Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 1o weekend Magazine Winnipeg free press Canada s leading rotogravure Magazine Canadian puppet lady in Laos William j. O Neill tells How Carolyn Dyall a wanted to help people and volunteered to entertain kids in asian villages paving the Way for medical teams. Page 21 you re travelling with 220 Andy o Brien describes what happened to Canadian golfs pro Alvie Thompson of Thornhill ont., a teaching at the Bayview country club when he elected to try to break into the 1968 . Tour. Page f Canada an appreciation six weekend writers Craig Ballantyne Stephen Franklin Frank Lowe Patrick Nagle Paul Rush and Philip pay Dominion Day tributes to the parts of Canada they know Best 101 the strangers in the night Gregory Clark s Wasp neighbourhood is invaded by middles european ethnics and this gives him something 1o think about for Canada s 101st birthday Page plus vol. 75 no. 235 Price Loc keeping Calm by screaming Page the happiest Prince Charles inheritance Page sports news pages 10, 1 Church pages 12, 1 color comics to radio diary with inc comics. Saturday june 29, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast Cloudy Cool 50 and 65 . Elsewhere Garden in the paper contest Page careers 14, 17 classified 32 to 47 comics .56, 57 deaths 8 finance 13 to 17 letters 58 movies 2s, 23 women 21 to 25 sports 51 to 55 Idle strike cripples merchant Marine new York a the National maritime went on strike at . Today in a wage dispute that could tie up 70 per cent of the . Mer chant Fleet. American Flag ships now in port cannot sail Lin licenced Crew members represented by the Union. About 100 ships Are in ports on the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific coasts. Eventually the strike could affect 407 freighters 158 tankers and 11 passenger Freigh Ter ships. The Union went on strike on the basis of a wage reopened clause in the four year contract it signed in 1965. The shippers however contend that the Union has already exercised is Allotey wage re openers. Officials of the Union met with shippers a Emu Headquarters Friday nigh for. Secret talks but they Brok after 2v2 hours. The shipper Are represented by Maritim service committee and the Tanker service committee. Please see strike Page 4 liberals seek special session on medicare Manitoba s Liberal party caucus has offered to waive All salary and expenses if a special session of the legislature is called to implement the Federal medical care insurance program in the province. Liberal Leader go Mol Gat made the offer in a letter he sent Friday to Premier Walter Weir urging the Manitoba government to enter the Federal plan on july 1. The Liberal members of the Manitoba House Are prepared to meet in special session immediately if this will assist in giving Manitoban the Advant age of the Federal program at said or. Mol Gat in his letter. We offer to do this at no Cost to the taxpayers for either salary or he explained in an interview that although the legislature has passed legislation enabling Manitoba s entry in the medi care scheme it might be necessary to Call the House into session in order to vote the funds required for the program medical storm in sask. By Ron Macdonald Regina up Saskatchewan s six year old medical care insurance plan remains in the Eye of a political storm As Canada prepares to embark on a controversial National plan july 1, six years ago on the same Date file co operative cocoon wealth federation government of the province launched its compulsory medical insurance program the socialist administration s last great Experiment in social welfare legislation. It was greeted with a three week withdrawal of All bul emergency services by most Saskatchewan doctors which ended Only when negotiations Between the provincial govern ment and representatives of the profession produced some modifications in the original plan. Despite the continued opposition of Many doctors Public medical care insurance has be come a fact of life in Sas Katche please see medicare Page or. Mol Gat also stated that Premier Weir and his govern ment had opposed a Liberal move to bring the province into medicare during the last session in the belief that some changes in the plan might be Forth coming after the Federal elec Tion was finished. The Federal election is now Over and there has been no change in the he said in his letter prime minister Trudeau stated clearly on several occasions during the Campaign that medicare was the Law of the land and that the Federal act would not and could not be changed before july 1 he went on to claim Premie Weir has had a year negotiate with Ottawa and the medical profession and an delay now would mean the citizens of the province will b denied the Benefit of Millio in Federal funds for medical while paying taxes to Suppo the program in other provinces. In the Light of these Circum stances and the mrs increases in premiums plus extra Billing coming into effect on july 1, 1968, i. Strongly urge you to take immediate advantage of the Federal medicare mounting on franc French currency reported facing devaluation Paris a weakening Confidence