Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 16, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press tuesday july 16, 1968 continued pan american world airways Boeing 707 took off from Kennedy International Airport in new York for the 11-hour flight including a Stop Al Copenhagen. The Moscow to new York flights take up to two More hours because of winds the schedule Calls for one round trip by each airline each week. Pan am departs new York on mondays and from Moscow on tuesdays. Aeroflot will depart Moscow on mondays and new York on tuesdays. First class one Way fare is and round trip is Basic one Way Economy fares Range from depending on the season. The terms of the new two year cultural agreement As Well As the Long delay in achieving it reflect the difficult phase in soviet american relations marked by the Vietnam War and the ideological Vigi Lance Campaign proclaimed at last april s plenary meeting of the soviet communist party Central committee. Compared with the previous agreement for 1966 to 1967, the number of performing arts groups to tour each country has been Cut from five to three. The number of exhibits to be mounted by each country has been reduced from two to one. The number of graduate Stu dents exchanged was Cut from a maximum of 40 a year to 30. An Exchange of language students Waas Cut from 25 to 20. The number of research professors and guest lecturers was reduced from 15 to 10. The United states had been willing Levels. T o maintain however the higher soviet Union preferred to reduce the maximum Levels provided for in tile agreement to slightly below the Levels which had actually been implemented in the past two years. The . Drew some satisfaction from the fact that All programs in the previous agree ment had been maintained in one form or another and also that a separate program which had lapsed three years ago was finally a program for. Specialized exchanges of scientists in the peaceful uses of atomic Energy which had run. But in 1965 and has now been renewed for two years. Unofficial observers thought the . Did As Well As might have been expected in the Light of the general soviet anxiety Over ideological contamination which has been so evident All year. Expansion or More generous implementation of the agree ment is always possible should there be an improvement of the political climate. Formal negotiations on the new pact began june 3, Al though the . Indicated its campers weekend special to the White Shell and Lake of the Woods area. Low fares to Brereton Malachi Minaki Farlane and Points in Between leave Winnipeg . . Friday arrive Winnipeg . . Sunday schedules extended on Holiday weekends. For further information Call in 946-2212 Accord readiness As Long ago As sular convention Between the l6vember. Bureaucratic countries and the nuclear a animations within the treaty the Cul government As. Well As Accord represents no new eneral atmosphere in soviet policy. H o the delay. Represent however the like the opening of of unfinished Busi to Moscow new York Vair begun under former soviet ratification of the Nikita Khrushchev. Seaway As the Seaway came into operation at Midnight handled during the strike would be about pea huts for a port the size of ight Seaway workers handling the downstream traffic f More than 250 the strike. Progressed there was a problem in the in the lakes during the Trike and the upriver move nent of almost 100 vessels had waited below of longshore gangs. On one Day the port was Short 62 gangs and these shortages led to delays in ship turn rounds. Cal about 20 ships moved up and own through the St. Lambert Dicks. In Montreal during the St 12 hours after the than of Montreal s registered longshoremen were actively engaged when the strike began this number did not increase opened. Montreal where ship during the course of the strike because of Contin is season has been sluggish appeared to be moving into a Oom in the. Final week of the Trike in contrast to talk of disagreement Between the International longshoremen s association and the shipping federation of Canada Over the Ster in great lakes of work gangs. were lid off. But most of the ships that anchored in or just Lontreal Harbor during stoppage were bulk carers whose cargoes could not ave been moved great lakes ports by alternate methods of transport. So it was Only in the last ays before sunday s lat Ocean going ships were sorted waiting for wharf is 3qct Short Sass of Loutish Angs became acute. At this time of a Slack period Between Spring and fall Eaks in business the Ort normally handles 40 to notice from the Post office in Winnipeg said that in the event of a strike thursday there will be a Complete cessation of postal services at vessels a Day Post offices where the personnel but Guy Beaudet Montreal are0n strike Ort manager said in an inter new monday the port s Revenue of the 50 to 60 extra Post offices in