Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 1970, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba Centennial 1970 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 77 no. 199 Price 10 cents 15 cents tuesday Hay 19, 1970 Sunrise . Moonrise . l1. Plofino Nyrl Sunset . Moonset . 33 Gnu do halt govt. Takeovers Chambers emergency group to be set up to fight intervention la business by Ralph Bagley flin flon Man. Staff an emergency committee is to be established by the Manitoba Cham Bers of Commerce to formulate a plan of action through each and every chamber of Commerce in Manitoba to Stop government takeover of a Resolution calling on the executive to immediately establish such a committee was passed by a record number of delegates attending the 39th an Nual convention of the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce Here monday. The convention concludes tuesday. The Resolution was in response to a plea earlier in the Day from retiring president Gordon w. Snider of Portage la Prairie who called on the Dele Gates to take action on he ques Tion of governmental intervention in a record registration of 215 delegates and wives representing 35 Chambers throughout the prov Ince is in attendance at the two Day convention Here the please see want Page 4 one Way to spend the weekend rapist to serve 14 years a warm Long weekend in Winnipeg time to work time to play and time to Barefoot in the Park. Cost Index climbing Ottawa up increases in food prices and rent were chiefly responsible for advances in Cost of living indexes in nine of the 10 major metropolitan areas in april the Dominion Bureau of statistics reported today. Only in Regina Saskatoon did the Index for april remain unchanged from March. In other areas increases ranged from two tenths of one per cent in to Ronto to 1.1 per cent in Vancou ver. Clothing indexes increased in eight centres but remained unchanged in St. Johns nfld., Edmonton Calgary. Health and personal care Cost were up in All areas partially As a result of higher professional fees. To Jacco and alcohol indexes were unchanged. Transports please see Cost Page 4 a 20-year-old Man. Who raped a 37-year-old Winnipeg House wife at knife Point feb. 20, has been sentenced to 14 years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary by or. Justice cordon c. Hall in Manitoba court of Queen s Bench. John Frederick Hatch of no j fixed address appeared Al the of can of summer o. Vietnamese troops i . Advisers Wilson leads i enter Laos election poll mail strike vote begins today negotiators preparing to resume bargaining by the Canadian press Canada s postal workers take a formal strike vote today and wednesday in an Effort to Force the Federal government into meeting their demands for Job Security and higher wages. Negotiators for the Council of postal unions and the Treasury Board Are to meet in sub com Mittee today in Ottawa to pre pare for resumption of talks once the Vole is taken. Leaders of the Canadian Union of postal workers and the letter carriers Union of Canada expect a vote in favor of giving Union negotiators strike Power As a bargaining weapon. Mass rallies of postal workers in Toronto Winnipeg Edmonton and Vancouver sunday indicated support for strike action. W. L. Houle National presi China cancels meeting aching for on May 4 and pleaded guilty to the charge. He was put Over to tuesday for preparation of pro sentence and psychiatric re ports. Evidence in the Case was presented tuesday. Crown counsel Lymie win Stein told court that on feb. 20 a housewife living in a fort Rouge apartment was looking out her Kitchen window when please see rapist Page 4 Israel issues warning in protective Washington special tons United Stales military advisers sometimes go into Laos with South vietnamese troops but Are prohibited from conducting Large scale combat operations there defence Secretary Mclvin Laird said monday. He made that disclosure ing a Long afternoon of question ing ending at . By a Senate disarmament subcommittee highly exercised about the invasion of Cambodia. J chairman j. W. Fulbright Democrat Arkansas of the Parent Senate foreign relations com Mittic said sending advisers j into Laos violates the spirit of the congressional ban against j using . Ground troops in Laos or Thailand. Sen. Fulbright after accusing i the Nixon administration of tory chief in election on june fight looking for a racing Bike this want and under Furni Ture 641 3-Speed racing Bike German Mako extra parts used 3 weeks. B88-6552. Is among the hundreds of bargains in today s classified Section. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Jerusalem special tons Israel message monday to the major Powers reaffirming its intention to strike Back across the Suez canal regardless of what weapons Are deployed there or who operates them. The Nole follows slate meals by military observers Here that the egyptians Are trying to i build a soviet supported anti aircraft missile system along the waterway similar to those being cons ruled around Cairo Alexandria and the Aswan dam. Those three areas arc to be ringed by the most advanced ground to air missile in the so-1 Viet Arsenal the its i please Sec Israel Page 4 i widening the War by invading Sec . Advisers Page 4 the Dominion drama festival opened monday in the playhouse Thea tre Here. This is the first time since 1962 that the festival finals have been held in Winnipeg. For a critique of the play the hostage by Brendan Bohnn presented by the play goers of Lethbridge Alta. Please turn to Page 10. Canada West series starts Quebec and Western Canada arc not turning their backs on confederation but in