Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 75 no. 256 Price Loc thursday july 25, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Sets . Forecast sunny 55 and 80 our peaceful town to quote a White resident of Austin Man., was disturbed tuesday night when Csc National news carried the Story of How the North Norfolk Council had pressured the owner of the House on the right from Selling to an alleged Macgregor District troublemaker of Indian ancestry. At left is the Home the Reeve of North Norfolk said is one of the properties the Council Hopes to protect by the pressure tactic. Austin is an unincorporated Village on the trans Canada Highway about seven Miles West of Macgregor and 30 Miles West of Portage la Prairie. Widening of debt Law studied officials seek to raise limit above by Barry came a broadening of the Powers of Manitoba s trend setting orderly payment or debt legislation May soon be recommended by senior officials in the attorney Gener Al s department. Although final approval of any change in the act will depend on the will of officials Are considering a proposal that will remove a major Barrier standing in the Way of fully effective legislation. Department officials Hope to push the ceiling on debts covered under the act above the limit a figure that was imposed by the Federal legislation and which is regarded As unrealistic by Many civil servants closely connected with the administration of old orderly payment of no figure has yet been decided As discussions on the subject Are still in the Early stages but it is Likely that officials will be pressing for a debt ceiling of at least or higher. Heading into its first full year of operation after a six year hiatus Manitoba s old act was first set up in 1932 and has been the Model for All similar legislation which followed throughout the country. The act is a method of government debt Consolida Tion by which a person indebted beyond his ability to pay and finding h i m s e 1 f harassed garnished and in danger of losing his Job and becoming a charge upon the can apply for garnishment Protection from the clerk of the county court in which he resides. The province acting through old Bunches All the debts into one manageable monthly pay ment and by Law forces the creditors to accept five per cent on the loan instead of the Normal 18 to 20 per cent. It also please see Page 15 negro police curb riots in Cleveland mayor bans Whites from area says Gamble pays off Cleveland a negro peacemakers strolling the teeming streets of the East Side maintained a measure of Calm wednesday night among crowds still restless Over tuesday s Savage gun Battle that left 11 dead. Alfred Roulette 45, pictured with a sister and some of his nine children ranging in Ages from eight months to 15 years in front of the car he claims to have been living in since april because he can t find a place to live. Described As a character in the Macgregor Man. District Roulette refuses to live in a House on an Indian residential development on the Northwest outskirts of the Village in the pm of North Norfolk. Instead he tried with provincial welfare department s help to buy a Home in Austin some seven Miles away Only to fail when the municipal Council applied pressure on the owner of the House not to sell. See other pictures on Page 10. Postal studied w to wow 6we Don t hate Whites Roulette Kennedy backed for up Washington special tons mayor Richard j. Daley of Chicago said wednes Day he hoped the democratic National convention drafts sen. Edward m. Kennedy Democrat Massachusetts As the party s vice presidential nominee. Or. Daley thus joined a growing list of democratic As new Jersey gov. Richard sen. Kennedy for the second spot on the ticket. At the same time however or. Daley in a news conference refused to disclose whom he will support for president. Like gov. Please see Kennedy Page 6 no Retreat on Reform czechs say crucial talks with russians expected on monday Prague special tons the top Leader ship of the soviet and czechoslovak parties will meet for their crucial confrontation next monday authoritative sources reported Here. The actual site of the meeting s being kept a tightly guarded secret the sources said and probably will be until the last moment to assure the utmost Security for the visiting 11-Man teacher contract seen soviet politburo virtually the entire ruling Hierarchy of the soviet Union. Czech party officials concede Only minor incidents of loot ing and burning occurred during the night As National guard troops were restricted to duty along the troubled area s perimeter and All White persons were banned from the predominantly negro neighbourhood of Glenville. The Only police in the area were negroes. I mayor Carl Stokes said today that his Gamble on the negro Community leaders paid off i we had no shooting and we had no i Stokes first negro mayor of a major . City said it was too Early to consider releasing the guardsmen. The plan to use Black Community leadership came in response to a Challenge