Alberta Legislature Adopts 90 Bills Amid Clash and Accord
The session ended with Premier Manning approving 90 bills after six hours of debate. Ernest Watkins pressed Bill 84 drafting penalties for the Alberta Farm Purchase Board, while minimum tractor driving ages were set at 14. Liberal Mike Maccagno praised education funding, prompting debate on rural vs urban grants and future mill rates.
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Manning
Calgary
Ernest Watkins
Watkins
Alberta Farm Purchase Board
Strom
Mike Maccagno
Education Foundation
Mike
Edmonton
Maccagno
Tories Suffer Swift By-Election Defeats in UK
The government led by Prime Minister Macmillan faced its worst by-election losses as Labour swept Swansea East with 61 percent and Rotherham with 69 percent. Tory ranks threaten further revolt amid a looming general election and plans to let peers run as commoners. Home and Hailsham may renounce peerages to seek Commons seats.
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London
Macmillan
House of Lords
Labor Party
Tory
Iain MacLeod
MacLeod
Lord Home
Lord Hailsham
Commons
Swansea East
Wales
Labor
Liberals
Rotherham
Yorkshire
Thieves Panic At Park Lane Hotel Attempted Robbery
Police seek two young men after an early morning attempted robbery at Park Lane Hotel. Joseph Singer said the pair wearing white mask cloth covered faces ordered him to open the safe. A toy gun was used. the men fled after Singer was struck. One wore a brown jacket. one was shorter. Police investigate.
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Park Lane
Joseph Singer
Singer
Medicine Hat Library Project Near Original 1st Street Site
City officials voice support for a new Medicine Hat library on the originally proposed corner lot at 1st St S.E and 4th Ave. A potential riverbank road plan may affect the site. Library board leaders seek guidance from the finance committee on acquiring adjacent welfare headquarters property.
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Medicine Hat
1St St. S.E
4Th Ave
Sth Ave
Maple Ave
Library Board
George Davison
Lyle Flynn
Legislature Prorogued Questioning Election in Alberta Session
Alberta's fifth session of the 14th legislature was prorogued after 31 sitting days. Premier Manning hinted at a general election this year. The budget totals 373,822,938 with a small surplus and health is the largest spending department. A prepaid voluntary medical care insurance plan will be launched with government subsidies for low income families.
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Edmonton
Alberta
J. Percy Page
Manning
Social Credit
Peter Dawson
Arthur Dixon
Calgary
E. W. Hinman
British Columbia
Quebec the Key in Lower St. Lawrence Races
Tim Creery reports from Riviere du Loup Temis and Rimouski on Liberal Creditiste and Conservative stakes in the Lower St. Lawrence ridings. Rosalie Gendreau and Rene Tremblay grow as center figures amid a fluid party landscape, with Social Credit gains and Tory decline shaping April 8 prospects.
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Riviere DU Loup
Que
Quebec
Lower St. Lawrence
Riviere du Loup-Temiscouata
Louis St. Laurent
Jean Paul
Gaspe
Social Credit
Rosalre Gendron
Riviere du Loop
Rene Tremblay
Commerce and Industry
Gendron
Conservative
Rimouski
Matapedia-Matane
Tremblay
Pearson pledges high level talks after election
Lester Pearson vowed to meet with Prime Minister Macmillan and President Kennedy after winning the election. He said he would fly to London to discuss deepening Anglo Canadian relations and freer trade, then invite Kennedy to join talks on defense, trade and Atlantic cooperation. He framed these pledges as part of a rapid post election reconaissance of the trade and political landscape.
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Edmonton
Macmillan
Kennedy
Lester Pearson
Eisenhower
Korea
London
Britain
Pearson
Commonwealth of Nations
Europe
Mr. Pearson
Atlantic Coalition
Canada
United States
Ross Sheppard High School
Rainbow
Strathcona
Terry Nugent
Prime Minister Backs Rural Ontario Campaign Push
Prime Minister Diefenbaker resumed his rural Ontario vote push in Lorne Park Peel County arguing Liberal leader Pearson misrepresented his nuclear stance to win the armed forces. He spoke to a crowd potentially 3300 strong, larger than Pearson’s nearby gathering, as his campaign confidence grows.
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Lorne Park
Ontario
Diefenbaker
Pearson
Peel County
Plans Not Changed Despite Financing Doubts for Hat Plant
John Betts of Southland Growers Industries said the firm will proceed with its Medicine Hat vegetable processing plant in May. A February government note valued the project at 8.304 million dollars, but ministers called it premature and said financing and planning were not complete. Betts told The News the company is not yet ready to issue a statement but plans to move ahead with construction in May.
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John Betts
Southland Growers Industries Ltd
Medicine Hat
Southland
Betts
Leaders on the Hustings by the Canadian Press
Diefenbaker in Kingston Ontario Pearson in Calgary and Victoria Thompson in Yorkton Sask Douglas in Toronto listed as leaders on the hustings across Canada with campaign stops noted in the report.
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Pearson
Calgary
Victoria
Thompson
Yorkton, Sask
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Agriculture
Harry Strom
Mr. Strom
Bill Stavdal
Little
Bridge City
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Rich Pou
Recak
T. C. Douglas
New Democratic Party
Hamilton
International Brewery
Tories
Colne Valley
Tim Creery
Southam News Services
NDP
Chamber of Commerce
Liberal Party
Socred
Lesage
Lionel Bertrand
Gentron
Gendron Action League
Dealer
Ottawa
Atlantic
Atlantic Provinces
Laval
McGill Louvain
Belgium
Cambridge
J. R. Walker
Bruce Phillips
Friday Diefenbaker
Kingston, Ont
Douglas
Toronto
Mervin Howe
Paisley
Owen Sound
Willow Creek
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