Heavy Snow Paralyzes Medicine Hat Area Overnight
A fierce blizzard blanketed Medicine Hat and nearby districts as roads became impassable. Reports show one inch of snow at 11 p.m., increasing to six inches by 9 a.m. with the storm moving from Calgary toward Swift Current. Temperatures plunged to 10 below in most Alberta Saskatchewan regions and to 20 below in the Kindersley Yorkton district as the weather system deepened.
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Medicine Hat
Prairies
Calgary
Swift Current
Alberta - Saskatchewan
Kindersley-Yorkton
Sas
Elkwater
Empress
AMA
Taber Rcmp
Met Air
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Montana
Eteeserpeaser
Ennes
Edmonton Breeees
Ase
Lethbridge Iteteesoney A
Asatee
Eredaneuenane
Knotty Problems on Overtime Ban in British Columbia
Premier W A C Bennett's overtime ban faces knotty problems and opposition after two days as Peace River power project contractors report only 57 percent of expected labor on site. They warn schedules cannot be met and bids were based on overtime. Only 1,239 workers short of 2,945. Skilled trades may earn up to 1200 a month.
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Vancouver
W. A. C. Bennett
British Columbia
Peace River
Central
B.C
Peace Power Constructors
Industrial Relations Board
Peace River Project
Prince George
Fort St. John
B.C. Hydro
Missile goes astray over Cuba in test launch
A 650 mph unarmed U.S. missile veered toward Cuba after a test from Eglin Air Force Base Florida. Pursuing F-4 jets fired upon it but could not stop its trajectory before it dropped into the Caribbean about 100 miles south of Cuba. Ground officials activated destruction mechanisms but the missile was not downed.
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Washington
U.S
Cuba
U.S. Defence Department
Caribbean
U.S. Air Force
Eglin Air Force Base
Fla
Gulf
Gordon Returns to Cabinet as Senior Minister
Walter Gordon, a left-leaning former Liberal policy maker, is back in the Pearson cabinet as a minister without portfolio and soon to assume a department. He will likely become president of the privy council and oversee cabinet business, shaping the executive agenda and preparing a government policy statement on foreign ownership of the Canadian economy. He will also take on two key political roles as the only senior minister without heavy burdens.
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Duart Farquharson
Southam News Services
Ottawa
Walter Gordon
Pearson
Privy Council
Guy Favreau
Gordon
Liberal hopeful Gordon to aid Pearson in cabinet role
The text outlines Gordon's expected duties as policy liaison with the Liberal caucus and the National Liberal Federation and his task to shape Liberal policies for future cabinets after Pearson retires. It notes his back room position near the prime minister, his cabinet rank, and contrasts his past as finance minister with a reputation for left‑leaning views and a 1965 resignation after advising an election.
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Liberal
National Liberal Federation
Mr. Pearson
Toronto Davenport
Pearson
Tom Kent
Kent
Gordon
West
Liberals
U.S
Canada
Royal commission resumes talks on Vancouver bugging case
Commissioner Sargent and counsel Murray expected to meet to plan resumption of the royal inquiry into the November convention bugging in Vancouver. The panel, reconstituted after a BC Supreme Court ruling, weighs playing or withholding tapes while union and legal actions proceed.
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Vancouver
R. A. Sargent
Commission
George Murray
Royal Commission
Murray
British Columbia
J. O. Wilson
B.C. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Angus MacPhee
Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada
Pat O’neal
International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and
W. S. Graham
PPWC
O'Neal
Graham
O Neal
Sargent
Alberta universities plan more construction projects
Alberta universities expanded building amid rising enrollment. The University of Alberta faces over 18 million dollars in 1966 construction, Calgary campus about 17 million, and an independent team is drawing long range plans to expand in Edmonton onto 40 acres in North Garneau. Calgary considers portable classrooms to ease 1967 space pressures. Opened recently were a 6 million commerce building and a 1 million printing services facility at Edmonton, while Calgary added a 2.7 million engineering wing as part of nine planned units. No new builds yet for Lethbridge.
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Calgary
Alberta
University of Alberta
University of Calgary
Edmonton
Public Works Department
Garneau
University of Lethbridge
Gary
F. C. Colborne
Truscott arguments filed for January 25 hearing
Crown lawyers prepare to argue January 25 that no new evidence warrants changing Steven Truscott’s 1959 verdict. Defence counters with disputed time of death testimony and other points that could merit a new trial or overturn the conviction for the Lynne Harper case in Clinton Ontario.
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Ottawa
Supreme Court of Canada
Steven Truscott
Lynne Harper
Clinton
Ont
Truscott
Supreme Court
William Bowman
Toronto
Donald Scott
Welland
Crown
Admiral McClure to retire early from Maritime Command
Ottawa CP A deputy commander of Mobile Command will be the fifth admiral to step down before normal retirement age since last summer. Rear-Admiral Donald McClure, 51, will retire in March to take a civilian job. He was appointed last July after a disruption at Canadian Forces headquarters and has not yet been replaced. Born in Victoria, he joined the navy in 1941 as a supply and logistics expert. The defence minister earlier fired Rear-Admiral William Landymore and another admiral retired early in 1964.
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Ottawa
Mobile Command
Defence Department
Donald McClure
Canadian Forces
McClure
Victoria
Navy
Defence
Hellyer
William Landymore
Maritime Command
Montreal police brutality debate shadows Expo67 eve
Montreal officials weigh police brutality charges as Expo 67 approached and a possible strike loomed. Lucien Saulnier said a walkout over pay was unlikely, while Roland Perron resigned amid criticism of brutality allegations. The Quebec Federation of Municipal Policemen urged a provincial right to strike, though Saulnier warned such action would be illegal.
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Montreal
Lucien Saulnier
Roland Perron
Perron
Saulnier
Man charged in Britain's biggest art theft
London police charged Michael Hall, 32, with stealing eight paintings valued at about 7.5 million dollars from Dulwich College gallery last weekend. He pleaded not guilty and was remanded in custody as detectives recovered the works and investigated how the crime was solved. Two paintings showed damage, Rubens Santa Barbara and Rembrandt Girl in a Window, while six others remained undamaged after a five day lapse. A Scotland Yard spokesman said reports of weapons or other stolen goods could not be confirmed.
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London
Reuters
Britain
Michael Hall
Dulwich College
Rubens
Santa Bar
Bara
Rembrandt
Scotland Yard
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Tony Carter
CPR
Greyhound Bus Lines
Lethbridge
Theweather
John Laxton
Canadian Union
Vancouver Labor Council
O’neal
Woods
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