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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 27, 1968
Page
2
The piece argues that democracies must balance minority rights with majority power. It warns minority groups mobilize with sit-ins and media attention, while urging the majority to express clear, principled leadership and avoid complacency lest history repeat itself like Czechoslovakia's experience with a minority clique seizing power.
After Senator Kennedy's murder and rising gun control pressure the National Rifle Association launches a new campaign urging its 900,000 members to lobby Congress against changes to gun laws. Remington Arms Savage Arms and Winchester-Western urge Congress to curb mail sales of shotguns and rifles, potentially dampening NRA influence.
Tips for holiday health urge gradual adjustments for sensitive guts. Travel wellness guidance advises pre trip physicals shots, and planning to avoid high altitude risks. Travelers should limit itineraries and avoid drastic diet changes, noting most diarrhea stems from contaminated water or food.
Dr J D Griffin of Toronto told the Canadian Psychiatric Association annual meeting that poverty, housing, cultural deprivation and racial strife fuel mental illness. He warned that without addressing these basics, prevention programs cannot be realistically developed and noted trends of protests, drug use, and social unrest as symptoms of a wider social malaise.
Dr Saul Cohen warned at the Canadian Medical Association convention that heavy drinkers are at risk. He classed himself as a two to eight drinker and noted white collar and wealthier people drink the most. He urged education for grades nine and ten and better medical care for alcoholics, starting in community hospitals with counseling to help them quit.
A citizens committee on medical costs may scrap a petition with 40 000 signatures after Premier Walter Weir said the government would reopen talks with Ottawa on the federal medical care program. The petition protested a 23 percent premium rise on July 1 and Manitoba’s non participation. Chairman Thomas Peterson said the committee may alter its position if the province shifts its stance.
The Canadian Tuberculosis Association urged the federal government to require cigarette pack warnings and to curb advertising. About 300 delegates convened to hear doctors condemn smoking and air pollution as major respiratory disease drivers. Dr. B H Bass noted 50 percent of Britain’s doctors quit smoking after tests showed harm. Colin Dowell of Gibsons, near Vancouver, was elected to lead. deaths from tuberculosis and related diseases cited rising to 816 in 1986 from 98 in 1050. Delegates approved renaming the association to reflect its respiratory disease focus.
Toronto faced a city wide move as 40 parks became temporary dumps during a strike by 3,700 outside workers. Streets Commissioner Harold Ayteo said the action follows a 15 percent wage raise rejection while workers seek 20 percent. The city planned park fencing and plastic bags for residents and explored schoolyard use if the strike lasts. Ontario Labour will mediate weekend talks with CUPE officials as health officials warned against outdoor burning and borough incinerators and dumps planned to shut down.
Hovercraft Ltd proceeds with a daily cross Strait service despite an appeal by Inter-Air Travel Ltd. President P B Jones said the first 35 seat SRN craft, overhauled from Expo 67, should operate by end of August with two more SRN vessels due in October. Negotiations are underway for an $8 800 000 SAN 4 craft to carry 580 passengers.
Eugene Ivan Drysdale, 32, was convicted of non capital murder for the beating death of 3 year old Angela Hawkins in Brandon. The jury of 11 men and one woman deliberated an hour. Drysdale received a life sentence from Mr Justice R J Matas. Two others, the mother Beverley Hawkins, 24, and half-brother David Nicholls, 18, were charged as accessories. Nicholls testified that Drysdale considered hiding the body after the beating and drove to a remote spot with the suit case containing the child.
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