Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 17, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 170f Winnipeg free press final edition wednesday july 17, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises e m. Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast mostly sunny 60 and 80 City businessman posts out of town mail just before embargo went into effect at 5 . Tuesday govt. Makes wage offer Union negotiator maintains walkout by postal workers can still be averted Ottawa up postal Union negotiator Romeo Mathieu said today he refuses to believe it is impossible to prevent a strike of postal workers scheduled for 5 . Edt thursday. Or. Mathieu made the com ment to a reporter As he went to inform mediator judge Rene Lippe of the Union reaction to a government wage offer made tuesday night. Or. Mathieu said the Union reaction to the offer the details of which were not made Public would be made known later. Judge Lippe told reporters just before 3 . He hoped to resume mediation talks at 10 . He had no comment on whether any Progress had been made during the latest talk Marathon which began at 9 . Tuesday. Earlier spokesmen for both the Council and the Treasury Board which negotiates for the government declined to comment on reports that a wage offer had been made. The Council has sought a Flat 75-cent-an-hour increase Over a 14-month contract. The Treasury Board had made no wage offer up to tuesday. A conciliation Board produced a report on the Dis Pute last wednesday but made no wage recommendation. Please see govt. Page 5 mail offices prepared the . Post office in Bina North Dakota is bracing itself for More business than usual because of the impending postal strike Here. This is one of several . Border town offices which would be used. John Johnson an official of the Pembina postal station said the bulk of Canadian mail will be from business firms in greater Winnipeg Many of which have arranged for mail boxes in the . Border towns. Business mail has already begun to pour into the Post office from Winnipeg he said. Mail posted in North Dakota or Minnesota could not be delivered to any Point in Canada in the event of a strike but destinations else to the business could reach where. In addition mail or. Johnson said i suppose there will be a certain amount of personal Pembina Post office hours Are 8 . To s . Weekdays and 8 . To 12 noon saturdays. It closes weekdays Between noon 1 . Kemsley s London up Viscount Kemsley who sold his publish ing Empire to lord Thomson in -1959, left an estate of he died last february in Monte Carlo at the age of 84. Most of his estate had been allocated in family trusts. Pic posts plans to beat strike the unemployment insurance commission wednesday announced its plans to beat the expected postal tie up. Letters beat deadline the number of letters mailed tuesday in Winnipeg was 17.2 per cent higher than the daily average Winnipeg postal authorities said today. Citizens were beating the mailing deadlines set As thursday s National postal strike approached. A 24.1 per cent increase in mail from other cities was recorded Here tuesday the postal authorities said. They calculated More than letters were handled Here tuesday. H. B. Russell Post office pub Lic relations officer said the letters from other cities is a healthy increase which shows that people were taking notice of the forthcoming steady streams of people ensured that postal workers behind the wickets in the main lobby were kept busier than usual while an ramp car waited outside to patrol move along any would be just for a minute parkers who attempted to abandon their cars in no waiting areas. Or. Russell said there had been no panic to get letters posted by the 5 . Deadline for out of town mail. The deadline for local mail was Midnight. Those that normally posted their office mail any time before 6 . Did not wait until just before the deadline but came in a steady flow through out the afternoon. They seem to have been meeting the deadline All outside the building ramp patrolmen found traffic sporadic. Sometimes people had to wait to get their cars the Small Forecourt to Post letters in the outside letter boxes while at other times they were Able to go straight in. The morning saw More of a Rush As people attempted to meet the mid Day deadline for parcel Post. Many of those that missed it sent to Weir parcels by first class Mair in the afternoon or. Russell said. During the postal strike benefits will be paid in person instead of by mail according to a press from the commission. Service release those affected by the change Are people wishing to apply for unemployment insurance Bene fits claimants now receiving benefits and registered employers requiring service. People living in greater Winnipeg can pick up applications for Benefit at the commission office 266 Graham or at one of the Canadian Man Power centres an application kit is also available at the trades Hall room 1080 Wall Street or the Union Centre room 570 Portage Avenue. Brandon residents May obtain forms from the commission office there at 153 Lith Street please see plans Page 15 Iraq govt. Falls president exiled after army coup Beirut Lebanon a a leftist Mili tary coup d eat in Iraq has toppled the regime of president Abdel Rahman Aref and expelled him from the country Baghdad radio announced today. . Ahmed Hassan Al Bakr was unanimously elected president of Iraq radio Bagh dad said. Iraq s Borders airports ports and railway services were shut Down and an indefinite curfew clamped on the country As of Dawn the radio said. Baghdad radio reported Aref had been expelled from Iraq to join his family in exile but it did not specify to which country he went. Speculation was that it was Turkey. The government of Premier Taher Yahya also was Dis missed the radio said. One communique read Over the Fadio said the takeover was bloodless but a dispatch from Tehran Iran said there was heavy fighting. Later appealed please see army Page 10 main Gate at Bissett blocked miners not paid since june 22 confused Over Legal proceedings by Pieter Vanbennekom Bissett