Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, July 20, 1968

Issue date: Saturday, July 20, 1968
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 20, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free press saturday july 20, 1968 research group sends 1 r. Balloon aloft in North the first Skyhook research balloon to be used exclusively by a Canadian University was released at Churchill Man., thursday night. The launching was conducted by project scientists or. E. J. Llewllyn of the University of Saskatchewan and or. A. Val Lance Jones of the National research Council. G. Moreels of the research Council of France was an accompanying scientist. Formerly Canadian group is and universities had participated with United states scientists in All balloons and scientific space experiments in Canada. The 300-foot diameter balloon was launched Between 6 and 7 ., thursday and Rose to a height of 25 Miles. It remained in View at Churchill for about five hours but slowly drifted West until its flight was terminated by radio command Early deaths Bathel Charlotte of 370 Coverdale Street St. Janies. Bergerson Lionel 46, of 336 Ross Avenue Winnipeg. Broadley Agnes s3, of 496 Atlantic Avenue Winnipeg. Chin him 86, of 216 Pacific Avenue suite 11, Winnipeg. Edey Stanley w., 81, of 1437 137 Street Edmonton formerly of chaise Wood retired Hudson Bay company employee. Gallant Gilbert f., 81, of Sod Central Park Lodge retired g. F. Stephens paint com Pany employee. Grant Ian Ellis 20 months of 1422 Grant Avenue. Winnipeg. Henderson Maude 88, for Merly of Winnipeg Beach Man. Henderson Florence May Morden Man. Hudson John Patrick 17, of 29s Lockwood Street Winni Peg. Kaminsky Steve 64, of 328 Magnus Avenue. Winnipeg Kryzanowski Alec 78, of 89 fourth Avenue n.w., Carman Man. Loughhead Gladys d., 75, of Ottawa formerly of Popowich Harry s4, of 125 Spence Street. Winnipeg. Sharpe Donald Alexander 23. 1y of Transcona. Spratt Mark 80, of 123 of Whitehorse Yukon former Sherburn Street Winnipeg. Retired Manitoba rolling Mills employee. Stewart mrs. Nellie Agnes 90, of Vancouver b.c., for Merly of Winnipeg. Tessler Gittle 84, of 429 St. Johns Avenue Winnipeg. Walker Annie Patricia 51, of i 285 Spence Street. Winnipeg Warren Richard John i 69, of 187 Arlington i Street Winnipeg retired cup i employee. J Yeske Gustav 49, of 772 j Cathedral Avenue i Weston bakeries employee. J for further i please see classified death notices Friday morning while Over North Central Saskatchewan. Purpose of the flight was to measure oxygen emissions and variations through the Twilight hours of Sunset and. Sunrise and to cosmic a rays. Data was radioed from the balloon to Hie receiving station at the Churchill research Range. At flight termination the half ton payload was p Tach Uteda , was recovered by i the Ball Piv was destroyed through a radio controlled self destruct device which changes the tension of the fabric causing it to tear open. A inflated the Ballon was 431 feet. It was constructed of i Mill polyethylene equivalent to one third the thickness of a human hair. The balloon weighed Alinosi half a ton a inflated. Cost of the Experiment was estimated at about it was sponsored by the National research Council. The sole occupant of this car was one of five people killed in a two car crash Early this morning on Highway 7, two mile s North of the perimeter Highway. See picture and Paige 1. Mrs. Anthony Lewchuk Garfield Street who celebrated her 91st birthday thursday with a family gathering at the Home of her son and daughter in Law or. And mrs. Harry Ruby. Present were All her Chil Dren John and Sam Struss arid Martha Skibinsky by her first or. Ruby by her second also 18 grandchildren including grandchildren including those of her third husband or. Lewchuk who died in 3956. His five children were also present. Mrs. Lewchuk was born in the Ukraine and after coming to Canada lived in the Arborg area and later at Stony Mountain. She resides with or. And mrs. Ruby. By the Canadian press London a e gae War of Baroda the millionaire Nahara Jah who traded 22 years of absolute Rule Over Indian subjects for Asylum on an eng Lish pig farm. J dog i dictionary first Delhi the first dictionary of the dog i language of India has been compiled by h. R. Pandhora an outstanding i dog i scholar. It contains about words spoken in those of Jammu and Kangrga areas where this language is heard. Jammu state s Academy of arts culture and language will publish the dictionary. Are soft onus whether your line of business is in major centres on the coast or from Southern Alberta