future for the country warning that we know that no society is today and that the country s future was t Guaran teed. By Barry came the financial underpinnings of the new democratic party s Promise filled election platform he said Canada had Greal j were outlined Here wednesday advertising and i understand it but canadians must even Luff by nip Leader Dou has i develop them or others would auf Leader i Doug since or. Trudeau said flatly he said Levels of education in a few minutes later that he did j Canada were higher than in take or. Stanfield s word the most countries of the world. Second insofar in the sentence was understood to have been a j must make sure slip of the Tongue. Technology of the future is but in fairness i would like j developed by us and not by the tories to say clearly what other their position is. Most of the recent tory candidates in Quebec have been recruited precisely because they stand for two nations and please see Trudeau Page 8 Las. Hitting Back All his customary eloquence at charges that his party s program would but he that we j bankrupt the country or. Doug til at the Las unveiled a six Point Blue print of the Steps the nip would take to pay for its poli cies. And he neatly slipped in a firm dismissal of prime min please see Page 4 Quebec s Stanfield by Victor Mackie Quebec City staff conservative Leader Clanfield was wildly cheered and applauded in a roof raising French Canadian political rally Here wednesday when he whip lashed the government for mismanagement of the Economy. The crowd that packed Durocher Hall in manpower minister Jean March and s Riding Rose to its feet and gave the tory Leader a rousing ovation when he denounced the liberals for exploiting any anti Quebec sentiment wherever he blasted the liberals for injecting the Poison of racial prejudice into the election Campaign. This was a Tough political Leader who gave the crowd of nearly including 200 stand ing outside the building listening to loudspeakers the kind of speech they wanted. Gone was the gentle manner or. Stanfield had frequently displayed As he met and mingled with canadians during his Cross country Campaign. Time after time he lifted them off their chairs to shout scream and chant their support As he attacked prime minister Trudeau and his amateurs in Ottawa. His Rock sock pm speech was delivered with an unusually Large number of please see Quebec Page 8 Gallup poll Regenstreif see Liberal victories Page 58 questions for candidates. Pages 17 profile of Dauphin Riding. Page 47 it was 58 Page 18 Osier belts tories. Page 10 ister tru Cleau s recent state ments pinning a billion Price tag on the nip platform. The nip Leader addressed his pitch to supporters in Winnipeg civic auditorium the scene of earlier Douglas triumphs and also the site where conservative Leader Stanfield kicked off his party s National Campaign last month. Although the crowd in the auditorium failed to match the. Turnout for earlier nip rallies and or. Stanfield s perform Ance it nevertheless outpaced by far the conservative affair in exuberance and political Fervour the nip Leader quickly employed All of his oratorical polish and soon had the crowd wholeheartedly with him particularly when he said the electorate was entitled to ask How he intended to pay for All the programs he has been expounding. First let me Point out that Many of our programs do not represent expenditures of new Money rather they Are trans fers of payment from the Public purse or from one level of government to the he pointed to medical care insurance As an example claim ing that canadians will pay million in doctors Bills this year while the current Federal government medicare program will Likely Cost million. He went on to remind his listeners that Many of the nip programs such As housing and please see nip rally Page 5 of about 10 per cent for both feed grains. In Manitoba crop prospects Are favourable. Seeding was delayed in Eastern half of the province but stands of All Cereal grains that have emerged look Strong and healthy. There will be need for rain in All regions particularly in the Southwest where there is a Lack please see crop Page 2 looking for Golf clubs this want and under miscellaneous articles 59 Spalding Golf clubs bag cart 6 Irons 2 new Woods. S50. 533-4245. