Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Police chief wants More men Page 3 Winnipeg free press final edition Price 10 cents i Friday december 10, 1971 Sunrise . Moonrise . Sunset . Moonset . Forecast a few flurries 0 and 10 this ii an Artis Conception of Winnipeg s downtown convention Centre. The main Entrance shown above is face South on to York Avenue. The Centre will contain display areas and meeting rooms on the main floor commercial space Ami a Cinema on the. Second floor and an re foot convention Hall with a capacity of people on the top floor. A Sod turning ceremony was held at the site of the Centre Friday morning. See Story on Page 3. Nofu wants to be Agency g of Farmers big sales hinted need . Urain by Paul Puu Chyn the National banners Union wants Farmers to be licensed and it wants farming to be regarded As a profession Only Bona fide Farmers being eligible for thai licence. And the Union decided thurs Day that it wants to be the sole licensing agent for All Farmers. The Union also wants producers engaged in farming for Hobby research or tax advantage to be considered not f a e r s but part of Agri business. The proposal is contained in a is Point National livestock policy hammered out by delegates see stories on Page 15 in the final Day of the Farmers Union annual convention at the Winnipeg inn. Please see Nofu Page 4 Washington special tons the soviet Union is interested in purchasing . Grain for years to come. Min ister of agriculture Vladimir Matskevich said thursday. Two extortion r attempts made subway fire kills one Montreal up a sub Way operator was found dead today after he was trapped in a smoke filled Tunnel when two trains collided and fire broke out the seven hour fire disrupted service on she subway s Ortii Smiith line. The operator whose name was withheld was trapped in his nine car train after it collided with another nine car train on a siding in a switching Tun Nel near the Henri Bourassa station. Winnipeg Pouce have is sued a warning that two Telephone extortion at tempts were reported by women thursday. In both cases the Telephone caller told the women their Chil Dren would be harmed if they did1 not pay him Money. Detective superintendent Emie Pope Seid the Tele phone caller or callers is attempting to emulate an incident in Montreal earlier this week. A Montreal Bank manager paid out Ransom when his wife s safety was threatened. The manager later Dis covered his wire had been at a Hairdresser s when the threats were made. Supt. Pope said the first woman who was called was told her son would be harmed if she did not leave a sum of Money at a specified location. The woman who does t have a son. Notified police. The second woman was told she would not see her son again if she did not pay the caller the woman whose son is living outside the province Dis cussed the threat with her husband and police were notified. Supt Pope said anyone receiving similar Calls should not panic but should report the incidents to police and let us get in on the ground in an unusual press Confer ence at uie soviet embassy marking the Start of an 11-Day visit to the United states or. Matskevich also said that he hoped to investigate prospects for importing . Farm machinery and for purchasing licences for the production of combines and tractors in the soviet Union. The soviet minister spoke of industrializing agriculture improving livestock Breeding and increasing the production of fruits and vegetables. We know that the United states has achieved some significant re sults in this he said. So As not to invent them for a second time we Are ready to share our exper Isaccs and get something from the achieve ments of the United or. Matskevich said the Purrm of Srain. A spec rally Corn will continue Lor a please see soviets 2 Canadian wheat affected six Iii Limiex please see subway Page 4 festivity for widow Todd Cin Joe m. Was uni a Rich Man the Day he died very suddenly in an Industrial and cent at a local construction site. Today the Canada pension plan and workmen s Cora pen sat Fri Board provide Feis True and six children gift an Rockne of a Root Fth. The West of a saws Waper. 59 costs for a school a Bess wet. A plate Jesse Are expenses tonal poverty level Cor a family of six. And about a owl to City welfare payments for a similar family of seven. Last year mrs. M tried to forget Christmas. Tvs year she applied to so Christmas cheer Board of greater Winnipeg for a Christ nuts hamper. Tow to of free press cheer cais provide for the foreigners evacuated Rescue planes Fly out Karachi West Pakistan Reuter hundreds of foreign ers including canadians britons Ger mans and Swiss were evacuated from pakis Tan by air today. A Canadian armed forces Boeing 707. Flew out More than 200 and other nationals and the Raf planes air lifted 375 britons. The Canadian Boeme took off for Tehran Iran today with Canadian evacuees and 35 Ger mans from German companies and a German school in Kara Chi. They had planned to get out by Road but abandoned trucks and cars at the Airport when seats were offered aboard the plane. The britons were evacuated from Karachi aboard five camouflaged Raf Hercules trans ports. They were being flown to Masiran Island South of mus cat and Oman in the persian Gulf and then by Raf vc-10 to Cyprus. About 600 britons Are still in the Karachi area and two her Cules planes Are standing by for a possible Airlift saturday. The spokesman said five her Cules would Fly to Islamabad Airport sunday to evacuate briton in the North of the last hurdle to Dacca vaulted Indian army establishes Bridgehead near capital from a Reuter Indian troops vaulted the last River Barrier to Dacca today establishing a Bridgehead on the Meghna 36 Miles Northeast of the provincial capital an Indian army spokesman reported. The spokesman said no major obstruction now lies in the path of the Indian army to Dacca. New dispatches from Dacca reported before communications were Cut off that thousands of