Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, July 29, 1968

Issue date: Monday, July 29, 1968
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday july 29, 1968 disorders commission goes out of business Washington a the National advisory commission on civil disorders has gone of of business one year sever Al Hundred thousand words and after president John son created it. Sniper fire still whined in the streets of Detroit july 29, 1967 when Johnson convened the 11 member commission at the White House and charged i with trying to learn what happened what can be done to prevent it from Hap pening again and the commission headed by former Illinois governor Otto Kerner and representing nearly All the colors of the politic a spectrum issued its first report last March. Another report was release during the weekend and said new studies show rioters to be representative of Urban negro youth and not just Riff Raff and criminals. The report also said that 18 per cent of ghetto residents took part in riots and not one to two per cent As originally estimated the latest report expected to be the last bearing the commis Sion Seal was a compilation o three studies by separate groups. It was issued wit Boiu comment. The original report ran some words and was the work of 150 full time paid staffers As wee As the 11 commissioned members. A staff aide said sunday that approximately a spent on the report which concluded that the . Was moving toward two societies one Black and one White. The report called for a Mas Sive program to provide housing education and jobs for negroes. Johnson termed it thorough and exhaustive but declined to respond to numerous Calls for a major presidential endorse ment that might Spur Congress to Quick reaction. Johnson was quoted As telling a group of negro publishers that carrying out the report s recommendations would Cost and i can t get that from Congress. The report was really addressed to said a commission staff member Sun Day. _ the staffer who asked not to be identified added that we had hoped for More action. We were really quite disappointed about the Way it was legislation was introduced in Congress embodying most of the report s recommendations. But there has been no action on any French res upset continued reactions from the Man on the Street were More forthright. I think the Pope is said a 37-year-old fatter of four in my present position it would be very difficult for me to have another child. I shall ignore the Pope s i Don t see that he needed All these years to reach this Conlu said a 36-year-old child less working wife. I understand that it was difficult to change the Church s position. But i practise birth control and shall carry on regard of it and none is Likely in this session. The report issued this week end was described As a supple ment to the Earielo report. It covers negro and White attitudes in 15 major cities. One Survey found. That mos negroes Are far less revolution Ary than their militant spokes men but that they believe riot s have helped the negro improve his conditions. Miners get continued bankruptcy act As a preferred claim. The Bissett miners were assured of getting this Money anyway but probably not until some time this fall when the creditors divided the assets. First to be paid out of the assets will be the Manitoba government and the Central mortgage and housing Corpora Tion who have secured claims against the mine. Next Are the employees but Only to a maximum amount of or three months wages whichever is the lesser. What they Are owed Over and above is classified As an unsecured claim. The miners can wait for the division of the assets and receive about 10 cents on every Dollar or they can sue the directors of the san Antonio company individually or the balance of their wages Over a spokesman for the Mani Toba government said Money out of the provincial Northern affairs commission s coffers has been distributed during the past week to 104 employees of san Antonio. The amounts varied Tom to a Man. All employees who received cheques have signed the prefer red portion of their wages Over o the Manitoba government. We have assignment slips for every Dollar of the spokes Man said. The spokesman said anybody a Bank or a private Organiza Ion could have undertaken to Advance the miners part of heir but fee Manitoba government Felt it had a responsibility in the matter. Premier Weir and the Cabi net Felt Here s people on welfare because they can t get their Vages. Why should these people in on welfare. This Way they an hold their Heads up and vell do the collecting for the government action Fol owed a Call by the regional representative of the United steelworkers of America Bill Kennedy feat the miners be advanced Money by the govern ment. A creditors meeting of All eople possessing claims against the bankrupt mine was being held monday. Other meet nos were expected to follow. Canada and the development o our nation. He will be missed and Long or. Douglas said or. Cam Eron was a picture of Good health when the party caucus met in Winnipeg last week Anc elected him chairman. The nip Leader who was Defeated in the june 25 Federal election