Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 24, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to Winnipeg free press vol. 75 no. 230 Price Loc with comics Loc monday june 24, 1968 in Montreal tonight pm ignores death threat Sun rises . Moon rises 3.43a.m. Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast sunny 50 and 70 newspaper reports Fly plot to kill Trudeau but hell attend St. Jean Baptiste Parade by Stan Mcdowell Montreal staff tonight will be the last and Best Chance for Quebec separatists to put up an effective show of opposition to prime minister Trudeau before voting begins. They have promised not to miss it. But they have also been saying All they can say to persuade him or his advisers to Promise. He shouted to thousands of listeners in Montreal s place Ville Marie Friday ill be warnings to or. Trudeau to keep away from the Saint Jean Baptiste. Parade were the front Page headlines on both of Stanfield woos protest votes by Joyce Fairbairn St. Jean que. Staff conservative Leader Stanfield sunday urged dissatisfied que Douglas blasts deals by Dennis Orchard Victoria up nip Leader t. C. Douglas says he believes the publishers of the magazines time and Reader s digest Are among contributors to Liberal Campaign funds. At a news conference Here sunday and in a Prince George speech saturday night or. Douglas made his toughest statements of the election Campaign about what he called deals Between privileged financial interests and the Liber Al and conservative parties. He said Here he has no proof of the contributions. Only the nip opens its financial books to Public View he said. But he added it would be naive not to believe that Oil mining and insurance Compa Nies Banks and stockbrokers make major pledges to the two parties. He said he included time and Reader s digest because of exemptions they enjoy against taxes on advertising levied on american publications entering Canada. I think they be been contrib uting for he told the news conference. The arrange ments Are probably in the form of unwritten agreements. If parties get favors and do favors it May not be signed in blood but to me this is a in Prince George or. Doug Las cold 700 persons in a High school auditorium that b either the liberals nor the conserva Tives live endorsed the Carter please see Douglas Page 8 All Over but the voting by the Canadian press it s All Over but the last min Ute shouting in Canada s 28th general election Campaign. After two months of political activity the whole thing is to be clumped in the laps of about eligible voters tues Day. Prime minister Trudeau 48, conservative Leader Stanfield 54, and nip Leader Douglas 63, Are making their closing pitches today in one final burst of or. Stan Field who was to hit eight Southern Ontario centres. Or. Trudeau s schedule Cov ers Renfrew ont., Maniwaki Montreal Drummondville and St. Hyacinthe que. Please see All Over. Page 8 Beers not to waste their protest vote on real Caouette s credit Isles. In his final foray into Quebec before the election the tory Leader was admittedly out to woo the uncommitted. Today he ends his Campaign with a rugged sweep through 10 Southern Ontario centres before flying Home to Halifax for election Day. Sunday night about 150 vocal supporters Tarmac of gathered Ottawa s on the Uplands Airport to cheer their Man for the last time before the vote. In Quebec or. Stanfield was in the very Best of spirits As he j spoke mainly in French to receptive audiences in Sherb Rooke and St. Jean. Constantly he h m e r e d Home the theme that prime minister Trudeau and his liberals lived in a fantasy world where problems did t exist. The conservative party and not the credit Ste splinter group was the Only logical alter please see Stanfield Page 6 Montreal s French language sunday morning newspapers. The headline in derriere Here was a warning the High voltage tabloid said had been made by the Fly we will kill Trudeau but the Story that went with the head line was based heavily on hearsay. Dimanche Matin headlined Rene Levesque s statement in Hull that it was a phenomenal stupidity for or. Trudeau to go to the Parade Pierre Bourgault Leader of prime minister Trudeau enjoys ride in the Man sphere 98 Parade sunday afternoon thousands line route gaullist Triumph firemen to walk out thursday Montreal up firemen and locomotive Yard trainmen of the in and car have called a strike for 6 . Local time thursday it was announced today. C. J. Allen vice president of. The brotherhood of locomotive firemen arid in linemen said the strike follows the failure of the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways to implement a conciliation report submitted by a Federal conciliation Board headed by judge Rene Lippe of it is the first strike called against both companies by the brotherhood the Blue struck the car Only in May 19ss. Or. Alien said the strike Call would be sent today to All 93 locals of the brotherhood through put Canada and pickets would take up positions at 6 . Local time across the country. The Lippe report had recommended wage increases of 24 per cent Over three years for passenger trainmen and hos tiers and a 15-per-cent boost for firemen on freight and Yard engines. Hustlers move locomotive in j Gines to and