Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 4, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba GIVE THE UNITED WAY Winnipeg Free Press Final VOL. 75 NO. 5 PRICE lOc 15c OCTOBER 4, 1967 Sun Rises a.m. Moon Rises Sun Sets p.m. Moon Sets p.m. 30 and 50 Export Wheat Prices Set Tab For No. Northern Above Guaranteed Price The Canadian wheat board posted new export prices for wheat putting the tab for No. 1 northern above the level the federal had promised to Grain Liberals Survive Test By JOYCE FAIRBAIRN OTTAWA The eral government Tuesday night easily survived its first test in the resumed sion after a two-day debate on federal housing A total of 110 plus Frank Howard and Bert Leboe turned back a nearly unanimous opposition challenge of 98 Liberal Steve MP for York bolted party ranks and voted against Ihe government The 14-vote'margin of victory may appear slim but is in fact a comfortable cushion for a rity Please See LIBERALS Page 4 The Winnipeg Exchange reported a increase in all Lakehead prices for class two and tic wheat with the exception of No. 3 northern and This brought No. 1 northern to No. 3 northern was up cents to and durum was up Vs cent. Trade Minister Robert H. ers announced last Wednesday that the federal government would guarantee a price level of a bushel for wheat until a new international wheat agreement comes into effect next July 1. The Winters announcement said the government is prepared to make up the difference between the agreed schedule of Geneva minimum prices related to approximately basis No. 1 northern in store at the Lakehead and any wheat sold by the board below that level from last Aug. 1 lo July 1. 1968. BAND BOOSTER CLUB SWAN Elmer Minish has been elected president of the Swan River band booster club for the 1967-68 Montreal Tie-Up May End Tonight MONTREAL The Montreal Transportation Com- mission and unions ing the city's striking bus and subway workers have until 11 p.m. tonight to accept or reject a tion put forth by a mediator in the Mr. Justice Francois Tuesday night ed both sides a 30-page report aimed at resolving all ing issues in the dispute which has left Montrealers without bus and subway service since Sept. 21. The Quebec Superior Court judge said he is the affiliated with the Confederation of National Trade and the MTC will accept the tions for a Should the latest proposals be turned down by either it is expected the judge would return to his home in Hull and leave the future of the dispute in the hands the provincial It was believed the recom would be accepted by the would face a more difficult challenge from the The strike has seriously affected visitors to Expo 67. and left who normally depend on public bus and sub- way transportation to get to their with no recourse but to turn to their hitch-hiking and Philippe de Gaspe operations manager for Please See STRIKE Page 4 Says Law May Aid Inflation By VICTOR MACKIE OTTAWA The danger of collective for federal government employees speeding the inflation spiral has been emphasized Civil Service Commission Chairman John J. Mr. Carson spoke to the Gas and Petroleum Association in It was supposed to be a private but brief reports of his remarks appeared and Tuesday his office made the text of his address available to the Mr. Carson warned thai col- bargaining for Ihe civil service Undermine the ability of j the federal government to hold down the upward surge of wages and Add impetus to demands for higher pay in business and industry because of generous government wage j Bring about the j of the 94 per cent of while office workers now out- j I j Please See SAYS Page Snow Delays Return By MICHAEL Manitoba Education Minister George Johnson and 65 Greater Winnipeg businessmen spent Tuesday night billeted in a school in The after a five nch snowfall Tuesday grounded all air flights out of the northwestern Manitoba Manitoba's first heavy snow of the season occurred at Th 315 miles northwest o at Tues By 9 The Pas was closed and winds were gusting to 38 Dr. Johnson's on a visit to The was scheduled to fly back to Winnipeg Tuesday After their flight was they bedded down in the The wind and wet snow caused telephone and hydro lines to fail periodically throughout the but not for long a department of transport weather spokesman at The Pas said in a telephone The snowfall occurred in 30 to 35-degree ity dropped of a The snowfall is not expected to come to Greater Mother Raps Society Wouldn't Object To Roy's Return To Gardners I j By EGON VRECH Another volley of criticism was levelled Tuesday at