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The Expositor from Brantford, Ontario, Canada • 24

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THE EXPOSITOR BRANTFORD Friday October 27 1 187 23 Want Ads Work Day and Night Northumberland Link an Exciting Job 42 Automotive for Solo 42'43 Automotive Services 43 54 TV end Radio Service 54 IMS Crontry Squlro Far rtsiienwagan now tin BOM Mila SUM ar km I offer 44 Mery IMS OwilM laipala Moor hardtop VO power steering foacr broket Stag oat aaat aall CaU Til-ill alter 13S-31 MODERN TV Color Service Specialists SO TV TOWERS $3300 Not Installed Govt Certified Technician ar 759-9444 100 CHASING CROSS IMS rani Fairtaa ataadard radio Til 117-KavM 1 Northumberland crossing art the kind that give Canadians the special training that will be in demand all over the the colonel mused true a greatest resource is its people then there ean be little doubt that this is an among the strait's planners by instructing them to write out sod hand in their reason for wanting to build the crossing Need Special Cranes were annoyed But they did it and it got them talking and excited and excitement are the biggest keys I know to making a project better than Making it better baa also involved the evolution of new techniques to working in the sea under iceand current conditions never before faced on a project of such giant size Special floating cranes that may take 15 months to build are being constructed to handle 11000-ton bridge piles In France underwater scientist Jacques Cousteau it helping to develop an underwater house in which engineers hope to sit and watch tba project from the sea bottom like Expo and this WANTED! 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I ar anckial aad amp nwui 11-tf IMS Caaaul 41JSS ariaiaal mike good aaadiliaa TSSOIM aHar MSI CSS SALE OF CAR AND TRUCK FACTORY REBUILT MOTORS 12000-MILE OR I MONTHS WRITTEN GUARANTEE Chav cyL to eg 14g ax Chav and Fontiae VI 'S3 to 'SS S18S ax Toad 6 eyl 'S3 to IS S14S ex Ford VS 'S3 to 6 $193 ex Dodge and Plymouth eyl 33 to S17S ex Chrysler Products VS S192 ex OTHER MAKES OK BEQUEST IMMEDIATE INSTALLATION NO DOWN PAYMENT REQUIRED MIDTOWN AUTO PARTS 37 39 Colborne Street Phone 752-3784 Caovair aai aaw battery SMS TS217M after C34 RAY ANGUISH TV-RADIO-STEREO SALES SERVICE TV RENTALS TV TOWERS AND ANTENNAS Antenna Bapnirad and InitaUad 1 LOCATION ONLY 230 Murray Street 752-4831 tanning the Strait' MS4 Cbawalat Biaeayae 4-door winterised excellent aaadiliaa TM-4S41 174 Not 8 MM Dadga ataadard like aaor sne-swntr SUMS arigiaal mile arigiaal lira beat attar HST Haada Sgerta eaarartlbla aew car warranty tan eft Mat priea mart aalL Apply Tan-lota Matat Faria pbaaa 44SOSSS 1 55 55 -Upholstering ISM Eaaca caape SIM ISIS Dadce asagCb SITS 1SM MCA convertible SSSU TSSOMS ELEGANT Furnishings Faraitnre nup-balataaad ra hanked cnatam-baiR Fkaaa T5USU MO-Oct 29 MM Fsrd Galexie SM convertible paver auerier brakaa aacallant condition Seatiaad 40-1321 1SS-M 54 Parsonils 54 CARD nadiag bv Prince FawaT By eppoialeuni 159(124 Queattoaa aaa-arerad No 14 44 Business Services Misctlleneous 19M PlyawuU 4-door aedaa 9 automatic aaad conditiaa throughout J5J-1741 alter AM 251-M SACRIFICE: MM Ford 4-door 4- cyHadar aatoteatie rod la etc 759 5 SEPTIC tanka vacuum pumped No fuaa Ka muss Tila laid Campania built Go aaywhara Prompt courte-oua aerviea Liccnacd lor at warn Midden Septic Tank Service 449 2114 442-2312 2S-tf 1M2 ttarcury ataUea wagaa: 19S5 Chev-raial 9der Caad caaditioa Te far Uw prtea el ana Princeton 459 437S 253-30 THE kaadymaa: Cuatom carpeater aad 7S4-1MS 19-41 AR-VS! WaUiags roofing raryeatryt odd Job Scrap iroa bought T12-S2M Nov loss Me tear aula malic pewar rtecr-tag radio 21AM nilea licence ElMMi MSI Valiaat 2-door hardtop VIM bucket aeaU radio paw paint Iteaaea H4S20S MSI Falcoa 4-door wagaa aew meter automatic radio Iteaaea X2MI IMS Ford Fairlaae aateautte (-cylinder radio patet