Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 5, 1970, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba Centennial 1970 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 77 no. Price 10" cents. 15 cents thursday february 5, 1970 inn rom . Moonrise trn Dirr ict1. A nuo and . Moonset . Juke cum. Siu Jinny o above and 4d 8dovc oods create havoc in Kab. Bridges knocked out Fredericton up provincial highways department began Emer gency operations today to Cope with washouts Bridge collapses and other prob lems left in the Wake of wides pfc Ead flooding wed nes Day As a result of pro longed rain and mild weather i. Flooded today under a Clear sky and in freezing temperatures. Six More Bridges fell Over night total to 15. To at Renous near Newcastle three my Antichi River Bridges were knocked out. I Highway and Bridge damage has been estimated at a mini mum the St. John River level Here dropped sharply in the cold Clear weather and ice was re porfred cleared for Brit most of the tributaries. Three1 Cabinet ministers left Fredericton to inspect the Situa Tion in several areas. Helicopters from the summer Side air base rescued stranded residents in at least two communities. A family which included an Mother was taken from its Pennac Home about 10 Miles Northeast of Here and an elderly couple reported suffer ing irom exposure a s flown to Hospital Here from Durham about to the North. Police arid government officials expected a grim damage toll today. Central new brims Wick. Appeared hardest hit. After a transmission line fell across the Nashwauk River temporary facilities returned to some affected areas which took in the Gagetown army base and the town of about 15 Bridges Many of them in the Centra new spun twice area collapsed wednesday Ai floodwaters spilled Over the River Banks across Trie province after two Days of heavy Rains and High temperatures. One of the casualties was this Span at Marysville. Near Fredericton. Please see floods Page 11 suspend Hannah of a sentence students from Tuxedo Shaftesbury High school packed provincial magistrate s court wednesday and saw their for Mer principal Gerald. Wayne Hanna receive two years sus Pended sentence for theft. Of 41 Rutgers Bay fort Garry pleaded guilty before magistrate John j. Enns to stealing from the High school and student Council. Magistrate Enns ordered Hanna to make restitution and pay court costs. The theft occurred Between sept. 1, 1968, when Hanna became principal and dec. 5, 1969, when in a letter to the Assiniboine South school Divi Sion he tendered his Resigna Tion. Crown counsel w. Morton told the court that Han a wrote dec 5 letter confessing his crime after the Secretary of the school Board found serious arrears in the High school s account nov. 28. Please see Hanna s Page 8 licence change in 1971 Manitoba motorists Are to gel new look licence plates in 1971. The rectangular plates will be Silver in color with Black letters and numerals and will also Bear the outline of a Buffalo in Black. Across the top of the new plates will be the words across the Bottom will be the design for the new plates was submitted to Cabinet wednesday mini Ster Joe Borowski and approved. The current Manitoba plates Are yellow Wilh Black lettering and numerals were issued in 1964. About of the new plates arc expected in be distributed in february of next year with the total Cost of the changeover cell Malad at 000. Please so licence Page 11 Mideast arms Nixon challenges soviet Union w0rlc Ohp peace settled edit Al president Nixon in a Swift reply to soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin s weekend message on the Middle East challenged Moscow wednesday to work constructively for a peace settlement for restoration of the ceasefire broken last Spring by Egypt and for limitations 6n arms shipped into the area officials described the one Page response Asj strained non polemical firm1 Tive they said it or Kosygin s Contention that Israel and the United states were to blame for the stepped up fight1 ing but did not Call Moscow and Cairo the us Repty handed to soviet ambassador Anatoliy f Dobrynio at the state depart ment in mid after Pori by Assis Tant Secretary of state Joseph a Sisco outlined three ways to crisis the please see Mideast Page 5 ease the present officials said1 of dirt opens Washington tons special wednesday ordered that immediate Steps be Laken to eliminate a i r and water pollution caused by Federal projects and installations. Calling Federal govern ment one of nation s worst the president signed a detailed executive order directing Federal agencies to set an the nation. Thursday the president flew to Indianapolis and Chicago to preside Over Cabinet Leve discussions of Urban and environmental problems. In Indianapolis nine mayors representing Middle sized cities have been invited to Confer will the president at a meeting of the Urban affairs Council. Please see War Page 2 today Webb proves he belongi.27. Letter. 36 today s Index classified 37 to 49 comics 14, 15 deaths. 