Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 25, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday june 25, t968 rail strike blocked by govt. Continued the car had announced it accept the report As a basis for settlement but their basis was not acceptable to us they deleted significant re commendations o n collective w. T. Wilson car vice presi Dent of personnel and labor re lations said in a statement that the company will continue nor Mal operations in View of labor minister Pepin s order to recon Vene the boards. However he added the Union did not agree with the Board s recommendation that a single rate of pay replace a graduated rate which is related to the number of locomotives on a particular train. Under their contract with the car which expired in March 1967, firemen on Eastern lines of the company s passenger serv ice were paid Between and for each 100 Miles travelled. Freight train firemen receive up to for each 100 Mees travelled. Both classifications were allowed to travel up to Miles a month. The wage Scales apply to Loco motives weighing pounds. A Flat rate of is paid on passenger trains under car s agreement which expired in june 1967. A car official said his Oom would accept the Board s report and would continue nor Mal operations in the Light of the government order to recon Vene the Board. Goes the Nobel dog on a Mission of utmost secrecy he opens the sealed envelope a got. to shrink Canada Reimer express shortens the do stance Between Canadian cities. I just mesh we p1dnt have to evidence Telephone 586-8111 Tony Hancock Tony Hancock Dies Sydney Australia Reuters Tony Hancock sad faced English comedian was found dead in his apartment today. An empty Pill bottle was on the floor near his bed police said. Two goodbye notes were found in the apartment police said. The pen with which they we re written was still in Han cock s hand when the body was discovered. Friends said the comedian was depressed since hearing from London a few Days ago that his second wife Freda obtained a divorce from him. Both notes were addressed to Eddie Joffe producer of a color television series Hancock was making Here in an attempt to stage a comeback. Police believe the 44-year-old comedian wrote the notes immediately before losing consciousness. In one Hancock asked that love be sent to his Mother in England. The notes also made a num Ber of other requests. But police refused to reveal the contents and said they would be turned Over Sydney Coroner. Hancock arrived Here in make a new television series for a local station. In the series called played the part dejected English migrant. Washington Figuet police continued by cordoned off resurrection City mud soaked showplace of the poor people s Campaign at monday. They need t have been. In the hour and a half it took for 200 police to sweep through the 15-acre campsite checking each of the 540 plywood huts 119 per sons were peacefully arrested. About the same time Rev. Ralph David Abernathy led a March in the Capitol where 225 peaceful arrests were made. Police gave everyone who did not want to be arrested a Chance to leave. Trouble when it came began three Miles away in a run Down negro neighbourhood. The poor people s Campaign Headquarters is in a building on a Corner Here. Crowds gathering since Early afternoon in an extremely hot and muggy Day grew unruly to Ward evening. Several liquor and drug store windows were broken and at East one gasoline bomb fire was set before police routed people with tear Gas. The window breaking and Rock throwing appeared to be the work of neighbourhood Resi dents not resurrection City ten ants. Rev. Andrew exec Ive vice president of the South Ern Christian leadership con Terence announced a new phase in the poor people s Campaign Active mobilization of the nation to Boycott specific goods Rev. Jesse Jackson resurrection City s first City Mana will be responsible for organizing the Economy Boycott in 40 cities Young said. Jackson was not specific about his plans and said he could t name the cities. But he mentioned Salmon and grapes As two Boycott items. Gas said to be upset continued or. Sheedy said he could perhaps say More about the matter toward the end of the week. An official of the provincial health department said he d heard of conflict Between Mani Toba Gas and specialists two or three years ago but thought the causes of disagreement had been removed. About a Quarter of Manitoba s practising doctors Are general practitioners. Dickson will hear dispute nominee for the teachers is Roy Gallagher and for the school Board Henry b. Monk. Both Are Winnipeg lawyers. They were asked to select a chairman from a seven Man list prepared annually by the Mani Toba teachers society and the Manitoba association of school trustees. The list is approved and confirmed by the minister of education. The province s chief Justice was asked to select a chairman for the arbitration Board after the nominees passed a june 13 deadline could not agree on a chairman from the list. The selection was t made from the list. Arbitration has been re Quested by the teachers to Settle a dispute Over inclusion in their 1968 agreement of a clause covering formation of a joint teacher school Board committee to discuss teacher function problems with a View to arriving at mutually Satis factory solutions. The decision of the arbitration Board will be binding on both sides. German act signed Bonn a the Emer gency Powers act was signed into Law by president Heinrich Luebke monday. Leftists staged nationwide demonstrations last month against its passage by the West German parliament. City Hydro reports Peak profit continued in 1967, slightly higher Rev Enue from the Sale of electricity lower Cost of purchased electricity and adjustments to depreciation rates thus reducing debt charges All have combined to offset increased general operating expenses. Total Revenue from electricity sold last year was commercial Domestic compared with the 1966 total of steam heat sales were Down to last year from in 1966, contributing to a net loss of on the steam heating system. Increased operating costs were largely responsible for the loss on the steam heating system Hydro officials said. But accumulated surplus from Prev ious years was to cover this loss. The Utility also reports it spent on Street Light ing in Winnipeg during 1967. The comparable figure for 1966 was in March Manitoba Hydro announced it would raise its rates shortly because of rising costs. It was indicated that individual rather than Industrial Consumers would Bear the Brunt of the increase. But at that time d. C. Bryden general manager of Winnipeg Hydro said that Indi cations were such that the profit picture would Rule out any immediate plan to increase electricity rates. Honor Roll Brian h. Dick son of or. And mrs. W. J. Dick of 274 Dunkirk drive St. Vital who graduates from University of North Dakota in August has been placed on the Dean s Honor Roll for outstanding academic achievement in his senior year. Vice president for 1967-68 of the University s management club he graduates with a business administration degree. Actress robbed Weybridge England a two men broke into the Home of american actress Mia Farrow late thursday night and escaped with jewelry after tying up her Mother actress Maureen o Sullivan. Miss Farrow 22 year old estranged wife of Frank Sinatra was out when the men raided her House near this Surrey town. Polaris sub sails London Reuters the times says the Resolution Brit Ain s first Polaris submarine has set sail on its first operation Al patrol armed with nuclear the paper says it secretly slipped out of the Polaris base at Aslane on the West coast of Scotland after several weeks preparation for a two month cruise. We be ranch Man s very very dry for people who dislike a perfume Gin. In knowledge and skills to beat sixty. Telephone people Are helping Manitoba grow to beat 70 we live in the age of technology where communications advances happen faster than you can blink an Eye. Your Manitoba Telephone system stays in the forefront to keep your communications service As modern As tomorrow. D and this Means that the knowledge and skills of your Telephone people Are growing to beat sixty last year some Man hours were spent attending Plant department train ing Centre courses management training courses and individual department educational programs. Now during our sixtieth anniversary year most of them will continue to take courses or read a Book or otherwise refresh and Sharpen their abilities to keep your Manitoba Telephone system one of the most advanced in North America. D to provide you with maximum service at minimum Cost Telephone skills will keep on growing to beat sixty to keep Manitoba growing to beat 70 your Manitoba Telephone system ;