Btaaee 30737 WU1 trade aad image Haaac Phene CCLXJGAN! For aolt It Mil Reliable Uaad Cart Bur-1 water Dial TSS-KSS general repair work ROOFING aad roofing Pkaaa 752S12S repair Raaaaa-abte after 4 Nov a challenge all right" aid CoL Churchill it's one that must be met if we really believe these people should be given the fast access that alone will mean development of their total Would Block Tides With no durable rock available for at least 60 miles it soon became clear that barging in enough fill material was not economically feasible Equally discouraging wu the danger of flooding shoreline properties by blocking tha heavy tides with the cause-' way This left the possibility of building two short causeways joined in the middle by a long bridge with locks for seagoing vessels or of using a causeway bridge and tunnel all capable of carrying a railway line if the government opts to it Col Churchill who figures really going to earn my dough soon put the whole job on the method he developed in years as chief engineer for the Canadian Army and perfected at Expo Alternate plana were op dered reassessed down to the cost of the last rivet the 90-man staff co-ordinated on a closely-knit network and each planning stage charted and given a target date can understand at a glance just what each man is doing at every minute and when he should be finished Demanded Architect Taking a hint from the sue-cesa of Expo he hai insisted on appointment of an architect to ensure the erasing will be beautiful to the eye pollute the area for future A target date has been set in early 1968 for presentation of plans to the government and completion of a study of the alternate effects on economy including or dropping the railway line Approaches to the crossing are already under construction and commencement of the mobilization camp and at least one causeway is set for next summer time we got Col Churchill said want to sit around here for years fooling with He drummed up enthusiasm By Rosemary Speirs MONTREAL (CP) The Northumberland Strait causeway really be that at all Planners for the $200-000000 nine-mile erasing between Borden PEI and Tormentine NB long ago icrapped the idea of filling in the soft-bottomed strait to build a raised road or causeway a tough say CoL Edward Churchill tile bushy-browed master builder who bulldozed Expo 87 into shape and now hat taken over tba Job of bossing the trouble-filled maritime erasing Greeting in interviewer in his shirt sleeves at the bustling downtown offices of Northumberland Consultants Ltd the 54-year-old ex-army engineer pulled out alternate plana for combining instead a bridge causeway lock tunnel and perhaps a railway line on top is the most exciting and difficult engineering job in the world today" he said finger stabbing at oceanographic studies of wind tide and ice conditions Tabbed June 2 by the federal works department to supervise design and construction of the crossing Col task is to be full-time government director putting life and pace into the enormous construction job Costs Mounting Planning for the crossing-now traversed by ferry began as early as 1956 but bogged down early this year when the government ordered a reassessment In the face of mounting eosts a trouble-shooting task which the crusty colonel figures is heck of a worthwhile and which he is attacking with the enthusiastic gusto that made him renowned at Expo He first learned what he was up against during a two-hour briefing session held in August in the Montreal offices of Northumberland Consultants a firm formed especially to handle the strait crossing He was told about waves that may rise 25 feet high rushing and pounding through the strait tides of nine feet floes that have been measured at three miles wide and a sea bottom 40 feet deep in mucky glacial silt TENDERS FOB MARY STREET SEPARATE SCHOOL Brantford Ontario Sealed tendon will be received by the undersigned until 300 pm on