Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 10, 1970, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba Centennial 1970 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 77 no. 115 10 cents 15 cents tuesday february 10, 1970 Sunrise . Moon Row . Sunset . Moonset . Forecast sunny 0 and 5 above slide kills 42 Avalanche roars through Hostel and hotel from Reuters a Val d Sere Frana up forty two person were killed today a roaring Avalanche Swep through a youth Hostel and a hotel and roared across a nearby Road. The Avalanche of fresh pow Der Snow was unleashed by one of the worst storms in the Alp in memory. About 50 persons were reported injured and Rescue worker said most of the victims were inside the government run youth Hostel when the Avalanche hit. The great Snow mass roared Down the Side of a Mountain during the breakfast hour a this major ski resort Home o French champions Jean Claude Killy and Marielle and Christine smashed a path to 100 Yards wide burying can As it went. Some cars were dragged 151 Yards from their Parkin places and rescuers Feam More dead or injured were in vehicles under the Snow. Please see Alpine Page 5 report on aged ignored by Wally Dennison a report urging improved care for the elderly and submitted in has been gather ing dust on some of the most influential desks in town while several Hundred empty Hospi Tal Beds in the metropolitan area also gather the annual meeting of the age Anc Opportunity Centre inc., was told monday. The accusation was made by or. J. A. Macdonell the Agency s outgoing Board presi Dent and director of the Geri Atric service at Deer Lodge Hospital. More than 400 people attended the noon luncheon meeting in the International inn. The report to which or. Macdonell referred was the con Muity of care Survey under taken by the age and Opportunity Centre inc., in june 1967, for the Western Canada Hospi Tal conference. And although he did t name the influential it is known the report was sent near the end of 1968 to or. George Johnson health minister in the former conservative govern ment or. Peter Warner Man please see report Page 4 three lose Appeal Ottawa supreme court of Canada declined Mon Day to set aside a magistrate s order committing three Winni Peg men to trial on charges of capital murder. Clarence Charles Prince Lawrence William Hewitt and Daniel Craib now Are scheduled to stand trial starting March 2 on a charge of murdering police Constable l co n a r d William Shakespeare. Constable Shakespeare was shot to death As he attempted to thwart an armed robbery at a St. Boniface supermarket july 18, 1969. Prince Hewitt and Craib along with a fourth Man after being charged with the crime went to preliminary hearing be fore magistrate r. E. Trucl in september 19fi9. The fourth Man was not involved in the High court Appeal. The magistrate found Suffi please Sec three Page 4 j. R. Murray managing director of Hudson s Bay co., Winnipeg suggests to the conference on Price stability which opened in Ottawa monday that a policy of guidelines be adopted because retail prices in Saskatchewan have declined while they have risen in All other parts of the country. Raps realtors fixed fees leaving selves wide open to Public inquiry Mackling attorney general Al Mackling told Manitoba realtors monday that by restricting Price Competition they Are leaving themselves open to a Public inquiry and possible government intervention. He suspected the Industry taken As a whole is in efficient the statement was made in a Peech to the 19th Annua convention of the Manitoba Rea state association prepared Industry minister Leonard Ivans but delivered by the. Attorney general because or Evans was ill. The speech said that if realtors supported free enter prise Competition their fixed rate of fees provided contradiction. Free Enterprise and compete Ion do not allow for a Greemen on prices. And yet it is my understanding that members o our association agree on a set if rates to be used by All. Yom members. In this Way you Page 5 see realtors girl allowed in . London a Ranjan Aid an asian woman from Enya whose quest to enter Britain has spanned three Conti ends and about Miles vill be allowed to enter eng and a British consulate spokes Man official said in Frankfurt Oday. I just received a message lat i would be Able to Tell her if she gets to London she will e allowed said Raymond Uston. Her brother Shantilal met her t the Frankfurt Airport when he arrived earlier today from Africa. This is said miss Vaid halting English when told lat she would be allowed to liter Britain. This is very miss Vaid had been rejected try into Kenya twice in less than 24 hours. Please see girl Page 7 today Arnie i Guy 39 Whitt quit school 43 today s Index classified.25 to 36 comics 46, 47 deaths 5 finance 21 to 23 Jumble 27 movies 45 places quiz 43 sports if 38 to 41 television 44 women 8 to h ally Zont total nearly everyone reads the free press libel award Vancouver up the British Columbia supreme court monday awarded a Van Couver open line Moderator 500 damages and court costs As a result of a libel suit against former Secretary of state Judy Lamarsh. Chief Justice j. 0. of the . Supreme court handed Down a 10-Page judgment Mak ing tie award to de Murphy of radio station Cowx and for Merly an Ottawa radio reporter. The judge found miss la Marsh and her publishers Mcclelland and Stewart Ltd. Of to Ronto jointly liable. Or. Murphy was described in a Section of miss Lamarsh s Book memoirs of a Bird in a gilded Cage As a Brash Young radio reporter heartily de tested by most of gallery and members the description was read into evidence during the first Day of a libel trial which ended. Here Jan. 19. Chief Justice Wilson said air. Murphy s name was tarnished