Socreds face leadership split after Granby convention
At the Granby Quebec convention, Real Caouette pressed to keep non secessionist unity as a third of Quebec Social Credit MPs repudiated his leadership. Caouette aimed to rally MPs in Quebec City for a national leadership contest against Robert Thompson, risking a split that could loosen separatist and pro Caouette factions.
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Caouette Attacks Separatists at Granby Congress
At the Granby convention Mr. Caouette attacked separatists and the lack of separatist resolutions and claimed to halt such aims within Quebec nationalism. He urged fighting for the respect of the French fact in Confederation as delegates pressed on amid Social Credit protests.
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Marcel Chaput
Quebec Republican Party
Ontario
Toronto
James Audy
League of Social Credit Action
Sleeping Sickness Report in Hanna and Manitoba
A Hanna Alberta farmer becomes the prairie’s first confirmed sleeping sickness case with a hospital admission and a recovering outlook. Twelve suspected horse cases and 900 vaccine doses noted as Manitoba reports horse deaths and provincial tests continue.
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Agnes O'Neil
Hanna
Calgary
O'Neil
Electricians strike halts work at Calgary sites
Calgary reports electricians stopped work at major sites from 8 a.m. today. All non electrical workers have returned to duties per union leaders. The brief notes the stoppage and partial resumption of site activity.
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Calgary
80 Die in Swissair Jet Crash Near Zurich
A Swissair Caravelle exploded and fell into a potato field near Duerrenae sch killing all 80 aboard. The Rome flight disintegrated set a house ablaze but ground victims were none. Authorities collected charred bodies. cause under inquiry with no passenger lists yet.
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Reuters-Ap Zurich
Switzerland
Duerrenaesch
Zurich
Hamlikon
Watering restrictions remain in place at city council meeting
At Tuesday’s council session Ald. T. R. Osborne and Ald. Helen Gibson sparred over water policy as debate over meters intensified. Mayor Harry Weiner urged patience noting residents oppose charges while Ald. Sissons warned they must be explained and accepted if meters are to be implemented.
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Helen Gibson
Gordon Sissons
Ald
Cliff Adam
Public Works Committee
Harry Weiner
Sissons
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Earl Smith
Willard Lutes
Smith
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Weiner
Ald. Sissons
Ald. J. C. Miller
One Way Bridge Plan Is Shelved by Council
City council defers a new police station vote to burgesses on Oct 16, with Ald. Miller proposing a public referendum to fund a 307000 project. Provincial and city cost shares total 185000 plus one third from the province. location is the old hospital site at ash Ave and 2nd St SE.
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J. C. Miller
Police Commission
Harry Weiner
Ald. Miller
City Hall
Jack Edwards
Miller
Ash Ave
2Nd St. S.E
Airport Runway Contract Awarded in Medicine Hat
Calgary firm Standard Gravel Limited won a $469,149 contract to build a 5,000-foot new runway at Medicine Hat Airport. The project includes a taxiway and aircraft parking space, per the transport department.
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Ottawa
Standard Gravel Limited
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Transport Department
New Column Addresses Problems by Doris Clark
Canadian counsellor Doris Clark a Master of Social Work and McGill Toronto and McMaster graduate debuts a new column Successful Living in The NEWS She will answer letters on etiquette in laws domestic boredom elder care and marriage communication and provide local resources for Medicine Hat and nearby centres through the women's section.
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McGill
Toronto
McMaster
Miss Clark
Medicine Hat
Foundation Plan Changes in Wind Alberta
Alberta eyes changes to its education financing plan as the 32 mill levy fails to keep pace with rising costs. A government study led by Education Minister A O Aalborg will review three years of operation and propose revisions for the Legislature. The intent remains equal education across the province, though tax increases may be needed to cover growth and rising costs.
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Alberta
A. O. Aalborg
Council In Brief Shelves cross-river bridge project and advances several items
City council shelved the cross-river traffic bridge plan and weighs a separate river bank road. It will place the citys share of 185000 for a new police station on Oct 16 vote. It approves library construction start and appoints Allan Gunter as honorary acting coordinator of Emergency Measures. The centennial committee drafts its bylaws and budget. Scholarship rules change. zoning for the Commercial corner at 7th St SW Divison Ave is rejected. It is not in the private paving business.
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Allan Gunter
Centennial Committee
7Th St. SW - Division Ave
Harvesting progress in Alberta wheat crop report
The Alberta Wheat Pool reported that by the end of August over 43 percent of the province's wheat had been cut, up from 37 percent last year. Rain slowed threshing with only 1 percent combined versus 19 percent a year earlier, though all regions had some activity and the Medicine Hat Lethbridge area showed 25 to 50 percent completion.
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Calgary
Alberta
Alberta Wheat Pool
Lethbridge Medicine Flat
River Road Proposal Halts Bridges Plan In City Council
City Council froze the two one way bridges proposal Tuesday, signaling uncertainty on timing possibly longer than a year. A southside river bank road between 4th Ave and Maple Ave may proceed independently to alleviate congestion at 6th Ave 1st St while bridges are delayed.
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Maple Ave
Helen Gibson
Allan Gunter
River Bank
6Th Ave.1st St
Gunter
Public Works Committee
Cliff Adam
Willard Lutes
T. R. Osborne
Osborne
Defence Policy Taking Shape in Canada
Ottawa reports a new defence policy aiming for a small mobile army with airborne units and tactical air support. Canada plans eventual single service, NATO alignment, and a 10 000-man West German brigade ready for global move. Hellyer rejects 66 CF-104 jet bombers for Europe.
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North Atlantic
United Nations
Pearson
Canada
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Europe
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Hellyer
Canadian Teacher Bound Aboard Cambodge In Sri Lanka
Miss Sarah de Vloo, 24, from Bow Island Alberta, is kept on the French liner Cambodge by order of the captain until the ship sails. She says she was expelled last October after refusing advances by a Ceylonese MP and local officials, but found a new love in Sri Lanka. The government says she was told to depart for violating tourist visa by seeking employment.
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Ceylon
Reuters
Cambodge
Sarah de Vloo
Bow Island
Alta
Rural Enrolment Boostes Medicine Hat High Students
Dr. O P Larson reports urban growth plus a rural rise sends Medicine Hat High total up by about 1910s from last June. Tuesday enrolment at the high school reached 845 with Crescent Heights at 630 Jr Sr high and Alexandra Junior High near last year’s level. Overall city elementary enrolment rose to 5079 while separate district Grade I enrolment fell to 133. McCoy High has 240 and St Mary’s 371 across grades I to XII.
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Dr. Larson
Medicine Hat
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Alexandra Junior High
Rae Bolduc
McCoy High School
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St. Francis Xavier
St. Louis
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