Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, February 07, 1970

Issue date: Saturday, February 7, 1970
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 7, 1970, Winnipeg, Manitoba Exclusively in today weekend. Canada s leading rotogravure Magazine Why they won t fight Young men who quit . Armed forces Tell Why they came to Canada Page 2 ithe Ideal Man Lyn Hancock wrestles with eagles climbs Cliffs and plays Mother to seals Page 6 u Book Lover s Bookstore Toronto has one of the oldest and finest in Canada Isuru up with something casual stretch velours and terries Are the Best to curl up in Page 12 Page 16 and in the Plant a Lilac Page 2 Coronation Street. Page 3 who has More St. Norbert theatre. Consumer s Corner. Page 10 something big in North pages houses i have known. Page 22 and elsewhere in the. Paper Jumble winners 6 entry form 15, Puzzle 36 color comics diary careers 61 Liel ters 27 classified to 51 movies 31 comics sports 51, 53 6 travel is to 18 56 to 58 women 21 to 26 rumours of local Warrendale draw children s Home blast by Wally Dennison suspicions of political string pulling were voiced Friday As the Manitoba government was accused of giving a Quick Blessing opening of a Warrendale Type of operation for emotionally disturbed children in Manitoba while waffling on expansion of present child care treatment institutions the charges were made by Clive Bale executive director of the children s Home of Winni Peg and mrs. Lyle Mcdonald president of the inst Lulion s Mink not on skids official by Jed Stuart the Manitoba Public is being tooled into believing that Mink ranching is on the says Frank Boyd executive Secre tary of the Canada Mink breeders association. The Mink ranching business in t in the dire Straits that a couple of our members out there in Manitoba would Lead us to or. Boyd said Friday in a Long distance Telephone interview from the National Mink breeders office in the Toronto area. I a Raul like to destroy this image that s been set out he ranching is like everything else there comes a time when prices go up and Down and certainly you Don t feel Good about it but i still think that there s Money to be made in the Mink or. Boyd was commenting on recent newspaper reports that Manitoba s steadily dwindling number of Mink ranchers t is season Are facing a critical financial crisis. Claiming that their members Are being forced out of business b y a combination of rising production costs and Pelt prices representatives of the Manitoba fur breeders association recently took their Case to two provincial Cabinet ministers agriculture minister Sam Yuskiw and municipal affairs minister Howard Pawlucy. It is understood the Manitoba breeders association most of whose members also belong to please Sec hunk Page g Board of directors. Both contacted to comment on rumours that such an operation was planning to open Armani Loba. Or Bate said political influence May have been involved but this was denied by Ralph Kuropatwa executive assistant to social services minister Rene Toupin. The founder of Tion which Hopes to open a residential treatment school in a Home on King Sway Avenue in the River Heights Section of Winnipeg and a second school in please see string Page 4 something big lit the North 1 age 12, new Leisure Magazine Winnipeg free press vol. 77 no. 113 Price 10 cents 15 cents saturday february 7, 1970 7mi . Forecast Cloud 25 and 0 Laos attack n. Vietnamese massing troops Vientiane Laos a laotian Neil Italy officials Friday reported Evi Dence of a new North Viet namese buildup Southwest of the Plain of jars that could indicate plans for an attack on the army head quarters at Long Cheng. Three North vietnamese Tat la Lions were believed in the area Between Long Cheng and Sam thong and the Plaine pcs Jarres go Miles to the Northeast a spokesman said. Military officials Here both laotian and american predict the North vietnamese and com m u n i s t -1 e d Patchet Lap will launch a major offensive de signed to recapture the Plain within the next few weeks. Long Cheng located 80 Miles North of this capital is the head quarters of Gen. Vang Pao Leader of an army of to Meo tribesmen who fight for the government. Sources said another refugees have been evacuated from the Plain area to protect them from the expected com m u n i s t -1 e d offensive. This raised to nearly the Ber flown put. In Fine last three Days. Another scheduled to be evacuated to refugee special tons the state department said Friday that the United Stales is providing1 an Airlift for the evacuation of ii to please see laotian Page g credit curbs by Carl Mullins Ottawa up a parliamentary committee has called for direct Federal controls on consumer credit and More offi Cial pressure to encourage voluntary restraint on rises in prices and pay rates. The commons finance com Mittee in a majority report re leased Friday after studying in Terest rates and inflation Gener ally