Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba TODAY'S INDEX JUMBLE CONTEST Page 34 Classified 32 to 39 Movies Comics 28, 29 Sports 41 to 46 Deaths Television 26 Finance 30, 31 Women 17 to 19 VOL. 74 NO. 72 Winnipeg Freel Press Final Edition DECEMBER 21, 1966 Sun Rises a.m. Moon Rises p.m. Sun Sets p.m. Moon Sets a.m. Ready To Accept ECM Pact But French Remaining Silent On Common Market Bid By ANATOLE SHUB BONN Minister George Thomson Tuesday declared his government was ready to sign the 1957 Rome Treaty and accept all the Euro- pean Common Market's decisions since but French representatives declined to comment on the Mr. Thomson was addressing a ministerial meeting of the Western European which groups Britain and the six Common Market He said that Britain would require various transitional ar- rangements and supplementary protocols in order to join the but would not attempt to the concessions previously made by London in the abortive 1962-63 negotiations on British The p r e v i o u s negotiations broke down after French dent Charles de Gaulle vetoed British entry in 3.963. Gen. de Gaulle then said he did not believe Britain was ready to join Several ministers Tuesday praised Mr. Thomson's but France's Jean de Broglie made no There have been signs from General Assembly Adjourns By LOUIS FLEMING UNITED NATIONS The 21st General Assembly of the United Nations adjourned proud of the space treaty it had endorsed but embarrassed by the paucity oi progress on earth-bound peace In a final burst of activity Adopted a million budget for 1967, representing an increase of 7 per cent over this two and one-half times the Allyson Gets A TORONTO Ally son Burleson of San was reported in satisfactory condition early today ing a six-hour and 35-minute heart operation Tuesday at the Hospital for Sick A team of headed by Dr. William renowned transposed the great sels in the child's A hospital spokesman said early today that Allyson's con- dition was but she will be on the list for two or three Allyson was a blue A transposition of the great sels in her heart reduced the supply of oxygen to her blood and her skin appeared A statement issued by the hospital 15 minutes after the operation color is improved since the operation and the pressure in the chambers of the heart is George 32, father of the said he was told by Dr. Mustard that went Mr. Burleson and his 30-year- old were allowed to see shortly before the cried a little before she went Mr. Burleson then she gave us a big smile and told be Please See GIRL 5 Page 4 ALLYSON BURLESON Responding to care Paris recently that Gen. de Gaulle is as sceptical now the budget for 1957. towards London as he was four years I Completed action on its Please See BEADY Page 6 Greek Premier Resigns ATHENS Premier Stephanos Stephanopoulos re- signed raising the that Greece may get elections a year The 67-year-old premier's government col- lapsed Tuesday night when Greece's conservative the National Radical Union withdrew its The government took office in 1965, after the worst political crisis since the civil war of 1947-49. King Constantine accepted the premier's The 26-year-old king began consulting political Un- der the the arch must either call elections within 45 days or designate someone to try to form a new j ERE does not want any other party to govern but the said Panayiotis the party's 99 members in ment were the est supporting The ment held a slim 153 seats in the 300 single house The next regularly scheduled elections are due in 1968. Please See GREEK Page 6 Changes In Law Pondered TORONTO Ontario is considering amendments to its laws to ensure that auditors of public companies are ent and their duties clearly de- Attorney General Arthur said In a 15 page statement re- viewing the collapse of tial Finance Corp. he said the auditor is the person who stands between directors of lic companies and the HB said the government is also studying the question having independent trustees act on behalf of note holders us a way of ensuring greater tion for is particularly so in Please See CHANGE Page 4 far-ranging fight against colo with a series of bizarre resolutions that included such varied results as seeking to demilitarize a major American military and reasserting the right to self- determination and independence of. as population 124 by last UN Cocos tion 606 and American population to mention some of the two dozen tories included in one of the It was the same mixture of sense and nonsense that every ped pompous declarations that soothed some nerves by controversy and the prolonged process of trying to reduce hopes to House Okays Pension r Legislation Transportation Commons May Recess Today By STUART LAKE OTTAWA If MPs can curtail their speeches and contain their they'll be on their way home Editing assembly The Commons cleared the decks Tuesday for an 18-day Christmas vacation by sitting three hours extra to give final approval to the government's guaranteed income The MPs approved