Licence Offenders Face Stiffer Fines
Alberta legislature gives first reading to amendments raising fines for driving without a licence and for littering highways. New penalties include up to 100 dollars or 30 days jail for first offence and up to 500 dollars or six months jail for subsequent offences. Also stronger rules on stray animals, towing sleds, license suspensions, two way traffic on hills, dimming lights, and tampering with registrations. Police officials urged harsher penalties as deterrence.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Gordon Taylor
Taylor
Luck's Good So Far Who Is Lucky in Medicine Hat
In Medicine Hat residents buzz over a sweepstakes ticket held by a person using the nom de plume Lucky. The holder, linked to ticket XLX 66829, draws the horse Bobaston Bank and could win upwards of 150000 if the horse wins. The city awaits the reveal of Lucky’s identity.
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Medicine
City council battles Alberta tax breaks agenda
Edmonton and Medicine Hat briefs urge limits on tax exemptions for churches and private schools. Edmonton Finance Minister Hooke signals study of urban counties with plebiscite, while Medicine Hat opposes granting tax relief to Hillcrest College land and buildings.
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Hillcrest
Alberta
Frank Early
Edmonton
Medicine Hat
James G. Kidd
Northwest Canada Conference Evangelical Church
Hillcrest Christian College
Kidd
A. W. Maetche
F. C. Colborne
Russia Proposes A-Arms Pact At Geneva
At the 17 nation disarmament conference in Geneva a Soviet spokesman proposed mutual obligations not to disseminate atomic weapons or related information. He said the Soviet Union would refrain if Britain and the United States did the same. Earlier Adam Rapacki urged a central European nuclear free zone expanded to all European countries. Arthur Dean dismissed the new plan as not clearly different from prior proposals.
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Geneva
Reuters
Russia
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Adam Rapacki
Europe
Arthur Dean
Rapacki
NATO
Dean
Alberta Increases Beer Price Five Cents
Edmonton CP Alberta beer parlor operators may raise pint bottle price by five cents. Peter Elliott, chair of the Alberta Liquor Control Board, announced the maximum retail price for a bottle rises to 35 cents from 30 cents.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Peter Elliott
Alberta Liquor Control Board
Changes Announced For Bill 30 Amendment Provides for County Vote
Alberta legislature reporters note amendments to urban county legislation including a plebiscite before establishing a county system. A four year trial would precede a mandatory vote by urban ratepayers, followed by county council elections, and potential merger with current school boards and councils if approved.
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Edmonton
Alberta
House
A. J. Hooke
Plea for Plebiscite Marks Alberta Urban County Debate
Medicine Hat Public School Board chairman C W Niblock termed the amended Alberta urban county bill a matter of satisfaction noting a plebiscite before counties are created. He said briefs from Calgary and Grande Prairie opposed the system and warned about separate school supporters on education councils under the act.
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Edmonton
Alf Hooke
Calgary
Glenmore
Ernest Watkins
Hooke
Agriculture Committee
Lac la Biche
Mike Maccagno
Harvey Bliss
Anders Aalborg
Alberta
C. W. Niblock
Medicine Hat
A. J. Hooke
Mr. Niblock
Grande Prairie
Board of
M. Niblock
Algiers under siege as 60,000 French troops guard city
French forces massed 60,000 troops in Algiers to subdue 300,000 European settlers amid a cease fire with Algerian nationalists. Victims mount as Monday’s rally left 45 Europeans dead and 120 wounded while reinforcements arrive. Provisional government to oversee a self determination vote in three to six months.
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Algiers
France
Secret Army
Algeria
Oran
Pierre Guillaume
Navy
Paris
Edmond Jouhaud
Abderrahmane Fares
Nationalist
Liberation Front
Fares
FLN
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