says the Federal govern ment should have Power to control consumer credit by regulating Down payment terms and limiting repayment time. Please see credit Page 4 what s the difference in prizes in new contest what s the difference that s the name of a new contest starting monday in the free press. And the difference is plenty the grand prize is a Choice of three trips a four week tour of Europe or a tour of Portugal Spain Morocco and the Canary islands or a trip to sunny Hawaii and the islands or Cash. All trips Are for two people. In addition there Are Cash prizes ranging from to beginning monday the free press will run a set of two cartoons that look alike. But there is a difference. If you can find the things in one cartoon that Are different from its com i Panion you re Well on your Way. There will be 40 sets of cartoons and con Les lants May Send in As Many Sels or reasonable facsimiles As they wish. Rules for the contest will be found on Page 12 of today s edition. Canada out to is to have substances dropped from detergents within 3 years by Victor Mackie Ottawa Canada and the United states will launch a joint program to rid laundry detergents of phosphates which Are polluting North american Waters. Diplomat hungarian Secretary accused of spying by Victor Mackie Ottawa the Canadian govern ment last month expelled a hungarian Diplomat who has been in Ottawa less than two years on grounds that he has engaged in activities not compatible with his diplomatic status. That is the polite diplomatic description used when a Diplomat is caught trying to obtain Classi fied information from canadians. Please see Diplomat Page 4 the. Aim is to have the j substances banned from laundry products within three years by the end of 1972. Resources and Energy mini1 Ster j. J. Greene said today legislation will be introduced to Start cutting Back the amount of phosphates in., detergents this summer. Earlier in the commons Fri Day he made a statement outlining the joint action being taken by Canada and the United states in the War on water pollution in general arid pos. Plates in particular please see declare Page 4 guns on Santiago chilean policemen disguised As aircraft mechanics killed one Hijacker and wounded another Liere Friday night in a gun Bat the crowded Caravelle jetliner being Cuba. The policemen were slightly injured in the Duel but one stewardess was Beverly wounded and taken to Hospital. The two policemen clambered on the Lan airlines plane carrying 70 passengers when it landed at Santiago s Puda Huel Airport to refuel before heading for Havana. The pair of air Chi lean University student Pedro Lenin Valenzuela 19, who was slain and Omar Marcelo Vas Quez the plane while it. Was Over Temuco 400 Miles from Santiago on a Domestic flight Between Punta Arenas in Southern Chile and Here. One passenger Hernan Silva. Said the hijackers carrying guns and dynamite pushed i hair Way into the cockpit and ordered the Pilot to when the Caravelle landed in Santiago the youths allowed 10 women and children to disembark. The men were kept aboard although one managed to escape through an emergency exit without being noticed. Silva said that when the shooting started All the Passen Gers ducked behind seats and someone extinguished the plane s Interior lights. Fort St. Hotel robbed a Man armed with a knife held up the vendome hotel 308 fort Street at . Saturday. Between and is though to have been Lakin. Police said die Man walked Ihlo the hotel manager s office with a knife As the manager was making up the night s Cash rec ills. The a escaped through the hotel s rear exit. The manager s office was a shambles after he struggled with the Bandit and the Man Ager himself suffered a Cut upper lip and a wrenched left shoulder. Obviously shaken by the hold up he did l want to Lalk about it As police whisked him away to Hie Hospital for treatment. The Holdup Man was de scribed As being 18 or in years pm Csc see roi1hery 4 prime minister Trudeau wowed the Canadian Liberal National Conven Tion Friday evening with love beads Flowers and a lesson in participatory democracy. The convention which ends sunday is being held at Carleton univer sity in. Ottawa. Or. Trudeau receives Flowers upper left from Roz Mellander. President of the . Young liberals and he sniffed at the bouquet All through the meeting. Pm gets warm Welcome in Sudeik hot seat Ottawa up prime min ister Trudeau stirred the Cana Dian student Liberal National convention Friday night with love beads Flowers and a lesson in participatory democracy. Or. Trudeau got a warm reception in the hot Seal As he talked to 200 student liberals at their annual convention apparently proving the election loves of 1968 Are still aflame. The prime minister wearing a powder Blue Turtleneck and Many coloured love beads and clutching daffodils brought by a Vancouver ques Lions r a n g in g from United states ownership in Canada to Hie governments new