another minor measure and .to make today on the massive transportation among other will free lie railways from outdated rate The burst of speed was the result of an agreement engineered by Government House Leader He j and other party House leaders Direct the Commons finish off. debate resumed Tuesday Tuesday on the government j to settle the dispute over measure to add as much as monthly to the income of needy old age In Secret By ANDREW GLASS WASHINGTON negotiations in a final Please See GENERAL Page 12 j Please See COMMONS Page 12 Roblin Has Plan On Ombudsman EGON FRECH Last of a Series Premier Duff doesn't i consider whether or not the i minister or his department had committed any He took up the case on his Manitoba really needs an w n So proposing a tive for the In a outlining the Provincial Secretary Stewart E. McLean says the pose of the proposal is to increase confidence in the ad- ministration of government de- fact that we are ing this scheme does not mean himself the right to criticize whomever he found at Please See ROBLIN Page 4 William Manchester's The Death of a President before what Mrs. John F. Kennedy has described as a court The negotiations were aimed at striking a compromise that would protect Mrs. Kennedy's privacy while retaining the historical accuracy of Mr. chester's 700-page of President Kennedy's A source close to the situation expressed optimism that the effort to edit the controversial manuscript would An announcement was expected See NEGOTIATORS Page 12 i Probers Urge Curbs On Price Hikes Create Consumer Affairs Department To Supervise Tighter Laws On Govt. Asked OTTAWA Stronger laws to stop unwarranted price increases and steps to make all shoppers more aware of price and quality competition were recommended Tuesday by the prices Committee co-chairmen Ron MPs Ask Crack At Food Giants First Section Pages 1-26 and Okay Press Bid Takeover Of Approved LONDON Lord son's plan to take over Britain's influential Times got the go-ahead today from the Trade Minister Douglas Jay told Parliament he accepted the findings of the independent monopolies commission that the 73-year-old press and television proposals were not against the public of the once called Britain's Thunderer because of its resounding will realize lifelong dream for Lord Son of a Scottish he has been called Henry He already snore than 100 newspapers 100 ion but has always sought control of a British tional The monopolies was a blow to a rival newspaper and banking tium which wanted to buy the paper and keep it in British It hoped the commission would veto the Thomson Please See Page 14 OTTAWA A com- asked Parliament Tuesday for a mandate to rf a concentration of market in the food The committee promised to expose any tendencies it It would try to determine whether the ket power of any group stifles The committee's request was one of. several growing out of 42 hearings this fall on food In a report tabled in the Commons and the committee dealt with market power in the light of the recent disclosure of the Weston The committee said evidence points Control by three giants of 85 to 90 per cent of the detergent and soap Control of more than 75 per cent of urban grocery business in five great corporate food chains and the voluntary Control by one firm J. of one field of the food processing industry in the Mari- times and Western and at least 80 per cent of the market in The report noted that the committee had re- quired information of corporations never before made LEAVES RESERVE Life In City Beckons Life on the reserve was Of there were lots of we think the administration and W. didn't feel so But even back there government departments is open to serious criticism or that injustices are frequently by individual he Far from it. are in no doubt that the tradition of integrity and im- partiality in out public is being fully With those thoughts in the Roblin government has effectively clipped the of the proposed fledgling man by keeping him away from never complained In fact he had enjoyed working in the wanted to make sure j she wanted and she con- that I He would have were no real Rita had found some time ago she was mistaken about she thought just maybe she had had friends back in Winnipeg and hadn't really for recognized wanted them never been happy about it. It had been tough with nine but Ralph had never In fact he w v u municipal matters in the civil It was only at home made things tougher for He was striving to make a life for them in the white but she had wanted nothing but to return to her family and the make Back to Winnipeg they MAIN POINTS Ralph did have but j eventually found a part-time job I and there was hope that within return to nei friends she thought were back I a few weeks he would have i better And this time So they had gone Ralph had left his over the protests of his and they had quit their neat rented Since their Ralph had moped drinking or just It was the children who finally helped Rita make the