and rumours of. Impending devaluation provoked a new and heavy attack Friday on the French franc whose strength has been a foundation Stone of president Charles de Gaulle s foreign policy insistence service vote counted another seat Sherbrooke Riding taken from credit stes Douglas Falls farther behind Perrault Ottawa up the liberals increased their commons strength by one seat today to 154 on the basis of returns from the armed forces vote. The liberals won Sherbrooke from the credit stes party stand lug the first Check of service vote figures indicated the liberals took Comox Al Berni from the nip taut this proved erroneous and that party s strength remains despite insistence by govern ment spokesmen that the franc would be held at its present paid a heavy trading pushed it to tie floor against the Swiss franc. The French currency already lad reached f 1 o or level the Point where the Bank of France intervenes to maintain the offi Cial parity against the . Dollar when the foreign Exchange Market reopened june 7. Ast. It stood at 4.9740 francs to please see pressure Page 5 de Gaulle issues Appeal from a be Ute s Paris up presided Charles de Gaulle made an a peal today for a solid gaullis1 majority in sunday s paid amen tary elections and called on i. Countrymen for a great Effort to compensate for the crisis tha Shook France in May and Earl june. Speaking on the nation s and television networks Gaulle said there must be Strong continuous and Cohen ent majority to support Tough policy planned to Brin France Back onto its feet he warned the country mus meet Strong foreign Competition Ward off Price increases inflation and a fall in the Valu of the franc. Holida y schedule no paper will be published monday july 1st to enable free staff members to press carriers and take advantage of the summer weekend free press will not publish on monday. Want and deft. 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 see Telephone directory. Pearson i gets award Ottawa up Lester b Pearson Friday was named companion of the order of can Ada the honors system inaugurated during is term As Prim minister. The 71-year-old former Prim minister s t name was among list of 12 made companions of the order and 23 awarded the service. General Jean v. Allard first chief of Canada s unified de Fence forces Paul Emile Cardi Nal Leger former archbishop of Montreal now a missionary to the lepers in Africa and Donald Gordon former president of the publicly owned Canadian nation Al railways also were named companions others made companions James a. Corry 68, principal of Queen s University Kingston. Please see Pearson Page 4 at. 23 seats. In Sherbrooke Liberal Paul Gervais. Got 169 service votes to boost his total to Credi taste Adelard Larose got Only nine service votes to make his civilian service total or. Larose had led by 32 votes on the strength of tuesday s civil Ian returns. Nip Leader Douglas was not helped by the service vote. A loser by 93 civilian votes in Bur Naby Seymour t u e s d a a or. Douglas got 48 service votes to 110 for Liberal Winner Ray per Rault. Standings now Are j965 1963 1362 1958 lib pc nip cred so ind total 154 129 129 100 72 97 95 116 49 208 23 14 1 .254 21 9 5 2 265 17 19 please see 24 30 0 0 0 Al 265 265 265 liberals Page 4 Sirhan Bishara Sirhan right walked into a heavily guarded los Angeles jail Chapel Friday and received an additional three weeks to enter his plea to a charge of murdering senator Robert f. Kennedy earlier this month. With him was his attorney Russell e. Parsons. Please see Page 26.1 poll by poll for those readers who would like to Check How voting went in their Home area and in other districts the free press today is running on pages 6 and 7 poll by poll results of the balloting in 11 of Manitoba s 13 constituencies. Results from Brandon and Marquette Ridings were not available Day s paper. They will appear next week. Bay ice free but no boost to ships in a nutshell Cloudy Cool Long weekend Cloudy and Cool that s the forecast in a nutshell for the Domino Day Holiday weekend. Those heading for the beaches and summer resorts to ult be. Well advised to take along a warm sweater the Weatherman says tempera Tures Likely won t Rise above 65 degrees. There is also Little Chance of Sun sunday and things May not be much better on according to a spokesman for the Dominion Public weather office at Winnipeg Intel nation port. By Gordon Arnold Hudson Bay. Is free of ice a month ahead of schedule this year but it is unlikely this will mean any increase in shipping through the port at Churchill. Officials of the Canadian wheat Board said in interviews Friday the Normal shipping season runs from the end of july until the end of october and it is unlikely commitments could be changed at this late Date. The strike on the St. Lawrence Seaway will not see an increased use of Churchill for shipping wheat either they said because a considerable amount of Grain is stored East of the Seaway. But we would have no objections if any buyer wanted to take More Grain out through the a spokesman added. He said about five million bushels of wheat Are in storage there at