from repair shops i in the Yards. Or. Allen said his Union was Brierre Leader 01 it i a t what had been the main separa i meagre or owl at list party before Rene Levesque s conversion the Ras Semb Lement pour i lode Pencil ence National has announced that instead of accepting an invitation to be on the reviewing stand he will be in the Street directing a n t i Trudeau demonstrations. Until today the separatists have failed or Haven t really see separatists Page 6 Blunder mania attack puts City on crutches by Barry came and Wade Rowland Trudeau mania was up staged by Blunden Nania in Winnipeg sunday. Ably led by the promoters Bury that badge people wearing election badges two Guys before toe election Are breaking the Law. This is one of Many rules restricting campaigning on or close to election Day in effect for tuesday s general elections but seemingly unenforceable. Local returning officers frankly admit it. The general election instructions for returning officers published by the. Chief electoral officer Jan. I 1961, lists 200-Odd general rules and 114 sections of the Federal election act with at least As Many subsections. But what about Rule 377 the one about partisan badges. The Supply or the use by any person on or within two Days of polling Day of party badges flags ribbons labels or other favors is illegal and an election offence is committed not Only by the person by whom the badge or Label is furnished but also by the person by whom it is carried or one visualizes returning officers and their staffs combing the City plucking badges off people tearing bumper stickers off cars and hauling thousands of Winni Eggers before magi Strate Isaac Rice next Day. Please see Bury Page 8 of the Man sphere 98 red River exhibition and Winnipeg police chief George blow the City s elite Man aged to perform an almost unbelievable series of spectacular foul during prime minister Trudeau s last pre election visit Here. The leading members of the Community so botched the prime minister s tour from beginning to end that it will be a Long time before Winnipeg recovers from the Black Eye it received. It was one snafu after another from the moment or. Trudeau stepped from his plane until he left shortly after 3 . By the time the visit had ended the City was almost universally being looked upon As the Backwoods of the country by the prime minister s staff acid the 50 members of the National press that had accompanied him. The Only saving Grace was the excellent sex Parade and the record crowds lining the Street an event that blamed on habit and fee by Gordon Arnold prime minister Trudeau led a Parade of people sunday for Man sphere 98 the red River exhibition cheered by thousands of people who jammed the route along Portage Avenue to the Winnipeg stadium. Exhibition officials estimated the crowd As High As while others placed it As Low As but there was no mistaking the poor turnout at the stadium where there were people for the capacity. Lou Thornton general Mana Ger of the exhibition in explain ing the Small turnout said we have never terminated the Parade Here before. People Are used to lining the streets to see the Parade go please see thousands Page 9 seemed to occur in spite of the amateurish a r r a n g e ments that surrounded the affair. Please see one snafu Page 6 exhibition came in Bush league by John Robertson it was Only an exhibition game played under Bush league rules and fewer than turned out to the Winnipeg stadium to Greet prime minister Trudeau at the culmination of the Man sphere 98 Parade Sun Day afternoon. And any political winds generated during the Long hot afternoon were limited to sighs of Relief from the progressive conservative and new democratic party hear Slipyi say mass by Mike Harris Joseph Cardinal Slipyi celebrated a solemn pontifical mass sunday morning in the Winnipeg auditorium assisted by pre lates Bishops monsignor and priests of the ukrainian Catho Lic Church. About people attended. Some were standing at the rear and along each Side of the Hall. The ukrainian pioneers did t have the churches of the Eastern rite nor the priests. Later the priests came Relig ious communities and parishes were established said Cardinal Slipyi. Finally a diocese of the ukrainian Catholic Church was formed. Eventually this diocese was expanded and four new ones were established with a metro Politan see in Winnipeg. Please see hear Page 9 looking for a Bridge this want and under miscellaneous articles 9 cd. It. Viking fridge Gurney Range Good cond. 589 2u12 aft. 6. Is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Camps that or. Trudeau did t linger Long enough to upset the delicate balance in several local constituency races. Red River exhibition officials had anticipated a crowd of jamming the stadium at the Parade s end but they did t anticipate that traffic roadblocks would be thrown up within a half mile radius of the stadium making the adjacent parking lots inaccessible for a full two hours before or. Trudeau s scheduled appearance. And it was very disconcerting for thousands of Winni Eggers to pile their families into the car and head for the stadium Only to be told by traffic police men you can t get there from an estimated spectators lined the Parade route no More or. No