Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 27, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Battle of Britain relived Page 10 weekend Magazine exclusively in today s weekend Mac Zirie final edition vol. 75 no. 258 Price Loc with comics saturday july 27, 1968 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sett . Moon sets . Forecast sunny 45 and 70 Canada s leading rotogravure Magazine the thinking Man s Home Phllip Smith says this place called the Hudson Institute is where a Man can really stretch his mind. The Hudson Institute is one of the Best known of about 400 research organizations in the . Irreverently called think fac tories or think which owe their existence to the bewildering Pace of technological discovery arid development Page 2 the most dangerous Man in the world Doug Rogers of Vancouver Canada s judo Star of the Tokyo olympics is now a spa Pilot but is still very much in Contention for the world judo title in 1969. Page 6 the Battle of Britain Bruce Moss describes a million film which relives this decisive air Battle of the second world War when for 113 Long Days and nights in 1940 the Luftwaffe battered an England Only saved from almost certain German invasion by the tenacity and bravery of her pilots. The film is being made by Canadian producer Harry Saltzman whose James Bond movies made him and Sean Connery famous. 10. The chief s last stand James Quig and Frank Prazak cover die s Campaign for re election in Prince Albert plus Leisure Magazine John Walker older than Canada Page 3 sausage for everyone. Page 5 youths music Camp Page 7 Kite flying for business and pleasure Page 18 sports news pages 10, 11 Church news. Pages 12, 13 color comics to radio diary and elsewhere in the paper careers 12 letters 41 classified 27 to 42 movies 25 comics 30, 51 women 17 to 22 deaths. 16 sports 44 to 47 finance 11, 15 is 665 m. Bushels by Allen Sackmann a wheat carryover big enough to plug commercial storage facilities from coast to coast will be left when the crop year ends july 1. Only once before in history have the Prairies gone into a new crop year with More Grain in the bins. That was last year when the carryover totalled bushels. A Canadian wheat Board source estimates the carryover this year at bushels a figure that tops the 1967 crop by More than bushels. Main reason for the bulging granaries is reduced sales. It is Small Comfort to Farmers to know that the anticipated carryover is not much higher than some just prior to can Ada s Export Boom years of the mid-1960s. In 1961, the carryover was and the boxcars turned Back port Arthur up two empty Canadian Pacific rail Way boxcars and a car carrying car officials were turned Back by striking Grain handlers Fri Day As they approached Termi Nal elevators at a Lakehead wharf. Car officials and Union Lead ers exchanged words before strikers pushed a truck off the tracks leading to an elevator operated by the Saskatchewan wheat Pool. The train did not continue to the elevator How Ever. Frank Mazur chairman of the negotiating committee for t he striking Grain handlers said he was not sure Why the cars were being moved but a squad of pickets will be available "24 hours a Stop any other attempts to sneak boxcars into the elevators. It was not Clear whether the movement presaged a firm at tempt to Start moving Grain by rail from the strike bound terminals. In Winnipeg the chief com missioner of the Canadian wheat Board w. C. Mcnamara said the boxcars were please see boxcars Page 4 r 10-year average to 1964 was bushels. Please see wheat Page 4 postal talks continue by Ben Ward Ottawa up mediation talks in the National postal strike resume today with negotiators reported to be still bogged Down in a mass of detail Over working conditions. The three participants met for just Over three hours Friday night in the hotel suite of the Federal judge Rene Lippe. We have adjourned and will meet again the judge told reporters. There is no More to Romeo Mathieu representative of the Council of postal unions and Douglas love from the government s Treasury Board would not comment. Medical supplies Cut off by the Canadian press a critical situation May be developing among Rural cancer patients in Alberta who have had medical supplies Cut off be cause of the postal strike a Cal Gary pharmacist said Friday. Allan Ferman chief pharma Cist for toe provincial cancer Hospital Board said about persons May be running out of medical supplies. In some cases it could be he said. He advised Rural patients who normally receive medical sup plies by mail to give their can cer clinic file number and last prescription number to a drug please see medical Page 10 czech reds unanimous i workers Rush to sign letters of support Prague special tons Czechoslovakia s Liberal communist Leader Alexander Dubcek declared Friday that All members of the party presidium Are unanimous in their attitude toward the coming talks with the soviet communist politburo. The talks Are expected on czech territory next week. Or. Dubcek told a delegation of Prague factory workers we know what we want. Rest assured that we will know How to defend these wishes and even to open up scope for More i am an Optimist. I believe that we must succeed Al though not necessarily in a Day or a the czech Leader said our party wants to Over come the discord Between this country and the soviet Union and that we will not play the offended party when we enter the appealing to the country of. A maximum of reason and Calm and a minimum w nervousness and or. Dubcek declared Confidence that our policy will prove right is x everything now. If our please see czech Page 4 pravda lashes czechs