Indian policy to Arctic sovereignty. But it was the potential of democracy in a new age of Eom Nunica lion which held or. Trudeau s interest longest. Addressing a generation thai grew up with television the prime minister said thai Lead ers can no longer Force their ideas and ideologies on he referred to his audience As the. Uncensored whose parents had Little control Over what they Learned or though because of television. Because of this and because of rapid social and technological change he told the group they Are certainly More aware of the needs of the society of to Morrow than Hie generation be fore asked what the role of this new generation should be in this situation or. Trudeau recommended they Lesl new ideas see if they Are True or i Don l think you Challenge each other enough. Young peo ple should Challenge each other More. Your role is to con i Radical on a question especially Rele Trudeau Here in March prime minister Trudeau will Visil Winnipeg March 20 for a series of Public engagements and a Liberal fund raising Din Ner. Stan Roberts president of the Manitoba Liberal parly who made the announcement Friday said full details of the visit will be announced by or. Trudeau s office in n few Days. He said the parly originally planned to hold the fund raising dinner in the Spring but re scheduled Illo Lake advantage of or. Trudeau s visit. The a plate dinner and dance will be held in the Centennial concert Hall Start ing with a reception at . Dress will be informal. Chairman of the dinner commit tee is former Winnipeg Alder Man Mark h. Damker. Vanl to his audience or. Tru there was no preconception in the Cabinet on the Issue of marijuana. He respected people with Dif Ferent views on the subject bul for himself the world is so exciting 1 my High from in questioned whether the gov cram Cal should take a More nationalistic View of . Ownership of Canadian Industry i or. Trudeau said the govern men intends to re Orient Cana Dian capital and Canadian technology into sectors important in the he cited As exam Ples communications satellites j nuclear Power and Arctic exploration. And he cautioned that the alternatives to . Invest men Are a lower Standard of living on acc plance of capital from other countries. Johnson gives his version in a television interview Fri Day night former . President Lyndon b. Johnson gave his own version of the events leading up to his decision to cease the bombing of North Vietnam. Mis account is in startling contrast with most hitherto published explanations of Flint event. For details please Sec Page 11. Troop cuts hinted East West reductions proposed Washington Spe the soviet Union has begun to show an interest in Mutual East West troop cuts in it was Learned today. It is understood that the russians now have indicated they would be prepared to consider any Mutual Force re Duclion proposal that might come out of the next nato ministerial meeting in june. We just can t really judge by past track one administration source said. He noted that until now the soviet negative responses had been Given to in merely generalized slogans from the West. However at their meeting in Brussels last december the nato ordered an examination of the whole subject of troop reduction with a report to be made in june. Please see troop Page 10 Campbell e Thompson Man. Special tripe was the word por tation minister Joe Borow ski used to describe mayor Brian Campbell s Appeal to interested northerners regarding flooding of Southern Indian Lake. In a letter to the mayor or. Borowski wrote you sound like Waller Weir after the election the voters made a mistake " May i or. Borow ski wrote that you look after your election obligations to the taxpayers of mayor Campbell called this a disgraceful manner for a minister of the Crown to write to a fellow in repealed messages and comments mayor Campbell has called for reconsideration of the development of the Nelson River system Power potential key to this in the mayor s View is the procurement of adequate water reserves for the Kettle rapids Power project. This could involve the High level Floding of Southern Indian Lake. Mayor Campbell feels thai die Long Range Power needs of nor Hern Manitoba s growth As Well As of the rest of the province must be Given priority consideration. To Burn liberian Tanker Halifax up the liberian Tanker Arrow grounded in Nova Scotia s Chenab Tacto Bay since wednesday will be destroyed in an Effort to prevent pollution of the area. Transport minister Don Jamieson Friday ordered the destruction of the Tanker and her Oil cargo after Federal transport officials on the scene reported that conditions had deteriorated. Quantities of the Oil were leaking through holes in the ves Sel s Hull creating an Oil Slick three Miles Long and 100 Yards wide. Imperial Oil which had Char Lerud the Tanker will destroy the ship setting fire to it and the Oil cargo As quickly As pot please see to Burn Page ;