Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Photos of Prince Charles Page 9 Canada s leading rotogravure Magazine an nil Russia hockey series the professionals Are anxious to take on the russians to prove Canada s supremacy Page 2 Winnipeg free press vol. 76 no. 233 Price Loc 15c saturday june 28, 1969 so a . Forecast mainly sunny 70 and 45 9-22 in search of popularity Robert Musel reports on Prince Charles steady growth to maturity Page 4 m is Canadian football dying Andy o Brien says the Canadian football league is in trouble and by 1971 could be dead Page 8 it s time to kill another King what life is like with the men who Cut Down the giant Trees in . Plus Page 10 a summer for Camps. Pages 2, 3 it happened Here Page 4 sports news pages 10, 11 Church news pages 12, 13 school s out Page the Rune Stone want. Page color comics Jumble winners 6 and elsewhere in the careers comics classified deaths k2 s3 to is 33 to 51 i finance.58 to 63 wednesday s decision Day now for Weir Premier awaits proper time to reveal future course the shattered progressive conservative cab inet decided Friday it won t resign at least until to radio letters movies sports travel women Gen. Ducks bullets Winnipeg officer family scene of que. Bank Job Quyon que. Up an army general on vacation was forced to Duck bullets at the Start of his holidays Friday when gunfire broke out during a Bank robbery in this quiet Ottawa Valley Community. . William Carr com Mander of Canadian armed forces training command at Winnipeg pulled his wife and son to safety on the floor of the car As a Bank robber s Bullet slammed into the car door and another whizzed by. Four hooded bandits opened fire to discourage Pursuit As wednesday. At a meeting in the Legisla Tive building the Cabinet Gath ered to its Leader Premier Walter Weir and decided not to make any announcements about resigning until that Day. J the Premier says he wants to i await official results from last wednesday s provincial election and also the counting of the Hospital polls vote before Mak ing any decisions. In the Wake of the election which pushed the new democrats to within a hair breadth of becoming the government Premier Weir would say Only ill make an announcement at the proper 1c the Premier wails until the official results Are All in before making a decision. Manitoban won t know for about 18 Days who will form their new government. The conservative Cabinet was closeted with the Premier for about three hours Friday. J Premier Weir who had made himself unavailable to newsmen from election night on was finally cornered in a hallway in the legislative building. When he was congratulated on his personal Victory in Minne Dosa the Premier looked some what startled for a moment then said Well we won that 1 one anyway did t the Cabinet ministers who filed into the Cabinet room naturally enough weren t a picture of sparkling except one natural resources minister Harry j. Enns. He was his old bubbly self fresh from his Victory in Lakeside constituency Over Liberal Leader r. W. Bobby Bend. I Hope you unprintable made Money by betting on Bank rates rising Levy on Loans Biafra under attack Day on president Nixon and prime minister Trudeau shake hands in a Friendship ceremony Midway Between the United states and Canada on the St. Lawrence Seaway Power dam in Massena . Friday. They fled from a Branch of the Bank of Montreal after a Cus Tomer gave the alarm. Nobody was hit in the shoot he greeted reporters. Independent but pro North Beard by Bob Lowery Churchill Man. Special Gordon Beard newly elected ing. The robbers grabbed about member for Churchill declared si.000 in Cash some purses and Friday night he would retain the a pensioner s Cheque before is i Independent status on which he towards the Gatineau was elected by the people Here in wednesday s provincial elec Gen. Carr s wife Elaine was Uon. Walking towards the Bank door when a customer ahead of her turned Back out of the door shouting robbery mrs. Carr raced Back to her husband and son Peter waiting in a car. The pistol wielding robbers i would be prepared Down on the floor while they made their haul. To support legislation that is for the North but would under no circumstances become obligated to any he said of his position in the next legislature. Current standings Are new democrats 28, conservatives 22, liberals five with or. Beard fore 11 ordering manager Robert Thomson his staff of the of or for three and Tohe i either two a calling parties. I or. Beard said he would i maintain his Independence even if offered a Cabinet Post even the ministry of Northern affairs. Only a Strong Appeal from my Churchill constituents could Ever consider changing this the Only Way anyone could Ever change my he added would be to offer the premiership but by no Means the speaker s he said the hard fact is that no party has come up with a program for the North. J or. Beard said indications were that the result of All the political courting a coalition Between the conservatives liberals and social credit member May emerge. He said that this would make no difference what Ever to his Independent stand. I would remain strictly Independent but my bargaining position i s getting greater every he said. He admitted he has had Calls from though he would not say whether they were from new democrats or conservatives. Please see Beard Page 4 nigerian army launches new offensives Lagos a the Federal niger Ian government said to Day 2nd division troops have cleaned up the West Bank of the niger River and its other two divisions have launched new offensives against secessionist Biafra. No details were Given bul ear Lier in the week a defence ministry