Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 press final edition vol. 75 no. 234 Price Loc Friday june 28, 1968 sum rises . Moon rises . Sun sets., sets. . Forecast showers 50 and 70 is. Hopes Rise rocket talks could Cut War peril by Robert Donovan Washington special tons the sudden news that the russians Are Fin ally ready to discuss reduction in. Strategic weapons aroused in the highest government thurs Day the kind of Hopes and dreams that have been scarce in these Bleak months. Granted that incredibly com plex negotiations lie Alread. The potential is at hand for one of the great breakthroughs in soviet american relations. The danger of nuclear War could be greatly reduced. Billions of dollars could be saved in both countries. This is an immensely dra Iriate a very High administration official said thursday and then proceeded to explain take the Case of the enor Mously expensive anti ballistic missile defence system. The russians have made a fairly Good Start on installing their system around Moscow. But they must still spend billions on it. Please see russian Page 4 Britain deports Schoe Mari again up Ralph Schoenman Secretary of lord Seh Behman berth arts Russell s Young american associate was rushed out of Britain today be fore his lawyer could arrange a court Challenge of the order de porting him. Police put the 32-year-old promoter of . War crime trials on a plane for Paris and said he would be transferred there to a plane to new York. We Are trying to get a court Schoenman s lawyer told reporters shortly before Schoenman was taken to the Airport. But the government did not wait. Schoenman boarded a flight for new York after a Stopover in Paris. The Home office said Schoen Man was not put on a flight direct to new York because All those were full As a result of the Boac strike. The Home office spokesman said no Schoen Man is entitled to a court a peal against a deportation order. This is a government position which civil libertarians dispute and Schoenman had hoped to bring it to a court test. Rainy weekend ahead Manitoban planning to head for the province s Beach resorts for the first Long weekend of the 1968 summer season had better pack umbrellas. According to the Dominion Public weather office in Winni Peg it s going to be a Cloudy Rainy weekend. A slow moving disturbance Over the province is expected to persist until sunday. And monday it does t look too Good for the Holiday said the weather Man. Please see Rainy Page 5 looking for a piano this want and under musical instruments Heinzman upright. Grand piano s600. 2-4 ., 7-? 855 Campbell St. 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. St. Service vote tally saturday election night wins in ten Ridings could be altered Ottawa six conservatives three liberals and one new Democrat could see victories based on election night go Down the Drain saturday when the Arr Ned service vote is announced Victory margins in the 10 rid Ings Range from a Low of 28 votes to a High of 144. The conservatives and new democrats in the eight races can take Little satisfaction in Ponder ing past service votes which have tended to favor the Liber als. Of the service in 1965, the liberals took the conservatives got and the nip the remain ing votes went to social credit credit Ste and candidates run Ning under other banners. The 1965 forces vote spelled Victory for two liberals who had trailed their opponents in the civilian vote. The Ridings to watch and the lowest possible number of Eligi ble service voters in each Newfoundland Humber St. G e o r g is a Marshall holds a -144-vote Lead Over her Man Batten Prince Edward Island Mcquaid pc has an 87-vote Lead Over Mullally Ontario Hamilton Alex Ander pc holds 83-vote Lead Over Tom Beckett code holds a 62-vote margin John Matheson b up Bent nip has a 62-Yote Lead Over Michael Starr Wellington Grey m a r v i i Howe pc holds 72-vote Edge Over John Church Saskatchewan Assiniboia Albert Douglas l leads Lawrence Watson pc by 28 Alberta Medicine a Olson l leads Charles Meagher Ralph Schoenman Russel s peace foundation slipped into Britain june 17 in Defiance of a ban on his return. He thumbed his nose at official Dom by posing for pictures out Side 10 Downing appear ing on television programs and publishing letters in the newspapers. Pc by 119 please see service Page 5 Cabinet facing economic unrest by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff prime minister Trudeau presided Over his first Cabinet meeting today since being elected head the new Liberal majority govern ment. Cabinet found the econ omy threatened by rumblings of unrest on the Jabor front. The Economy has been re covering from a setback last year. The Pace of. Business and Industry stepped up during the first Quarter of 1968 with the Gross National product running at an annual rate of 000 after More than six months of slow growth. Now a series of strikes or threatened strikes in key Indus tries Are threatening to. Slow Down the Economy again. Prime minister Trudeau. With the mandate he asked fro the voters is in a Good position to. Take firm action quickly. It requires a Strong Cabinet Talent galore by Victor Mackie Ottawa next week prime minister Trudeau will announce the formation of his new Cabinet incorporating much of the new Talent available to him As a result of the Large number of Liberal candidates elected tuesday. Winnipeg businessman James Richardson May be chosen by or. Trudeau. However he has declared he will examine closely the qualifications each Man and his associates said e. B. Osier