Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 26, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday july 26, 1969 dedicating Monument narcotics agent or hippie to explorer aug. 3 officials of the Manitoba and begin at 3 . And will end i a Laprai governments will take i with the unveiling by part in a ceremony aug. 3 to dedicate a Monument to North Chretien Federal minister for Northern development and Rev. Can explorer Vilhjalmur Stef Philip Petursson Manitoba s Ansson at Ames Manitoba. J minister responsible for cultural those attending the ceremony i affairs. Will include icelandic Consul general prettier l. Johansson or. Thor Valdur Johnson. E. S. I russe Holt Manitoba member of the historic Sites and i Monument Board of Canada John Bovey member of the historic Sites advisory Board of Manitoba and or. Valdimar Eyl Antis. Mrs. V. L. Sigurdson Secre tary of the arcs Community club will be chairman. The statue is made of con Crete and was done by Toronto sculptor Walter Yarwood. It was inspired by an a Stone figure in the shape of a Man. Stefansson s words i know what i have experienced and i know what it has meant to Are inscribed. Stefansson s most important work for Canada was As com Mander of the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-1918 to explore new territory and gather scientific knowledge. The trip resulted in the discovery of new Yeo Lof ical features and proved persons travelling in the North could survive using native food cloth ing and transportation. He wrote and lectured about the North in the 1920s. He was the author of the Friendly arc tic and the northward course of Empire. The official ceremony will bars to employ More j Washington restaurants i and bars one of the fastest growing industries May employ More than 3 million people by 1975, the department of labor says. They employed 2 million in 1968 and sales exceeded 25 billion. Cerita stomach distress a Relief for heartburn loss of appetite sour stomach excess acid hype acidity has been used for the last 18 years with results. At All drug stores. Says Alta. Deficit May be smaller Edmonton up Petroleum revenues from the Sale of Crown reserves royalties and rentals could prevent the Alberta government from incurring its predicted deficit of for the current fiscal year. Provincial treasurer a. O. Aalborg said it was quite premature to pre dict what effect the added Revenue would have on the current budget because the fiscal year is Only four months old. But if our lease sales in july october and january hold up to the current level it s quite obvious there is a Good possibility of drastic ally reducing or eliminating the deficit. So far this fiscal year the government has collected from the Sale of Petroleum reserves com pared with in the same period last year. The government has collected another from royalties and rentals. If the Revenue continues at the increased rate the total could reach Well above the buget Esti mate of the added Revenue has come partially from the Sale of Gas leases in the Stra Chan Vicinus area of West Central Alberta where re fent discoveries have pushed prices up. Or. Aalborg also said the possibility of a sales tax has receded the government is moving away from the railroads Busy j Chicago in 14 hours american railroads move about 2 billion ton Miles of freight 10 tons a distance of one mile for every person in the United states. Or. W. A. Marr president and general manager of Marr s Marine Ltd., is pleased to announce the appoint ment of or. J. H. White Man As manager of the Thunder Bay Branch of Marr s Marine Ltd. Marr s Marine is Canada s largest distributor of recreation products with head offices in Winnipeg and branches from Thunder Bay to new West Minster. More than so Marr s dealers handling such lines As mar Craft travel Trail ers Sta Craft campers Sta Craft grew and surf Amer boats John son motors Snow cruisers Pioneer chainsaws and l a w n b o y Lawn mowers. Other shirtless in torn jeans sloshed around m the water Heads Down looking for coins that had been tossed into the Fountain. I was told later by a hippie who somehow managed to live on Fountain treasure Hunting that coins Are thrown in for two reasons the traditional one. Where a wish is made on the Coin and As a Way of making an indirect contribution to the hippies Upkeep a donation that some hippies described As con science Money from what they referred to generally without rancor As members of the establishment society there were at least 50 or 60 hippies sitting on the courthouse Steps Young men and Young women mostly in their late teens or Early 20s, watching the tourists who were watching the hippies. One Young couple was strumming on a guitar and softly singing. Police watch a police car slowly cruised Down the Street made a right turn another right turn onto the Plaza and even More slowly drove past the courthouse Steps and Back out onto the Street. The two police offi cers looked like they meant business. The hippies on the Steps looked Back at them blandly. One of the hippies waved and a Low laugh rippled across the Steps. A Man about my own age stood beside me for a few moments his coat looped Over his Arm then spoke conversationally. I Shook my head. I m new in he nodded. I he said shaking his head slowly. These kids. I can t figure them a couple of obvious tourists walked by paused and took a photo of the Fountain with its striking sculpture in the background and its Bowler