City to invest $50,000 in new Legion building
City Council agreed to lend 50 000 to the Robertson Memorial Branch Building Fund to help finance a new Royal Canadian Legion club premises in Medicine Hat. The project, estimated at 165 000 to 175 000, would be built on the current Legion site at 2nd St. S.E. and start once 100 000 has been raised and tenders issued.
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Medicine Hat
Royal Canadian Legion
Robertson Memorial
Legion
2Nd St. S.E
Doug Kat
City Hall
Harold Ellis
Jim Kidd
Kat
Ellis
Council
Clude
Jack Russell
Chuck Meagher
City weighs future of A-1 renewal plan in 97 acre site
City Council set up a committee to explore cleaning the 97 acre A-1 area at the bottom of Dunmore Hill without senior government help. Regional Planner Roy Ralston doubts the scheme will survive to after B-1 renewal, while residents face lengthened uncertainty.
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Dunmore Hill
Roy Ralston
Chuck Meagher
George Renner
Earl Smith
Council
Meagher
Pete Simpson
Lethbridge Fire Ravages Hotel Convention Centre Complex
A major blaze in Lethbridge destroyed a restaurant a gun shop a real estate office a barber shop a cake tail and dining lounges and hotel reception area. The El Rancho motor hotel complex with a 1400 seat convention centre valued up to 1.5 million suffered estimated damages up to 700000 after seven hours. No serious injuries were reported and about 100 workers were displaced.
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Coaldale
el Rancho Motor
Ade
Canada readies divorce reform with grounds beyond adultery
Ottawa reports the government unveiled a broad divorce reform bill after extensive hearings. It adds grounds including sodomy, bestiality, rape, homosexuality, bigamy, cruelty, and permanent breakdown, while rejecting a single comprehensive marriage breakdown concept. The bill would shift parliamentary jurisdiction to a new divorce division in the Exchequer Court, ending parliamentary divorce as known.
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Ottawa
Canada
Trudeau
Newfoundland
Quebec
Senate
Exchequer
Opposition hits labor board bill in Ottawa debate
In Ottawa the government faced sharp opposition to changes proposed for the Canada Labour Relations Board. The bill, aimed at addressing Quebec union concerns, faced charges of indirect action and betrayal of a pledge to send the measure to committee for study before second reading. Opposition leaders and MPs argued the government sought to subterfuge while Labour Minister Nicholson defended urgency and committee consideration.
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Ottawa
Canada Labor Relations Board
Quebec
Nicholson
Final report of bilingualism commission released today
The first volume of the royal commission on bilingualism and biculturalism will be tabled in the Commons at 6 p.m. by Prime Minister Pearson. The 260 page document comes after four years and seven million dollars of study. It warns Canada could break up without major changes and highlights a dynamic French speaking society seeking equal partnership with federal and provincial governments.
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Ottawa
Royal Commission On
Commons
Pearson
Andre Laurendeau
Montreal
le Devoir
Davidson Dunton
Carleton University
Canada
Demonstrators Rally at Whitehall Induction Center
More than 1,000 antiwar protesters marched on the Whitehall induction center in Lower Manhattan as police cordoned off the area. About 250 protesters were arrested in the first two hours, including Dr. Benjamin Spock and poet Allen Ginsberg, with clashes and injuries reported as draftees entered the center.
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New York
Whitehall
Lower Manhattan
Benjamin Spock
Alan
Ginsberg
Battery Park
Manhattan
Whitehall Street
Bridge
Pearl
Broad
Water
Heart transplant patient breathing on own steam
The transplanted heart of Denise Darvall beating steadily inside Louis Washkansky, 55, at Groote Schuur Hospital after a five hour operation. He now eats light meals, speaks briefly and is breathing unaided as doctors monitor immune suppression to prevent rejection.
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Reuters-Up
Cape Town
Louis Washkansky
S. C. W. Bosman
Groote Schuur Hospital
Denise Ann Darvall
Washkansky
Jacobus Burger
Groote Schuur
Miss Darvall
Remanded in Custody in Moser Shooting Case
Samuel Retelbach, 807 11th St. S.E., charged with non capital murder in the Sunday shooting death of Raymond Moser, was remanded for one week in Magristrate's court. Lawyer Milt Harradence requested adjournment. he was to be held in Lethbridge jail due to Medicine Hat no long term facilities. Police found Moser dead in Retelbach's kitchen Sunday morning.
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Samuel Retelbach
11Th St. S.E
Raymond Moser
Retelbach
Milt Harradence
Calgary
J. G. Kidd
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
C. B. MacDonell
Harrad
Moser
Rumors Denied Khrushchev Death in Moscow
Reports from Moscow say rumors of Nikita Khrushchev's death are unfounded. The official Soviet quarters dismiss the claim as unjustified.
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Moscow
Reuters
Nikita Khrushchev
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