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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1966
Page
1
Ottawa dispatch reports the federal provincial conference on higher education aid likely postponed from Victoria due to Quebec's surprise election upset by the Parti Quebecois. The shift follows Premier Lesage's government fall and uncertain Ottawa-Victoria scheduling amid campaign results.
Official PEI vote totals show Lloyd MacPhail winning Queens by four votes reversing a late count. Premier Shaw’s Liberals hold 15 seats to 15 for the Conservatives, with two seats undecided in Kings and Kings 1. A Kings 5 contest decided by one vote favors Sinnott over MacDonald, while Ferguson beats McConnell by ten.
The body of Andre Durocher, linked to jailed narcotics figure Lucien Rivard, was found hanging in a Quebec Provincial Police cell. He had just been ruled criminally responsible for two killings tied to the Montreal underworld and awaited arraignment on capital murder charges after a coroner’s inquest near St Jerome. The victims, Andre Paquette and Alice Rioux, were shot and dumped in a lime pit near Piedmont.
Quebec strikes continue with longshoremen resuming protests on the waterfront while farmers arrive with trucks for grain pickups. ILA and police report limited farm presence Sunday, but farmers return Monday. Several arrests in Montreal amid ongoing labor action.
TOKYO AP observers say the purge signals a clash for succession among Mao Tse-tung's successors. Peng Chen's ouster sparks talk of Li Shu-chi and Chou En-lai contesting leadership, with possible targeting of army chief Lo Jui-ching and defence minister Lin Piao as power lines shift. The party also reshuffled Beijing press leadership, dissolving editorial committees and suspending a Teng-edited magazine.
After six years in the wilderness, Daniel Johnson’s Union Nationale secured 55 of 108 seats while Premier Jean Lesage’s Liberals dropped to 51. The final tally included 8.6 percent of votes for separatist groups, with Union Nationale expanding in rural ridings and two new seats gained in Montreal.
In Saigon the Unified Buddhist Church urged the resignations of Lt General Nguyen Van Thieu and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky. They demanded an interim government and a popular election, warning that failure to replace leaders would intensify opposition. Ten civilians were tipped to join the government including a Catholic representative and leaders from Cao Dai and Hoa Hao.
Henry Cavan, prominent Dunmore rancher and irrigation advocate, died Sunday at Medicine Hat Municipal Hospital after a brief illness. Born April 21, 1887 in Dunmore Junction, he helped found the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede Company and the Cavan Lake irrigation project. Survived by his wife Louise, two sons Calvin and Lionel, two grandsons, two granddaughters, and two nieces. funeral 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Westminster United Church with Rev. Robert Thompson. interment Hillside Cemetery.
Gemini 9 astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan achieved the most accurate U.S. man-in-space landing. They touched down about two miles from the aiming point and three miles from the carrier Wasp after a 3 day 21 minute flight circling the globe 45 times. Stafford steered to target with Cernan aiding calculations as the Wasp recovered the craft.
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