Wheat exports hit record as carryover tightens supply
Canada reports March exports at 35.4 million bushels and total exports since August at 377.6 million, with a possible 600 million by July 31. World demand rises. stockpiles decline, prompting wheat board quotas to boost farmer deliveries amid a slow spring.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Canadian Wheat Board
The
Statistics Bureau
Canada
United States
Australia
Argentina
$1 Million Feed Plant Approved Near Alberta Linseed Oil Co
The Municipal Planning Commission approved a $1 million animal feed manufacturing plant to be built beside Alberta Linseed Oil Company. Local businessmen led by Harry Yuill foresee completion by September with initial 10 workers rising to 20 to 25. The mill will produce 500 to 600 tons daily, sourcing grain from district farmers and flax protein from Alberta Linseed Oil. The plant, an 80 foot high structure, sits one foot from the property line but is allowed as the only building on the block.
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Alberta Linseed Oil Company
Harry Yuill
Municipal Planning Commission
Yuill
Calgary
Planning Commission
Commission
Kissinger Tho Meet on Vietnam Ceasefire Enforcement
Henry Kissinger hosted a Paris area session with Le Duc Tho to discuss enforcing the Vietnam ceasefire. The meeting took place at an American-owned villa on a golf course near St Nom la Breteche with their top advisers present.
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Paris
Henry Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Vietnam
Kissinger
St. Nom-la-Breteche
Slain Canadian tourists near Victoria Falls identified
Christine Louise Sinclair of Guelph and Marian Ibana Drijber of Rockwood were two of three tourists shot near the Zambia Rhodesia border. Sinclair's body was recovered and flown to Wankie Hospital while Drijber's body remained missing after a search in the crocodile infested Zambezi River gorge. An American couple, John and Carol Crowther, survived the shooting and were later rescued by helicopter.
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Victoria Falls
Rhodesia
Christine Louise Sinclair
Guelph
Marian Ibana Drijber
Rockwood
Ont
Zambezi
Zambia
John W. Crowther
Troy
Ohio
Tory
Wankie Hospital
Carol
Debates Over Canadian Death Penalty Extend Fourth Day
Ottawa reports leaders from three major parties spoke as the second reading of the bill extending the partial death penalty ban looms. Prime Minister Trudeau argued against capital punishment as a deterrent and promised open consideration for public protection.
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Ottawa
Canada
Trudeau
Robert Stanfield
New Democrat
David Lewis
Social Credit
Real Caouette
Skylab rescue plan outlined for sun shield repair
Cap Kennedy Florida AP reports three astronauts plan a repair mission to the disabled Skylab space station. A space walk may install a shield to block sun heat, with launch possible Sunday or May 25. Astronauts Coward Kerwin and Weitz would attempt to shade the 85 ton lab to restore temperatures to 60 to 70 degrees.
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Howard Benedict Cape Kennedy
Fla
Skylab Space Station
McDonnell-Douglas Corp
Huntington, Beach
Calif
William Schneider
Cape Kennedy
Schneider
Watergate Hearings Open as Senate Probes Scandal
A seven member Senate panel led by Senator Sam Ervin opened televised Watergate hearings queuing a full investigation into Nixon campaign abuses. He warned that burglars aimed to steal the nation’s voting rights, while senators Baker and Weicker framed public judgment as pivotal. Also noted were testimony snippets about Hunt, Ehrlichman and Cushman amid ongoing probes into CIA assistance and White House records.
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Washington
Nixon
United States
Sam J. Ervin Jr
Dem. N.C
Senate
Democratic Committee
Democratic
Ervin
U.S
Howard H. Baker
Rep. Tenn
Lowell P. Weicker Jr
Rep. Conn
Sanatea Nanel
Senate Armed Services Committee
Hunt
John D. Ehrlichman
Cushman
Ehrlichman
U.S. District Court
FBI
L. Patrick Gray III
Watergate
Earl Silbert
Gray
Watergate Grand Jury
Roy Sheppard
White House
Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon
Ellsberg
No NEWS Monday Victoria Day Holiday Notice
The Medicine Hat NEWS will not publish Monday May 21 in observance of Victoria Day. Display and classified deadlines shift: Wednesday May 25 ad deadline at 12 noon Saturday May 19. Tuesday May 22 deadlines are 5 p.m. Friday May 25 for display and 12 noon Saturday May 19 for classifieds.
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Medicine Hat News
Police chase car tied to Laval prison escapees
Montreal police seek a stolen sports car believed linked to five inmates who escaped from the Laval Correctional Development Centre. The vehicle, taken Sunday from Dorval airport parking, picked up two men near the prison and may have carried the other three escapees in the area. Names of the five escapees are Jean-Paul Mercier, 28, Robert Imbeault, 24, Gilles Gingras, 26, Michel Lafleur, 23, Andre Ouellette, 33.
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Montreal
Laval
Montreal International Airport
Dorval
Montreal Island
Jean-Paul Mercier
Robert Imbeault
Gilles Gingras
Michel Lafleur
Andre Ouellette
Grasshopper hatch delayed by weather across Prairies
Weather slows grasshopper hatch as seeding begins across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Moisture ranges from fair to ideal with pastures and weeds growing well. Grasshoppers are just starting to hatch in Melita and southern regions as farmers push into spring seeding.
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Statistics Canada
Statistics Bureau
Manitoba
Melita
Saskatchewan
Alberta
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Commons Agriculture Committee
Wheat Board
Prairies
Sam Ervin Jr
Washington, D.C
Pease
Charles Coward
Joseph Kerwin
Paul Weitz
Space Agency
Houston
Tex
Huntsville
Ala
Martin-Marietta
Denver
Skylab
Conard
America
Robert E. Cushman
E. Howard Hunt Jr
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
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