their different ways arc demanding More cultural and economic Elbow room. Canada is developing a diversity in its people equal to its fantastic landscape. And while regionalism amounts to perhaps the greatest Challenge Canada has Ever faced the Walls dividing canadians arc coming Down not going up. These arc some of the findings of a Canadian press re Porter who in the last year has studied altitudes from St. Johns n fld., to Victoria talking to people in All walks of life. Joseph macs can of up Montreal staff started at the grassroots of Rural Quebec toured the Atlantic provinces and the big cities of Centra Canada and now has covered the Prairie provinces and Liri fish Columbia. A series of five articles on the Prairie provinces starts today on Page 41. These will be followed by stories on . And a wrap up of the Canadian picture nationally. London up prime minister Harold Wilson bidding for an unprecedented third straight term in what promises to be Ohe of the closest general elections since the second world War look a slight Lead today in the first Public opinion poll of the Campaign. But opposition Lender Edward Heath is confident his conserva Tives will win. Heath said Mon Day night he is aching for this fight after Wilson called a Gen eral election for thursday. June 18. A mar plan opinion Survey pub Lis Hecl today in the times gave Wilson s labor government a 2.7 per a Cal Lead 47.2 per cent to j 44.5 per cent for the conserva lives. J if the Lead holds in key constituencies on polling Day Wil son can count on a majority of go in the g30-scat House of com Mons when the new parliament convenes. His majority now is g4. I some 50 Scols How Cut a arc marginal with pluralities of in Voles to slightly under 5.0w in the last election in Gigli and could help swing the result i ther Way this time. Other unpredictable factors include Public opinion polls which have seen a remarkable labor comeback of some 12 per cent in he last month could i swing Back to the tories in the i month before the election. J voters including Young people Between i the Ages of 18 and 21 Able to cast ballots for the first time. I economic acc of i cry the Trump card in labor s Campaign deck facing Stern 1 tests from inflation strikes the i please see Wilson Page 4 Washington special tins communist China monday called off the scheduled wednesday meeting with the uni cd Stales in Warsaw be i cause of the . Invasion of j Cambodia. I peking s official news Agency Hsinhua said Hal in View of. The increasingly grave situation i created by the . Government i which has brazenly sent troops to invade Cambodia and expanded the War in Indochina the chinese government deems it no longer suitable for the 137th meeting of the sino-. Ambassadorial talks to be held on May 20 As originally scheduled. As to when the meeting will be held in the future it will be decided upon later through consultations by the Liaison personnel of the two substantially the same Mes Sage was delivered orally at 11 ., Warsaw time by two chinese Liaison officers. Chick Yung Midi and Yeh Wei Ian to number Dent of the cup told a rally in Moncton n.b., sunday he expects the National vote to be 80 per cent in favor of a strike. Or. Houle and local Union leaders across the country please see mail Page 4 fire ties up traffic fire broke out in the Success commercial College Ltd at Portage Avenue and Edmonton Street at about . Tues j their . Opposite Thomas Simons. J Day stalling traffic in the area. I state department spokesman j and forcing the evacuation of Robert j. Mccroskey who first the building. No injuries were disclosed peking s move said please see China Page 4 today Plines bomb general s House Sinto a colds Cincy Slaughter today s Index classified .28 to 41 comics 43, deaths finance Jumble movies sports television women 18 11 to 30 15 22 to 27 14 16, 17 City zone local nearly everyone reads the free press reported. It is believed the fire was started by faulty wiring in the South Wall of the Brick building. Firemen arrived on the scene shortly alter the fire was Dis covered and quickly set to work i chopping a Hole in the roof in j an attempt to get at the source of the Blaze. Fire trucks and hoses blocked the West Side of Portage and Imily trolley buses were allowed to go by pushed by maintenance trucks. Heavy smoke flowed from the Roo ii of the premises and Large lunch time c r o w d s gathered along the Block to watch. At press time it appeared the Blaze was being brought under control. It is not known whether i the building was insured or to extent it was damaged. Steadily improving Kabul. Afghanistan a Afghanistan will become self sufficient in wheat in 1971 be cause of modern agricultural techniques and improved seed agriculture ministry sources said. Says Hole in War finishes concern by Ken Ingle a ceasefire in the Middle East by june 9 or the possibility of global conflict sparked by increasing russian involvement in the Arab israeli War. These were two themes dealt with by foreign minister Abba Eban of Israel at a press conference Here monday. About. 30 newsmen were admitted under tight Security guard to the conference in the Green room of the Centennial concert Hall on main Street. When asked about the possibility of de escalating the War mi1. Eban replied that Israel would willingly de escalate ii s involvement upon any de Escala Tion movements of the United Arab Republic Jordan Syria and Lebanon the four Arab nations with which the jewish state is at War. And or. Eban wont even furl her in proposing what he termed a very fundamental act of do Esca please Chaser irk Page 4 a study of Eban t changing moods photos by Ablitt ;