Thursday November 16 1967 Drawing and apecificatdon may be obuined tram tha Architect' office upon receipt of a deposit of Fifty Dollar 1 93000) on Thuraday October 26 1967 Sealed tender for the mechanical and electrical trade will be received at the Brantford Bid De-iitory office until 300 pm on today November 14 1967 Lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted- MarkVuieelman McIntyre Architect 20 Wellington Street Brantford Ontario conditioned If -IFKNCINO Chain-Link 1999 Unroll CMrartibi Brtch fnn expert ly Greta Lawa 442-1821 133 Nov 14 753-1765 302- Mj I ISM Chevrolet with aacaad malar In cut and trimmed aaad anadltkia 4495000 alter SM hauled away Fhea I1S4M ST lti Nov mi Taatlar 1 1J jriwt'TV nibbiah earth romovaL Cua-WS ar boat aHar T39-M74 1 tom work with Baaamaata dug AUia Hauro Nev 1911 Ford XU convertible fully equip- teed 441 SEPTIC tanka aad enepoeia cleaaed man eammim and pumped by vacuum Call Gaerge Proper TS2-I111 ti Initial construction is undor way on approach to tho Northumbarland Strait It will link PE I and Tormantino NB Not Invincible After All MUST asUI 193 PaaUae Custom Sport evnrartmir good condition law mileage 1595575 4-11 CONCRETE and lkphlt repair Indualrial commercial roaideatial Barkhoe service Fro quotation Lancaster CaaatnicUon 739-137 1-7 good 1911 Volkswagen la 7324444 TENDERS BURFORD Ontario Housing Corporation Development Proposals Are Invited For CONSTRUCTION OF 12 SENIOR CITIZENS UNITS of "Ontario Housing" In the Township of Burford Ontario SlTi 45 Ornamental Matal Work 45 m-v ORNAMENTAL iroa rolling made to order Stanley's Aluminum 717 Caiborne 732-251 Nev II ORNAMENTAL iron railing Fro estimate Reasonable Wip gawicki Paria 4422171 The other case at least proved tiuf breach with the RCMP hid been healed The mayor refused to sign salary cheques coming to the magistrate because of tho way ho was treating RCMP witnesses In 1958 Mayor Henderson ran third to Lester Pearson and Paul Martin at tha Liberal leadership convention Where that one vote came from is a mystery but it be voted for he an accredited delegate One advantage Mayor Henderson holds as a defeated politician ia that he ean still get his licks in at the pulpit The campaigning that led to his election for a third term was particularly bitter The voting waa on Saturday and on Sunday Mayor Henderson read to his congregation a portion of the 27th Psalm It went: tha wicked even mine end my foes came pon me to eat up ay flesh they stumMed and fell and now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round me 46 Builders HM PantUc Strate-Chiaf 2-door 4-cylin-dar navy blue wbltewill radio 149 449-3411 ar Park Mroet Bullard 19M PlyvMUtk Fury 2 two-door hard-tao Mylladar automatic radio un-darroaUag tinted wiadahleld Apply ft Baldwin Avcoua 111 Bllay axcalleat mechanical condi-teo 14 er baat offer Phone 4141 w-l CHASSIS aad body of lSsT" dear kardtep make good dock tar 94A Pbaaa 44S-1SM 2 tfli Valkiwagan geod mator tiro and Body aaada repair 123 i 1 34331 46 on one count and acquitted on the other court costs of $1150 were assessed against the mayor His run-in with Winnipeg' Al-dtfrman Lillian Hallonquist came after she walked out of a Brandon municipal meeting accusing him of telling off-color stories Magistrate Lenient Not so said the mayor He had told the same stories from the pulpit they were that harmless Besides he 1 said she stayed to tha jokes but left when he launched into his speech on provincial aid to education Twice Mayor Henderson tried to have magistrates removed from the bench Both tries were unsuccessful Once it wee because he felt the magistrate had been too lenient toward i man who forced his way into the Henderson house end made improper advance! to Mrs Henderson The defdhce was that he was a stranger in town and a taxi driver had identified the residence to him as a house of ill fame or's office and that punch to the jaw in 1957 A young engineer