Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 23, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba growing to Winnipeg free press wednesday july 23, 1969 final edition Sunrise Moonrise . Sunset . Moonset Trudeau booed forecast sunny 50 and 75 gunboat tactic cry aldermen a supreme gesture of gunboat tac arrogant and inconsiderate these were phrases used by Winnipeg aldermen to describe metro s decision to hold a Public hearing july 30 on its million downtown Winnipeg redevelopment plan. I on the other hand one o 1 _ Alderman said some of his students say a unfair closure ends rules debate pm expected to defend move in House today sizzling opposition attack Likely to result by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff a commons sitting As Stormy As any since the 1956 pipeline debate is Likely to erupt this afternoon if As expected prime min ister Trudeau arises to defend his government s imposition of closure to end a 10-Day debate on proposed Rule changes. Al. A tuesday Boos and cries of shame shame were Stormy Days seen ahead by Joyce fairba1rn Apollo course is v the University of Manitoba students Union will protest next week against what it considers discriminatory rates of pay for students employed by metro. A new clause in metro s agreement with local 555, Canadian Union of Public employees provides that an Ordi nary labourer be paid 20 cents an hour or a week More than a student the new scale was approved by metro and local 555 last month. Fellow members of City Council make it Sorl of a Way of life to criticize in the end. Committee decided to ask metro Why it s in such a hurry. And Alderman Joseph Zuken said that at a meeting of Winnipeg City Council monday evening he will propose City Council go As a body along with 1 As Many civic department Heads As possible to the july 30 i meeting. The reaction came tuesday afternoon As Winnipeg s civic Urban renewal and redevelop ment committee heard a letter from metro about the july 30 hearing. The aldermen say . Admits storing War Gas on Island by Ted sell weren t consulted before metro announced i t s redevelopment proposals but that now metro has Given the City Only eight Days to look the plan Over i this despite the fact Winnipeg _ will have to Pav a Larne Nart of please see students Page 8 i the of Pushu funds i involved. If the c la wants six months to m consider the whole thing. Elj i i the plan Calls for construction of parking buildings a network j of weather protected pedestrian concourses and recreation facilities. Chairman of the civic commit tee said the letter just shows How arrogant and inconsiderate they metro can be. We know nothing of their plans until we read about them in the news to debate ilk. Bid Washington special tons the Pentagon acknowledged tuesday for the first time that Poison Gas had been1 stockpiled on Okinawa. It blamed the stockpiling on the i Kennedy administration and said the weapons will be removed from the Island. I at the same time a defence department spokesman said he could state unequivocally that there Are no . Biological germ warfare weapons stored confirmation that War had been stored on Okinawa came after news reports of an accidental leak of lethal nerve Gas which resulted in treatment of 23 . Soldiers and one army civilian employee last july 8. The Accident caused great considered one of the earlier nerve gases and the army has see . Admits Page 10 exuberant astronauts Wisecrack As spacecraft streaks homeward Houston a Apollo la s Moon explorers yearning for Home streaked Ever faster toward Earth today on a perfect course that is to land them in the Pacific thursday. No matter where you travel it s Nice to get Edwin Aldrin said As the astronauts beamed a television picture of Earth from Niobe than Miles away tuesday night. It s getting appreciably larger said Michael col Lins. It s looking More like a and looking ahead to splash Down Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong asked about the weather in the recovery area. It. Looks real Good out Mission control told him. The forecast is for scattered Clouds at feet and a visibility of to Miles. So it looks real Good please see Apollo Page 11 Pepin looks to China a Ottawa up Trade min proposed Prince Juan Carlos be j ister Jean Luc Pepin said tues named his Legal successor he will look into the Possi heir to the vacant throne Franco names heir by Loren Jenkins Madrid special tons with tears glistening in his eyes Days of co operation Between government and opposition in parliament May end with the first session of the Trudeau administration. Yesterday an outraged opposition gave notice that the liberals had overstepped the Bounds of Goodwill by their decision to Force a vote on a proposal which would allow the government to impose its own time limits on parliamentary debate if All party agreement cannot be reached. The vote will come no later than 1 . Thursday and there is Little doubt the Liberal majority