Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 27, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday july 27, 1968 cleric s House buried Street terrorized Cleveland special tons they buried Hev. Henry ferryman s House Here Friday. Everything he owned a s among the charred remains the City Bulldozer slowed into the foundation and covered with deep dark Brown Earth. In a dirty White sport shirt his hands on his hips or. Ferryman stood beside his wife and watched to the lord was Good to he told a couple of strangers. My wife and children Are Safe and a White policeman saved my life. Of yes the lord was Good to the rusted remnants of the two family cars stood beside or. Ferryman As he described the night the shooting began on a quiet Street of lower Middle class negro Homes in the Lake View Section of Cleveland s East Side. There was shooting on both sides of the the Baptist minister said. And i just walked right up the Middle of the Street and went right to the Side door. The House was blazing and one of the snipers was right behind the House just Over there. A White policeman stepped out and grabbed me. He was t brutal or anything he just grabbed me and held me and. Explained that my wife and child were Safe across the Black nationalist theoreticians and Black revolution Ary activists Here describe last tuesday nights events in which negro snipers and police traded thousands of rounds of heavy Rifle fire As the beginning of a new phase in the Black revolt. But to people such As Henry ferryman and his neighbors it was a night of unparalleled terror during which they cowered in base ments and huddled on the floors of their unpretentious Frame dwellings bewildered Over the sudden warlike atmosphere on their Street. Sneak pkg View Rainbow. Tuesday mrs. James Underwood a fifty ish grandmother who lives across the Street and Down the Block from the ferryman Home where Sev eral of the snipers shielded themselves Are still fright ened. It was like the Day of mrs. Under Wood told a visitor Friday. You know president Roosevelt said he did t want to live to see another War like the second world War. Well i know what he meant. I Don t want to see anything like this then fixing a stranger s eyes with her own mrs. Underwood said softly pravda lashes czechs continued Ravda said. It cited an article in the Wall Street journal Wahidi pravda claimed the shipment f. Weapons and supplies to inti communists in Czechoslovakia and raising the military 1st" of the North Atlantic trea y organization. Pravda also reprinted an Edi orial from the hungarian communist party newspaper comparing the situation in Czechoslovakia with that in Hungary before the. 1956 uprising. But pravda edited out of the article a sentence appealing to czechoslovak leaders not to let hundreds of thousands of peole be drowned in blood and pravda tha article in in hungarian As saying the Aine thing which happened Vith us in the period preceding in counter revolution is being repeated in Czechoslovakia in Lese Days and weeks we have seen Alt this. We ave been. Through All this. It us to apart from reprinting the ungarian article and a few minor sallies against the czech slovak soviet Joday i Mutt Rague Campaign. If that s what judgment Day will be like i Don t want to live to see if there is a political meaning to what happened Here this week and if the fire and looting were to be an important part of it or. Ferryman mrs. Underwood and then neighbors have not begun to comprehend it. They describe the events As beginning suddenly at around 6 . That is an hour on streets like Lakeview in neighbor hoods like this All Over the country when folks just sit on the front porch and watch the Daylight fade and then gather the children Home for one More hour of television before bedtime. It was like that along Lakeview woman on a porch noticed a Black Man with a Rifle running hard Crouch behind some Bushes and fire at a police car. Then another neighbor noticed a Man hiding behind the ferryman s Brick House. A Rifle snoot poked out and the Man fired Point Blank at a police car. Soon what the nationalists later called War was in full Progress in Lakeview. Just to the South along Superior Avenue one of the main streets of the East Side Black Community a few cases of firebombing and looting erupted but the general uprising the. Nation Alist sniper team reportedly expected did not occur. But Why the quiet Little Street of Lakeview Why the House of Henry ferry Man Why the firing first on a police Tow truck manned by an interracial team of unarmed civilian employees they ask these questions along Lakeview today. They ask them of each other and of strangers. The answers if there Are answers May emerge in the trial of Ahmed Evans arrested As the ringleader in the sniper plot and held now without bail on a charge of first degree murder. Perhaps though the an Swers lie packed in Urban dynamite that every Ameri can City harbours in fear some ghetto storage bins. Health costs probed continued Charleswood Quality construction co. Ltd. Invites you to attend its grand opening of their new furnished Model Home located at 2 Malborough Road Charleswood drive West on Grant ave. 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In the late 1950s Only ments and doctors said the Friday meeting discussed much More than fees examining the entire area of health service costs it was described As a fruitful but preliminary meeting. Tim ing and mechanics of future meetings of the committee Are to be worked out by the health ministers and representatives of the three medical professions. Government and doctor spokesmen stressed that the committee would not place emphasis on any one phase of health costs. Questioned As to whether the meeting discussed the possibility of the uniform Prairie wide doctor fee the pre Miers at a press conference said it was discussed but there was some doubt that it would work in such a Large Region where there Are Many varying factors. They also said such topics As medical plan utilization fees would also be studied by the committee but Premier Man Ning of Alberta cautioned that one stitch Factor should pot be singled out because it would distort the Over All picture. Or. Manning said the three governments Are concerned with the total picture of health costs and the Many factors that went into them. He added that he did not think governments should attempt to set professional fees. They should Only decide what share they will pay of a fee. Premier Ross Thatcher of Saskatchewan said there was a unanimous feeling at the meet ing that Steps must be taken to curb rising costs. Representatives of the medi Cal profession had said then fees must be kept in line with those of other professions or it might become difficult to keep doctors on the or. Thatcher said but the govern ments maintain they must take Steps to keep costs from going right through the Premier Walter Weir of Mani Toba said he was Happy to hear the doctors also express concern that health costs should keep to within limits while still main taming efficient services. Governments the doctors and the Public All have a responsibility in trying to curb costs and it is hoped the committee will be a step in that direction or. Weir said. Premier Manning said the committee will be with the total picture of r without impairing Quality services l.-. The costs Are accelerating at a rate governments would find impossible to meet if they continued for any length of time he said. Or. Donald Mcphail president of the Manitoba medical association said after the meeting he was pleased with developments at the meeting and that the co operative approach taken would be a very useful one. Or. Lloyd Grisdale of Alberta said the doctors were delighted with the Opportunity to work with governments toward achieving the Best services at the most reasonable Cost. Or. Gordon Marjerrison pres ident of the Saskatchewan col lege of physicians and surgeons said the committee should be useful in keeping costs from going beyond pure doctors have already been discussing the problems of Ris ing health costs. And what could be done he said. Kennedy won t run j continued Shriver Kennedy s brother in Law who headed the peace corps and the anti poverty pro Gram before becoming Ambas Sador this never run ;