16 Mar 1962
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 16, 1962
Page
1
The challenge from Mayor Harry Weiner to Ernest Campbell Progressive Conservative MP for Lambton Kent drew acceptance. Campbell 59, famed for fitness, will determine the date, likely April 6 or 7, to align with a Kinsmen Club radio auction and rope sale.
A Flying Tiger Line DC 6 disappeared between Guam and the Philippines with 107 aboard, including 11 Americans and 93 Army personnel. U S ships and planes search 75 000 square miles near the western Pacific as officials report no trace of the liner or its crew and passengers.
Premier Manning questions back door aim to abolish capital punishment as Ernest Watkins proposes a provincial Bill of Rights. Alberta MPs critique the federal charter as too broad and misleading while others call it an empty shell and warn it could threaten existing statutes. Debate adjourned after first readings and ongoing budget discussions.
Alberta legislative first reading outlines amendments to let private hospitals linked to municipalities form cost sharing deals without losing hospital board control. The bill defines excess costs as audited operating costs beyond government approved amounts and requires insurers to pay hospital costs before patient settlement. A separate measure would establish a University of Alberta Hospital foundation to accept donations and manage hospital property.
Education Minister A O Aalborg dismissed Ernest Watkins suggestion to fund education from proceeds of school land sales as impractical. He said current provincial education funding already far surpasses possible land revenue while a bill to transfer lands from federal to provincial control advances to second reading amid 23 government measures.
Cindy the wandering western wolf and five of her eight cubs head for sanctuary in Algonquin Park. The father Lucky the German Shepherd will be returned to his master from Sudbury. Cindy and pups were seized from John McGovern of Hull after he failed to remove them from Ontario. McGovern was fined $10 under the Wolf and Bear Bounty Act. Cindy will assist biologist Dr. Douglas Pimlott on a long term wolf study in the park.
A two storey frame house in Priddis 20 miles southwest of Calgary was destroyed by fire leaving an unemployed caterpillar operator his wife and 10 children homeless. Mrs Dorothy Phillips re entered the house to find it full of smoke as seven children were at school and three were outside in the family car. Mr Phillips was visiting a brother in Saskatchewan.
Alberta legislators first reading a bill to give the Department of Education power over school construction with a foundation program for debt repayment. Medicine Hat officials say the move signals further centralization and could affect local building plans as grants fade and debentures cover costs.
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