Alberta Legislature debates margarine color and budgeting
The Alberta Social Credit Legislature considers a bill to permit sale of a lighter than cream cheese margarine color while the government plans a 414.8 million dollar budget for the coming fiscal year. Minister Harry Strom previews colored margarine in the chamber as critics note dairy lobby pressure and budget details await committee review.
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Edmonton
Alberta Social Credit League
Harry Strom
Social Credit
Harry
Committee of Supply
Fred Colborne
Maccagno
Welfare Department
Fred
Treasury Department
Behan Buried in Glasnevin After Dublin Funeral
Ireland bids farewell to Brendan Behan at Glasnevin Cemetery with about 300 mourners including Deputy Premier Sean MacEntee and a De Valera aide. A requiem mass at Donnybrook followed a simple burial in a grave beneath cypress trees. Behan, 41, author of The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, had served jail terms for IRA activities.
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Dublin
Reuters
Ireland
Brendan Behan
Glasnevin
Sean MacEntee
Eamon de Valera
Behan
Church of the Sacred Heart
Donnybrook
No Friday News Publication and Advertising Deadlines
Notice states The NEWS will not publish on Good Friday March 27. Regular edition resumes Saturday March 28. Advertisers must submit copy for March 28 by 5 p.m. Wednesday and for March 30 by 5 p.m. Thursday.
Route 41 to join Trans-Canada in 64
Tenders will be called March 25 for a 12 mile section of Highway No 41 from Chappies Lake to the Trans Canada Highway. The completion is targeted this year to reach the Trans Canada Highway near Dunmore with an expected early start this spring.
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Chappies Lake
Medicine Hat
Wildhorse
United States
Cold Lake
Alberta
Bindloss
Sandy Point Bridge
Ruby's Lawyer Quits Case Over Press Clash
Houston lawyer Percy Foreman withdrew from defending Jack Ruby citing disputes with Ruby's family over press relations. Foreman had just taken over as chief defense counsel from Melvin Belli and had met Ruby for the first time since agreeing to defend him.
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Dallas
Houston
Percy Foreman
Jack Ruby
Ruby
Foreman
Melvin Belli
Lee Harvey Oswald
Eve Grant
Kennedy
Snow Blankets Medicine Hat District Weather Update
Weekend snowfalls delivered 1.7 inches of moisture to the Medicine Hat district and nearly seven inches since Thursday. The cold snap continues with a zero high and 20 below low. Temperatures rise to 10 above Tuesday as warmer winds approach from the west. Roads remain mostly bare but slick patches are possible on the Trans-Canada Highway west.
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Medicine Hat
Weather Department
AMA
Renovation Raid at Neil House Fancied as Sale
Columbia Ohio AP reports the Neil House plans a bold raid like sale with 100 rooms opened to women next Saturday. Women in teams of 50 will search three floors for tagged items while men stand back. The plan aims to move furniture during a major renovation under new GM Mark Mowrey.
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Columbia, Ohio
Neil House
Mark Mowrey
Mowrey
Trade change urged at UN conference on market systems
U Thant urged new world trade planning to raise living standards in poorer nations. He called for greater Communist participation in the international market and questioned letting blind economic forces govern human relations at the opening of a major UN conference on trade and development.
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Geneva
United Nations
U Thant
United States
Canadians patrol Cyprus under UN flag with strict nonfraternization
Canadian troops on Cyprus, led by Captain Danny Kay, maintain discipline as two UN flag escorted convoys tour Greek and Turkish Cypriot areas. They refuse greetings and invitations, citing orders to avoid waving or fraternizing, while crowds offer flowers and refreshments.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
United Nations
van Doos
Quebec
Royal Twenty-Second Regiment
Danny Kay
Quebec City
Kay
Ontario Premier considers police act bill change
Ontario residents awaited action on controversial police commission legislation. Premier Robarts stated the offensive sections would be deleted and withdrawn, but his press aide Kinmond later said the premier would clarify the bill rather than withdraw it.
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Toronto
Ontario
Robarts
Police Commission
William Kinmond
Firing and hostage incident reported in Cyprus near Louroudjina
Reports from Nicosia say Turkish Cypriot forces fired on vehicles near Louroudjina and abducted Greek Cypriots. A Greek Cypriot security patrol seized two Turkish Cypriots nearby, with a rifle found.双方 exchange of hostages reportedly agreed. UN emergency force awaited. King Constantine I pledged peace and NATO solidarity in a throne speech prepared by Premier Papandreou.
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Nicosia
Louroudina
Cyprus
Louroudjina
Here
Nicosia-Larnaca
Athens
CPAP
Constantine
Paul
Turkey
Greece
NATO
George Papandreou
Centre Union Party
Calgary production wins best play at Alberta Regional Drama Festival
Theatre '64 of Calgary wins best play for Samuel Beckett Happy Days at the 28th Alberta Regional Drama Festival in Calgary. Ruth Frost is best actress. Joyce Doolittle wins best director. Richard Wray named best character actor for Teahouse of the August Moon.
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Calgary — Theatre
Calgary
Alberta
Herbert Whittaker
Arts Centre
Winnie
Ruth Frost
Chct-Tv
Mr. Whittaker
Elizabeth Sterling Haynes
Joyce Doolittle
Lethbridge
Therese
Medicine Hat
Kit Dingle
Sharon Magee
Joan Hays
George Mann
Richard Wray
Col. Purdy
Ments
Jack Hamilton
Captain Fisby
Fisby
Mr. Wray
Purdy
Pearl Muir
Lotus Blossom
The
Broadcasting Media of
B.C
Charlottetown
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Coaldale
Barnwell
Pery
Little
Thant
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Lapathos
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Robarts Puzzles
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