hatted shirtless waders both of them by now sopping wet in the foreground. Some the conversationalist said. Some advertisement for the he Shook his head again and moved off. I walked Over to the courthouse Steps and 50 or 60 pairs of eyes watched me As though i were onstage. I leaned against one of the three flagpoles flanking each Side of the Plaza their provincial and Canadian flags hanging Limp in the warm night air and still they watched me. Water games after about five minutes a couple of hippies started scuffling with a girl sitting Between them picked her up by her Ankles and shoulders carried her kick ing and squirming Down to the Fountain and threw her in. She came out soaked shouting a and spluttering and half angry half laughing chased first one and then the other of visit the Gas feature Home of the week West Pale heritage Homes Best Dollar value in Home ownership payments lower than rent Only Braemar Homes Wpc. Ltd. Peter Dudar const. Ltd. D. H. Epp const. Ltd. Eldan builders Ltd. Heritage Homes Home Dev. Co. Ltd. J. Pura sons Ltd. Quality const. Co. Ltd. Westdale Homes open 1 to 9 daily a Short Twenty minutes West on Grant continued two hippies around the sides of the courthouse. Amid the delighted hoots and hollers from the rest of the a Barefoot Bare chested hippie in a Bushy red Beard his knotted boots Slung Over one Shoul Der left the others and walked Over to where i stood. We looked at each other for a moment then his head lifted a Little. Any spare he said. I later Learned that in a situation like this there is no please and no thank you in the vocabulary of the True hippie. It is a share world. In his View of the scheme of things he is not asking for a handout. He is simply asking for something from someone who has in the belief that you May wish to share a Little of what you have with someone who has t. I was not aware of this at the time and i confess that i was a Little surprised at what seemed to me to be a newly arrogant approach to old fashioned panhandling. I Haven t even got a i said. He looked at me again briefly then took a pack of cigarettes from his Back pocket. There were two or three gone from one Side of the pack. The other Side had t been opened. He took out the full Side and handed it to me. Now you be got Cigar he said. My astonishment must have shown on my face because he smiled a Little As he struck a match and lit us both up. It was True that i did t have any cigarettes. I had been on the verge of crossing the Street and getting a pack at the Marl Borough hotel when red Beard approached me. I thanked him and he waved away the word As though it were beneath both of us. You re not a he said making it sound More like a question than a certainty. I looked dumb and he explained certain of himself now undercover narcotics agent. No. You re he grinned suddenly. Come on Over and join us if you like. It la be All right. You re with me. I la introduce you to some of the As we walked to the courthouse Steps we exchanged first names and i noticed that almost every one on the Steps was watching us a Little guard edly a Little curiously. I was introduced to about a dozen of Redbear s friends. With the first two or three i Shook hands. They looked a Little sur prised scrambling to their feet. Somebody laughed not derisively but with a sort of self conscious amusement. After that i just nodded. The introduction by red Beard who seemed to have a vague leadership status about him was enough to allay their suspicions. A Nark 1 found out later that i had been stamped a Nark by just about every last one of them from the moment i had been noticed lounging around the Plaza a Little longer than usual for the casual vistor. Narks Are identified photographed and paper clip Bandit gets 2 years Kingston ont. Up Sev e n t y of i v e charges of break enter and theft were Worth another two years in Collins Bay Penitentiary Friday for Edward paper clip Bandit. Belanger 45, a former Resi Dent of Quebec City has con fessed to break ins be tween 1956 and 1966 when he was sentenced to a seven year term on 36 break enter and theft charges. Returning to court Friday he pleaded guilty to 31 charges from Alberta 22 from British Columbia 15 from Saskatchewan and seven from Manitoba. All concerned break ins in 1965. Belanger was called the paper clip Bandit from his method of using a paper clip to slip the locks on apartment doors. He concentrated on jewel by and Cash although his loot included one Gold and one Silver medal from the 1964 Innsbruck Winter olympics. Provincial judge p e. D. Baker sentenced Belanger to eight years six to be served concurrently with his present term. Phone Cable Long Johannesburg t e 1 e phone connections Between South Africa and Europe Are much improved since a million submarine Cable linking Johannesburg and Lisbon por Tugal became operative earlier this year. Their pictures run in Van Couver s astonishing hippie weekly newspaper the Georgia straight at regular intervals As i sat Down a Young Man from Idaho a civil engineering graduate who walked out on his country and his Home for reasons that i will go into later unrolled his clean but weather beaten suede jacket and spread it under me. You be got a suit he said. No sense in getting it he waved away my thanks. I was beginning to get the message. From a higher step the muted sounds of a guitar and girl s soft singing provided a strangely unreal background to the sports cars and motorbikes