City welfare director defends office against coercion allegations
City Welfare Director Neil MacDonald faced accusations of pressuring welfare recipients during a Civic Finance Committee meeting. Alderman Earl Smith led the attack, but after discussion, he said the report lacked substance. Smith accused Chairman Jack Edwards of wanting to exclude the press, while MacDonald defended his handling of a widow's welfare case citing income limits. Aldermen backed residents' rights to complain to council members.
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City Welfare
Neil MacDonald
Civic Finance Committee
Ald
Earl Smith
MacDonald
Ald. Smith
Jack Edwards
Ald. Edwards
Council
Mars Images Hint at Massive Crater Landscape
NASA scientists report Mariner 4 photos suggest Mars may host more than ten thousand craters, with surface features resembling the Moon more than Earth. The findings cast doubt on oceans or abundant water, dampening prospects for life, while leaving open a primitive form may exist.
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Washington
Mars
Moon
Earth
Leighton
Racism flares as youth shot near Sumter courthouse
In Americus a 19 year old white youth Andy Whatley was killed by a shot from a passing car as about 250 negroes staged an all night civil rights vigil at the Sumter County courthouse. Police arrested Eddie Will Lamar and Charlie Lee Hopkins both of Americus in connection with the shooting. Witnesses said the car carried two or three Negroes.
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Americus
Sumter County
Whatley
Eddie Will Lamar
Charlie Lee Hopkins
Americas
Andy Whatley
Toronto postal workers vote to return to work
Toronto area post clerks and letter carriers voted 1857 to 347 to resume work after a weeklong strike over pay raises. They will report for the 5 am shift with a 14 day period, back by a mediator report, while Ottawa aims to clear a mail backlog and resume normal service.
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Toronto
J. C. Anderson
Belleville
Ont
Anderson
Toronto Postal Department
Ottawa (Cp
Benson
Montreal
Canadian calls for Viet Nam withdrawal in New Times interview
In Moscow, Speaker Alan Macnaughton urged all foreign nations to withdraw from Viet Nam and let its people resolve the issue. He spoke to New Times via Tass, as Canada’s parliamentary delegation tours the Soviet Union to improve relations and foster scientific and cultural exchanges.
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Moscow
House of Commons
Viet Nam
Cerned
Alan Macnaughton
New Times
Tass
Soviet Union
Macnaughton
David Croll
Ontario
Gordon Brown
Georgi Dzetsenidze
Mikhail Zimyanin
Canada
Russia
Coimmon
Quintuplets Born in Sweden. Four Die, One Survives
In Falun Sweden a woman treated with fertility hormones gave birth to quintuplets one girl survived in critical condition while four others including three boys and a girl died. The birth follows a New Zealand quintuplet birth two days earlier with all five alive.
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Falun
Sweden
Reuters
Zealand
New Zealand
Samuel Lawson
Auckland
Falun Hospital
Expressen
Carl - Axel Gamzell
Uppsala University
Sydney
Australia
Sun
Lawson
Gamzell
Melbourne
Montana to pave US portion of Elkwater Havre route
The Montana State government will hard surface the last 9.2 miles of the U S portion of the Elkwater Havre route at over 1 5 million dollars with completion expected early in 1966 The move aims to improve cross border access and boost tourism and economic ties with Havre Montana and Medicine Hat Alberta officials outline a plan to connect Highway 41 and the Trans Canada with a new paved link to Wild Horse.
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Alberta
Elkwater
Havre
Montana
United States
Chamber of Commerce
U.S
Wild Horse
Medicine Hat
K. J. Crawford
Department of Highways
Eagle Butte
Willow Creek
Crawford
Saigon greets Johnson decision to send more troops
South Viet Nam hails President Johnson’s plan to deploy 50,000 additional U.S. troops, raising total American forces to 125,000. Premier Ky frames the effort as a spiritual crusade against communism with aid from free nations, while Moscow, London, and Paris react with varied warnings and commentary.
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South Viet Nam
Johnson
U.S
Viet Nam
Saigon
Soviet Union
Nguyen Cao Ky
Russia
China
North Viet Nam
Moscow Radio
America
London
Independent Times
United Nations
Greece Crisis Deepens as Parliament Debated
Athens AP reporting that Centre Union deputies pledged to vote against the crisis government led by George Athanasiadis Novas, aiming to deny a parliamentary confidence, while ousted premier George Papandreou lines up 143 against the cabinet and Defence Minister purge fallout.
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Athens
Centre Union Party
Greece
George Papsandreou
George Athanasiadis Novas
Centre Union
Papandreou
Constantine
George Papandreou
Denis lawyer wont be ready for August hearing
Denis counsel says he cannot proceed with the preliminary hearing slated for Aug. 19 due to missing complete English transcript of the Dorian inquiry. He has read 50 of 8,500 pages and needs 20 nights to finish. Denis plans to seek an adjournment, bail remains at 1,000, and a not guilty plea with trial by judge and jury is expected.
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Ottawa
Louis Assaly
Raymond Denis
Denis
Lucien Rivard
Assdly
Rivard
DL. A. Sherwood
Sherwood
Assaly
Dorian
Montreal
Robert Vincent
John Cassells
RCMP
Norman Mathews
Alberta expands insured diagnostic and X-ray services
Premier Manning announced the Alberta Hospital Insurance plan will insure diagnostic and X-ray services in doctors offices clinics and hospital out-patient departments. The move follows a request from the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons and secures federal cost-sharing approval for insured services in doctor-operated facilities as well as hospital out-patients.
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Edmonton
Alberta
EE. C. Manning
Manning
Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ics
College
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Laval Des Rapides
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Red Planet
Mariner
T. Griffin Walker
Macon
W. A. Bootle
Justice Department
Bootle
Pws
Keystone
Houbine
Victoria, B.C
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