to beyond the Arctic Circle Canada s third largest airline can offer you dependable air transportation backed by 22 of experience. The next time you travel in our neighbourhood depend on pea for fast efficient schedule service and let can Ada s Best looking stewardesses Welcome you Pacific airlines Vancouver International Airport Edmonton Industrial Airport y resume Niamey Nigeria apse cession St Biafra and Nigeria have agreed to resume negotiations toward ending the bloody year old civil War that has plunged the breakaway tribal state into the throes of mass starvation. A communique by the organization of african Unity Friday night said both sides had agreed to resume full peace talks under the organization s auspices in Addis Ababa Ethiopia s capital. Though no Date for the Start of the talks was announced preliminary arrangements were to begin immediately the Oak said. The announcement followed a Brief consultation with Biafra s chief of state . Odum Weiwu Ojukwu who flew Here earlier in the Day. In Aba Biafra Ojukwu told foreign correspondents his government has proposed two Over on eskimos continued showing restrained obvious a n g e a signs of Northwest territories Liberal my elect Bud Orange who was present at the meeting said that Coppermine River Ltd. Along with All of the other mining companies prospecting and Stak ing claims in the area had a direct responsibility to the human resources of the area. They must be developed along with the natural re sources. Tile Eskimo must share fully in the development of the North. If Ore concentrate is to be shipped out of the North then it must return the benefits to the people of Canada including the Eskimo As Well As the investor. Or. Orange said the Success of the project rested on the to my Colt Ulm l11c land corridors for transporting government agreeing to build a food and Medicine to starving biafran. But he reiterated his preference for a massive Airlift of food into the secessionist ibo territory calling it the Quick est and most realistic Means of Relief. Missionary agencies report that As Many As persons a Day including Many children Are dying of starvation in Biafra which is surrounded by Federal government forces. Secret night time airlifts Are the Only Means of getting. Relief supplies into Biafra and the Lagos government has threatened to shoot Down any unauthorized planes flying into the territory. The Federal gov eminent claims the air planes Are hauling in arms along with food. Ojukwu said a Road corridor proposed by Lagos for trans porting Relief supplies to Bias r a s population would give the ederal government a Clear path to what remains of the break the the Arctic at Coppermine to ship the Ore. Coppermine River Ltd s Deci Sion not to try to develop an Eskimo work Force is seen by some supporters of the Eskimo Here big blow to their Hopes that the Eskimo will be Given a Chance to earn a living through modern technology. So far Coppermine River Ltd. Is the Only company to actually announce discovery of an Ore body close to four million tons and. As a. Member of a consortium of five Well known firms pc explorations Ltd. Of Toronto who manage Coppermine River Ltd., pan Amer ican Oil co. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Oil of Indiana Onex Cana Dian exploration Ltd., Consoli dated proprietary mines hold Ings Ltd. And contest exploration co. Ltd it is feared by some that the decision might be followed by other companies in away state. He also claimed the food might be poisoned if it massed through Federal Terri tory. As an alternative Ojukwu proposed that supplies be sent up the niger River to Ogusta where they could be discharged directly into biafran Hearn con Ermine explorations Ltd. A Vancouver based company with Vancouver Law yer Jack Austin As president has decided to make the most use of Eskimo labor that it can. Even if had to use 30 to 40 per cent More eskimos would be better off econom that the Federal held port har Mically to use Hearne court and water channels stretching North into Biafra be neutralized for the duration of the War. The Oak committee meeting Here adopted a Resolution Call ing on Biafra to accept the Federal government s land Corri Dor offer. Is made up of representatives of Ethiopia Ghana Liberia Cameroon niger and the Congo. Last november the Oak tried unsuccessfully to mediate the Nigeria biafran civil War. Agreed to Survey Baghdad Iraq a Iraq and Kuwait two of the Middle East s big Oil producers have agreed to make a general Survey of their common fron project manager Mel Hurd. Or. Hurd said that the