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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 16, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 76 no. 222 Price Loc with comics monday june 16, 1969 Sunrise . Moonrise . Sunser . Moonset . Forecast mostly sunny 40 and 60 Wilson Likely to give Way to unions British Premier expected to drop plan to Fine Wildcat strikers London a prime minister Harold Wil son s labor government has dropped its controversial plan to Fine Wildcat strikers qualified sources said sunday. Soviet Harvest aided Moscow Reuters the soviet government has announced a sweeping and costly crash program to save the 1909 Harvest. A decree published in the government newspaper Izvestia Calls on virtually All branches of the Economy to Aid with the Harvest damaged by bad weather and endangered by chronic farm problems. The decree follows reports by Western observers that about 25 per cent of the Winter wheat crop May have been destroyed by severe weather. Other crops Are known to have suffered because of a late Spring and Are further threat ened by an acute shortage of working farm machinery. No mention is made of these difficulties in the decree but the is of measures to be carried Cut shows real and deep seated concern for the 1969 agricultural year. The decree authorizes local authorities to commandeer both men and equipment from fac tories and other enterprises to help with the Harvest. Officials also Are empowered to use any kind of enclosed space to store Grain in a Clear Effort to ensure that no Grain is lost because of the Lack of storage facilities. Grain carrying trucks work around the clock the plan vigorously opposed by Britain s Trade unions had threatened to split the govern ment from labor backers whose funds and votes help keep it in office. The sources said the govern ment is preparing a new strike control plan for a meeting with Union leaders wednesday that will drop the threat of fines. Wilson has called the anti strike Bill essential for the nation s Export drive and eco nomic recovery. The Bill would be aimed at Wildcat strikes that accounted for 95 per cent of i Britain s work stoppages last j year. The government proposed a mandatory 28-Day pause when such a strike is threatened and fines for workers who leave the Job during the pause. The unions offered instead a Volun tary disciplinary system the was too weak. Alexander a War hero que. Air crash kills 4 will and will be More Harvest work profitable for farm workers who will receive both Cash and in kind bonuses. Montreal up four of five persons were killed when a twin engine plane owned by Wheeler Northland airways Ltd. Of St. Jovite que., crashed into a Mountain Friday near i deception Bay in Northern que Bec. The survivor a mining com Pany geologist was flown Miles to Hospital in Montreal sunday. He was reported in Good condition with unspecified former . Earl Alexander mourned London up Earl Alexander of Tun is one of Britain s most distinguished War heroes and a great Friend and servant of Canada died suddenly in Hospital Early to Day. As he was known to his Many friends was 77. Lady Alexander was at his bedside. The Irish born Field marshal last of the British born Gover nors general of Canada had j been ill Only a few Days and was taken to Hospital in wind Sor Berkshire near his Home when his condition suddenly worsened. A Hospital spokesman said death resulted from a collapsed artery leading to the heart. The Queen who was at wind r Castle was immediately in blast rips office pm s visit off que. Society cancels Holiday celebrations Sherbrooke que. Up the diocesan Council of the St. Jean Baptiste society announced monday that it has decided to cancel All official celebrations Here on St. Jean Baptiste Day june 24. The announcement made in a communique by Council presi Dent Andre Drouin followed a bombing attack sunday on the society s Sherbrooke Headquarters which caused an estimated minister Pierre Elliott to Nadeau was to have been the guest of Honor at the festivities m a r k i n g French Canada s National Holiday but repeated threats coupled with sunday s bombing were said to be the reasons behind the cancellation. Police said the blast broke windows in the building and blew out one Wall As Well As causing damage to eight houses in the Vicinity and cars in front of the building. Sherbrooke mayor Armand Nadeau said in an interview Fol i lowing the explosion that since the invitation was extended to or. Trudeau several weeks ago he had received numerous threatening Telephone Calls. Something had to he said. Some people were pre paring something the prime minister s accept Ance of the invitation prompted the University of Sherbrooke to prohibit use of its premises for the occasion. The University usually rents its Hall for the St. Jean Baptiste Day banquet following the Sherbrooke Parade but a uni i varsity spokesman said the de-1 vision this year resulted from a i fear that there might be Lence or demonstrations if or. J Trudeau attends. Separatist students at i to uni succeeds de Gaulle juries. Identities have been withheld the victims included the plane s kind bonuses not and three a mag workers j War lord Alexander observers behave the greatest i j of the effect on the soviet Economy will come from the mass Transfer of non agricultural workers and office employees to temporary from work. These workers will continue to receive 50 per cent of their Normal pay from their regular Job plus the Standard wage and bonuses for the agricultural jobs they do. These costs could run into Many millions of rubles and could also slow production in other areas of the Economy. Former and Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Al expander s Field commander Dur ing the african Campaign of the second