St Patrick Day in Alberta Legislature Inspires Leprechaun Tale
Edmonton MLA John Horan led a playful St Patrick’s Day moment in the legislature. He described the saint’s journey and then offered a breezy, humorous method for catching a leprechaun, while members listened with amusement and no rush to pursue the legend.
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Edmonton
Jasper Place
St. Patrick’s Day
France
Ireland
St. Patrick
Horan
Fort Knox
Government clash over bilingualism in Commons
In Ottawa a Liberal defeat on a procedural vote 38 to 30 spotlighted bilingualism in Parliament. The bill to incorporate Ottawa Terminal Railway, builder of Union Station, faced an amendment by Alexis Caron seeking at least two French speaking directors. Debate touched race and gender comparison. the amendment aimed to enshrine bilingual representation, not restrict French Canadians. The bill was postponed to after St Patrick’s Day adjournment, then accepted to proceed with general support.
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House of Commons
Ottawa Terminal Railway Company
Union
Alexis Caron
Lib
Hull
Jack Byrne
Pickersgill
Government House
George Mcllraith
Caron
Marchand
Tory House
Michael Starr
Ontario
Navy experts begin raising lost bomb off Palomares coast
Navy divers and the sub Alvin started the rescue at dawn five miles off Spain’s southern coast. The 16 ton submarine positioned to attach cables for Fort Snelling’s crane as crews face a possible three day operation. The weapon, missing since the B 52 crash two months earlier, appears intact with no radioactive leakage.
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Spain
Mediterranean
Alvin
Fort Snelling
Opposition pushes Alberta parks policy plan
Edmonton CP report: Opposition in the Alberta Legislature backs a motion by William Switzer to create a provincial public authority, in cooperation with Ottawa, to study and plan an expanded parks policy. The move aims for orderly development of national and provincial parks, noting Alberta holds about 75 percent of Canada’s national park area.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Industries
Patrick
William Switzer
L Edson
F. L. Gainer
Banff-Cochrane
Ottawa
Federal govt not wanted in Cypress Hills park
Chamber of Commerce members from Maple Creek and Medicine Hat voiced divided views on making Cypress Hills Provincial Park a federal park. Local ranchers fear grazing lease losses, water limits drinking and recreation use, while Elkwater cottagers fear loss of freedom.RCMP at Fort Walsh cited as barrier and attraction.
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Cypress Hills
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Chamber’ of Commerce
Maple Creek
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat Chamber
al Wiggins
Elkwater Cottagers
Art McCormick
Elkwater Cottagers Association
Henry Allergoth
Elkwater
RCMP
Fort Walsh
Vatican lifts excommunication for Catholics in mixed marriages
Pope Paul issued a Latin papal document on mixed marriages abolishing excommunication for Catholics who marry a non Catholic before a priest and dropping the pledge for non Catholics to raise children Catholic. It allows non Catholic ministers to attend and bless such weddings after vows and to join in common prayer.
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Paul
Michael Ramsey
Canterbury
Ramsey
Vatican
Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith
Holy Office
Winnipeg braces for rising Red River flood threat
Winnipeg prepares for renewed flooding as the Red River rises toward crest levels near 28 feet. Emergency measures expand across Manitoba and the U S states, with sandbags filling and dikes being raised to protect Metropolitan Winnipeg and 500,000 residents. Authorities urge grain, fertilizer and seed deliveries to move out before floodwaters advance. Weather has been mild, delaying break up but signaling potential high water by March 28.
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Manitoba
Red River
United States
Red River Valley
South Dakota
William L. Guy
Fargo
Here
Red
U.S
George Hutton
Duff Roblin
Minnesota
Lake Winnipeg
Emerson
St. Boniface
the Red
St. Norbert
Parking authority formation asked
A request to form a parking authority came before the Civic Finance Committee. Cliff Wright Jr and Don Hawthorne outlined the plan to manage all publicly owned downtown parking lots, meters and derived funds with profits reserved for future development while the City would supply land as guided.
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Civic Finance Committee
Cliff Wright, Jr
Don Hawthorne
Jack Edwards
Lethbridge Parking Authority
Lethbridge Authority
Lethbridge
Eatons
Hawthorne
Medicine Hat
Gemini 8 turmoil probes after in-space tumble
Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott rested in Hawaii as scientists probe why Gemini 8 gyrated wildly in orbit. The ship tumbled after a tape recorder command on the Agena dock, forcing an emergency splashdown. They landed near Okinawa and were reported in excellent shape with seasickness as the main issue. They head to Cape Kennedy for three days of debriefings to clarify the incident.
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Honolulu
Neil Armstrong
David Scott
Hawaii
U.S
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Okinawa
Agena
Armstrong
Pacific
Scott
Teachers request salary increases for Medicine Hat school division
Teachers employed by Medicine Hat School Division No. 4 asked for wage increases averaging about 5.46 percent, revealed to the board on Thursday. The board planned to meet with teachers on Monday to discuss the request, and approved raises for two full time and one part time secretarial workers at the Thursday meeting.
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Medicine Hat School
Saving for city prompted by school board savings
Chairman Jim Newton told the Finance Committee that changes in the Foundation Program saved the city $340,000. The board’s requisition this year is about $190,000 less than last year’s $293,885. Newton noted that without the formula change the board would have faced $240,000 more than 1965, or $533,000. Alderman Roy Osborne warned the city may not have saved anything until province budget demands are known.
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Jim Newton
Newton
Roy Osborne
Weather trend shifts from north to south on western prairies
Northerly winds and cloudy, dropping temperatures yield to southerly winds, more sun, and rising temperatures across the Western Prairies. Sunrise at Levenstead is 6 33 with sunset at 6 32. Noon wind SW 10, temperature 30. Maximum yesterday 39, minimum 4. Low tonight 20, high tomorrow 4.0.
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Prairies
Levenstead
Walaaao Ate
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