Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 24, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 75 no. 255 Price Loc wednesday Juty 24, 1968 isun 5u7 . Moon a. Forecast mainly sunny 50 and 75 Sun sets . Moon sets . Victim of snipers a Cleveland policeman is carried into it. Sinai Hospital Walls May be usable preliminary news Good says Monnin a preliminary Examina Tion by engineers has raised Hopes that the St. Boniface Basilica can be re built around the Shell of the burned out Cathedral. Engineers who a visual inspection of the million Basilica found no apparent unsafe areas and Only superficial a e to the. Masonry Walls still standing it was revealed1 at a press con Ference at the St. Boniface archdiocese Headquarters wednesday. Or. Justice a. M. Monnin of j the Manitoba court of Appeal a member of the Parish and a former trustee presided at the press conference he said a much More extensive Examina Tion has to be made by the consulting engineers but so far the news is Good. What eventually is decided depends on the detailed findings please see Walls Page 15 russian army plans manoeuvres Kremlin leaders reported on Way to Czechoslovakia Prague special tons the soviet politburo was unofficially reported tuesday night to have left Moscow presumably for the agreed talks with czechoslovak leaders but 6zech officials continued to insist their whereabouts were unknown. Meanwhile the soviet government news paper announced s w e up in g itus Sian military manoeuvres. Early tuesday evening old night of terror Cleveland riots kill 10 mayor urges citizens to stay Home says situation under control Cleveland a negro snipers killed three White policemen before dusk tuesday launching a night of terror that left 1ci persons dead As a result of gunfire. Mayor Carl b. Stokes a negro who took office last nov Ember appealed to All citizens to stay Home and co operate with the Stokes described the situation As bad but at Dawn said it was the trouble started along Lakeview Avenue and spread to other nearby residential and business districts. At least 18 persons were Hurt. Eleven policemen were shot two critically. Three others had minor injuries not caused by gunfire. Ohio adjutant general sylves Ter t. Del Corso summoned from Akron to command the guardsmen said he saw some evidence of a plot involving Black nationalists. Witnesses said the snipers appeared to an organized Battle plan. Some used automatic carbines. On the body of one dead sniper was a Bandolier of Shotgun shells a Gas mask by his Side. Police said two snipers were killed in the three hour gun hat tie that erupted on Cleveland s East Side turning the predominantly negro neighbourhood into an armed Camp. Tear Gas and smoke bombs filled the air be men grab at Point fore police using Brink s a Mored cars flushed out the at tackers. Sniping continued sporadically almost until Dawn. There were scattered fires and Many stores in the area were looted. See Cleveland Page 2 victim suffers heart attack during scuffle in his Home a Winnipeg businessman who suffered a heart attack after struggling with two masked and armed men was reported in poor condition wednesday in St. Boniface Hospital the men had forced their Way into his Wellington Crescent House tuesday just before Midnight and escaped with a spokesman for the Winnipeg police department said a. Allyn Bossen 56, president of Rossen lumber and Supply ltd., was alone in the House when the two masked gunmen came to his door at 945 Wellington Crescent and forced their Way in at gunpoint. They demanded he open the Safe in the basement of the House and tried to push him downstairs when he refused. Or. Rossen made a dash for the front door at this Point but one of the men stopped him in the Yard by holding a gun to his head while the other took from his pocket. Both men then ran off police said. Please see men grab Page 4 Indian Bias denied by Jed Stuart Macgregor Man. Mayor Glenn Lye of Macgregor said wednesday the people of his Village and of the Rural municipality of North Norfolk Don t discriminate against indians generally. But he said there has been trouble with one particular India. At an informal press con Ference in the combined Muni Cipal offices of North Norfolk and Macgregor mayor Lye said a Csc television newscast tuesday night had gravely distorted the facts. The North Norfolk municipal Council had been accused on the newscast of discriminating against indians by blocking the Sale of a House in the Village of Austin to an Indian Alfred Roulette. This is a particular mayor Lye said wednesday. This in t indians versus White Man this is Alfred Roulette. I have Little doubt that the rest of the indians around Here would like to see the Roulette get out of North Norfolk Secretary treasurer Morris Hay said the Best agencies of the government have worked on these people for up to 10 years and nothing can be Reeve Charles hotel of North Norfolk gave a Brief history of the Roulette family and explained the Council s action. Ten years ago or. Roulette who now has nine children was living with several other Indian please see Indian Page 2 Rich Kaderka a ranking czech Central committee declared on National television that the time and the place for the czech soviet Summit meeting Are still being Central committee sources held to this account wednesday although radio Prague s Moscow correspondent reported that responsible leaders had left the soviet capital. The absence of the soviet Hierarchy from Moscow had already been reported by West Ern and1 the yugoslav hews agencies which said the russian leaders were flying to Czechoslovakia the Moscow reports were considered surprising Here in Light of the relaxed czech stance toward negotiations. In formed sources Here predicted earlier that the talks would be held sometime next week. Please see russian Page 4 Nasser blasts . Cairo a president Gamal Abdel Nasser warned tuesday night that the Middle East crisis could explode any minute into a world conflict. In a bitter attack on the United states Nasser accused the . Of conniving with Israel and said the . Wanted to turn the Mediterranean