Alberta explores crop insurance amid debate and holidays
Alberta MPs study about 100 bills during Easter recess including Agriculture Minister Harry Stroms bill on crop insurance. Strom cautions costs and backs starting point while opposition notes potential policy difficulties. broader session sees school act amendments and mediation measures after Strathcona teachers strike. Red Ensign salute proposal surfaces alongside flag debates.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Harry Strom
Bill Dickie
Socred
Chester Sayers
Gordon Taylor
Dickie
Strom
J. Percy Page
Manning
Strathcona
Alberta Teachers’ Association
Canada
Alaska quake toll judged low as industry suffers heavy losses
Anchorage reports 12 dead, Valdez 32 and Kodiak 12 with dozens missing while California and Oregon tally at least 16 deaths from tidal waves. Officials forecast final Alaska toll under 100 as aid measures pivot to massive relief and rebuilding is planned amid widespread destruction.
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Anchorage
Alaska
California
Oregon
Bruce Woodford
Valdez
William A. Egan
Egan
Kodiak
Chenega
Seward
Whittier
Cordova
Kayak Island
Port Ashton
Edward A. McDermott
Johnson
Washington
Ernest Gruening
E L
Bob) Bartlett
Congress
Gulf of Alaska
Kodiak Island
Valdeez
Crescent City
Calif
Alta Sask teamsters back Hoffa fund drive
About 2500 Teamsters in Alberta and Saskatchewan pledged support for James R. Hoffa’s defence. Delegates followed a Birmingham local in funding at about $1 per member toward a $1.7 million goal as Hoffa appeals a jury tampering conviction. Walter Doskoch of Edmonton Local 514 said Hoffa received a raw deal and that the union stands with him.
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Edmonton
Teamsters Union
Alberta
Saskatchewan
James R. Hoffa
Walter Doskoch
Teamsters Joint Council
Birmingham
Ala
Hoffa
Doskoch
Pretty Patty
Firing disrupts area near Nicosia as Canadian troop arrival nears
Heavy firing reported between old Nicosia and Emorphita lasting about ten minutes with no casualties. UN General Gyani awaited the Canadian contingent of 100 men and 60 vehicles off Bonaventure to reach full strength at Famagusta. Sporadic clashes persist across the island amid Greek and Turkish Cypriot tensions. incidents noted at Kouklia and Vroisha and a Turkish Cypriot council bulletin urging UN action against Greek-Cypriot searches.
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Nicosia
Reuters
Emorphita
United Nations
Prem Singh Gyani
India
Bonaventure
Gyani
Famagusa
Cyprus Mail
Kouklia
Vroisha
Cyprus
Howe Hits Fan a Good One After Playoff Game
Gordie Howe said he punched an abusive Chicago Black Hawk fan after Detroit Red Wings exited Chicago Stadium. He described the fan taunting him about the referee and stepping into Howe, who then delivered a punch and faced retaliatory action as he moved toward the bus.
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Detroit
Gordie Howe
Chicago Black Hawk
Detroit Red Wings
Chicago
Howe
Hugh
Glenn quits race for Ohio Senate due to injuries
Former astronaut John A H Glenn Jr withdraws from the Ohio U S Senate campaign after a bathroom fall last month. Doctors say campaign participation would hinder his health and recovery at the U S Air Force hospital where he was admitted March 6 for brain injury and balance issues.
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San Antonio
Tex
John A H. Glenn Jr
Ohio
U.S. Senate
U.S
Congress
Glenn
U.S. Air Force Hospital
Marine Corps
Senate
Fire alarm box mistaken for mail box by Canada migrant
A Medicine Hat woman misinterpreted a red foot long five inch deep fire alarm box as a mail box on South Railway Street. Firemen rushed to the scene after she attempted to mail a letter. A German-speaking firefighter explained the difference. Another false alarm occurred nearby last Tuesday.
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Roe. Webber
8Th St. S.E
South Railway St
7Th Ave
Webber
Canada
Germany
Hays visit to Medicine Hat postponed
Federal Agriculture Minister Harry Hays, governor of Rotary District 536, postponed his planned talk to Medicine Hat Rotary Club due to Ottawa events. Local Rotary vice-president Dr. Robin McQuarrie said House of Commons did not recess for Easter as expected, forcing the postponement.
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Harry Hays
Rotary International
Ottawa
Medicine Hat
Rotary Club
Robin McQuarrie
Rotary
House of Commons
Hays
Search widens for aircraft missing off California coast
The Coast Guard said signals from an emergency transmitter aboard a Gibson Girl type beacon may indicate a transport plane with nine aboard that vanished Saturday off California. Planes, cutters and navy ships searched about 18 000 square miles, then widened by 8 400 more, focusing 800 miles west of Monterey as the effort continues without letup.
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San Francisco
U.S. Coast Guard
California
Coast Guardsman
Coast Guard
Monterey
Chinese Reds Attack Khrushchev Over Revisionism
The People's Daily and Red Flag condemn Soviet Premier Khrushchev as the greatest revisionist, urging global Communists to repudiate and liquidate his line. They portray his policies as capitulation to imperialism and the reactionary classes and call on Soviet leaders to break with revisionism now.
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Peking
Reuters
Khrushchev
Communist Party
People’s Daily
Red Flag
New China News Agency
Hungary
U.S
West Coast of Vancouver Island hit by massive tidal surge
Vancouver Island towns Alberni and Port Alberni faced a weekend of disaster after a 40 mile tidal surge from an Alaska earthquake. 123 residents homeless and 300 homes damaged as churches filled Easter crowds and aid mobilized through Red Cross and civil defence.
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Port Alberni
B.C
Vancouver Island
Alaska
Fred Bishop
Alberni
Dan Campbell
Twin Cities
Canada
Laurie Wallace
Civil Defence Organization
Bishop
Less Hammer
Laing
Pacific Ocean
Hot Springs Cove
The
Albernis
T. C. Douglas
New Democratic Party
Ottawa
Camp Chilliwack
Red Cross
Vancouver
RCMP
Alberni Valley
Bamfield
Barksley Sound
Provinces Press Plan to Shift Prison Custody
Ottawa facing push from Quebec City talks to take over roughly 3,000 provincial inmates while federal prisons remain overfull with about 7,600 prisoners. Duff Roblin backs implementing the Fauteux report to move custody of sentences over six months to the federal system, but immediate transfer is deemed impossible.
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Ottawa
Quebec City
Pearson
Duff Roblin
Manitoba
Fauteux
Stuart Garson
Sen
Davie Fulton
Penitentiary Service
Springhill
N.S
Cowansville
Que
Warkworth
Ont
Drumheller
Alta
Abbotsford
B.C
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Press For Aid
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Aleutian Trench
Salvation Army
J. C. Penney
Sask
Little
Island
Don Hanright
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