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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 09, 1978
Page
1
Ken Sauer Graham Kelly and Lee Anderson discuss their positions after eight months in municipal politics. Sauer will not seek re election and cites slow government as a reason. Anderson advocates a quiet profile while Kelly expresses public frustration.
Winnipeg customs investigates reports that officers used a baggage carousel as a roulette wheel inside the terminal. An employee says five or six men and two women played for small stakes, naming contests and coins in a hat. The carousel was closed pending the probe.
La Presse reports Trudeau's 13 page A Time for Action booklet outlines a two phase plan to renew the federation by 1981 and 1979 with a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The document suggests replacing the Senate with a Chamber of the Federation and stresses federal unity and official language minority protections.
Medicine Hat leaders debate whether news coverage fuels vandalism with Mayor Reinhardt urging discretion and a softer press approach. The police commission backs civil actions against vandals, expands neighborhood watch, and urges public cooperation to curb damages.
Husky Oil Ltd shares halted on the Toronto Montreal and American exchanges amid takeover rumors. Husky president James Nielson said officials will meet Saturday with Canadian investment houses representing a principal interested in visiting Husky. Analysts see possible Petro Canada interest in Husky or Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Co.
The United States files a federal suit against Exxon Corp in Washington claiming the Houston firm overcharged crude buyers by 183 million dollars plus interest during 1973 to 1976. The action follows a six month-old energy department notice and an Exxon denial of the charges.
A 54 year old Liquid Carbonic Canada Ltd employee died after a fall at the Western Co operative Fertilizers site in the Brier Industrial Park this morning. Harry Buckland of Dollard Quebec was pronounced dead on arrival at Medicine Hat and District Hospital around 10 30 a m. Police and occupational health officials investigate the cause.
Alberta brewers restrict on site beer shipments as strike by Carling O Keefe Labatt and Molson limits off sale and tavern stocks. Medicine Hat stores receive about half normal draught and bottled beer with a weekly shipment only if the strike ends.
Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan urged sympathy for farmers bearing three years of low beef prices while prices rise. He disputed lifting import controls, saying producers should recoup losses, as Canada watches Carter's US import increase and Allmand weighs cabinet proposals about price relief.
A Nevada jury ruled the three page Mormon Will not authored by Howard Hughes, negating Melvin Dummar’s claim to about 10 million. The trial spanned seven months with 59 witnesses, ending in a verdict against the adventure that had drawn in Noah Dietrich and Hughes cousins.
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