into an american Lake. Nasser told the inaugural ses Sion of his Arab socialist Union Congress that in efforts toward a peaceful settlement Between the arabs and the israelis gained nothing. He said prospects for a settlement were dim. There can be no peace while our lands Are occupied. We must warn the whole world. If a new conflict erupts it is most unlikely that it could be limited to the Middle East. It could extend to others elsewhere in the Nasser again reiterated four Arab principles no negotiation no peace no recognition and no agreement at the expense of the palestinian peo Nasser praised the soviet Union for rearming Egypt after the defeat by Israel. Helmeted policeman at left fires a tear Gas Shell at snipers in apartment Progress reported in mail mediation patrolman Ernest Rowel i is assisted by another policeman and a civilian Cabinet to discuss Tornado thursday by Joe Wiesenfeld la Riviere Man. Staff the provincial Cabinet thursday will hear a report on damage caused in this District by Sun Day s Tornado and discuss what can be done to alleviate hard ship caused to at least 10 farm families. Looking for a dog this want and under dogs cats Birds 21 Reg. Golden retriever 3 to. Old. Male Stow Prospect end Good Hunting dog. 837-2533. 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. Robert Wallace Deputy min ister of agriculture accompanied Carolyne Morrison la for Pembina on a Survey of the stricken farms to prepare a damage report. In an interview at the wrecked campsite near Here or. Wallace emphasized that his visit was in the nature of a fact finding Mission. He had no Power to make decisions be said. I will make a full report with recommendations to my minister Harry j. Enns which will go before the Cabinet for decision. I just came out today to get a picture of or. Wallace indicated lie would report substantial dam age had been done to farm buildings and equipment. Please see Tornado Page 6 tender system urged by Hubert Beyer the City of Winnipeg should scrap its engineering depart by Ben Ward Ottawa pro Gress was indicated Early today in efforts to mediate the complicated issues in the National postal strike but a final Settle ment still appeared to be some Way off. Judge Rene Lippe the Federal mediator met for nine hours tuesday with the chief Neotia private carriers Busy by the Canadian press private mail delivery services which have sprung up across Canada since postal work. Ers paralysed the country s Reg ular mail system last. Thursday Are keeping Busy but they Aren t making a not yet. In Toronto several Carrier services haul local mail throughout the City and foreign mail to the United states for posting. Cantin und please see private Page 15 ment and switch to a of calling bids from system private contractors Aid. Mark h. Danz Ker said in an interview tues Day. What right do we have to be in Competition with our tax payers apart from the fact that it costs an enormous amount of Money to keep the engineering department going we have close to million of assets and the interest we pay is about equal to the interest we pay on Loans for the work carried out by the depart please see tender Page 4 dear that Weir like the Bible says a Prophet i s not without Honor save in his own a reporter asked a Winni Peg Telephone Ope a Tor could i have the Home phone number of Premier Weir replied the a politically minded operator have you got a first name or yes dear Manitoba Telephone system there is a Walter Weir. Tors and finally called an adjournment at . Edt today. We re going he told reporters but declined to speculate on when a settlement formula might be achieved. It will be As soon As Possi he said. The Day was spent discussing proposals by the Council of postal unions for revisions in working conditions a major area of dispute. Negotiators Douglas love of the government s Treasury Board and Romeo Mathieu for the postal unions planned to hold separate sessions today with their negotiating teams they Are to return to judge Lippe s 18th-floor hotel room at tonight to resume direct mediation. We re just working Stead or. Love said when asked about Progress. There is a Good Deal of work to be please see Progress Page 15 Trudeau models Parka by Gerard Mcneil Tuktoyaktuk .. Up Pierre Elliott Trudeau modelled a magnificent Sealskin Parka made by the eskimos of this Arctic settlement then quipped what the Well dressed prime minister is the vacationing prime minis Ter tuesday delighted crafts men at a co operative where the coat was made. This will do More for the Sealskin Industry in the1 North than said. Commissioner Stuart Hodgson. Adverse publicity about Seal killing methods in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has Hurt markets and in three years has Cut the Price for Seal pelts in the North to from Quebec rejects offer Quebec up Quebec has rejected a Federal government offer to attend a Enesco sponsored education conference in Paris aug. 6-14, Claude Morin Deputy minister of inter govern mental affairs said tuesday. Or. Morin said the province was invited to join the Canadian delegation but Quebec still Dis agrees with Ottawa on the subject of Quebec participation in International conferences on education. He said in an interview the decision also was taken to con form with the province s Atti tude to such conferences As shown to two overseas conferences earlier in 196ft please see Quebec Page 4 police dragging for body a Man is thought to have drowned in the red River tuesday night when he went swimming off the Alexander Street docks. A witness saw the Man go under police said. A police boat and the Harbor master s boat Are dragging for the body today. Police said the Man stripped off his clothes to go for a swim off the docks at 9 . Tuesday. Identification was found in the clothes but the Man s body will have to be found before positive identification can be made police said. Features crag Putaski sets face 45 today s Index classified 33 to 44 5t, 51 deaths. 15 to 32 movies .25 sports 45 to 49, 52, 53 television.24 women.17 to 21 City Zont. I. 12m3t nearly everyone rods the free press ;