Gas price rise spreads through Medicine Hat stations
A half cent per gallon wholesale increase plus a ten percent retail lift took effect today, raising regular to about 45.4 cents and premium to 50.4 cents in many pumps. Oil firms cited a pending provincial tax hike as the motive, with impacts to diesel and heating oils as well. Station owners varied in passing on the changes, with some unaware and others recognizing likely price bumps at the pump.
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Medicine Hat
Imperial Oil
British American
Royalite
Texaco
Queen Anne Marie of Greece Loses Expected Child in Rome
In Rome Queen Anne Marie of Greece left a Rome clinic weeping after a miscarriage blamed on strain from exile. A medical bulletin says the third child was lost Thursday night but her condition is now satisfactory.
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Rome
Anne- Marie
Greece
Johnson expected agree to U S Cambodian talks
Washington reports President Johnson is likely to accept Prince Sihanouk's indirect offer of U S Cambodian talks over Cambodia serving as a sanctuary for Communist Vietnamese forces. Sihanouk says he would welcome an envoy and a possible visit by Senate Leader Mike Mansfield, while noting he would not intervene militarily.
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Washington
Johnson
Norodom
Sihanouk
Cambodia
Washington Post
Post
Stanley Karnow
Karnow
U.S
Pentagon
Averell Harriman
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Turkish Cypriot provisional council sparks tension on island
In Nicosia Turkish minority leaders formed an 11 member provisional administrative council to run Turkish Cypriot affairs, seen by Greek Cypriots as a step toward separate government. Ankara officials say it is a temporary administrative measure without altering the 1960 accords. The council will handle tasks Turkish Cypriots have run in enclaves since UN peacekeepers arrived in 1964.
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Nicosia
Ankara
Island
Canada Offers Help On Southeast Asia Cooperation
Prime Minister Pearson called Sihanouk's openness to talks with the United States on Cambodian sanctuaries a very interesting development. He offered Canada’s cooperation to strengthen the three-nation International Control Commission policing the Vietnam Cambodia boundary, part of a regional set of SE Asia ICCs.
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Pearson
Norodom Sihanouk
United States
Canada
International Control Commission
Vietnam
Cambodia
Poland
India
French Indochina
Washington weighs options on Vietnam as Rusk seeks deal
The dominant view in Washington is that if Secretary Dean Rusk cannot secure a diplomatic solution or at least an understanding with Prince Sihanouk's government, President Johnson may face a decision in early 1964 on potential U.S. military action.
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Dean Rusk
Prince Sihanouk
Johnson
U.S
South African man survives with half his body
Christoffel Strydom, 21, of East London, had the waist amputated after a Nov 9 crash that crushed his abdomen. Doctors at Frere Hospital say the five hour operation was an outstanding achievement. He plans to learn another job and says sleep is his main difficulty, not his future.
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East London
South Africa
Reuters
Christoffel Strydom
Strydom
Frere Hospital
J. G. Steyn
Public vote on indoor pool to be called by March
Mayor Chuck Meagher said City Council will likely call a ratepayer vote on the indoor swimming pool arena and theatre as part of the Centennial Sports Complex. Separate ballots may be used for each project with odds on financing outside current revenue and a two thirds majority rule if turnout is under 50 percent.
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News Council
Meagher
Civic Finance Committee
Harold Ellis
Alberta Municipal Financing Corporation
Ellis
Mayor Meagher
Edmonton
Alberta Heart Foundation
Humphrey sails for 18 day Africa tour
Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey left for an 18 day trip to Africa, pledging to renew President Johnson's pledge to defeat poverty and disease at home and abroad. In Canada, Medicine Hat News will not publish on New Year’s Day, resuming Jan 2. In Saigon, Canberra bombers strafed South Vietnamese irregulars, wounding 32 and two American advisers.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Africa
Johnson
Medicine Hat
Saigon
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U.S. Command
Grim outlook for 1968 from Canadian labor chief
Ottawa CP report says 1968 will bring layoffs and rising unemployment as the labor movement faces challenges. Donald MacDonald, acting president of the Canadian Labour Congress, cites Dominion Steel and Coal closing its Sydney plant as a sign of corporate social irresponsibility and notes heavy layoffs on major railways. He calls for continued union growth, warns against compulsory arbitration, and resists third party wage determinations as threats to collective bargaining.
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Ottawa
Donald MacDonald
Canadian Labor Congress
Dominion Steel and Coal Corp
Sydney, N.S
MacDonald
CLC
Heart surgeon Barnard to meet President Johnson at LBJ Ranch
SAN ANTONIO Tex CP Dr Christian Barnard famed South African heart transplant surgeon planned a social call on President Johnson at the LBJ ranch near San Antonio. He said he admired the president and declined to discuss a heart examination. Barnard and his wife arrived Thursday night after arriving in the U S Saturday for personal appearances. Barnard noted plans to return to Cape Town after the meeting and to begin a second heart graft for a 55 year old dentist, Blai berg, who is deteriorating rapidly.
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San Antonio
Tex
Christian Barnard
Johnson
LBJ
Senate
United States
Barnard
Groota Schuur Hospital
Cape Town
Denise Ann Darvall
Louis Washkansky
Washkansky
South Africa
England
Philip Blaiberg
NHA mortgage rate seen rising on bond yields
Toronto mortgage supervisor John McCulloch of Central Mortgage and Housing Corp says National Housing Act mortgage rates are likely to rise due to sustained high bond yields. He notes industry speculation that rates could climb to 8 34 per cent next week, with current rate at 8 14 per cent, up one percentage point in three months.
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Toronto (Cp
John McCulloch
Toronto
Central Mortgage and Housing Corp
Four U S Navy deserters seek asylum in Sweden
Four U S Navy sailors arrived from Moscow in Stockholm seeking political asylum claiming neutrality between East and West. They said they deserted to protest the Vietnam War and want peace, arriving on a commercial flight and being admitted temporarily while a decision is made. The group identified as Richard D. Bailey and three others, all in their late teens, spoke at a press conference staged by the Sweden Vietnam Committee after two hours of police questioning.
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U.S. Navy
Moscow
Sweden
Russia
Japan
Richard D. Bailey
Vietnam
Bailey
Jacksonville
Fla
John M. Barilla
Catonsville
Craig W. Anderson
San Jose
Calif
Michael A. Lindner
Mount Pocono
New Year's Day Hours For City Services and Stores
Local stores banks and government offices will close Monday for New Year while Tuesday resumes regular hours. Post Office wicket and box lobby close New Year. box lobby operates Sunday 7:00 am to 10:00 pm. Liquor outlet open 10:30 am to 11:30 pm tomorrow then closed New Year and opens Tuesday at 12:00 noon due to stocktaking.
Regina Man Killed in Redcliff Head-On Collision
A Regina man died this morning in a head-on collision on the Trans-Canada Highway at Redcliff. The 8:15 a.m. crash left a Regina passenger injured and hospitalized. The other driver, Medicine Hat resident John S. Watson, suffered superficial injuries and was released. Names are withheld pending next of kin notification.
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Redcliff
John S. Watson
Connaught
S.W
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