Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 21, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press vol. 75 no. 228 Price Loc with comics Friday june 21, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast sunny 45 and 70 ships trapped o Tecl 1 strike blocks Seaway route workers walk off jobs Union chief says govt. To blame Montreal up about workers on the St. Lawrence Seaway system went on strike at 7 . Cd today. Any Lith hour settlement Dis solved with _ a thursday statement by president William j. Smith of the Cana Dian brotherhood of railway transport and general workers Union which rep resents Seaway employees. He said in Ottawa the government s inflexible stand and its failure to mediate in this dispute leaves us with no alternative but to exercise our Legal and democratic right to withdraw our members serv ices at 8 ." or. Smith said the govern ment s position had made fur ther negotiation hopeless. The Union had to abide by a vote of its membership refusing the St. Lawrence Seaway authority s contract wage offer based on the majority report of a Federal conciliation Board. Thursday inter Lake shipping in the great lakes St. Lawrence Seaway system came to a Vir Tual standstill in anticipation of the strike. Locks were closed at Sault Ste. Marie linking Lake Supe rior and Lake Huron and the Welland canal linking Lake on Tario and Lake Erie on orders of the Seaway authority. Earlier thursday the Eastern Section of the Seaway Between Montreal and Lake Ontario was closed to new traffic. Only ships already in the Section were permitted to move out in either direction covering the area from the Iroquois locks at the East Ern end of Lake Ontario to the is. Lambert locks at Montreal. 1 please see strike Page 5 j . House approves tax hike Senate passage of surcharge almost certain today by Murray Seeger Washington special tons after More than 10 months of hesitation the House of representatives thursday agreed to raise income taxes to restrain inflation and Cut the potential size of the . Federal budget deficit. The legislation approved by a vote of 268 to 150 after More tit i than. Seven , will be conservative Leader Stanfield s plans land s on trans Canada Highway after harrowing flight through rain fog and High winds. Drysdale sentenced port Hawkesbury . Up Robert l. Stanfield took 1 his life in his hands thursday to make a Brief Public appearance twin engine Piper Aztec Over the Canso Strait area for 30 minutes looking for a break in the weather new threat looms Montreal up negotiations Between the Canadian Marine officers Union and the Ca Nadian Lake carriers association have broken off it was announced thursday. The dispute poses another strike threat to Canada s Trou bled shipping Industry. Gilbert Gaithier Union presi Dent told a news conference that Marine officers Engi neers on some 200 Canadian Lak be or. Strike by mid july. He said talks Between the Union and the Lake carriers association which groups 32 companies had reached a Point where the Union had accepted please see new Page 6 Paris a campaigning for the first round of France s National Assembly election went into its final hours today after three weeks of lacklustre electioneering in which All Par ties preached Reform and the forces of president de Gaulle tried to whip up a red scare. I campaigning officially ends i tonight for the voting sunday for a new 487-member National Assembly. A second round of voting follows june 30 in districts where no candidate gets a first round majority. The election called in late May by de Gaulle after rioting students and striking workers brought the fifth Republic to a standstill has aroused Little excitement. The gaullist centrists non communist leftists and communists have All urged reforms. Please see election Page 10 ont. Beer outlets close Toronto up Ontario residents who planned to Stock up on Beer during the weekend Are out of Luck the Beer strike officially started Early today closing All Beer stores. Shortly after Midnight 300 members of local 304, International Union of United brewery flour. Cereal soft drink and distillery workers of America went on strike at the Toronto Plant of Molson s brewery on Tario Ltd. As a result All Ontario operations by Carling breweries Ltd., o Keefe brewing co. Ltd., John Labatt Ontario breweries Ltd., Brewers warehousing co. Ltd., Canadian breweries Ltd., Canadian breweries transport Ltd., and w. J. Hyatt Ltd. Are shutting Down a breweries spokesman said. J the breweries which have be j Goti ated jointly since the last contract expired dec. 31, 1967, gave notice earlier that a strike against one firm would be countered by a lockout at All other breweries. Dered and almost certainly approved today by the Senate. In addition to putting a sur charge on taxes the Bill puts Sharp limits on current and future Federal spending. For individuals the new Law will mean an increase of 7.5 per cent in their actual tax payment to the Federal government this year and five per cent next y ear. Increased withholding from paychecks will probably be in effect within a month. It will be the first general in crease in Federal income taxes since the korean War. A person whose 1968 tax would have been s500 will pay an additional this year and next year. For corporations Federal in come tax Bills will be raised 10 per cent this year and five per cent next year. The Bill also requires corporations to Speed please see a s. House Page 4 in the Only Nova Scotia territory j to go Liberal in the 1985 Federal j please see Stanfield Page 5 election. J the flight plane which carried the conservative Leader Here from Halifax landed on an open Section of the trans Xanadu Highway