Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 22, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday july 22, 1968 weekend death toll 99 by the Canadian press at least 99 persons were killed in weekend accidents across Canada during the weekend 79 in traffic. A Survey by the Canadian press from 6 . Friday to Midnight local times also showed 18 drownings one death by fire and a Man electrocuted. Ontario had the worst toll with 31 on the roads including four persons killed when car freight train sliced through a car at a Cross ing. There were also seven drownings and a Man was electrocuted when he touched a to Antenna that had fallen across a Power line. Quebec reported 24. Accidental deaths 15 in traffic eight drownings and one. Person died in a fire. British Columbia and Alberta reported nine fatalities each. Manitoba had 12. In Alberta and Manitoba All were in traffic while . Had seven fatalities on the roads and two drown Ings. Twister tosses car continued they tangled with the twister he said about Viz mile East of la Riviere on. Highways. The car was tossed Over into the ditch on its roof. It. Must have carried us 50 or. Davies still shaken some 15 hours later said that at the time he remembered being afraid for his Young passengers although not for himself. Miss Hills reclined in her Hospital bed her face Cov ered with bruises and her left Eye blackened and shakily lit a cigarette. It looked like smoke but the next thing i knew it ripped a Hydro pole out of the ground and the car started to Sway. Was falling Over to the Driver s Side i must have passed out. I woke up in Jack Hills was released from Hospital sunday morn ing or. Davies said that his 1961 Model car was wrecked by the Tornado fined for firing a Rifle a 20-year-old youth who. Admitted firing a .303 calibre Rifle out of was ordered to pay a Fine and costs or serve 30 Days in jail Friday. Jacob Albert Kehler of 161 Maryland suite 7, pleaded guilty before magistrate Isaac Rice in trate s court to discharging a firearm within City limits. " if i had the Power i would t hesitate to Send him to the magistrate said. As it is i can Only Fine him and costs. I Don t think i can even confiscate the Rifle under the a Constable car patrol heard iwo Rifle shots 10 seconds apart at . Thursday court was told. Investigation led police to 161 Maryland Street where Kehler was found in a rear room on the third floor. Kehler had. The Rifle and a Quantity of ammunition and admitted removing the screen from the window and firing two shots into the ground in the backyard police said. Eight persons died on Saskatchewan highways. A two car crash claimed seven of them children. New Brunswick had five Road deaths and one drowning while Newfoundland had fatalities and Nova Scotia one. Pence Edward Island was fatality free during the weekend. Drug Bill has priority Vancouver up High drug prices deceptive retail packaging and false advertising Are among the first targets to be attacked by the department of consumer affairs Ford its new minister said Sun Day he said in an interview that he has scheduled a heavy Load of legislative Reform for his def part meet. First priority will be revival of legislation affecting drug prices. The proposed Bill would allow imports of drugs and drug components to facilitate competitive pricing with Canadian manufacturers. The Bill was held up during the last session because Amend ments appeared necessary. Or. Basford said the Bill will be reintroduced soon after the next session begins in september. Biafra. Nigeria Confer continued discuss a starting Date for the peace conference in Addis Ababa. Millions of on the verge of starvation and As persons Are said to be dying daily in surrounded landlocked Biafra and in areas recaptured by advancing Feder Al troops. Federal authorities have offered to open a land route for Relief shipments to Biafra but the have refused claiming the supplies might be poisoned by their enemies. In the meantime a handful of air planes have been flying food and Medicine into Biafra be spite nigerian threats to shoot them Down but this is not Early sources at the talks Here indicated the delegates were considering a s a 1 by the b i a of r a n . Odimegwu Ojukwu for Relief supplies to be landed by sea at the niger River Delta thei federally Heid City of then for the supplies to be sent North by de militarized River routes. Radio station wins award a local radio station received top honors last week for the Best radio news feature of the year. The Dan Mcarthur award went to radio station Job for a half hour special program on unidentified Fly no objects which included interviews with Steve a Man who to have seen and been injured by a ufos and several ufos experts to Winnipeg to investigate the Case. The award will be presented to Job new director Steve Halinda at the., International convention radio and television news directors association to be held in los angeles., in Winnipeg to fort Frances Atikokan 7.10 fort William 9.40 port Arthur one Way red fares Tri weekly service for further Contact your authorised in travel agent or in passenger salts office. Nip caucus Here picks Lewis continued