Watering restrictions imposed early due to drought
Public Works Director Lorne Thompson announced lawn and garden watering limits begin tomorrow. Dry winter and winds reduce river flow. Norwood reservoir down to 3 percent, Crescent Heights also low as algae clog filters. Even houses may water on even days, odd on odd days. 31st day creates extended windows. penalties up to $100 for violations.
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Oo Hat
Lorne Thompson
Thompson
Norwood
Crescent Heights
Stanfield warns against slogans over substance in campaign
Conservative Leader Robert Stanfield urged the need for reform and responsibility during a national publishers dinner in Toronto. He warned that relying on slogans could shrink the country and foster cynicism, while calling for unity and inspirational leadership ahead of the June 25 election.
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Toronto
Robert Stanfield
Stanfield
Canadian Press
Canada
Trudeau
Commons
Lucien Lamou
Eichmann associate jailed for wartime murder aid
Franz Rademacher, once an Eichmann associate, was sentenced by a West German court to five years in prison for aiding the murder of thousands of Jews. The judge credited about four years already served in custody and postwar internment. He faced accusations of aiding at least 1,300 Serbian Jews and deporting nearly 100,000 Jews from Nazi occupied France Belgium and the Netherlands. Rademacher authored an early plan to deport European Jews to Madagascar and stood trial after a long retrial delay following his flight to Syria.
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Bamberg
Franz Rademacher
Adolf Eichmann
Third Reich Legation
Rademacher
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Madagascar
Syria
Quebec Federal Jurisdiction on International Matters Debated
Montreal Quebec minister Gerard Pelletier argues foreign affairs remain federal domain not provincial. He warns provincial autonomy would undermine Canada’s sovereignty, noting Quebec actions at international meetings provoke constitutional tensions and could jeopardize other demands. Education minister Cardinal returns from Paris seeking solutions.
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Montreal
Quebec
Gerard Pelletier
Trudeau
Paris
Gabon
Jean-Guy Cardinal
Roblin pledges Medicare renegotiation by Conservatives
Former Manitoba premier Duff Roblin told about 300 people at a Waterlo nominating meeting that a Conservative federal government would reopen national medical care talks with provinces. He urged a selective, needs based plan and criticized the July 1 federal rollout as a tax system abuse, estimating costs could drop from 1 billion to 300 million. He also attacked Liberal stubbornness and warned of a growing cult of personality in Canadian politics.
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Kitchener
Duff Roblin
Manitoba
Roblin
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Ontario
Vietnam rejects initial contact on cruiser for talks
Laos AP report says North Vietnamese embassy spokesman in Vientiane denounces a proposal to hold preliminary peace talks aboard Indonesia's cruiser Trian in the Gulf of Tonkin. Hanoi calls the plan unacceptable, cites Johnson conditions, and prefers talks in Phnom Penh or Warsaw despite U.S. acceptance.
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Vientiane. Laos
Vientiane
Gulf of Tonkin
Hanoi
Johnson
Dent Johnson
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Warsaw
Poland
United States
Washington
Trian
U.S
Heavy fighting continues in northeast South Vietnam
Reports from Saigon say the heaviest sustained fighting in two months raged on the fourth day in the northeast corner of South Vietnam. Paris and Tokyo dispatches note new anti Jewish measures in Iraq and a Haiphong area bombing by a U S plane, with Hanoi radio reporting the attack.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Paris
American Jewish Committee
Iraq
Tokyo
Hanoi
U.S
Haiphong
Israel marks 20 years with parade through Jerusalem
Israel celebrated twenty years of statehood with a five mile parade of land sea and air forces through Jerusalem. Arab capitals protested angrily as Beirut saw about 10 000 demonstrators denouncing the parade and calling for renewed war.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Lebanon
Security Council
Levi Eshkol
Zalman Shazar
Moshe Dayan
Beirut
Damascus
Woolliams to Address Bow River Tory Nomination
Eldon Woolliams Progressive Conservative MP Bow River will speak at a Tory nomination convention in Medicine Hat on May 11. Jim Horsman announced the event, set for 8 p.m. at the Junior College auditorium to pick a candidate for the June 25 federal election, with Chuck Meagher and Jim Newton as declared contenders.
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Eldon Woolliams
Bow River
Jim Horsman
Federal Conservative Association
Junior College
Medicine Hat
Chuck Meagher
Public School Board
Jim Newton
Senators press Warsaw site for talks on Vietnam war
Washington AP report says senators led by J. W. Fulbright urge the Johnson administration to accept Warsaw Poland as the site for preliminary U S North Vietnamese talks. Fulbright says South Vietnam objections are a major reason for past rejection and Katzenbach briefed the committee in a closed session.
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Washington
Johnson Administration
Hanoi
Warsaw
J. W. Fulbright
Dem. Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nicholas Katzenbach
United States
Fulbright
Katzenbach
Memphis Dedication Opens King Memorial Stone for March
Hundreds of Negro marchers begin a Washington protest route linked to Dr. King. In Memphis a stone memorial for King is unveiled with Mrs. King and Rev. Abernathy, as the Poor People’s Campaign heads toward Marks Mississippi amid a brief jail incident and student sit-in.
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Memphis, Tenn
Washington
Martin Luther King Jr
Marks
Miss
King
Ralph
D. Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Lorraine Motel
Abernathy
Memphis
Quitman County
Jack Harrison
Willie Bolden
SCLC
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Pelletier
Waterloo
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