who worked for a firm which was laying ewer pipefor a housing project took exception in the mayor's office to his assessment of the calibre of talent involved called me a bonehtfad then he called my boss and my firm boneheads" the engineer testified Mayor Henderson testified just hauled off and walloped me one on the The court acknowledging provocation fined the engineer $35 for assault A drive for contributions to pay the fine went over the top in short order Mayor running feud with the RCMP lasted 12 years He had criticized the force for being derelict in traf-fic cases and when he himself was arrested for reckless driving he charged that the Moun-ties were keeping tabs on him So he started watching the RCMP and turned the tables by having an officer charged with two traffic violations The policeman was fined a nominal $1 STAN Sak building can tractor i general npaira Pkaaa 7324141 Nov 3 46A Bricklaying 46A BRICK ropaira chimneys roofing slate roofa laaka repaired T3241M tf MUST aaUI 1194 Ford Gntaxta SM cow vartlMo automatic 732-2811 1 Driftwood Ditv CHIMNEYS naw aad repaired eevee-traughing and roofing O'Sullivan 7322242 M-U Separatists Hippies Seen Part of General Unrest Affecting All These units are to be con structed upon land owned by the Ontario Housing Corporation Proposal forms specifications and information may be obtained from the offices of tile Corporation and proposals for this project will be received by the Managing Director of Ontario Housing Corporation 188 University Avenue Toronto 1 until 200 pm EST Thursday December 7 1967 iThe lowest or any proposal not necessarily accepted 47 Cement Work 47 PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE When His Worship Henderson was socked on the jaw a fund to pay his assailant's fine was quickly oversubscribed People feel strongly one way or the other about Harold Lloyd Henderson a fading fighting Presbyterian minister whose wrath has descended on Moun ties and magistrates and once on a woman politician who ae cused him of telling dirty jokes But until his string ran out in Wednesday's civic (flections clergyman-Mayor Henderson who got exactly one vole when he tried for the national leadership of the Liberal party had be4hi invincible in 20 years of public office in this prairie city of 13000 Mayor for the last 18 years after a two-year apprenticeship as an alderman he wss defeated by florist William A Linden in a ballot box encounter he sees as just a temporary setback Come 1969 he will seek office again Voters Protest voters were protesting but thdy protesting against me Mayor Henderson said as he plunked the blame for his defeat on the lap of the provincial government The Henderson administration ran into troubld when technical illegalities in a number of money bylaws led to the provincial government appointing a controller to administer the financial affairs didn't need a controller1 said Mayor Henderson whose term of office expires Dec 31 The transplanted Prince Edward Islander from Freeland wjio came here in 1943 as minister of tiuf First Presbyterian Church plunged enthusiastically into local politics His blitz of the local political scene carried him to the may MU Impala 4-door hardtop Vft power atearia bnkaai MM Chavaotet Im-pala coavoriibte 3X7 aagtea power tearing brake Phan 71MBI aw- bate 1M Fard autamatie 1-ownar 5UOO mil good conditio Bast eaih 7334113 2-7 CONCRETE contractors Free estimate Vallala Brothers IS Buffalo 752-5905 303-Oct MM Fard I ataadard good condition 48 Carpentry 144-3 Baal alter Phono 449151 issr VaUroacm owner leaving city SIM Phaaa 732S4M ALTERATIONS ropaira cupboard recreation room 752-314 or 7527214 Oct 1M Chevrolet Bel-ALr 1-door Thia car teal Nted Department of Highway tnfaty chock Body and paint enrol-mechanically perfect in ONTARIO HOUSING CORPORATION CUPBOARDS recreation rooms alterations (rro estimates Will Kirkby 753-223 alter 283-OcC 28 way Mute seen and