creases requested by the postal workers strike one on the Grain handlers labor dispute at the Lakehead and one on the starvation that is threatening sectors of the population of Biafra. X holding a press conference following the meeting or. Lewis re affirmed his earner decision that he will not seek the party s leadership when the leadership convention is held next year. It is my conviction that when a change in leadership should choose one of the new generation in the party both those in parliament and those who have not yet been said. I would prefer to see one of these younger men As the next Leader and at the present time it is not my intention to be a the or. Lewis said the details for the leadership convention including a site a specific Date and the organization will be decided in the routine manner by the party s 107-member Federal Council which is scheduled to meet again in the autumn. Also next fall Likely in september the caucus will meet again to Deal with the group s strategy for the up coming session of parliament. Or. Douglas who was present at the press conference As Well reiterated his intention not to continue As party Leader after the leadership convention. He said he would definitely not be a candidate for the Post has held for the last seven years and he also indicated that he would hot be backing the leadership aspirations of any candidate who enters the contest. The nip Leader who lost his seat in Burnaby Seymour during the last Federal election flatly stated under no Circum stances would he accept any of the offers that have been made caucus members who have indicated they would give up their seats if or. Douglas wished to return to the House of commons. He said he might seek a seat if a Ibele Ettori should happen to be called in the near future but not if it meant one of his caucus would retire to make room for him. Although the caucus met for six hours in the hotel fort Garry sunday the entire meet ing was not taken up with the selection of a new parliament Leader. The new democrats also dealt with two aspects of the current labor strife in Canada. The claim of the Federal government that improved wages for striking postal work ers would mean an added Burden on. The. Canadian tax payers is rubbish the Napers declared in a. Statement issued after the meeting. The group claimed that the institution of a fair rate for second third and fourth class mail would provide All the Revenue needed for the in workers. The Post office has lost More than s30 million a year on subsidies to private business even though the first class mail service used by Ordinary canadians has shown an annual surplus of and the party claimed the government had acted in bad Faith by failing to make a Money offer to the postal workers until the huh hour of the negotiations and then Only for four per cent increase for the first seven months. The caucus was also highly critical of the Federal authorities for failing to take action in the Lakehead Grain handlers dispute. The Lack of government action m the matter was described As an abdication of the responsibility and a further illustration of the outdated conciliation and mediation machinery of the Federal labor because of the serious reverberations t h e Grain handlers strike is Likely to have on the Western farm Economy the nip caucus urged the govern ment to guarantee a minimum de livery quota of six bushels per acre by purchasing farm stored Grain and if necessary extend ing the crop year. Increase Grain movements through West coast ports and through Churchill Man., to the greatest possible extent the drastic food shortages in the african state of Biafra occupied some of the new democrats time As Well. The caucus called on the Federal government to immediately ship food supplies to starving biafran even if the shipments require that Normal diplomatic channels must be disregarded. In our View the government and particularly the external affairs is ignoring humanitarian needs of Biafra in insisting on using Only the authorized channels to deliver food new officers elected to super Vise the caucus during the next new ambassador Washington a the . Senate saturday confirmed the appoint int of Harold Flinder 67, As ambassador to Canada. Linden president and chairman of the Export import Bank will replace w. Walton Butterworth in Ottawa. 1 p a Liam ent Are Stanley Knowles North Centre House Leader and party whip Colin Cameron Nanaimo chairman. Cow Chan the Island caucus chairman Alf Saska Toon b i g g a r caucus vice Church tax crisis faces italian cwt. By Patricia Clough Rome massive Church state crisis Over whether the Vatican owes taxes to Italy faces the interim of r i s t i a n Democrat government of pre Mier Giovanni Leone. Leone helped set up the Vati can tax crisis on july 5 during presentation of the minority government s program to parliament when he said the Vati can must pay taxes on its in vestments in Italy. He also said it must pay taxes owing for the last four years while politicians argued its claims for exemption. The tax and divorce issues Are among the most potentially explosive Between the italian state and the. Powerful roman Catholic