Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 23, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 75 no. 254 Price we 15c tuesday july 23, 1968 Sun rises Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast Clearing 50 and 70 talks still go on mail dispute complicated judge says by Ben Ward Ottawa up mediation talks in the National postal strike Are due to go into yet another round today with no Indi cation that a settlement formula is in sight. Judge Rene Lippe of Mont real the Federal mediator spent 3vi hours monday in closed ses Sions with a representative from each Side and reported monday night that another meeting had been set for 10 . Edt today. It is a very complicated he said. Don t expect miracles in a few earlier monday the govern ment s chief spokesman treas Ury Board president Drury told reporters that a Cabinet meeting wednesday will review the postal strike situation. Judge Lippe said the Media Tion talks Are covering All the matters in dispute wages and working conditions. But he warned that the situation is far More Complex than the recently settled Seaway strike and that it would take time to get All matters cleared away. The government is being re presented at the talks by Doug Las love a Treasury Board offi Cial and the postal unions by Romeo Mathieu top Quebec organizer of the United packing House workers Union called in by the Council of postal unions to head negotiations. Please see postal Page 4 alternate business booms by the Canadian press with no settlement in sight of the country wide strike by postal workers business is booming for alternate services established almost overnight to transport the nation s important mail. But the real crunch May come soon when businessmen can no longer put off sending material by mail. Louis Lawrence a spokesman for National couriers of to Ronto said monday requests for transit services Are increasing daily but the strike had not yet reached the Point where businessmen Are forced to turn from Telephone and Telegraph to transportation services. But the pressure is increasing he said. His group was formed last thursday when the strike began and already its volume is approaching 300 pieces of mail a Day at Branch offices in Ottawa and Montreal. Please see alternate Page 4 leaders to join pickets Winnipeg s labor leaders Are to picket the main Post office on Graham Avenue 8 to 10 . Wednesday. This was disclosed tuesday by George Gatehouse postal Union official Here. He said he in an interview expected Many govt. Aid crucial too Basilica plans rest on Walls 1 n. Engineers probe to see h Shell Strong enough to form part of new building by Bob Culbert the condition of remaining outer Walls and the amount of financial assistance from the Federal and provincial governments will determine whether the fire gutted St. Boniface Basilica can be rebuilt around the Shell of the building. Engineers visited the burned if if., if so vast no stopping it photo by Dave Bonner Story pictures Russia wants biafran business agents and Union representatives to join the picket line As evidence of their support for the striking postal workers. The postmen in their sixth Day of a nation wide walkout for higher pay and improved wort ing conditions have been picket soviet army near Prague czechs can t defend Frontier new Kremlin note is Prague soviet Union s politburo agreed monday to come to Czechoslovakia for bilateral talks three Days after publicly summoning czech leaders to the soviet Union and less than a week after publication of a soviet bloc letter denouncing counter revolution in Czechoslovakia. I agreement was reached after the last of some russian troops were reported to have withdrawn through tie soviet slovak Border town of Kresov. But there were reports that Moscow is demanding a strengthening of Czechoslovakia s Frontier with West Ger by a red army Force. I foreign minister Willy Brandt j told the West German Cabinet in May that soviet Block nations were pressing for to 000 non czechoslovak communist troops to be stationed permanently in Czechoslovakia. Coincident with this report West Germany the United please see russians Page 7 Trudeau visits Yukon by Gerard Mcneil inuv1k, . Up prime minister Trudeau s epic Northern tour began monday with visits to two new Yukon mining operations and an Over night Stop at this Mackenzie River Delta Centre inside the Arctic Circle. Avoiding the Standard North Ern stops he is moving into territory no other prime minister has visited while in office. He flies today into the High Arctic islands going first to a native settlement at Sachs Harbor on Banks Island then to Drake Point and an Oil exploration site on Melville Island and finally spending the night at Resolute a Community Ori Cornwallis is land. He May Fly wednesday to Alert Canada s most northerly Community tons allow. If weather Condi Alert is a weather station Only Miles from the North Pola. Or. Trudeau renewed Friend ships made Here 10 years ago when he canned Down the Coppermine River. Ing the mail Post office on a 24- a crowd of 900 in this comm hour basis. Nity of cheered him at the or. Gatehouse said he had sir Alexander Mackenzie school been informed by the Canadian where he made a non speech labor Congress in Ottawa that it saying