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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1971
Page
1
Doctors warn that cholera could devastate Calcutta if refugees from East Pakistan spread the disease. Camps near the city already report 300 cases and two child deaths, with 70 percent mortality if not treated instantly. 1.2 million doses weekly needed but only 200,900 produced locally.
A Hughes Air West DC-9 with 48 aboard crashed in the Angeles National Forest after a collision with a U S Marine F-4. Nine bodies were found in the wreckage, with one survivor among the two crew on the military plane. A foggy, rugged gorge hampered night rescue efforts. Local witnesses described a brutal scene as searchers prepared for continued efforts at daybreak.
The Tass report records a 25 ton Salute Soyuz system in orbit, with cosmonauts entering Salute to join the station. Soyuz 11 aims to deliver crew for the first permanent space laboratory, after corrective maneuvers brought its path within 2.5 miles of Salute.
Calgary postal delegates chose Jim McCall as president of the 18,000 member Canadian Union of Postal Workers at a six day convention. He vows job security as a non negotiable goal, warning against pre layoffs and labour force reductions amid future talks with the federal government.
London reports a Tuesday Commonwealth meeting will study a two part plan to aid developing nations. A proposed Commonwealth export market development fund could raise £2 million yearly and an export-import bank would provide long term credits to underdeveloped members.
In the western Mediterranean a 20,000 ton Soviet tanker rammed a 2,750 ton French destroyer and nine French sailors are missing and presumed lost as the incident shocks observers across the globe. In Washington a candlelight mass honors Robert F. Kennedy's assassination third anniversary attracting thousands. In Pasadena the Mariner IX mission advances toward Mars as planners decide on a possible course correction.
In Taipei and world capitals, Nationalist China worries as more states recognize Peking. Taiwan expands public diplomacy while U Thant says UN admission for Communist China unlikely before 1972. The United States maintains firm support for the Nationalist government and opposes Peking’s UN entry.
Johanne Wagner, 16, daughter of former Quebec justice minister Claude Wagner, stayed with a friend during a province wide search after vanishing from her convent school. She returned home Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and her father said the family is relieved and happy.
The Commons convenes three hours earlier for a study session on the Canada Development Corp bill as part of an extended sitting plan to finish work before the June 30 summer adjournment. Finance Minister Benson will unveil the budget June 18, with tax proposals to follow, and the bill is expected to pass this week despite NDP opposition.
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