High turnover of labor in Northern Camps accounted for the differ ence. Except for occasional slow Downs while the Eskimo hunted Caribou which could be planned for or. Hurd said that the eskimos would provide a stable work Force. Or. Austin agreed. The Nickel mine at Rankin Inlet was run by eskimos and was highly successful. We have pro Grams under Way to make the Eskimo part of what plan to up while Coppermine River Ltd. Has turned its on Eskimo labor observers Here say that Northern trip for1 trip Deanii Ottawa up prime. Min ister Trudeau is to make a week Long flying tour of the Ca Nadian North his office announced Friday. Or. Trudeau is to leave Ottawa sunday july -21, at 6 Edt and to return the evening of july 28. He cover about Miles during the trip starting with a. Flight to Whitehorse in the Yukon territory heading eastward across the Northwest territories and popping into far Northern Quebec and Labra Dor before returning to Ottawa an official in or. Trudeau s office said the prime minister would be within reach of Tele phone or other communication at every place where he stops overnight and at most places where his aircraft touches Down. One of the transport depart a Tient s speedy Jet Star planes would remain As close As Possi ble to or. Trudeau s location each Day during. The trip in Case there was any need to bring him to Ottawa rather the. Jet cannot land on Many of the rough Landing strips at the locations the prime minister will visit. . Trudeau is full look at the North in his first extended tour there. Pembina Busy Post Pembina . Staff the . Post office in this three Miles South of the Canada-. Border has never been in the words of its postmaster Nathan Myrick. X with the postal strike in Canada preventing the move ment of mail a Large number of Winnipeg business firms carry their .-bound mail to Minnesota and North Dakota Border towns to be posted there. Pembina postal officials had just completed sorting out the morning Batch of Winnipeg mail All 300 pounds of it at Friday. Normally the two clerks As sisting or. Myrick would be on part time duty. But now have to work them both full time just to try to keep the postmaster said. First class mail can be brought straight through the Border and dropped in the , provided it has postage on it. is the nearest place West of the red River for the postage and the Mailbox. But other classes of mail since they often involve Mer Chandise must first Clear Cus Toms for the stamp of approval. J. Or. Myrick said the customs officials Send a Large Load of Canadian second and third class mail to his Post office twice a Day. But they were accustomed Toj that. Long before the Canadian postal strike he said. Large parcels of clothing from Winnipeg garment manufacturers pass through Pembina Post office daily Des a tined for All parts of the . He pointed to the piles of Cartons and said this is the usual j it was the huge pile of loaded mailbag behind them that was unusual. To meet toe temporary mands of air mail from. Winnipeg or. Myrick has set up an additional Cabinet of 50 Pigeon holes one for. Each of the United states. Under Normal circumstances air mail letters arc sorted into two slots said or. Myrick. The Winnipeg Post office does its own sorting of letters and they would never even Stop in Pembina. As lie spoke three representatives of the Manitoba Telephone system brought another 150 ail mail letters to the counter. The Winnipeg ers said it was a pleasant drive for a Friday afternoon even though they weren t accustomed to going that far to find an operative Mailbox. What about letters going the other Way into Canada Here is one of the Lough spots in which Laurence Harvey finds himself in a Dandy in aspic a spy film shot in Berlin and London which opens thursday at Garrick Cinema 1. Directed by Anthony Mann it also stars Tom Courtenay Mia Farrow and Harry Andrews. More May Clear Suez canal charged c is government goes a deep seaport before the ahea.with. Bei Rig promoted by Coppermine River. Ltd. As the Best Way to move its Ore to i tiers a joint communique an will Likely require mining i bounced following a visit to Kun panties to develop an Eskimo wait by an iraqi delegation. Training program. Mayor a Jav Cervantes right of St. Louis Missouri presents a reproduction of that City s Gateway Arch and key to Frank Dojack of Winnipeg. Or. Dojack was appointed president of the cosmopolitan International at the Organiza Tion s recent convention in St. Louis. He is the first Winni pegged to be appointed to this position. Controls Washinton special tons mayor Walter