the metropolitan Winnipeg area will be closed to the Public the notice starting thursday Street o boxes won t be cleared. Houle co chairman of the Council told a reporter f h night the government i 1 9 j 8 had made no firm wage l i k5m. Government negotiators any comment on the ask the mediation efforts have cloaked in secrecy with of on both sides refusing to where the meetings were being held. When the Correct Manitoba Public schools act. Justice Bastin said that View of the position of Evans s lawyer he did not a sicker it necessary to decide the Validity of trustee Orrie s election. Was located the parties would not Tell reporters which rooms were being used and the hotel management disclaimed any knowledge of the Early today repeated Calls to the room housing postal Union officials Drew the reply at present eight Gwen got the wrong room is hold voting control of the Ard opposed by six Treasury Board officials left 2mocratic party trustees hotel about Midnight. Judge e communist said he withdrew about with trustee Cochrane . Council represent am the inaugural meeting remained in their room the on the 1968 Board Midnight. D been tied 7 to 7. Judge Lippe a highly sex us tee Cochrane s mediator it was his hot not been used encounter with the position trustees dispute. He acted As a other selection system for a Brief period be been the parties awaited a trustee Mary Kardash of a conciliation a b o r election communist trustee had Board headed by prof. At after three tie votes Desgagne submitted a airman would have report last wednes elected from the nominees it awing from a and was in accept trustees Norrie and to the Council. D been nominated for Council has been seeking an. Flat 75-cent-an-hour wage in trustee Jenkins said Over a 14-month con at trustee Nome s for a senior postal clerk ring the last six the maximum pay of owed no reason Why he an hour this represents an main a member of the of 27.2 per cent. A he accused trustees Norrie Argaret Trott and Joseph to All categories of postal workers the Council demand Ilder All Gwen to increases ranging of conniving to use 26.1 to 39.1 per cent. Ailed in ballot and of being Llian to stoop to anything negotiators have termed the Council wage propos t their own end. I would Call on the voters this 11 to rid the City of these trustee Jenkins said. He accused the three trustees causing All the troubles they said that if the Council is prepared to make significant adjustment to its wage and classification demands the government would e teachers this Yea Rand quickly to wage Neotia agreed entirely with the competency along with the key wage ques veiled at. The three last the Council seeks improve George ends president of e winnings teachers in unspecified working conditions. Business will use . Mail by Bob Culbert Winnipeg businessmen Are drawing up emergency plans to try to beat the threatened postal strike. A number of Large business concerns have arranged for mail boxes in Minnesota Border towns in preparation for a lengthy dispute. And messenger services taxi companies and Telephone operators look All set for a Busy time if the strike starts thurs Day As expected. The head of a Winnipeg brokerage firm said we got our mail Box below the Border about two weeks ago when the postal situation started looking serious. It will probably mean driving Down every Day but it will be Well Worth it when it keeps t business i correspondence flowing smoothly. It won t be too bad for the Large outfits. A lot of them can use the wire Are also messengers arid taxis it will be the Small Busi Nesses that will really feel Pinch. All they will have is the Telephone and maybe some delivery services but that setup be viable for a Short length of the of Commerce executive was to meet tuesday full Council meeting scheduled next week and the postal crisis seems certain to be on the Agenda at both meetings. The situation certainly looks grave and the members May Well want to announce some policy decision on this John Carpenter chamber assistant general manager said tuesday. But i can t see us As a chamber drawing up plans for members to beat a strike. This will depend on the needs of each czech leaders menaced continued Sten gun stolen from Agha a nine millimetre Sten Mach Ine gun and Breech Block has been reported stolen from the Selkirk lines of the third regiment Royal Canadian horse artillery. The theft occurred Between july 3 and july 8 but further detail were unavailable immediately. No ammunition for the gun was taken but the gun is in operating order and will take .30 calibre am Mustion. Banks increase Loans continued with interest service and other charges Bank Loans now Cost the individual Borrower 10 to 12 per cent. Finance Compa Nies run 18 to 24 per cent. The chartered Banks Only went into the personal loan plans in a big Way after the Bank of Nova Scotia broke with a banking tradition in 1958. Prior