Man. Staff this Manitoba min ing town 175 Miles Northeast of Winnipeg is on the Brink of violence. Its Only Industry the san Antonio Gold mine has been closed and Bissett is destined to become a ghost town. This much is virtually certain amid1 the confusion of bankruptcy proceed Ings and the secured preferred and unsecured creditors but at the moment there Are still several Hundred people Here about 50 mine employees their families and the people in the service industries. The employees say they Are each owed Between and by the mine. They Don t understand the confusion and he Legal technicalities sur rounding bankruptcy proceed nos. Most of them Haven t been paid since june 22. They Are running out of Money and they want their wages now. They Are angry. They picketed the mine monday and put a Cable across he main Gate to prevent any of he mine s assets from being removed., there s going to be trouble a this Bill Mepherson the mine s master Mechanic said at a Public meeting tues Day night. The people Here can t move out until they get their Money. They re stuck Here with nothing of do. They re possibly going to smash that Mill please see main Page 10 fresh violence erupts in China the South China Kiangtung were by Stanley Karnow Hong Kong special tons violence has reportedly erupted in province of rival youth and labor groups appear to be intensifying a new round of internecine fights they began More than three months ago. Calling the latest outbreaks very acute and an editorial in the Kiangtung newspaper Southern daily broadcast by Canton radio tuesday appealed to the con tending provincial factions to unite in. The struggle against the common class the intensity of the news paper Appeal suggests to analysts Here that military and civilian leaders in the province Are desperately striving to restore order by persuasive rather than forceful methods. Though troops have been authorized to fire at unruly they Are evidently being restrained by senior offi cers who seem to fear that such a move might splinter the army As Well into rival factions. The Kiangtung turmoil while reflecting ideological disputes is contributing to widespread economic and social problems that Are in turn exacerbate big the turbulence. The situation has been further aggravated by severe floods in the area. Apparently exhorting competing movements in the province to Patch up their quarrels the Southern daily levelled its criticism tuesday against the right and the extreme the criticism of both right and left for the Sake of Unity suggests that Kwangung s governing revolutionary com mainly composed of please see violence Page 10 features today Trudeau reassigns deputies Zaleski cuts seven. 31 48 today s Index. Classified .34 to 45 comics f.56, 57 deaths. 23 finance 53 to 55 movies. 13 sports 48 to 52 television .12 women17, 19. 21 City zone total battered bodies found Toronto up the stabbed and battered bodies of a Mother and her three Young daughters were found late tues Day night in their basement apartment. Homicide detectives said the husband of the dead woman was admitted Hospital for ment of possible poisoning he was found Semi conscious in the basement Flat near the victims. Dead Are mrs. Maurice mond 26, and her three Daugh ters Anne and Lucille 4 months. The Mother was supine. On the floor police said and the bodies of the three daughters had been stacked detectives said a a in m a knives and Garden tools we Raj found scattered on the floor. They said the implements apparently had been used in the slayings. Neighbors said the raymonds lived in the building about three weeks. The neighbors believed they had moved to Toronto from time wins ont. The. Home where the victims lived is in a Blue Collar neigh boyhood of Low income families. Next door neighbor. Barbara Anne Murphy 29, described the Start a backyard quarrel she saw through . Please see victims Page 10 Ray waives Appeal London James Earl Ray instructed his lawyers tuesday to waive his Appeal of a British extradition order. -this., Means he will probably return in a few Days to the United states where he faces charges of murdering or. Martin Luther King. Or. Ray s Surprise decision became known after he saw his British lawyers in Wandsworth prison tuesday and gave them a signed statement saying that. Tie had voluntarily decided not to file an Appeal to the High court of a july 2 extradition ruling against him in Bow Street police court. The 40-year-old american said he had made the decision after considering All the facts and believed it was the Best thing for him to do. The 250-word typed statement was signed Ramon George Neydl the name under which or. Ray was arrested at London Airport on june 8. It will be submitted to Home Secretary James Callaghan who must give final approval to Ray s word of Kay s decision was immediately telephoned to his american lawyer Arthur j. Hanes a former mayor of Birmingham Alabama. Or. Hanes was due to arrive Here today to Confer again with his client who has denied killing please see Kay Page 15 Moscow warned communist leaders protest against possible intervention in Prague by Anatole Shub Moscow special tons the soviet Union s ruling triumvirate came Home tuesday night to face a wave of european communist protests against Poss Ible intervention in Czechoslovakia. Communist party chief Leonid Brezhnev p r e m r Alexei Kosygin and president Nikolai Podgorny returned by train from a secret two Day meeting in Warsaw with leaders of their four hard Core allies East Germany Poland Bulgaria anal Hungary. The group addressed a joint letter monday to Prague which has yet to be made Public is believed to have demanded Sharp curbs on the czech democratization process. Please see other Story on Page 16 reliable sources said the Ietter from Warsaw demanded that the czechoslovak leaders attend a communist Summit conference within two weeks to justify their program the new York times reported in a dispatch from Prague. The report said the letter charged that the policies of the Dubcek regime had Given Rise o revisionism in the party and had raised the threat of