Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 17, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to beat 701 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 76 no. 248 Price Loc thursday july 17, 1969 inquiry on juvenile crime sought commission wants province to initiate Public probe the Winnipeg police commission decided wednes Day at a meeting in the Public safety building to re commend to the attorney general of Manitoba that a Public inquiry be set up to examine the problem of juvenile crime its prevention and detection. Alderman Donovan Swailes ramp riot squad stands by Sunrise . Moonrise Sunset . Moonset . Forecast sunny 50 and so moved that letters urging such an inquiry be sent to the attorney general the provincial welfare department and the Winnipeg school Board. Two weeks ago a deputation of residents in the Fulham Avenue Kenaston Boulevard Academy Road area presented a petition to the commission calling for an inquiry into juvenile crime. The residents complained Homes in their area have been broken into 16 times in recent years. In addition to a Public million High Rise Complex planned by Bob Lis Way plans Are being prepared for a apartment building Complex Southeast o f Carlton Street and St. Mary Avenue to complement metro s downtown Winnipeg redevelopment scheme. Proposed Are several High Rise residential buildings which i would be constructed in a six Powals. He said he could see Block area Over a period of five they asked for in the City s police police chief John c. Told the commission a general in Cuiry into the subject was held by Federal authorities Between 1962 and hik5. Nothing had been done about its pro inquiry increase Force. Acting Webster Little Point in another inquiry on similar lines. Commission member prof. 11. Bellan said he thought a pub Lic inquiry involving Many agencies would be a Good thing provided any recommendations were realistic and not Rose Tinl Rel ideals. He suggested an in Quiry be held to gather information from All those involved with juvenile offenders including police and teachers. Once we have accumulated sufficient knowledge we can Start to do something about the crime rate. The first thing to do is just to get the facts and an inquiry would serve this or six years. Indications Are construction will Start on the first building this fall. The development is the first commitment by a private Developer to metro s d o w n town re development scheme unveiled in june. A spokesman close to the Developer said specific details cannot be revealed at. This stage because More land has to be acquired to make a Complete parcel for the five year project. An official announcement is expected in about two months. The spokesman said the Developer also wants a commit please see High Rise Page 8 crime rate takes big jump in 1968 by Peter Gorge crime in Winnipeg increased by 13.65 per cell in 1968 compared to 19g7 and one of the contained in a 35-Page, Sla Islic packed annual report by Winnipeg police chief George blow made Public at. A meeting of Hie largest increases was in j Winnipeg p o i i c e commission offences under the narcotics j wednesday. Control act. Chief blow s report for these Are two of 1905, he noted a decrease in interest increase opposed by Stan Mcdowell Ottawa minister Edgar Benson said i wednesday the chartered Banks would not be justified in raising their lending rates in response to the increase to 8 per cent of. The Bank of Canada Bank rate. I do not see any occasion for an increase in the prime rate in these particular Circum St he told the commons. But the finance minister said he had no Power to order the Banks to raise their rates now at 8.5 per cent for Blue Chip borrowers. Bank of Canada governor Louis Kasminsky announced late tuesday an increase from 7.5 to s per cent in the Bank rate the rate at which the Bank of Canada makes credit Avail Able to the chartered Banks. Or. Kasminsky announced at the same time he asked the Banks to freeze the level of swapped through which Canadian funds had been flowing into foreign mainly . Banks in search of higher interest rates. The Bank rate was raised primarily for external Pur or. Benson said. Interest rates prevailing in other parts of the world Are so attractive that Canadian funds have been moving out to be i previous year. In 1967, crime i increased 6.65 per cell. In his latest report chief blow expresses particular con Cern about the increase in drug arrests. During 1968 the morality division arrested and continued please see. Crime Page 11 a abandoned in Atlantic Heyerdahl forced to quit papyrus boat Trudeau exchanges verbal blows with 700 angry Farmers by Dave Mcintosh Regina up prime minister Trudeau and Regina just Don t hit it off. About a year ago University students jostled the prime minister and drowned out his words when he came Here for some statue unveiling. On wednesday it was the turn of the wheat Farmer self described flour Power to give or. Trudeau the Back of their gnarled sinewy hands. The prime minister gave it right Back and said Farmers it a it if were not going to get any better break from the government than Fisherman or indians or any other Canadian in need. He was booed shouted Down and heckled by a crowd of about 700, mostly Farmers pro testing Low Cash income because of slow wheat sales. There was a heavy sprinkling of students and nip left wingers in the crowd. A 40-Man ramp riot squad was secretly moved into the lobby of or. Trudeau s hotel while he was speaking r trying to the crowd from the Back of a truck near the hotel Entrance. Please see Farmers Page 6 pig sign angers pm by Dave Mcintosh Saskatoon angry prime minister Trudeau told a crowd of Farmers today that if. They want to see him again they should not bring signs