in the mind of the Ordinary Reader of the Book. He said it was a precedent setting Case under English Law because it is the first time in a please see libel Page 6 guilty plea in slaying two youths charged with non capital murder in the death of Ilen Curtis keeps 17, of Vancouver pleaded guilty tues Lay in Manitoba court of Queen s Bench to a reduced charge of manslaughter and vere remanded to March 2 for leniency. The youths Larry Shelton tiny Morgan 20, of fort Ivorah Texas and Phillip John close 20, of Duluth Minnesota appeared before or. Justice f. M. Bastin. They had pleaded not guilty to the original charge of non capital murder. The charges arose out of the discovery oct. 15 of or. Heep s body near he Canadian National railways track nine Miles North of Morris Man. Please Sec guilty Psge 5 Cut Price a the keynote by Anthony Westell Ottawa special As the business tycoons bureaucrats and newsmen arrived for the opening yesterday of the National conference on Price Stabil Ity they were each handed handsome King sized Binder stuffed with Back ground documents a writing pad and a ballpoint pen. Bound in White for the businessmen Orange for officials and Blue for news men with titles in both languages printed in Gold on the cover the kits seemed just the sort of extravagant gimmick to avoid at a conference on but appearances Are sometimes misleading. In fact the prices and in comes commission picked up the binders from a Man going out of business at the bargain Price of 60 cents each including the printing an example to us All of How to squeeze pennies. When the meeting broke for lunch the participants were invited to step into the adjoining lounge for soup and Sandwich an austere menu which received some approving attention in the build up to this conference on austerity. But again appearances were misleading. The com Mission in fact ordered sandwiches for Only 125j anticipating that the other couple of hundreds Partick. Pants and observers would prefer to slip through the Tunnel from conference Centre to the chateau Lau Rier for a More appetizing and expensive meal. Just As there were two sides conference incidents so there is a Public and a private View of what is happening at the two Day meeting. The Public View yesterday was of an impressive meet ing of government and the private sector of the Economy of the need for voluntary restraint to. Con. Tool inflation. The commission brought together before to cameras prime minister t r u d e a u and some 300 leaders of the business professional and agricultural sectors to Dis cuss How to achieve Price stability. Please see Cut Price Page 5 Swiss Bankers alleged in fraud Washington a Feder Al authorities have evidence that two Swiss aware that they were accomplices in a Hun reds of false documents from a string of Shadow companies which became the Backbone of a Multi million Dollar swindle of he . Government with the Aid of the Bankers he evidence shows a group of americans was Able to Channel More than into secret Swiss Bank accounts before the Raud was exposed and stopped. The americans who pleaded Silty to then parts in the Raud were scheduled for sen ending today in . District ourt Here. They Are Francis n. Rosen a prominent Washington Awyer Andrew l. Stone a healthy St. Louis businessman Evelyn Price of St. Louis s executive Secretary Robert b. Bregman president of Bregman electronics inc., of vew York the Chrome rail nc., of Akron Ohio. The two Swiss Bankers were lamed As co. Conspirators but not defendants in the Case. The fraud Case officials said s just one example of the Hun reds of frauds and tax Eva ions believed carried out each with the knowledge and id of discreet foreign Bankers. Simplified the Case worked his Way Stone and Rosenbaum acre officers of a company which was the prime contractor on millions of dollars in . Navy defence business. They set up two Dummy companies in the unites states and fraudulently represented them As subcontractors on the Navy work. The Swiss Bankers sup plied those subcontractors with fraudulent Bills from other Dummy european firms for materials which never were ordered or shipped. The Dummy subcontractors then sold the non existent material to the prime contractor who charged the Navy for it. In paying off the phoney Swiss Bills Stone and Rosen Baum were Able to Siphon the fraudulent overcharges obtained on the defence contracts out of the country. The Money went to the Swiss Bankers who routed it into the americans secret accounts in Switzerland. Government officials say Esti mating the number of dollars fraudulently channelled into for eign accounts each year defies but certainly runs into the hundreds of millions. The Navy fraud Case was Bro Ken by Seymour Glanzer chief of the frauds prosecutions unit of the . Attorney s office. He was Able through court action to Force Swiss Banks to open their Bonks and files. Please see Swiss Pago 5 restraint the goal prices body facing test if business agrees to hold prices commission has lever for labor by Joyce Fairbairn Ottawa the prices and incomes commission today faces a key test on whether it has succeeded in persuading Canadian big business and Industry to accept some Type of Short term squeeze on profits. The results of the two Day meeting which began monday will be passed on Lor guidance to next week s top level Federal conference on Infra they will also be important As a psychological lever for the commission in future attempts to goad leery labor spokesmen into curbing demands for wage increases i 1970. Psychology is the game and both the commission and the Federal government realize that if powerful segments of the Economy refuse to play there is a limited future in asking the Public to participate in Volun tary restraint. Yesterday