Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 16, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press final edition vol. 79 no. 197 Price 10 cents with comics tuesday May 16, 1972 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Forecast sunny 50 and 85 Shultz takes Over Gonnallo Steps Down by Tim Traynor free press staff correspondent Washington John Connally resigned from the Nixon Cabinet tuesday. He will be replaced As Treasury Secretary by George Shultz currently a leading economic adviser to the president. No reason was Given for or. Connally s resignation but he said that politics played no part in his decision. The departure of or. Connally from the Cabinet was announced tuesday morning by president Nixon himself. Or. Please see Connally Page 4 Man Arrow fires pistol circled at gov. Wallace in Maryland shopping Centre monday Quebec la loll unrest Montreal h mixed feeling by Paul Jackson free press staff Montreal this is hardly a City under siege. The hotels Hustle with tourists and those Semi tourists known m convention delegates. Traffic roars liberally along the in Ter lining freeways and flyovers which stand in Montreal like a Heap of Spaghetti. Hundreds of bars and restaurants Beckon the passerby with tempting Aromas and colourful signs. The stores Are packed with both window shoppers and the Type who actually part with Dollar Bills. window dress ing it could be. For Montreal today is a City of a Community where the tension although perhaps carefully hid Den must remain always close to the surface. The City could be crippled any hour by a wave of carefully planned and violent protests against last week s year Long contempt sentences against three Public service labor Lead ers Marcel Pepin Lous la Berge and Yvon Charbonneau. Last week a wave of strikes hit que e c province wide radio stations were taken Over by agitators of the common front of Quebec Public service unions. On Friday Montreal s six daily newspapers failed to appear on the streets. Threats of possible violence had persuaded the publishers to Call a halt. Over the weekend common front spokesmen pledged that at least 80 per cent of Quebec s 210-000 Public service employees plus a growing segment of workers in the private sector would join the protests monday. Some did. Some did t. The common front leaders had vowed that Montreal liquor stores would be closed. Some were. But in the shimmering and Busy place Ville Marie you could still pick up a bottle of liquor late into the afternoon. Some Montre Alers were say just because liquor was still readily available . Transit workers voted monday night. Against strike action. However on monday workers at the French language news paper be Devoir agreed on a 24-hour protest strike students please see Montreal Page 6 protest losing drama up demands for the release of three imprisoned labor leaders continued throughout Quebec monday but without the dramatic Impact of last week s protests. The Union common front re presenting More than Public service workers issued a statement calling for the re lease of the labor federation presidents withdrawal of strike ending legislation and a resumption of negotiations. A Union official said about 40 of 52 other Union officers sentenced to jail following last month s 11-Day Public service strike were up their Freedom today in support of their jailed leaders. Please see protest Page 6 vote Down jobless total crowd screams acid to horror Csc backs que. Protest by Dudley Magnus free press staff writer Ottawa the jailing of three Quebec Union leaders has brought a near Unity to the Ca Nadian labor movement of a kind not seen since the foundation of the Canadian labor Congress in 1956. An emergency Resolution at the ninth biennial convention of the Csc being held in this Capi Tal City became the first order of business monday and it passed after lengthy and heated debate with an unanimous stand ing vote. The Resolution was one to record wholehearted support for the legitimate collective bargaining objectives of these Quebec and it condemned Bill 39 of the Quebec legislature that imposed a Back to work order on the strikers. The three leaders were sentenced to one year each in jail for contempt of court when defying an injunction prohibiting please Sec Csc Page 6 Ottawa up in employ ment fell by to at m i d a p r i 1, compared with in March statistics can Ada and the manpower depart ment reported today. The total was also Down from the. Unemployed in april 1971. The number of persons employed Rose to in april from in March while the total labor Force Rose to from both employment and labor Force were up from the employed and in the labor Force for april 1971. While the actual rate of unemployment fell to 6.8 per cent of the labor Force in april from 7.4 per cent in March and 7.8 per cent in april 