Notley questions Alberta growth plan and rural aid
Grant Notley NDP leader criticizes the Lougheed government for not decentralizing industrial development and predicts little change in Alberta’s growth pattern. He cites neglect of rural areas, insufficient funds in the Agricultural Development and Opportunity funds, and argues for incentives to small Canadian firms and co-operatives. He calls for public highway priority lists, hospital air conditioning in Medicine Hat, and doubts the Beverage Container Act handles litter.
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Edmonton
NDP
Grant Notley
Lougheed
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Notley
Farm Purchase Board
Lethbridge
Clarence Copithorne
Medicine Hat General Hospital
Medicine Hat Hospital
Social Credit
River collision halts traffic on St Clair River
Two lake freighters the Sidney E. Smith Jr and the Parker Evans collided on the St Clair River early Monday. The Smith sank with about 49,000 gallons of Bunker C oil aboard and 2,000 gallons of diesel leaked. No lives were lost. Pollution officials deployed an oil boom eight miles downstream at Stag Island to contain the spill. Traffic has since neared normal.
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Sidney E. Smith, Jr
Blue Water
Port Huron
Mich
Sarnia
Ont
Smith
Parker Evans
Sarnia, Ont
St.Clair River
Stag Island
United States
Coast Guard
Erie Sand Steamship Co
Pennsylvania
Hindman Transportation Co. Ltd
Owen Sound
S. E. Smith
Industrial strategy in for rough going in Canada
Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed warned of rough going before a national industrial strategy emerged, urging provinces to craft their own plans first. He touted Alberta as a growth center and said true national strategy must include all provinces. He also outlined plans for New York bonds talks and a Japan trade mission, stressing era of government business partnership and shifting roles.
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Edmonton
Calgary
Notley
Alberta Opportunity Fund
Department of Industry
Peter Lougheed
Alberta
Canada
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Mr. Lougheed
Social Credit
New York
Boston
Japan
Quebec
Lougheed
Crude oil slick threatens Crescent Beach on west coast
More than 200 volunteers and municipal workers labored into the night to contain a crude oil spill along beaches near Crescent Beach B C after a valve failure aboard the World Bend tanker released 4 000 to 12 000 gallons of oil from the Atlantic Richfield refinery Cherry Point Washington. Cleanup included hay bales and oil soaked sand as authorities blamed ARCO for being unprepared.
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Crescent Beach
B.C
U.S
Atlantic Richfield Co
Cherry Point
Wash
Here
U.S. Coast Guard
World Bend
Coast Guard
Washington State
Vancouver
Bill Vander Zalm
Surrey
Atlantic Richfield
Arco
Parliamentarians tour CFB Suffield in Western visit
A Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and National Defence tour of CFB Suffield in Alberta faced a late arrival and a rumored protest that never materialized. Twenty MPs from Liberal Conservative NDP and Social Credit met base officials including Col M L A Weisman and Col Tom Gibson as part of preparations to complete the Defence White Paper review.
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CFB
Suffield
Standing Committee On External Affairs and
National Defence
Canadian
RCMP
Cfb Esquimalt
B.C
M. L. A. Weisman
Liberal
NDP
Social Credit
Tom Gibson
C. R. Iverson
Defence Research Establishment
John Brumley
University of Alberta
Ian Wahn
Toronto
St. Pauls
Takeover law faced Liberal critics in Ottawa speech
Former cabinet minister Eric Kierans joined Liberals in denouncing new takeover legislation as inadequate while stating support as a small step forward. The bill would require cabinet approval for certain foreign investments in domestically controlled firms, with a formal vote set after a New Democrat push.
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Ottawa
Eric Kierans
Kierans
Montreal
Canadian Stock Exchanges
Commons
Commons Finance Committee
New Democrats
Hat pioneer Mack Higdon dies at 94 in Medicine Hat
Mack Higdon longtime area resident and first president of the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede Company died after a lengthy illness at age 94. Born November 30 1877 in Higdonville North Carolina he moved to Canada in 1903 later running a livery stable before founding Higdon and Kerr Construction Company and helping irrigation work on the MacGregor Dam.
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Mattie Elmira Banks
Macon County
North Carolina
Higdon and Kerr Construction Company
Southern Alberta Land and Irrigation Company
MacGregor
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McQueen Marine Corp
Amherstburg, Ont
Windsor
Robert Shanahan
Swan Hills
Alta
British Columbia
Pacific Northwest
Vander Zalm
New Westminster
Ald
A.J. Seigo
Georgia Strait
Alaska
U.S. Interior Department
Prudhoe Bay
Valdez
Juan de Fuca
Georgia
Puget Sound
Mack Higdon
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