Alberta parties field 75 candidates for looming vote
Peter Lougheed’s Progressive Conservatives press to oust Social Credit by fielding candidates in all 75 constituencies as nominations close. NDP runs 70, Liberals 20, independents 3, total 243. Redistribution adds 13 seats to 75 from 65. Social Credit holds 54 seats while Conservatives have 10 amid a multiway battle in most ridings.
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Edmonton
Peter Lougheed
Progressive Conservatives
Social Credit Party
Alberta
Conservatives
Social Credit
New Democratic Party
Liberals
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
NDP
A. J. Hooke
Rocky Mountain House
Social Credit Corps
Gordon Taylor
Drumheller
Taylor
Social
Prairies Hopeful as Worm Blight Peaks in Rapeseed
Government officials report Bertha army worm invasion has peaked across Saskatchewan Manitoba and Alberta with spraying needed to finish control Farmers seek air support amid late infestations while costs remain uncertain Officials estimate possible rapeseed losses of 10 to 20 percent across about one million acres in Saskatchewan 250000 in Alberta and 10000 in Manitoba at roughly 50 dollars per acre value.
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Prairies
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
Jack Messer
Henry Ruste
Reeve A. W. Roland
Vegreville
Edmonton
Minburn
New U S policy practical Strom remarks on inflation
Alberta Premier Harry Strom says U S moves to halt inflation reflect a practical approach while noting potential harm to the Canadian beef sector. He argues U S controls carry sway over Canadian measures and that inflation is now more psychological than wartime. A Calgary industry spokesman cites little impact from a 10 percent surcharge on products.
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High River
Alta
Alberta
Harry Strom
United States
Strom
U.S
Prices and Incomes Commission
Canada
Vietnam
Calgary
Ministers to protest U S import surcharge
A Canadian ministerial mission will travel to Washington likely Thursday to protest U S import surcharges that could affect about 25 percent of Canada’s exports. Acting prime minister Mitchell Sharp announced that Finance Minister E F J Benson would return from Europe to join the mission, with Trudeau not cutting short his Adriatic holiday. The cabinet stressed cooperation with the United States toward a sounder world monetary system while warning the proposed 10 percent surcharge could hurt Canadian employment and raise unemployment.
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John R. Walker
Southam News Services
Ottawa
Washington
Canada
Mitchell Sharp
EF. J. Benson
Trudeau
Sharp
Cabinet Committee On
United States
Nixon
Crop yield forecast cuts sugar crops as drought bites
CALGARY CP More reductions in potential crop yields expected after another hot dry week says Alberta Wheat Pool in weekly crop report. Southern areas harvest underway, rainfall useless for late seeding. swathing and threshing active around Medicine Hat. Yields down from last year, rye strongest exception, Bertha armyworm threat rising in central regions rocketing rapeseed estimates. East central hardest hit before control measures.
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Calgary
Alberta Wheat Pool
Pool
Medicine Hat
IRA declares underground government in Northern Ireland
IRA leaders announced a rebel cabinet of six ministers and a 40 member parliament to seek international recognition, financed by Irish exiles. British forces reported 80 plus IRA arrests since internment without trial began and a wave of bombings and clashes followed. Civil rights militants staged a Gandhi like civil disobedience with ten thousand protesters striking.
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Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
IRA
Londonderry
Ulster
Viet Cong Sinks American Freighter at Qui Nhon Harbor
Reports say Viet Cong frogmen sank an 11,000 ton American freighter in Qui Nhon harbor. Overnight shelling along the demilitarized zone marks the sixth straight day of attacks. In Canada, BC officials warn sleeping sickness may strike additional horses after 10 confirmed cases and 2,400 vaccinated in the region.
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Saigon
Qui Nhon
Demilitarized Zone
Nixon tours to explain policy amid economic upheaval
President Nixon launches a cross country trip to sell his wage price freeze tax cut and import measures as the nation feels the policy’s early effects. Auto unions and labor leaders express confusion while GM and Ford move to halt price hikes and Wall Street braces for more volatility.
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Washington
Nixon
U.S
General Motors
Ford
New York Stock Exchange
United Auto
Fires still threaten B C forests across three parks
Six of 11 fires remained out of control in Glacier Yoho and Mount Revelstoke in British Columbia with the worst blaze over 2000 acres along Beaver River. In Mount Hurd near the Trans-Canada Highway 350 acres burned as 140 men and water bombers attacked. Alberta Mountain parks reported three fires near Asper with none in Banff Kootenay or Waterton Lakes.
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Calgary
British Columbia
Glacier Park
Beaver River
Yoho
B.C
Mount Hurd
Mount Revelstoke
Lauretta
National and Historic Parks Branch
Alberta
Asper
Banff
Kootenay
Waterton Lakes
Europe seeks to avert monetary chaos after Nixon moves
West European governments coordinate to shield the euro market from a dollar shock. Brussels hosts the monetary committee ahead of a full six-nation finance ministers meeting. Britain aims to align with the Community as Japan resists yen gains and Tokyo buys dollars to hold at current rates.
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Nixon
U.S
European Common Market
Brussels
Japan
Bank of Japan
Tokyo
Europe
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