14 Aug 1987
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1987
Page
1
The Medicine Hat News recounts Elvis Presley’s enduring fame and the enduring myths surrounding his life and death, tracing public fascination from his rise to rock legend to the era’s lasting questions and sentiments.
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a 20 percent chance of precipitation on Saturday. High near 19 and low around 8. Map page B3.
A Toronto man attempting to propose to his girlfriend at 25 000 feet on a Wardair flight to Frankfurt manages to deliver his message via flight crew and intermedaries after she had already boarded. The woman reportedly answered yes twice. champagne flowed as the crew toasted the couple.
In Pajala Sweden a remote town of 8700 near the Arctic Circle hosts Rompa viiko from Sept 28 to Oct 4 offering Scandinavian single women from Stockholm Helsinki and Oslo a free trip by chartered bus to meet 104 bachelors and 39 single locals amid a festival of dancing and courting. The committee expects about 100 women to visit.
A quartet of native Canadian Indians on an all expenses paid trip funded by South Africa’s tourism board upstaged External Affairs Minister Joe Clark’s South African mission. They criticized Canadian leaders at a Pretoria press conference and said they could not get hearings for grievances at home. They plan to use what they learn to address issues back in Canada.
Ottawa Liberal dominated Senate approves a weakened patent bill limiting brand name drug protection to four years and dropping a provincial payment plan. Conservatives vow to press to restore ten year protection and a drug prices board while facing possible conference or demise. Liberal and NDP leaders accuse the timing reflects U S pressure as John Turner and Ed Broadbent challenge the Tory motive.
A 1987 Angus Reid-Southam News poll shows Ontario Conservatives led by Larry Grossman at 17 percent, far behind Liberal Premier David Peterson at 54 percent and NDP's Bob Rae at 27 percent. Undecided voters total 28 percent as leaders’ images shift and bilingualism debates heat up.
Alberta Treasurer Dick Johnston says the province froze Principal Savings and Trust after Principal Group Ltd. declared bankruptcy to stabilize deposits and preserve sale options. He defended the action against claims the trust could have paid all depositors. An Alberta judge named Bill Code as investigator into Associated Investors of Canada Ltd. and First Investors Corp. collapse, with J W H Milvain to head an investors committee. the inquiry will not probe the government's role.
The pilot of a small Piper Archer came within hundreds of feet of Ronald Reagan’s helicopter as it traveled to the Santa Ynez ranch. Secret Service said there was no criminal intent by the pilot or passenger and no arrests were made after both were detained briefly for questioning.
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