8 finance ?3 35 Jumble 39 movies 17 places quiz 7 sports .26 to 32 television 18 women 8 to 21 nearly everyone reads the free press new dept. For St. Boniface province May buy in Evans sees govt. Move to Aid capital poor firms Toronto the Manitoba government May soon offer to buy shares of Manitoba companies that Are unable Money on the capital minister Leonard Evans of Mani Toba said wednesday. In Toronto to talk to life y Lher Iii Dusty executive with invest ment interests in Manitoba sail the purchases would be. Made by the Crown owned Manitoba development fund. I m 99 per cent sure this step will be taken when the new Simpsons Sears announced plans thursday to build a third Large department store in greater Winnipeg As part million expansion develop ment in the Sou Hdale mall shopping Centre on the trans Canada Highway in St. Boni face. Developers said the South Dale Centre will be expanded into a modern enclosed mall shopping Complex designed to serve the More than residents of St. Boniface and St. Vital. In addition to the Simpsons Sears. Store there will be a Junior department store a Cinema and 40 other shops facing on to an enclosed climate controlled mall. The shopping Centre now contains a k Mart department store a Dominion food store and 10 Small shops the new development is expected to be completed by Early 1971. The new Simpsons Sears store will have Square feet of space initially with provision for adding another. Square feet. There will also be a separate eight Bay automotive service Centre and a Large outside Garden shop. Mayor Edward Turner of St. Boniface welcomed the news of the development it will make a fantastic contribution to the City s Economy and attract new resident which in turn will help to broaden the tax base. See St Boniface Page 11 my s poll inflation Wai gets backing by vector Mace an Over whelming majority of Winnipeg Gers polled by a. B. Osier Liberal my for Winnipeg South Centre declared themselves in favor of wage and Price controls to fight inflation. Or. Osier sent out Over questionnaires to voters in his constituency in 1969. He a s received approximately replies although More Are still coming into his office on parliament Hill. V fifty High t per cent said the Federal government does not understand the problems of Western Canada. A total of 42.1 per cent said they believed Ottawa did under stand the West s problems. However or. Osier said a Large majority of this group added but it is doing nothing about or words to that effect. Or. Osier said however that during the Christmas and new year s recess and at a january meeting in his constituency he received the impression of great he believes his constituents arc still hopeful the Federal government will move to Ini prove conditions in the West. In other words unless some really Hotshot alternatives were to appear 1 Don t think we Are in great political trouble just now and hopefully things will get a lot better before the next or. Osier said. One question asked was do you think that Over the past year the Federal government s please see inflation Page 8 plane crash reported Buenos Aires a an Argentine Airliner Wilh 37 per sons aboard is believed to have crashed in Northeast Argentina wednesday night. Ambulances and doctors were sent to a Lown 38 Miles South of Corrion los Fol lowing a number of reports of an explosion in the sky. But police said there were electric storms in the Araa wednesday night. The twin engine Avro of Aero Lineas Argentina a was flying to Buenos Aires from Asuncion Paraguay Wilh stops in Cor Rich los and us Rio. The Corr Lents control lower reported the last radio Contact with the plane was five minutes after it took off on the 90-minute flight to Rosario. The Pilot did not report anything amiss. The plane carried 33 Passyn Gers and a Crew o four session of the legislature opens on March 5 or March he said in an inter View. V please see govt. May Page 8 Juba to see Trudeau by Stephen Riley mayor Juba of Winnipeg will meet with prime minister Trudeau in Ottawa wednesday to discuss problems confront the mayor said in an inter View he also hoped to meet with other Federal ministers to re solve certain matters of interest to Bolh parties. Though the mayor declined to enumerate what items woul definitely be reviewed he Indi caled the deficit incurred from the 1967 pan american games would the City has asked Ottawa Foi help to defray the deficit which is accumulating in interest each Day. Finance minister a j. Benson said last month the request for assistance was still under re View in the Cabinet. Another probable item for discussion will be the disposal o please see Juba Page 8 Dock vote no9 longshoremen reject latest highest offer Vancouver up British Columbia s longshoremen have been ordered Back to work today despite a 51.1 per cent rejection wednesday night of the third con tract proposal in four months. Union officials cancelled picket lines Early today and told the men to be on the docks for work. The Union executive mean while planned to map oat doth or attempt to reach a Settle ment in a special meeting this morning. Dockworkers voting in port centres turned six Down the highest i offer by margin of to Union and company officials were at a loss to explain the vote. Some waterfront sources had confidently predicted acceptance. The contract would have Given them what employers sait was the highest longshore wage in North America plus working conditions that would have brought a new Era to . Dock operations. It called for a hourly in Irease in three years on a base rate of please see Dock Page 8 Taillieu boy jury rules blames persons unknown for death about Midnight fifteen year old James Taillieu of St. Boniface died of asphyxiation at the hands of persons a Coroner s jury ruled Here wednesday night after de. Liberating for iy2 hours. 