businessman and author please see Cabinet Page 7 eminent to counter the forces now at work in the Economy which tend to Speed up the inflationary spiral. Please see Economy Page 7 tories foresaw setback by Ken Clark Canadian press staff writer conservative insiders foresaw the serious nature of the party s june 25 election defeat Long be fore it happened informants say. As a result the late stages of the. Campaign amounted to a Salvage operation. The to hit Home in Early june. Polls crowds attracted by the party leaders and other indicators were pointing to a Liberal Victory and a conservative defeat. By june .10 or so the message had become even clearer partly because of the television debate among party leaders the pre Vious Day. There were indications that credit Ste Leader c Rouette s television pitch aimed at que Bec helped Siphon off votes that might otherwise have gone conservative in the predominantly French speaking province. Conservative Hopes of almost tripling their Quebec representation in the commons to 20 seats were dashed by the Credi taste upsurge that began Felt right after the debate. Please see tories Page 5 French Cash reserves plummet More than billion used in month to support Price of franc by Eric Wentworth Paris special tons French monetary reserves apparently plummeted by another million in the week ended june 20. At the. Same time there were reports France has sold about million Worth of Gold to the Central Bank of West Germany. The latest Bank of France statement on reserves would indicate France has had to use More than billion to support the Price of French francs since her political and economic crisis exploded last month. Her combined Gold and cur Rency reserves As. Of june 20 totalled roughly billion. France began the month of May with reserves totalling near billion of which about billion represented her precious Gold Hoard. She has since drawn million in currency from the International monetary fund. The Bank of France has started Selling Gold to acquire the additional currency needed to continue buying francs. Earlier this week it was reported she had sold about million Worth of Gold to Central Banks of five other european nations including million to the West German Bank. Please see French Page. 4 garbage strike More tons mutated garbage began today after a strike by outside workers ended with an. Apparent. Metropolitan Toronto Victory Over the Union. The membership of local 43 of the Canadian Union of Public employees voted thursday night to 724 to accept wage proposals essentially the same As metro s offer before v the strike began a week ago. Street cleaners and workers who Man water and sewage treatment plants and look after maintenance Al Parks were to report to woik1 today he workers originally asked for a 50 per cent increase in the Basic wage of 61 an Houi Foi labourers poor to the strike they had scaled Down then de mands to 20 per cent Metio s off i accepted by the workers at a meeting thursday night was Joi a 15 per cent in per cent retroactive to last dec. 31 with an addition Al five pc. Tent dec 31 1968 the settlement now will raise the hourly rate to for labor ers by Jan. 1. Nearly every speaker at the member slip meeting which 3 c e d the voting called metro s offer unpalatable. But after a week without pay most members appeared anxious to Settle and return to work. Please see Toronto Page 5 features today new York Mefs knocking of door 22 today s Index classified 20 to 40 comics 10, 11 deaths 41 finance 23 to 25 movies 13, 14 sports 18 to 22 television 12 women. 15 City zone total 97.h59 nearly everyone reads the free press 4 Bridge Sites weighed the Maryland Bridge might be replaced with another Bridge across the Assiniboine River before the present Structure is permanently closed to traffic the chairman of metro s streets and transit committee said thursday night. Councillor lome Leech said in a Telephone interview that. Metro s streets and transit division is considering an alter Nate crossing from among three to four possible routes. One of those involves an Extension of Waverley Street. Another route is immediately next to the present Structure. As for the other two possible Crossings coun. Leech said even he does t know since All of. The technical details Haven t been settled he expected the division would present its report on alternate Crossings in about two weeks but definitely not in time for next wednesday s regular meeting of the streets and transit committee. He said construction of the new Bridge could begin this Winter and be completed by next summer. He hoped the Maryland Bridge could remain open until then on the present basis which allows for Only the two Eastern lanes to be used by traffic. According to a report presented to the streets and transit committee last tues Day by d. I. Macdonald please see 4 Bridge Page 5 no paper will be published monday july 1st to enable free press carriers and staff members to take advantage of the summer weekend free press will not publish on monday. Want and dept. Closed sunday evening open monday july 1st, 6 To 10 To receive classified ads to be published in tuesday s edition. Phone number 943-9331 All depts. For direct line after business hours Iff Telephone at a news conference in the District of Columbia jail thursday Rev. Ralph Abernathy Leader of the poor people s Campaign announced he was going on a fast and pledged the United states would see More resurrection see Story below metro backs one City proposal idea endorsed in principle but no Quick moves charted