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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1968
Page
2
The Crescent Heights Junior High School Band directed by Jack Spalding performs Sunday at 7 p.m. in Kin Coulee Bandshell as part of a Kinsmen Club series featuring city junior bands. Also notes on attire trends in Greece and local drives for Girl Guide leaders.
Four federal candidates in Medicine Hat spoke at McCoy High School to a grade nine audience. Each candidate presented five minutes followed by rebuttals, then a student question period.
Lewis Toole Toole argued Canadians can only form a just society by tackling severe inequality. He promoted the NDP as the vehicle for concrete solutions and called for policies including a 25 percent capital gains tax citing US precedent.
Mayor and Progressive Conservative candidate Chuck Meagher urged students that private enterprise offers prosperity for Canada. He urged against change for its own sake while supporting targeted welfare, balanced budgets, and a selective guaranteed minimum income for the unemployable. He opposed Quebec special status and affirmed a united Canada with two founding races. He said a MP seat would require resignation as mayor if elected on June 25.
Medicine Hat safety inspector Bob Carmichael told chamber directors that 111 vehicles tested at the motor vehicle station Tuesday showed 50 percent rejection mainly for faulty headlights. He noted a Lethbridge case of a passed vehicle after rejection and urged owners to trust the local unit.
Stampede directors confirmed 10 bands for the parade with inquiries out to four more. Parade chairman Rod Ashburner will hold an organizational meeting later this week. Half of 50 street decor signs are prepared and last year’s Centennial signs will be repainted with a $1,000 budget. Dr. J. M. Cowan announced four Tennessee walkers and other jumpers from Lethbridge Calgary and Edmonton will join the horse show, a feature added this year.
An Istanbul newspaper quoted by AP reports eight workers at a Sivas construction site died after ingesting DDT mistaken for salt during a meal. Nine others were seriously ill.
At 11 25 p m yesterday a moving car struck a parked vehicle on Bullivant Crescent causing 1150 in damages. Driver Leslie Orge 18 of 259 12th St S W was not injured. Orge's car pushed the parked vehicle four and a half feet. owner of the parked car is Tom Leung Quong of 1488 Bullivant Crescent.
Walter Strom, Medicine Hat Social Credit candidate, urged students at McCoy High to value productivity over gold or silver. He cited political realignment and said Social Credit backs change, noting 40+ candidates and his farming background to connect Alberta’s needs to Ottawa.
A city man, Delano Roan, 269 9th St. S.E., received 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to supplying liquor to a minor under 21. The liquor was shared at a party and a teen fled through a window to escape police. James Spiering of Redcliff was fined 25 dollars for unlawfully conveying liquor in a vehicle while under 21 after police stopped his erratic driving and found a full case of beer in the trunk. Larry Stovka of 198th St. S.W. was fined 25 dollars for illegal possession of liquor in a motor vehicle. Bill Schneider of Redcliff paid 2 dollars for over parking.
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