to that Only the Bank of the Canadian Imperial Bank of offered its customers a time payment plan for Loans. At the end of March this year the chartered Banks cad outstanding in person Al Loans compared with at the Start of 1967. Sales finance company credit balances outstanding moved in the same period Down to from there is no Complete and accurate report available on the total amount of consumer credit outstanding. But the Dominion Bureau of statistics reported Monsay on-10 kinds of credit for which it has figures department store accounts and tie insurance policy Loans. The total of these 10 on March 31 this year was compared with at the end of december 1966. This Means that Banks this Spring had 45 per cent of con Sumer credit outstanding and he sales finance companies 16 per cent. Fifteen months earlier the Banks had .40 per. Cent of the business and the sales finance companies 19 per cent. Consumer credit granting is not a matter of special Federal government regulation except Lor a new Law requiring credit Gran tors to make Plain to Bor rowers the total Cost of interest and Servic e charges the chartered Banks have Al ways been Able to make use Tori. Trustee Wilder was. Out of the City and unavailable for com ment. Hijackers grab Gin London Reuters i i Akers jumped aboard two tucks in London today Over powered the drove off with More than bottles of Gin valued at about a spokesman for beefeaters distillery said we believe this is the biggest hijacking of wines and spirits in this announce new Healing substance. Shrinks piles checks itch exclusive Healing substance proven to shrink repair damaged tissue. So reds lose in a renowned research Institute has found a unique Healing substance with the ability to shrink Hemor rho ids painlessly. It relieves itch ing and discomfort in minutes and speeds up Healing of the injured inflamed tissues. 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He got votes to Peter pollen s for social credit and 653 for Mira Yarwood of the nip. Electrical e n g i n e e r Dave Brousso a Liberal won with ease in North Vancouver Capi Lario a Vancouver bedroom area. He got Peter Robin credit Sydney nip Charles Maclean progressive conserva and communist James Benyon 36. It was a Tough fight in Interior Revelstoke Slocan a constituency with a heavy labor vote. Train fireman William King of the nip won the vote in a be e s a w Battle with social credit s Bert Campbell publisher of the weekly Castlegar b.c., news. With 55 of 59 polls outstanding polls were Small and King had votes to or. Campbell s Liberal Fred Erick Delach Erois a locomotive Engineer had 456. Oak Bay was vacated by lib eral Alan in Macfarlane who re signed to become a judge. Or. Perrault resigned his seat in North Vancouver Capilato to run and win in Burnaby sey Mour Federal constituency june 25. Randolph Harding of the nip vacated Revelstoke Slocan to run and also win federally in Kootenay West. The last provincial election was in sep tember on the heels of a May 21 by election in Van Couver South where i the nip took a social credit seat with relative ease. Over All social credit s share of the popular vote in the three constituencies remained about the same As it was in tile 1966 election. Cured personal Loans and do so for some customers they want some Security. V the Bank Start eel a. Plan in 1936 by which individual borrowers could pay off their debt on monthly payments including principal and interest charges after the Bank of Nova Scotia started a similar plan in 1958, the chartered Banks joined in the personal Loans of the a has included in the lbs report on consumer credit Are Only a part of the Banks general which at the end March this year totalled compared with at the end of de Cember 1966. Marrow dangling anyone continued folded and ear trumpeted ears stuffed with sound proof and hold each other1.by the left wrists while whacking at each other with lengths of Ripe rhubarb. He stopped sponsoring that game however in favor of marrow dangling which has a longer history. It has been carried on for Many years stretching to the Middle Ages and beyond he insisted. Some How escaped the notice of historians but the rules have been handed from father to son or marrow to Gherkin As it were he told a visitor to his 400-year-old pub. A marrow is a kind of Green elongated pumpkin weighing several pounds. It is Hung at the end of a Long rope which dangles from a pole. Two teams of six compete one team standing in a Circle around the pole while members of the other team at the opening cry of get stuffed try to cosh them with the marrow on its second flying circuit of the pole. Any of the dangled who Are thus struck must lie Down or. Jones explained. Any dangled who flinches at any time during the rotation of the marrow is deemed to have flunked and must also lie Down. Otherwise an official armed with a Besom Broom is sent out to Knock