Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 20, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Report from exclusively in today s Canada s leading rotogravure Lightfoot cordon Lightfoot from Orillia ont., shows Why he is getting a response from thousands of viewers and listeners in the United states and Canada. It is because he is irritating arrogant Unco operative and stubborn and because he is warm perceptive amusing attractive disarming and honest. Page 2 they talk to the seals Philip Smith tells about an unusual study project in Guelph ont., where or. Keith Ronald is trying to find out what the animals can do for us. Page 6 Rhodesia is so Beautiful if you re White Gerald Clark gives a topical View of the controversial african state where White Power is standing off the overwhelming numerical majority of Blacks Page 12 Good food fruit salad in her Good food feature Margo Oliver says these will make a Light Cool meal for a Long hot Day help yourself salad tray creamy line dressing Sweet French dressing mixed fruit salad Pink lemonade dressing Cantaloupe and Avocado salad Honey Citrus dressing tossed fruit salad luncheon salad plate Page 20 plus motorcycle mania Page 3 Altona s summer fair Page 5 tha Young evangelists. Page 7 Jack Jones to sing Here. Page 9 Chunik news pages 12, 13 c i to comics and elsewhere in careers to 45 classified 14 comics. .28, 27 finance 13 to 17 deaths 12 to radio diary the paper letters 25 movies 54, 55 women 19 to 24 sports 48 to 52 300 have jobs welfare too by Hubert Beyer almost 300 fully employed persons have received supplementary welfare assistance from the City of Winnipeg since 1967, to Cope with the Burden of excessive monthly payments to finance companies and depart ment stores. This disclosure was made in a report to the Winnipeg health and welfare committee by the City s welfare director r. H. G. Hooper. The report which will be discussed by the committee at its next regular meeting states that out of 295 cases a total of 121 full time wage earners Are still receiving supplementary welfare assistance. This procedure although it has been opposed by various Levels of government and the Public at Large was necessary to avoid the greater Cost of granting full assistance Over indefinite periods the report said. Or. Hooper prepared the report following wide spread publicity of a recent Case where a Man who earned almost Al month was on the City s welfare payroll. Douglas cites Sweden Regina up Federal nip Leader t. A Douglas said Friday Canada should follow tiie example of Sweden in establish ing an Industrial peace com Mission that would provide unbiased credible information on issues in labor management Dis Putes of deet Public interest. There were More than 35 strikes in Canada today there will be More of we Don t do something about the rising Cost of he said at a joint news conference with the Ontario nip Leader Donald. Mac Donald. Nobody really gains by a strike but for the worker it s the Only weapon that he or. Douglas in Regina to at tend the three Day annual meet ing of the Saskatchewan new democratic party said the fed eral government should have acted earlier to Speed up talks Between the Lakehead terminal elevator association and the Lakehead Grain handlers now on strike. Please see Douglas Page 4 the report states that unless the City supports families who can no longer meet their financial obligations the Wel fare department have a permanent welfare Case von hand. Please see welfare Page 8 Money kept As loan Toronto up former magistrate Fred Bannon revealed Friday he kept half of the mortgage he. Arranged for Vincent Alexander As a temporary loan but denied he Ever took a bribe while on the Bench. Or. Bannon told the judicial inquiry under or. Justice Campbell Grant he kept the As a three week loan. He said the Money will be available to Alexander when the inquiry ends. Earlier or. Bannon got nothing for the mortgage on the House a few Days after it was placed Asse purity for his bail on a charge of breaking and enter ing. The 34-year-old former Magis trate resigned from the Bench at the opening of the inquiry called by attorney general a thur Wishart to investigate the relationship Between or. Ban non magistrate George Gard House 60, and Alexander. Please see Money Page 4 Winnipeg free press Page 12 weekend. Magazine final Ediwn vol. 75 no. 252 Price Loc with comics saturday july 20, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises . . Moon sets . Forecast sunny 80 and 65. . Rejects registration of firearms Johnson s proposals Defeated in two House votes by John h. Averill Washington special tons president Johnson s proposal for Federal registration of firearms was overwhelmingly rejected twice by the House Fri Day. By a vote of 172-68, the House first Defeated a motion to require registration of All fire arms handguns rifles and shotguns then by a vote of 168-89, it Defeated an Effort to limit registration just to handguns pistols and revolvers. The registration proposals were offered As amendments to president Johnson s Bill to ban interstate mail order gun sales. Before acting on them the souse voted to require Manda Ory Federal prison terms of one to 25 years for anyone using a gun in to smiting a Federal Elony. It was offered by rep. Lichard h. Poff Republican the amendment was adopted by a vote of 168 to 31 As a substitute for a much More far