to the meeting saying he is a pig and Hustles women. The prime minister was using a bullhorn to address a crowd of some 800 in front of the Bess Borough hotel. The crowd listened to him in silence in contrast to a Regina crowd wednesday which booed him and shouted him Down. Or. Trudeau thanked the Sas Katoon audience for the re Spect you be he added in a reference Lijie Regina meeting that some things ire not argument but in sult. If you want to see me again Don t bring signs saying tru Deau is a pig and Hustles women. I did t get into politics to be you re trying to Hustle somebody shouted. Or. Trudeau said nothing fur new department of Urban de ther and left for the Airport. I which would Deal with the urgent need for rationalizing the present confuse Apollo past i half Way Point 31en, machines operating almost flawlessly i As Craft hurtles through space Farmers on tractors in Regina wednesday confront prime minister Trudeau with complaints about farm situation Winnipeg Index up 1.1 per cent Western Consumers paying top Dollar Ottawa up consumer prices climbed at a faster clip last month in the cities of West Ern Canada than in main Urban Urban dept. Study set premiered Schreyer of Manitoba has asked finance minister Saul Cherniack to study the establishment of a centres of the Eastern part of the country. Consumer Price indexes in 10 the c o u n t r a Houston a guiding themselves by the stars the Apollo 11 astronauts soared past the Halfway Point of their journey to the Moon today with men and machines operating almost flawlessly. As they sped towards their Date with history Russia s Luna Xiv zipped into orbit around the Moon on its mystery Mission. A Moscow report said uie Craft had become a lunar satellite but there was still speculation the unmanned vehicle might at Lempel to land scoop up Moon samples and return them to Earth before Apollo 11 can bring Back a cargo of rocks. Spacecraft commander Neil a. Armstrong Edwin e. Aldrin or. And Michael Collins reached the mid Point of their outward trek at . Cd when i their 48-ton spaceship was pre 1 Ciscley Miles from Bolh Hrth and Moon. The astronauts crossed thai invisible lint after hours seconds of flight Al a Speed of about 3.000 Miles an hour. It i will Lake them twice cover the remaining distance. Like a car coasting Uphill the spaceship gradually has slowed from its initial Speed of . In Washington. President Nixon announced the astronauts will leave behind on the lunar surface next. Monday medals awarded to two soviet Cosmo nauts killed while participating in the space program. The medals were Given Loas Tro naut Frank Borman during his recent visit to Russia by widows of Yuri a. Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov. Gagarin. The first Man to Fly in space was killed in a plan please see Apollo Page 8 wheat talk bid refused by govt. Published by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff Flat Refu Sal of the Federal government to adjourn the rules debate for a Day and enable the commons to show increases for june from i y by the do its full at Elltion to the statistics i Isis stirred up a storm in the House wednesday. May of one per cent or More in challenging government the five Western cities and to nouse Leader Donald Mac or to less than one per cent for j to meet Hirn on the floor thursday night for a Duel of words opposition Leader Stanfield angrily denounced Hie government s Atti tude As preposterous Oslo api Thor Heyer Dahl and his six Man internation-1 Al Crew have left their Liny papyrus boat a because bad weather today caused a danger Ous situation a norwegian Amateur radio operator said. But the ing and contentious form of duplicate and multiple Munici pal such a department would also attempt to meet the great need Here we have parliament in changes serious j economic situation in the weal. I Montreal and Atlantic centres. As compiled the indexes do not permit comparisons of prices Between cities but show the relative rate of increase. Vancouver s Index and an cd. J 1.2 per cent the indexes of win i session. We have a very in pc Edmonton and Calgary j 1.1 per cent and those of Saska Toon re Gnu and Toronto one per cent. Edmonton and Calgary arc paired in a single Index and so arc Saskatoon and Regina. The m o n t r e a 1 Index Rose nine tenths of one per cent in the month is. Johns nfid., Ottawa and Saint John each seven tenth and Halifax six tenths. The National consumer Price Index compiled on a broader surely we should be Able to discuss this grave crisis in the or. Stanfield said out Side the commons. Or. Stanfield urged on the j government House Leader the importance of providing at least a Day s debate on the wheat crisis interrupting the current debate on the government s controversial rules proposal. Or. Macdonald walked Al the suggestion saying if inc opposition parties were prepared to co operate Wilh the government and pass proposed Rule including inc much please Sec wheat Page 6 Luna 15 orbits Moon basis advanced eight tenths of one per cent in june and stood 5.2 per cent higher than a for improved housing in the pro j year earlier. Those figures were Vince. Published last week. Or. Schreyer said in a press j of the indexes for the cities wheat crop Cut 2 million acres Ottawa up Prairie has been sown in oilseed and Farmers Cui their wheat acreage eed Grain. By this year the do summer allow acreage in minion Bureau of statistics re creased to acres com Heyerdahl now aboard fishing vessel Shenandoah which has been escorting since wednesday said in a his for weeks the a made Good Progress but on sunday it was damaged by a tropical storm Rivich broke the Yar Darra and leering oar robbing Heyerdahl f his sail Power and much of is steering the Urban problem is one facing All