less than did so in previous years and yes one or two Young girls did break ranks and try to embrace Pierre and yes he did receive More cheers and applause than any of the assorted bands and floats on display. For those who keep Statis tics on such things he was also presented with two chocolate ice Cream bars and a framed painting depicting bulrushes at Sun set. But a Moses he was t. Nor did he attempt to feed please see Bush Page 14 i o Jvn. Rte Iii Saju jus Unie generals 1 arty makes strop ii Gams not overjoyed at the i i uni ii-n-1 in first round of French voting Paris up president de Gaulle s forces appeared headed today for an overwhelming majority in the French National Assembly after Strong gains the first round of the National election. Left Wing politicians warned that the Battle has Only begun As preparations started for the Runoff elections next sunday. Frightened by the weeks of student violence and nationwide strikes in May the French peo ple heeded de Gaulle s theme of gaullist or communism and elected 148 of his followers Sun Day. I gaullist candidates also were emendations but had decided to accept them. Two weeks ago the Canadian railway labor which represents All rail work ers in itself sol please see rail Page 8 Grain shipment halt predicted William c. Mcnamara chief commissioner of the Canadian Runoff elections in 150 other Dis j wheat Board said in a Tele phone interview monday that a in favourable positions for the j tricks indicating that the presi Dent and Premier Georges Pompidou might win a majority of More than 100 in the 487-seat Assembly. In the last Assembly the Gaul lists and their allies had a majority of Only one. It was an unexpected Triumph Lor the 77-year-old general who less than a month ago threat ened to resign at the height of the National convulsion. His Post was not at stake in the election. It was also a stinging defeat for de Gaulle s opponents of the Centre and left. Only 12 Uon gaullist were elected in the first round in metropolitan France six communists four centrists and two members of rightist parties. Please see gaullist Page 6 strike of the in and car by firemen would result in a Complete stoppage of Grain Leader arrested shipments out of the Prairies. Or. Mcnamara said that As a result of the seamen s strike on the great lakes and the railway men s embargo on the handling of shipments through fort William Grain shipments Are already curtailed at the . He said that about 50 per cent of the Normal Grain shipments is being shipped through Van Couver and that a rail strike would definitely halt shipments through that port. He also singled out Churchill where bushels of Grain Are in storage but whose Grain elevators will be empty by the end of july if the strike is still on. Or. Mcnamara said the rail ways originally had planned to begin the movement of 100 to 125 Grain cars a Day to Churchill beginning on july 15. He said at present there Are railway cars filled with Grain in transit to the Lakehead enough to fill that port s Grain elevators. Political leaders on the bust Washington a Rev. Ralph David Abernathy Leader of the poor people s Campaign was arrested today As he sought to Lead a group of demonstrators onto the . Capitol grounds. Meanwhile a Small army of police was evacuating the Campaign s Camp Section City. The government moves followed plans by the Campaign to Force mass arrests by refusing to move out of its Shantytown and to March on the Capitol. We Are All going to i demonstration Leader Hose Wil-1 Mains promised a High spirited crowd at the resurrection City campsite sunday night i the official permit allowing the Campaign demonstrators to j live in their plywood settlement i near the Lincoln memorial ran j out at dusk sunday after a Day j of unrest and disorder that brought a barrage of tear Gas fired by police into the Camp. This is a jail without bail j program we Are embarked on i please see poor Page 9 features today 126 holes of coif in one Day 28 today s Index classified comics deaths finance movies 30 to 42 43, 44 9 45 to 47 19 sports 26 to 29 television 18 women 22 to 24 City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press Ings were unavailable for com ment on the effects of a general please see Grain Page 8 Beer May last 2 weeks Toronto up Beer drinkers turned out in droves at hotels across Ontario saturday amid predict actions from pub owners that Beer supplies would not last More than two weeks. Hotels have been virtually the Only source of Beer since Friday morning when a strike by the province s brewery Wor ers and warehousemen began against five breweries and Brewers warehousing co. Ltd. A liquor control Board of on Tario spokesman said the sup please see Beer Page 14 mob kills 71 Buenos Aires ing a Loudspeaker warning that a Gate was closed hundreds of soc cer fans stampeded As they tried to leave Argentina s largest stadium sunday and trampled 71 persons to death. Police said 83 person were injured Many of Vliem seriously. Most of the dead and injured were men. It was Argentina s worst sports disaster and recalled the worst such in the history of sports a Stampede at a soccer match in Lima Peru in 1964 in which 328 persons were killed. Please see soccer Page 6 polls open 9 . Close at 8 ;