driven to Brawn Carpentry AKeratteo appreciated 1321773 and repair Fro estimate 732 WANTED1 18S9-ISS4 Volkawaaea On- 1777 19-tf Smut Dealers Feel the Pinch Of Pornography Laws in US awaar aad good condition KITCHEN cupboard vanities ceiliaga cal control if Canada is to sur vive Over the years thia fiscal control had been eroded by the provinces He said there is a greater desire among the people of On tario to involve their children in the French language They found that there was enormous in having two languages But while his government encouraged instruction in tiro languages in Ontario he found there was no desire among the people of say the Gaspe area in Quebec to teach English Robarts said his main purpose in London is to introduce Ontario's new agent-general Allan Rowan-Lcgg of Ottawa and to pay tribute to the retiring representative James Armstrong 67 who has been agent-general since 1944 lias Galaxi 500 2-door hardtopTpowcr atocrias 3M automatic Scotland 449 2352 alter 6 I 1M1 Impala convertible V-t fuU power 1 40 equipment Goad condition Beit offer Pbaaa 7328IU Electric for all your electrical ffcwwaui nad runnina order four I jobs Phono 7524305 Nov IS goad fine SIM Telephone 753-3557 Jark Sparta Electric Limited tor all your clectrie troubles 7524(42 MM Mustang GT fallback 2M bigb-i h-tf paittrmaar 4 spaed high riaar AUCTION SALE Wa have been instructed to sell by public auction Saturday Oct 3S at I pm at tha Pat PuUon! Farm on Shellard's Lana 1 mil off No 33 Highway first farm this side of Conklin Road: 17 plga about 300 lbs each 10 hoata 10 week old 1 brood sow had 1 Uttar: brood sow about 400 Iba: 3 boar about 230 lb each: 30 chicken 10 ducka 1 goat lamb a ted pig trough rubber tired wheelbarrow electric brooder atoec Urge frig 24" electric tove chest drawers Singer tewing machine kitchen suite 2 TVi coffee tables 3 atudlo couch rec the obscenity-by-mail conviction of publisher Ralph Ginzburg ruled in March 1968 that advertising designed to titillate may be considered in deciding whether the advertised material itself is obscene Montague and other federal officials define hard-core pornography as that depicting actual sexual relations of perversions Virtually all of the hard-core material is pictorial since the courts have an but eliminated the possibility of obscenity findings for printed matter 49A bead maf aad accaaaariea T520MT 1 49 Heating and Air-Conditioning I ESKO Home Heat Service! Karo ail 4A burorii furnaces and humidifier 42A Trucks for Sola LONDON (CP) Premier John Robarts of Ontario said today tha upsurge in activities of the separatist movement in Quebec appears to be part of the general unrest affecting "all our including the hippie movement and the demonstrations against the Vietnam war call it marching time and we get some of it in Robarts told a press conference when asked to his views on federal-provincial developments and Ontario's rela tions with its neighbor From his own experience he doubted that any large group of people in Quebec wanted separation He did not believe it was serious threat to Confederation There might be debate in the general area of language and culture but when it came to a final decision for the people of Quebec it would be a question of dollars other organization other than Canada can give them the equivalent in prosperity and freedom of culture" Conference Planned The Quebec question would be raised at the Confederation of Tomorrow conference which Ontario will hold in the last week of November All provinces will be represented Robarts believes this conference will be the first of a series of such meetings to develop co-operation on whether the constitution should he changed and how such changes should take place He was opposed to any special status for Quebec and maintained there must be central fis No pay moit termaU- pfayer Weatinghouto fridge lota of diahrt and cooking tenuis i2 transistor radio budgie and Moving and Trucking 50'cage bedding lot of tooia ls-ts Ic- ite Fard l-toa IP baa 7322314 stake-body truck 1 aaecllcut caaditioa Dodge sedan beds and tables dress- (rs ele lotl mora ppt listed Striking Stevedores Vote to Work Again tail Tnraa vs-ten pickup V-S standard MU HM Doda 2-door hardtop BILL Jcavona Mover! Our specialty V4 autamatie good conditio S2MI Plana 24 Gilktso WcM Brant 732 7392244 285-2! 