26 Jan 1978
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 26, 1978
Page
1
A secret 1977 report proposes a shift to lot line box delivery in new urban areas, retaining apartment lock boxes and parcel lockers while reducing business and rural delivery. Criteria include 5 000 points of call, 1.875 million yearly pieces, and 800 points per call for letter carrier service.
Federal and provincial finance ministers met in Ottawa for two days to agree on economic growth tactics. CBC’s The Watson Report said 1981 targets include 3.5 percent inflation and five percent unemployment, far from the December 8.5 percent unemployment and 9.5 percent inflation.
A heavily armed man freed Dr. Markus Scherz after holding three people since Monday in Oak Lake Manitoba. His wife Stephanie and Dave Penny remain inside the two storey residence as RCMP monitor negotiations with the gunman who also seeks $100000, a plane, and safe passage.
Ottawa reports that a Post office spokesman denied plans to reduce door-to-door mail delivery as an economic restraint. The Postmaster-General’s spokesman said a secret report recommended gradual reductions, but no action will be taken.
Canadian and U.S. nuclear accident teams departed from Edmonton and Yellowknife by air to Baker Lake in the Northwest Territories to assess a radiation contact linked to the fallen Cosmos 954 satellite. The C-130 carries 11 Canadian specialists and six U.S. scientists.
A Summerside man faces charges after a two hour downtown bout of violence that left Harold Arsenault dead at his grocery and gun shop. He overpowered a hostage taker who held 13 Holmans department store employees at gunpoint. Police Chief Macdonald and Sgt. Durant disarmed the gunman after a tense confrontation and exchange. The incident appears linked to a possible robbery motive.
Alberta Transport surplus Kipling Street shop becomes a win for Medicine Hat College and Advanced Education. The college gains a planned vocational extension delayed by 1973 capital funding limits, with renovation funds and equipment to be set in March budget.
Mayor Milt Reinhardt reflects on a January to March start marked by public pressure for upgraded pound facilities a forced retirement of a city director and the eviction of the Fire Hall Theatre group The council remains split along old and new lines and Reinhardt argues a constructive rip and tear style of debate can still yield effective governance while reorganization of civic bodies continues to unfold through the first year of his term
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