there bad been enough has wired All federations of talk during the election Cam labor requesting they throw pain. Please see leaders Page 41 please see Trudeau Page 6 Prague is Calm United by Richard West Prague special the sunday times a communist Foreman at the tos Hostinar factory in Prague gave this View of the quarrel Between Czechoslovakia and the russians the rus sians the poles and East germans simply Don t know what s happening Here. They say it s Only the intellectuals and the students who Are behind our Central committee and Alexander Dubcek. They say the working classes want a return. To the for Mer president Antonin Novotny system. But it s the working classes who Are the strongest supporters of the Central committee and dub Cek. The russians Don t even try to Point out what the workers Here Are thinking. The russians Are Misin formed and they Don t want to know the truth. The workers Are 100 per cent behind the Central better say 90 per cent. There May be 10 or 15 per cent of the please see Prague Page 6 ceasefire hinted rebel Leader expects truce civil War Oterri Biafra special ptts a cease fire in the year Long War of Biafra s secession from Nigeria is in the making it col. G. Odimegwu Ojukwu the rebel Leader has strongly hinted. Expressing profound satisfaction with preliminary talks he attended last saturday at Niamey niger col. Ojukwu said at a news conference i think judging from the Way the conference is moving we shall have if not permanent peace than at least temporary the Niamey conference still continuing was summoned by a by Ron Campbell once the fire in St. Boniface Basilica started monday Noth ing could have been done to Stop it from gutting the whole Structure fire. Chief Emery Proulx of St. Boniface said tuesday. If you go Back into the history of fires in these Chur Ches once a fire starts in them they Are usually unlike an apartment Block or a House there Are no partitions or Walls inside to contain the fire chief Proulx said. It was so vast in there there was no Way you could have stopped chief Proulx thinks the rapid spread of the fire was caused heat when a certain volume of smoke collects in a confined space it explodes causing the fire to fan out. It was t a fire that just happened it would have to have been working there for a Little St. Boniface fire department and the provincial Fife commissioner s were trying to establish the cause of the fire. They have been questioning the four painters and one tinsmith who were working on the Basilica roof just before the Basilica reduced to charred Shell six nation consultative commit tee of the organization of african Unity. Its task is to arrange full scale peace talks Between Nigeria and Biafra at Addis Ababa Ethiopia col. Ojukwu said he expected please see Biafra Page 6 features today rot Imere handed calf Tih. 17 today s Index classified 22 to 33 comics 20, 21 deaths. 7 finance. 10, 11 movies. 9 sports 16 to 19 television 8 women 12, 13 City Zont total 1j9.63j the Symbol of the roman Catholic Church s 150-year history in St. Boniface was reduced in two searing hours monday afternoon to a pile of smouldering rubble in a charred Shell. The 60-year-old St. Boniface the fifth roman Catho Lic edifice built on the site since the first Church was built there in 1818 was destroyed by a fire which began at noon at the rear of the building s roof and spread quickly to the front and up the twin turrets. At 9 . The St. Boniface fire department was still pouring water into the smouldering ruins. Fire chief Emery Proulx israeli jetliner nearly everyone beads the free press Algiers a an israeli Jet Airliner bound from Rome to Tel Aviv was forced to. Land in Algiers Early today by two armed Palestine refugees. The algerian government announced that the 38 passengers were free to leave the country but the Boeing 707 and 10 members of tiie Crew were being held. Said the cause of the fire was still unknown. Inside the ruined Cathedral All that remained untouched was the Marble altar and the Sacristy. The Steps leading to the altar and the platform were destroyed. The turrets and crashing into the building around . Bells which had been brought Over from England in 1840 also plunged into the basement. After fire destroyed die Cathedral in 1860, the Bells were sent Back to England for recasting and later returned in the Cathedral. Sentimentally it is the greatest loss that can be St. Boniface Arch Bishop Maurice Baudoux said speaking quietly As he watched flames lick through the Cathedral. The archbishop was worried that the crypt beneath the Centre of the Basilica would be damaged by falling Timber and masonry. One of the tombs contains the remains of Bishop Joseph Provencher who in 1818 founded the roman Catholic dioceses overlooking the Junction of the red and Assiniboine Rivers. The crypt also contains the remains of archbishops Lange vein and Beliveau Bishop tache and several martyred priests. The crypt area was covered with twisted steel girders and please see Basilica Page 7 judicial inquiry concludes Toronto up the Judi Cial inquiry into the behaviour of two Toronto mag 1st rates concluded monday with impassioned pleas for understanding from their lawyers. Or. Justice Campbell Grant of the Ontario supreme court who