talks fruitful Moscow a the soviet communist party newspaper pravda charged Friday the situation in Czechoslovakia has deteriorated to the Point where there now is danger of . Intervention in support of the Liberal Prague regime. From numerous comments on Prague in the reactionary american press it is possible to see what is on the mind of the representatives of the imperialist circles in the United please see pravda Page 5 teachers Hail decision it is a major Victory for the democratic process within Winnipeg this was the Way George Enns Winnipeg teachers association president described the findings Friday of a three Man arbitration Board on a collective agreement dispute Between the City s teachers and the Winnipeg school Board. In its report the Board unanimously called for inclusion of four working condition items in the teachers 1968 agreement. The teachers had requested arbitration in late May when the school Board s finance com Smittee refused to include three of the four items claim ing they were management prerogatives. Winnipeg teachers will now have some vote in the appoint ment of High school department Heads the filling of principal and vice principal vacancies school parking facilities and the hiring of elementary school teachers aides and additional school clerks. Or. Enns said this decision undoubtedly will result in improvements in the Winnipeg school system. It not Only gives our association the Light to secure better working conditions for its teachers but also the right to help create better schools for the City s children 1 Howe v e r the association president expressed disappoint ment with the Board s finding please please Board Page 10 Prairie regional approach adopted at meeting of premiers medical officials by Mel Hinds Regina special the three Prairie premiers and representatives of the medical profession in the three provinces have decided to take a regional approach to the question of rising health service costs. I a meeting of the three premiers their ministers of health and representatives of the medical profession agreed at a two hour meeting Friday to establish a committee which would work toward that . The committee would look into the Over All Cost factors of health utilization patient participation and the possibility of developing acceptable yardsticks for future medical payment adjustments a news release issued after the closed meeting said. The meeting was called after the three premiers at a meeting a 19-year-old construction worker died Fri Day morning after an eight Storey fall from an apart ment Block under construction at 249 Roslyn Road. Cameron Schnell of Tolstoi Man. Was pronounced dead at Victoria Hospital after the mishap. Police said an inquest will open at . Monday in Winnipeg general Hospital with or. Athol Gordon As presiding Coroner. Bailiffs Here to match Winnipeg Bailiff agencies will match thursday s donation from 10 Toronto agencies to Gerald Groulx of 291 Scotia Street West Kildonan. The Groulx lawyer l. C. Greenberg said Friday he had l b e en1 contacted by Robert Wilson on behalf of at least six local Bailiff companies. Or. Wilson said his group the Manitoba Bailiff association agreed with the Toronto position and would match the donation. Bruce Gould of Toronto said thursday his group did t condone taking any u of m names prize winners the University of Manitoba has announced the winners of u n d e graduate scholarships bursaries and prizes based on students records in the 1967-68 term. A Complete list of winners appears on Page 8. Child s Possession when making a seizure. Associated commercial protectors Ltd. Seized two year old s t a c e y Groulx s Puppy monday As chattel for rent arrears. The dog was returned thursday following a donation by Hector Mcdiarmid a St. Boniface Salesman. Mrs. Groulx said Friday she had been surprised when she saw the Toronto offer reported in the Winni Peg free press. I Don t know Bow we can refuse these previous offers of person Al donations had been re fused but these Are from associations offered in Good speaking on or. Groulx s behalf or. Greenberg said assistance was not the in bringing the affair to Light. All that or Groulx can say is he said. Canadian wins Queen s prize Bisley England Reuters Parks of Saint John n.b., today won the Queen s prize the major event at the shooting championships Here. He scored 285 out of a pos sible 300. Of the Prairie economic Council earlier this month expressed alarm Over the. Rising costs of health services. At that time most of the emphasis was on requests by doctors for fee increases but representatives of the govern please see health Page 5 favor re fart Winnipeg aldermen reacted favourably to the Manitoba eco nomic Board s Meb review of the province s Economy but City labor leaders were less pleased. The Board s annual review released Friday said 1967 was one of the Best years on record for Manitoba. It said the Economy s upswing will continue during the year. 110-Page report balanced this optimism with a warning that education health and Wel fare costs will Likely Rise by about 40 per cent in the next . " the Board called for a major realignment of Federal provincial fiscal arrangements particularly in these Fields if the province s momentum is not to be impeded. The report Only emphasizes what the City has been saying for a Long time Winnipeg finance committee chairman Alderman Mark h. Danzker said in an interview Friday. This is certainly Welcome news and it s Good that the difficulties Are recognized by other groups not Only the City of Aid. Danzker said that the City had taken the same stand on fiscal submitted changes in a Brief to the