the shirker firmly to ground. The Winner in Case any one is interested gets a handsome Blue enamelled drinking vessel which looks uncommonly like a chamber pot plus the usual Case of Beer or. Jones was shocked when an american suggested All these were Odd sports. He roared in a voice that made the bitter curdle. Why you have far odder games in the such As Well there s the presidential elections this year for one. Regard for the fraternal czech leadership. Instead it described the democratization in Czechoslovakia As a work of i imperialist subversion threat 1 Enin g the Warsaw military pact. The communique declared that the. Bloc leaders had paid particular attention to the activation of aggressive imperialist forces Are striving through subversive action to undermine the socialist system in individual countries and to weaken ideological Bonds and the Alliance uniting the socialist the Warsaw communique and joint letter brought to a Climax nearly a week of agitation in Moscow and the other pro soviet capitals denouncing a o u n t e a revolutionary ele ments in Czechoslovakia. The Warsaw conference took place As. Soviet army units began leaving Czechoslovakia for polish East German and russian bases after having stayed in the country two weeks beyond the conclusion of the june Warsaw pact manoeuvres. There was still no indication of when the withdrawal would be completed. The Warsaw meeting aroused alarm among Independent communists elsewhere in. Europe. Yugoslav foreign minister Marko Nikezic summoned both the czechoslovak ambassador and the soviet charge d affaires in Belgrade monday for urgent discussion. Yugoslav news papers following the Lead Given by marshal Tito sunday warned strongly against outside interference in Czechoslovakia s internal affairs. The romanian communist party Organ skin Teia without mentioning Czechoslovakia by name also called monday for strict non interference. Two High leaders of the italian communist party. Gian Carlo Majetta and Carlo Galluci arrived unexpectedly monday night. In Moscow. The French communist party chief Wai deck Rochet had arrived Sun Day. All Are believed seeking clarification of the Warsaw meeting and of soviet intentions toward the czechoslovak liberalization which both the italian and French parties have form ally hailed. Waldeck Rochet indicated that he intended to go to Prague after meeting with soviet party chief Leonid Brezhnev when the latter re turns from Warsaw., with no information yet Avail Able on the contents of the Warsaw letter to the czechoslovak party Central committee it was difficult to Tell whether yugoslav romanian and Western communist protests might prevent the drastic action being urged by communist hard liners in Warsaw East Berlin and elsewhere. The importance of tire War saw meeting for the soviet Union was dramatized by. The presence of All three of the top soviet leaders or. Brezhnev president Nicolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. The other delegations were led by Walter Ulbricht of East Ger Many Wladyslaw Gomulka of Poland Janos Kadar of Hun Gary and Todor Zsivkov of Bulgaria. still believe that a direct invasion of Czechoslovakia is unlikely at the present time. However external pressures aimed at bringing about changes inside czech Oslo appeared certain to intensify. A fortnight secret letters from or. Brezhnev four other bloc party leaders to the czechoslovak Central committee Are reported to have urged Strong action to curb Radical reformers and restrain the czechoslovak press. The five letters invited the czech leaders to attend the Warsaw meeting invitation Prague rejected a week ago. Since then authoritative articles in the bloc party organs general jailed Beirut Reuters former iranian Deputy Premier Gen. Teymour Bakhtiar was sentenced thursday to three months in prison by a military court for smuggling arms into Lebanon. Selkirk plaque unveiled Kildonan Scotland up John Diefenbaker continuing his tour of the Highlands Mon Day unveiled a plaque dedicated to George b a n n e r m a his great great Grandfather and to All the Selkirk settlers who Emi grated from this Little Community More than a Century ago. The plaque made of alumni num particularly referred to the settlers from this Northern scottish Village who in 1812 and 1813 migrated to the red River Region of Western Canada and settled in what now is Manitoba. This ceremony which Drew Many of the local residents took place 12 Miles from Rogart where on saturday the former prime1 minister unveiled a Cairn d e d i c a t e d to Canada s first prime minister sir John a. Macdonald s Monument is but a footnote to his hundreds of persons gathered at the Sutherland Village to watch the ceremony where Diefenbaker accompanied by his wife wore a traditional scottish Balmoral or Cap. Have demanded the crushing of criticized laxity on the part of the czech leadership and openly offered