Rule debate opens today in Commons
In Ottawa Prime Minister Pearson opens a Commons debate on radical rules changes. The opposition cries foul at a guillotine mechanism and limits on question periods and money debates, with a snap election risk if filibustered. The Senate retirement bill passes, enabling 36 aging senators to retire or stay with pay, prompting fears of Liberal packing before the next vote.
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Diefenbaker
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Bolivia paralyzed by strike over miners leader banishment
Bolivia faced a general strike after the weekend banishment of miners' leader Juan Lechin Oquendo. Factories ran under heavy police guard as armed miners held many mines in the southeast region near La Paz. about 60 people were arrested on subversion charges. Some detainees reportedly included eight members of the Revolutionary Party of the National Left led by Lechin.
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Bolivia
Reuters
Juan Lechin Oquendo
National Left
Lechin
Queen Elizabeth in Bonn Receives Warm West German Welcome
Queen Elizabeth greeted by large Bonn crowds on day two of her West German state visit. Police said crowds surpassed those for Kennedy in 1963 and de Gaulle in 1962 as she laid a wreath for World War II dead and Nazi victims and visited the Rathaus and Beethoven statue amid sustained cheers and chants of Elizabeth and Viva la Queen.
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Reuters
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Police fail to locate four Montreal escapees in Prince Albert
In Prince Albert, police and penitentiary staff combed 10 city zones for four Montreal inmates who escaped Sunday night. Hack saws cut cell bars and roadblocks remain. officials stress the men may still be in the area and warn they are extremely dangerous.
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Montreal
Don Fowler
Fowler
Yvan Lamarche
Claude Pitre
Maurice Gosselin
Roger Albert Savard
Lamarche
Pitre
Savard
Gosselin
Here
Prince Albert, Sask
Yvon Lamarche
Robert Savard
Senate retires considered as Ottawa debates 75 age rule
Ottawa reports that Senator Arthur Roebuck 87 and other active members oppose mandatory retirement. A government bill would set 75 for new appointees and allow current senators over 75 to retire or take an 8000 pension. Several seniors weigh their options with mixed views.
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Arthur Roebuck
Senate
Toronto
Liberal
Hawrelak appeal opens in court
In Edmonton the Hawrelak disqualification appeal began in Alberta Supreme Court with lawyer J W K Shortreed arguing the city contract for a land replot may not be a legal contract. The case centers on Hawrelak's alleged City Act violation for holding over 25 percent of a company with city contracts.
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J. W. K. Shortreed
Alberta Supreme Court
Roy Anderson
Hawrelak
Shortreed
C.c. McLaurin
Tral Division
Supreme Court
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Meings
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Ehourman
Paxwrelak
Sun-Alta
Horace Johnson
Appeal Court
Kosygin Cancels Planned Britain Visit
Russian Premier Kosygin has scrapped plans for an early visit to Britain citing London’s support for U.S. Viet Nam policy. A return trip to Moscow this year by Prime Minister Wilson is also ruled out for now. The talks were announced in Parliament in December following Wilson’s socialist government take office. Observers say the spring visit is off at least for the time being.
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Navy strikes North Viet Nam in second consecutive day
U S Navy planes from the carrier Coral Sea hit two targets 40 miles north of the DMZ destroying barracks at Hoan Lao and a radio station power plant and admin buildings at Chanh Hoa. The mission involved about 40 aircraft for 45 minutes of bombardment with 50 tons of bombs. Marines conducted their first amphibious assault across the Ca De River toward Truphy Minh village nine miles from Dai Nang. one Marine was wounded.
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Junta Forces Seize Main Rebel Radio Station In Santo Domingo
Dominican troops loyal to the civilian-military junta occupied the main rebel radio facility in Santo Domingo after a day of gunfire with sniper units. UN and U.S. officials reported ongoing battles, casualties, and shifting fronts as the junta pressed its East-West corridor drive toward the rebel pockets south of the corridor.
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U.S
Jose Antonio Mayobre
Venezuela
U Thant
Antonio Imbert Berrera
Francisco J. Rivera Caminero
Armed Forces
Mbert
Hat loses pathologist Dr K R Thornton leaves Medicine Hat
Dr K R Thornton chief pathologist at Medicine Hat General Hospital and Medicine Hat Diagnostic Laboratory departs for Victoria British Columbia to join Royal Jubilee Hospital. He cites government intervention in diagnostics as a factor and leaves Medicine Hat temporarily without a pathologist. Thornton, Alberta Society of Pathologists president, has a history from Leeds University and service with the British Army.
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Medicine Hat
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Thornton
Leeds University
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Ruhr
Royal Infirmary
Manichester
University of Birmingham
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Birmingham
Royal College of Physicians and ‘Surgeons of Canada
Defence Research Board
Suffield
Dan MacChartes
Brooks General Hospital
Bow Island General Hospital
Medical Arts Clinic
Alberta Chamber of Commerce backs liquor ad loosening
Delegates at the Alberta Chamber of Commerce convention approved a resolution urging further relaxation of liquor controls. They praised a Liquor Act change allowing brand advertising in print but opposed radio and television bans. The meeting also urged federal action to finish the David Thompson Highway segment through Banff National Park by 1967 and supported a dome-light proposal for locomotives. Additional resolutions sought airstrip funding, highway improvements north of Edmonton, and targeted provincial cooperation with the government.
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Alberta Chamber of Commerce
Alberta
Calgary Chamber of Commerce
David Thompson
Banff National Park
Board of Transport Commissioners
Grande Prairie
Victoria Day Holiday Closures Across Medicine Hat
Victoria Day on May 24th brings a town wide closure with most offices and banks closed Monday. Post office services limited, liquor vendors open Saturday then closed Monday, beverage rooms open both days, milk deliveries continue, and the NEWS will not publish Monday while copy deadlines shift for Tuesday and Wednesday papers.
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Medicine Hat
Magistrate's Court
Cost of living up in Britain in April
The British cost of living rose 2.1 points in April according to the labor ministry index of retail prices. The jump from 109.9 to 112 marks the largest single month increase since 1953 and follows the Labor party’s rise to power in October.
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