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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1970, Winnipeg, ManitobaManitoba Centennial 1970 final edition vol. 78 no. 50 Price 10 cents 15 cents wednesday november 25, 1970 Sunrise . Sunset . Moonrise . Moonset . Forecast becoming sunny 5 and 15 weather slips a fast one Here freezing Lla Iii puts the skids under wind Haw Snow Sho Vellers freezing rain and a temperature zoom to 32 were recorded in the Winnipeg area this morning. Snow and winds gusting up to 45 Niles an hour were in Prospect for . Yesterday s wild Snow and wind storm caught Many Manitoban with their Snow tires off. But though the weather tried hard t quite Meas ure up to the requirements of a real honest to goodness blizzard. The Winnipeg weather office predicted sunny periods today with Strong West Northwest winds at 35 to 45 . And Light Drifting Snow. We Don t forecast As much Snow As we had a weather spokesman said. But what pedestrians Battle tuesday s storm in downtown Winnipeg in jo1idan Arab troops clash Beirut. Lebanon a heavy fighting broke out be tween King Hussein s army and palestinian Arab guerrillas in Jordan today the palestinian resistance movement reported. A statement said the fighting broke out at . And was still raging at noon. Telephone lines to Amman were out. The statement claimed Jor Danian troops opened up on guerrilla positions in tha Hrat sour with mortars and heavy it did not give tha Hrat sour s location. The outbreak of fighting Fol Lowed the disclosure that King Hussein and president Anwar Sadat of Egypt will Confer in Cairo next week before Hussein j begins a four nation Western tour that starts with discussions in Washington with president Nixon. I Al ashram. The Semi official Cairo newspaper said today that Hussein s egyptian visit Rose s sister will Check Montreal a Man and a woman charged with being members of the terrorist front de liberation do Quebec were found in contempt of court tuesday for refusing to testify at a Coroner s inquest into the terrorist slaying last month of Pierre Laporte Quebec labor minister. The woman Lise Rose 25, screamed before being dragged from the courtroom that she had been stripped Stark naked and beaten during interrogation by police. The Man Clement Roy. An unemployed 22-year-old, refused to speak on grounds that he thought his testimony could result in charges being Laid against others. Judge Jacques As Coroner said he will sen tence both next tuesday dec. 1, when the inquest resumes at . Both unwilling witnesses were among several dozen persons arraigned nov. 5 and awaiting trial in january under the War measures act. Both Are charged with being or professing to be members of the outlawed Fly. Roy also is charged with advocating or promoting the unlawful acts Aims principles or practices of the Fly and with advocating or promoting the use of Force or the commission Evans please see stripped Page 6 Veteran Alderman Dies at 64 years please see arabs Page 12 new invasion alleged Fri a renter Alderman j. Gurzon Harvey just completing his 26th year of service on Winnipeg City coun cil was reported dead on arrival at Misericordia Hospital at . Tuesday after a fire department Rescue Crew was called to his Home at 441 Oxford Street he was 64. A postmortem examination scheduled. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. Aid. Harvey a lawyer had been ill recently and had been admitted to Hospital two weeks go. He had returned Home last weekend but had not been expected to return to his civic duties until the end of the year. Am. Harvey s 26-year service Dakar. Senegal up radio Conakry announced today that Guinea was invaded again tuesday night the broadcast referred to new enemy incursions but gave to farther details. President Sekolo Tower of has said the invading troops Are mercenaries hired by port Neal awl attacking from porn fuse ships. Portugal has denied any connection. Guinea s ambassador to Nigeria. On mane sonar. Sad tuesday them Widm planned Foci mum to tire s marxist go moment and install a new regime. He said Nigeria was Jan dog in troops at Guinea so in part to Timbe Are very can maj. Me never knows where when they May Snow no Agam. A United vat mrs Sec Writy a Tom arrived m Dakar today him new York Way Cona cry. Fee Gnu tote of attn. Consisting fee to vow please Sec Alik Page 12 amid rumours that Churchill Forest industries is in financial difficulty the provincial govern ment announced tuesday that Industry minister Leonard Evans and attorney general Al Mackling will visit the Industrial Complex at the Pas later this week. Or. Evans said tuesday that he will head a group of govern ment consultants and Manitoba development corporation personnel to visit the Chi site. Thursday and Friday. I want to look into not just look at the operational plans of j the companies involved in the or. Evans said. We have a special interest in the project As it involves a Large loan by the people of Manitoba through the Manitoba i development corporation the Mac has actually loaned More than million to the various companies at the Complex we get will tend to blow around. However visibility will be much better than it was he said a Trace of Freez ing rain fell this morning. The temperature did get up to 32 but it was falling again and was expected to go to five above tonight. A t 11 . Today a weather warning was still in effect. The weather office said tomorrow will Likely be mostly sunny with a High of about 15 above. Yesterday the weather office at Winnipeg internal t i o n a i Airport recorded gusts As High As 62 . Winds maintained strength of More than 30 . Most of . Temperatures r a n d from nine above at 7 . To 17 above at 6 . Yes t e r d a y visibility ranged from Zero to a Quarter mile and climbed Back up to the Point where traffic could move again in the late afternoon. The storm dropped 1v4 inches of Snow on greater Winnipeg. Yesterday and works Crews spent most of last night Clearing arteries for today s traffic. Temperature alone kept the storm from achieving a blizzard rating. Blizzards by definition involve blow ing falling or Drifting Snow winds of 25 . Or More 1% or More sales tax Rise hinted one logical Way to ease property owner Burden Pawley municipal affairs minister Howard Pawsey of Mani Toba indicated in an interview wednesday that an in crease in the provincial sales tax perhaps a one per cent Rise perhaps May be in the offing. . Trade Bill May be halted Sharp gets hint from