commission chair Man John Young and his team please Sec prices Page 5 e robbed in own Home 2 knife wielding Young men take from husband wife a Winnipeg Man and his wife were robbed of by two knife wielding youths who broke into their Home monday night. Winnipeg police said the masked youths entered the Home of Walter Van Walleghem 808 Cambridge Street shortly after 7 . And forced mrs. Van Walleghem to hand Over they then took from i Van Walleghem who is vice president of Royal dairies. Police said the two thai ordered or. And mrs. Van Walleghem and their 16-year old son to their basement where they locked them in a closet. They then drove off in or. Van Walleghem s car. The car was found later on Lindsay Street. A police Searchi the Hiver Heights area of prize contest 42 hotel workers strike by Dudley Magnus -220 employees at till hotel fort Garry went on strike tuesday morning. Pickets were at at g . Two Hundred and forty seven rooms were occupied by guest monday night and 220 will be occupied tuesday night w Keith Murray hotel Mana said in an interview in his office tuesday. The Union involved is Loca 272, Canadian brotherhood of railway transport and Genera workers or. Murray said about six of the unionists had come to work refusing to take part in the strike. He declined to say where these six were employed. Or. Murray said 42 of the Otel s staff not in the Union were on the Job. These people were accounting and sales pm trainees and secretarial and supervisory personnel not in the bargaining unit. Or. Murray was expecting about 20 supervisory people from in hotels in other parts of Janada to arrive and assist the fort Garry to keep operating. The fort Garry is a in owned Lionel. About 250 breakfasts were served tuesday morning or. Murray said. He had a full Lotel and Only about three or or rooms weren t occupied. Please Sec hotel Page g show moves around the Csc s around town show normally telecast from he lobby of the hotel fort Garry monday to Friday will be produced from a Csc studio for the duration of a strike at the Garry. Local 272, Canadian brother Hood of railway transport and general workers went on strike at the Garry tuesday morning. Allan c. Runton personnel manager at clip sail it was decided to telecast the show from the studio instead of from the Garry because three unions affiliated with inc Canadian labor Congress arc involved in its production. Lie said in an interview the show s Host Jack Tiern Bill and some clerical staff belong to the please Sec show Page 7 Winnipeg Fiji cd o turn up any clues. Winnipeg police described one of the Young men As being age 19 to 23, six feet tall of slim build with Long fair hair. He was wearing a Brown suede jacket and glasses with thick lenses. Tie other is described As age is to 20, five feet six inches tall and weighing Iso pounds. He please see couple Page 6 tax plan for aged dumped by Stephen Riley a move to request exemption of certain old age pensioners in Winnipeg from payment of school taxes was Defeated Mon Day by Winnipeg City Council. The proposal made dec. 15 by Alderman Leonard Claydon progressive conservative la for Wolseley had been referred to the finance committee for report. That committee concurred with a recommendation from r. D. Mclean City finance com missioner that Aid. Claydon s motion be shelved. His suggestion would have exempted from school taxes All old age pensioners who have Laid taxes in the City for at least 25 years. Council members agreed in Stead to pursue a Brief sent to he province last summer. The Brief asked for Perm s Ion to Grant a Home assessment exemption or two Birds of the assessment which Ever was the lesser. Aid. Claydon was absent monday for health reasons but Aid. Slaw Rybchuk attempted to die matter Back to the Ommittee saying fhe members lad not Given it the study required. I Locasc Sec tax plan Page 4 looking for a a ski Uoo this want and under Snow mobiles do 1969 ski Doo nordic Good Coral. All. I. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Business won t go it alone by Joyce Fairbairn Ottawa staff Canadian business and Industry leaders yesterday responded to requests to Lake a Lead in the fight against inflation with a sensitivity that would have drawn sympathy from any politician. Under the heat of the television cameras and the beaming smile of prices and incomes commission chairman John Young the High powered executive Talent was faced with the chore of appearing at the same time willing to help but relic ant to go it alone. For those who had already publicly committed themselves o the principle of some Type of Short term Price restraints it Vas merely a question of past statements. But or. Young former Dean of arts at the University of British Columbia had to revert o his professorial techniques to draw comments from other it was a Well established classroom approach whereby he affable chairman unabashedly resorted to personal frag o get the delegates talking. In one Case he admitted that he technique might have Back ired a bit. Under or. Young s urgings Dom tar president t. N. Beaupre Rose to express doubts that the j meeting would get very far on Goodwill alone. Please see business Page 4 it s go for Gomo a greater Winnipeg manufacturer has signed a million contract to produce two pass Enger amphibious vehicles which it is hoped will become As popular As the snowmobile among Bush workers and sports enthusiasts. The vehicle called a Cio Mobile or Gomo for Short will he built by kill cry Indus tries limited of 61g Roseberry sired is. James Assiniboia under contract signed with heaver gom Oblie limited of Toronto and Keswick out. Kenneth s. Spicer. President i of kill Herry industries said the million Dollar figure Plase Sec it s go Page 4 ;