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The Herald )NDAY. JUNE 1970 PAGE 25 If 1 cL 1 ci AW ryt, i xSV IJJ I Jt 5 j- 1. 'wSsfK, Solid Memorial For John Ware AStrongMan By JACQUES HAMILTON 1 Herald Staff Writer John Ware was a big man, a solid man. And he was a dark man. Saturday, more than 200 persons went to the quiet valley outside Millarville where John Ware built his first home in Aiberta.

They came to picnic and to laugh and to exchange stories about the Negro cow man who vas born into slavery in the southern United States and rose to become one of Alberta's most honored pioneers. There were old people there Saturday people who had known John Ware as a neighbor, and had respected and liked him. Youngsters were there, playing along the banks of the creek that had once provided the Ware cabin with water. The four surviving Ware children were on hand. Janet 'Lettie" to shake her head at the playing youngsters and remember that: "Lord, I don't know as how we didn't drown in that creek a dozen times.

We were playing there all the time." Grey-haired and cheerful, she pointed out, over and over again, the pine tree on the hillside where the cellar of the old Ware cabin used to be. Her sister Mildred, huge-eyed and shy, just listened and shook her head at questions. "You'd best ask Lettie. I was too young to remember anything from then." Some Still Remember Bob and Arthur Ware, grey-haired and solemn, circulated through the crowd, exchanging solemn memories with the men and women who had known their father. iherdid Pno'o by Wicnaei Burni ON HORSEBACK, ON FOOT AND IN WAGONS, THEY COME TO REMEMBER A NEGRO PIONEER J.

W. Grant MacEwan at the memorial marking the Millarville homestead John Wore settled CUPE Turns Do KUSHNER ATTACKS 'ROTTEN DEALS' Bob Ware frowned when someone asked him why the family had objected, finally, to the "Nigger John" name by. which his father was known until a few years ago. "There were lots of kinds of men who settled this country. Some was Irish and some German and some half-breed Indians.

"I don't remember anybody being called Half-breed Sam or German Joe." Then he stared, un-speaking, until the em-barassed questioner turned away. "Anyway," one' old-timer commented, "no one would have called him Nigger John to his face, I'll tell you." Aborti on eso i If 4 JOHN WARE pioneer citizen a- Chamber Head Speaks Free Enterprise Sharing Urged By PETER LENEY I Herald Staff Writer) The men lined up against the women and resolutions relating both to abortion and male vasectomy were rejected by delegates at the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Calgary the weekend. Friday saw a resolution on the floor favoring the establishment of special abortion clinics staffed by "trained non-doctors" to be called abortion therapists. This resolution charged that doctors administer the liberalized abortion laws and the medical profession "remains rigidly opposed to abortions on moral grounds." In the course of discussion for and against non-doctors administering abortions, one female delegate said she objected to abortions on moral grounds as a CaOiolic and added: "If men don't want babies they should all sterilize themselves." Back To Committee John Ware himself had jokingly called himself a "smoked Irishman." Anyone who dared to make any less flattering reference to his color was in for a thumping from the powerful pioneer. Indeed, on one occasion, John Ware threw a man through a hotel window for making a rude reference to his color.

In time, when the picnic had ended, J. W. Grant MacEwan arrived, granddaughter in lap, behind a pair of mules. Then, to the sound of the creek and the playing children, the lieutenant-governor told the story he has told so often about his favorite pioneer. About how John Ware was born in slavery.

How he couldn't read or write and had no shoes until he was 20. How John Ware signed on, in Texas, with a cattle-drive north and was given the worst horse and worst saddle and left to ride "drag" eating dust all the way to Alberta. About how when John Ware asked for a better horse, he was given an outlaw and broke it and the prejudice against the color of his skin. Grant MacEwan, like Lettie. pointed to the pine tree on the hill and talked about John Ware building his home and bringing his bride there.

Then he talked about how John Ware died, too young, 65 years ago, when his horse stumbled in a gopher hole and rolled on him. 'One Of God's Gentlemen' (At John Ware's funeral, the minister said: "John Ware was a man with a beautiful skin. Every human skin is as beautiful as the character of the person who wears it. To know John Ware was to know a gentleman, one of God's gentlemen. Never again will I see a colored skin as any actly what it means by the term "free enterprise." "In many cases, what we do and what we say are contradictory.