the Vati can has already indicated it will not submit without a fight. The Vatican n e w s p a per 1 Osse Vatore Romano ton damned the move As unilateral and contrary to Basic principles of International Law but did not explain Why. The Vatican has Only -109 Humphrey told to resign Cincinnati Ohio a two democratic governors have told Hubert h. Humphrey he needs a dramatic political initiative to enlist new supporters and accelerate his White House one of them suggested that the move be Lus resignation As vice president. Governor Philip h. Hoff of Vermont said he suggested resignation to Humphrey As a declaration of political Independence from president Johnson and the administration. He said he told Humphrey his major Campaign problem is that you can t be your own Man while serving As vice president. But he said Humphrey replied he could not resign the Job to which he was elected. Hoff and Kenneth m. Curtis of Maine both former supporters of the late Servator Robert f. Kennedy for the democratic nomination met secretly with the vice president in washing ton one week ago. They told of that meeting in interviews at a National Gover nors conference marked by talk of senator Edward m. Kennedy As a potent Choice for second spot on a ticket headed by Humphrey. Curtis who did not join in Huff s suggestion that Humphrey resign said Kennedy s nomination i or vice president might provide the drama and Appeal he believed the Humphrey Campaign now needs. Acres of Sovereign territory is protected by agree ments with Italy. But it owns vast areas of land and property in Italy itself and if it wished to put its shares on the Market it could create economic chaos. The Church has persistently refused to disclose the amount of its share holdings but the previous government estimated them at about politicians believe Vatican holdings Are much higher. Former finance minister Luigi Preti said recently the Vatican owed about in taxes. The Row dates Back to 1963 when by coincidence another in team government under Leone exchanged formal notes with the Vatican agreeing to exempt it from taxes on its shares. The government issued instructions to industries that no tax was to be deducted from Vatican dividends while the Exchange was under consideration in parliament. But ratification of the Exchange never came. Arguments raged for four years Between the Church backed Christian democrats who supported it and the rest of parliament who were against it. In february the socialist coalition joined the opposition to vote Down the Bill in the com Mittee stage. When parliament adjourned in june the a passed Bill expired. The Vatican s lawyers Are expected to produce Many Legal arguments to Back its claim that it is entitled to exemption by Law. 2 bookies fined each two men charged with engaging in the business of betting were each ordered to pay a Fine of and costs or serve 30 Days in jail Friday. Pleading guilty before Magis trate Mike Baryluk in Winnipeg magistrate s. Court were Milton Lewicki 38, of 11 Viola Street and Joseph Buk Sewich 39, of 988 Burrows Avenue. Between May 30 and june 15 a Winnipeg police morality officer saw the two men taking bets on horse races at a downtown hotel court was told. The detective then placed five bets with each Man arresting both during the last Wager. During one three hour period police said they saw Lewicki take bets from at least 100 people and Buk Sewich take bets from at least 80. When arrested Lewicki had in his Possession and Buk Sewich a d each amount included the bets placed by the morality officer. Adopting aboriginals 6ih for australians by Vincent Matthews Canadian press correspondent Melbourne the new in thing among White Austral ians is to have an adopted aboriginal child. Having a Black baby in the House is says Stan Davey director of the aboriginal advancement league. Some Whites adopt Black babies and treat them like pets like others Are do goobers but Many get fed up after a time different role for missionary Vancouver up David Eadie paints this picture of the new a specialist in some Field who carries his Bible in his pocket and does t haul it out unless he s asked he developed this style m_14 missionary in India. He went there after Selling his Toronto business which made parts for diesel engines and took his wife and daughter with him. I soon saw that indians were tired of having Western aided cation and religion rammed Down their throats. They wanted to learn How to do things for he showed them How by Start ing a Small furniture factory. It was expanded to manufacture laminated Wood beams then he helped create a management1 training program. The problem in India in t food or family he said. The problem is what to do with the students who come to the Job Market each latest program of the Malwa economic development society is a machine shop directed by Paul Peterson former foot Baller with Hamilton Tiger cats of the Eastern football Confer ence. We make a Small said or. Eadie but after taxes and salaries the balance of the funds is transferred to a social welfare Trust for further train ing programs and scholar he recruited three volunteers on a trip to Canada this year