civilians were fleeing. The Bridgehead was established unopposed on the West Bank of Ashur and. Indian troops crossed the River three Miles wide at that Point by River Steamer and helicopter said the spokesman col. B. P. Rikhye in Calcutta. People in Dacca apparently were fearful of heavy casualties if the pakistani army makes a stand there. About pakistani troops Are in the Dacca area and Indian a warplanes Are pounding them. Please see last Page 7 allies reassured . Pledges nato support Indian stand Uncertain truce reports conflict new Delhi up prime minister Indira Gandhi said today India will take All Steps to achieve Independence of East Pakistan and promised the enemy shall be crushed in the India Pakistan War. There were conflicting re ports on whether mrs. Gandhi had rejected United nations Call for an immediate ceasefire in the War. The associated press said the Indian prime minister had rejected it. But Reuter said mrs. Gandhi neither approved or. Rejected the ceasefire and quoted her As saying the general Assembly Resolution is under consideration by the mrs. Gandhi reaffirmed that India would not be forced into any action which was against its National interests. India wanted peace but sometimes it was necessary to fight to defend that cause. Although Pakistan is using All its military Force to prevent the people of Bangladesh from achieving Freedom nothing can deter us from driving the occupation forces out of the re Gion and helping the Bangladesh people to live in peace and mrs Gandhi please see truce Page 7. Warns India the announcement by rus Sian agriculture minister Vladimir Matskevich in Washington thursday that his country in tends to buy More United states Grain in the coming. Years will have an effect on the Canadian Grain Trade Accord i ing to John Clark of United Grain growers. Or. Clark said in a Telephone interview that increased . Russian Grain Trade could be bad for Canada because ii could mean less sales. But. On the other he said. It could be taken As a Good move because any Grain i Erchieh moves off the Market Means More potential sales arc re said that if some of the stocks Are moved off the Market throng sates to Russia. It Means there is less , Grain to compete with Ca Nadian Grain an the mar Ket the United slates is chief competitor is Gram Trade. Or. Of cart said few ewer. That Hong Kong Reuter China warned India today it would suffer a shameful de i feat if it failed to heed a United nations Call for a ceasefire with Pakistan. The official people s daily. Quoted by radio peking said China firmly supported Paki i Stan and would carry out its obligations inside or outside the United nations. The chinese warning came after Pakistan said it was ready to accept a in general Assembly Call for a ceasefire with India and a Mutual i dra Val of troops. I the people s daily urged India to accept the in cease fire Resolution adding if you want to defy world opinion thinking thai you can do whatever you wish with the backing of the social Imperial please see China Page 2 Brussels special tons Secretary of state William p. Rogers sought thursday to reassure his fellow nato foreign ministers of the Nixon administration s continued firm commitment to close political and military co operation with Western Europe. United states sources said that or. Rogers in a lengthy speech to the Winter meeting of the nato ministerial Council concentrated on attempting to counter fears that recent . Foreign policy initiatives could signal changes in Washington s traditional Post War alliances. The sources quoted or. Rogers As saying we want to respond to such concern directly Here because there is a need to put these fears to rest. Pres ident Nixon asked me to bring this message to the Council we have been undertaking extensive changes in american foreign policy we believe these Are constructive and necessary changes. But in that process of change America s partnership with Western Europe Ameri Ca s support for its Unity and America s commitment to its defence have not been diminished. Nor will they be Dimin i s h e d our association with Europe is Central to our foreign policy. It will remain so underlying his words was growing european concern about the meaning of or. Nix please see support Page 7 new group to in ii 11 ship by Susan hoes hex Manitoba s new democratic party government has written off about in Loans and expenses of the cruise ship. Is lord Selkirk and has created a subsidiary of the Manitoba development corporation to buy and ran the financially troubled ship. An order in Council giving the Board of the corporation the right to create a subsidiary the major asset of which would be the lord Selkirk was passed by the Manitoba Cabinet nov. 10 and signed by the lieutenant governor nov. 15. The order says the subsidiary j will be Given Clear title to the assets of the Lake Winnipeg navigation company totalling and will write off s800.000 which includes the Cost of the boat s. 1971 operation and the receiver s expenses in the loan. The subsidiary will create one i million common shares Par value each and invest s203l500 As the Cost of the ves Sel into the corporation Accord ins to the order in Council. The shares will not be sold to the pub c. Please see new Page 2 pleads guilty to fraud a 71-year-old St. James Assiniboia Man pleaded guilty thursday to fraud charges concerning in Grain futures when he appeared before magistrate Charles n. Rubin in provincial magistrate s court. The Man Clarence Leroy Mcconnell. Of 154 Riverbend cres cent was remanded pending a pre sentence report. The offences Are alleged to have occurred Between 1964 and 1969. Of 19 charges originally Laid Only nine Are to be proceeded with. Crown counsel David r. Bir Chard told court or. Mcconnell had fraudulently taken Money from people on contracts speculating in Grain futures. He had been arrested after an investigation by the fraud Section of the ramp. 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