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Die blisters Trudeau for creating disunity Drysdale Case May j go to jury today brewery strike looms in a Telephone interview councillor Willis said Concrete Core tests to determine the extent the Bridge s Concrete Arches have deteriorated should be completed Friday or Satur Day. Toronto up workers he said that if these tests for five Ontario breweries and show that the Bridge can be the Brewers warehousing co. Repaired metro s streets and j Ltd. For preparing for a strike transit department is a breakdown in Nego to repair the Structure in j to nations. Mediately. J the 2.700 workers members but if the Bridge Cannuni he of the Intel National Union of repaired j the 2.700 workers cannot be International metro would have to by Jed Stuart he said he told the accused redid t know if it could be made Brandon Man. Stain i to look As if Angela had met her by Bob Lisov Vay former conservative Leader John Diefenbaker accused the liberals wednesday night of stressing the Canadian Unity Issue to hide the fact that Canada is in a financial mess. Or. Diefenbaker delivered a blistering attack against the liberals and new democratic party at an election rally at Rossmere Golf club East Kil Donan for Eric Stefanson the conservative candidate seeking re election in Selkirk Riding. About people enthusiastically listened to or. Diefenbaker speak for More than an hour in what he said May be his last address in a political Campaign. Although the former prime minister said the Canadian Unity Issue was simply a scheme to conceal the View of the people from the fact the country is in a he emphasized the need for nation Al Unity. Or. Diefenbaker said he was satisfied now that conservative Leader Stanfield was working for National Unity. I wish he was just As Clear from the or. Stanfield replaced or. Diefenbaker As party Leader at a National leadership convention in Toronto last september. The former Leader said he had t intended to enter the leadership race but did so when he started to hear talk about two a but the matter As far As the party is concerned has been clarified or. Diefenbaker said. On the other hand prime minister Trudeau was working toward disunity claimed or. Diefenbaker. Giving Bill c-186, legislation that would give bargaining Powers to regional unions As an example or. Diefenbaker said the prime minister would Divide this if the Bill forced on the legislature by the Quebec Wing of the liberals is approved the result would end the fundamental Freedom of labor to bargain nationally and collectively or. Diefenbaker claimed. Or. Diefenbaker campaigned outside Saskatchewan his Home province where he is seeking re election for the first time wednesday at the request of two old Loyal he spoke please see says pm Page 5 David Nichols 18, half brother of Eugene Ivan Drysdale on trial on a charge of non capital murder testified Here wednes Day that the accused might have reported the death of three year old Angela Joan Hawkins if it could have seemed to have been the result of a car Accident. The jury of 11 men Ami one woman was expected to retire to consider a verdict thursday afternoon. Or. Nichols and Angela s Mother Bevereley Joan Hawkins 24, have been charged with being accessories after the fact of murder. Or. Nichols who claimed to have been present when or. Drysdale .32, beat Angela to death dec. A 1986, in Brandon testified wednesday that after beating the child or. Drysdale asked me. If i thought she could have got like that by being hit by a if so the accused might have reported the death or. Nichols said under . Wilson to curb Peers death in a car Accident. Or. Drysdale had decided against notifying the authorities and had told or. Nichols he was going to take her out and leave her or. Nichols said or. Drysdale had put a pressed cardboard suitcase in the car and together they had driven to an isolated spot about 10 Miles South of the City s what it. Drysdale had done with the suitcase or. Nichols please see Case Page 8 consider several alternatives. I asked if a Bailey Bridge is one j of the major alternatives he replied that it is. As for other alternatives metro has t discussed them i since it is still awaiting the technical report coun. Willis said. Emphasizing the importance of a temporary Bridge. Coun. Willis said it would take at least a year to tear Down the ocl Bridge and replace it with a new one. A Bailey Bridge often used in Europe by the Canadian army during the second world War could accommodate four lanes of traffic he said. I would be a Timber Structure and the Roadway would be two to three feet above the River level. Please see Bailey Page 5 j United brewery flour Cereal and soft drink and distillery workers of America could legally strike at Midnight tonight. However a spokesman for the c o m p a n i e s said wednesday night that As far As he knows no strike Date has been set. Students face Selkirk approves water Plant bylaw ratepayers approved a in Selkirk have i treatment facility that will Money follow John one last time the last Hurrah by John Robertson the chief hunched Forward on the Clias Chin first his face shouting Defiance Al though his lips had not yet moved. The frail hands he had wrung so nervously during the introduction now stiffened into two White knuckled vises As they clamped each end of the speaker s stand. The crowd of were standing cheering and re fusing to quit beating their hands and when