present. A spokesman for the Bung. Corporation Grain exporters said a fair portion of the wheat is already taken by overseas buyers. He also said it was unlikely any ships would be entering before the end of july because insurance agencies re fuse to insure a ship for any earlier Date. Those who say shippers should go in Don t know what they re talking about. You can t get insurance to take a boat in there at this time of another Grain exporter said the shipments would to be in creased even Given the Early season and the St. Lawrence Seaway strike because Chur please see Bay Page 4 Ribero wins Derby Dublin a Lester pig Gott today Rode american owned Ribero to Victory in the Rish Derby. The Odds on favor Ite sir Ivor also american owned finished second. The French horse Val d Aroste pois ii salts on Market Ottawa Ftp a warn ing that containers of poisonous health salts went on the Market in 10 Canadian cities was issued Friday afternoon by the Federal food and drug directorate. They Are the in ounce size of improved English style effervescent Salt manufactured by the or. A. W. Chase co. Ltd. Of Montreal. A spokesman for the firm in i Montreal said later that of the containers recalled Only 123 remain unaccounted for. One Hundred of the missing bottles were in the Toronto Ottawa area 14 in the maritime s and nine in Vancouver. He said most of the missing bottles probably Are still in drug stores but perhaps a dozen were sold before the recall order. The product is used to Settle upset stomachs. Please see Poison Page 5 was third in the race Over a turf course of Miles. The race carried the Hopes of j Many who had bought Irish Sweepstake tickets. No sweep prize for Manitoban by the Canadian press four canadians won prizes of each with Irish sweep stake tickets on Ribero Winner of today s Irish Derby at the Curranh track near Dublin. Six won s52.000 each with tickets on second placed sir Ivor and seven More won each with tickets on Val who finished third. There were no Manitoban among the winners. Varied festivities Mark Holiday by the Canadian press festivities As varied As the imaginations of canadians Are scheduled coast to coast this weekend to celebrate Dominion Day Canada s 101st birthday. In Ottawa the july 1 Holiday will be marked by variety shows featuring Young perform ers recruited from across can Ada by the state department governor general and mis. Roland Michener will attend the final show monday night on parliament hill., other official ceremonies will include a re treat staged by the Canadian guards at the parliament build Ings. Ottawa boaters plan a Marina pageant Down the Bideau canal. An inter denominational religious service will be followed by the unveiling of a statue of Mackenzie King former Cana Dian prime minister. For Ontario Beer drinkers and Quebec liquor drinkers it May be a dry weekend. Late last week Ontario Beer drinkers were caught with their supplies Low when employees at most breweries either went out on strike in support of wage de mands or were locked out. Retail Beer outlets closed and deliveries ground to a halt and unless the strike is settled by the weekend Beer supplies at Many hotels will also be depleted. In other parts of Canada a Survey by the Canadian press shows prospects for a festive weekend. But the Canadian Highway safety Council estimates that Between 90 and 100 persons will be killed in traffic accidents during the 78-hour period from 6 . Friday to Midnight Mon Day july 1, local times s last year on the same week end 94 persons died in traffic an increase of 27 Over 1966. Boating fishing and camping will attract most British Colum Bia hol dayers if the. Weather is Good. Special weekend events also included the governor general s cup National air rally at Pitt Meadows the Start of an inter National yacht race at Victoria the annual Lamb Barbecue at Saturna Island and a soap Box Derby at Mission. On the Prairies 15 persons were killed in traffic during last year s Dominion Day weekend. To combat Highway deaths this year the Alberta motor association is starting a bring Emback Aliv Campaign using in formation gathered from police weather forecasters and Amateur and distributed to stations. Please see Holiday Page 5 some missing Here at least seven bottles of it poisonous health salts compound Are unaccounted for in Mani Toba a drug wholesale firm executive said saturday. A m. Peel general manager of National drugs Ltd., said the health salts manufacturer had notified his firm to Stop distribution of a shipment of 24 16 ounce bottles of improved English style effervescent Salt. The shipment had been received by or. Peel s Branch of the firm in Winnipeg within the last three weeks. On checking or. Peel said he found that seven bottles of tile 24-bottle shipment were gone. a Check was run on his inventory of the salts As soon As we were or. Pee said that while he believed National drugs Ltd. Was the Only wholesaler in Manitoba distributing the drug any one else distributing the would have been notified. All 24 bottles of the toxic salts in a shipment to the National drug Branch in Regina sask. Had been for or. Peel said ;