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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 30, 1981
Page
2
The Dominion Day festivities at Calgary face a potential impact from Western separatism as political tensions loom ahead of Wednesday's national holiday. Civic and provincial leaders cautioned residents amid debate over regional solidarity and unity.
Municipal Affairs Minister Marvin Moore says Calgary will likely seek large boundary extensions as it grows. He predicts annexation requests may come in 1983 or 1984 and could secure land beyond the end of the century.
Edmonton residents announce a weekly mail service to the United States and other countries for five dollars per letter. Joan Devietoris and Blane Holliday will pick up letters each Thursday, mail them from Sweetgrass Montana, and operate during the ongoing postal strike.
Edmonton RCMP reported Kenneth Salmon and Jeffrey Heath, both from Yakima and East Wenatchee respectively, located in northern Alberta after Lethbridge Ghost Riders member Steven Haudenschild claimed he murdered three men last February. Heath and Salmon face prior Washington cases including a Port Angeles restaurant shooting. Kathy Honner Heath was not with them. Haudenschild previously convicted for a different killing and serving life.
Dr. Alex McPherson led Edmonton Calgary researchers in Canada's first systematic interferon test for cancer. Thirty patients will be treated. early results include one regression, others showed limited effects. Experts caution interferon may slow early disease with combination therapy rather than cure advanced cancers.
Regina minister Don Cody announced on Monday that Saskatchewan Telephones rates will rise August 1 with residential bills up six percent, business charges up eleven percent, and provincial long-distance up eleven point two percent. A 50 percent subsidy will aid residents with speech or hearing disabilities for intra-provincial long calls. Long-distance rates to outside Saskatchewan remain unchanged.
Regina CP Saskatchewan Power Corp will raise natural gas prices by five per cent effective Wednesday. A spokesman said the hike offsets recent federal tax increases and the average consumer will pay about $23 more a year.
An RCMP report on a man shot during a Calgary drug raid is with the Attorney General. Officers say no charges recommended. The 23 year old, Donald Cooper, was hit in the leg during the April 15 seizure of 36 kilograms of marijuana at Bragg Creek. The rifle functioned normally. police deem the shooting accidental amid sudden suspect actions.
An internal Alberta government study shows provincial child welfare officials failed to investigate 48 of 615 October 1980 reports and often delayed action beyond policy deadlines. It cites incomplete records, reliance on hearsay, and scant first hand information, with negligible outreach to outsiders.
Alberta Provincial Court Judge Norman Rolf ruled that random RCMP check stops on highways infringe the right to travel without being stopped. The Wetaskiwin woman charged after a breath test had no signs of drunkenness. RCMP officials weigh the ruling while defending the program as a preventive tool.
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