1971, the sea rate also fell please see jobless Page 6 Rogers defends policy Washington special tons Secretary of state William p. Rogers monday challenged a senator s Sugges Tion that president Nixon s Viet Nam policy has failed and said there should be a moratorium on further criticism. Or. Rogers told a Senate appropriations subcommittee that or. Nixon s latest military moves against North Vietnam could very Well bring about the failure of the invasion of the South by the North and could very Well bring about a negotiated please see Rogers Page 5 by Lawrence Meyer Laurel Maryland Spe Cial tons i was sitting on the tailgate of the Light Blue Ford station Wagon the Wallace staff was using to get around Maryland. The governor had come offt Frt at Etrul addressing the crowd for about 40 minutes at the Laurel shopping Centre. He went to his right to shake hands with some of the Over there and i noticed that he had taken his coat off and that the Short Moscow confirms Summit Moscow special tons the soviet Union confirmed publicly monday that the sum Mit meeting with president Nixon will go ahead next Mon Day on schedule despite differences Between the two super Powers Over the Indochina War. Carried on an inside Page of the morning pravda official communist party newspaper and repeated word for word in the afternoon Izvestia the gov e r n m e n t Organ the three paragraph Story was the first printed reference to the approaching meeting since april 26. The Story under the headline meeting at Camp David re ported in straightforward Fash Ion that or. Nixon had met at his Maryland Retreat with Henry Kissinger his National Security adviser and had Dis cussed the Moscow Summit., another paragraph quoted Secretary of state William p. Rogers As telling a . Reporter that preparations for pres ident Nixon s visit to Moscow Are going on As planned diplomatic sources Here interpreted the Story As a signal to soviet government and party officials that the Summit meet ing starting monday had not please Sec Moscow Page 6 sleeved Blue shirt had the sleeves rolled up once or twice. Then he came Over after a minute or so to about four feet from where i was sit Ting. The crowd pressed for Ward to reach him and the restraining rope Bei Jiuu my Back started pressing into it. I looked Down at the rope and then i heard a Sharp report like a fire Cracker. Then two More and then perhaps another one. My first thought was that it was firecrackers. Then the crowd started screaming and scattering As though a sudden Rush of air was blowing them away. There was no Way to make Clear sense of the confusion. People scream ing shouting at the top of lungs running in every direction. Then i realized and this is Only a matter of seconds that it had been gunfire not firecrackers. George Wallace was lying on the ground. One of the Alabama state troopers his own personal body guard was lying at his feet. When i could see gov. Wallace his eyes were fixed in a Blank stare straight up. His wife Cornelia so carefully please see screams Page 6 May be paralysed Wallace shot badly injured j Alabama governor hit five times by bullets police arrest Milwaukee White Man Silver Spring Maryland up gov. George c. Wallace of Alabama Lay critically wounded and partially paralysed in Hospital today from a Bullet surgeons could not remove from near his spine. The Bullet was one of several that hit him from an Assassin s .38 calibre pistol monday. Doctors said five bullets hit the Jaunty Alabama scrapper who since childhood has been waging Uphill Battles and now faces one of his toughest. Two o f. The three bullets which lodged in his body were re moved in lengthy surgery. For the time being he was reported out of danger and rest ing comfortably. Physicians said Wallace came through the night in Good spirits despite pain from his wounds. He says it hurts and he s feeling or. Joseph Schanno a member of the team that performed the surgery said in a morning Progress re port. He said Wallace s Condi Tion remains critical. Or. Herman Maganzini a heart specialist attending Wal lace said his heart is in excellent condition. He s doing remarkably Well considering the extent of his or. Maganzini said. Police quickly arrested a Man who allegedly fired the shots and in the process identified him As a White Man from Mil Waukee 21-year-old Arthur her Man Bremer who was wrestled to the ground by members of Lapel Button bean picture of Arthur Bremer suspect in Wallace shooting. The crowd. The 52-year-old segregationist g c r n c r was gunned Down from almost Point Blank Range As he plunged into a crowd of supporters after a Campaign speech at a shopping Centre in Laurel md., near Silver Spring and just a few Miles from Washington. Please see Wallace Page 6 More details pages 4 and 6 vow million Tab says Hydro critic the Manitoba government