Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 20, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 70 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 76 no. 226 Price Loc with comics Friday june 20, 1969 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast Cloudy 40 and 60 no. Hydro flooding Bend liberals pledge to reverse tory policy on Indian Lake by Mac Keillor with Bend in flooding s out with qualifications. If elected the liberals in Manitoba would substitute a Low level diversion scheme involving a waterway sys tem and Lake Winnipeg for the progressive conserva Tive government s High level plan for diverting the Churchill River to the Nelson and no licence would be granted Manitoba Hydro to flood Southern Indian Lake. Advances made in providing a cheap nuclear Power would be a. Mine Cave in kills 3 examined. The Manitoba Liberal party issued its first formal statement on the Southern Indian Lake Issue thursday night. It came from Leader r. W. Bobby Bend at a Gigantic rally in the Highlander on Ellice Avenue in St. James Assiniboia which capped a Day in Winnipeg. A Day was a Liberal Blitz please see no Hydro Page 6 Natal . Up flood lights Cut through the rain soaked darkness Here Early today As Rescue Crews searched for three men trapped in a water soaked Coal mine. The men were imprisoned thursday when the roof of the Section they were working in collapsed. Three other men were killed in the Cave in and four escaped death in the bal Mer South Coal mine located in the Southeastern Corner of Brit ish Columbia 85 Miles West of Lethbridge Alta. One of the survivors. Hank Joinson of nearby Fernie held out Little Hope for the men. There could possibly be somebody alive up there but i Don t think so. I doubt during the night Relief Crews arrived in a bus at the head of the tightly restricted mine which stretches More than 2vz Miles into a Mountain. They re placed men who had More than 12 hours in the Maze of tunnels and ruins searching for the missing three. Thirty rescuers in 10-Man Crews used mining equipment and Han tools As they dug through mud Rock and Coal. Killed in the collapse were Jerry Heath Fernie ., a Bachelor Robert Dan Cosine Coleman Alta., married with no children and Steve Tkachuk please see mine Page 20 farm 4dvances okayed House Row looms new Battle Over debate. Rules hinted j by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff a new fight in the commons Over government imposed rules for closure threatens to prolong the House ses Sion past the june 27 tar get Date set for the summer recess. If the liberals persist the combined opposition has warned it will Battle against adoption of the report All the Way. This could prolong the session Well into july much to the disappointment of All maps. They have been looking Forward to getting away from Parlia ment next week for their summer break. The new confrontation is a resumption of the bitter Battle which plunged the commons turmoil in the weeks just before Christmas. When the please see House Page 6 stairway to Skyway sex two Price wheat no cure Weir by Jed Stuart Carman Man. Staff a t w o a r i c e w heat system would t c u re Manitoba Farmers current Cash shortage Premier Walter Weir told a progressive conservative rally Here thursday night. Please see Page 5 for other stories on the provincial election. Speaking to about 200 sup porters in the local memorial Hall or. Weir said a two Price system would encourage Over production in an area already plagued by surpluses. He said he favored acreage payments As a Stopgap measure to help alleviate the current Cash shortage. The payments would help Farmers pay interest on Bank Loans until they could sell their Grain. The main opposition parties have been advocating a two Price wheat system and criticizing the Weir administration for voting against the proposal during the last session of the legislature. The Premier was speaking on behalf of mayor George Hen Derson of Manitou. Progressive conservative candidate for Pembina constituency in wednesday s provincial election. Also on the platform were conservative candidates Warner Jorgenson campaigning for re please see 2-Price Page 6 nip pledges Aid for Consumers by Joyce Fairbairn Ottawa staff Trade minister Jean Luc Pepin announced Friday that Prairie Grain growers will be eligible by Bob Culbert Minnedosa Man. Staff new democratic party Leader de Schreyer moved into pre Mier Walter Weir s Hometown Here thursday night and came up with another Campaign Trump card. In his latest election pledge or. Schreyer promised that if elected june 25 he would bring in new far reaching legislation to give Manitoba Consumers a fair break in the Market place. J or. Schreyer told a Public i meeting in the legion Hall Here he would establish a consumer Protection Bureau whose pow ers would include conducting Vances in the new crop year even though outstanding advances have not been fully re paid. The minister told the com Mons that million will still be owing on july 31 from the current crop year. Or. Schreyer said that the new Bureau would also be Given Powers to require full disclosure of interest rates charged for con Sumer credit. License used car dealers and mortgage brokers. Please see consumer Page 20 million project including up hotel and 40-Storey office building in the works a huge downtown Complex for Winnipeg was announced Friday. No specific figures were Given but mayor Steve Jubo of Winnipeg indicated a value of million to million. The project on the site of the old bus depot at Graham ave nue and Carlton Street would include a Square foot office building for the head office of the investors group. It will be about 40 storeys High. A 300-room Canadian Paci fic hotel. A parking Struc Ture. A twin theatre which would seat a total of 1.100 people. Development of two blocks on the City of wife Peg s Gra Ham Avenue Skyway Between Donald and Carlton streets More than feet of retail space for specially boutiques restaurants airline offices and similar stores. The Developer