a poultry specialist a machinist and a Driller. Our salaries Are Only about one third of those paid by the Canadian government Tor Simi Lar jobs but a Man has the Satis faction of knowing he is contrib uting his skills where they Are desperately needed. Missionaries trained the peo ple to Rea d the Bible but they almost completely ignored the economic needs of the country consequently India today has the largest u n t r a i n e a Tabor Force in the world or. Eadie a member of the United Church volunteered for missionary work m 1954 i wanted to he says but i knew i was t Cut out to be a Bible i and farm their adopted children out to someone _ in the state of Victoria the government has appealed to Alt Whites Foith adopted aboriginal children to take the children to the social welfare department where their future can be Suruj out. Edward Meagher Victoria s minister for aboriginal affairs said the adoption problem has got out of hand. His remarks followed the disclose of these facts s were 300 cases of Ille Gal adoption in Victoria. In one week some White couples were caring for up 15 aboriginal children As Well As five or their own aboriginal children were being passed from family to family or living in appalling conditions there was the Case of a White woman who used a Solu Tion of household bleach on a 19-month-old aboriginal baby she wanted to keep she was trying to bleach the child White. Of the most heart rend ing cases concerned four year old aboriginal twins a boy and a girl. They vere picked up by a woman who she could t Cope with them both so she on to another woman the children s real parents knew nothing about these Parathion. What s so particularly Shock ing is it s All illegal adoptions Are supposed to be carried out Only through the government s social welfare department. The adoptions Are carried oat in fact in most off handed Way there have been cases of White women Gong up to preg Nant aboriginal women in the streets of Melbourne and other big towns and offering to adopt the expected baby Why does a Mother agree to part with her children Reginald worthy director of aboriginal affairs explained because she has been conditioned to think White people Al ways know Best. You can Al ways get a yes from an aboriginal because they Are afraid of trouble. They re not used to speaking up for themselves. If they do they Are shouted Down. The tragedy is that these Whites Are Happy while they have a cuddly Black baby. But when the child grows up they Don t want him any famed Church afire at one Point the flames abet 30 feet into the air from the roof. The fire broke out at about noon. An eyewitness said workmen had. Just finished painting the roof and the twin towers and had gone for lunch when the e fire broke out. T new paint on the roof was boiling in the flames. The St. Boniface fire depart ment used All available fire fighting equipment. One report said some of the water hoses appeared to have Little or no pressure. The Basilica is at 190 Cathe Drale Avenue. St. Boniface i is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the City s founding this year. Bernie Wolfe who handles the insurance for the Church estimated the value of the build ing at and it s in the twin spire landmarks toppled into the building after most of the inside was burned the Blaze was by a Crew of painters who. Were working just below the ceiling when they stopped for lunch shortly before noon cot. The Winnipeg fire department tried to brings vehicles to the scene but they were forced to take a Long Detour when sight seekers crowded a Bridge the red River. Ujj the Cathedral is the third stand on the approximate Jorv sent location and its history goes7 Back to a Chapel built by father Norbert Provencher and his self Low priests who Iso years ago paddled from Quebec to admin Vister to the spiritual needs of the Selkirk settlers. The crypt under altar of the Cathedral contains the Mains of Bishop Provencher archbishops Taffae Lan Gevov be Veau and others from Western Canadian past. Expects Millionth Montreal up the Dow planetarium established in april 1966, had its visitor in july and expects its by 1970. The town of Tuxedo Public notice is hereby Given that the town of Tuxedo decided upon. Intends to and will execute and Complete the local improve inti scheduled below and will assess and Levy Standard rates per foot Frothi As deter mined upon correlation of the1 mid works indicated Hen in benefiting and fronting or abutting on the hereinafter mentioned at shown below and the balance of the Cost if any in excess of mid stand Ard rates by a special frontage Levy Over the whole of local improvement ois vict Al As the Case May be unless a majority of the owners of the effected As defined by subsection of Section 692 of the municipal act re p resent my at least one half in value of such lands As shown on the lest re Vised assessment Rou of the town of Tuxedo petition the Council against the within one month from the Date of the first publication of this notice. In to do the said work under temporary Finan ther underground local improvements Era in it is the if tettion of Council cing until the balance of the o stalled ;