Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1970, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba Centennial 1970 Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 77 no. 200 Price 10 cents 15 cents wednesday May 20, 1970 Sun Row s3? Moonlit . So ill . My nil in . Forecast showers 45 and 60 smoke Drew hundreds of tuesday to the fire at such Eit Bui Init College on Portage Avenue. Pleat Tei Story on Page 3. Soviets apply voting in condemns new pressure i at 18 israeli raid near Balkans braced following Romania Moscow Summit Belgrade special tons the Balkans braced for a period of renewed soviet pressure on several fronts tuesday following the unexpected talks Between a top romanian party delegation and soviet officials in Moscow. Prom the makeup of the romanian delegation and other factors yugoslav officials deduced tuesday that economic and military questions facing the communist bloc and also bilateral ones such a new Friend ship and Mutual assistance treaty were on the Agenda. Yugoslav and other Easl european officials All expressed Surprise at the sudden meeting in which the top romanian party decision makers took part. The group included part Leader Nicolae Ceausescu Manea Manescu chairman of the eco nomic Council Emil Bod Naras please see soviets Page 10 Basic proposed ser health vices continue by Bill Leader Winnipeg citizens will have the benefits of the City s cancel defection service family plan Ning clinic and health inspectors for the remainder of the year and they will also pick up the lab. Last week Winnipeg s finance committee decided not to appropriate the Money needed to support the services and 18 employees for the remainder of the year. The health and welfare com Mittee at a special meeting tuesday before the regular meeting of Council agreed to bring a motion before Council to appropriate this Money and keep the services going. Please see health Page 10 Ottawa up the govern ment moved tuesday to in crease effective wednesday. July 1, the Federal minimum i wage to si.65 an hour from js1.25. I a Bill a rescaled in the com i Mons providing for the increase i was Given routine first Reading. Ii amends the Canada labor standards code which covers industries that come under fed eral jurisdiction because hey operate in More than one prov Ince. The increase came As no sur prise. Labor minister Brycc Mackasey has been saying for several months that increases in the si.25 minimum set in 1965 were planned. Elections Bill brought before commons by John Hay Ottawa up the government pro posed legislation tues Day to lower the mini mum voting age to 18 from 21 in Federal elections permit voting by proxy to electors unable to travel to the polls and extend the vote o Public servants and their families serv ing abroad. Jean Mare Ila Mel chief elec issues rebuke Over attack on bases in Lebanon from a Reuters tons Israel Lias rejected a in Security Council condemnation of its biggest raid yet into Lebanon saying that it will continue to retaliate against Arab attacks. The Council approved a Ruso Lution tuesday night sharply re Buking Israel for the attack May 12 on Arab guerrilla bases in the Foothills of mount her Mon. The israelis said they killed 30 guerrillas and captured 15 in the 32-hour operation. The Resolution declaring that such attacks could no longer be was approved 11 to 0. The United states colom Bia. Nicaragua and Sierra Leone abstained. It was the Council s eighth warning to Israel since March 19ns. Although the Resolution introduced by Zambia had been modified to include an indirect reference to provocations by Arab commandos . Ambas Sador Charles Yost said in was j surpluses expected this year still unbalanced in that it did . Deficits forecast Washington special tons president Nixon pro posed a billion Environ mental control tax on Lead additives o gasoline tuesday in revealing that the Small budget Iii. Of i in 10 i Iii Kollit i in Usu Oral officer described the pcs Are no. Project As account of Cha. Today Trimi festival school trick a Scordi fill 58 59 today s Index classified .43 to 5h comics 78 deaths i finance 71 to 7 Lumble 45 movies sports .58, 59 to in television women 17 to 20 City zone total nearly everyone reads the free press Powals As the most thorough n vision of the Canada elections act in More than 30 years. They were included in a Bill introduced in the commons by government House Leader Don Ald s. Macdonald. Many of the proposals were made by the commons privileges and elections committee in March. Or. Hamel said tuesday he estimates the drop in the voting the increase applies to work a age will bring another ers 17 years or older. The is minimum hourly wage for per sons under 17 remains the same. Please see wage Page 10 canadians on to the Elc Clion Rolls to join the Vot ers registered for the june 25, 1068, general election. Please Sec voting Page 10 m Mitius device stalls drunk Driver do Ficili. He also said he will not Hesi Tate to ask for further tax in creases next january if they Are needed. The environmental tax would add an estimated 2. Cents a gallon to leaded gasoline prices. Its Intel is in encourage rapid development of fuel with a Low and eventually Lead free Content to help fight air pollution. Due Alinosi entirely to a s3 billion drop in corporate income taxes the budget for the fiscal year ending