Bottling plants fear closure over bottle depot plan
The NEWS reports a Medicine Hat area bottling plant may shut if Bill 26 creates central depots for empty bottles and a one cent reclaim charge. Officials say industry fears are overstated but a committee will study impacts before proclamation, with government pledging careful timing.
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Gordon Pollard
Medicine Hat
Ken Simpson
Department of the Environment
Alberta
Simpson
Nixon heads to Moscow for eight day summit
President Nixon left Andrews Air Force Base for his Moscow trip expressing hope for progress toward world peace and improved US Soviet relations. He will stop in Salzburg before flying to Moscow, with focus on three areas: nuclear arms limits, trade, and space exploration.
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Moscow
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington
Nixon
United States
Soviet Union
Salzburg
Austria
Spiro T. Agnew
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Anatoly Dobrynin
North Vietnam launches dawn counter attack on An Loc
Several hundred North Vietnamese troops led by tanks attacked at dawn and briefly disrupted a South Vietnamese push to relieve An Loc. Initial reports counted 81 NVA dead and seven tanks destroyed, while 15 South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 38 wounded. U.S. advisers called it likely the last major thrust in the city siege as field reports noted ongoing shelling and air strikes.
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Saigon
An Loc
U.S
Highway 13
Second offence fine approved in Alberta highway act
Edmonton CP report says the Alberta legislature backed a Social Credit amendment to keep a $500 minimum fine for a second offence of not carrying compulsory car insurance. The change maintains rules first introduced April 1 with a $250 first offence while the government sought to remove minimums, but Gordon Taylor argued for teeth in the law and moved to retain $500 for individuals and $1,500 for companies during second reading of the highway traffic amendment act.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Social Credit
Progressive Conservative
Gordon Taylor
SC — Drumheller
Taylor
Mr. Taylor
June cheques fatter for pensioners in election context
Ottawa reports old age pensioners will receive larger cheques next month partly due to a political timetable. Some disabled veterans and dependents will see higher payments, with increases reflected in July. Parliament rushed two bills granting retroactive hikes to January, amid opposition fear of a looming election and calls for swift passage before summer adjournment.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Senate
Commons
Jacques Flynn
Minister questions Wyse comments on southern highway plans
Highways Minister Clarence Copithorne told the legislature he is disturbed by statements attributed to Medicine Hat Redcliff MLA Bill Wyse in The NEWS. He declined to specify how much of the $40 million highway budget will go to southern Alberta, but defended his department’s record.
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Clarence Copithorne
Medicine Hat
Redcliff
Bill Wyse
Mr. Wyse
Copithorne
Wyse
Alberta
Alberta seeks power shift study over provincial franchises
Alberta's new government challenged Ottawa over two matters, a Edmonton cable franchise and an Alberta airline license, saying disputes will no longer stay federal. Premier Lougheed and minister Don Getty demand a clear division of powers and taxing rights. Meanwhile RCMP and attorney general examined Calgary Ku Klux Klan group incorporation under the Societies Act, with Leitch noting its aims are discriminatory but legal to form.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Ottawa
Don Getty
Getty
Canadian Radio Television Commission
Peter Lougheed
Lougheed
RCMP
Attorney-General’s Department
Merv Leitch
NDP
Grant Notley
Calgary
Banff
Confederate Klans of
Leitch
Government should consider sales tax says petroleum association
The Independent Petroleum Association of Canada told a government committee that Alberta should curb expenditures and consider a selective sales tax rather than relying on the oil industry. A reserves tax would deter exploration, reduce Crown lease sale bids, and hurt jobs, the group warned.
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Calgary
Alberta
Independent Petroleum Association of Canada
IAPC
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Glass and Can
Liquor Control Board
Yorke
Ment
Eugene Kupchanko
Twe
Nixons
N. Vietnam
Klan
Gov’t
Says Petroleum Association
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