world War promptly left his Home for the Castle where funeral plans were Dis cussed. One of the Foremost Allied military commanders of the won the admiration of the Canadian varsity have said they plan to demonstrate against or. Tru-., Deau s presence and that blood will flow in last year or. Trudeau was in. The reviewing stand for Mont real s St. Jean Baptiste Day Parade when violence broke out. He was nearly hit by a bottle thrown by a demonstrator. Continued please see blast Page 6 by Victor coi in books Washington special gaullist triumphs by three million votes despite record 30 per cent abstention by Donald Louchis Ejim Paris special tons Georges Pompidou who served As Charles de Gaul be s Premier for six years was elected president of France sunday night. With almost All of the ballots counted in the nation wide run off election the gaullist Candi Date had polled 57.7 per cent of the votes decisively defeating his centrist opponent interim president Alain Poher. Or. Pompidou had tallied 10.8 million votes compared to or. Powers 7.8 million. The returns showed that extreme left Wing voters had boycotted the polls or cast Mil ballots in Large numbers heeding a communist party Appeal to shun both candidates. Leftist candidates including the communist Standard bearer were eliminated in the first round of the election june 1 and Only or. Pompidou and or. Poher the two front runners were allowed to participate in the second decisive round. The abstention rate was a re Cord High of 30 per cent twice As Large As in the last presidential election in 1965, when Gen. De Gaulle was pitted against leftist challenger. The Absten. Tin rate in the first round of the new election two weeks ago. Was 21 per cent. The Nul vote a sign of Active rather than passive pro test was also abnormally High at a 4.5 per cent compared to 2.5 per cent in 1965. In a Victory statement or. Pompidou promised to exer Cise my functions in the name of All the French he said his election assured France that it would be governed by the necessary authority and St. Jean Baptiste society office wrecked by Home made bomb Stellar Gravity Waves reported detected the plane was on a 200-mile, people As their governor Gener flight fro m Frobisher Bay j Al from 1946 to 1952. Across Hudson Strait to deception Bay. I please see Earl Page 6 Trudeau to see Nixon by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff prime minister Trudeau will meet president Richard Nixon june 27 during the anniversary ceremonies commemorating the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The two leaders will take part in the ceremonies at St. Lam Bert in Montreal and at the Eisenhower lock in Massena . It will be the first meeting for the two leaders since Canada s phase out policy of nato forces in Europe was announced. Their., first mcettn0 took place in Washington in i april. . Defence i Melvin Laird has since criticized Canada s plans. Or. Nixon and or. Trudeau presumably will discuss this reaction during their Day Long meetings. There also has been Little improvement in the critical wheat situation facing Western Canada and the Oil problems arising in Alberta the two leaders agreed in april to work towards a solution of these two major problems. June 27 is the tentative Date set by the House of commons for a summer recess. Or Trudeau would not be present for the final sitting if maps arc Able to stick to the timetable and wind up their work. Trans air shows a profit trans air is Back in the Black after suffering a operating loss of in the first said airline president Alvin 0. Are the first men to ci0 so tons Gravity Waves from collapsing stars in the Milky Way have been detected and measured for the first time by University of Maryland scientists they reported saturday. The momentous discovery comparable to that of radio Waves supports a theory first postulated by Albert Einstein half a Century ago. If the Maryland claim is upheld by further it will i mean that scientists have a Way to learn vastly More about the Earth and the universe. More Over it will mean that future Mankind May be Able to tap a new source of Energy. I the discovery says that Gravity the Force that glues our feet to the ground and keeps the Earth circling around the Sun and the Moon circling Earth travels in Waves like Light Waves or radio Waves. And it says these Gravity Waves can be detected by Man. Of the next or. Howard Laster any s and astronomy director it is still not completely proved. This will take coupling his measurements to astronomical observations pinning Down the Waves he detects to specific areas or even s in the stars. But his evidence is nonetheless overwhelming. It is Evi Dence for which there seems to be no other if or. Weber s gravitational Waves indeed exist and the University s Best scientists now the matter of which we Are the work May open up some Day what or. Weber himself called a completely untapped resource for gravitational Energy is Yery weak Energy. But there is 100 times As much Gravity Energy in the universe As there is nuclear he reported and some Day an advanced civilization May be Clever enough to trap it. How do you detect a Gravity wave a wave so weak that scientists once calculated it the free exercise of demo at ., three hours after the polls closed or. Poher please see France Page 11 Call this High probability _ would take the entire . Gross they not Only provide evidence National product Tor one year to for a vastly important physical build a sensitive enough Detec phenomenon. They also Demon Tor strata the truths m Albert Einstein s relativity. Theory it said of general the gravitational Fields surrounding material bodies should produce Gravity Waves if the bodies Are set in some types of motions. What or. Weber was build a kind had of to do