the dren's Aid Society of Winnipeg in the case of mond this time by the boy's natural made the news ay after Mrs. Frank 99 St. Mary's St. tarted picketing the of- Mrs. who wanted o adopt the boy the was mental in having Raymond taken away from her after he had pent more lhan seven n her Mrs. Peggy he boy's said she vanted the Gardners to have Raymond but that she had been by the Children's Aid Society into revoking her mission to the Gardners lo keep She said she would have no objection to Raymond going back lo Ihe As far as she vas the was only is trying to lay the blame on she said in an trying to say that I wasn't happy with the way the Gardners were looking after the boy and that I went to them to find out how I could get him away from they asked me to come down and see and I had a pretty good idea I've had foster children in my own home and I know the Gardners didn't measure up to their I told them what I and they told me I had sign this paper and go to get him Please See MOTHER Page 10 House painter Paul O'Leary couldn't resist this chance to express his feelings the Boston Red Sox who won the American League pennant The Red Sox meet the St. Louis Cardinals today in the first World Series in 21 years at way OTTAWA A Commons committee launched a study of abortion Tuesday in a welter of argument about immediate and long-term results of prematurely ending The disputes centred for a time on the personal views of Mrs. Grace Vancouver who gested that easier abortions arc- one way for Ihe country to toward 9 quality by giving women a of aborting likely lo be born The subject of abortion is one of three on which Prime ter Pearson has said MPs will be asked to vole freely in accordance with I h e i r con- The are lion of ami i House from Labor likely lo the provincial inviting them to a provincial conference on scheduled for the first week i in I The minister was to send out the invitations by a Housing Meet Set VICTOR MACKIE OTTAWA Please See ABORTION Page Hi Features TODAY A Visit To Iceland Shuttle Power 10 37 TODAY'S INDEX Classified 53 lo 64 Comics 50, 51 Deaths 6 Finance 28, 66 69 Movies Sports 37 to 41 Television Women 17 to 21 A B City Zone Total C Circulation 125.164 NEARLY EVERYONE READS the FREE PRESS Lyon On The Mark Candidacy Bid Expected Thursday Attorney-General ling R. Lyon is almost certain lo become the second hopeful to an- his decision to enter the provincial Conservative party leadership The 40-year-old minister has scheduled a press conference in his office for 10 a.m. just days after Highways Minister Walter Weir announced he would seek the Premier Duff cessor will be elected at a provincial leadership convention in Winnipeg Nov. 24 and 25, after which he will quit politics and seek a uf Commons seat in Please See LYON Page 4 U.K. Govt. Overruled On Vietnam Party Conference Demands Unconditional Bombing Halt Reuters England The ruling Labor party today its leaders and called on the British government to dissociate itself from can policy .in In a startling defeat for Prime Minister Wilson and For- eign Secretary George the annual party conference gave a left-wing resolution a slim majority of votes out of a total vote of more than The passed by to also urged the government to try to suade President Johnson to stop bombing North Vietnam permanently and The vole is not binding on shot in Tuxedo Tuesday Bouncing With Boy Shot A 10-year-old bouncing on a bed with a was fatally Delegates to the convention have blocks of For ple the delegates of labor unions can cast votes of the u n i o n entire This accounts for the high bers of only 6. Thomas Gregory son of Mr. and Mrs. Johnston Smith of 58 C u t h b e r t s o n was dead on arrival at Winnipeg Children's Hospital at Dr. I. 0. the provincial said there seem to be at question the death was tjon An was The vole was seen as a major i The boy appeared to be personal setback for I jumping up and down on his bed who had vigorously defended j with Ihe automatic rifle in his the government's pro-American I brother was doing homework in the same room when the gun went Dr. Please See U.K. Page 4 j Fryer Urged To Ease Negro Woes cabinet it was learned He reports to Parliament for the Central j Mortgage and Housing The decision was to summon the conference on housing and urban problems as soon as the current elections in three vinces are The minister has two tive suggestions for handling the serious housing The of a permanent council to examine the state of housing across the A conference would be convened Within two months of each report