american Cabinet ministers by Victor Mackie Ottawa affairs minister Mitchell Sharp said tuesday the american Cabinet ministers participating in the joint Trade and econ Omic meeting Here have hinted there is Little likelihood of the controversial . Trade restriction Bill being passed by Congress. The Bill please see weather Page 6 sweeps winners picked Laws on sex debated a few feet of pornographic film samplings of danish pictorial erotica and hot Coffee topped of f a discussion of pornography by members of the medical Legal society of Mani Toba at the Winnipeg rehabilitation Hospital on tuesday eve House of approved by the representatives in Washington is not the same Bill president Richard Nixon wanted. Several Trade restriction isl provisions had been incorporated arousing protests from Canada and other Trade conscious countries. The joint talks also led to an agreement that discussions be continued at top level to work out arrangements for an in creasing Trade in crude Oil. Pc t r o i e u m products and other fuels Between the . And Canada. Western Canadian Oil supplies in excess of Normal shipments must be kept available to be shipped into Western . To offset . Supplies diverted to the East coast area of Canada j in the event of drastic disruption of imports of foreign Oil the ministers agreed. For 1971, it is expected that pipeline capacity would need to be fully used. It was agreed that arrangements should be worked out quickly to permit. Tuesday in a speech to the Union of Manitoba municipalities convention in the Winnipeg or. Tawley said legislation will be introduced at the next session of the Legisla Ture to shift much of the responsibility for education costs from property owners to other in an interview or. Pawley said tax measures involving the ability to pay principle Are considered by the new democratic party government to be the fairest Way to collect Revenue hut that in Manitoba tax areas involving this principle other than the sales tax have been pretty Well used he said he was referring in recent increases in corporation and personal income taxes. The next logical area is the sales Well look at other areas but Well have to examine the sales tax very he said a one per cent increase in the present five per cent tax would increase Provin Ial revenues by million. However the provincial government would like to Transfer please see sales Page 12 trans air shows profit please see Evans Page 18 critics condemn raid a Winnipeg woman or an de m o n t o n Man stand to win following the Manitoba Centennial sweepstakes. Gold draw on saturday s Grey cup game. Mrs. Agnes Smith of 891 red Wood Avenue. Winnipeg is matched with the Calgary stampedes. While f. Sneddon. Of 10823 King Sway Avenue Edmonton holds the name of the Montreal Atou Ettus. The person neg. J about 40 people two of them women made it to the Hospital auditorium despite the Snow to hear discussion on the topic changes of society towards please Sec us Trade Page 2 pornography. On the Liberal Side were Law yer Roland Penner and Psychol Ogist or. Seymour Opochinsky. Psychiatrist or. Harold Prosen and lawyer d Arcy Mccaffrey took the conservative Side. J. Curzon Harvey holding the ticket on the Winner of the Grey cup wins the other person will collect in the draw for the secondary winners. Yens Nielsen a boy from Sprague Man., holds the Saskatchewan Roughrider tick Al. Another Manitoba resident i. G. Gold of Pinawa Man., i has the Hamilton Tiger cats. Washington up anti i either these two cow we or from a Teuten a Little help in return mrs. T. Has been receiving hampers from the Christmas cheer Board for four years and for the last three years has been work ing pan time for the Board. I Felt i of com do some thin in she sex mrs. T. Earns per year for her the a omit she is a flowed by bar to earn and still keep mixing welfare. She is Drc wed a Nam her hns Hani and has two War critics refused tuesday to j soften their condemnation of i the abortive weekend attempt i to Rescue american prisoners of War i North Vietnam and i expressed alarm Over defence Secretary Melvin Laird s state ments indicating possibly More Rescue bids might take place. Laird told the Senate foreign relations committee we Are considering other action to save prisoners from what he Tokyo renter Yorio termed in humane treatment j Mishima. Japan s most famous and possible death through be _ author. Today Drameh owned pornography is a psycho Dyna Mic problem and can be viewed from this Angle As Well As from a social historical or to i i t i c a i perspective said or. Prosen. The 18-Membcr presidential commission on obscenity in the . Recently found that pornography does not cause crime i or deviance. Or. Prosen said and cited other sociological Stu Dies reaching the same conclusion. But be said that the consumption of pornography May be viewed As an act of perversion with components among them voyeurism sadism and masochism. Please Sec sweeps Page 2 please see obscenity Page 12 today today s Index Lack picked Stamps Tow 17 59 64 classified .43 37 a macs 43t 41 deaths a finance tee vim Jnue. 47 31 .59 to m women 21 to 25 nearly everyone reads the free press City zone total 134.237 a profit of its first profit since 1967 has been reported by trans air Midwest Ltd. Of Winnipeg. The figure is for the nine month period ending sept. 30. 1970. The regional airline reported in a financial statement released tuesday. In the same period last year the company lost total revenues increased 32 per cent while operating costs Rose five per cent a partial result of route changes and Cost cutting measures. There was a 46 per cent increase in passengers carried during the nine months com pared to the same period last year compared to 125.000. Last year s nine month loss figures have been re calculated to include effects of trans air s merger with Midwest airlines. At that time. Trans air had been running in the red with a real loss of s1.3 million while Midwest had experienced the Best year in its 12-year history. Tuesday s statement showed Jan. 1 to sept. 30 Revenue for scheduled operations of in the 1969 charter and other Rev clue total Revenue and total operating expenses. Writer beheaded he also warned he would i himself and was then beheaded urge president Nixon to take in a Samurai Warrior style pro Strong asap but the disc Yannke Hanoi decided on reprisals f j Miward. Harangue from the anther Ahert courtyard Helow. Then he

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