Elkwater Water Plan Aims to Improve Provincial Supplies
MLA Harry Leinweber announced a plan to spend about $80,000 from provincial funds to improve water supplies at Elkwater. He spoke for himself and Agriculture Minister Harry E. Strom, noting Elkwater Provincial Park lies in Strom's constituency and many summer-home residents are Leinweber's constituents.
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Elkwater
Harry Leinweber
Agriculture
Harry E. Strom
Elkwater Provincial Park
Leinweber
Princess Named Here In Alberta Dairy Queen Contest
Miss Virginia Millington, daughter of Art and Mrs. Millington, will reign as dairy princess after winning a local Alberta contest. She advances to the provincial finals at the Edmonton Exhibition with the winner going to the Dominion finals in Toronto. The event was open to 18 to 27 year old 4-H or Junior Farmer members.
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Alberta Dairymen’s Association
Edmonton Exhibition Association
Department of Agriculture
Provincial
Milk and Cream Producers Association
Virginia Millington
Art Millington
Millington
City
Edmonton
Alberta
Toronto
Medicine Hat
Junior Farmer Association
Canadian finance minister trims 11 per cent sales tax plan
Gordon unveils a staged 4 percent starting June 14 with 8 percent by April 1 1964 and 11 percent by end 1964. He exempts schools and universities from building materials tax and broad foreign ownership provisions. Refunds for manufacturers who paid full rates after budget. Critics call it major retreat.
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Diefenbaker
George Nowlan
Napoleon
Moscow
Gordon
NewDem MP Hits North Run as Communist State Claim
Opposition MPs charge the vast north in Canada is ruled like a Communist state or backward colony. NDP critic Frank Howard Skeena asserts Yukon and Northwest Territories lack self government while government bills seek to split the area into Mackenzie and Nunassiaq to grant more self rule to Mackenzie residents. The measures advance after first reading with no immediate return. committee review likely.
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Frank Howard
NDP
Skeena
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Canada
Federal
Northern Affairs Department
Erik Nielsen
Mackenzie
Police Beat Back Pickets As Frederika Visits UK
British police blocked youthful demonstrators who tried to picket the Buckingham Palace state visit of King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. A small protest outside the palace was dispersed while the royal arrival at Victoria Station drew a warm reception.
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Frederika
London
Paul
Queen Frederika
Greece
Buckingham Palace
Victoria Station
Elizabeth
Terry Chandler
Commodores Add Theobald In Calgary Rivalry
Medicine Hat catcher Leo Ruth was released to make roster space for Ron Theobald a University of Arizona second baseman who will join the Commodores in Calgary as Medicine Hat travels to Edmonton Wednesday.
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Medicine Hat Commodores
Leo Ruth
Calgary Giants
Ruth
Ron Theobald
University of Arizona
Commodores
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Edmonton
Shadowy Profumo figure death rumor denied by Mandy Rice-Davis
Mandy Rice-Davis refutes rumors that a shadowy Profumo scandal figure faked death and remains alive. The denial comes as cross border political rumors swirl in London and Beirut amid war reports.
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London
Mandy Rice Davis
Medicine Hat Weather Breaks Heat With Showers
Medicine Hat in Alberta registered a high of 93 degrees as a heat wave peaked followed by nightly lightning and showers. Overnight rainfall totaled .13 inches with eastern districts receiving almost an inch and the Peace River area seeing lighter amounts. Edmonton forecast cooler, dryer air moving in, with showers expected in Medicine Hat late today and clearing this evening. Tonight’s low around 55 and Wednesday’s high near 80.
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Medicine Hat
Alberta
Peace River
Edmonton
Labor Council Criticizes City Over Service Station Sales
The Medicine Hat and District Labor Council objects to City Council deferring a labor resolution about restricting general merchandise sales at service stations to the Chamber of Commerce. Letter dated July 5 from secretary-treasurer J. R. Porter says decisions should come from City Council, not elected Chamber groups.
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Medicine Hat and District Labor Council
Chamber of Commerce and Auto Dealers Association
Labor Council
J. R. Porter
W. A. Keith
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerces
Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
City Council
Builders accept staged 11 per cent sales tax rise
Canadian business spokesmen react mildly to Finance Minister Gordon's plan to raise the 11 per cent sales tax on building materials and machinery in stages: four per cent now, four per cent next April, and three per cent on January 1, 1965. Edmonton builder C. J. McConnell says the move helps industry acclimate to higher costs. Exporting and publishing groups praise the compromise.
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Gordon
C. J. McConnell
Edmonton
National House Builders Association
Ottawa
Chinese Ignore Moscow Talks Deepening Cold War Strain
Communist Chinese negotiators failed to attend the Moscow Peking reconciliation talks as Moscow accused Beijing of aggravating Soviet-Chinese relations. Pravda denounced China amid Khrushchev’s Kiev meeting with Spaak on easing tensions.
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Moscow-Peking
Soviet Union
Red China
Swank Lenin Hills
Peking
Communist Party
Pravda
Kremlin
Soviet
Communist Party Central Committee
Khrushchev
Kiev
Paul-Henri Spaak
Last of a Series French Must Go Begging to Provinces
Ottawa report on French language education rights shows French Canadians must petition provincial governments for schooling in French outside Quebec. Historical rights have eroded as education moved to provincial jurisdiction amid Anglo-Canadian resistance. Laval University studies explain lingering attitudes.
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Ottawa
Quebec
Parliament
Canada
Ernest Lapointe
Ontario
Laval University School of Pedagogy
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