reaching proposal by rep. Bob Asey the Casey amendment would also have made it a Federal crime to use a gun in such state level crimes As robberies rapes assaults and murders. After acting on these Amend ments the House deferred further action on the gun control Bill until monday. Despite the lopsided votes against Federal firearms regi stration the mail order gun Bill is believed to command sufficient support for House passage next week but probably Only after it has been weakened somewhat Friday s House action was a decisive Victory for the National Rifle asson., which has waged a nationwide letter writing Campaign against All of the presi Dent s gun control proposals. In addition to firearms regi stration and mail order gun controls or. Johnson also has called for Federal licensing of All gun owners. An amendment to carry out his licensing proposal is expected to be offered on monday to the mail order Bill. In Light of Friday s House hostility to the registration concept it is unlikely to get anywhere. The defeat of the two regi stration amendments was a see registration Page 8 liquor prices to drop when new liquor prices come into effect in Manitoba on aug. 6, the Cost of most brands of liquor will be decreased by about five cents a bottle . Rodger chairman of the Mani Toba liquor commission said Friday there May be a slight in crease in the Cost of some imported wines said or. Rodger but the Price of Beer will remain unchanged. The decreased in prices of most brands is the result of a reduction in railway freight please see liquor Page 4 Dubcek wins vote soviet czech meeting looms by Dan Morgan Prague special tons the hard Core of conservatives in the czechoslovak communist party Hierarchy surrendered almost unconditionally Friday thus powerfully reinforcing their Reform col leagues for their unfinished conflict with the soviet Union. However the stunning Victory of the party progressives Friday was almost immediately dark ened by news that the Moscow leaders were publicly demand ing that the czechoslovak Lead ers meet them on soviet soil. Please see old line Page 4 stiffer demands possible Ottawa up a Large wage s to e m e n t for postal workers who Are now in the third Day of a National strike May signal stiffer demands from thousands of other civil servants now bargaining with the government. If there is a very favourable decision Well have to take a second look at some of our own dem Trevor Gough presi Dent of the Public service Alliance of can Ada said in an interview Friday night. The postal workers who vent on strike Early thursday Are asking a-75-cent hourly in crease for a 14-month contract. The government offer of a 15 cent increase was rejected flatly the increase sought by the postal unions ranges from 26.1 to 39.1 per cent while the. Government is offering six per cent. Or. Gough said Only six con tracts covering about members of the Alliance have been signed and about 40 to 50 please see stiffer Page 4 Hopes for Early settlement of strike at Lakehead dim port Arthur up any Hope of a Quick settlement in the strike of Lakehead Grain handlers appeared dim today with no f us t h e r negotiating meetings scheduled after talks abruptly collapsed Friday. Negotiations Between the representatives and the team representing Ter Minal elevator companies started thursday almost on the heels of a walkout by employees. The second meeting Friday ended 45 minutes after it opened when the companies team walked out. The management walkout was preceded by an intemperate response from the Union negotiators to the companies stand that the wage Issue should not have absolute priority in the talks a companies spokesman said. Meeting. Marked the first resumption of talks since last May. It was called at the request of the companies. The. Strike resulted in an almost immediate embargo on All Grain shipments to the Lakehead by the railways. v. Tithe Ridge chairman of the Lakehead terminal Eleva Tor association which is negotiating with the striking workers on behalf of 10 Grain companies which operate -23 terminal elevators in port Arthur fort Wil please see Hopes Page 4 by Jack Ablett four died in this station Wagon. See Page 12 for Auto in which fifth person died. Five die in 2-car crash teen Ager Jin serious condition in Hospital after car station Wagon slam other five people died and a teen age boy is reported in critical condition in Winnipeg general Hospital after a grinding two car crash that demolished both cars shortly before . Today on Highway 7, two Miles North of the perimeter Highway. Royal Canadian mounted lice said a North bound station i which five Young people were Riding was in a head on collision with a South bound Sedan occupied Only by the Driver. A surviving teen Ager was a passenger station Wagon the officer said the Accident apparently occurred in the North bound Lane. Ramp Headquarters in Winni Peg said names of the victims could not be released until relatives had been notified. Both cars were licensed in Manitoba. Wiley ambulance company sent two ambulances to the of the Drivers said it took we hours to free the bodies in the station Wagon. It had to be flipped upright by a Tow truck before they could be reached he said. The last body that of a Young Man was taken to Winnipeg please see five die Page 4 Newmire set near Bissett by Sheldon Bowles agreement has been reached on a Nickel mine to be constructed