said it would be most inappropriate and in extremely bad taste to comment on whether he would seek election in or. Cameron s Riding. There was however wide speculation hat or. Douglas would contest the seat. Ray Perrault former Leader of fee . Liberal party and who Defeated or. Douglas in Burnaby Seymour said he was truly sorry to learn of or. Cameron s death. I knew and admired in said. He was one of can Ada s most Able parliamentary a memorial tribute will be held wednesday in Nanaimo and the body will be cremated. In place of Flowers the family asked that contributions be made to the biafran Relief fund. Or. Cameron s death reduced nip strength in the House to 21. There Are 155 liberals 71 progressive conservatives 14 edit stes and one Independent. The death created the first vacancy in the House since the election. Or. Cameron was born in Exeter England and came to can Ada in 1907, living in . Ever since. He is survived by his wife Dorothy whom he mar ried in 1926, four children and nine grandchildren. A Veteran of the first world Var or. Cameron entered the political Arena As a Kcf Mem Ber of the . Legislature in 937 and served until 1945. He was first elected to Parlia ment in 1953 and won re election in 1957 before losing his seat in 1958. He regained it As an nip member in 1962 and held it through elections in 1963, 1965 ind 1968. He was financial critic for the 2cf-Ndp throughout most of his House of commons career. Germans began it the first successful gasoline powered car was the Motorway in which ran at Mannheim Germany in 1885. Want get tha in come to where the Money is get More Money at beneficial. Call up or come to where the Money is now. You la be surprised How much More you can get at your vacation and All your summer expenses. Why set the for less Money than you really want Call beneficial. Beneficial finance co. Of Canada Loans up to your loan can be life insured 42 month contracts on Loans Over beneficial s newest office Winnipeg Portage Westwood Village shopping ctr i Winnipeg 5 offices 233 Portage ave., Curry bldg.___943-7571 336 Portage ave., pm. 203, 2nd fl.943-3571 421 Portage ave., ground floor Childs bldg., pm. 202, Cor. Portage and main. .943-5591 1376 Mcphillips St. Opposite Regent ave. West.222-5273 Cross roads shopping Centre near Wop co stores Rosser ave. 10th St.-----726-5397 1968 beneficial finance co Cameron Dies at coast continued negroes jeers he los a n g e l e s special tons vice president Hubert Humphrey said sunday that he vill not be driven away from appearances in Black communities despite the fact that Boos and jeers drove him from ther Rostrum during a speech before a negro audience saturday ight. Or. Humphrey said at a Century Plaza hotel press con Terence that he was very ratified by the presence of Early people at Bis speech Black democrats for Humphrey and added that he As forced to step Down Only because "15 or 25 came in and decided to disrupt the i m going to come to the Lack Community whenever i Lave a Chance and not be driven met Humphrey said with grim look. As the conference proceeded cores of pickets mostly negro traded outside the hotel. Sey ral carried signs seeking ustice for Biafra the secession it province of Nigeria. It was predicted that Demontra ors would be on hand by Nightfall evoking memories of ast year s Melee when presi ent Johnson stayed in the ame hotel fifty persons were injured in the disturbance. Asked his reaction to the Eavy contingent of police and Ecret servicemen assigned to Lim in every City he visits or. Lumphrey replied regret hat All this has to take place. I be been living a. Life of risk 11 my recalling that when a was mayor of Minneapolis he was fired upon three times though never injured. Or. Humphrey voiced Hope that the police screen can be minimized but said Well be it every Day on Street Corners meeting the press conference was ailed primarily to announce hat More than College and University professor s through jut the nation have endorsed his candidacy and formed them elves into professors for Humphrey. The co chairmen Are Samuel Huntington of Harvard University chairman of the school s government depart ment Paul Seabury of. The University of California at Berkeley a political science professor and Carl Auerbach of tie University of Minnesota Law school. Ships collide Tokyo Jap Nese freighters the cobe Maru and the to Kava. Maru collided in Osaka Bay monday. Vessel in danger of sinking and heir 78 Crew members were re sorted Safe. Construction of Manitoba Hydro s Multi Mil lion Dollar Nelson River Power development project has transformed Gillam into a vital rail transportation Centre in Northern Manitoba. Canadian National railways is handling the shipment of thousands of tons of Cement from Winnipeg to Gillam to meet the weekly target of cubic Yards of con Crete for the dam and Power House Complex. It is taken directly to the site where the Concrete is product. By 1971, when phase one of the project is completed the in expects to have moved More than tons of equipment and supplies equal to 80 Long freight trains to the construction site. Cheques not paid out striking postal workers who Are eligible