r. C. Baxter president of r. C. Baxter Ltd. Of Winnipeg said a new com Pany Centre Point of Canada Ltd., had been formed to develop the Complex. He said his firm has completed a preliminary feasibility study and the results Are extremely the Developer said the investors group and Canadian Paci fic investments Ltd. Have authorized a further major expend. Dit re to determine the final feasibility. If this proves Satis factory the two firms would join or. Baxter s firm i a three Way development of the Complex. Eaton a which has made some of its land available for the project will also have an interest in the development or. Baxter said. The main office Structure housing the investors group be one of the tallest in Winnipeg but modesty pre vents me from saying exactly How said or. Baxter. But mayor Juba who attended the press conference at which or. Baxter made the announcement along with pre Mier Walter Weir of Manitoba Andi metro chairman Jack Wil Lis indicated it would be a 40 Storey Structure. Or. Baxter said construction would Start in the Spring of next year for completion in about 18 months to two years. The Skyway in an enclosed pedestrian mall built Over Gra Ham Avenue at the second Storey level would include such Public amenities As a conserva tory a theatre in the round a skating rink and an aviary with year round climate control. The Skyway would be built As please see downtown Page 6 . Plans to recall troops pulling out this year from Vietnam Nixon says Washington Nixon said in a nationally televised news conference thursday night that he hoped All . Ground combat troops would j be out of Vietnam sometime next year. In his most optimistic state ment on the War the president said he intended to beat the recommendation of former Secretary of defence Clark m. Clifford that about j troops be withdrawn this year and All ground combat troops by the end of next year. The president also said that the United states would be ready for the Start of strategic arms talks with the soviet Union by aug. 1. He hinted that major bargain ing on strategic weapons might be possible that could Lead to an abandonment of the Mir testing by this country. But he said the need for an anti ballistic missile program was greater than when he first advocated it and that he had no doubt Congress would approve his recommendation. The president when asked about the Clifford article in the Magazine foreign affairs sharply criticized or. Clifford s own record when in the defence department noting that . Casualties were higher then than at any other time of the Vietnam War. Please see. . Plans Page 6 Premier Walter Weir left. Mayor Steve Juba Centre and metro chair Man Jack Willis announce the completion of plans for the Graham Avenue Skyway. Heart of the project and in the words of the officials hopefully the heart of the nation is a new off ice hotel theatre and retail Complex to be known As Centre Point shown Here. The project to Cost to million it to be completed by the Winter of 1972. Where the leaders Are suspected of being excessive. Or. Schreyer also promised to encourage the development of consumer owned co operatives in the province. He said that through a program of incentives and a provision of loan capital at a As deliveries will not be i reasonable rate interest sufficient for Many Farmers to retail co operatives could be pay off this amount the government has decided to give please see farm Page 6 and the involved in fostered thereby More meaningful retail process. Consumer a much to fight spurning of Hostel the c o no a Unity welfare planning Council said Friday it will ask Winnipeg s civic health committee to reconsider its decision not to allow the opera Tion of a youth Alexandra school. Hostel in Montreal cancels envoy invitations Montreal up fire works marking Celebration of St. Jean Baptiste Day the an Nual feast Day of French can Ada s Patron Saint went off Early this year. Preparations for the june 24 Holiday celebrated annually throughout Quebec with parades speeches an d fireworks displays have been marked by a spokesman for the Council controversy Over invitations to dignitaries to attend local festive Way in the Susie summer weds Jack Frost better keep your Topcoat Handy for the weekend and forget thai summer officially begins at . Tomorrow. Record Low temperatures for june 20 were set at almost All Manitoba Points this morning and it appears As if the Topcoat weather which has chilled the prov Ince since wednesday morn ing will remain through the weekend according to the Dominion Public weather office Winnipeg. Winnipeg went below the freezing Mark of 32 at about 5 . Today with a record Low of 31.8, one tenth of a degree lower than the re Cord Tor the same Date in 1940. A Reading of 2b at Brandon and Pussell was Manitoba s lowest temperature this morning. It broke Brandon s 1s40 record of 34. A weather office spokes Man said the cold snap is due basically to a very Strong northerly flow of cold air in the upper atmosphere which is forcing quite Cool air Down from the Arctic it this were Winter the same situation would put the area Well below Zero. The Only thing that s please see summer Page 6 Premier. Walter Weir visited Sturgeon Creek constituency Friday morning. In the afternoon he visited shopping centres in Charleswood and will be at shopping centres in Assiniboia and Rossmere Friday night. Liberal Leader r. W. Bobby Bend left Winnipeg Friday morning and Clew to Lynn Lake where he will stay until 3 . He will spend the night in Churchill. Nip Leader de Schreyer Mains Treetel in Winnipeg Friday. He walked South on main Street from the Boundary of West Kildonan to Portage Avenue and stopped at Union Centre for lunch and a news conference. He will continue West on Portage Avenue in the afternoon to the Border of St. James. Friday evening he Wil Mai Street in Gimli and then attend a Public meeting in Ashern. Said he can t understand How committee could reject an application to use the school because in fact no application has yet been made. Never made