Hat rodeo results highlight weekend at Lethbridge
Medicine Hat cowboys had mixed success as Whoop-Up Days ended and Hat Stampede preparations began. Rockabar led southern circuit in bull riding with 74 as Dahl, Hank Abbie and Rose battled injuries, crashes, and calf roping money. Veterans Dorin and McHugh topped wild horse events, while Kalin prepared to defend his title in Medicine Hat.
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Medicine Hat Cowboys
Lethbridge
Rocky Rockabar
Roy Dahl
Billings
Mont
Hank Abbie
Rumsey
Dale Rose
Redcliff
Kesler
Rose
George Kahn
Jack Schulte
Kalin
Schulte
Ernie Dorin
Pat McHugh
Dorin
McHugh
Medicine Hat
Fide
China Speaks On War Or Peace To Visitors
A Canadian tour group led by Ken Woodsworth reported in Hong Kong that China is ready to negotiate or fight depending on U S actions. They saw air raid shelters and PLA units, noted a new subway built as a shelter, and said Beijing welcomed Nixon's visit while seeking government exchanges over tourism.
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Hong Kong
Reuter
China
United States
Ken Woodsworth
People’s Liberation Army
Peking
Woodsworth
Trudeau
Calgary
Alberta
Beer drought hits British Columbia pubs
BC hotels association president said Saturday closures hit 45 to 100 pubs across the province as beer shortages loom. About 275 Molson and Labatt tied pubs could run dry later this week if the labor dispute remains unresolved, with no meetings scheduled between breweries and Local 300.
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Oliver
B.C
Tower Mainland
British Columbia Hotels Association
James Vernon
Okanagan
Molson’s and Labatt’s
Labatt
New Westminster
Molson’s
Vancouver
Apollo heads toward moon with all systems green
Apollo 15 blasted from Cape Kennedy at 12 24 p m EDT en route to the moon on a three day outward voyage. Command crew Col David R Scott Lt Col James B Irwin and Maj Alfred M Worden rode the Endurance after checking systems aboard the Saturn V. They expect a Falcon lunar landing Friday at the Apennine basin with peaks up to 15600 feet.
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Apollo
Moon
Cape Kennedy
Fla
David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
United States
Air Force
Earth
Endeavour
Scott
Irwin
Worden
Space
Falcon
Apennine Mountains
Donald K. Slayton
Double transplant a success at Groote Schuur Hospital
CAPE TOWN South Africa AP Dr Christiaan Barnard reports the latest transplant patient Adrian Herbert 49 a Cape Town dental technician is in satisfactory condition with two new lungs and a heart functioning adequately after Sundays operation The donor Jackson Gunya 28 died from injuries in a fight and Barnard says it is too early to predict immediate or long term results
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Capetown
South Africa
Christiaan N. Barnard
Groote Schuur Hospital
Adrian Herbert
Cape Town
Jackson Gunya
Barnard
Smallwood reshuffles Newfoundland cabinet with four new ministers
Premier Joseph Smallwood announced a major cabinet shakeup in Newfoundland with four new ministers. Hubert Kitchen becomes education and youth, Roy Legge labor, Melvin Woodward Labrador affairs, and George Warren works minister. Existing ministers James Chalker and G A Frecker shift to provincial affairs and chancellor of Memorial, while Eric Jones moves to chair civil service and F W Rowe becomes finance minister.
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ST. John's
Mid
Newfoundland
Joseph Smallwood
Hubert Kitchen
Newfoundland Progressive Conservative Association
Roy Legge
Churchill Falls
Labor
Melvin Woodward
Labrador
George Warren
James R. Chalker
G. A. Frecker
Dr. Frecker
Memorial University
Lord Thomson
Fleet
Eric Jones
Ing
Civil Service Commission
John R. Courage
F. W. Rowe
Ministry of Education and Youth
Finance
Earl Winsor
Labrador Affairs
Smallwood
Provincial
Conservative Association
Conservative Party
PC Party
Frank Moores
Dr. Kitchen
Liberal Party
Legge
How Jey
Warren
Department
Woodward
Goose Bay
Northwest Territories
Sudan denies execution report in failed coup
A high Sudanese official said former interior minister Maj Farouk Hamadallah was not executed as Sunday reports claimed. He also noted Col Babakr El-Nur’s trial concluded, with a sentence to be announced after presidential confirmation. The report adds arrests and sentences of other coup leaders and a fugitive Communist party chief.
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Reuter-Ap Khartoum
Farouk Hamadallah
Babakr El-Nur
Jaafar El-Nimeiry
Nur
Hamadallah
London
Khartoum
Libya
Nimiery
Sudanese Communist Party
Abdel Khaled Mahgoub
Maj
Ahmed el Zein
Revolutionary Command Council
Ahmed el Hardalla
Sudanese Union Federation
Shafie Ahmed el Sheikh
Mahmoud
Cairo
Sudan
Mahjoub
al Ahram
Calgary Bricklayers End Five Day Strike With Wage Pact
About 760 members of the Bricklayers Masons Tilesetters and Terrazzo Workers Union voted Sunday to accept a 1.60 hourly increase in wages and fringe benefits, ending a five day Alberta strike that halted about 40 million dollars in work. The settlement provides 1.55 per hour over two years plus five cents more for health and welfare benefits, with wages rising to 6.10 per hour later in the contract. Retroactive pay to May 15, 1971, and 20 cents per hour from expiry were agreed.
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Calgary
Gas Cars Derailment Endangers Town in Alberta
A 7000 foot area near Lacombe Alberta was searched for gas fumes before an planned effort to clear 33 derailed liquid petroleum gas tank cars from a 100 car CP Rail freight train. Two small explosions occurred during the Sunday derailment. fires burned under wreckage with one lane blocked. No serious injuries reported.
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Lacombe
Alla
Alberta
CP Rail
Monton
Cataay
Edmonton
Counterattack Govt oils election years
Ottawa prepares for an upcoming federal election as Liberal ministers push tighter communications. The Trudeau government faces poor polls over economic and agricultural policies, with Brant losing to the NDP and Saskatchewan Liberals faltering. Prime Minister Trudeau says opponents mislead Canadians and cabinet sees need to improve messaging. Otto Lang launches aggressive counteroffensive using two techniques.
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Nick Hills
Southam
Ottawa
Trudeau
Brant
NDP
Saskatchewan
Otto Lang
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