Gravity train car hit 4 die wave receiver or Antenna. This meant developing what he Calls a new technology comparable to the technology of what he and colleagues built j Iner at a level crossing four . Sask. Up persons died in the wreckage of a car saturday night after it collided with a Canadian National railways rail or. Weber s work also opens after Many Steps beginning 12 the Way to Many new expert or. Joseph Weber of the i ments to understand Man s University s physics department believes he and his associates Norman. In the he has detected such Waves he reports some 40 times since the first of the Vear. The period March 23 to May 18 the company had a profit of and the j Gravity Waves to has picked up brighter financial situation is pc feels expected to continue. I developing with the current seasonal someplace increase in traffic and imply please see trans air Page 10 surroundings. I. Predict tremendous new or. Westerhout said of the entire Earth the universe and years ago was a group of delicately suspended finely instrumented aluminium cylinders each five feet one Inch Long. Please see Waves Page 10 Yukon Centre evacuated Whitehorse . Up the Central Yukon Community of Pelly crossing was evacuated sunday night when it was threatened by a Forest fire spreading rap idly through explosively dry scrub Timber. Meanwhile damage is Esti mated at in a fire that struck at the mining town of Fargo City Friday night. Colin Macdonald general manager for Anvil mining corp., said today about 50 Frame construction housing units an a mess Hall at the Lead Zinc opera Tion were destroyed when a Forest fire scoured one end of the town 120 Miles North of Whitehorse. Sure come from or collapsing stars in the Milky Way the great Star system of which the Earth is one part. This is a discovery compar Able to the discovery of radio or. Gart westerhout. Maryland astronomy head told a University news conference. Weber s discovery promises to drastically alter the Lex the third article in the Canada 70 series will appear in tuesday s editions. Where the leaders Are Premier Walter Weir main Streeting in Lac Dubonnet and Selkirk monday. Tuesday he will Mains Reet in Portage la Prairie Gladstone . Liberal Leader k. W. Bobby Bend was in car Berry monday morning and in Brandon monday afternoon with Liberal candidates Terry Penton and Don Martin. He will speak at a rally in the Prince Edward hotel in Brandon at 8 . Monday. Or. Bend will Campaign in Charleswood during the lunch hour tuesday. In the afternoon he will be in Selkirk and Gimli and in the evening he will be in Arborg. Nip Leader de Schreyer flew to Northern Mani Aba monday to Campaign until Friday 4-01 Iky Meir Speaks out Miles East of Here. There Are no Gates or Bells at the crossing about 150 Miles East of Edmonton but it is marked with Cross signs that Shine in the dark. The car just wrapped itself around the front of the said a in spokesman. None of the train passengers adults and two children or two Crew members were injured. The East bound rail i liner sustained some damage but did not leave the track. The names of the four victims have not been released by ramp. A spokesman said the car was not a local one. Three hours after the Accident which occurred about 11 . Cost. Ramp were still trying to remove the dead from the car. Ten of the passengers on the self propelled rail liner were bound for North Battleford. 81 Miles Southeast of Lloydminster. The other was travelling to is Nylon stsk., 45 Miles South East. All were taken to their destinations by taxi. The Victor of sunday s presidential election in France Georges Pompidou Waves from the bal Cony of his Paris Headquarters to a crowd of Well wishers. Looking for a t.v.? this want and under miscellaneous articles 59 t.v., double bed. .152-5.107. Is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. By Frank Giles israeli Premier Goleta Cir was interviewed by or. Giles foreign editor of the sunday times during her visit to London. Ques t i o a and answer excerpts follow q. Israel does not approve of the present four Power attempts to resolve Middle East tensions. Do you like Pic idea of International guarantees for frontiers a. No we do not. I cannot imagine thai Israel would again consent to any Deal under which we would have to depend Cor our Security on others. We arc More intelligent than that. One docs not have to be very sophisticated to come to the conclusion after the bitter experience of 20 years that the Only people we can depend Oil for our Security Are ourselves. Q. Would not the approach to peace be easier if there wore a simple single agreed israeli plan instead of a lot of differing notions about the future shape and composition of Israel a. I think we have the plan. 1 think the very fact Hie israeli government did not sit Clown and draw a a p and say this map and no other and then present it to the world and the arabs shows that we arc not offering the arabs an ultimatum. We will want secure bord ers but this will be Dis cussed with the arabs once they agree to live in peace with us. The trouble is that they have not said they re ready to do this. So some other countries in the world among them Good friends of ours say now let us try to negotiate instead of the arabs and to this is something that is Rael will not accept. If you want further justification for our attitude you have Only to look at what has been published in Cairo after soviet foreign mini Ster Andrei Gromyko s visit. Using the november. 1967, Security Council resolutions please see Israel Page 4 today col eyes hold dress rehearsal today s Index classified .33 to 47 comics 15 deaths 4 finance.16 to 19 history today.5 Horoscope. 7 Jumble. 35 movies 13 sports 26 to 32 television 14 women 20 cily zone total nearly everyone reads the free press ;