2122 i PuTMatnirv tvten i ruikTton box equipped with west-ioasi mirrurx 51 Painting and Decoratin'? 51 rack a Excellent condition Wayne Franck Elgin Street Prince ten PAINTING and deronfinq Low rates 31 Peirce phone 752225 Nov tl No reserve everything must be sold owner is leaving for Western Ontario TERMS CASK MIKE KROLL Prop YECK Auctioneer For information phone 733-4064 WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional clamor and a controversiri Supreme Court ruling have put a big dent in the mail-order pornography business the US chief postal sleuth says Complaints about offensive mail have decreased 30 per cent Chief Inspector Henry Montague said since the Supreme Court ruled 19 months ago that lurid advertising may be weighed against the defendant in obscenity trials And 20 legislative proposals to combat pornography have sounded a further alarm to the commercial pedlars of smut think some of these dealers have had second thoughts since the Ginzburg case" Montague aid in an interview awaiting further developments to now decided it might be wiser to keep their tuff out of the Complaints Soar From 1962 to 1968 Montague said complaints about offensive not legally mail inga climbed to more than 197-000 from 52000 The Supreme Court upholding vm raid Vtoa pickup llect box 3000 PAINTING papertunging Guaranteed miles SUM 43S Colborne 753-12X41 workmanship Free estimates 739 349-31 047 after 5 ltl-Nov12 PICKUP aorctal M-EMING! Feet neat papering: paint- Dadga Vs tea inept line pickup 223 cu- in Reasonable No wailing 7322U3 hie tech slant- ernina Heavy duly 19-U automatic transmlssioo An exccpUoa- paixtinu paperhanxma altarattena I ally clean Uraiaht truck will accept Guaranteed work Fra estimates trad aacaaaary 4 an finance part GriMin 7534UI ltf ar all Cm be seem and driven ell day1 Saturday Ask for Bab Dial 7393330 Donato Earns a Medal MEXICO CITY Middleweight Donato Paduano of Montreal bowed in the semi-finals of the boxing tournament at tiie pre-Olympic Games Thursday night and won a bronze medal as a losing semifinalist The 18-ycar-oLd Italian-born boxer dropped a decision to Witold Stachurski in the light middleweight class Stachurski will meet Rolando Garbey of Cuba to the gold medal in the finals Saturday night Garbey stopped Jose Ce-breros of Mexico after 1:44 of the third round LIVERPOOL England Liverpool stevedores whose six-week strike held up exports worth about £150000000 ($450000000) voted today to go back to work Monday The back to work vote was not unanimous A large minority voted against it and accused the strike committee at selling them out The Liverpool strike was touched off when the government introduced a plan for a guarantee weekly wage to long shoremen instead of the previous system under which they were paid higher rates but only when there was work to do The unions accepted the new plan but Liverpool stevedores were not satisfied with a differential rate clause under which they would get slightly less money than their London counterparts Against the advice of their union they walked out six weeks ago Liverpool js Britain's second biggest export outiet and the action in stopping the flow of in addition to holding up imports of raw materials for seriously affected Britain's trading balance Judge Raps 52'Ncw Hippie I -i- Medal Fad 334-2 52 PU storing MEL Muaiksv PleateriKg lipecialixed patching repairs Clean work 752 Fftiri 1134 43 Automotivs Strvicct atePlf-bTlterv teTTolboma East! Naw aad rebuilt balleriee a low aa 43 Fro delivery Phone 753-472 53 