5 nip hopefuls have say by Arlene b1ll1nkoff the country boys ran up against uie City slickers wednesday when the five men seeking the new democratic party nomination for the Federal by election april 13 in Selkirk for the first time in their campaigns. The confrontation the first in a series of three took place in a packed auditorium in Miles Macdonell collegiate East Kil Donan As the Public was invited to question the men who want a please see 5 nip Page 10 the nine Man jury sitting in the Law courts building completed which began last thursday and then was adjourned for six Days. Or g. A. Law Coroner presided. After hearing 2v4 hours of testimony from eight witnesses wednesday the jury Brught in a verdict which said in part the jury find by. Evi Dence that we have heard that James Taillieu came to his death by asphyxiation caused by. Persons unknown on or about 12 o clock Midnight oct. 24, 1969, Between the huot farm at Dugald and the Taillieu Resi Dence 701 Nia Kwa Road or at the Taillieu attorney general Al Hackling said thursday that in View of the has been found that death was not accidental he would assume the police would keep the file on the Case open. See jury rules Page 10 Senate committee hears criticism of tax formula Ottawa up Federal tax change proposals would re Duce the provincial share of personal income tax paid by persons earning High incomes the Senate banking and finance committee was told wednesday. Arthur Gilmour of Montreal a lax consultant hired to help the committee in a study of the government s tax proposals said Ontario would lose heavily on the personal tax it collects from the executive class if the changes were approved. Or. Gilmour also lashed out against other features of the tax proposals. He said the proposal to Abol ish a reduced rate of Corpora Tion tax on the first of corporate earnings would have an appalling effect on Small corporations which Are the Backbone of our the Federal government is planning to extract vastly in creased taxes from the Middle classes including the skilled worker a situation causing great he said. He criticized the proposal to raise personal income tax exemptions for All taxpayers when the avowed is to remove about Low income canadians from the tax lie questioned whether it is Neces sary to disturb the whole tax system to accomplish the . Or. Gilmour also assailed the plan to make the foreign earn Ings of Canadian companies with subsidiaries abroad subject in some cases to Canadian tax saying the proposal is a mat Ter of or death for some firms. The consultant who presented the committee with a series of woman wins land Appeal studies he has made on features of the tax proposals commented at one Point that he sup posed he should be presenting an impartial assessment but he could not help letting his person Al feelings come through. Or. Gilmour presented lists of figures showing the amounts of a that would be collected respectively by Federal and prov Uncial governments from Var of ranges of taxable income. The calculation was based on he proportion of personal in come tax abated to the prov inces by the Federal govern ment although most provinces collect More than the share abated. The figures show that the Asie provincial share would be greater than at present on tax Able deductions to a year. After hat the provincial share would less. For taxable income of a single person with Basic per s o n a 1 exemptions would be earning under the pro posed new system a married person and a married person with two children 650. See Page 49 Ottawa up mrs. Mol lie Irene Ives a 50-year-old Winnipeg grandmother believed to be Only the second woman to own cause in the supreme court of Canada today was awarded an extra in an expropriation Case decided by the High court. Mrs. Ives argued her own Case before five judges last november. She was Able to convince chief Justice j. B. Cartwright or. Justice Emmett Hail and or Justice Wishart f. Spence. Finding against her were or. Justice Roland Martland and or. Justice Louis Philippe Pigeon. Supreme court officials say they believe that Minnie Mead May of Vancouver was the first woman to argue her own Case before court. Mrs. May appeared in 1947 in an Appeal involving a mine Transfer and lost it. A number of woman lawyers have appeared for clients in the supreme court. Mrs. Ives purchased 140 acres of land about 14 Miles from downtown Winnipeg in 1963 for in 1964, 80 acres of the land was expropriated by the provincial government to form a part of what now is Birds Hill Park. The government offered her for the 80 acres but she declined. An Ariail ruler awarded her the province appealed the award to the Manitoba court of Appeal which reduced it to or. Justice Hall writing the majority reasons said too much stress was Laid to the fact that Ives paid Only for the land. He said she was Able to buy i for much less than it was actually Worth and that its value in creased. He also said that the remain ing 60 acres belonging to mrs. Ives was Worth much less when divorced from the part expropriated. Or. Justice Martland said she had failed to show that the court of Appeal did not apply the appropriate Legal principles and or made a Manifest error in in. Mollio pollution Toupin health minister Rene Toupin of Manitoba said wednesday at a meeting about pollution in the province held at the University of Winnipeg Fiat it was time to prevent pollution rather than worry about its curtailment. Or. Toupin told a gathering of 100 people that the government must Lead the fight against pollution and that it must not hold Back on funds for an extensive study. The meeting held by a group called the Manitoba pollution probe was aimed Al discussing pollution problems and recruiting people interested in preventing contamination of the Environ ment. David Krindle a graduate Stu Dent in zoology who Heads the organization said our Basic is to study the pollution problem and come up will a paper or report which would propose solutions to the prob he said the organization has about too members about equally divided Between students please see pollution Page 2 r ;