They would go back to government ments and Crown It further restricts him by specifying that all complaints must be directed to the tive through a member of the legislative In the ombudsman is not required to take any tion from individual members of the government or and has in fact refused to do so. He is accountable only to parliament as a In 1955, the Finnish man refused to comply with the agriculture minister's request to investigate a particular saying that if he took up the he would also have to there was Rita W. trouble finding a new he back at the reserve that she had i She told him he would Today's Inside Stories Fire Kills Two 3 Striking Indians Find Sympathy Page 41 EDITORIAL PACE Sense And Fluff About Sex And Rex About The Kennedy Book Maurice Western Shaun Herron Joseph Kraft Ralph and nine children Zone ABC Circulation Total 1M.34J w 1 TREE PRESS FUND would really make a go of their new Rita W. knew this when some members of the church appeared at her door with offers of help and later when the neighbor dropped in. And when the mas Cheer Board called to tell her that the children would enjoy Christinas along with other Greater Winnipeg both needy and food and some clothes would be provided Please See FAMILY Page 12 OTTAWA lights of the report Tuesday by a joint committee on its investigation of food A department of consumer affairs should be established with its own tising of goods at stated re- ductions from regular prices should be prohibited be- cause they confuse consumers and distort price Full and complete ure should be required of of both public nies private companies of significance to the A joint committee should be established for the life of a parliamentary session to re- view consumer affairs and the state of the Basford Vancouver and Senator David Croll said they are ful the recommendations will be Its interim tabled in both houses of Parliament Creation of a new de- of consumer answerable to ment by a to em- brace the consumer sections of the health and agriculture and fisheries de- It would super- vise tighter anti and misleading ment 0 Continuing of con- sumer affairs the state of the Canadian economy generally by a joint com- of the Senate and Standardization and of and for commonly purchased con- sumer Please See REPORT Page 14 Official Shivers Allowed Winter makes its official debut Thursday morning to the tune of a frigid 25 degrees below At a.m. the winter commonly known as the first day of the The Winnipeg weather office promises the frosty old gent sunny and cold weather with temperatures from 25 to five below The winds will be light and the weather Although the snowy season doesn't officially be- gin until tomorrow winter has been making its presence felt for the last four Since Sept. 1 the Greater Winnipeg area has been blanketed with 18.5 inches of Last year at this time more than 27 inches had The five-day outlook of the United States weather office promises above mal temperatures with little southern Greater Winnipeg's rage maximum temperature for the Christmas season is 13 degrees above zero and the minimum is three de- grees Immediate steps should be taken to promote tion and simplification of names and packaging for consumer Probing Moon MOSCOW Russia today launched a spaceship wards the ihe Soviet news agency Tass Tass said the automatic tion Luna XIII was intended for further scientific studies of the moon and its Wilson Getting Tougher By KARL MEYER 1.ONDON Britain Tuesday pledged that Parliament would not grant Rhodesia legal independence until the secessionist territory's four million Africans had won majority In what appeared to be an airtight Prime Minister Harold Wilson told Parliament Tuesday that all previous offers for a com- promise solution with Rhodesia were now His which mark a clear break with past British were greeted with angry protest by the opposition Tory which contends there is still to negotiate a ment with Prime Minister Ian But Mr. Wilson ruled out any further talks with Mr. Smith and blamed the illegal regime for breakdown of last-minute talks on HMS He told a questioner in my which not all members that Mr. Smith wanted a settlement on the lines of the Tiger f it is now clear that he is a prisoner of some very list and They forbade him to enter this Please See WILSON Page 6 Britain Remains Hopeful By TIM TRAYNOR LONDON British hopes for a settlement with Rhodesia's rebels arc Like flowers growing through cracks in the feelings of dogged optimism persist in the face of all the larsh developments of recent There for a tendency to brush aside the mandatory sanctions resolution passed by the United Nations security council last Proponents of further tions who bitterly opposed going to the UN before the event have taken consolation from tions that the sanctions will be Noting has really they so tions are still Similar scepticism surrounded Minister Harold Wilson's statement to Parliament day ruling out Rhodesian Please See BRITAIN Page 12
