Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 26, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 press final edition vol. 75 no. 232 Price Loc wednesday june 26, 1968 Sun. Rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast sunny 50 and so standings solid majority for government liberals. Prog. Con. Nip credit Ste social credit Independent total 1968 154 71 93 15 0 1 264 1965 131 97 21 9 5 -2 nip 265 by Dennis Orchard popular vote or. Vote by parties copyright 1968, by the Canadian press at of Crete. A not 5 Here Are the final election results at press time for the 13 Manitoba constituencies and also for Kenora Rainy River in Northwest Ontario. A denotes an elected candidate. A denotes a member of the last Parli Ament. The initials and figures in brackets after the constituency name Are those of tile party which held the seat in the last parliament and its majority in the 1965 general election. Winnipeg North Centre nip 188 of 130 polls x Stanley Knowles and e14.5s9 Lloyd Axworthy l Joseph Kerr pc Winnipeg North nip x David Orlikov nip e15.568 Cecil Semchyshyn l Provencher pc is k of 108 polls Mark Smerchanski l e8.683 x Warner Jorgenson pc h. Blake Knox nip lome Reznowski so St. Boniface l Joseph Guay l .e21.908 Harry Shafransky nip Vaughan Baird pc Georges Forest so Selkirk pc x de Schreyer nip b. R., Wolfe l x Eric Stefanson pc Bowden so Brandon Souris Burnaby . Up the new democratic party still stands but its Leader is Down. This time after his second personal beating in the last four Federal elections t. C. Douglas s3, May not Rise again. The Doughty socialist lost 93 votes among cast in Burnaby Seymor Liberal Ray Perrault. Nationally the nip held its own with 23 seats but this astonishing contest must shake the party to its roots and make immediate retirement a Deci Sion that or. Douglas will surely consider. He Waits now for the service vote which went 2-to-l against him in the last election and a certain recount of the ballots. Contradictory counts and re ports of unsealed ballot boxes confused the Issue tuesday night and or. Douglas refused comment on the final result or on his political future. But his Early departure As Leader which seemed to be pending before the next election in any Case was a Prospect fac ing the party. Robert Summers Canadian labor Congress representative in Manitoba said he was upset to see that or. Douglas had lost his seat in British Columbia. He said he hoped the nip would have the Good sense to offer or. Douglas another seat. Or. Douglas lost before in 1962 in Regina and came Here for a Safe Byrele Ciori Victory later the same year. This time there May be no Safe seats before the Liberal tide seats where or. Douglas can win if one of his maps obligingly Steps Down. In new Ridings created by re distribution and with Saskatchewan gains forged through a split in Liberal and conserva Tive votes the nip tuesday 995 i offset losses in Ontario and Bril 1 ish Columbia. It finished with 23 seats. It had 22 at dissolution of parliament. But or. Douglas knew almost from the Start that he was in trouble in Burnaby Seymour a Vlaj plugs the Eastern 715 i Boundary of Vancouver and i stretches into Well to do North Vancouver suburbs that helped or. Perrault win past elections 4 seat party gains in Ontario Prairies holds own in Quebec by Cayman gumming Canadian press staff writer Pierre Elliott Trudeau challenged Canada to take a risk with the future and the voters accepted tues Day handing his Liberal government a solid majority in the National election. The 48-year-old Bachelor took something of a Gamble himself in calling the election three Days after he became prime minister april 20. But it paid off As the liberals gained strength in Ontario and the West just about held their own in Quebec and emerged j with 154 seats in the 264-seat commons. Like the winning liberals the j new democrats and credit stes i gained. J Robert Stanfield s conserva j lives showed strength Only in the Atlantic provinces and j .e17.262 prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau voters smash pc hold Manitoba seats slumped to 71 seats from 97 after the 1965 election. It was a Black Day for the conservatives As their front Bench line was riddled by the Trudeau attack. But it was Black for new democrats also As t. C. Douglas took a personal defeat in a close and bitter fight with Liberal Ray Perrault in Burnaby Seymour where a re count seems Likely. It was or. Douglas 13th Federal or Provin Cial election. The social credit party was wiped out entirely As it was in 1958. Voting turnout was a record an estimated but the percentage of eligible voting was about the same As in 1965, i about 75 per cent. I the election was the six i 1 since 1957 and the first to pro. Induce a majority government since John Diefenbaker led the conservatives to a landslide win in 195s. J for or. Trudeau lawyer writer professor and non conformist world traveller it was i the Climax of a spectacular Rise nato warns on Berlin by Chalmers Roberts Reykjavik Iceland pedal tons the North Atlantic treaty organization Council concluded a two Day meeting tuesday with a mild statement on Berlin an Indica Tion of worry about soviet penetration of the Mediterranean and an expression of Hope for an eventual reduction of East West forces in Central Europe. The Berlin statement was symptomatic of the. Mood which has been clearly evident Here. It charged that