june 30 will Proba Bly show a deficit of si.8 billion in place of the billion sur plus predicted in february or. Nixon said. Outlays he explained will Rise Only Mil lion above the forecast. A deficit of billion is now Anli Cipale in fiscal 1971, begin Ning july 1, in contrast to the si.3 billion surplus Morscen in february despite the billion in Revenue he Lead Addi i live lax is expected to raise. I please Sec . Page 6 new York special tons general motors tuesday unveiled a device called a physiological Lesler a police Lerm for a Drunken Driver a pm official said designed to Weed out Drivers who have Loo much alcohol in their blood to be Able to handle a car. Still in the development stage the device will use a spot on the car dashboard about the size of n radio. When a Driver turns on the. Ignition the device will Flash a series of random numbers which May be changed to idlers or sym Bols. To numbers will in displayed for Ghoul iwo seconds Ibon disappear. The would be Driver will have six seconds to push a series of buttons in the same order. If he is right the car s engine will is ail automatically. Of the Driver fails the test he gets iwo More chances. Afler the third failure the car won l snarl for what pm engineers Call an Ellen did period of Lime an hour or so. Then the whole sequence starts again. According to Trevor James pm Auto safely product director tests of the device conduct cd by pm s electronics division in Milwaukee and the mar que Ltd. University school of Medicine show that Drivers ability to handle the test decreases sharply after a few drinks. The tests also showed that subjects who had line Marlini managed test belter than those who bad in drinks at All. Or. James said that 80 per cent of Auto accidents Are in some Way alcohol connected or the Driver s ability is impaired by narcotics medicines fatigue exposure to tie breaker to be mailed a total of con slants have reported thai they had none wrong in the free press what s the difference contest. Before the judging can Start i Csc entries must be located among the in entries received. As announced in the contest rules a lie breaker Puzzle will a mailed to All contestants Whoso Enrit n arc Correct. The tic breaker will be two car Toons much larger in the original contest Wilh More differences. The lie breaker Puzzle will he mailed As soon As he original is completed. Spire violations originating within Lebanon. Instead of condemning such violence it merely deplored the loss of life caused by All violations of Security Council resolutions. It also repeated a frequently stated solemn warn ing to Israel that in the event of further attacks the Council must consider new effective Steps. The Council finally abandoned an Effort to obtain a unanimous corollary Resolution calling on the big four Powers to intensify i hair efforts to agree on Addi please see in Page 10 mail vote heavy authority for strike certain by the Canadian press it appeared certain today that Union negotiators will be armed with strike authorization from Canada s pos Tal workers when con tract talks resume in Ottawa thursday. A heavy turn out by the 27.000 the Canadian Union of postal workers and the let Ter carriers Union of Canada was reported in voting which began tuesday and is to end at noon. Results of the vote which Union leaders Predit t will authorize a strike Are being Tabu lated in Ottawa and could be announced tonight. Strike authorization would give of the Council of postal unions major weapon in bargaining with the Treasury Board on the major is sues of wages and Job Security. The Union negotiators have rejected a government offer of a increase Over a 30-month contract. They have demanded co cents in a 24 month contract. Mail dispatchers now earn to an hour and letter carriers to an hour under a contract which expired last october. Union officials also stressed Job Security is a major Issue saying the government plans to automate the postal to Stem thereby putting men out of work. Postmaster general Eric k i e r n s told the commons tuesday that some Post office employees demanding Job Secu please see mail Page 10 Steuart has doubts on car plan says policy satisfied sask but wonders about Manitoba the no. 2 Man in Saskatchewan s literal govern ment believes most of Saskatchewan s citizens Are Satis fied with the province s compulsory publicly run car insurance program but he in t Loo sure the same Type of plan would Best meet the needs of Manitoba s i motorists. Farm report issued by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff Market ing of wheat should be left under the wheat Board and the Board placed under the jurisdiction of the agriculture minister the Federal government s task Force on agriculture recommended in its report made pub Lic tuesday. See other stories on Page 58 it urged that surpluses of agriculture production be con trolled in Canada and reduced to manageable this could be done by drastically cutting Back production if necessary said the report la bled in the com Nous by Agri culture minister h. A. Olson. Please see farm Page 10 Csc reformers have support by Dudley Magnus Edmonton staff the Reform caucus a group of dissidents who have dared to Chal Lenge the Hierarchy of the Cana Dian labor compress has More support than meets the Eye despite vocal efforts by die hards of the labor move