International support to so called healthy forces inside the czechoslovak party. The anxiety of bloc hard liners is believed to have been increased by the recent election of delegates to the czechoslovak party Congress which is scheduled to open on sept. 9. The elections have seen major gains for the party progressives and the defeat of Many conserva Tives and stalinist. The party Congress is to choose a new Central committee which would play the decisive role on such vital questions As a new election Law the position of non communist parties and ultimately All phases of czech foreign and Domestic policy. General attacks pact from Reuters a Prague a leading czechoslovak general launched one of the strongest Public at tacks on the Warsaw pact Here. Col. Gen. Vaclav Prchlik head of the czechoslovak communist party s defence depart ment condemned the Alliance s organizational Structure and called for a revision of the com Mand system to give Russia s allies greater participation. He made his criticism at a press conference Here monday night at the end of a Day which saw soviet troops resume their departure from the country after a Brief delay. Many of the since the Warsaw pact exercises ended june left but at least one detachment is not scheduled to go until sunday. At the press conference Here Prchlik said the Warsaw Confer ence was a regrettable act in that the countries taking part knew Prague opposed the meet ing. He. Also made a Clear refer ence to the soviet troops in Czechoslovakia saying he could find nothing in the Warsaw tract to justify the presence of for eign troops in a member coun try which did not want them. Another speaker at the press unidentified offi cer accused the soviet Union of disregarding czechoslovak demands for the prompt withdrawal of the russian troops. Prchlik said that a contingent of soviet troops is delaying its departure six More Days. Prchlik said the troops would leave the country sunday rather than today As they had prom ised. He told the television Audi ence the soviet troops definitely were leaving and urged czechoslovak not to succumb to a War of nerves. In a War the Side with a stronger nerve and greater Cool Ness always wins in the he said. About russian troops participated in the Warsaw pact manoeuvres and an estimated remained in Czechoslovakia afterwards. After negotiations last week the Prague government announced that these would begin leaving saturday. Some Wient but the movement halted Sun Day. Czechoslovakia u e w s Media said heavy weekend traffic caused the delay and the withdrawal resumed monday. One of the key unknowns in the crisis is the balance of the present Central committee which was chosen under stalinist Antonin Novotny two years ago. Of the 130 members some two dozen Are dedicated Mili Tant reformers. Forty supported or. Novotny until his removal last january. The rest have been United mainly by the ability to stay of the winning Side. Their behaviour now is expected to be crucial. Observers believe that the initial aim of the Warsaw meeting and whatever behind the scenes pressure May be linked with it could be to enable conservatives to regain a majority on the current Central committee and curb the present Liberal leadership. However the pressures might result in producing a split in Prague in which conservative forces could manoeuvre to Call for external Aid As Janos Kadar and a handful of other pro soviet hungarian communists did Dur ing the revolution of november 1956. On the other hand the Strong pressures from outside might serve to unite All the Czecho slovak factions in patriotic Solidarity around the Liberal leadership As the threatening letters of Josef Stalin and the communist information Bureau United yugoslavs around mar Shal Tito 20 years ago. Aid Cut May affect Paris talks Washington a de Fence Secretary Clark Clifford has told Congress that drastic curtailment of foreign Aid could affect the Paris peace negotiations. That warning from Clifford now on a trip to South Vietnam was contained in a letter to representative Thomas Morlan chairman of the House of representatives foreign affairs committee made Public Mon Day night. The Impact of a drastic curtailment or a Complete moratorium in economic Aid on such countries Sulci As Korea and Thailand would be immediate and Clifford wrote. Discontinuation of Aid to South Vietnam and Laos could create internal situations which would prejudice the Paris peace negotiations and the accomplishment of our objectives in. Southeast debate on foreign Aid begins in the House today. Morgan s committee Cut some from the Johnson administration s request for the fiscal year that began july 1, reducing it to last year Congress authorized for the program but then appropriated Only a series of amendments pro posing further cuts Are to await the program on the House floor. 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