Reinhardt Wins Medicine Hat Mayoral Race In Tight Margin
Milton Reinhardt tops incumbent Ted Grimm by 571 votes to become Medicine Hat mayor for three years. With about 54 percent voter turnout, Reinhardt vows a city hall shake-up and committee restructuring while Grimm contemplates his political future after nine years on council.
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Reinhardt Wins City Hall Race With A Brass-Tacks Plan
Reinhardt declared a victory over Grimm and outlined a candid, businesslike agenda for city hall. He plans to shrink spending in community services, revisit park expenditures, curb borrowing, and push a 25 percent cut in gas utility rates while pursuing a northern mall and opposing southward expansion.
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Medicine Hat unveils land buffer park and energy deal
Mayor Ted Grimm outlines a 230 acre Crescent Heights land plan to create an 80 acre city park buffer between residential and industrial zones funded by residential development profits. A 13 megawatt Concord Ltd energy project would reuse plant effluent steam to run turbines.
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Thai military tops civilian government in 1976 coup
A military dominated revolutionary committee seized power in Bangkok ending Premier Tanin Kraivixien's year old government. The 1976 constitution would be abolished, martial law kept, and cabinet and national assembly dissolved as senior officers met in the capital.
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Alberta cities elect 1974 also-rans as mayors
Edmonton Mayor-elect Dec Purves wins amid pie thrower scene after seven candidates contest Edmonton Calgary appoints Ross Alger as mayor replacing Rod Sykes while promising public hearings for a proposed 144 million light rail link Medicine Hat selects Milt Reinhardt over Ted Grimm. Other towns see Mayors Romanchuk Curle Anderson Harvey Porter Swanson and Johnson acclaimed in Camrose Wetaskiwin Drumheller St Albert and Red Deer contests.
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Rudy Swanson
Leifert Johnson
Trudeau plans federal referendum on Quebec independence
Prime Minister Trudeau announced in the Commons a plan to introduce legislation for a country-wide referendum on Quebec separation from Canada. The Quebec government and Parti Quebecois signaled a cool reaction as they push their own provincial referendum plan.
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