Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 24, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 701 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 7g no. 229 Price Loc tuesday june 24, 1969 Sun rises . Moon rises . Sun sets . Moon sets . Forecast Cloudy 55 and 70 n. Vietnam rules out Compromise chief strategist in Paris dashes Hopes of agreement by Murrey Marder Paris special tons North Vietnam s chief strategist in Paris rejected in Advance monday any Compromise with the Saigon regime for using a mixed commission of communists and non communists to organize a special election to decide South Vietnam s political Fate. Flat opposition 1o any form of Compromise involving the pre sent government in Saigon on which the Nixon administration has pinned in Hopes Tor a diplomatic settlement of the War was expressed by Hanoi politburo member be due Tho. In an interview with the Washington Post or. Tho equally ruled out any form of International supervision or participation in an election test in South Vietnam. He similarly brushed aside any Prospect for formal or tacit agreement to reduce the level of fighting As Long As the Nixon administration tries to proceed from a position of strength to end the War. The harshest language was aimed at president Nixon personally. Or. Nixon s personality and his deeds since he has been in office said or. Tho. Have revealed a warlike nature which has produced a policy reflecting the most warlike military circles in the United or. Tho said that in the five months since president Nixon has been in office he has engaged in futile Mons monday by prime minis manoeuvres that can be Ter Trudeau. Compared to building castles in please see tax Deal Page 6 tax Deal stumps experts Ottawa up the Federal and provincial governments Are looking longingly at yet another new tax hidden sales tax on services. But mercifully for the taxpayer they Haven t yet found a Way to get around All the difficulties. What might be taxed Are hair cuts and Beauty treatments Auto repairs and the like. Papers presented by the Feder Al government to the constitutional conference of provincial premiers earlier this month said More needs to be known about the service Indus tries before tax Laws can be written to cover them. The papers were tabled in the com blazing plane roars into Busy Street 10 killed As dc-4 cuts Swath of destruction in Miami Miami Florida a a dc-4 cargo plane with an engine ablaze roared into a Busy Street monday Cut Ting a four Block Swath of flaming destruction. Firemen douse wreckage of dc-4 cargo plane that crashed on Busy Street trying to reach Miami International Airport Poison kills fish dutch Cut off drinking water from Rhine the Hague Reu ters Poison in the River Rhine today forced the nether lands to Cut off drink water supplies to its main cities. Force goal. Target maps told Ottawa up Canada s armed forces Al ready at a Post korean War numerical Low will be chopped still further in the next 3 j years. Between now and Early 1973 i hair strength will fall to be j. To can 80.000 and 85.000 com. Pared the present i defence minister Leo Cadieux j 66 level for flood payments property owners in Manitoba who suffered flood damage during the Spring Are to receive compensation at the same rates which applied after the 196g flooding the department of mines and natural resources has announced. Compensation will be paid to help restore and repair flood damaged Homes farm Homes and buildings and Small Busi Ness premises. The scale of assistance could mean up to for a badly damaged farmstead for the dwelling s300 for appurtenant buildings such As garages and for other buildings essential to the farm operations. For other residential properties a dwelling and appurtenant buildings could bring maximum compensation of payments will be made under a compensation Board being set up under Elswood Bole of fort please see 66 level Page 5 the now time is running out on president Nixon said or. Tho or. Nixon finds himself in a the some fish Rhine Over a distance of 250 Miles were reported killed by the to be a told the commons monday. Vicious Circle. Withdraw . Forces from South Vietnam but he fears that i the puppet army and the puppet administration will collapse. But if or. Nixon is determined to pursue the War . Casualties will increase. The intention of or. Nixon to stay in Vietnam in 1 order to build up the Puppel army and administration that i will permit the prolongation of the War. But i think that time is not on the Side of or. Nixon. Now what has or. Nixon been Able to achieve in his last five months at the say he wants to form of Pluf s3s Sotl for Mak conference table we May that he has achieved personal attack the essence of or. Tho s attack has been reverberating for some weeks Here across the water supplies. See n. Vietnam Page 10 ing insecticides. The Poison now cinc Ana lazed at dutch laboratories reached the dutch Frontier Mon Day night. It was detected when j masses of dead fish floated i Down the Rhine into Holland from West Germany. Dutch authorities were using emergency Reservoir systems to provide cities with drinking Ater. Authorities warned millions of dutch residents not to use River water for any purpose and advised them against swimming in the Rhine. Barge Skippers were placed on the Alert to the Hazard and Farmers along the River were advised