at nearby Harve Bou Cher. The Landing area was sup posed to be marked by ramp patrol cars but Pilot Charlie Barton could t find the area in the Mist and rain that reduced visibility to almost Zero. He and the other five occupants of the pm dares pc chief to clarify policies summer enters summer s going to do a. Little showing off in greater Winnipeg this weekend. To Mark the season s official Start the summer solstice began .. Today m m e r has scheduled sunny skies Light winds and temperatures in the 70s until sunday. The summer solstice is when the Sun reaches its farthest Point in its swing southward from the Equator and Marks the of the year. The Sun Rose at . Today and will set at . And it s All downhill toward autumn from Here. Mainly sunny skies Are forecast for greater Winnipeg today and saturday. Today s High was expected to be 75, the overnight Low 45 and tomorrow s High 70. Looking for this want and under cats 21 a dog dogs Black toy male French poodle 9 mos. Reg., shots. 832-4923. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section. No. Matter what you need shop arid save in free press want ads. Rush arrested in ilk. London up Meyer Rush wanted in connection with a huge fraud Case in was picked up by Scotland Yard in a London hotel today and proceedings were immediately to extradite him to launched Canada. An officer said Rush was registered in the Royal Lancaster a Hyde Park luxury hotel under the name of Michael Brian Rush. Plainclothes men closed in on him while he was asleep Early this morning. Rush who had jumped bail on the Toronto registered at the hotel june 9 for a five week period. The officer said Rush is being held in custody at the request of the ramp. V Rush who arrived in London from Panama june 8, is wanted in Toronto for failure to appear in court to answer charges of conspiracy to defraud the Public of in Tor on to Clay Powell Crown prosecutor arranged a special Ontario supreme court hearing for monday in which he will ask that Rush s bail be forfeited. In Panama City . Hector Valdes director general of the National department of investigation said today he is studying the possibility of re questing the deportation of Rob Ert Coleci of Toronto also wanted in connection with the fraud Case. Valdes said Coleci who has been Here since May 1967, has not yet obtained Legal residence papers in Panama. He added Colucci s deportation Collid be ordered on the grounds that he is an undesirable alien. Tories outdraw Trudeau by Victor Mackie Halifax staff a chant ing cheering crowd of thou Sands turned out under rain washed skies thursday night to Hail conservative Leader Stan Field giving his Campaign a lift with the biggest crowd of his election tour. All Clay the Rains came As the former Nova Scotia Premier returned to his Home province for his final appearance in maritime constituencies before the voting tuesday. The dark Clouds rolled away during the late afternoon and the people of Halifax and Dartmouth turned out by the thousands to Greet their the giant political rally was held at the Kmart shopping Centre in Dartmouth. Earlier in the Campaign prime minister Trudeau appeared at the same Centre and Drew a relatively sparse crowd on a Rainy Day. Or. Stanfield far outdraw the prime minister. Newsmen hesitated to put an estimate on the throng. Please see Stanfield Page 6 brushes off threat by Victor Mackie Halifax staff a Telephone threat on his life was brushed off today by progressive conservative Leader Robert Stanfield As another Crank ramp took it seriously and bad a Large corps of spotted at strategic Points throughout the Large throng at a tory rally Here thurs Day night. The Telephone assassination threat was received by 17-year-old Judy Stanfield at the Stanfield Home in Hali fax "1 a s t her by Stan Mcdowell Saint John . Staff prime minister Trudeau challenged conservative Leader Stanfield thursday to clarify the stand of his party As Well As his personal stand on the Issue of the two nations policy and special status for Quebec. Or. Stanfield has clarified his own personal stand. He has not clarified the stand of his party. If he does in Quebec i can guarantee to you he will obtain the resignations of a great Many conservative candidates who came into the Campaign in order to fight the liberals who Are against two nations and special j or. Trudeau said he had not used the word apology wed j tuesday when he said he took j or. Stanfield at his word when the conservative Leader said he did t stand for two nations and i special status. I at found guilty three year old in Brandon by Jed Stuart Brandon Man. Staff Eugene Ivan Drysdale 32, was sentenced Here thursday to life imprisonment for the beating death of three year old Angela Joan Hawkins in Brandon on or about dec. 8, 1966. Earlier the child s sobbing Mother had described How with his. Hand a leather Belt and a shoe Drysdale had fatally beat and beat my the sentence for non capital murder was handed Down by or. Justice a j. Matas of Manitoba court of Queen s Bench after a jury of 11 men and one woman brought in a verdict of guilty at the Spring assizes Here. The jury deliberated almost exactly an hour from about . Thursday before returning its verdict. A spokesman for the Manitoba attorney general s department said after the trial it in t yet i known what will be done about the charges of being accessories after the fact of which have been Laid against the dead i child s Mother Drysdale s for i Mer common Law wife Beverly Joan Hawkins. 