Johnson scorns wage price controls and inflation cures
Ottawa criticizes mandatory wage and price controls as imported, warns against bureaucratic incomes policy. He doubts monopoly fears, questions central bank power, favors a freely floating Canadian dollar and warns inflation may persist as Nixon policy shifts.
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Ottawa
Harry Johnson
Canada
Senate Finance Committee
Prices and Incomes Commission
John Young
Johnson
Finance Department
Trudeau
Farm labor recruiter charged with killings
Juan V. Corona a 37 year old migrant labor recruiter in Yuba City California is charged with 10 counts of murder in a case involving the hack killed victims found buried in peach and prune orchards. Police say more bodies may remain hidden as investigators continue the search.
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Yuba City
Calif
California
Juan V. Corona
Corona
Roy D. Whiteaker
Sandy
Meteor Captain Recounts Ocean Tragedy in Inquest
Captain Morner testified at the inquest into the blaze aboard the Meteor 2,856 ton ship near the Strait of Georgia sixty miles from Vancouver. He led a party into the fire area and ordered the whistle blown repeatedly due to a faulty alarm. Thirty two crew members died and 67 passengers plus 59 crew escaped. bodies of victims appeared asleep rather than burned. Police noted the fire began in several locations but gave no cause.
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Strait of Georgia
Vancouver
Morner
U S Influence Worries Trudeau In Arctic Policy
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau warns against large northern city building despite Soviet progress in Murmansk and similar Arctic centers. He foresees no major new cities in Canada's north.
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Murmansk
Arctic Circle
Trudeau
British Army Ordered to Shoot on Sight in Northern Ireland
In Belfast the British army received orders to strike hard against armed guerrillas after a bomb killed a soldier and wounded 27. Prime Minister Faulkner warned terrorists are playing with their lives as another gelignite blast occurred in a vacant lot. The paratrooper killed was 27 year old Michael Willets, father of two, who had been shielding two children.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Brian Faulkner
Faulkner
Ulster
Michael Willets
England
Commons approves government's reorganization bill in Ottawa
The Commons passed the bill establishing an environment department and allowing creation of new ministries. The vote was formal after two opposition amendments failed, with 149 Liberals, 71 Conservatives, 23 NDP, 18 Social Credit, and 5 vacancies. The measure moves to the Senate.
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Ottawa
Commons
Environment Department
James A. McGrath
St. John’s East
Environment
Fisheries Department
Liberals
Stanley Knowles
NDP
Winnipeg North Centre
Liberal
Conservative
New Democrat
Social Credit
Independent
Senate
Australian bandit bomb scare yields reward offer
Rewards totaling 56,400 were posted today for capture of the bandits who used a bomb scare bluff to cheat an Australian airline out of 560,000. In Cape Town, three small South African air force jets crashed in bad weather, killing 11 crew and officers during formation practice for the republics 10th anniversary.
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Sydney
Australia
Cape Town
Constitution pact near says Sharp
Ottawa Acting Prime Minister Mitchell Sharp said a repatriation and amending formula for the Canadian constitution is closer than ever. He noted provincial delegates at Victoria’s constitutional conference show greater acceptance of change though past reversals caution against certainty.
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Ottawa
Mitchell Sharp
Victoria
Sharp
House of Commons
London
England
John Turner
Ponoka Patients Move to Medicine Hat Amid Care Gaps
About 300 mental institute patients near Ponoka will be moved to Medicine Hat over 18 months as the Blair report pushes decentralization. Local services will be unable to absorb the influx, says family service worker Bill Henry, prompting concern that treatment centres are unprepared for the patients.
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Ponoka
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat Mental Association
Blair
Bill Henry
Grain control bill under heavy fire in Commons
Ottawa CP report says a bill granting government authority to place rye flaxseed and rapeseed under the Canadian Wheat Board faced strong opposition in the Commons on Wednesday. PC MP Jack Biggs urged a plebiscite and warned the bill reflects socialist aims in Canadian agriculture. He argued rapeseed is a cash crop and under Wheat Board control payments would be delayed.
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Ottawa
Canadian Wheat Board
Jack Bigg
Pembina
Biggs
Ottawa to amend cash advance bill for grains criticism
Agriculture minister Otto Lang said changes will ease interest charges on grain cash advances and exempt the first 500 of an advance. The plan shields farmers unable to deliver grain due to disaster, delays default. It also seeks fixes for group farms and permit books while keeping a 6000 limit per holder.
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Ottawa
Otto Lang
Lang
Commons Agriculture Committee
Stan Korchinski
Pc—Mackenzie
Mr. Lang
Canadian Wheat Board
The
Wheat Board
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