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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 13, 1963
Page
1
London reports show Ashen faced cabinet ministers pressing Macmillan after a second critical meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan. The article notes growing signs that loyalty from key ministers is at a breaking point as crowds assemble in Whitehall.
The cabinet crisis deepens as Prime Minister Macmillan skates toward removal questions. Health Minister Powell and Housing Minister Joseph appear uneasy while ministers demand renewal. Anglican Bishop Stockwood condemns corruption and calls for national cleansing as opposition grows.
MP H A Olson reports Prime Minister Pearson promised a fast reply to emergency drought aid proposals. He urges immediate federal action and notes hopeful news on airport developments while criticizing limits in new development fund rules. Olson conveyed questions to the prime minister and expects a House response this week.
Medicine Hat MP H A Olson says John Diefenbaker fits an opposition role better than government and notes Doug las Harkness was not nominated to the defence committee. Olson adds the house is settling after blocing moves and highlights four month interim supply and key bills.
Demonstrations flare as a mass manhunt continues for Medgar Evers killer. Rewards rise to 25000 as Jackson Mississippi investigators pursue leads. In Cambridge Maryland fires flare amid integration protests and in Huntsville Alabama a Black student enrolls under police protection. Paul Screvane warns Harlem Hospital annex halt over union discrimination.
Alberta general election advance polls opened at 2 p.m. today with voting continuing Friday and Saturday at the Rehabilitation Centre in Medicine Hat Redcliff. By noon today 20 voters received advance polling certificates. 26 names were added to the voters list by the court of revision bringing totals to 15 950 eligible voters in the constituency. Polls close at 8 p.m. Monday. The Progressive Conservatives plan a final campaign event a Parkside Motors featuring a Speakorama with about 15 to 16 short addresses and entertainment.
Pravda reports widespread hooliganism by workers at five leading Moscow plants in a national newspaper dispatch. The item notes unrest across major industries and cites labor disorder as a matter of public concern.
Edmonton CP reports Rev. Ed ward M. Checkland of First Baptist told his congregation that in the June 17 Alberta general election the strongest consideration is providing an effective opposition in the provincial Legislature. The CP had erroneously said he urged prayer and voting for a strong opposition.
Premier E C Manning told 550 supporters at Jubilee Auditorium that eligibility for Alberta's new voluntary medical car insurance will depend on income declaration, not a means test. He stressed no interference with patient doctor relations and urged support for Social Credit candidates in Calgary.
A coroner's jury in Montreal found 21 persons including 17 men and a woman criminally responsible for the death of Wilfred O'Neill, a 65 year old night watchman killed by a bomb outside an army recruiting center. Charges are expected to be laid soon against the group linked to Le Front de Liberation du Quebec and the FLQ.
In Medicine Hat at six p.m. a deadly fog rolled over East Crescent Heights driving residents to lagoon shelters. Notable newcomers James B. Barnsmell and Manuel E. LaTour describe the odor, while local mother Mrs Harvest warns of potential chaos if the lagoon burps again.
RCMP and local police pressed a search across southern Alberta for escapee Victor Sanderson 22 who fled from the Lethbridge Provincial Jail after a work party. Fellow escapee Andrew Donald Keewatin was captured within an hour of the break.
A woman using the name Mrs Francis Wilkin son has issued worthless cheques to about 300 dollars across four days. She opened a city bank account with one dollar then wrote several hundred dollars in cheques, using a random name from the telephone directory. Leonard McGee of the Medicine Hat Credit Bureau said early intervention could curb most bad cheques, and police are investigating.
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