the recent East. J German restrictions on West German travel by land to West i Berlin amounted in a deliberate attempt id jeopardize detente from which Berlin and its inhabitants must not be please see nato Page e x Walter Dinsdale pc e14.755 James r. Bates l h. Van Mulligan nip Gary Scherban pc we. C. Ross comm 3.169 869 Dauphin pc 177 of 179 polls or. Gordon Ritchie pc e8.715 Evelyn Syme nip Ray Allard l Dean Whiteway so Lisgar pc x George Muir pc .e12.591 d. A. Livingstone l Roy Esler so Edith Alsop nip George g. Elias ind Marquette pc 162 of 170 polls Churchill pc 150 of 197 polls x Robert Simpson pc .e7.s21 Frank Dembinsky l Brian Kos jul nip Winnipeg South pc James Richardson l x l. Bud Sherman pc William Button nip Winnipeg South Centre pc e. B. Osier l .e22.043 Duff Roblin pc 663 Frances Thompson nip John Mcdowell ind c 622 Kenora Rainy River 163 of 190 As Leader of the provincial liberals. Two other candidates trailed As or. Douglas and or. Per Rault traded the Leader in his tiny permanent head quarters on East Hastings St., or. Douglas received reports in company with few party aides. On the same Block and across the Street or. Perrault stood beaming among 200 boisterous supporters who cheered every favourable poll. Please see Douglas Page 6 Craig c. Stewart pc .e12.656 x Jolt a Reid l Rod Clement l Michael Antonation nip 3.565 Walter Donovan ind 582 Portage pc 143 of 150 polls Gerald Cobbe l .e7.844 x s. J. Sig Elins pc Kazmir Roschuk nip Harvey Moats nip Howard Webb pc Selkirk Riding bears Little resemblance to the seat the conservatives held in 1965 it now includes much of the old Springfield Riding which had been held by the nip. Inside on election 9 two pages of maps in full color give the Federal election results at a glance. Pages 10 and 11. 9 How prominent candidates made out Page 75. John Robertson says the voters have written a pitiful epitaph on Duff Roblin s political career. Page 13. Wade Rowland writes of James Richardson s stunning Victory. Page 12. Tories blame redistribution for defeats in Mani Toba. Page 57. Shelley Chusid assesses the solid Knowles win in North Centre. Page 14. Toronto up police be Lieve an International ring May have been involved in Satur Day s jewel theft from the Home of John David Eaton head of the t. Eaton co. Depart ment store Chain. A police spokesman said tuesday it would t be easy to Fence that amount the thieves scaled a Wall to get to the jewels in mrs. Eaton s second Storey bedroom while the family was giving a party in a basement recreation room. Mrs. Eaton said three ser vants and a watchman were Home at the time and there is a burglar alarm system. She said she had taken the jewels from a safety Deposit vault and put them i her jewel Box for the summer social sea son. Police said it was the biggest jewel theft in Toronto history. Biggest previous one was june 15, 1961, when diamonds valued at were taken from a Safe at j. Nunes diamonds Ltd. Saturday s said was a conservative is the second major one at the Eaton Home. On nov. 1967, thieves escaped with paintings and etchings valued at 1 by Barry came Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his liberals smashed their Way into the progressive conservative fortress of Manitoba tuesday in highly convincing fashion. Riding a wave of support for the new prime minister that surpassed even the most optimistic forecasts the province s Liberal representation shot to five seats from one. I the conservatives who had a i of staving off what in the rest firm hold on 10 of Manitoba s 14 of the province was a surprising i seats in the last House of i groundswell of pro Liberal sent j commons redistribution Cut Ament. Manitoba s total number of As a result of yesterday s since his entry to politics in b r tassels Reuters France told its five european common Market partners tues Day it will impose wide ranging protective import quotas july 1, informed sources said. The new. Measures Are de signed to limit the effects of six weeks of brought near paralysis to French Indus try. The quotas will cover textiles motor vehicles Nous he old electrical goods and steel products. They will be limited in time and designed to keep imports into France at a level they would have reached if there had been no social and economic upheaval. France s apparent decision to impose the quotas with out the authorization1 of filth e european communities Sion is expected to cause wide spread irritation. The top executive body of the six country organization met. In special session tuesday to con Sider the French moves after being informed by French ambassador Jean Marc Boegner. The other common Market countries Are belgium1, West Germany Italy the nether lands and Luxembourg. Looking for a boat this want and under marines 89 12 it car top boat ply Wood 3 layers of Glass s75. 