Rainfall Brings Relief to Medicine Hat District Farmers
Rain fell overnight across a wide area from Brooks to Maple Creek and up to Oyen, coating fields after a dry winter and warm spring. Farmers note cereal crops will benefit most as roots stay moist, though hay and pasture may lag, with some saying earlier rain would have helped.
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Chris Wyness
Medicine Hat
Dennis Herman
Improvement District No
Brooks
Maple Creek
Oyen
Medicine
Irvine
Bob Porter
Medicine Hat winner nets 961 from single exactor bet
Marilyn Rae of Medicine Hat turned a $4 wager into $961.40 after Lana's Home and Depressing won the eighth race at the Medicine Hat Exhibition. Rae said she bet on a whim for the first time all night and collected when the two horses finished first and second. District Agriculturist John Van Keulen called the rain a welcome relief, noting 2 cm can restore soil moisture and aid herbicide timing amid drought in Oyen.
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ED Willes
the News
Lana
Medicine Hat Exhibition
Stampede Grounds
Marilyn Rae
Medicine Hat
Rae
John van Keulen
van Keulen
C Channel exits airwaves amid debts and doubts
In Toronto C Channel faces receivership after 11 million in debt in 18 weeks on air. President Ed Cowan cites pride in achievements but acknowledges trouble while receiver Price Waterhouse plans continued programming to June 30. SuperChannel Ontario reports 80 000 subscribers as a contrast.
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Judy Cross
Toronto
C-Channel
Lively Arts Network
Ed Cowan
Larry Ward
Price-Waterhouse Ltd
Cowan
Survivalathon
Superchannel Ontario
Ontario
Sally Ride Becomes First American Woman In Space
Sally Ride, 32, becomes the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger. She serves as flight engineer on a six day mission with commander Robert Crippen and four rookie astronauts. The crew plans 96 orbits and the release of the Anik C-2 satellite for direct satellite TV services.
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Sally Ride
Outer Space
Cape Canaveral
Florida
Telesat Canada
Howard Benedict
Fla
Earth
Sally
Ride
U.S
Robert Crippen
Disneyland
Space
National Aeronautics and Space Agency
Crippen
Rick Hauck
John Fabian
Norman Thagard
Globe
GTF Satellite Corp
United States
Levesque sues La Presse over front page defamation
Premier Rene Levesque sues La Presse publisher Roger Landry editor Michel Roy and reporter Michel Girard for 900000 alleging a March 17 front page falsely accused him of misleading the national assembly about the James Bay Energy Corp settlement. He seeks 800000 for damages and 100000 exemplary.
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Montreal
Rene Levesque
la Presse
Roger Landry
Michel Roy
Michel Girard
Quebec
National Assembly
James Bay Energy Corp
Quebec Federation of Labor
Trompe l'Assemblee Nationale
Levesque
Assembly
Construc
Tion
Landry
Pope visits Niepokalanow as Solidarity marches rally Poles
In Niepokalanow Poland Pope John Paul II blessed rural Solidarity counterparts amid Warsaw protests. The pope praised Rural Solidarity groups meeting in parish churches to share grievances and information on farm policy while urging rulers to restore independent unions. He then planned a stop at Czestochowa to honor the Black Madonna shrine.
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Niepokalanow
Poland
Solidarity
Warsaw
John Paul
Independent Union
Maksymilian Kolbe
Kolbe
Auschwitz
Czestochowa
Solidarty
Seite
Gdansk
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Pope John Paul
Eve Aoator
Allan Fotheringham
Andrew Snaddon
Ann Landers
Rene
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Pete Enen
Dee
Ben Eees
Tevee
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