will emerge victorious from the controversial debate of rules changes which has dead locked parliament for the past 11 sitting Days. In terms of the political atmosphere of the House of commons this May prove to be a somewhat hollow Victory when members return for the next session in the fall. By virtue of its Clear majority the government does not have to worry about defeat of any of i its legislation As Long As it can 1 keep the Liberal backbench ers i in line. But across the floor of the House it is doubtful whether the opposition parties will be in any please see closure Page 5 Brussels special tons the common Market foreign ministers tuesday accepted in principle a French plan for holding a Summit meeting this fall to discuss British entry in the six nation european organization. But the Price that France s five partners extracted was the practical unfree zing of the whole question of British membership which has been on ice since former president Charles de Gaulle s veto 18 months ago. With the Netherlands and Italy leading the Way they served indirect notice that the meeting would take place in the j Hague As proposed Only if France took meaningful Mea sures on British membership in please see gunboat Page 10 alarm in Japan which wants returned to japanese Rule. The reversion Issue will be a major topic when the . Japanese Security treaty comes up for review and renewal next year. The defence department identified the nerve Gas in Ved in the july 8 incident As b. The United states has produced it since the Early 1950 it is emotion voice choking with Generalissimo fran Cisco Franco tuesday night breath test ads studied drug deadline april 1 Ottawa up _ Canadian drag manufacturers have been Given until april 1, 1970, to com ply with new food and drug regulations designed to Lessen the danger of children being Poi soned by a common headache remedy. The Federal food and drug directorate in a letter sent to All manufacturers and made Public today sets out specific warn Ings and dosages for drugs con t a i n i n g acetyl salicylic acid the new regulations have received Cabinet approval. They follow studies of a special com Mittee on . Poisonings. It found that out of some total poisoning cases annually in Canada about one Quarter involved children who digested . Preparations. Most child poisonings involve i youngsters Between the Ages of 1 two and 1 is not Well developed. Continued please see drug Page if by Gerard Mcneil Sci Weeti me or Ottawa up an Adver two and four when the palate Lising Campaign is being consid is not won ered to prepare the Public for the compulsory breath test Law it was Learned tuesday. The Law was passed by parliament last month but May not become operative before mid please see breath Page 11 hurled at the prime minister As he walked out of the House just before the 6 . Adjournment hour. Minutes before the government had Given notice that it would move closure today. Today the opposition will fight stubbornly to postpone the vote scheduled to take place at Midnight wednes Day. The opposition will work together today to prevent he House making Progress to reach the item of government business. If they can stall Long enough Chr commons might reach its automatic 5 . Cd adjournment hour meaning there would be no Midnight Vole on closure. Edlon Wolliams pc Calgary North was expected to Lead off the opposition fight wednesday with a motion that the House adjourn. This is a debatable motion under the rules and a determined opposition could stretch thai debate for an hour or More. The big question is will or. Speaker Lucien Lamoureux allow the motion. In the past week he has already allowed one such motion from the opposition. Tuesday bedlam broke out in the chamber As or. Trudeau walked slowly out dressed in a Light summer suit and sporting a Carna Tion in his buttonhole. There was no Jaunt iness in his step. Government members taken Aback at the violence and angry tone of the shouts from the opposition benches began to Pound their desks in applause for the Retreat ing figure of uie prime minister. Finally or. Speaker Lucien Lamoureux restored order and David Macdonald pc egmont Rose to re sume the debate on the controversial rules proposal that the Liberal majority government is seeking to push through parliament. Please see govt. Page 5 Spain. In a moving 23-minute speech before the 564-member Cortes the 76-year old Spanish ruler said he was continued please see Franco Page 5 keep boat left behind Heyerdahl l the meantime. Presenting the Summit proposal in his first diplomatic by Robert Cocil Nar Bridgetown b a r b a Dos special commander Thor Heyerdahl arrived in the new world today after nearly two months at sea in a papyrus raft which experts said would last two weeks. But the norwegian adventurer and his International Crew of six entered the Bridgetown Careen i age not in a the papyrus Craft which left Safi Morocco on May 25, but in the Shenandoah a 74-foot