Medicine Hat unions react to government pay offer
In Medicine Hat the Canadian Postal Employees Association reports general satisfaction with a 500 to 550 dollar annual increase for inside workers and transfer men. Officials for letter carriers were unavailable for comment while restive reactions grow in Vancouver and Edmonton amid disputes over pay gaps between carrier and clerk ranks.
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Medicine Hat
Chester Teel
Canadian Postal Employees Association
CPEA
Federated Association of Letter Carriers
Civil Service Association of Canada
Teel
Vancouver
Pearson
Crash kills 12 Viet civilians in Nha Trang
A US Air Force B-57 bomber crashed on a main street in Nha Trang killing 12 Vietnamese civilians and injuring 63 others. Two crew escaped by parachute as the jet, hit by ground fire, ignited fuel and four bombs exploded.
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Saigon
Nha Trang
U.S
South China Sea
Grain strike reaches pivotal talks with company chiefs
Vancouver grain handlers dispute reaches a crucial stage as presidents of major Prairie elevator companies meet union officials to end the strike. Federal mediator Dr. G Neil Terry aims to finish negotiations today with possible Ottawa attendance by Minister MacEachen. The waterfronts face grain shortages as ships wait. The strike stems from a lawsuit by Alberta Pool against the International Union of Brewery Flour Cereal and Distillery Workers and a rejected conciliation board wage proposal, affecting Burrard Terminals and Pacific Elevators.
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Vancouver
G. Neil Terry
Soviet Union
A. M. Runciman
United Grain Growers
Winnipeg
C. W. Gibbings
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Reaina
G. L. Harrold
Alberta Wheat Pool
Calgary
George H. Sellers
Federal Grain Co
Burrard
Pacific
Tieus of Boxcars
Union Company
Prairies
Dr. Perry
Alberta Pool
International Union of Brewery, Flour, Cereal and Distillery Workers
CLC
Cause of plane disaster remains uncertain report says
A Canadian American inquiry into the DC-8 crash near Montreal that killed 118 people found no engine or structural failure and ruled out crew illness or turbulence. It identified a probable sequence starting with nose down trim causing a diving descent while a stalled hydraulic motor prevented recovery. The most probable cause cited was an unnoticed extension of the automatic pitch trim compensator affecting the DC-8 elevators.
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Ottawa
Montreal
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Air Canada
Toronto
New Orleans
George Charlies
Quebec
Typhoon Jean Hits Japan Leaving Many Homeless
Reuters reports Typhoon Jean killed at least 24 people and injured 94 in southern Japan, destroying about 10,000 homes. The cyclone then moved offshore and was expected to turn east, threatening northern areas as winds weakened from 92 to 45 mph while moving about 35 mph.
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Tokyo
Reuters
Greece King Seeks End to Crisis with Key Meetings
Athens AP Constantine held talks with political leaders to resolve Greece's political crisis. He met with John Passalides, FDA co leader, who urged name change or elections. Papandreou has broad parliamentary support. king to meet Spyros Markezinis as crisis deepens.
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Constantine
Greece
John Passalides
United Democratic Left Party
FDA
Passalides
George Papandreou
Papandreou
EDA
Papa
Mayer cleared to join 500 mile canoe race journey
Cst Mayer gains an extra week leave to compete in a 500 mile North Bay to Kingston race next week. Partner Cst Borys cannot take part due to leave limits, with the department rejuggling schedules. Alberta selects Mayer and Borys among 12 paddlers for a 1967 cross Canada test, praising them as top provincial paddlers.
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Cst
Lance Mayer
North Bay
Kingston
Adam Borys
A. R. Bull
Borys
Bull
Alberta
John Nikel
Mayer
Ottawa Calls Army to Ease Mail Jam
Ottawa mobilizes about 50 soldiers at the Montreal ordnance depot to move and lift mail as the postal workers strike enters its 16th day. The effort aims to augment a partly restored force of 25 full time workers while 8,500 part time Christmas mail workers may or may not return. Mail backlog builds at Windsor St post office as talks continue.
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Montreal
Post Office
Ordnance
National Defence Department Information Office
Ordnance Depot
Longue Pointe
Windsor and
St. James Streets
Ottawa
Postal brotherhood plans to poll Canadian workers
The Postals Workers Brotherhood intends a mail referendum among Canada's 19,500 postal employees on the government pay increases. President Leslie Hood says ballots may go out by Monday and a national strike vote is under consideration. The group aims to let members express opinion on Judge Anderson's recommendations, with secret ballots mailed in return envelopes. The executive committee and ad hoc group will meet all day.
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Edmonton
Ottawa
Postals Workers Brotherhood
Canada
Leslie Hood
Canadian Postal Employees Association
Hood
Brotherhood
Postal Association
The
Lawyer seeks Rivard return for testimony in extradition case
Montreal court hears request to question Lucien Rivard at a preliminary hearing. Judge Lagarde rules the request beyond the court's jurisdiction but notes extradition may proceed. Cadieux and Boucher, both jailed on complicity charges, seek release after bail set at 8000 dollars each. motion to reduce bail denied. Rivard, recaptured after escaping Montreal’s Bordeaux jail, is now facing narcotics charges in Laredo Texas.
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Montreal
Lucien Rivard
Armand Cadieux
Sebastien Boucher
Irenee Lagarde
Rivard
Bordeaux
Woodlands
Boucher
Cadieux
Laredo
Tex
Paul Aubut
Lagarde
Aubut
Disarm talks at Geneva deepen deadlock amid clashes
The 17 nation disarmament conference faced sharper East West clashes with Canada defending Western views while Bulgaria attacked the West. Gen Burns rebuked Soviet posture, and Tsarapkin warned against premature decisions on a non proliferation or underground test ban.
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Geneva
Canada
Bulgaria
Semyon T. Tsarapkin
E. L. M. Burns
Burns
Tsarapkin
Moscow
Lord Chalfont
Soviet Union
Hiroshima marks 20th anniversary of atomic blast
At Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima 30,000 attended a ceremony marking 20 years since the August 6, 1945 atomic blast. 469 new deaths added to the official toll bringing identified victims to 78,150 as sirens bells and doves paid tribute amid a passing typhoon.
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Hiroshima
Japan
Peace Memorial Park
Shinzo Hamai
New York
Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
Virgin Island
George Marshall
Henry Stimson
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