s present Hydro policy May Cost the province an extra Mil lion Over the next 10 years or million a year according to Kris Kristjanson former As Impact of violence bullets alter . Campaign legislature highlights Crow ski Nicman question Carmel lab Page 5 Bill receives Royal assent Page 22 no mine tax increases in sight Cherniack Page 22 four Bills get first 22 Benito Rodeo called Amateur Page 22 mining exploration firm s annual report Page 22 a auditor general provincial auditor same Schr Cyr Page 22 encourage food processing Mcgill Page 22 government to propose Hospital financing body Page 41 trustees Ponder changes eight possibilities for reorganizing education in Winnipeg Are under study by a commit tee of local trustees with Spe Cial emphasis being Given to five of the proposals. The committee with one representative from each of the 10 school boards in the Winnipeg area is working on the premise that changes in organization Are almost inevitable with the change in Winnipeg s municipal organization and trustees should be involved in deciding what the new organization will be. Preliminary studies have indicated a trend toward decentralizing Large school districts across North America so three of the eight alternatives Avail a b 1 v. For reorganization will probably be rejected. These three Are one Large Winnipeg school division one Large unit split into elementary and secondary units for administration and one Large unit administered by a subcommittee of the new Winnipeg City Council. Possibilities More Likely to be adopted arc a two tier system rising existing boards and and please Sec trustees Page g by Haynes Johnson Washington special tons once again an Assas sin s Bullet has disrupted the United states political process and thrown a critical presiden tial Campaign into disarray. Like the earlier shots that felled the Kennedy and Martin Luther King the bullets that struck George Corley Wallace of Alabama monday in Mary land have irrevocably altered the politics of this presidential year. His shooting will overshadow the actions of every other candidate from now until the no v e m b e r election. And once again it forces Forward onto the Centre stage the most disturb ing of All . Issues Vio Lence. After More than a decade of prominence on the . Scene George Wallace monday stood on the verge of winning one of his greatest political triumphs. He was favored to win presidential primaries in Maryland and Michigan tuesday both states that have gone demo cratic in the last presidential elections. Now no one will Ever know exactly to what extent the bal lots to be cast Are affected by the Assassin s bullets. If Wallace survives As did Theodore Roosevelt when he was shot during a Campaign speech in 1912, he is bound to receive an outpouring of sym Pathy from the voters. His death would leave his Fol Lowers leaderless and have a please see bullets Page 5 Distant manager of Manitoba Hydro. Or. Kristjanson said monday night the mistakes would Cost each Manitoba family an extra to per year and if further mistakes Are allowed to be made these extra costs can be expected to he told about 150 people at tending a discussion about Manitoba Hydro at the International inn that the proposed program which includes regulation of Lake Winnipeg at an Early Date is not supported i repeat is not supported by any of the Independent objective studies conducted Over a period of years which have shown that Lake Winnipeg regulation will not produce significant Power of flood control please see critics Page 6 imlach quits As coach but still pm Buffalo . A George punch imlach 51, on tie mend after suffering a heart attack called it quits As coach of Buffalo sabres today but said he would continue As general manager of the National hockey league club. No successor was named but imlach said the coaching Job had been offered to Joe Crozier who filled in for imlach after his heart attack Jan. 6. Two shotguns pointed9 today 0 Over Garden Wall 7 a around the world with Bryant 11 voyageurs win Calder cup 14 classified 23 to 39 comics.8a comic Page features 9.y deaths 5 finance 17 to Jumble movies 5a sports 12 to in television.4 a women 7 to 0 nearly everyone reads the free press total a 20-year-old St. Boniface Man and his 21-year-old wife received a rather rude Awakening monday morn i n g and they re angry about it. The Man who said he d prefer not to be identified was awakened at about . By two St. Boniface policemen who had two shotguns pointed at he said the policemen said they had a warrant for his arrest. They told me let s go. Hurry up and get and took me Down to the station. I was kept without bail and did t get out until about 10 monday on the Way to the St. Boniface police station one of the policemen explained that the arrest was prompted by an overdue parking please see tag Page 4 ;