conducted the six Day in Quiry now will submit a written report of his findings to attorney general Arthur Wishart. Arthur Maloney counsel for former magistrate Fred ban non said his client was imprudent but not improper in his relationship with Vincent Alex Ander who faces two charges of breaking and entering. Or. Maloney said or. Bannon was the victim of a piece of trickery very old and very vicious on the part of Alexander. He said evidence showed that Alexander had an extensive criminal record unknown to or. Bannon and it was also unknown to the magistrate that Alexander was under constant police magistrates Bannon 34, and George Gardhouse 60, were suspended june 18 pending the outcome of the inquiry under or. Justice Grant. Or. Bannon resigned from the Bench july 15 As the inquiry opened. also criticized the use of police wiretap Tele phone conversations and cited the dangers of allowing police to tap Telephone with judicial Sanc Tion. I pm certain that the people of this province will be concerned that a police inspector without the permission of a judge can eavesdrop on Pri vate he said. He told or. Justice Grant his report should make Clear the wiretap transcripts were accepted As evidence because the two magistrates forbade their counsel to object to them. Please see judicial Page 4 fire was seen. Only the East end of the roof where the fire is thought to. Have started had been freshly painted. Chief Proulx Felt sure the cause of the fire would be established by tuesday night. Please see so vast Page 7 police shoot attacker a Winnipeg police Constable shot an assailant in front of a Balfour Avenue address Early tuesday. A Man Edward. Robert Michalski 23, of 255 Balfour Avenue was reported in fair condition in Misericordia hos Pital with a Bullet wound in or. Michalski has been charged with possessing an offensive weapon. A Man attacked the Constable and his partner with three knives Winnipeg police chief George blow said. Whenever a Winnipeg police Constable fires his revolver in the line of duty he is required to submit a full report to chief blow. Chief blow said two police officers were attacked by a Man with a serrated Blade knife in one hand and a paring knife with a five Inch Blade in the other hand. The Man also had a paring knife with a three Inch Blade chief blow said. The policemen patrolling in a Cruiser car were directed to a Balfour Avenue address at continued please see Constable Page 7 answers sought on Siu by Richard Purser Washington staff Republican senator has written to a member of president Johnson s Cabinet demanding an explanation of certain aspects of the Harold Banks Case. State Secretary Dean Rusk i March rejected the Canadian request for the extradition of or. Banks a . Citizen and former head of the Canadian District of the seafarers inter National Union charges. To face perjury the letter was sent yesterday by senator Paul of Arizona to labor Secretary Willard Wirtz who sent a memo to or. Rusk putting in a Good word for or. Banks before or. Rusk announced his decision. Soon after the decision was made was donated by the Siu to -20 committees working on the political behalf of president Johnson and vice president Hubert Humphrey. 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Our engineers May find that Fiey Are Strong enough to be preserved in a new Structure or we May be told that they Are ready to Tumble Down. But if we find that Walls can remain it would seem that for the pastoral Outlook of the Cathedral and to maintain the historical aspect we should Endeavor to preserve the outer Walls May be Able to be retained by connecting them to an inner support by beams and putting a roof Over the whole Structure father Szumski said. If they could not be retained it would mean erecting a new building but it please see plans Page 4 monday mishaps kill two two people died accidentally in Manitoba monday one in a farm Accident and the other in a traffic mishap. Dead Are Helen a. Christie 68, of Brandon Man. Edward Shewchuk 39, of the Dauphin District. Ramp at Brandon said mrs. Christie died at . Monday in a two car head on collision on Highway 10, about six Miles North of Brandon. They said she was dead on arrival at Brandon general Hospital. The Driver of the South bound car Douglas jacks 65, also of Brandon was listed in poor condition in the same Hospital late monday. See two killed Page 7 Canada signs treaty Ottawa up Canada signed a treaty monday that prevents it from making or acquiring nuclear weapons Exter Nal affairs minister Sharp announced. Canada is the 57th country to sign the treaty on the non proliferation of nuclear weapons which was opened for signature july 1 in Moscow London and Washington. Canadian Diplo Mats affixed their signatures in All three capitals. The signatories to Date in clude the soviet Union the United states and Britain which were the principal negotiators of the treaty. The world s other nuclear Powers China and France have both declared they have no intention of signing the treaty. The treaty imposes no restrictions or limitations on the arse nals of the nuclear Powers. It merely prevents them from pro Viding other countries with nuclear weapons or helping to make them. 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