to Call in their cattle. The cities of Rotterdam. Amsterdam. Dordrecht and the Hague All started to use Reserve i the announcement i r e w j mixed reaction from opposition parties with the conservatives denouncing the proposed reduction and the nip and Crudi Listes supporting it. Air. Cadieux prefaced his statement with a warning that Many variables must be taken into account before final Deci Sions Are made and noted that Canada s role in nato still is being worked Oul. see troop Page 5 Lakehead gets new name port Arthur mayor of up Saul audit report hit group questions Cost of social network idea by Wally denn1son a 25-member professional study group has criticized the concept of a network of neighbourhood health and social service centres proposed in greater Winnipeg s so i Cial service audit and raised several major i questions about the audit s final report. One of the questions is whal would be the Cost of the proposed new system the others As listed in an ten persons were killed. One building was destroyed eight damaged. Flames and flying de Bris destroyed or damaged 42 cars and trucks. A police spokesman estimated the Over All properly loss at about the known dead included the plane s four Crew members and six persons on the ground. Another 12 were injured. Hours after the crash a half mile Northeast of Miami inter National Airport Rescue work ers sifted the smouldering wreckage and rubble for More bodies. We re sure there will be said police Lieut. James i Reese. A red Cross worker said he i believed there were at least two i More bodies in the debris. The Dominicana air lines j Craft was attempting to Circle Back to the Airport from which i it had just departed. One of its i four engines was out and a Sec Ond was smoking. A Wing struck the Corner of an apartment building bumped the second Storey of a medical i Centre skipped Over a bakery i slowed a Furrow in the roof of the next building took the Cor j nor off an Auto transmission i please see plane Page 5 egyptian Mig downed Survey May set off Rush the release of provincial geophysical surveys of the Southern Indian Lake area Friday May touch off a Rush of claim staking in the area. The Survey conducted last Winter is expected to give geologists and prospectors an indication of Mineral formations in the area. It was made so claims could be staked and explored before the area is flooded by the Churchill River diversion. Many people think releasing i the geophysical data two Days after the provincial election indicates the government is attempting to withhold information. However notices that the information would be re leased june 27 were posted Well in Advance of the election being called. There have also been rumours that Many prospectors Are staking claims in the area slated for flooding in the Hopes that they can collect compensation from the government on. Flooded claims. This too is not True. The area open to claim staking is Crown land and the mines act stipulates that any please see Survey Page 10 port Arthur interview by or. Philip Katz. Fog hoi in please Sec Poison Page 14 Bend Enns clash Over flooding by Mac Keillor Portage la p r a i r i e Man. Of Premier Walter Weir s Cabinet ministers 4schreyermania gives nip a lift by Bob Culbert nobody wanted to use the word but it finally happened monday night a Little bit of Schreyer mania h i t Southern Manitoba. After 16 Days of Tough hectic electioneering new democratic party Leader de Schreyer re turned Home to his two biggest strongholds of support in the province and received welcomes fit for a Premier. There were band parades packed Halls standing ovations chanting mini skirted girls and in return from the Young nip Leader a pledge that come thursday he will be forming the i new government of Manitoba. Said monday the Manitoba Premier was known around the f c Deral provincial Constitution conference As the faceless won Der and As Minnedosa fats. He also said that if the Community of South Indian Lake were not flooded within five years the inhabitants there would be As big a Load on the welfare funds As any other Indian settlement provincial m i n e s minister Harry j. Enns and Manitoba Liberal Leader Bobby Bend each fighting for political life in turbulent election Waters were Matching strokes in a Public Pool in a Church Hall Here. The met in a town Hall meeting each Man vying for buoyancy in the june 25 election in the Lakeside constituency. One of them must drown. The meeting was called by i the Portage la Prairie chamber a Light flow of moist air from the United states combined with Cool Over night temperatures to pro Duce a Blanket of fog this morning Over the red River Valley and cast to Kenora out. Visibility was Only about a Quarter of a mile for people going to work Between 7 and 8 . In greater Winnipeg. Earlier the fog was said to have been even thicker. Humidity was 100 per cent. First thing this morning. I he Dominion Public weather office was predicting a High of 80 today in greater please see fog Page 5 monday was elected mayor of the Lakehead cities which Are to be amalgamated next Jan. 1. Mayor Laskin an outspoken proponent o f amalgamation will head a new City of More than people formed by the merger of Forl i port Arthur and parts of j ing and Mclntyre municipal lies. Or. Laskin. a furniture store has been mayor for nine years. With a handful of polls