spokesman confirmed re ports that the 3rd Marine com Mando division had reached the outskirts of own Fri the largest and most important town left in Biafra hands. Chief Anthony Ena Horo com i missioner of information told a i news conference that the Nige j Rian air Force had been limiting j itself in past Days to tactical i support of ground troops. Re ports from Oterri thursday said Federal jets sprayed the town with canno fire wounding at least eight persons. Ena Horo said Federal forces now control the entire West Bank of the niger after it be came necessary to sack a Vil Lage called Missele Uku Between Benin City and Asaba when biafran disguised As refugees made a stand. Please see Biafra Page 4 Seaway Montreal up prime minister Trudeau and . President Nixon Friday came together at a ceremony to Mark the 10th anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway referring to the massive project As a unique example of International Coop ration. Good fences Are said to make Good neighbors said the prime minister As he stood under a blistering Sun in Massena ., speaking to several thousand people. Good ditches also make Good and he said the St. Lawrence Seaway is a marvellous please see a big Page 6 billions wasted report says Usan electronic gadgets useless secret Pentagon study alleges Washington special tons a secret Pentagon report asserts that the air Force is wast ing billions of dollars on electronic gadgets that have reduced not enhanced the effectiveness of tactical fighter and bomber planes. To hit tuesday Toronto up reflecting continued Strong demand for Loans in the face of a tightened Money Supply Canada s five major chartered Banks bumped their prime interest rates to a record 8% per cent Fri Day. The increases effective july 1, Range from one Quarter to one half of one per cent. They will give fresh impetus to the House of commons com Mittee on finance Trade and economic affairs which met thursday to plan a summer in Quiry into High interest rates in the country. They also drove Home the Point that from the Consumers viewpoint Little Hope is in sight in the immediate future for a break in the rising pressure on costs. Cen Tinute please see Bank Pago 6 missing Manitoba Man Safe Mideast Hopes dim by Robert Estabrook United nations . Special tons Flat soviet rejection of . Efforts to introduce flexibility into Middle East Border questions has Dis Diplo no Snow no rain says so take heart. It s not expected to Snow this week end. And in Case you be for gotten summer has been Here a whole week. There s Little Chance of rain the Dominion Public weather office says. Today just May be a Good Day to get in that Golf game or get the Lawn Cut. The forecast is for a mostly sunny Day with a High of 70. Of course Cloud s expected to move in tonight and the mar curve will Likely drop to 45. Sunday s expected to be a Lille cooler perhaps in the Low ills 15 . North East winds and Cloudy. Have fun. 2 Manitoban win sweeps two Manitoban As yet unidentified won a total of in the Irish sweepstakes on the run Ning of the Irish Derby at the Curranh. The race was won by Prince Regent and a resident of Gillam Man., under the code name Dufus won on him. A Winnipeg ticket code name Gina won on the second place horse rib Folio. The ticket car ried Moon series starts today the Moon a Symbol since ancient times of Romance madness and mys Tery will be in the fore front of the news next month when two . Astronauts attempt to land on its surface and thus become the first men from Earth to set foot on lunar soil. The perils and prospects facing these intrepid Moon explorers Are Dis cussed in a series of five articles by m. Levitt of the Franklin Pennsylvania. Courage some informed Mats Here. Although the soviet note delivered to the United states on june 17 had other More conciliatory parts it is under stood to have emphasized that israeli troops must withdraw from All Arab territory captured in the 1967 War. Despite previous soviet hints about adjustments this mean that Israel must Relin Quish East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights As Well As the Gaza strip and Sharmel sheikh the Strong Point overlooking the Mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba. Thus after three months of the study contends that the service has embarked on a misguided project to automate the tasks of bombing navigating and the detection of enemy aircraft although experience in Vietnam indicates that human skills and the less Complex devices of the second world War Are More accurate and More reliable. As a result the report declares the performance of . Tactical aircraft has been damaged. It urges a Stop to the design and Purchase of these devices until combat simulated tests show that they can assist and not hinder a Pilot. The document written last year Trudeau Here in july by Victor mack1e Ottawa staff prime minister Trudeau will visit the Prairies for six Days in mid july on what is described Here As is understood to support a fact finding tour designed its conclusions with a wealth of i to acquaint him with the prob data from the Vietnam of the West it was learn. The paper is classified but its i dec saturday principal findings have been he we re described to the Washington Post. They arc 0 forecasts and analyses of the accuracies of the Complex systems on All tactical aircraft Bear no relation to combat experience and Are off by sol i wide a margin that they arc would invalid. 