Pound chosen as chief grain commissioner in Canada
Agriculture Minister Bud Olson appoints Delmar Pound of Calgary as chief commissioner of the new Canadian Grain Commission. Pound, 46, a former Medicine Hat Liberal president, replaces fired chair F F Hamilton amid political controversy. Also named as assistant chief commissioner is Lem Shuttleworth from Manitoba Liberal background. Forrest Hetland remains third commissioner.
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Nick Hills
Southam News Services
Ottawa
Bud Olson
Alberta
Canadian Grain Commission
Board of Grain Commissioners
Olson
Delmar Pound
Calgary
Medicine Hat Liberal Association
New Grain Commis
Diefenbaker
Hamilton
Manitoba
C. L
Lem) Shuttleworth
Liberal
Shuttleworth
Douglas Campbell
Forrest Hetland
Naham
Saskatchewan
Department of Agriculture
Pound
Atlee
Alta
McCabe Grain Company
Oliver Industrial Supplies
Comepany
Medicine Hat
Federal Liberal Association
Social Credit Party
Liberal Party
Alberta immunizes 12 year old girls against German measles
Dr. William Watt announces Alberta's school based program to immunize 12 year old girls against rubella to prevent birth defects. The Meruvax vaccine uses a live rubella virus and provides immunity for four to five years with parental consent required.
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Edmonton
Alberta
William Watt
Provincial Health Department
Watt
Health Department
Trudeaus Arrive in Ottawa After Ottawa Flight
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his wife Margaret Sinclair return to Ottawa after skiing in Whistler. They land amid cheering crowds at the snowy airport following a Vancouver departure and a Winnipeg refueling stop.
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Ben Tierney
Southam
Ottawa
Trudeau
Pierre
Margaret
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Mr. Trudeau
Margaret Sinclair
Vancouver
Whistler Mountain
Winnipeg
Pollution bills receive second reading in Alberta legislature
Four pollution control bills advancing to second reading would create a new environment department, a clean water act, a clean air act, and an Environmental Research Trust Act. Opposition critics call the measures inadequate though improved, while ministers tout heavy fines up to 10 000 a day and stronger enforcement as progress.
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James Henderson
Henderson
Alberta
Canada
Bill Yorke
PC — Stratheons Fast
Montreal Labor Minister Abduction And Murder Linked To Chenier Cell
Police describe a statement read in court by Constable Boisland and Sgt Ste Marie in which Paul Rose and three others are accused of kidnapping and killing labor minister Laporte near Montreal. The statement claims Laporte was executed in a St Hubert townhouse as part of the Front de Liberation du Quebec cell.
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Paul Rose
Jean-Claude Boisland
Marcel Ste. Marie
Rose
St. Luc
Montreal
Laporte
Mr. Laporte
Jacques Rose
Simard
Bernard Lortie
Sgt
Ste. Marie
Marcel Nichols
Rose Brothers
Chenier
Front
Paul Blais
St. Lambert
Mr. X
Ivory Coast Leader Urges Dialogue Over Confrontation
Ivory Coast President Houphouet-Boigny backs dialogue with white minority regimes in southern Africa as a path to economic development. Mitchell Sharp says he is impressed by the dovish stance and Canada’s limited role in mediation.
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Abidjan
Ivory Coast
Mitchell Sharp
Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Southern
Africa
Sharp
Black Africa
South Africa
Rhodesia
Julius Nyerere
Tanzania
Kenneth Kaunda
Zambia
Houphouet-Boigny
Canada
Middle East
Israel
Mozambique
Angola
Guinea- Bissau
British workers revolt against union strike orders in two actions
In Britain, 5000 Rolls-Royce Glasgow workers rejected a strike call by shop stewards amid 1655 layoffs. In Birmingham Acocks Green, 490 of 980 workers refused a March 18 strike over the Industrial Relations Bill. The unrest grows as unemployment nears 660,000 and the Heath government presses new rules.
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London
Glasgow
Acocks Green
Birmingham
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers
Acocks
Transport and General Workers Union
Edward Heath
Wheat board to trim inventory for peak efficiency
Ottawa says the Canadian Wheat Board will reduce its wheat stocks to peak efficiency levels with extra on hand for sudden sales. other grain stocks may rise as needed. Lang, minister responsible, told the Commons on Monday.
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Ottawa
Canadian Wheat Board
Otto Lang
the Commons
Frazier Retains World Heavyweight Title At MSG
In a dramatic Madison Square Garden bout on Monday night Joe Frazier, 27, from Philadelphia, defeated Muhammad Ali by a unanimous decision. Frazier floored Ali in the 15th round and retained the undisputed world heavyweight crown amid cheers and a crowded press conference.
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New York
Drew
Bundini) Brown
Muhammad Ali
Doe Frazier
Ali
Frazier
Madison Square Garden
Philadelphia
Alberta opposition attacks hospital services bill in legislature
Opposition denounces a proposed Hospital Services Commission in Alberta as a power grab. The plan would govern hospitals nursing homes and senior lodges with limited local control and was defeated on a six month delay motion 48 to 10 while the bill advanced in principle 47 to 10. Hugh Horner argued the commission centralizes power and calls for local input. Peter Lougheed demanded clarity on the bill’s intent.
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Hugh Horner
Lac Ste. Anne
Commission
Lou Hyndman
Kidmonton West
Social Credit
Horner
Alberta Hospitals’ Association
Peter Lougheed
James Henderson
Lougheed
Dave Russell
Calgary Victoria Park
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My Lai
South Vietnam
Dacca
Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan
East Pakistan
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