Plumbing 2 -II I HAROLD HENDERSON voters' said Block Air Canada On Base Closing OTTAWA An Ottawa magistrate Thursday rapped the latifet hippie fad of wearing war-cervice medals as he sen tenccd a youth who had pleaded guilty to unlawfully wearing the medals to five day in jail Richard Hogue 19 of Ottawa was arrested on the downtown Sparks Street shoppers' mill Wednesday and charged with unlawfully wearing four Canadian servico medals two on each aide of his Mack jacket Magistrate A Sherwood in passing sentence sail: people who wore those a 1 weren't unemployed They fought because they he-1 lieved in this country and were willing to die for it lucky one of them didn't find! you and decide to ueal with you! in his own RADIATOR trouble? For guaranteed wrITON punlMn and Heating 4 St work ABC Radiator Service Clean- Paul Avroua 752341 19-tf tag repairing swearing- angh 752-S2S9 -ll Home 'n' Roam Communications For Car -Home -Boat Citizen Band 2-WAY RADIO Easy to operate all makes including: SONAR LA-rAYETTE HALLICRAK-TER JOHNSON PACE TRAM-TITAX AS LOW AS 129 No Down Payment Convenient Terms RAY ANGUISH Ltd 230 Murray St 752-4831 TOVI Hackman plumbum healing Highway 34 near Woo lea 449121 54 TV gnd Radio Sorvic 54 C34 CLAYT ANGUISH TV RADIO STEREO SALES SERVICE ESTABLISHED 37 YEARS L'ncd TV ft Naw Car Radica 00 Coiboma ft East more Economical to consolidate its facilities Mr Hellyer said: "Already these (new) developments have resulted in Air Canada now projecting definite increases in -total employment at Winnipeg At least 1000 more employees will be needed here by 1373" Before Mr Hellyer spoke Mr Roblin presented a 29-page brief reiterating the province's case for retention of the base Winnipeg lawyer A Thompson conducted an inquiry into thE proposed closure at the Jtqueit of the federal government two years ago and endorsed Air decision committee he likely made up of two federal and two provincial to supervise investigations seeking method to retain the Air Canada or a similar base in Winnipeg Mr Hellyer told the meiding be has askedAir Canada to review its decision to close the base and suggested a revised policy may bo forthcoming as a rtfsuit of rapid changes that have taken place in air freight and passenger service Eceneay Factor Air Canada's decision to close the Winnipeg base was baded on projections that it would bo At the meeting it was decided a federal-provincial committee will be established to intensify studies aimed at maintaining Winnipeg's position as a major airline servicing centre A reappraisal will also be conducted of Air Canada's earlier projections which led to the decision to close its Winnipeg facilities Premier Duff Roblin of Manitoba bad requested the meeting with federal authorities after Air Canada announced Oct 5 that it was speeding up its closure of the Winnipeg base It said it planned to consolidate the overhaul facilities in the Montreal suburb of Dorval by 1970 At that time the premier laid the decision appeared to be a clear breach of faith by the federal government He said the prime minister had given a firm undertaking that tha base would remain open at least until 1973 Mr Hellyer told a press conference whm he arrived for the meeting: will not permit Air Canada to overrule the prime minister of our country as long as I am minister of The minister agreed with a suggestion that an advisoiy WINNIPEG (CP) Transport Minister Hellyer said Thursday night Air Canada's decision to done its Winnipeg overhaul base by 1970 will be overrultfti At the same time he promised that he will make an all-out effort to dispel the uncertainty surrounding the future since Air Canada first announced plans to close it in 1962 The transport minister made the statements during a 90-minute meeting with Manitoba's air policy committee an organization made up of representatives from government business and labor.

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