There is growing pressure from all segments of society to transfer more and more social responsibility to the productive sector which is stll operating under private ownership. "I believe we will very soon be called upon to justify our position and to demonstrate that the free enterprise system is in fact in the general interest of our entire society," he said. About 100 delegates from across the province gathered here Sunday for the meeting. At policy sessions today and Tuesday they will consider resolutions on taxation, rural-urban migration, pollution control and highways and energy policy. By DOUG CAMPBELL IHerald Staff Writer MEDICINE HAT-The survival of the free enterprise system may depend on involving more members of society in the system, the annual meeting of the Alberta Chamber of Commerce was told today.

Chamber president E. J. Polanski of Athabasca, told delegates to the three-day meeting here that the inherent weakness of the competitive system is that while it builds bigger and better businesses, they become fewer in number. One economic study, he said, shows that 90 per cent of the income-earning capital in North America is now in the hands of less than 5 per cent of her population. "It is not difficult to see, even for the most unimaginative, that we are on a collision course." Mr.

Polanski called on pro-racial chambers and boards of trade to take an active part in involving people at the "grass-roots" level. "They must be made independent, self-supporting, and they must be property owners if our system is to survive." He called on private business to begin identifying ex 87 years ago wn "You were willing to put us in the hands of non-doctors," a lady delegate lectured the men. "Would you be willing to submit to a vasectomy?" "It's time we women put some of the responsibility on the men," claimed another member of the "women's caucus." The men, however, were not a i to accept the "responsibility." The resolution committee recommended non-concurrence, and their recommendation was approved by delegates. here, he was accompanied by Hussen Shibley of Calgary, vice-president of the national federation. On his way to the airport to fly to Edmonton, Mr.

Choucri again cast doubt dn Israel's peaceful intentions. "It has been almost three years since the latest Israeli aggression-occupation. That is a long time to reach a peaceful solution. And the Arabs have negotiated very honestly." He said the Arabs will continue to negotiate, but would not submit to "aggression" without a fight. "I don't see why the Arabs should be any different from any other part of the world." Mr.

Choucri plans to visit Calgary again soon to have more time to meet local Arabs. MOHAMED CHOUCRI Egyptian ambassador X. "'V I Ik KUSHNER, BALDWIN one home left Baldwin was making about $175 a month in rent from boarders and parking, but the borders have left "because they were afraid demolition was going to start right away." Mr. Baldwin is too old to be eligible for a mortgage on a new house. "I spent all my life on the farm raising horses and bucking broncs and we just got settled in here," Mr.

Baldwin said. Arab Spokesman Predicts Continuing 'Liberation Fight thing but lovely. He leaves me with the thought that black is a beautiful color one which the Creator must have held in particularly high favor because He gave it to His most cheerful people. "Make no mistake about it, black can be Then the lieutenant-governor found the words the old-timers had been looking for all afternoon. "He was a good neighbor and he was a good friend." The lieutenant-governor stepped over and uncovered the plaque on a rundlestone memorial the Millarville Historical Society had found near Canmore and moved to this spot in memory of John Ware.

It is a big stone and it is a solid stone. And it is a dark stone. Legislation for expropriation of urban renewal property must be changed, says Alderman John Kushner. He maintained that for some people urban renewal was "a pretty rotten deal" with existing expropriation methods. "We thought of buildings rather than people," he said.

Alderman Kushner referred specifically to the case of 70-year-old Wilmot Baldwin and his wife, who own and live in a house at 320 5th Ave. S.E., the only house left standing on the site of the new YWCA building. MUST VACATE Mr. Baldwin has been told by the Alberta Supreme Court that he must vacate the premises by June 8. But he still does not know how much the city will pay him for his house and property.

He appeared before the Public Utilities Board on March 12, and was told that "it would be quite some time" before a decision on a price would be made, because of the heavy load of cases. May 25 Mr. Baldwin went to the Supreme Court of Alberta. "My lawyer asked for a 3May extension, and the city lawyer wanted a sheriff's eviction notice for the next day." He got the extension, which expires June 8, but he still does not know what the city will pay him. and therefore has not been able to arrangements to buy another house.

Alderman Kushner said that the city was originally going to build housing for people displaced by urban renewal, "but we didn't keep our bargain." He said he would bring the Baldwin case to Mayor Rod Sykes' attention today, and expressed hope that something could be done. "We have to think of his home and his income," Alderman Kushner said. Mr. "The linking of science and weaponry," which he argued has won an accepted and integral place in North American society, "is destroying all faith in science for young people." The demonstrators' demand for Suffield scientists to cease research in chemical and biological warfare methods and seek to solve problems of pollution brought qualified support from Dr. Reesor.

