Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, July 27, 1968

Issue date: Saturday, July 27, 1968
Pages available: 126
Previous edition: Friday, July 26, 1968
Next edition: Monday, July 29, 1968

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 27, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday. July 27, 1968 Earl y week Bonus buys Thompson seedless grapes ibs. Ont. Canada no. 1 Grade onions 3 la. Bag Canada Grade a eviscerated turkeys 6 to lobs. Maple Leaf weiners , Swift s Brookfield cheese Hiawatha or Martins Apple juice 48 Al. Of. Tins Oakdell assorted flavours ice Cream 1c gallon 4 pints Silverbrook or Sun Nyfield first Grade la. Own Sultana meat pies beef Chicken Turkey 8 of. Hugs. Shirriff s Pink or White lemonade old dutch potato chips twin pack Plain Palcat effective at All stores and men., july 29, 30, 31. Vicious welfare Circle Halifax up keeping families on welfare to Ward of privation leads to a vicious merry go round of joblessness and More welfare says h. Bone Jones Halifax City welfare director. The welfare office was being put in the position of supple menting or. Jones says Many industries pay less than living wages and the de Mand for skills is rising so fast As to make Many of our men he says that since some pay ment to welfare cases May not be sufficient children of the family often drop out of school and take some sort of Job to supplement the family income. Without further schooling these children grow up without skills and take parents places As unemployable unskilled labor welfare cases of Tomor one welfare worker recommended that payments be made larger to alleviate the situation welfare authorities now pay rent of up to per month and City welfare authorities sometimes go above this rental allowance if families Are unable to find accommodation within the Given Price Range. What else can you do but make up the or. Jones asks. Food ranges from per adult and for a child up to six years per month with clothing allowances at per month for adults 10 for Chil Dren 12 to 18 years of age and for Small children. In Halifax there Are families on welfare each month with the number fluctuating slightly according to the time of year. In Winter there is More unemployment and More faint lies Are on welfare. In some cases or. Jones says the family head is steadily employed but not making enough to support his family so welfare must step in and supplement the Man s income in order to keep the family housed clothed and fed. Baldwin House Leader by Joyce Fairbairn Ottawa staff Gerald Baldwin from peace River alta., has been designated As the new conservative House Leader in the commons. Tory Leader Robert Stanfield made the announcement Friday at his first Ottawa press conference since the election. Or. Baldwin a lawyer and one of the most respected members of parliament on either Side of the House will replace Michael Starr who was Defeated june 25. The new House Leader was first elected in 1958 and has Lecome the conservative s main expert on parliamentary rules and. Procedures. Or. Stanfield will recommend his appointment to the party caucus which is expected to meet Well in Advance of the opening of parliament scheduled for the second week of september. The conservative Leader told newsmen he would be travelling extensively in the next couple of weeks to consult members on the rebuilding Job that must be done within the party. We lost a lot of excellent members and obviously have a Good Deal of work or. Stanfield admitted. He said there was a feeling of disappointment within the party on the election outcome but also a determination not to dwell on the past but to rebuild for the future. After his political consultations or Stanfield will retire to Quebec for the last two weeks of August to take an immersion course in French. Man held in nailing o London Reuters an Interior decorator has been remanded in custody for a week after another Interior decorator was found nailed to a Cross in a London Park. Eric Leslie Leach 41, was accused in court Friday of Caus ing grievous bodily harm to Joseph Richard de Havilland 30. De Hay Lahd is recovering in Hospital in Hampstead cd not far from where a Park keeper found him thursday nailed to the seven foot Cross propped up against a tree. He was stripped to the Waist and his hands impaled on the Cross with eight Inch nails. Ambulance attendants Low ered the Cross and levered out the nails with a left them impaled in his hands. De Havilland half dazed but apparently not in great pain told the attendants please be careful with my the nails were removed in Hospital. Students get Senate seats in maritime Halifax up student Power is a phrase that con Jures up pictures of militant bearded Young would be intellectuals brandishing placards and taking part in sometimes violent demonstrations. But in Nova Scotia the idea of student Power is being calmly pursued by both Stu dents and administration in Many of the province s col Leges. The presidents of Dalhousie Acadia Kings St. Francis Xavier and St. Mary s universities in Nova Scotia have agreed that students should have a voice in. Matters concerning them. To this end three . Universities have agreed to the seating of student leaders on the University Senate. At Dalhousie University in Halifax three students have been Given seats in the 100 member Senate. Dalhousie president or. Henry Hicks says so far the student participation in the Senate is an which he believes is working although he also said it was too soon to evaluate the results. We Are the first University in Canada to put students on the or. Hicks says. But i Don t think of it As Stu Dent at Acadia University in Wolfmule ., the Senate committee on University government r e e o m mend e d against the seating of students on the Board of governors. It favored the establishment of a Percy backs Rocky Washington special tons sen. Charles h. Percy Republican Illinois endorsed new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller thursday for the Republican presidential Nomina Tion. His action at least gave the new yorker a timely psychological boost in what May be a tightening race for the Nomina Tion among gov. Rockefeller Richard m. Nixon and Cali fornia gov. Ronald reagan.1 or. Nixon s press Secretary Herbert g. Klein promptly declared that sen. Percy had yielded to the lure of the vice one of several curious aspects of All this is that or. Nixon himself had been dangling the idea of the vice presidency before sen. Percy through the medium of background press conferences. By this Means he had let it be known that sen. Percy was on the list of those be was considering As a running mate though perhaps not at the top of the list. In the end the Way the political game is being played this year sen. Percy s endorse ment of gov. Rockefeller might not chances of running with or. Nixon. Sen. Percy is of 58 members of the Illinois delegation to the Republican nations convention that while technically uncommitted is overwhelmingly for or. Nixon. While sen. Percy probably cannot carry any other Illinois delegates with him immediately it May be that he could do so later in the convention if or. Nixon should fail to win on the first couple of ballots. If it worked out this Way his support could prove valuable to gov. Rockefeller who Hopes to win on a fourth or fifth ballot. Sen. Percy announced his endorsement at a news con Ference on Capitol Hill and said his decision had been reached Only in the past few Days. A month ago some observers believed he was leaning to or. Nixon. The senator indicated thurs Day that he had been gov. Rockefeller s recent proposals for ending the Vietnam War. Or. Nixon stated Bis position on Vietnam. Is the Only presidential candidate who had set Forth a detailed program to end the sen. Percy said. His recent peace plan is a constructive contribution to the dialogue on this reporter expelled London Charles Douglas Home defence correspondent for the London times of London was expelled from Czechoslovakia thursday night a spokesman for the news paper said Here Friday. The spokesman said Douglas Home who was covering rus Sian troop withdrawals in East Ern Czechoslovakia has arrived in Vienna. Douglas Home the Independent daily s defence correspond ent since 1965, was expected to return to London immediately. He is a Nephew of former Brit ish prime minister sir Alex Douglas Home. University Liaison committee. President j. M. Beveridge says he welcomes the in creased participation by Stu dents in University they have a Point of View and we want to hear he says h o w e v e a that there is a difference in experience and knowledge be tween the students and the faculty Board of governors and he wishes this difference to be respected. The University of King s College in Halifax and St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish ., have one student each on their 40-Mem Ber senates. Or. Harry Smith King s president says he Faors Stu Dent participation As a Means of maintaining communication Between students and the rest of the academic Community. He says students have taken a place on various King s committees alongside faculty and Board members and their opinions were heard and valued at St. Mary s University in Halifax president or. Henry Labelle says he suspects students will be granted a seat on the academic Senate and the Board of governors. Or. Labelle says a rein should be kept on student Power objectives inviting Stu Dent participation Only in mat ters directly pertaining to Stu dents. Pressure m pounds new York travel trailers tires usually require pressures of 50 pounds or More. Several sizes Are on the Market Don t let anyone inflate your trailer tires to Auto pressures this will ruin them. H pct. 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