Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 5, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free press thursday december 5, 1968 Liberal govt. Under scrutiny Regina up Premier Ross Thatcher s Promise of a careful scrutiny of provincial liberalism will strike a responsive chord among at least some of the delegates expected to attend the party s three that if they knew the press was the Premier s position As provincial party Leader technically is subject to review at the convention but no candidates have yet declared their Intel Day annual convention opening Tion to try and topple him. Here today. The convention will be a grass roots review of the past four years of Liberal govern the main elective Battle will be for the provincial presidency that Herb Sparrow North Battleford had held since 1963 ment in Saskatchewan along i and gave up on his appointment with a Good look at prospects this year to the Senate. For the the Premier j . Wilson a Regina Law said. There is a group within the yer and r. W. Thompson Gen eral manager of a Saskatoon drug wholesale firm have thrown their hats into the ring and the contest is open to Nomi nations from the floor a Plant project backed Toronto up provincial approval has been Given for plans by Ontario Hydro to build two new generating plants sex i p e c t e d to Cost about is the Cabinet and the but the depth of feeling on this Issue among party Mem Bers at the 57th annual Conven Tion May or May not become Public knowledge. Panel discus Sions where the matter Likely will be threshed out Are closed to the press and Public and Only the plenary sessions Are open. It would t be a Liberal convention if there was t some griping and lots of said or. Thatcher. But they would t let their hair Down like Viking nails found by. Roland Hun Ford Oslo special owns further evidence of the Norse discovery of America five centuries before col Umbus has been uncovered in Newfoundland by norwegians archaeologists. Working on a site first excavated in 1962, at 1 Anse Aux Meadows on the North Ern tip of Newfoundland they discovered Rusty Iron nails and a piece of Bronze jewelry both unmistakably old Norse. The expedition s Leader or. Helge Ingstad an Oslo archaeologist places his finds at the beginning of the Lith Century the period of the Vinland voyages. The nails were discovered near a Lump of slag in a primitive Smithy characteristic of medieval Norway and Iceland. The piece of jewelry is a ring headed pin used to fasten clothing. It is of a distinctive Type appearing first towards the end of the eighth Century and disappearing during the Lith Century. These finds appear to refute doubts cast by some archaeologists on the Norse identity of the 1 Anse Aux Meadows site because of a paucity of artefacts in Prev ious excavations. Or. Ingstad believes that l Anse Aux Meadows was Leif Erikson s base the Leif Booths of the sagas. He has come under heavy fire from scholars who believe that Vinland Lay farther South. But since his Are the Only demonstrably Norse re Mains found so far his belief in a Northern Vinland must stand. Party caucus claiming to speak Lor Many rank and file support ers that is concerned about How decisions Are arrived at. The Cabinet members Don t listen enough to the people who put them said one la. Isolation to some extent of Cabinet ministers from rank and. File is a complaint heard among ruling parties of All political coloration however. As one Saskatchewan Cabinet min ister put it there will always be some one who is unhappy and it would not matter How much we consulted the general member ship because there Are those who would be complaining even if we phoned them every Day to ask them their opinion. In the end someone has to take the responsibility for Mak ing the final decision and that Premier John Robarts announced wednesday. The plants one powered by nuclear Energy and the other by Coal will have a combined generating capacity of kilowatts enough to Supply More than twice the current require ments of metropolitan Toronto and Hamilton. The nuclear Plant is to be built beside an existing one at Douglas Point on Lake Huron 130 Miles Northwest of Here and will have a capacity of kilowatts. George Gathercole chairman of Ontario Hydro said once the Plant is completed it will be the second largest nuclear powered installation of its in the world. Construction would Start next year and Power could be produced by 1976. The Coal fired unit which will Cost will be built at Bath 22 Miles West of Kingston at Lake Ontario. Construction of the station would Start in 1970 with Power due in 1975. Or. Gathercole said demand for electrical Power in Ontario is doubling approximately every 10 years and it is estimated by 1975 the province will need a minimum generating capacity of kilowatts compared with the present kilo Watts. Manning bids party Farewell Edmonton up Premier j e. C. Manning bad Farewell j wednesday night to the social credit party he has led for 25 years with a Call to respond to the Challenge of a whole new Era of fundamental after greeting or. Manning s last Public address As Premier with a standing ovation the Al Berta social credit league today turned to the task of selecting his successor. The names of six candidates were to be placed formally in nomination at the afternoon ses Sion. J there were no unexpected i additions or withdrawals when i nominations closed wednesday. The Field consisted of Walter j Buck member of the legislature for Clover bar attorney Gen eral Edgar Gerhart a. J. Hooke minister of lands and forests Ray Reierson minister of j education and labor municipal affairs minister Harry Strom j and highways minister Gordon j Taylor. Tonight in marked contrast to the quiet caucus of la s that chose or. Manning 25 u sit in called off Toronto up University of Toronto students tuesday called off a sit in threatened for today after it was decided to hold a Public meeting Friday to discuss a Brief dealing with the development plans to 1975. University president Claude Bissell told the students administrative Council in a letter that seven student representatives will have full voting privileges when the president s Council meets Friday to discuss the Brief. The Brief to be presented to the Ontario government s com Mittee on University affairs recommends that the main downtown u of t Campus be restricted to undergraduates and graduate Stu dents. This year there Are undergraduates and graduate students on the Campus. 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