Incinerator grant loss hits Medicine Hat bylaw approval
Council learns a $25 000 provincial grant was lost due to an oversight in the city's Finance Department raising the incinerator cost to 185 000. The追加 35 000 covers ash-handling equipment while 10 000 remains. Officials promise reforms and a written report from former Finance Director Legge.
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Medicine Hat
City Council
Ald
Pete Simpson
Harold Ellis
Alberta
Edmonton
Allan Gunter
Ellis
Earl Smith
Chuck Meagher
Tommy. Legge
Ald. Smith
Legge
West Coast
Budget tax tables show old age security tax rise
OTTAWA CP The tables show the impact of Finance Minister Sharp's proposed increase in the old age security tax on three taxpayer classes. Columns present total income old tax new old age security tax increase in security tax and combined federal and provincial tax for 1967. Quebec Manitoba and Saskatchewan excluded.
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Ottawa
Sharp
Quebec
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Finance Minister Sharp denies leaking minibudget details
Ottawa's Finance Minister Sharp rejected claims from Vancouver Stock Exchange president John Van Luren that he leaked minibudget details. He said he did not speak privately with Van Luren and recalled discussing several topics in Vancouver without specifics. He noted that roughly three-quarters of the funds to supplement old age pensions could come from a one per cent sales tax rise.
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Robert Cohen
Southam
Ottawa
Sharp
Vancouver Stock Exchange
John van Luren
van Luven
Vancouver
The
Stock Exchange
van Luren
UN General Assembly blocks Canadian peacekeeping bid
The United Nations General Assembly rejected a Canadian proposal on peacekeeping after Soviet and French objections. Algeria led a motion returning the issue to a 33-country committee, which will have priority but may delay a broader vote until a April session and possibly the September regular session. Ambassador George Ignatieff defended the Canadian stance and pledged continued cooperation.
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Nations
United Nations General Assembly
Security Council
Algeria
Assembly
Canada
George Ignatieff
Mainy
Ignatieff
Sions
Aeken
Africa
Minibudget for pensions and tax hikes in Canada
Ottawa Finance Minister Mitchell Sharpe unveiled a Christmas minibudget proposing tax increases totaling 290 million dollars annually. The plan raises the federal sales tax to 12 percent and boosts the old age security maximum by 120 dollars, affecting about one third of high earners. No changes to corporation or personal income tax rates. Sharpe called the steps neutral and aimed at elderly support, with further action possible in the spring budget if needed.
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Bruce Phillips Southam
News
Ottawa
Mitchell Sharpe
Shiarp
Kennedy seeks compromise over JFK book dispute
Senator Edward M. Kennedy hopes for a settlement in the publication dispute surrounding William Manchester's The Death of a President. He said in a Boston TV interview that publication could occur someday if a compromise is reached.
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New York
Edward M. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Democrat
Boston
Kennedy
Spoksman
Look
John’ F
William Manchester
Canfield
Manchester
Mannchester
Medicine Hat United Fund surpasses $45000 objective
The Medicine Hat United Fund officers announced the drive has gone over its $45 000 objective. President Val Marshall and campaign chairman Bill Sellhorn credited volunteers, businesses, industries, employees, and residents of Medicine Hat Redcliff and district for the success.
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Medicine Hat United Fund
Val Marshall
Bill Sellhorn
Medicine Hat
Redcliff
Vancouver Island floods force evacuations and plant shutdowns
Scores of families fled rising Cowichan River floodwaters on Vancouver Island while Honeymoon Bay floods inundated the Western Forest Industries mill as 400 workers were laid off. Weather records show 18.59 inches of rain this month and 93.42 inches this year, far above averages.
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Vancouver
Vancouver ‘Island
Honeymoon .Bay
Western
Forest Industries Lumber
B.C
Forest Products
Youbou
Cowichan Lake
Honeymoon. Bay
Orne
Atoe Ported
runay-Cumberland
Colin Wilson
McCoy Lake
Port Alberni
City forms committee to negotiate new MHTC contract
Mayor Chuck Meagher Aldermen Pete Simpson and Harold Ellis named to negotiate a new contract with Medicine Hat Transportation. The move follows a council request conveyed by lawyer E W N Macdonald and opposed by Finance Chairman Jack Edwards who urged city representation by the coordinating department heads. The six month bus trial and fare increases were noted as concerns.
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Chuck Meagher
Ald
Pete Simpson
Harold Ellis
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat Transportation
E. W. N. Macdonald
J.G. Kidd
Jack Edwards
Ald. Edwards
MHTC
Macdonald
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