e. Washington Friday night signed a gun control measure that requires the registration of All firearms ii the District of Columbia. Becomes Law in 120 Days on nov. 16. After the regulations become effective District residents will have 90 Days in which to Register guns they already own. However note that number of Large cities including York arid Chicago have benefited from effective gun control legislation " asked if he had doubts about the measure s legality he said i m satisfied that this Legisla Tion is helpful. No 3 told me it was illegal. He added had consid ered the opinion of corporation counsel Charles t. Duncan and his staff. I m obviously not questioning he said i signed the mayor said he had a Strong position about the need for such a regulation. The Law prohibit the carrying of a Rifle or Shotgun without a License. Present District Law requires a permit to carry a pistol. Before purchasing a firearm j a person will be required to Complete an. Application for Purchase which. Would then require or disapproval by the chief of police. Persons with criminal re cords history of insanity Alco holism drug addiction or Dis honorable discharge from the armed services will be prohibited from registering. Persons who Are disapproved could Appeal to the mayor for reconsideration of their application. After receiving an approved application a person will be allowed to Purchase a firearm. He will then be a registration certificate by the chief of police. V the measure prohibits the Sale of ammunition to persons not holding registration certificates. A person will be allowed to Purchase ammunition Only for the firearm he has registered. Persons violating the Law will be subject to Fine or a 10 Day jail sentence. Berl in Reuters twelve former lending nazis were charged Friday with abetting in the murder of thousands of jews during the second world War. Officials identified two of the accused As Fritz Soehrn 63, a travelling Salesman from bad Neue Nahr and Emil Berndorff. 75. A retired police officer. Soehrn worked in the jewish department of the nazi Security office and is alleged to have been personally responsible for a number of restrictions imposed on the jews violations of which resulted in sentencing to the concentration Camp and Al most certain death Berndorff was head of the concentration Camp depart ment which sent thousands of jews to death Camps. The other 10 accused whose names were not Given held minor i positions under Bern Dorff. Soehrn was held in pre trial detention but Berndorff was set free by investigating judges due to his age. The charge sheets against the 12 men comprises 720 pages. Officials said another 58 cases were being investigated involving alleged War crimes by desk the description for nazis who sent jews and others to their deaths with out actually participating in the Ottawa a formal contract merging the nuclear Power Plant engineering groups of Canadian general electric co. Ltd. And atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., a Crown Corpora Tion has been signed it was announced Here Friday. The object is to make the most effective and efficient use of Canadian nuclear design capability both in meeting the mands of the Domestic nuclear Power program and in competing for foreign decl said in a press release Here. N Manitoba Institute of technology and Manitoba Institute of applied arts offers opportunities to train for a career for example chemical technology mechanical technology studies in calculus statistics qualitative and Quan studies in calculus physics. Work studies design Tita Tive analysis instrument chemical analysis Etc. Fluidics manufacturing Etc. Computer Programmer computer technology studies in mathematical analysis statistics data studies of electronic fundamentals and computer processing and its application Etc. Technologies As applied to control data logging Csc. Hotel Motel restaurant management studies in human relations accounting matter antics food and beverages office procedures Etc. Advertising Art commercial. Industrial studies in drawing design Media photo sales graph i illustration Etc. Studies in .-.psychology, marketing advertising accounting business Law Etc. Entrance requirements Grade Xii or 21 years of age with a Complete Grade i fees per month month course others 20 months. Financial assistance enquiries regarding bursary or loan assistance May be made to the Institute or to the student Aid office 1181 Portage Avenue. For information writs or phone the registrar Manitoba Institute of technology 2055 notre Dame Avenue Winnipeg 23. Phone 786-1486 ;