provincial government More than six weeks ago. The Federal and the Provin Cial governments will have to continued see aldermen Page 10 Canadian Bank rate gut by James Nelson Ottawa up the Bank of Canada has put its Seal of approval on the recent downward trend of interest rates and strength of the Canadian Dollar in International markets. It Friday a Cut in the Bank rate to 6% per cent from seven and the paying off of Canada s remaining indebtedness to the . Federal Reserve Board. It also said stand by credits with for International settlements and the Central Banks of Italy and Germany h been terminated. The stand Bys were helpful in sup porting the Dollar Dur ing its weakness this Spring but were not drawn. The Bank rate at which the Central Bank makes rarely used advances to the chartered Banks As Lender of last resort in the banking sys set at a Peak 7% per please see Canadian Page 5 race Bias denied Roulette got enough help spokesman the Indian people Don t feel this is said Mary Guilbault Public relations officer for the Manitoba Metis federation when asked her views Fri Day on the North Norfolk municipal Council s recent move to Block the Sale of a Austin residential pro Perty to a Man of Indian ancestry. The matter made headlines this week following a Canadian broadcasting corporation National newscast which portrayed the White citizens of North Norfolk As racial bigots. The Case involved Alfred Roulette of Macgregor Man. A treaty Indian of the Sandy Bay Saulteaux reservation the father of nine children a Long time welfare recipient and an alleged troublemaker. The municipal Council for the villages of Austin and Macgregor admitted having requested an Austin property owner not to sell to the Macgregor District Indian who refused to live in a House the provincial government provided foe him in 1961. Me Roulette proposed to buy the House with financial assist Ance of the provincial welfare data raiment but Metis spokesman. Mrs. Guilbault a counsellor for the department in Winnipeg said Friday the general feeling among Indian people is that this family has been helped As much As possible assist Ance is not please see race Page 4 Kennedy won t run for vice president Washington democratic vice the presidential picture appeared to be. Wide today following senator Edward be d y s final finn decision against accept ing the position at next month s National convention. The names of senators Eugene Mccarthy and Fred Harris and Sargent Shriver . Ambassador to France were mentioned As possible running mates if vice president Hubert Humphrey wins the democratic presidential nomination. Humphrey campaigning in Kansas when the Kennedy state ment was released in Boston said the decision by the Massachusetts senator Speaks for it self and is but he declined As he has All along to comment on who might be under consideration. Mccarthy Humphreys chief rival for the nomination bad no immediate comment on either Kennedy s decision or the possibility of taking no. 2 spot him self which he has in the past rejected. A Humphrey Mccarthy ticket Money snags hit for Hospital delay it v Manitoba s financial problems been partly to blame for delays in the proposed renova Tion and expansion of the army s Hospital site Portage Avenue on salvation South of Arlington Street it was Learned Friday. See Story pictures on Page 6 capt. John Gerard a local salvation army officer Dis closed in a Telephone Conversa Tion one of the. Main reasons the estimated to million project has been delayed is because the provincial government is having a few embarrassing financial p r o b he certainly would t want this to be construed As a slap in the Gerard said. The 200-bed Hospital in the Block bounded Street Preston son Street and Avenue was to by Arlington Avenue Evan Westminster have been completed Early in 1969. To be called the salvation army Grace general Hospital Winnipeg division and administered along with the army s year old Hospital in St. The Arlington Street Complex now probably won t be opened until at least late in 1970. The plans have been approved in principle though not yet in detail by the Manitoba Hospital commission. Capt. Gerard also discussed another problem encountered at the Arlington Street site Frank Lunardelli refuses to sell and lot to see financial Page 10 would pose a problem since both men come from Minnesota and the . Constitution bars a state s electoral College votes from going to residents of the same state. Please see Kennedy Page 5 Biafra claims sabotage Lagos a in the Wake of the failure of the Niamey talks to produce an agreement on Relief to breakaway Biafra the secessionists appealed today for a massive Airlift of supplies and accused Nigeria and Britain of sabotaging Aid to the starving. The secessionists said they would have no objection to nigerian observers inspecting air cargoes of Relief supplies Biafra radio said. The breakaway regime also sought Relief routes through a sea corridor into the niger Delta and a Road corridor through a demilitarized port Harcourt which now is in Feder Al hands. The proposals seemed to be the same a those which foiled to win agreement in niger after the week of talks which ended Friday night. A communique issued after the negotiations Between Nige Rian and biafran delegations said Relief problems will be on the Agenda of major peace talks scheduled to Start in Addis Aba Bat Ethiopia no later than aug. 5.x other items on the Agenda a Fol be the cessation of hostilities in the year Long civil War and plans for a permanent peace settlement. The biafran claimed that the smooth operation of International Relief operations is please see biafran Page 10 ;