in the Bird River area of Eastern Manitoba 30 Miles South of Bissett. The new mine will be oper ated by Dumbarton mines Limi Ted a recently formed mining company representing Maskwa Swickel Chrome. Mines limited which is controlled by Falcon Aridge Nickel mines and Consol dated Canadian and a expected to be producing 700 on of Ore a Day within Orie year. The Ore will be sold by Dumbarton to Falconbridge for processing at Falconbridge s Werner Lake Ontario Mill 25 Miles East of the new mine. Under the agreement this Plant would be enlarged by 400 tons of daily capacity in order to provide the additional Capa City required to process the Manitoba Ore. The agreement is subject to approval at a special meeting of Maskwa shareholders to be held aug. 14 in Winnipeg. The claims to be. Mined Are please see new mine Page 8 Battle shaping on Eskimo role by Sheldon Bowles Coppermine . Staff a major Battle Over the role of the Eskimo in the development of the North appears to be shaping up Here Cost not Factor supt. Edward Daggit superintend ent. Of the Clande Boye Indian Agency which supervises the blood vein Reserve said in a Telephone interview Friday Cost was not the Factor in shutting Down the Reserve s Power Plant. Continued please see Cost Page 8 Between a Toronto based mining company Coppermine River ltd., and the Federal govern ment. The Eskimo is hot a Miner and he never will Copper mine River Ltd s project Man Ager John Bracken told news men at the company s exploration Camp 40 Miles from this Small settlement on the Edge of the Arctic Ocean. We might be Able to use one or two to do Odd jobs around Here but that is said or. Bracken who indicated that the eskimos were too unreliable and a trainable to be of any real use. The company is currently mapping out an Ore body that to Date contains nearly four million tons of Ore grading at 3.48 per cent Copper and is valued at million. Asked about the Rankin Inlet mine where 20 to 30 eskimos successfully ran a mining operation for six years before the Ore ran out or. Bracken dismissed the venture As not much of a please see Battle Page 12 pm notified about plight prime minister Trudeau after receiving a Telegram from a Winnipeg Man has taken a personal interest in the plight of residents of Manitoba s blood vein Indian Reserve. The blood vein residents Are without then Community food Freezer because of a decision by the Federal department of in Dian affairs to shut Down the Community s two generators for the summer. The Freezer which enables residents to store fresh meat and fish runs off the generators. With the Power shut off residents of the isolated re serve 150 air Miles North of Winnipeg must eat. Canned food. After r Reading an account of the problem in thursday s free press Wilf Gillis of 753 Beach Avenue sent a Telegram to or. Trudeau protesting what he called the and inhuman departmental direct Ive of the Indian affairs department. Or. Trudeau in a telegraphed reply Friday said we will immediately look into this or. Gillis in a Telephone interview Friday said he acted As a private citizen with no professional connection in the blood vein affair. Looking for a boat this want and under boats marines 27 it. Cabin Cruiser 100 . Inboard. Phone 837-8505. 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. Crossing mishap kills 1 a Ste. Rose do Lac woman is dead and two members of her family Are in Hospital after the truck in which they were Riding was in collision with a line of cars stopped at a level Railroad crossing Friday. The Accident took place at . On Highway 1 one mile East of Portage la Prairie. Dead is m r s Margaret Dumas 59, a passenger in a half ton truck reportedly driven by her brother in Law Joseph Daniel Dumas 66t also of Ste. Rose do Lac. Or. Dumas was reported in satisfactory Condi Tion in Portage District general Hospital. Mrs. Dumas husband Joseph William Dumas 62, also a passenger in the truck was taken to St. Boniface general. Hospital and was reported in fairly Good condition. Ramp officers at the Portage Rural detachment report the Dumas vehicle collided with a line of three cars stopped at a railway crossing for a passing train. Five persons in a car struck by the Dumas truck were also taken to Hospital. Three were treated and released and two detained for observation. The Dumas truck sustained extensive damage but no Esti mate of total costs was immediately available. Charge denied Bysie new York up the seafarers International Union says filiere was no connection be tween the . State depart ment s refusal to extradite Hal c. Banks to Canada and in donations to the democratic party Campaign funds by the Union. The Wall Street journal says the Union donated the Money to democratic Campaign organizations after Rusk refused March 25 to approve extradition of Banks to Canada. The financial newspaper says half the Money went to Campaign committees supporting the White House bid of vice president Hubert Humphrey. The province of Ontario sought the extradition of Banks former head of the Siu in can Ada in connection with a charge he perjured himself in testimony to a Royal commis Sion investigating great lakes violence. The Wall Street journal says the Siu refused comment on the contributions or Why they were made. However the Union said Fri Day it had made such donations for these contributions were made openly As Are All Safar please see charge Page 8 ;