Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday june 18, 1969 farm policies attacked Ada All sparked by a new democratic party non Confidence motion. There was no formal vote on the motion by nip Leader t. C. Douglas. It condemns the government for failure to take Steps to relieve the critical Cash position of Farmers in Western today the House turns to the official languages Bill which has been studied by a special All party c o m m i 11 e e. It must go through the report stage debate and get third Reading in the commons before going to the Senate for final approval and Royal assent. Or. Douglas accused the government of doing nothing to ease the critical Cash shortage of Western Farmers and called for an immediate 20-cents-a Bushel deficiency payment up to bushels on 1967-68 wheat deliveries. He said the Canadian federa Tion of agriculture s suggestion for an acreage payment of s2 an acre up to acres was a satisfactory alternative. But the deficiency payment would be easy to administer As the re Jcj is were readily available and it would ensure that the Money went to Farmers whose principal crop was Grain. On basis he called for a guaranteed Price to the Farmer of not less than the International grains arrangement floor Price of a Bushel a system giving the Farmer More for wheat sold on the Domestic Market and aggressive and imaginative sales Campaign. Or. Douglas said Canada could do More to develop mar Kejs in food Short areas of the could negotiate Long term agreements with Russia and China provided Canada was willing to accept soft currency and could do More to get food to the canadians whom the economic Council of Canada said were living in privation. Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield said or Olson should get action from the government or resign. 9e said prime minister tru Deau during the election Campaign promised to sell bushels of wheat a year. Now he tells them it is not his Job to sell or. Stanfield disagreed with or. Douglas s suggestion for a two Price system for wheat. It would just add to the heavy Load already carried by the average Canadian. The National Farmers Union estimated paying the Farmer More per Bushel for wheat for Domestic human consumption would raise the Price of bread about two cents a loaf or. Stanfield favored an acre age payment to put More Pur chasing Power into the hands of the Farmers. Leader real Caouette said or. Olson should not resign. Former transport minister Paul Hellyer resigned Over housing policies and the Gauthier to attend que. Event Maurice Gauthier president of the society Franco Manito Baine will represent Manitoba at the St. Jean Baptiste Day celebrations in Montreal next week. Or. Gauthier is attending the celebrations at the invitations of Marc Carriere president of the Montreal celebrations who said in a letter that invitations to the St. Jean Baptiste Celebration Are being extended to All French speaking canadians and americans. Following the St. Jean Baptiste Day celebrations in Mon Treal june 24, or. Gauthier will take part in a four Day Congress of the Conseil de la vie Francaise in amerique in Sher Brooke que. The counsel is a cultural organization representing French speaking groups in Canada and the . Housing situation was worse than Ever he said. Or. Olson said he would not resign because that would just be running away from responsibility. The beat problem was not being neglected. Or. Olson said the govern ment had doubled Cash advances on farm stored Grain. Given to the Ca Nadian wheat Board through the temporary wheal reserves act. Paid under the Prairie farm assistance act. Set special quotas for Damp Grain 1 made Cash advances to help cover the Cost of drying Grain. Instructed the farm credit corporation to defer loan pay ments for Farmers who were Short of Cash. Revived the farm improvement Loans act. Increased the sales promo Tion by the wheat Board. In support prices for wheat before the new grains arrangement came into operation. Shipped Worth of food mostly wheat and flour j under the Aid programs of the i Canadian International develop i ment Agency. I in addition Prairie Farmers i had collected in crop insurance. The Federal govern ment pays 25 per cent of the premiums and 50 per cent of the administrative costs. Jack Homer like or. Olson an Alberta rancher complained that the minister spent All his time saying what had been done but never got around to saying what was to be done. He said Canada made a mis take in going along with the new Grain s arrangement which excludes Russia and several other Grain exporting countries. The old International wheat agreement was More effective. Alf Gleave Biggar said Ever since Canada signed the new agreement which went into effect july 1, 1968, Canada had been trying to come from behind against Price cutting by the United states France and Australia. Pm gets second invitation St. Georges de Beauce que. Up prime minister Trudeau whose invitation to at tend a St. Jean Baptiste Day Celebration at Sherbrooke que., fizzled out after a bombing has been invited to attend local celebrations Here. Or. Trudeau whose presence also sparked a riot at Mont real s Observance of the Day last year was invited to the Centenary celebrations june 24 of the local St. Jean Baptiste society. The Sherbrooke celebrations were cancelled after a bomb exploded at the Sherbrooke St. Jean Baptiste society Headquarters during the weekend. The society in the City 80 Miles East of Montreal said fears for the prime minister s safety prompted the cancellation. St. Jean Baptiste is the Patron Saint of French Canada and his traditionally marked by festivals and parades in most Quebec communities. Richard Busqus president of the St. George de Beauce society said he will be greatly pleased if or. Trudeau can at tend but he was not sure the prime minister will be Able to accept. Following