FIRM STAND Though firm on the stand that Suffield should retain its status as a defence research station, he agreed with the call for more pollution research centres in Canada. "The work we are doing is a pollution control study in the ultimate sense, albeit in a specialized way," said Dr. Reesor. The a-t i has also involved itself in the problems of civil pollution for the past 18 months, he said. Farmers have approached Suffield scientists with the question of the application of herbicides a insecticides and the methods of preventing uneven coverage due to wind.

See Page 33-PASSIVE Israel must be pressured to abide by international law if the Middle East is to become peaceful, the Egyptian am- iiriiiiiriciin fiiiiiiriiiniiiMiiiiiifriiiiiifiitifiiiiiiiirrirfiiiiiiTiiiiMiiiifiiiiiii iiiiriLiiiiifiiiriifiiriiiiiiiiMiiiiiiniiiitiiiiiiii PASSIVE RESEARCH STRESSED TO SUFFIELD PROTESTERS Wl-CBW CAMPAIGN NUFFIELD, ALBERTA: After a lengthy discussion, the resolution went back to committee. It returned to the floor Sunday with a non-concurrence recommendation from the committee. The delegates agreed to throw the resolution out. Then came the turn of the impromptu "women's A late resolution arguing that since "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," CUPE should "subscribe to the principles and practices of vasectomy" hit the floor. bassador to Canada said here Sunday.

Mohamed was here Sunday visiting the local Arab community, as part of a six-city tour which took him to Edmonton this morning and will end in Ottawa June 5. The Arab nations have accepted efforts of the Big Four and other nations to try to gain peace, Mr. Choucri said. "We have tried everything." While he can't conceive of Israel not wanting peace, Mr. Choucri says they want "peace plus territory.

Peace on the conqueror's terms." Although he did not comment on Russian aid to the Arab nations, Mr. Choucri said Israel would find "more opposition" now if another large-scale operation such as the 1967 six-day war were to take place. "They want to impose their views on the Arab world by military means. They are inviting the Arabs to submit to their will. This we will never do.

We'll keep on doing our duty." Mr. Choucri said the Arab nations would "keep on trying to reach a peaceful solution. War is a goal no one likes. But we are not going to give up our territory. We will follow in the steps of our fathers and liberate our territory." On his trip to the Western provinces, Mr.

Choucri is meeting local Arah communities "who expressed a desire to meet me to find out about the explosive Middle East situation." On Sunday, he met the Calgary branch of the Canadian Arab Federation. While By LARRY HANNANT Special To The Heraldi MEDICINE HAT Nearly 800 people demonstrated peacefully at the gates of the Suffield Research Station Saturday, demanding the conversion of the station from a chemical and biological research station to a pollution control centre. Most of the demonstrators a group heavily salted with youthful anti-Vietnam war activists but also spiced with anti-pollution organizers and approximately 25 Doukhobors received only a brief personal greeting from Suffield director-general Joe Perry. Despite a decision of the Festival of Life participants to reject Mr. Perry's offer to nice! inside Suffield with rep--resentatives of the festival, about 25 demonstrators and newsmen were admitted inside the Suffield gates.

In a two-hour session, supervised by RCMP officers, the director-general and Dr. Brian Suffield research director, argued that no research conducted at Suf-field has ever aided the United States' Vietnam war effort. Scientists at Suffield are engaged "entirely in passive defence research," said Mr. Perry. "There is an exchange of information with the United States on the.

protective aspects of chemical and biological warfare," he added. The two Suffield official's maintained, however, that material and equipment used in research by Canada and the United States are completely different and no material is exchanged. Their arguments did not appear to satisfy Festival participants, who questioned them inside Suffield's laboratory building. ACTUALLY HELPS U.S. Dr.

Robin Harger, professor of ecology at the University of British Columbia and a life president of the Society for Pollution and Environmental Control in Vancouver, charged that research conducted at Suffield, done at the of Canadians, eliminated the necessity for the United States to investigate similar fields. Dr. Harold Kasinsky, a zoology professor at UBC, held that defence research constitutes an immoral application of science. PP (Photos bv Gordon Persson) CROWD ESTIMATED AT 800 HEARD RESEARCH STATION OFFICIALS demonstrators urged switch to pollution control for, Suffield lobs lflIIIIMIIlriri1IIIIIllllllllIirillllliIlllfll1tlllMIMMIIIIIIIIfiiriIIIMI(illlflftltillllIIIIIIIII(IIilllllMllllf IMIIIlllltllltltlllltlllllfMITIIilfilillllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllilllTIIIIIIlflll.