Alberta ministers defend municipal grant plan facing ceiling doubts
Municipal Affairs Minister Dave Russell said Alberta reaction to the 7.5 per cent cap on municipal budget increases for the 19.5 million incentive grants is mostly favorable though some towns may struggle to fit the limit. He pledged rapid review of concerns and warned no changes are planned at this time. He also said the formula for 14.5 million unconditional grants has not been released to simplify it before distribution.
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Edmonton
Dave Russell
Russell
Medicine Hat-Redcliff
Bill Wyse
Social Credit
Alberta
NDP
Grant Notley
Mr. Notley
Alberta Urban Municipalities Association
Wyse
Socred
Red Deer
Medicine Hat
Gerry Amergangen
Paint marks on airliner complicate crash probe in France
Green paint on wreckage of the Iberian Airlines DC 9 hints at mystery in a midair collision with a Spantax Convair Coronado over western France killing 68. Iberian and Spantax deny matching paint schemes as investigators weigh pilot error and air traffic control decisions amid a Franco aviation dispute.
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Paris
Reuter
France
Iberian Airlines
Spantax Charter Company
Spantax
Sky Over
Air Canada
Pan Am
Trans World
Air India
Robert Galley
Galley
Park grant adjustment for Cypress Hills Park upgrade
The NEWS confirms Cypress Hills Park is among several parks to receive funding from a $5 million provincial program. The park will share the amount, with about $1.6 million spent this year on the first phase, not $1.6 billion. Lands and Forests Minister Allan Warrack says work will target six to eight parks annually in a systematic upgrade of the provincial system.
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Cypress Hills Park
Lands and Forests
Allan Warrack
Yurko to visit Medicine Hat for Littercheck campaign
Environment Minister Bill Yurko will visit Medicine Hat on May 3 as part of a province wide Littercheck campaign running April 30 to May 6 to raise awareness of litter problems. The effort aims to involve schools and clubs and promote Outdoors Unfittered, a BC based anti litter group, in Alberta.
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Edmonton
Bill Yurko
Medicine Hat
Cording
Dick DeRyk
Environment Department
DeRyk
Yurko
Mr. DeRyk
Highways Department
Sudanese President orders crackdown on Palestinian guerrillas
President Jaafar el Nimeiri announced a roundup of Sudanese suspected of ties to extremists after the Saudi embassy attack that killed two US diplomats and a Belgian. Eight Palestinians surrendered. charges pending. A Khartoum lawyer questioned whether lethal punishment will be used.
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Cleo A. Noel
U.S
G. Curtis Moore
Guy Eid
Khartoum
Millhaven Prison Riot Sparks Sit-Down Strike
In Millhaven a riot erupted in a single housing range with 380 inmates as prisoners staged a nine day sit down strike over privileges following a mass July escape of 14 convicts. John Moloney reported cells smashed but said the situation remained peaceful with guards on duty and no force used as the disturbance stayed within one unit.
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John Moloney
Penitentiaries
Millhaven
Kingston Penitentiary
Toronto
J. W. Swackhamer
Kingston
Swackhamer
Canadian Penitentiary Service
Warren Almand
Willard
Redcliff teachers approve two year contract
Twenty five teachers in Redcliff schools accepted a contract offering about 6.5 percent raises per year for 1973 and 1974. The school board ratified the deal with negotiations beginning in December 1972. The plan includes disability and group life coverage under Alberta’s employee benefit program and costs about $19,000 annually. Herman Wahl and Jim McFarlane led negotiations.
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Redcliff
Grant Congdon
Congdon
Alberta
Herman Wahl
Jim McFarlane
Alberta teachers reject offer in dispute with authorities
CALGARY CP Southern Alberta Teachers reject the latest offer from the Southern Alberta School Authorities Association and may issue strike notice later today. Bill Casanova, Alberta Teachers' Association negotiator, calls the trustees offer an insult.
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Calgary
Southern Alberta
Southern Alberta School Authorities Association
Bill Casanova
Alberta Teachers’ Association
Highway conditions update across Alberta area during winter
The AMA reported good winter driving conditions in the Medicine Hat region at 8 a.m. Light snow fell near Swift Current. Visibility dropped to a quarter mile on Highway 41 near Oyen and on Highway 48 due to fog patches.
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AMA
Medicine Hat
Swift Current
Oyen
Highway 48
Lewis supports Grits in challenge to budget motion
NDP Leader David Lewis backed the Liberal minority government to defeat a Conservative nonconfidence motion 147 to 108 in the Commons. The Furor arose over corporate tax cuts and depreciation write offs tied to May 1972 and February 1973 budgets, with NDP opposing the corporate proposals.
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James Ferrabee Southam
Ottawa
New Democratic Party
David Lewis
Tory Hokery-Pokery
Social Credit Party
Conservatives
NDP
Liberal House
Allan MacEachen
The
Commons
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John Nasmyth, Jr
South San Gabriel
Calif
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Nasmyth
Lorne Thompson
British Columbia
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Millhaven Prison
Overrane
Pease Drive
Lewis
Mr. Lewis
Lucien Lamoureux
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