ment to belittle it. Monday evening at a meeting in the Hall of a downtown Church the caucus met to explain to interested delegates Here to attend the Csc biennial convention what the caucus feels the convention problems should really be. The Youthful caucus appears to have scared the Congress old the loosely nil Young guard organization is trying to put life into Wise cd Csc and claims the Congress has been too Long a Static setup Hal David Gordon Steuart Saskatchewan s Deputy Premier and provincial treasurer was replying to a question following an address tuesday night at the i n i e r n a i i o n a 1 inn before members of sales and Market ing executives of Winnipeg. The Accident Ralio in Large Urban centres such As Winnipeg has a direct bearing on car insurance rates he said explain ing that Saskatchewan s largest City has a population of we do More driving in spar sely settled areas it May be cheaper and in should be said or. Sle Uarl. The Liberal government is nol proposing to gel rid of the insurance policies Bro tight in by the previous administration since please Sec Steuart Page 6 Elm disease coming by Joe Wiesenfeld Dulch Elm disease has begun a slow March North in the past year that could see it infecting Trees in Southern Manitoba and perhaps even greater Winnipeg within a year. Martin Benum metro s Deputy director of Parks and Protection said in an interview tues Day the incurable Elm tree Dis ease has made its Way into the red Hiver watershed in North Dakota. The insect carried disease but on i v cyclists swarm protect helmets by Stephen Riley it was a night for the c ties a night for their Drivers. Big Bias and Harley did sons Bright red trimmed nor ton commandos and Diminu be hondas. Vrankic was quiere and j i cry and Chuk poo Loo with the Pleasic set Story and picture Page 3 rest of the los bravos some of them with names on i hair jackets. And Young Axilla was hero with the maltese Cross on the Back of Bis Denim a Cal below inc sign Hal reads please help stamp Oul virginity. Thank they rumbled mid trundled up to the front of the Manitoba please Sec Kvick Page Al building tuesday night about 150 machines in All most of the riders hatless. After All that was what in was All about. Highways minister Joe Borowski wants them to Wear helmets. He has. Said he intends luring this session to introduce legis lation to Hal effect. So Aboul 300 Drivers riders fans and hangers on sidled away from the parked machines to hear spokesman Bryan Robertson voice their opposition. Or. Borowski however was not in the riders decided to hold a this is nol a Demon or. It Oberlon snid Curtly to Ibn Black snout of a television camera. This is just a protest a we realize the consequences of Riding without helmets we just Don t Liki anybody to Tell us that we have to do some please see cyclists 1 age b complacently operates to an accepted formula each year with a gathering every second tear which amounts to liitle More than a a boor machine procedure. Main cry of the caucus is for local Auto Mony for j was fairly Static in the mis Canadian branches of internal Psi Sippi River watershed in Cen trial Minnesota until last sum Mer or. By turn said. But then positive Idun Ifica lion of the disease was made in ices Al Virginia in northeastern Minnesota followed closely in Mandan tonal unions. Boris Mather the caucus con Vener a tall up Standig Man in his 30s. Said in an interview Al the Csc convention tuesday Iacre were resolutions on the books from various locals that by identification dealt with some Aims of their Rafton and Fargo . help for the under Dot advice centres for the unemployed organization drives and Union in criers to do away Wilh conflicting Trade jurisdictions but he indicated he Decd if 1 by would Jet a meaningful caring. Or. Mather believes Congress officials in a position to explain the caucus s stand Aren t clarifying issues aus they prefer Aboul the caucus to Blind delegates Insl cad of Lef Ting them know How reasonable their requests really Are. Please see Csc Page 6 please see Elm Page 6 legislature reports a amendments committee reports five Bills municipalities Page 14 unaware of flood Aid Page 14 in employees As Public Anlo insurance campaigners Page 6 Why Borowski likes a Lynn Lake Thompson Road Page 14 no second Chance for insurance Pailley Page 31 Borowski swings at school system Page 7 Korowski has no sympathy for cyclists Page. 3 la reject relaxing of liquor advertising Page 7 amendment to election act Defeated Page ii City stains for flin i lon approved in principle approval in principle for Manitoba Farmers Page 14 Union o join National Farmers Union Page 7 wheat sold Touar by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff a Sale of wheat to the United Arab Republic was announced today by Otto Lang minister respond s i b 1 c for the Canadian wheat Board the Sale involves metric tons Bush ii is the first substantial Sale of wheat to the United Arab Republic for Many years or Lang said. Lie said in would nol have been possible without the revived and expanded cred it facilities the government has made available Loim prove the competitive mar Ket of Canadian wheat for developing coun tries. Tho Sale was negotiated by Cargill Grain company lid. Of Winnipeg an accredited sales agent of wheal Hoard. Shipments will run from july through october 1070 ;