still to be heard from a plebiscite held in conjunction with the Council vote showed a narrow prefer once for Thunder Bay As the name of the new City. Unofficial tabulation of the Vole from 275 of 290 polls five i Thunder Bay Voles com pared with 14.234 for Lakehead i and for the Lakehead. Mayor Laskin won a Huye majority getting More votes than his three rivals combined. I the count from 275 of 290, i polls was mayor Laskin mayor Ernest Reed of fort Wil Liam nip candidate Ted i Freeman 8.956 and Louis Peltier i 592. The group s chairman arc Are the proposed neigh j boyhood centres realistic in View i of the mobility of the Popula-1 Tion j 9 what Are the Community s major problems in regard to social services i 4 Why does the Audil play i statistical games please Sec audit Page 6 i today Canada 70 12 the Joys and sorrows of owning a horse 30 today s Index classified comics deaths finance Hovies sports television women City zone total to 46 31, 32 19 to 21 17 to 311, 16 22, 23 nearly everyone reads the free press from a Reuters israeli warplanes shot Down an egyptian Mig today Over the Gulf of Suez an israeli army spokesman said. He said the plane was hit by Cannon fire from an israeli fighter exploded in the air and crashed in egyptian territory. No Parachute was seen. Earlier. Egyptian commandos slipped across the Suez canal for the third Lime in three Days to raid an israeli position. The egyptians claimed at least 22 israelis were killed by an army patrol. A military spokesman in Cairo said the patrol also destroyed two armoured cars inside the position North of Al Shalt please see egyptian Page 5 wheat Price Cut hinted London Reuters a Cut in world wheat prices is expected to be considered by the International wheat Council which meets Here today. Statistics to be presented to the Council will disclose there is now a world surplus and the Market Price is dropping. To dispose their crops Many exporting countries Al ready Are Selling wheat at prices below the current official minimum rate. Weir closes As he started by Derik Hodgson Souris Man. Staff Premier Walter Weir came full Circle Here monday night. Looking for a tape recorder this want and under miscellaneous articles 59 new cassette tape rec Orn comp. With carrying cose. 901 Inkster blvd. Is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Section. To matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. In or. Schreyer s Home town i of Commerce. Invitations had of Beausejour he and his wife Rone to Lakeside candidates and Lily were met by a 30-piece i because or. Bend has been band who led the Parade to the co milled to a television show local Lyric theatre. Hie Lakeside contingent went on a crowd of More than my first. Or. Bend and or. Enns 111 an my were crowded Inlo the Liny theatre spilling into the foyer where Many people jostled for a View of the boy from the farm just outside town who was now bidding for the top Post in 1 he province. Please see Schrever Page r. Had the stage All to themselves the new democratic hopeful did t show. There were about 250 people j in the Hall and the Liberal Leader led off with a condensed j version of White Caps to has please see Enns 6 Liberal to show raps tories nip by Mac Keillor in his last Effort before e Day r. W. Bobby Bend mustered All his ammunition and in one half hour monday night his salves reached More areas of the province than he had Blank eted in two weeks. Or. Bend is the Leader of the Manitoba Liberal party and a Day is election Day and the two find out whether they were meant for each other wednes Day after the returning officers have ascertained the political whims of the province. In studio a at Jay Leie vision supported by metro i last Pilch to convince Hie people that the Liberal Way is the right Way. It did t come any too soon. Almost a month of campaigning showed itself in a voice gone hoarse and in his own words i had two pairs of shoes when i started out now 1 have Only please see Page 15 for other stories on the provincial election. But in his eyes it will All pay dividends. He closed with the Rural portion of his campaigning on the same note he opened with almost one month ago Federal issues. I he called for Manitoban to give a mandate to the party i thai could help direct Canada s i future Best at 1he Ottawa conference table. Before the 65 people gathered for a conservative dinner he warned remember the people you choose on the 25th wednesday will help decide Canada s future chiding both opposition parties for failing to put for Ward their constitutional View Points the Premier said the conservatives were the Only party provincially to outline the direction they Felt the i country should go. J i m More than a Little i disappointed that the Oiler parties have not taken Ilas seriously. They have not presented alternative views or support ours Liberal Leader r. W. Bobby Bend several weeks ago Premier the winds started about a Weir challenged the opposition week ago. There s going to be a to come up with some con Cycle Winnipeg Liberal candidates there s no doubt about proposals for constitutional re and iwo from outside the j form. Area along with about. 200 or. Bend staked his last on other issues the Premier Che Riim. Placard waving parly enthusiasts. Or. Bend made his please see to show Page 6 please see Weir Page 14 polls open at 8 a.111. Close at 8 pan ;