motor yacht which the Heyerdahl Home in Italy. Officials of the Barbados government and a number of tourists and journalists formed a welcoming party for the a s Crew. A steel band played when the saints go marching in and rum punch was served to All hands. Outing since becoming French foreign minister last month Maurice Schumann obligingly i had rendezvoused with a some went one verbal step further i ten Days ago about 700 Miles off than other members of his j the Barbados coast government in relaxing the previous gaullist prohibitions against Britain. Continued please see eco Page 11 or. Heyerdahl bronzed and smiling stepped on land at about . Local time and greeted his Wile Yvonne and their three children who bad arrived two Days earlier from j or. H e y e r d a h 1, 54, pronounced the 2700-mile voyage a Success despite the forced abandonment of the 50-foot Long a. We were conducting a scientific he said not a test of courage. The decision was made to abandon ship because the presence of Sharks made it impossible to make the necessary repairs. The possible loss of life was not Worth the ethnologist who 22 years ago completed a 4100-mile trans Pacific voyage More than twice the distance Between the afric an and South american coasts at their nearest Point said i believe this has demonstrated the Basic seaworthiness of the papyrus raft. Throughout the trip a s stability was see norwegian Page 10 of ability of Selling Canadian wheat to nationalist China. He was replying in the com Mons to Paul Yewchuk pc who said the nationalist chinese economic affairs minister had been quoted As saying his country wants to buy wheat from Canada. Robert Thompson Deer noted that whereas the United states has a permanent wheat sales office in Taipei capital of the nationalist Island of Taiwan Canada has no direct sales representation there. Please see Pepin Page 11 today today s Index classified 35 to 48 comics 57, 58 deaths 2 finance 50 to 53 movies 55 sports 61 to 65 television 54 women 15 to 17 City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press nursing Home Start in 2 months by Bob Lis Way construction is expected to Start in about two months on a million nursing Home South West of St. Mary Avenue and fort Street in downtown Winni Peg. The 12-Storcy project is the first private development to be announced for metro s Down town development area since the plan was unveiled in Early june. Gerald gales president of Imperial developments ltd., of Winnipeg the Developer said wednesday the new building will House about 200 residents. It will be ready for occupancy in the fall of 1970. The Home for pensioners will be operated by Beacon Hill lodges of Canada limited looking for a Chesterfield this want and under Furni Ture 64 sectional Chesterfield Ste. Pm. 772-8470. Is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Deadly drug stolen the Winnipeg police department warned wednes Day that three vials stolen during the night from the mount Carmel clinic 120 Selkirk Avenue contain a highly poisonous drug. The drug is strychnine sulphate extremely c anger Ous in the hands of untrained people police said. The clinic s Safe was carted off but was found later at Partridge Avenue and Salter Street in West Kildonan. Also missing after the break in was imports gain ground As beef prices soar by Garry Fairbairn Ottawa up As Cana Dian beef producers concentrate on providing High priced steaks and roasts australian and new zealand imports Are rapidly moving into the Market for the lower Grade cuts. Imports of new zealand fresh or Frozen Boneless beef in creased from Worth in january to in May say Dominion Bureau of Statis tics figures. In the same period imports from Australia increased from Worth to with a Peak of in april. New zealand shipped pounds in january and pounds in May. The australian and new Zea land imports have Only made a limited appearance in Ottawa grocery stores so far. One Chain store experimenting with Small which is also building Homes in Victoria and the Lakehead. Please see nursing Page 5 czechs sentence Canadian Prague Reuters a 47 year old czechoslovak born Ca Nadian has been sentenced to five years in be is unlikely to spying for Britain 20 years ago. At his two Day trial which ended tiie Day at nearby Ustin Nad Label Canadian civil ser vant Rudolph Paul Zolata was said to have been recruited by the British army in West Berlin and sent Back to Czechoslovakia to spy after fleeing the country Early in 1951. Holata a Federal transport department employee from North Vancouver was arrested in Jan uary when he visited relatives. Under czechoslovak Law Holata automatically has his sen Wii Amau m sen amounts of new zealand beef i tence reduced by one third and reports satisfactory sales. It i Selling imported Frozen Boneless sirloin Butts at 50 cents continued please see beef Page 11 has the Benefit of a recent Gen eral free year amnesty on Pri son sentences. Please see czechs Page s 4 v ;