a counter revolution by forces Friendly to the letter made one conces Sion to Prague s new leaders agreement for separate meet Ings with the leaders of the five please see hands off Page 5 Rhodesia Republic proposed Salisbury Reuters the governing Rhodesia front party proposed that Rhodesia become a Republic in new constitutional proposals announced today. A blueprint of a new constitutional plan for the country s future said Rhodesia has no of Tio n but to seek to become a re Public because the British government has denied us the Queen of the constitutional proposals drafted by a joint committee of the party caucus and divisional party chairman emerged in final written form at meeting of the rhodesian fronts executive earlier this week. Norrie ignores demand he quit by Ken Ingle trustee William Norrie of officers i there be a new election of Board Winnipeg school Board retain his position As Board chairman tuesday night despite a de Mand by seven trustees that in resign immediately and Tia Agency records seized by govt. By John Mclean Ottawa up Walter her Bert director of the Canada non profit Agency engaged in promoting Public in Terest in the today the Ontario government has seized foundation records going Back 25 years. Or. Herbert 67, who told the Canadian press he has no idea Why a member of the Carleton county sheriff s office invaded his Agency s premises about three weeks ago has been oper a t i n g the privately financed Agency almost single handed since 1943, under a Federal Char ter. The trouble with Queen s said or he , began about a year at that time we had a sur prising and arrogant demand from the Public trustee in Torono for an accounting of the foundation s affairs from the be ginning of its operations. About three weeks think it was june came and. Demanded our re cords. He showed identification from the sheriff s or. Herbert said he was absent at the time arid that his 0nly other full time employee of the foundation Over the books. Or. Herbert a member of the Senate of Carleton University Here said they took a weird selection of things including a file on Carleton s honorary de they even seized a file i had on Canadian Library associations financial records at ran Dom minute books and our Cash Box containing about and some admittedly upset by the arrogance of those Queen s Park or. Herbert was concerned that their action could see foundation Page 10 tap Cid Telephone Call presented at nearly everyone reads the free press Toronto up judicial inquiry into the activities of two Toronto magistrates heard a taped Telephone Call tuesday in which the wife of Vincent Alex Ander said a judge had helped arrange bail for her husband. The inquiry is into actions of magistrates Fred Bannon and George Gardhouse relieved of court duties june 18 pending re sults of the investigation. Magis trate Bannon 34, sent his Resig nation to the inquiry when hear Ings started monday. The inquiry was told monday Alexander had a criminal rec Ord of five indictable offences including shop breaking and Auto theft. Tuesday the last of 61 taped Telephone conversations was presented the Calls edited from 60 hours of tapes obtained by a police wiretap of Alexan Der s Telephone March 21 to May 27, included 21 Between Al expander s Home and magistrate Home or office. Two Calls were Between Alexander and magistrate Gardhouse. One conversation May 15, the Day before Alexander was freed on bail on a break and enter charge had mrs. Alexan Der telling her Mother that she had spoken to the Good Guy St. Boniface ceremony a ceremony re enacting the arrival of two priests in St. Boniface 150 years ago which signified the Advent of christianity in Western can Ada look place tuesday. For Story and pictures see Page 23. The and is supposed to be taken care the next Day she told a female caller the prospects of bail had been bad but i met that Guy and he was you know and it had t been for him there would t have been no bail at magistrate James Rennick who found Alexander not guilty of a break and enter charge March 27, told the inquiry he not Beeti approached by either magistrate in the Alexan Der Case. The inquiry was called by at Torney general Arthur Wishart to investigate the two Magis trates behaviour or misbehave with Alexander or. Jus Tice Campbell Grant of Thevik Tario supreme head of the inquiry Sal d monday its r please see taped Page 10 no motion embodying the resignation demand was placed before the Board tuesday night. But it was Learned after the meeting that the new demo cratic party members of Hie Board Are still considering the possibility of drafting such a motion. The demand was made by the Board s six new democratic party trustees and one communist trustee on the grounds that trustee Norrie had been elected in january by an illegal procedure and had no right to continue As. Chairman. Trustee Norrie is sponsored by the greater Winnipeg elec Tion committee As Are seven other trustees on the 15-member Board. The move to unseat the chairman followed a court Rul ing that mailed in ballots from trustees Aren t acceptable in the election of officers under terms of the school Board s procedural bylaw. Please see Norrie Page 15 against school politics t by Jed Stuart trustee William Norrie said tuesday he won t be pressured nto resigning As Winnipeg school Board chairman because in does t believe in playing educational politics. Interviewed following a Stormy school Board meeting trustee Norrie said the recent Manitoba court of Queen s Beach ruling regarding the propriety of his election As Hoard chairman in january showed there was no Legal basis for saying the office of s not duly nothing but possible political Lay making by the six new democratic party trustees and be communist Board member could have been gained by his designation he said. To go through the fiction of designing and being elected again it s there s no Point in it. We have a political Board and it s a bad the matter of trustee nor Rie s election had gone to court after the six i nip and one communist trustees he had been elected by votes please see won t Page 15 ;