24, and David Nichols is Drysdale s half brother. J Drysdale a fairly Short Man with Pale Blue eyes and curly j dark Brown hair had pleaded i not guilty to the murder charge i Laid against him in March by the Brandon detachment of the i labor cheers curbs Wilson plans punishment for Peers by Alan Harvey London special to the huge Delight of labor backbench ers prime minister Harold Wilson thursday pledged comprehensive and Radical legis lation to Reform the House of lords. But he did t say How or when it would be done. He also announced the sus pension of secret All party talks ways of modernizing the cosy upper chamber whose quaint customs on state Occa Sions include the Earl marshal walking stiffly backwards the Leader of the lords carrying the Cap of maintenance on the end of a stick and flu keys ran sacking the parliamentary cel Lars in a simulated search for hidden caches of Gunpowder. Please see labor maps Page s he accepted or. Trudeau s or. Trudeau said liberals in new Brunswick and Alberta were justified in understanding that conservatives stood for two nations and special status. Please see Trudeau Page 5 wild Welcome for police arrest 77 poor Washington up police fired tear Gas wielded Billy clubs and arrested 77 demonstrators thursday in the first violence of the poor people s Campaign begun six weeks ago. The eruption indicated grow Ling Militancy by the demonstrators and by the police raising concern about what happens after the extended licence for the poverty sunday. Campaign Leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy in a Midnight Pica to the restive residents of the plywood Camp emotions. Sought to Cool. Please Sec poor Page 10 by Stan Mcdowell Montreal staff Ridima the head or. Stanfield had. Said later j candidates in of an his Quebec open gilded Douglas i coach Pierre Trudeau followed a swinging jazz band Friday into the heart of his native Montreal for the most spectacular Welcome of his Campaign. Police said the crowd which packed the Concord of the place Unity Montreal democratic party Leader Doug Las made National Unity his pitch thursday on a Brief elec Tion Campaign visit to Montreal. Only the nip can line National Unity to Canada founded on social Justice and economic he said during a party rally in a end hockey Arena. Earlier or. Douglas did some Mai Streeting in West end shopping plazas in a drive by the party to make a break through in Quebec where it has never won a seat in a Federal election. The diminutive nip Leader got a great reception from about 500 persons in the Arena. Two hefty workers carried him on their shoulders when hear Rived depositing him on the speaking platform As a band blared. But the crowd seemed to lose interest when or. Douglas made his Brief speech entirely Ville de Marie skyscrapers was Complex of by far the ramp. Clad in a charcoal Grey suit he showed virtually no signs of emotion during the four Day trial which began monday in Brandon courthouse. J among the exhibits at the trial were what defence counsel j admitted were the child s Skull j and other Bones. The nearly decomposed remains clothed 4hate rag scored biggest Ever assembled there. In a cowgirl outfit had been they estimated the crowd at j found by a Deer Hunter nov. 13, about with thousands 1937. In. An isolated area of the filling the surrounding windows of the office building continued please see wild Rose Page 10 Brandon Hills about 10 Miles South of the City. Please see Drysdale Page 4 children s care probe urged by Hubert Beyer j pressure Winnipeg s Public in the midst of accusations of health and welfare committee press intimidation and Public in English with the exception of couple of introductory fences in French. Reward passes if you have information which recommended to Council thurs Day that a subcommittee be established to inquire into the City s need for children s care services. Committee reached its Deci Sion following a two hour debate involving an application for a Day Nursery Centre. Mrs. Ruth Dii Ehmig. Of 72 Arlington Street for the past nine years has been looking after children whose mothers Are working during the Day. Leads to the arrest and con j several weeks ago As a result Vic Tiou of the killer or killer of i a routine Check by the City s two teen agers in East St. Paul department mrs. Duehmig was told that she by Cliff Shnier an attack on scurrilous hate literature highlighted an appearance in Charleswood thurs Day night by e. B. Osier Liberal candidate in Winnipeg South Centre. Appealing to All voters of All j party affiliations he re Quested the overflow crowd of 150 to report any findings of such material to their party head quarters. In a sentence by sentence repudiation of a rag entitled vers Domain or. Osier condemned this sort of literature As just not Good enough for a please see hate rag Page g please see brushes 5 and Tell the ramp about it sen there will be a Reward of More. L for. Children unless she complied with a number of City of Winnipeg bylaws. She was told Slie had to have Grade 12 school standing her Home would have to have a offer. Is growing As private double sink the window space citizens and organizations show j would have to be in a certain their indignation about the relation to the total floor space senseless murders by aug and the basement of her House meeting the Reward. Would have to have two exits. I please see Reward Page 6 please Sec committee Page 4 than for you. Or c. Car the teen agers were killed please see Douglas Page 4 More than tw0 months ago. Al Al. I the free press Reward fund started with a Reward candidates answer questions please see Page 141 features today i Kenny in thick of things again 23 today s Index classified 29 to 44 comics 10, 17 deaths 14 finance 1 to 13 movies 2fi, 27 sports 22 to 25 television 28 women j s to cily zone total nearly everyone reids the free press ;