533-3645. Is among the Hundred s of bar gains in today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free ads. Seats to saw their strength sliced neatly in half. And in the process the tories were wiped out in All of the greater. W i n n i p e g Ridings where two of their most prominent Standard bearers l. Bud Sherman and Duff were pole axed by their Liberal opponents. Only the Rural areas of the province remained True to the progressive conservative cause but even the country was t immune to the True fear Appeal. Two for m e r conservative and Portage fell to the liberals and in most of the other Ridings the tory majority was drastically reduced. Even the. New democratic party strongholds in North Winnipeg were affected. Both David Orlikov in Winnipeg North and Stanley Knowles in Winnipeg North Centre saw the commanding majorities they had rolled up in 1965 shaved by their Liberal opposition. Only de Schreyer the nip Victor in Selkirk and George Muir who again captured the Lisgar constituency for the conservatives appeared capable voting the party standings in Manitoba in the next Parlia i ment will be liberals five i conservatives five and new j democrats three. Please see tories Page 6 meets after Only 12 weeks As Leader the gained Tbs commons majority that Lester b. Pearson sought unsuccessfully to build in 1958, 1962, 1963 and 1965. Briefly after polls started closing in Eastern Canada and the conservatives showed sur prising strength in newfound land it looked As though the goal might be missed again. The. Conservatives took six of seven seats in Newfoundland j which had been All Liberal be fore and added to their Power in other Atlantic provinces. At one Point. 54-year-old or. Stanfield also in his first Feder Al fight gave his wife a Happy hug and let himself Hope the i wave would continue. But the returns started com ing in from Quebec and Ontario Jit was Clear the Trudeau excite j ment Trudeau mania had Washington s p e c i a caught on. At . Edt the Canadian press reported Rice will meet judge Lippe 3t election of a majority Liberal Airport and fake him to the government. Meeting. Or Stanfield taking a look at j labor minister Pepin ordered and his poor people s Campaign the results later said he had the conciliators in reconvene known before the voting his and reconsider their reports re party could expect no More j commending wage increases for than 75 to 90 seats. J car and cup employees. He did so when disagreement please see liberals Page 6 i arose As to interpretation of the recommendations contained in Rev. Ralph Abernathy j was sentenced to 20 Days in jail tuesday for unlawful Assembly Ottawa up judge Rene Lippe chairman of the conciliation Board dealing with the threatened railway strike will reconvene the Board in Toronto today the labor department announced. Judge Lippe has been in Ibe United kingdom and will arrive by air in Toronto Lale today. The other members of he Board Are r. V. Hicks of Toron to nominee Cor the car and up rail and Maurice Wright of Ottawa Union nominee. The labor department said the location of the meeting has not been set. Officials of the Federal labor department s Toronto of continued activity at a reduced Pace Here with the closing of resurrection City. The 42-year old. Minister looking weary from the eight week Campaign was among first of More than 3.00 demonstrators scheduled to be tried and possibly sentenced in Gen eral sessions court Here follow ing mass arrests monday at the Capitol and the now defunct resurrection City. I please see cleric Page 6 i ont. Up Lucien Lamoureux speaker of the commons re elected As a non party my said tuesday night he to take on the task of presiding Over the House of commons again. I m a he said with a smile. Ill Start campaigning but a Campaign in t Likely to be necessary to have him elected speaker again. He Stormont Dundas Riding As an Independent unopposed by agreement by the liberals and conservatives. But Timothy Wees was nominated for the new democratic party before the Liberal conservative entente was reached. Or. Lamoureux won handily and or. Wees congratulated him generously tuesday night Canada now has an excellent speaker of the he said. Features today 9 rugger makes strides 61 today s Index 44 to 58 comics.69, 70 deaths. 6 finance. 66 to fi8 movies 29 sports 61 to 65, 73, 72 television 2s women 21 to 25 City zone total airline orders invalid Ottawa up the air transport committee of the Ca their first reports issued separately for the two railway companies and their employees. The brotherhood of locomotive firemen and engine men had set thursday As a strike Date. By ordering the Board to reconvene and reconsider its re polls an immediate strike was made illegal and it was postponed. About 3. -100 locomotive fire men Are involved. The conciliation Board recon Nadian transport commission does not have the Power to make general orders restricting Competition among air lines the supreme court of Canada ruled Mcalli today. In a unanimous judgment the High court ruled invalid five general orders of the committee prohibiting non scheduled flights on routes served by scheduled airlines. Also struck Down was an order prohibiting non scheduled airlines from using bases that Are also used by scheduled air lines. The court said the general orders required the approval of the Cabinet. This had not been sought in the general orders in question mended 24-per-cent for passenger train increase firemen freight and Yard service fire 4 dead in fire nearly everyone reads the free press Vancouver up at least four persons died tuesday night when fire swept the Clar ence hotel in downtown Vancou ver. Fire m e n wearing oxygen the court made the ruling in j masks were still inside the hotel upholding lower court decisions i ate tuesday night searching for in an Appeal brought by North i Otner bodies. Coast air services Ltd. And Alert Bay air services Ltd., both of British Columbia. Fire officials said All the dead were elderly and that All died from asphyxiation ;