New order challenge stirs council over committee appointments
Mayor Harry Weiner again opposes the plan and says he would alter the announced committee slate even if adopted. Aid Helen Beny Gibson balks at utilities post yet seeks to remain an alderman. Cliff Adam questions the four member civic coordinating panel and two week aldermanic infighting looms before the January 20 council meeting. Gibson insists she deserves a seat on either the finance or public works panel given her welfare and parks chair roles.
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Harry Weiner
Aid
Helen Beny Gibson
Utilities Committee
Cliff Adam
Als
Gibson
Overlord
Public Works Committee
Finance Committee
New Public Works Committee
Government mothballs 14 Canadian warships
Ottawa announces mothballing of 14 naval vessels to cut costs. Three World War II tribals Nootka Cayuga and Micmac to be paid off and surplus. two minesweeping squadrons of 10 ships placed in reserve at Halifax and Esquimalt. Cape Breton placed in reserve. Recruiting slowed. manpower ceiling cut from 21,720 to 20,700. Annual savings about 7.75 million dollars. Canada retains one aircraft carrier and 29 escorts for Atlantic alliance duties.
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Ottawa
Nootka
Cayuga
Halifax
Esquimalt
B.C
Cape Breton
Cardin
Canada
Atlantic
Defence
British Bus Sale To Cuba Stokes Defies US War Material Claim
Leyland Motors chief Donald Stokes defends a £4 million Cuba bus order as non strategic, arguing buses are not war materiel. US officials say some Latin American exports can be strategic, while Britain maintains the sale does not fall under an embargo and will proceed with April deliveries.
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London
Reuters
Cuba
United States
Donald Stokes
Leyland Motors Corporation
Commerce
Wulter Hodges
Washington
British Board of Trade
Khrushchev
Britain
U.S
Alec Douglas-Home
Johnson
Stokes
State Department
Optometrists challenge Ontario draft medical plan
Optometrists and the Optometrical Association of Ontario join critics opposing the plan for being too limited. They urge inclusion of optometry in the standard medical coverage and argue the plan discriminates against smaller towns lacking resident eye doctors.
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Toronto
Ontario
Optometrical Association of Ontario
College of Optometry
Medical Services Insurance Inquiry
Robert J. Broad
The
Optometrists Association
Thomson Loses Citizenship To Become British Baron
Publisher Roy Thomson said he accepts losing Canadian citizenship to a British baron but hopes the law can be changed to restore it. He plans to return to Canada on retirement as head of his communications empire and then pursue the legal steps to regain citizenship.
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Toronto
Roy Thomson
Canada
Britain
Republicans face internal rift as convention nears
Washington reports the Republican high command launches four days of talks to smooth paths to a nominee amid fears of bitter primaries. Governors Rockefeller and Senator Goldwater could clash, possibly leaving an outsider Democrat or Republican candidate to emerge at the San Francisco convention.
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Washington
CP AP
Republican Party High Command
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
San Francisco
Republican National Committee
Ohio
Wisconsin
Goldwater
Democratic National Committee
Johnson
Atlantic City
N.J
Sargent Shriver
Peace Corps
Kennedy
Shriver
Paul
Middle East
George Romney
Michigan
National Press Club
Romney
Johnson outlines budget cut and poverty fight
President Johnson unveils a 97.9 billion dollar budget, cutting weapon uranium output by 25 percent, and announces an unconditional war on poverty. He projects 1 billion for anti poverty efforts, with 500 million in the current year and 200 million for future years, while aiming for broad civil rights and tax cuts.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
America
John F. Kennedy
White House
Capitol
Harry F. Byrd
Dem. Va
Senate Finance Committee
Wilbur Mills
Dem. Ark
House of Representatives
Ways and Means
Byrd
Kennedy
Harrow Inside New Grand Junction Jail Reveals Plumbing Flaw
In Grand Junction Colorado the new county jail faces safety concerns as plumbing malfunctions cause toilets to backflow and hot water from the plant scalds when flushed. Jailer Don Coates discovered the issue Tuesday affecting several toilets. The jail cost about 350000 dollars and the problem raises questions about on site conditions.
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Grand Junction
Colo
Don Coates
Six pounds of dog food sustains life of couple
Yukon trapper William McDiarmid and his wife Maggie survived 30 days lost east of Watson Lake after leaving their Larsen Lake cabin on December 5. With 60 miles to travel and supplies dwindling, they subsisted on moss, snow and six pounds of dog food found in a cabin before being rescued by a bush pilot and RCMP.
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Watson Lae
Y.T
Yukon
William Alexander McDiarmid
Maggie
Larsen Lake
Smith River
Bob Harrison
Harrison
RCMP
Bill
Barricades Begin to Come Down in Cyprus Cease Fire
After three weeks of bloodshed the Greek and Turkish Cypriots moved to dismantle roadblocks along the cease fire line. British authorities aimed for a January conference with Greece, Turkey, and Cypriot leaders to resolve the crisis while troops kept patrols and normal life returned to Nicosia.
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Cyprus
Reuters
Spyros Kyprianos
Athens
John Paraskevopoulos
Makarios
London
Arthur Clark
Clark
Lefka
Peter Young
Britain
Greece
Turkey
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