Training program praised in Commons for paid retraining plan
Immigra tion Minister Marchand backed a pay to learn bill offering up to 90 dollars weekly to unemployed and under employed workers who return to school. The measure aims to replace welfare tied training with a 95 percent federal reimbursement and a 35 dollar minimum weekly guarantee.
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Ottawa
Marchand
Commons
Robert MaeCleave
Halifax
Newfoundland
Canada
Creditistes
Labrador
Quebec
Economic Council of Canada
Marehand
Tshombe ousted from Congolese Parliament on treason charge
Congolese Parliament voted 96 to 3 to remove Moise Tshombe from the Chamber of Deputies for high treason. He has been abroad since January, citing medical reasons, while Mobutu backed the action. Tshombe rose to power after Katanga's secession and later became premier before resigning in 1965.
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Leopoldville
Reuters
Moise Tshombe
Chamber of Deputies
Tshombe
Katanga
Ist
Europe
Paris
Brussels
Joseph Mobutu
Chamber
United Nations
Joseph Kasavubu
Bobutu
Alberta extends Medicare coverage with extended benefits plan
Alberta residents will gain extended medical insurance coverage starting July 1 under a new extended health benefits plan. Private plans will carry average annual costs of about 20 dollars for a single person, 40 for a couple, and 60 for a family. Subsidies under the Alberta medical care insurance plan will aid low income groups to obtain the extended coverage, with subsidies rising to over 90 percent of residents covered by some plan. Increased subsidies will also apply to standard medical premiums for various income levels, including 80 percent for those with no taxable income, 50 percent for incomes under 500 dollars, and 25 percent for incomes between 500 and 1,000 dollars.
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Edmonton
Alberta
J. Donovan’ Ross
Ross
Wunder
Air Canada back to keep Winnipeg Viscount overhauls after 1973
A Winnipeg inquiry endorsed ending in house Viscount overhaul work in Winnipeg for Air Canada while urging future owners to keep a 1,000 worker base after 1973. It advised selling retired Viscounts to regional airlines with a share stake in the parent and creating a subsidiary to run the Winnipeg plant.
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Ottawa
Air Canada
Winnipeg
Don A. Thompson
Manitoba
Dorval
Montreal
Transport
Pickersgill
Thompson
Canadian Regional Airlines
Diefenbaker Criticized For Handling Munsinger Case
Two lawyers at the Gerda Munsinger inquiry sharply criticized Prime Minister Diefenbaker for his response to RCMP files involving Pierre Sevigny. They urged harsher action and warned Sevigny could have been fired, arguing the prime minister treated the matter like a schoolboy misconduct.
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Munsinger
Diefenbaker
Justice
Davie Fulton
Ottawa
Gerda Munsinger
J. L. O'Brien
RCMP
Pierre Sevigny
Jack Campbell
Cardin
Sevigny
Fulton
Wishart Spence
Supreme Court of Canada
Justice Spence
Jules Dupres
O’brien
Pearson
Favreau
Hees
Jus
Riots Trace Vi etnam Buddhist Protest in Saigon Street Clash
In Saigon Buddhist demonstrators attacked, shouting anti American slogans and hurling gasoline bombs. Police used tear gas to scatter about 1,000 marchers including children near the Buddhist Institute as broader tensions rise over Vietnam elections and civilian rule.
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Saigon
Buddhist Institute
Nguyen Cao Ky
Constituent Assembly
U.S
Labor unions face renewed strain in British Columbia
In British Columbia a wave of labor action prompts a strike vote among 25 000 International Woodworkers of America members with 94 percent in favor in New Westminster Local 94 as talks resume after the vote. Pulp and paper workers seek a ten percent wage rise as negotiations stall with eight major firms. Pat O Neal resigns as BC Federation of Labor organizer to lead Western Canada pulp union. Al Staley to assume temporary duties.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
International Woodworkers of America
CLC
New Westminster
B.C
IWA and
Forest Industrial Relations Jct
International Brotherhood of Pulp Sulphire and Paper Mill Workers
United Paper Makers and Paper Workers Union
Port Alberni
Macmillan Bloedel Ltd
E. P
Pat) O’neal
B.C. Federation of Labor
Western Canada
International Pulp and Sullite Workers
O’neal
al Staley
O’neals
Farmer Killed in Tractor Accident Near Maple Creek
A 48 year old farmer Albert Sturm of Battle Creek was killed when a tractor ran over him on his Cypress Hills farm the morning of the incident. Sturm was hitching a seed drill to a tractor operated by his father in law Fred Kallenberger of Medicine Hat. He leaves a wife Ethel and two children aged seven and 13. Maple Creek RCMP said the death was instantaneous and an inquest is unlikely.
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Cypress Hills
Maple Creek
RCMP
Fred Kallenberger
Medicine Hat
Sturm
Ethel
No NEWS Monday Victoria Day holiday notice
The NEWS will not publish on Monday due to the statutory holiday Victoria Day. Advertising deadline for Wednesday's paper shifts to 12 noon this Saturday.
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Victoria
Damages Awarded in Alberta Car Crash Case
The Alberta Supreme Court awarded General damages of 5000 to 16 year old Charlotte Kaszyk of Walsh in a car crash case against Rosemary Doonan of Medicine Hat. Kaszyk’s father John Kaszyk initiated the action after an October 1964 collision. The Zeeb family and Sheila Vogel pursued related actions. Vogel and Nathan Baker were not successful. Sunny skies and temperatures reaching the 60s are forecast with unsettled weather and a Pacific disturbance predicted for Saturday.
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Charlotte Kaszyk
Walsh
J. W. H. Milwain
Alberta Supreme Court
Miss Kaszyk
John Kaszyk
Rosemary Doonan
Medicine Hat
Miss Doonan
Zeeb
Sheila Vogel
Lindsay Vogel
Nathan Baker
Piapot
Rita Baker
Vogel
Mr. Baker
Alberta
Inquest Ordered Into Bomb Death Of Paul Chartier
An Ontario inquest probes the death of Paul Chartier after a bomb he built exploded in a Toronto washroom while he planned to deliver a speech to MPs in Ottawa. Police traced dynamite, detonators and fuse to his belongings and note his intent to “kill as many as possible.”
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Toronto
Paul Joseph Chartier
H. B. Cotham
Ontario
Chartier
Ottawa
Charuca
Alberta
Commons
Bonnyville
Alta
Leon J. Raymond
the Common
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C. F. H. Carson
J. E.houston
Kailey
Mobutu
Fleming
Mr. Diefenbaker
Sevigny-Hees
Mr. Sevigny
Mr. Sevi
Campbell
Ployers
Cana
Dian Pulp and Sulphite Workers Union
Ind
Ivbedaaes
Calgary
Lethbridge
Swift Current
House of Commons
Raymond
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