by Stokes who met with 109 negro leaders wednesday. I challenged them As to what the negro Community itself would do about the he said. There were some 500 negro leaders and about 100 negro police in Glenville wednesday night urging Resi dents to go Home and curtailing minor outbreaks of looting. Three White policemen and eight tit euro civilians were killed in tuesday night s Exchange of gunfire. The Lith victim was identified by police wednesday night As a looter shot by a a by Jed Stuart Macgregor Man staff nobody in these parts seems to have anything Good to say about Alfred Roulette except or. Roulette himself. Those councillors of the Rural municipality of North Norfolk is not doing very Good to indians the 45-year-old Indian of no fixed address he says he and his Large family have been living in a car having had no Home since april said wednesday in an interview outside a farmhouse his brother Arthur is renting race questions out but fees raised a 1968 collective agreement Between the Winnipeg teachers association and the Winnipeg school Board will probably be signed before the end of August. A three Man arbitration Board announced wednesday it Hopes to give a final decision Friday on a collective agreement dispute Between the City s teachers and the school Board. The Board concluded its hearing wednesday. Chairman of the Board . Justice r. G. B. Dickson of the Manitoba court of appeals. The other two members Are Winni Peg lawyers Roy Gallagher nominated by the and Henry b. Monk nominated by the school the final decision of the Board will be binding on both parties. Provincial statutes require that they sign an agreement within 30 Days after receiving the final j decision the 1968 collective agreement will be retroactive to Jan. 1 and All teachers on school Board payroll after that Date will be eligible for Back pay. Although the last collective agreement covered the Calendar year of 1967, it has remained in effect pending signing of the new agreement. Thus far this year teachers have been paid please see teacher Page 8 that the showdown with the russian top brass headed by Premier Alexei Kosygin and communist party Leader Leonid Brezhnev will be extremely difficult. However they continue to express hopeful Confidence that they will be Able to convince their anxious soviet allies that the unorthodox free Doms they have put into effect please see no Retreat Page 6 features today separatist accused Montreal police kid Cooper Kepi bombers waiting 12 27 today s Index classified 34 to 48 comics. 20, 21 deaths 16 finance 31 to 33 movies .-.19 sports to television .18 women 22, 23 City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press troll an. Looking for a dining pm. Table . Table and chairs Patio urn., Chesterfield Etc. 339-2593. This want and under miscellaneous articles is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Issue remains to be tackled by Ben Ward Ottawa up the National postal strike began its second week today amid optimism that a Settle ment on working conditions May not be far off. The key wage Issue still has not come up in the prolonged mediation Effort. Government negotiators spent All Day wednesday studying a Long list of proposals by the Council of postal unions on amendments to a conciliation Board report setting out recommended revisions in working rules. Another session with the mediator judge Rene Lippe of Montreal had been scheduled please see postal Page 6 strikers can get Loans by Dudley Magnus Winnipeg s striking postal workers Are not worried about there being no strike pay available because there is Al ways the credit Union available for those strikers who Are in need. I the postmen inside and out Republican presidential Nomina Side workers have since 1948 Tion but refrained from any in built up a sound credit Union i do sements in the election which they Call the Winnipeg j times uses As olm. Postal District employees Cally Independent. In the 1964 presidential election the times today editorially endorsed new York governor Nelson a. Rockefeller for the Republican presi Why or. Reeve Charles hotel of North Norfolk hate the indians this is Indian land. We Don t hate the Indian said that in 19s4, when he lived in a Shack South of Macgregor he had been almost dead of starvation during an 83-mile-an-hour Bliz Zard. He. Was snowbound but some How managed to complain to a Dauphin radio station. The next Day the then Reeve of North Norfolk arrived with just each for groceries for the family or. Roulette said. Please see this Page 13 Manitoba s vital statistics registration forms will no longer ask questions about racial origin health minister c. H. Witney said thursday. It was also announced that the fee for birth death and marriage certificates is being raised. F removing racial origin questions from vital statistics forms is several changes in the regulations governing administration of the vital Statis tics act announced bus or. Witney in a press statement. The form affected include those for the