by John Heath proponents of total amalgamation for greater Winnipeg among them mayor Steve Juba of Winnipeg received overwhelming support for the idea thursday night from an unexpected Quarter metro Council. Metro Council voted 7 to 1 in favor of a motion presented by councillor j. A. Coulter endors ing in principle the integration of municipal services in greater Winnipeg under a Brand new single municipal government. This would mean the Elimina Tion of All the present greater Winnipeg municipal councils. Of course nothing can happen immediately. In the first place metro Council does t have the Power to establish a single the Coulter mention Al integrated government. That Power rests with the provincial government. In the second motion made no even a tentative Date to shoot for coun. Coulter said it could take 25 years. And the motion did t request joint meetings of municipal officials to discuss merging. Continued please see metro Page 5 councillors up pay to a year metro Council voted itself a salary increase thursday night to a year from councillor 3. A. Coulter was the Only one of the eight councillors present to vote against the increase the first since metro went into operation in 1961. Third and final Reading of a bylaw granting the increase retroactive to Jan. 1 was Given thursday night by a vote of 7 to 1. An amendment to the metro tory unseat Laberite London up the opposition conservatives wrested yet another stronghold from prime minister Wilson s labor party thursday winning a by election in the textile towns of Nelson and Colne in Northwest eng land. The vote was for conservative . Id Washington against for labor s Betty Boothroyd. David Chadwick polled for the liberals and Brian Tattersall running As an English nationalist received the conservative Victory reduced labor s Overall majority in the 630-seat commons to compared with 97 after the 1966 general election. Act had been passed at this year s session of the Manitoba legislature authorizing Council to raise its own salaries. Voting i favor of the increase thursday night were Council please see salaries Page 4 Hydro Bills up shortly the unofficial word is that the electricity Bill for the average Small household which gets Power from Manitoba Hydro will Rise shortly by about to a month. These figures could t be confirmed at press time. But it was disclosed at the last session of the Manitoba legislature that the increases mostly. On Domestic rates. Would aver age about 10 per cent. Winnipeg Hydro users won t be affected by the increase. Winnipeg Hydro serves Winni Peg proper and Manitoba Hydro the rest of the province. A Manitoba Hydro spokesman said information about the rate increases would be released this afternoon. Manitoba Hydro sets its own prices and is not required to hold Public hearings on them. Delay gun Law senators defer consideration until july Washington a the drive for stronger . Gun control Laws already beset by delays and apparent Adverse Public reaction has suffered what May be a crippling setback. The latest blow was a 7-to-5 vote by the Senate judiciary committee thursday to delay further consideration of weapons control Bills until july 9. Those concerned about the passage of responsible firearms legislation had better realize that this was a real senator Joseph a. Tydings dem. My said. The Outlook for new Legisla Tion urged by president Johnson was dimmed previously by a slowdown in the House of representatives and by a Sharp re Versal in an initial flood of mail favouring Strong gun control after the assassination of Sena Tor Robert f. Kennedy. Congress had seemed to be moving toward speedy action on a measure to prohibit interstate mail order sales All firearms and ammunition and to ban their Over the counter Sale to non residents of a state. This would have extended to rifles and shotguns the restrictions provided for pistol sales in the recently enacted crime control Bill. But the first of this week Johnson also asked Congress for Laws requiring the National registration of All guns and the licensing of their owners. Immediately after Congress men reported their mail had reversed itself from favouring stiffer control Laws and was running heavily against the proposals particularly those re Quiring registration. This came after the National Rifle association main opponent of controls called for a letter Campaign against the Bills. Ray denies slaying from a Reuters London up James Earl Ray denied thursday that he killed or. Martin Luther King or. Fighting extradition to the United states to stand trial for the murder of the negro civil rights Leader Ray professed innocence in Bow Street Magis trates court. His lawyer indicated by his questioning that the killing of King was a political crime therefore not subject to extradition under British Law. The 40-year-old fugitive from the Missouri Penitentiary Testi fied in his own defence after the . Government unveiled a carefully detailed Case against him As single hand in the assassination at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis tenn., april 4. Please see never Page 4 cleric to fast in jail Washington special tons Rev. Ralph Aber the jailed chieftain of the poor people s Campaign started an indefinite hunger fast thursday in a new gesture to dramatize the plight of the poor. This is indeed a sick so he told a packed press conference at District of Columbia jail referring to what he feels has been an inadequate response so far by Congress and the government to the demands of old Campaign. Please see cleric Page 4 ;