cancellation of the festivities in Sherbrooke or. Trudeau said he would probably spend june 24 relaxing in the country. Nixon in tight squeeze continued Security report Ottawa up the govern ment Hopes to table the report of the Royal commission on National Security next week Prim minister Trudeau said tuesday. In a commons reply to nip Leader t. C. Douglas or. Tru Deau also said the government intends at the same time to give some idea of the action it pro poses to take on the report s re commendations. Millee in private on april 22. This is 1 that the United states is in a Hope less military situation in Vietnam 2 that the Thieu regime has a vested interest in keeping americans on the battlefields and 3 that Washington must set in motion a schedule for com plete disengagement of . Ground forces. Stories about or. Clif Ford s proposals will be in thursday morning s news papers and the president will be confronted with the Issue when he holds a press conference thursday even ing. Partly at least for the purpose of winning More time with the Public or. Nixon flew to Midway to Confer on june 8 with South vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu and announce an Early withdrawal of . Troops. To is now dubious however How effective the Effort was in mollify ing Public opinion. The figure that appeared in the headlines seemed disappointingly Low to Many americans who had been Reading All Spring the speculations about a withdrawal of from to 100.000 troops this year. True the president at Midway held out the possibility of a larger scale withdrawal later in 1969. But this had so to speak the slight Impact of Fine print. The stuck in the mind. It is now obvious top that Midway has frightened the doves into believing that or. Nixon May have followed former president Lyndon b. Johnson s foot Steps in binding the United states to the Thieu regime. Among War critics the feeling is prevalent that hostilities cannot be ended so Long As or. Thieu governs South Vietnam simply because the forces of Hanoi will never come to terms with him a blast at or. Nixon s policies in the Senate tues Day by sen. Albert Gore Democrat Tennessee was symptomatic of the renewed criticism of the president s handling of Vietnam. On May 20 sen. Gore a leading Dove told these Nate approvingly that he had detected in the presi Dent s May 14 speech on Vietnam a departure from the Johnson policies. He urged patience to give or. Nixon a Chance to Advance the cause of peace at Midway. On tuesday sen. Gore again arose but this time lie criticized the outcome at Midway and warned that the president May become ensnared with the delusion of military sen. Gore declared that the announced withdrawal of troops is not a step toward peace but is More Likely a step toward prolonging both the War and the tenure of or. such a withdrawal would still leave . Troops in Vietnam. Even if the president should with draw a total of this negotiators meet again United nations a the big four s chief United nations delegates held their 13th private negotiating session i tuesday in search an israeli Arab peace formula. They met at the residence of French ambassador Armand Berard. The other participants were ambassadors Charles w Yost of the United states lord Cardon of Britain and Jacob a. Malik of the soviet Union. Year As has been indicated by authoritative sources would still be committed at the Start of 1970 a year incidentally of congressional elections. The anti War demonstrations that mrs. Richard m. Nixon and her daughter mrs. David Eisenhower encountered in Orgon on Mon Day Are a Mere Token surely of what lies ahead for the president if the negotiations drag on As they have. Some administration officials gloomily predict that the communists though eschewing a huge offensive will carry on sufficiently heavy attacks this summer to increase . Casualties and thus intensify pressure on the president at Home. Moreover the Viet Cong s recently formed provisional revolutionary government airily dismissed Here at first As new wine in an old bottle is now viewed pessimistically by some officials As a serious Obsta Cle in the negotiations. These officials who do not relish the idea of a communist take Over in Saigon before the 1972 presidential elections i n the United states fear that the provisional government. Could become the medium for a de Facto coalition govern ment in South Vietnam. And they suspect that a coalition government would soon be come a communist Domina Ted government. To the doves this idea is not nearly so chilling. A coalition government in South Vietnam is Nevi sen. Mike Mansfield Democrat Montana Senate majority Leader told the Senate tuesday. If there is to be peace in he said it will not be achieved on the Battlefield. It will be achieved in i Flo not think our president can afford longer to postpone this hard Deci Sion sen. Gore replied. The killing Grant to India Ottawa up Canada is making a Grant to India for Purchase of Canadian scientific equipment for use in re search programs it was n announced tuesday. The Grant takes the form of a line of credit offered the Indian Council of scientific and Indus trial research. India will order tie equipment through Canada s National research Council. Notice under the election act electoral division of Churchill the official agents for the candidates in the electoral division of Churchill at the forthcoming election on june 25th, 1969 Are Shirley Plaskey Lynn Lake Man. Official agent for i Wilf Hudson candidate Robert Purdy Churchill Man. Official agent for cordon Beard candidate d. A. Lynn Lake Man. Official agent for Walter Perepeluk candidate Helen Winner Wiilam Man. Official agent for Andre Champagne candidate dated it Wiilam Man., this 12th Day of june. 1969. Mrs. Elaine Miller returning officer of the electoral division of Churchill. 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