application and Are most puzzled How this thing came up at said the spokesman. Later a spokesman for the City clerk s office explained in an interview that thursday health committee had Defeated a motion which asked that a Hostel licence be granted if application were made by the welfare planning Council. Tuesday the Winnipeg school Board had approved the use of the soon to be closed school As cities. The organizing committee of the Montreal St. Jean Baptiste Day Parade thursday cancelled invitations to More than 70 for eign dignitaries following criticism prime minister tru Deau. Or. Trudeau wednesday was reported angry because the diplomats had been invited to the celebrations and representatives of the Federal government bad not. Telegrams signed by Marc Carriere chairman of the organizing committee and Mont real mayor Jean Drapeau were or. Trudeau told the com Mons after meeting with or. Carriere that he realized that the diplomats had received their invitations before they knew the Federal government was being overlooked and that they had accepted in Good Faith. But the diplomats had to find diplomatic reasons for not at tending the Montreal celebrations. The protocol division of the external affairs department was besieged by Telephone Calls i from embassies seeking advice j we simply Drew their Atten a Tion to the prime minister s an external affairs spokesman said. Parade organizers announced originally that no Federal politician would be invited to at tend this year s festivities in please see envoy Page 15 bombs tossed in que. Quebec up a Molotov cocktail set a quickly extinguished fire in a hotel lobby a bomb made of Gunpowder exploded in a Small Box and two luxury class cars were destroyed by fire Early today As violence erupted in the Wake of the opening of the Union natio Nale leadership convention. No a summer youth Hostel. Sent to foreign ambassadors in the old school is at 181 Ottawa and members of Consu Edmonton Street. Lates in Ottawa and Montreal the matter c e up after saying the invitations were health committee had received being withdrawn because of an a letter from City medical health officer or. Roper g. Cadham asking for guidance on the interpretation of bylaws governing hostels. Or. Cadham who had Spe Tecl the school at the please see to fight Page 6 unfortunate and involuntary set of or. Carriere had met earlier in the Day with or. Trudeau. The cancellation represented a Way for foreign diplomats to avoid a knotty problem of Proto col. Queen shown off duty to pierces facade railway denies charges Ottawa up top Legal and executive Talent of Canna Dian National railways denied Uesel one was injured. Police said they were search ing for two men and a woman believe connected with at least one of the incidents. The explosions and fires occurred Between . And . Police said they were unable to say what motivated the violence. Some groups Dis satisfied with policies of the Rul please see violence Page 6 collision kills Uncle and Nephew Brandon Alan. Up two Brandon residents were killed at about . Today in a car truck collision at the Junction of the trans Canada and no. 10 highways just North of Here. Killed were Donald Gerald Taggart 27, and his Nephew Robert Randall Taggart 16. They were the Only occupants of the car. The Driver of the Semi trailer unit identified As Anthony Wyler of Brandon was in Hospital with undetermined in juries not thought to be serious. Or. A. H. Povah Coroner at Brandon has ordered an in London up glimpses of prime minister Trudeau Chat Ting privately with the Queen and whispering to Princess Anne at a state banquet Are shown in an unprecedented Tele vision documentary about the Royal family which canadians will see in color next septem Ber. A preview thursday showed it is the most intimate and human View the Public has Ever had of the Queen and her family and what goes on behind the facade of Royal occasions. Canada the United states and Australia have bought the 105 minute movie made jointly by bbl and Independent television networks without having seen an Inch of it. They have paid a undisclosed sum that it salesmen describe As world record the Queen will get 50 per cent of the profits which she May devote partly to Charity. Eventually audiences of around the world Are expected to see the film called Royal family and estimated to have Cost it will be first seen in Britain saturday. Among the most fascinating scenes in the movie which Fol lows the Royal family on and off duty throughout a year Are the Queen s discussions with British and Commonwealth prime strictly confidential. Trudeau in Brown suit and tie is seen evidently near the end of an audience during the Commonwealth prime minis ters conference last january. The Queen asks him about the coming afternoon session Deal ing with the conference Agenda. Trudeau replies he Hopes the speakers will be Don t like Long the Queen responds with a sympathetic laugh. In another scene at a grand state banquet during the Commonwealth conference Trudeau in White tie and tails is seen leaning Over confidentially to Princess Anne with his hand please see to Page 7 before a commons committee thursday allegations from Dis satisfied contractors on the great slave Lake railway. Norman j. Macmillan car chairman and president led off the railway s defence against the contractor charges with a warning that a dangerous precedent would be r set if the government or parliament accedes to the demand of the con tractors for a Public inquiry. The transport committee heard the five complaining con tractors tuesday gave the rail Way its rebuttal thursday and went behind closed doors to de Termine what action to take. With the government aiming at concluding the session june 27 the whole Issue could die without a report to uie com Mons. Please see railway Page 20 today Canada 70 44 today s Index classified 29 to 45 comics 12, 13 deaths 15 finance 16 to 39 jumble.31 movies.10, 11 sports 24 to 28 television 8 women 21 City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press it ;