the wondrously pliable c o r r u galed Diefenbaker Couten Ance reached Oul Over the bouquet of Black Micro phones it seemed to soften and shed a decade As it caught each ascending wave of adulation and milked from it the adrenalin he would surely need on this Long hot evening. It was 1958 again half past Campaign time and for one cherished hour the pablum platitudes w h i c h had become synonymous with this year s conserva Tive Campaign would Merci fully disappear because John Diefenbaker was Here ready to give his fellow canadians some of that old time religion for the. Last time in a political Campaign. The setting was quite irrelevant unless your name was Eric Stefanson conservative candidate for the Selkirk Riding who was in dire need of a Messiah to Salvage his commons seat. And somehow the sock it to. Them Stanfield posters on the Back Wall just did t fit in More ways than one. Please see the last Page 5 London up the labor government said today it will Reform the British Constitution to reduce the Power of the mainly hereditary House of lords. Prime minister Wilson said the government would make up its own mind about Reform of the 700-year-old upper chamber and break months of efforts to i get agreement on the subject from All parties. Wilson said the All party talks were abandoned because of the vote this week in the lords against the government order on rhodesian sanctions. Wilson said the action in the lords proved the conservative majority among the Peers could frustrate and Over Rule the labor government and the elected House of commons. The government would soon introduce comprehensive and Radical legislation to change the Powers of the House of lords. I this legislation would be submitted without seeking agree ment from the opposition con bylaw for a water softening plan which promises to give impetus to Industrial growth never before possible in the town of on the red River 23 Miles North of Winnipeg. The proposed Plant capable of softening 2% million Gallons of Well water a Day was approved wednesday by a vote of to 350. The bylaw approval Guaran tees the town a Federal provincial Grant to cover 75 per cent of the Cost of buying land for a 150-acre Industrial site from the fund for Rural econ Omic development Selkirk is in an unusually hard water area and to qualify for the development Grant it had to arrange for an adequate water provide water of reduced hard Ness to the Industrial the Plant is to be financed by local m u n i a i p a 1 debentures floated on the strength of a 4.5 Mill special Levy for 20 years Phi lies and Revenue from a boost in local water rates expected to Cost Consumers More a by Ken Ingle last of u series Winnipeg teen agers searching i for summer jobs Are often confronted with the apathy of j employers according to five High school students. The students commented re i Henlly on the difficulty in j finding summer employment. Often when you go to ask for a Job they sort of say so you want a Job As though they really weren t at All said Zobida Ali. A Grade n student at Grant Park High school. The other students agreed that Many prospective employ ers show no interest in dealing with students even if their Corn openings for Slu year. In 1960, ratepayers Defeated a similar Money bylaw by a vote of 600 to 350. Soft water is expected to be a Boon to local homeowners More than half of whom operate Home water softeners. They Are expected to save Money on i soaps detergents and shampoos As Well As on pipes and i appliances. J please see Selkirk Page 5 students Are usually asked if they be had any experience. If they Haven to it s difficult to arouse any interest they said. We know employers need experienced people but How can we offer experience if nobody will hire us in the first said miss a. Please see students Page 2 worried watch hemlines new York Reuters i alarmed and shocked at the drop of the Hemline the 000-Strong american society of girl watchers has begun a Campaign to save the mini skirt. The society which de scribes itself As a body of re fined gentlemen dedicated to discreet but relentless girl was founded 14 years ago and feels its exist ence is threatened by the cur Serva Tive and the Liberal Par-1 rent below the knee trend. I ties. J in. A s t a t e m e n to society founder Don Sauers said we Are deeply shocked and Trou bled by this news. We Hope All will rally to the support of Hie the society warned the sudden lowering of skirt lengths is historically associated with world wars and Seri Ous coinciding with the Start of the new v i e w i n g season Sauers also issued some Gen eral reminders and guidelines to members. Please see girl Page 2 features today North stars sign three nats 52 today s Index classified comics deaths finance movies sports television women cily zone total 32 to 25, 2fi 8 k to 15 28, to 57 27 .19 to 23 Early everyone reads the free press ;