for a couple of Days pay due to them just before they went out on strike Are not crossing the picket line at the Graham Avenue Post office to collect the cheques waiting for them inside. The picket line has been strengthened at entrances to the Post office building. The walkout was in its 12th Day monday. George Toal Winnipeg Post master said at press time in an interview that the cheques for roughly each Are ready but no one has applied. Marsh Hendricks president of the letter carriers Union Here monday no one is trying to Cross the line and we re not going to. Earlier or. Toal had said be has no authority to pay wages except 6n Post office property. Regulations Are that pay must be issued on the premises. Barium not ufos scientists issued a warn ing to the people of Manitoba monday there May be some strange happenings in the sky this week but it won t be the scientists Are working at Churchill s aerospace re search Centre where close studies Are being made of the upper atmosphere. On wednesday night they plan to create an artificial strikers Start bulletin continued pay. There Are also cheques due All postal workers for the last two Days before the strike. The strikers have refused to Cross their picket lines to collect heir wages. The bulletin says that since he walkout began july 18, Only three of the Winnipeg postal workers on strike have crossed the picket lines and Only four have refused tit do picket duty. One of these four had agreed however to do the work of a janitor at strike head quarters in place of picket duty. The editor of the bulletin Lis name in t published writes that his biggest Gripe s against the Winnipeg free press. He notes this opinion is a personal one that he in t speaking for his Union in this instance. His criticism is directed against the free press editorial age stand which he says indicates the Little insignificant Lostal employees Are to be Content with the same wage As a welfare the editor also says the free press is blaming the striking postmen by Labelling them a cause of inflation which would damage the Economy if what the postal workers consider a fair con act were to be signed. Power Plant humming the Power Plant at the blood vein Indian Reserve went Back into operation Friday morning Edward Daggit superintendent of the Clande Boye Indian Mon Day. The 317 members of the Cree band which includes 150 Chil Dren have been living on canned foods since the Power was shut off july 9. The Freezer he Community used to store freshly killed meat had become useless because the Indian affairs Branch had decided to overhaul the generators during he summer. Or. Daggit said in a Telephone interview that the two mechanics hired by the Branch to overhaul the remaining Genera Tor at the Reserve had it working Friday morning As predicted by the Branch last week. The Community s other Generator in Winnipeg for an overhaul has been repaired and will be returned to the Reserve by Barge this week or. Daggit said. The two generators will then e run alternately for periods of hours or so As they had Jeen in the past. Aurora or Northern lights in the sky above the prov Ince. And their big worry is that it will cause a ufos unidentified flying object scare. By Uhrich operations officer at the research Centre said monday this is what happened when we first did this in 1968. There was a Large number of ufos sight Ings reported on the night of our artificial Aurora. Since then we try to announce our plans Well ahead of time but there will still be some of these the Aurora which will be created by injecting the chemical barium into the atmosphere from a pay Load on Board a Black Brant rocket will be seen within a radius of Churchill. You can hardly blame anyone for thinking they a flying said or. Uhrich. The artificial Aurora starts off As a Bright Violet Light away i the horizon and then moves very rapidly towards you changing to a Green color. It then swings northwards. It is very spectacular even More spectacular than a real this will be the third artificial Aurora created by scientists from the Max Planck Institute Munich West Germany who Are investigation the magnetic Force in the Northern hemisphere at High altitudes. The Black Brant due to go up wednesday will have five different payload re search units aboard the largest yet Ever launched from the Churchill Centre flight coordinators Are scientists from the University of Saskatchewan. Scientists and technicians from the University of California the research Council of France and the defence research telecommunications establishment Are also involved. The launching will take place around p.m., weather permitting officials announced. N. Vietnam promised a army Hong Kong Reuters China has promised president to Chi Minh of North Vietnam nuclear arms if necessary the Hong Kong Star says. It did not give its source for the report. The newspaper says the pledge was made in a secret let Ter presented in peking last week to a North vietnamese negotiating delegation after it signed an Aid agreement with China. The delegation led by vice Premier be Thanh Nghi has re turned to Hanoi. 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