Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 13, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday december 13, 1971 Goodman Heads Cic by Peter Michaelson Thunder Bay up it was seeing All those Canadian companies going under that got to Edwin Goodman. I really became a nationalist when i saw what was happen ing in my work As a lawyer with All those Canadian Compa Nies Selling out to the Ameri or. Goodman said Suri Day after being chosen National chairman of Ahe committee for an Independent Canada. The organizational talents of the former National chairman of the progressive conservative party will be taxed in his new role As Leader of the new move ment. The Cic came away from its first National convention armed with a new Constitution a for Mal Structure of councils and committees and a. Sense of a t i o n a 1 i s t i c Mission but no Money and undetermined sup port. Another cause for concern was the absence of Quebec Del Gates. Only a tiny delegation headed by Montreal lawyer l. Yves Fortier attended from that province. As it was the vast majority of delegates were from Ontario. There were 10 from British two from Manitoba. Or. Fortier former president of the Canadian club of Mon t r e a 1, said French canadians would be able1 to identify with the Cic organization Bowman gives reasons continued us Grill to but Claude Sponden for Tjie Mont rear Nevi s paper be Devoir told the con Ference that has a National Stic movement in separatism and provincialism and would find Little to identify with the v in any Case Fortier declined an to become a National co Tiai Chiari to succeed Claude Montreal. There is. No Point naming a general before he has an army to he said referring to the Lack of Quebec supporters. Or. Goodman said one priority is to increase membership in Quebec and added he is confident this can be done. Most Quebe cers believe in an in dependent he said As a group we re feeling More militant More deter mined to secure our said the 53-year-old Toronto lawyer who organized the conservative party Federal campaigns in Ontario and 1962. In lie was Rob Ert Man Ager. Other challenges face the 21 year old organisation. Jack Mcclelland of Toronto who stepped Down As chairman said raising funds is the key to the future of this organize he said the Organiza Tion s new treasurer. Jack bid Dell of Toronto president of Clarkson Gordon co., is age Nius in this in a financial report presented sunday or Biddell said the Cic which now has a deficit of will require an annual operating budget of he said this could be raised from membership dues and private donations. Delegates voted against the formation of n youth Wing but passed a motion empowering local committees to form High school youth groups which would have some degree of autonomy. The conference passed Only one a full fledged policy conference be called within one year. Several other resolutions were introduced for Brief Dis Cussion and Are to be submitted to a policy imm Mittee which will prepare final drafts for submission to local committees. The committees will seek consensus on the resolutions. Two resolutions were approved in principle. One called for time and Reader s digest i magazines to be exempted from j special tax privileges. J fund tops s6.000 continued Toronto. Thunder Bay. In , ont. Russell. Winnipeg Beach and Many More. All Money goes to the Christ Inas cheer Board of greater Winnipeg to Bay hampers and children s toys for More thai 30.000 i needy hoes Boms. Lav in come families Honse Hows a Trade by the elderly Are As on the diver Board help Wake can saws a Ireje by error for sea a. Mail do saws 50 the free press a Freer of sad. Cd Skeffi Street or it at one newspaper article has quoted informed sources close to or. Bowman As to my Rea sons for resignation. I do not know who these informed sources May be. No one is authorized to speak for nor have i discussed the matter with anyone for publication. Believe tha t the Coromis Scofill o pal jl7 we n e c e s s a r y function. I have every Confidence that its report will help to Correct the abuses i Pethe past and will give useful guidance for the future with re Spect to combining Public and private financing inthe development of our province and will serve to assist others who face the same problems. I wish the commission every Success in the future and re Gret Only that circumstances prevent me from taking a fur ther part in its David e. Bowman. Or. Bowman confirmed on saturday that he would be re signing effective dec. 31 and that his resignation had in fact been tendered to the commis Sion several weeks ago. The three member commis Sion of inquiry. Is delving into All aspects of the Churchill Forest industries com Pix which so far has involved about million in Public funds. The commission adjourned its hearings last thursday and is scheduled to resume on Jan. .10, 1972 in when or. Alexander Kasser of Sechri pulp inc. Of Montclair new Jersey is scheduled to testify. The members of the commis Sion arc c. Rhodes Smith chairman retired chief Justice of the Manitoba court of a peal or. Mitchell chairman of