expanding cities and the government Hopes to bring about an improved form of Good and efficient municipal government to continued please see Urban Page june figures for Holh Winn Peg and Halifax were 5.1 p cent higher Ihan a year Earlic year to year increase Cor 11 others Edmonton Calgary 4 per cent Ottawa 4.7 per Cen conf thu please see Western Page i ported wednesday in its prelim pared with last year. Inary estimate of crop and sum acreages of All other grains me fallow acreages. Increased Oats 6.800.000, up the Bureau estimates Farmers last year s bar the three provinces seeded per acres in All types of wheat including durum com pared with acres in 1968. About half of the up from up from 619.000 flaxseed up from rapeseed 2.012.000, up from the increased summer allow acre reduction has been left As set a new Nijen the Bureau re summer allow. The remainder new detention Centre slated radio report that he will wait j for better weather and see if he can repair the heavily damaged Reed boat. He added that he and his Crew would proceed to Barba Dos in the West indies aboard a if there is no danger to the lives of his Crew. The Shenandoah took aboard film and other equipment from the damaged partially water logged Little boat. The norwegian explorer who made his name with his Pio Neering raft voyage across the Pacific. Sailed from Morocco May 26 in a replica of the Papy rus boats sailed by the ancient egyptians. He hoped to sail it invested in other parts of the j across the Atlantic to latin world through swapped de America to demonstrate his he explained. Theory that the egyptians could have made the same voyage please see loan Kate Page s j More than 4.000 years ago. By waxy Dennison medicare insurance premiums. Proposals in greater Winni however he said the govern Peg s social service audit would ment is committed to a be tested carefully before any substantial change in action is taken on them health method of financing minister Sidney Green indicated wednesday. I his own immediate priorities include provision of an alternative building to the Vaughan. Street detention Centre and a meeting monday with the Mem j Bers of the Manitoba Hospital commission and the Manitoba health services insurance corporation. Meanwhile or. Green can t say Al this time what will happen with the new democratic party s proposal to reduce the looking for a boat this want at under boats and Marine supplies 89 16 Airliner boat 18 . Johnson motor with new trailer. S600. 339-7481. 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. The major proposal in the audit report released last month after 3m years of study Calls for a network of neighbor Hood health and social service Green said in an interview. Ports and reverses a trend to wards cropping a larger proportion of farm land made possible by improved technology in fertilizers herbicides and Machin Ery. Reduced acreages sown appear to reflect Farmer concern with last year s Large carry Over of wheat and the drop in j Export sales. Agriculture experts have recommended a shift in emphasis from wheat to ii Moscow Reuters Russia announced today that Ilsun manned Luna Xiv spacecraft was in Orbil around the Moon. Luna Xiv was an artificial satellite of the said announcement read Over mos cow radio. The wording strongly implied that no All Empl would be made 1 to land either the Craft or a module from in on the Moon s surface As has been widely forecast Here and abroad. The announcement read Over Moscow radio just after 3 . 7 . Cd was the first offi Cial word on the Progress of the Craft. The initial statement that at the Lime of launching said Only in would make further scientific studies of the Moon and near Moon the speculation that it would try to land a module and bring Back a Sample of Moon soil to Earth was caused by consistent forecasts from unofficial soviet and other communist sources in recent months. The sources have been fore casting such a bid As a last min Ute soviet attempt to take some of the gloss off the american Apollo 11 flight but Western experts in Moscow consistently doubted whether the russians were capable of such a feat yet. He was sworn in tuesday As j seeds and feed grains. Health and social services min ister in Manitoba s nip Cabinet. On the other hand we won t centres which would be re avoid fulfilling our responsibility Spon sible to a Central provincial to the people who need services government office. The centres j just because there May be some would offer a wide Range of j objections by certain people services now being handled by the important thing is we won t a r i o reports on crop conditions telegraphed to Ottawa tuesday night by the Bureau s crop Cor respondents on the Prairies show a general improvement in Plant growth and crops Are doing Well throughout most of the area. I exceptions Are flooded areas. Organizations and i make any abrupt or substantial _ Centre employees would he civil j change unless we have proven in of Mant servants. Ioda and drought areas of Alber can be sure there wont or. Green thought the audit s a. Crop development in Genera be wholesale changes in any of Basic concept of enabling the is Aboul a week behind Normal the existing programs until j person using social services to i shifts in crop patterns Are what has neen suggested by the j Deal with one organization was similar in the three provinces audit is proven to be practically a healthy one. Acreage of the different crops beneficial rather Ihan just words in a or. Please see Green Page 11 please see wheat Page 8 today cold Wing did t need a prayer today s Index classified 31 to comics 24, 25 deaths 22 finance .26 to 29 movies sports television women City zone Tola i 14, 15 48 to 57 13 17 to 19 nearly everyone. Reads the free press ;