being received from the council to take action to meet the housing situation each Please See HOUSING Page 4 A Hot Item From The St. James council made a decision Tuesday Alderman G. C. chairman of the fire com- said it had been discovered that St. new on Madison Street had not yet been insured against is but here you have a new and then you have to insure it Keatch Chuckling council instructed tile city engineer to buy the necessary in- surance By DARYL E. j SAN FRANCISCO A member of the President's advisory civil disorders proposes the establishment of new in the suburbs as one step to improve life for Negroes in crowded core city Speaking at a conference on state growth problems called California a con- servative sion Deputy Director Victor Palmieri maintained that the degradation of slum dwellers leads directly to violence and racial Mr. who on leave as president of the Janiss Corp. of Los an investment and development told 450 delegates to the from considerations of humanity and simple these programs are justified as LOOKING FOR A CRANK TYPE This want ad under Antiques 2 WOODEN CRANK TYPE 837-4880. is among the hundreds of gains in today's classified No mailer what you shop and save in Free Press want POLICE ARREST PARENTS Fla. of a 15-pound four-year-old boy who was discovered in a cage were ordered arrested Tuesday by the slale attorney's Warrants were issued ins D i m i I r i o and Puerile with child a in The was ordered the custody of juvenile court after officers told nf finding the child in a makeshift cage of a pen covered by steel He was naked and had they The hoy weighed 14 11 ounces Sunday when juvenile officers took him lo the trics ward of Jackson Memorial H o s pita 1. He 15 War six ounces the weight of a normal old hospital officials seen a lot of children like one but in The in sal silently during n hearing in juvenile court Monday when an officer described Kelly as ing like of the walking from a Nazi tration Doctors said the child showed no signs of healings but that 1 they discovered an arm turo several months Juvenile authorities said they found Kelly after receiving a call from relatives who visited the home Saturday The have one oilier a Sharp ruing Likely OTTAWA Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp will lay it on the line in a major speech to Canadians today either go along with a billion-dollar cut in government spending or face a tax He will speak on the resumed debate on the budget and will set out the government's cial policies and call for the support of the Mr. Sharp already has told the House this session that Ottawa is ready to discuss with the provinces the various sures needed to solve mutual extent of our tion with the provinces and municipalities is far greater than anything that has taken place in the said the when he spoke day night in the Please See SHARP Page 11 a practical means of keeping the As long term lie Setting aside new tial centres in outlaying areas for racial He said these new would be completely controlled by Negro residents and linked with ing employment centres by subsidized transportation Setting up in central city areas which would receive federal and private financing to establish consumer credit recreation centres and run entirely by the Reorganization of the system to racism as an imbedded of white rather than perpetuating it as the system now Mr. Palmieri suggested as short term Diverting all central city urban renewal and public ing funds into improvement of public services such as street repairs and trash collection in minority thus reducing tension which he said is partly caused a for services provided in white and nonwhite Launching of a public works program and the offering of a subsidy to employers to encourage training of the trainable Sir Laurence Here Oct. 12 Sir Laurence Olivier will arrive Distillery Set For Manitoba is to acquire its second a million plant to produce bulk whisky for it was announced The to be on a 57-acre i site in will be i undertaken by Canada's Distillery a firm i composed of Manitoba Nurse Cares For Kelly 4 The company will present Jacques Feydeau's A Flea in Her liar at the Playhouse Theatre at p.m. Oct. 12 and 13 and 2 p.m. and 9 I p.m. Oct. 14. Performances are under Ihe auspices of the Manitoba I sponsors arc The peg Free The i Eaton's and the A start on the two-stage industry subject to i ratification by i is set foi Announcement of the project I was made by Industry Minister I Sidney S p i v a k i Mayor J. E. Taylor j ways Minister Walter for 1 Please See DISTILLERY Page 12