0the testing of these sys tems is not adequate and none should be produced until More stringent test conditions Are created. I forecasts of costs Are not realistic partly because they Manitoba first where he will learn at first hand some of the causes for the provincial Liberal party s defeat and reasons behind the election of the new democratic As the party with the largest group in the legislature. Please see Trudeau Page 6 intensive discussion the Border Issue is said to revert to its dec. 30 position when a soviet note paved the Way for bilateral soviet american talks in Wash discus i neglect the outlays for main Taining unreliable equipment. Operating costs can run More than 12 times the investment in these systems Over 10 years. A rough Rale of thumb for fighters indians claim by the Canadian press a Hunt for two aircraft miss ing in the Northwest territories ended Friday one in tragedy. Three persons were found dead when the wreckage of a helicopter missing since june 11, was discovered 35 Miles South of Rennak Lake 200 Miles North of Norman Walls . Capt. Bill Whitehead a Cana Dian forces information officer for Alberta said in Edmonton that the missing Craft owned by Okanagan helicopters of Van Couver was sighted by a Cana Dian forces base Albatross from 442 Squadron in Comox . Elsewhere in the ., free persons missing since monday in a Cessna Iso were found alive and unhurt said capt. Whitehead. The three persons in the Cess na-180 were identified As Al Hochbaum of Delta Man., an Ocial of ducks unlimited mrs. Glen Warner wife of an ramp officer at Hay River . And the Pilot Lyle Hawkins of Cambridge Bay . They were discovered by a Ca Nadian forces Dakota at 10 . Cd Friday on the Effice River 360 Miles Northeast of Yellowknife after a search covered 28 hours and Square Miles. Institute of or. Levitt s articles will appear exclusively in this area in the free press starting today on Page 11. In ton and four Power Sions in new York. Holds that this combined Cost is the principal result of both j now s7600 for each Pound of sets of talks is believed to be a avionics. Tacit agreement that the two 0billions of dollars superpowers will not allow themselves to be drawn into a new Middle East conflict. There have been other Broad agree ends on principles but most of the vexing specific issues re main. Please see Mideast Page 6 been wasted on these devices in the past 10 years and More waste is in sight because tactical air inventory in the the next decade will consist almost entirely of planes with Complex electronics. They Are various please see billions Page 6 looking Fok a motorcycle this want and under motor cycles Triumph trophy ask cd Many extras. Best reasonable alter. Phone 339 5814. Is among Hie hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Section. No Mailer what you need shop and save in free press want ads. With bombs9 scorned Prince wins Welsh hearts or. Hochbaum s wife Joan said today from their please see missing Page 6 for a Page of pictures of Prince Charles please see Tage Caernarvon. Wales a Welsh nationalists seem to be Retreat the hour draws i is Chavin find a Man or woman outspoken by hostile to Prince Charles. In fact. Caernarvon Loim cled years ago As a fortified outpost of the roman Empire i their town rather than grim Cardiff should be the capital of Wales. Yel they Revere the Brit ish throne. This has always Licen a Royal m near Lor Britain s future King to ing Bride. Pledge himself to the service of j Prince Charles. 20, who will be Wales. I invested As Prince of Wales in a that s the impression a vis Royal ceremony tuesday. 9.000 think Tor gels in this town dominated by one of the most Majestic castles in the world. It s hard to today like a Blush-1 1st town springing irom an an in s in love with event belief that roman Emper ors first endowed the place with a special status a practice Fol Lowed by Kings Down the centuries. Now with the investiture of most of Caernarvon s citizens speak Welsh few nationalists would dare to preach violence against the English in Caernarvon s pubs and cafes. Manitoba indians have mustered the support of George Cardinal f 1 a h i f f and new have democratic party Leader de Schreyer in their dispute with the Federal government Over its recently National Indian policy. I David Courchene Manitoba Indian brotherhood president said both Cardinal Flahiff who Heads the roman Catholic Arch diocese of Winnipeg and or. Schreyer have promised to Send a Grams of protest to the Federal government. They were expected to be sent later saturday. Or. Courchene said he is also planning to meet with representatives from National and local civil liberties organizations to j discuss further the direction that might be taken. Earlier the Leader of Mani Toha s treaty indians says Leslie Thomas a novel termed the Federal proposals Welsh and act Welsh. They feel Charles Only three Days away is i have been in Many coun tries where an event such As tuesday s investiture would automatically mean that anyone the least suspect would be rounded up and put behind bars. Please Sec 1 Rince Page 6 and Indian affairs minister Jean Chretien wednesday tabled air base Accord reached Montreal up air Canada said Friday that negotiations have concluded with a Lodge of the International association of machinists and Aero space workers of matters relat ing to the Sale of the Winnipeg overhaul base to Northwest industries Ltd. A two sentence statement from the airline said agree ment in principle has been reached on All major Points and proposals would be Given to members of District Lodge 148 for ratification during the week of june 30. Policy plans which would give details of the agreement were indians ownership of reserves not disclosed. The Winnipeg Transfer the responsibility of base which employs 800, is 1o have its operations transferred please see indians Page 4 to Montreal ;