the Manitoba municipal Board and Murray s. Donnelly pro Vost of University College University of Manitoba. Commission chairman c. Rhodes Smith said monday additional counsel now. Will be required for the he said he did not think that would necessarily delay the resumption of the inquiry s hearings. Smith would not say whether the commission will be looking for a new chief counsel or whether the inquiry s current assistant counsel d Arcy Mccaffrey would assume that j role. He said the commission will have to see what it can work out. Thompson won t seek re election red Deer up Robert Thompson announced saturday he will not seek re election in red Deer constituency which he has represented in the com Mons since 1962. First As a so Cial credit member and then As a progressive conservative. In a letter to t. J. Parkinson. Constituency association pres ident. Or. Thompson said he will finish serving his fourth term in parliament but when the next Federal election is called will move with his family to fort Langley a British Columbia s Fraser Valley. My move to British Colam Bia is necessitated by health reasons for my own family.7 he Tunnel explosion kills 22 Ai tace free press pairs. La set review. Or. Tow Stafi said Wjk Iff of be . Of million water system began in 1968. Eventually it will carry 1.2 billion Gallons of water daily to Detroit. Another Rescue worker 25 year old Robert Meese de scribed the scene As the worst thing i be Ever seen in my seven Guys were alive that i could Meese said of what he saw when he entered the Tunnel. Some were moan ing others were praying for Lincoln Harrington continued said the explosion was so Vio Lent that air ducts made of corrugated Metal were shredded and rolled up into balls. Some workmen labor., officials and rescuers theorized that a Gas explosion might have been touched off by offshore drilling where a ventilation Shaft was being installed at the far end of the Tunnel. Join Ujj. Shaddix in charge of the drilling id. Had drilled through 200 feet of the Lake Bottom and into the roof of the Tunnel about 80 minutes be fore the explosion. If Shaddix said the ventilator Shaft would have allowed the Gas to is the Force of the explosion threw a machine feet through the Tunnel construction officials said. The veins at any Given time contain most of the blood in the .70 per cent of the total a hockey night Peak show continued the Mountain to grab seats. If mayor Marcel Geoffrey cannot Clear the Road with his Sno plow the race is on snowmobiles. Inside the 20-seat Shack ringside seats Are reserved for the mayor the Guy who supplied the set the one who came up with the Antenna and of course the one who owns the said or. Dupont. If someone turns up at the Shack too Many nights in a Row he is told to give some one else a chancer or. Dupont told or. Tru Deau that the problem could be solved by boosting the Power of the la Tuque relay station it would Only Cost about other and three Indi an reserves would also Bene fit from such a move or. Dupont said. Or. Trudeau said the government is working on extending the Csc network but h e was unaware of or. Dupont s particular problem. I Don t know How that said or. Dupont later. I wrote him two letters about a dog wags his Tail a hound wags his Stern an Otter his a Rabbit his Cut a Fox his Brush and a Deer his .single., former Liberal my w. G. Weir Dies at 75 the former Liberal member of parliament for Portage Neepawa and former parliamentary assistant to then prime minister Louis St. Laurent Wil Liam Gilbert Gib Weir 75, of 762 Waterford Avenue fo4 Garry died sunday at the Vic Toria Hospital in fort Garry. Or. Weir was born at port Perry ont., in 1896. He was educated at Rose Bank Man., and at the Manitoba agricultural College from which he graduated with a Bachelor of science in agriculture degree. He was director of the United Farmers of Manitoba from 1921 to 1923 and vice president from 1923 to 1924. He also was director of the Canadian Council of agriculture from 1923 to 1924. He was director of the Mani Toba wheat Pool from 1924 to 1930. He was first elected to the House of commons for the lib eral party in the Macdonald constituency in 1930. He was chairman of the agriculture committee from 1936 to 1940. In 1948 he was a Delegate to the Commonwealth parliamentary conference. From 1945 to 1953 or. Weir was the Liberal government whip in the commons. He was parliamentary assistant to or St. Laurent from 1953 to 1957. He was Defeated in the 1957 Federal election. In 1958 he was drafted by the Liberal party in Portage Neepawa As. A Unity candidate for the 1958 Federal election. But a few Days later he withdrew from the race for reasons of health. Or. Weir is survived by his wife Lila and one sister mrs. J. F. Blanchard of Winnipeg. His funeral will be held at 1 . Wednesday at Thompson funeral chapels 669 Broadway interment will be in the Green Wood cemetery Carman Man. Building time slashed Houston by using ready made components a firm Here built a Home in 36 Days instead of the usual four to 4va months. 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