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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1968
Page
2
The piece ponders if modern readers would react to a hypothetical alien invasion report as they did to Orson Welles 1938 broadcast. It notes changes in media, technology, and public gullibility, asking whether belief shifts have occurred over 30 years and whether “seeing is believing” today would reduce panic.
National Geographic writer Thomas J. Abercrombie details buzkashi a fierce Afghan sport with up to 100 riders on stallions chasing a downed goat. The game is brutal and sometimes fatal, knives and chains outlawed only recently, yet dangers remain.
U S film makers propose a four level rating system mirroring Britain to guide cinema audiences. General audiences remain free while adults and minors require parental permission or accompaniment. a fourth category restricts under seventeenth year olds. Enforcement rests with theatre managers amid calls for parental relief and alignment with public sentiment. The Christian Science Monitor comments.
European railways expand cut-rate travel for 64 and older passengers. Air Canada also offers half fare for citizens 65 plus under certain conditions, though some beneficiaries face reservation delays. The move aims to fill empty seats and broaden travel among pensioners and the elderly.
The parliamentary opposition denounces a government plan to control legislative timing in the Commons. Conservative Leader Stanfield calls it horrendous while NDP rules expert Stanley Knowles warns it would give the government House leader dictatorial power. Debates start Tuesday as parties vow to fight the proposal and isolate time allocation to committee for reconsideration.
Strom, a quiet southern Alberta rancher and Municipal Affairs minister, won the Social Credit party leadership on the second ballot with 915 votes, defeating Gordon Taylor who had 606 and Walter Buck 144. He pledged a vigorous team approach and expanded opportunities while embracing research and private enterprise to solve social problems in Alberta. Premier Manning expressed happiness, noting Strom’s ascent follows a campaign built on continuing Manning’s policies with a modern edge.
Air Canada announced the appointment of Yves Pratte as chairman and chief executive officer and J. R. Baldwin as president, effective December 15. Baldwin, 56, has served as deputy transportation minister since 1954, succeeding Gordon R. McGregor. Pratte, 43, a senior partner in a Quebec City law firm and adviser to two Quebec premiers, will handle the Crown corporation's financial affairs as board chairman.
Gowan Guest former Prime Minister Diefenbaker aide told a BC Liberal panel that Trudeau reforms would ruin the House of Commons. He argued the Commons is not a 264 member board and warned against limiting debate and the question period, saying the changes would weaken parliamentary function. The minister’s proposals will be discussed at a federal provincial constitutional conference in Ottawa next week.
Gariiew west minster British Columbia hosted a double ring wedding uniting Doro thy Ramona Blaker of Vancouver and Gary Kenneth Steen, with Rev G A Thomson officiating. The bride was given away by her father, attended by matron of honor Julie Martin, and best man Bill Steen. The couple will reside in Port Moody. Joan Grove of Katrime attended the brother.
The Saskatchewan Association urged opposition to proposed estate tax changes at its convention. Finance Minister Benson’s plan would exempt widows and widowers but raise taxes on estates inherited by children. Otto Lang said the federal government is reviewing taxation structure with focus on the estate tax.
Manitoba Liberal leader sue Molgat urged sweeping tax reform with property tax as the first target. Speaking at the Morris Liberal association annual meeting, he blamed high taxes on stagnation, pledged faster economic development, and called for redistributing the tax burden, negotiations with Ottawa, and pruning outdated programs.
Japanese and Canadian interests consider a deep sea shipping terminal at Squamish British Columbia on Howe Sound, 40 miles north of Vancouver, to serve pulp and lumber from Finlay Forest Industries. A diking approval and a 1970 startup are discussed, with Finlay half-owned by Catermole Timber and partners Sumimoto Forest and Jupo Paper awaiting Japanese government consent.
Manitoba Liquor Control Commission raised sales 4.1 percent in 1967-68 to 73,556,705 dollars. Net revenue to the provincial treasury reached 23,404,848 dollars, up 71,560, and 20,087,742 dollars was collected by the federal government in duties and taxes on liquor. The report covers April 1, 1967, to March 31.
Premier Walter Weir says the Manitoba Young Progressive Conservative Association may need a fulltime organizer to pull the group from post election doldrums. He spoke at the annual meeting to about 50 delegates and supported funding for an organizing program. President Tom Stefanson noted attendance fell after the June federal election, with about 400 delegates at last year’s convention.
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