registration of live and still births marriages deaths dissolution of marriage . Times endorses Rockefeller new York new York times thursday editorially endorsed new York governor Nelson a. Rockefeller for the and acknowledgement of father Hood. A uniform higher fee for All certificates is going into effect. Birth death and marriage certificates obtained from the please see birth Page 13 credit Union society Ltd. In which they have roughly million invested. The strike now in its eighth i Day has not brought Many please see strikers Page 6 dental nomination but refrained from any endorsements in the election. Starving i wait s Aid is on Way Lagos Nigeria special and trains have started carrying food and Medicine toward the starving and dying children of areas of Biafra under Federal control ending weeks of tragic comic con fusion about Relief in the nigerian civil War. But the Start of the How does not insure that All the supplies will reach the Mal nourished and sickly in time. There Are enormous logistical problems to Over come once the supplies. Reach the Relief bases of Enugu and Calabar. Moreover none of these supplies have yet been assigned for the rebel held areas of Biafra where everyone agrees the need is Forest the Federal military government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra still have to work out an agreement about that. But a Start has been made. The confusion is Over. And the two sides seem close to agreement at least about starving children. The period of confusion was a trying and. Frustrating one Here. It could even have been considered funny if laughter could blot out the images of Kwashiorkor and other crippling and killing diseases of children. V. Relief officials bickered with each other. Food went nowhere. The wharves of Lagos see me d to have enough american donated powered milk to drown All of Nigeria but children still starved. Please see Aid Page 6 tax hurting hotels by Boris Miskew Montreal que Bec s eight per cent tax on hotel rooms will drive an estimated of convention business out of the province this year Montreal hotel and convention officials said thursday night. Rudy Berger president of the Montreal hotel association said the loss in revenues plus this summer s conspicuous Lack of tourist Trade have enlarged the financial Burden facing hotels in the province at a time when hotels in Ontario Western Canada and the maritime enjoy a booming business. He attributed the depressed conditions in the Montreal hotel 20 to the tax on rooms which was first imposed in Quebec in 1966 at the rate of six per cent and increased in May 1967, at the Start of expo 67, to eight per cent. Frank g. Bloodsworth Gen eral manager of the Montreal convention and visitors Bureau said Montreal hotels averaged about 240 conventions annually during a four year period from 1964 to 1967. N revenues brought into the from outside the to Between and annually he said. But so far this year Only 153 conventions have been booked in Montreal and said or. Bloodsworth the City will be Lucky if the total reaches 170. This Means a drop of one child in the number of conventions being held in Montreal this a loss of about Witt another please see tax Hurt Page 8 t merger plans stalled St. Vital sees no advantage in amalgamation in a closed session wednesday night St. Vital City Council unanimously voted to opt out of amalgamating with neighbouring municipalities. We re not closing the door major j. A Hardy said after the three hour meeting. But on the basis of facts presented to us by our Secretary treasurer we feel it would be detrimental to St. Vital taxpayers to amalgamate with any other City at this mayor Hardy said St. Vital s assets far outweigh its liabilities and it looks like this will continue. A comparison of Mill rates for municipal services puts St. Vital lower than All municipalities it was considering joining. The St vital rate is 17.78 Mills St. Boniface 21.52 fort Garry 21.74 and Winnipeg 27.85. The opting out won t put an end to planned talks on amalgamation though the mayor said. A meeting with St. Boni face is planned for july 31 and another will be held with fort Garry although a Date has not been set. Please see St. Vital Page 8 Cabinet suites lacking by Alex Farrell Ottawa up you do when there Are More Cabinet ministers than there Are ministerial suites in the Parlia ment buildings you Call in some carpenters and Tell them to Knock Down a few Walls. There is enough office space for the 264 members of the new parliament but it is not All of the right kind. There Are 29 cab inet ministers and Only 26 suites available for them. The present Cabinet is the largest in Cana Dian history. It s no joke but Well pull Liberal whip Bernard Pilon told a reporter wednesday night. Or. Pilon has the ultimate responsibility for s e e i n g that every somewhere in the Block of of. Files allocated to his party after the government House Leader Donald Macdonald decides where All the ministers Are going to be. Please see shortage Page 8 ;