Soviets eye annual Canadian wheat purchases
Moscow reports indicate the Soviet Union may buy 500000 tons of Canadian wheat each year to meet Far Eastern needs. Talks involve RBC official Charles Neapole and Canadian executives, with potential shipments totaling about 18 million bushels annually and a long term value near 40 million dollars per year.
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Moscow
Reuters
Charles B. Neapole
Royal Bank of Canada
Soviet Union
Anastas Mikoyan
Neapole
Russia
Canada
Pacific Seaboard
Canadian Wheat Board
Stockholm
AWB May Reopen Tuesday In Alberta Beef Plant
J C Wheatcroft a stock holder told The NEWS by phone from Calgary that AWB will definitely reopen soon but no date was given. The NEWS learned the plant may reopen Tuesday with roughly 35 layoffs expected, matching the scale of the previous shutdown after a March 19 management reorganization.
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Alberta Western Beef
J. C. Wheatcroft
Calgary
No NEWS on Monday due to Victoria Day weekend
The Medicine Hat NEWS will not publish Monday May 18. Regular edition resumes Tuesday. Advertisers must submit copy to The NEWS office by 5 p.m. Friday for Tuesday’s paper and by noon Saturday for Wednesday’s issue.
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Medicine Hat
Plebiscite proposal to choose national flag debated in San Francisco
Demara, 42, is re arraigned on amended child molesting charges connected to a 15 year old boy at Calvary Ranch School for Boys where he was director. He surrendered in Los Angeles after taking a school station wagon. Belli, long time client and friend, announced in San Francisco that Demara would act as his own lawyer. The Great Impostor film recounts Demara’s impersonations.
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Belli
San Francisco
Demara
Alec Brown
Calvary Ranch School For Boys
Los Angeles
Goldwater wins Nebraska amid Nixon write-in surge
In Nebraska Goldwater led with about 50 percent of the vote as Nixon drew a large write-in bloc near 21 percent. Rockefeller gained solid, uncontested West Virginia support, while Johnson led Nebraska write-ins for president with 45,122 votes. Morrison and Kennedy trailed. Nixon’s Nebraska showing marked his strongest spring primary performance.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Nebraska
Richard M. Nixon
Arizona
Nixon
Goldwater
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
West Virginia
Rockefeller
Henry Cabot Lodge
Johnson
Frank Morrison
Robert F. Kennedy
Two more named to college board in regional appointments
The five member Junior College Board gained two new appointees on Tuesday with one vacancy remaining. Daniel Jensen joins from the Redcliff School Board while Roland Eastman, head of the County of Newell School Committee, becomes the county representative. The Separate School Board plans to name its member next Tuesday, with Rod Ashburner expected to join. Dr. H. F. McKenzie and J. M. Pritchard were appointed by the Public School Board Monday.
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Junior College
Fiveman
Redcliff
Daniel Jensen
County of
Pearson May Call for a Free Vote on Flag Design
Prime Minister Pearson said MPs should vote their consciences when the government presents a national flag design. He stressed the vote should not trigger a Liberal confidence issue in the minority government and that a design would be submitted within a year. Opposition said the remark implied a free vote. others floated a plebiscite with the next federal election.
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Ottawa
Pearson
Commons
Robert C. Coates
Cumberland
Mr. Pearson
Ber
Diefenbaker
Coates
Barry Mather
NDP
New Westminster
Mather
Creditiste
Vote count under way in Saskatchewan general election
Regina reports official counting of ballots from April 22 election. With results delayed to Friday, two-seat ridings show close margins and Liberal and CCF leaders claim narrow early leads. About 24,000 absentee and advance ballots remain to be counted, with final tallies expected three weeks after election.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Liberal Party
Ross’ Thatcher
Woodrow S. Lloyd
CCF
K. K. Lowry
Moose Jaw
Melville
Moosomin
Bill Winehhar
Wilfred Gardiner
Douglas A. Ellis
A. H. McDonald
William Goodwin
Cuban sabotage war opens with sugar mill raid
The Revolutionary Recovery Movement reports a successful raid on a sugar mill at Puerto Pilan in Oriente, Cuba, as exile groups promise a campaign of sabotage against Castro. Details are scarce, with press conferences scheduled and claims of planned attacks across Cuba ahead of May 20 independence events.
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Miami
Cuba
Puerto Pilan
Revolutionary Recovery Movement
MRR
Oriente
Manuel Artime
Castro
Bay of Pigs
MRA
San Juan
Puerto Rico
MRP
Artime
Canada weighs shift on recognizing Red China at NATO talks
Canadian external affairs minister Paul Martin signaled Canada may modify its nonrecognition stance toward Red China after the UN's 19th session in early 1965. He told NATO ministers that Peking could not be excluded from world councils and that a solution for Formosa must consider the nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek. A spokesman offered no immediate reaction as NATO ministers closed a three day meeting in The Hague.
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the Hague (Cp
Paul Martin
Canada
China
Peking
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
Martin
Red China
General Assembly
France
NATO
Alibis and votes show women in Parliament
The Nation notes the persistent underrepresentation of women in Canadian Parliament and the varied excuses offered. It highlights parliamentary widows who win by-elections after husbands’ deaths, including Jean Casselman and Eloise May Jones, as a notable exception to the trend. The piece weighs the impact of female lawmakers and the lane opened by widows inheriting political capital.
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House of Commons
Jean Casselman
Casselman
Grenville-Dundas
Isabel Hardie
North West Territories
Margerey Macdonald
Prince Edward Island
Eloise May Jones
Saskatoon
Harry
North Bay
Jack Garland
North
Ottawa says no talks with Russia on wheat buys
Canadian federal trade officials dismissed Moscow reports that Russia plans to import about 18 million bushels of Canadian wheat annually. The remarks occurred amid broader comments by Martin on world issues including Cyprus and potential UN peacekeeping groundwork. He noted a five-country informal meeting in Ottawa this summer involving four Scandinavian states and the Netherlands. He argued Cyprus involves two NATO members Greece and Turkey, countering claims it is not a NATO problem.
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Ottawa
James A. Richardson
Winnipeg
Pacific Seaboard
Ukraine
Russia
Moscow
Canada
Martin
Cyprus
Scandinavia
NATO
Greece
iTurkey
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National Film Board
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Professional Photographers of Canada, Inc
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Unt
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Patolichev
Far East
AWB
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Morrison
Havana
Hoy
UN Assembly
Charles Lynch
Southam News Services
Judy LaMarsh
Pauline Jewell
Margaret Konantz
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