revving up at the stoplights in the Busy main Street beyond the Fountain. It was like reality had thrown its Shadow Over the place where i sat and the people i sat with so that we silhouetted the substance without actually being a part of it. It s none of my Busi Redbear said but it s not often that someone old like you he caught himself i mean some one Middle aged sits Down with us hippies. He had bungled it and he knew it so he tried again. I mean like straight a straight person lives within and generally con forms to the establishment society i m not Here to gawk at you or argue with 1 said. I just want to he thought about this briefly then nodded. Fair he extended two fingers in the a sign that Churchill made famous. He said. I duplicated the Symbol. tomorrow an All night discussion of hippie philosophy on Vancouver s fourth Avenue and a Brush with the family tragedy of a runaway Cabinet schedule heavy Stanfi Elyj and new democratic party Leader t. C. Douglas Fon adjourning the commons for three months. They suggested two months would be sufficient and that the my s should get Back to work sept. 22 to help Cope with the problems facing the Economy. Or. Trudeau explained that further government cutbacks Are necessary in fighting inflation. He conceded that so far the government has not won the fight against inflation. Or. Trudeau himself Hopes to get away for a two or three week vacation in August or september. But before he goes on Holiday he will be presiding Over Many Cabinet sessions. The program to go before tile next session of parliament is already accumulating into a weighty pile of very important measures. One is the proposed sweeping Reform in Canada s taxation system. Finance minister e. J. Benson has his finance officials working on the preparation of a policy White paper setting out the government s proposals for tax Reform. It is hoped to have it ready for presentation to parliament in october. But there will be Many sessions of Cabinet committees and the full Cabinet on the proposed tax Reform plan before it is finally put together into the White paper. Already the tax Reform plan is far behind schedule. It involves major continued j changes in income personal and corporation income taxes. The draft White paper must still be approved by a Cabinet committee composed of corpor ate affairs minister Ron Bas Ford communications minister Eric Kierans and minister with out portfolio Otto Lang. From the special committees it goes to the whole Cabinet for study and approval. High up on the Cabinet schedule for a fast decision will be the wheat crisis. The initial Price for the 1969-70 crop announced during the first week in August. Western Farmers Are hoping that at the same time the government has some additional financial assistance to provide. The Cabinet will be hearing from prime minister Trudeau on his reactions to his Prairie tour and must soon make up its mind on what form of additional Aid it is prepared to provide the Farmers. This summer will also see the Cabinet facing the report on Canada s social welfare and social Security programs. A task Force on this has been headed by or. J. W. Willard Deputy minister of welfare. Many members of the Cabinet including the prime minister believe these programs Are badly in need of a new approach and reforms. Prime minister Trudeau told the commons Friday that there Are a number of important reports accumulated on the desks of members the Cabinet. He said his ministers must have time this summer to read and study them and make recommendations for action based on the reports. One such report is the find Ings of the task Force on government information serv ices. Or. Trudeau More than once has expressed the opinion that the government s operations and policies Are not properly explained to the communications Media or the Public by the information services. He wants changes made. One possibility is the forma Tion of a Central government information Agency. Presumably it would have regional branches and make use of the i advertising Media across the country. Labor minister Brycc Mac Kasey and his officials have been working at studying and perhaps implementing findings of the report on labor relations. It was headed by Dean h. D. Woods. Or. Mackassy will have suggestions to take to Cabinet. This weekend he headed for British Columbia where a pos sible strike threatens to shut Down operations at. The port of Vancouver. He is also concerned about the Telephone strike at the West coast. Additional amendments to the criminal code Are expected to go before the next session. Steel output up Luxembourg Reuters steel production in the euro Pean Coal and steel Community totalled tons during the first half of the 12.5-per-Ceat increase Over the same period in 1968, officials said Friday. Now that you have the Good news about your Grade 12 Marks apply to enter the University off Manitoba in september. Deadlines july 31 and no later for pharmacy. Nursing medical rehabilitation dental Hygiene physical Edu cation environmental studies Fine arts education 1a and in. Aug. 31 land no later for arts. Science agriculture engineering. Interior design. Commerce music social work and Home economics. Space is limited in some facilities preference May be Given to Early applicants. Application forms Are available from your school principal or from the registrar phone 474-9423 for information. 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