Bombers Bomb Torrey Canyon To Halt Oil Spill
LAND'S END England AP Royal Navy dropped 1000 pounds bombs on the stricken Torrey Canyon wreck on the Seven Stones reef to halt oil leaking toward Cornwall beaches. The tanker split in three, erupted in flames, and a 20 mile radius restricted zone protected observers as salvors withdrew. Maritime experts warn the disaster may force major changes in British maritime law.
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Land’s End
England
Royal Navy
Torrey Canyon
Cornwall
Seven Stones Reef
Defence Ministry
Britain
Garrison issues pair of warrants
New Orleans AP Garrsion seeks two warrants in Kennedy assassination probe. A material witness warrant targets Lilly Mae McMaines of Omaha. An unlawful flight order for Gordon Novel may bring FBI into the search after his disappearance before grand jury testimony.
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New Orleans
Jim Garrison
Kennedy
Lilly Mae McMaines
Omaha
Neb
U.S
Garrison
Gordon Novel
Orleans Parish
Louis La‘Cour
FBI
Novel
James Alcock
LaCour
Warren Commission
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Dallas
Tex
Russo
Edward A. Haggerty Jr
Shaw
Calgary aldermen condemn Alberta Municipal Act as an awful mess
City councillors call the proposed Alberta Municipal Act an awful mess and vote unanimously to urge the province to replace it with a revised City Act. They back Edmonton’s criticism of a provincial tribunal for appeals and fault the bill for merging multiple municipal laws. Aldermen note some good points on delegating authority but say they belong in a city act.
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Calgary
Alberta
Edmonton
Ald
Jack Davis
Jim Gilkes
Ivor Strong
Pipeline expansion to widen Alberta Ontario oil link approved
The National Energy Board recommends a 46 million dollar program to expand Interprovincial Pipe Line Co’s Canadian sections from Redwater to Sarnia with 312 miles of 34 inch pipe and 58 miles of 20 inch pipe in Ontario. Work planned May to December 1968 includes new pumping stations and station upgrades across Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and Ontario to boost output from about 595000 barrels daily in 1966 to a possible 725000 barrels. The U.S. Lakehead subsidiary will enlarge the American section near Gretna Manitoba to Sarnia.
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Ottawa
Alberta-Ontario
National Energy Board
Interprovincial Pipe Line Co
Gretna
Man
Sarnia
Interprovincial
U.S
Lakehead Pipe Line Co.Inc
The
Energy Board
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Ontario
Strome
Alto
Craik
Sask
Pelham
Ont
Edmonton
Hardisty
Metiskow
Kerrobert
Milden
Regina
Glenavon
Cromer
Glenboro
Bryanston
Westover
Iterprovincial
Redwater
Prairie Provinces
Canada
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
New York
Port Credit
Buffalo, N.Y
Gaglardi as potential national leader candidate
Vancouver dispatch reports BC Highways Minister Phil Gaglardi being urged as a candidate for the Manitoba Social Credit Party's vacant national leadership. Gaglardi said he has received no definite indications of support and would not comment on a leadership bid as officials announced consideration Monday night.
Vatican Enciclyclo Prompts Cautious Shift in Birth Policy
The fifth encyclical Populorum Progressio urges social and economic justice and hints that governments may provide birth control information and limited access in Catholic areas. It reaffirms the church stance on birth control, endorses redistribution of unused large estates, and condemns capitalistic evils while stressing parental responsibility guided by conscience and divine law.
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Vatican
Beny centennial book to cost 25 dollars in Canada
Roloff Beny prime centennial work To Every Thing There Is a Season will be published April 24 by Thames and Hudson. Canada price 25 dollars, Britain 31.50. Sponsored by John Eaton of Toronto, government gifted to heads of state. Printing locations include Britain Switzerland West Germany Netherlands.
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London
Roloff Beny
Thames and Hudson
Canada
Britain
Beny
Medicine Hat
Alta
John David Eaton
Toronto
T. Eaton Co., Ltd
The
Guardian
Ecclesiastes
Switzerland
France
West
Germany
Netherlands
Teachers threaten walk out over class size in BC
BC teachers voted to walk out of any class with more than 40 students in September. Over 1,000 delegates backed the plan to reduce class sizes, with support for teachers who refuse to teach overpopulated classes. Les Isaacson cited 5% of BC classes over 40 this year, down from 7% last year, and 5,222 classes of 35 or fewer students.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
B.C
Teachers’ Federation
Federation
Teachers’ Association
Les, Isaacson
Victoria
Isaacson
Expo discrimination charges denied by Quebec official
Richard Lord, a leading Quebec Liberal figure, called United League charges of Expo racial bias groundless. He noted his two year Expo stint and said the fair welcomed African Americans and others, while officials dismissed the allegations as unfounded amid preparations for the six month Montreal fair opening in April.
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Montreal
Richard Lord
Lord
Quebec Liberal Federation
Quebec
Legislative Assembly
New York
Expo
League
Urban League
States
Robert Shaw
Milton Fredman
United States
Trois-Rivieres
Que
Yves Gabias
U.S
Banks Trim Prime Rate as New Act Looms
Canada’s chartered banks gear up for May 1 rule changes by cutting the prime lending rate to 5 percent and raising savings deposits to 4 percent. Bank of Montreal cites revised Act flexibility, while rivals caution reductions may be premature amid mixed conditions.
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Toronto
Canada
Bank of Montreal
G. Arnold Hart
F. W. Nicks
Bank of Nova Scotia
S. T. Paton
Toronto-Dominion
L. G. Greenwood
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
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