Council approves Burnside area development plan
City Council in a closed session decides to revise the general plan to allow Monarch Investments to develop Burnside Farm for housing. Negotiations on water and sewers begin with council and planning commission approvals in each phase, while regional planners urge a clear decision due to cost and service implications. Aldermen split on timing and secrecy, with discussion on Crestwood delays and need to anticipate demand.
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Burnside Farm
Bill Keith
Monarch Investments
Council
Municipal Planning Commission
Regional Planning Commission
Harold Thomson
Thompson
Roy Balston
Commission
Burnside
Crestwood
Ralston
Dave MacLean
Ald
Earl Smith
George Renner
Jack Edwards
Ald. Edwards
Ald. Smith
Salazar Near Death After Stroke in Lisbon Hospital
Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, 79, suffering a stroke while finishing lunch in his hospital room, was reported near death. He had previously recovered from surgery on September 7 to remove a skull blood clot, with hospital sources saying his condition is hopeless and no successor named.
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Lisbon
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Portugal
Europe
Salazar
Insurance underwriter seeks seat on school board
Howard Hannah, 41, a local insurance underwriter, told The NEWS he will run for a seat on the public school board in the fall civic elections. He has three children in the public system and says he is concerned about education costs and the school system’s future. A former Moose Jaw resident, he has lived in the city five and a half years.
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Howard Hannah
The
News Today
Hannah
Moose Jaw
Politics biggest obstacle to solving housing problem
Ottawa hearing reveals mortgage money and land costs exist, but political barriers at local and provincial levels drive high costs. Lloyd Gunby of the National House Builders Association cites municipal delays, school burdens, and up to two-year holdups across Ontario with 20 government bodies able to block developments, adding about 1200 dollars per home.
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Ontario
Lloyd Gunby
National House Builders Association Research Committee
Ottawa
Provinces
Nixon cautious in U S campaign as election nears
Washington report on the 1968 U S presidential race notes Nixon leading Humphrey and Wallace in polls seven weeks before election day. It compares Nixon's cautious stride to a tightrope walk while Humphrey rides a midterm confidence and Wallace rallys crowds with a law and order platform. The piece recalls Truman's 1948 upset as a warning about shifting dynamics.
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Washington
United States
Richard Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
Alabama
Nixon
Anderson seeks aldermanic seat in city elections
Lee Anderson, a local insurance underwriter, announced his bid for City Council in the October civic elections. He urged revising urban renewal plans, favored arena pool complex first, pressed for a new bridge, and proposed Police Point as a natural park. Anderson backed the highway functional study and cited the Stampede grounds as a potential site.
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Lee Anderson
Anderson
Police Point
Medicine Hat
Hillcrest Christian College
Harry Leinweber
Goodyear Union
Nigerians capture Owerri Rebels hold only one town
Nigerian army reports the seizure of Owerri shrinking Biafra to about ten percent of its former area. Only Umuahia remains a major town as federal troops close in from north and south, with about six million Ibos displaced. Refugees include many foreign wives and priests amid uncertain fate.
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Lagos
Owerri
Biafra
Umuahia
C. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Nigeria
Ojukwu
British High Commission
Leaders clash over Canada’s just society goals during debate
In the leaders debate Prime Minister Trudeau faced sharp questions from Stanfield NDP Leader Lewis and Caouette. Stanfield faulted the government for inaction on housing unemployment poverty and cost of living while labeling it secretive. Lewis warned the just society might remain a slogan four years on. Caouette likened Trudeau’s program to Mackenzie King era.
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Stanfield
David Lewis
NDP
Lewis
Trudeau
Creditiste
Caouette
Mackenzie King
King
Canada
Mr. Stanfield
Holy Ghost
Nigeria refugees starve as aid lags in Calabar
Swedish Red Cross nurse Ulla Forshamn reports only about 200 tons of food and medicine reaching nearly 500,000 refugees in Calabar and surrounding areas. She notes 250,000 housed or in camps and possibly 200,000 hiding in the bush, with aid slowly increasing as life returns to normal in rain forest villages after the Nigerian civil war. A US Red Cross medical team leader calls the aid amount far too small.
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Calabar
Reuters
Nigeria
Biafra
United States Red Cross
Soviet forces ring Prague with heavy artillery and tanks
Thousands of Soviet troops surround Prague with 24 large artillery pieces within eight miles of the city and more than 50 armored guns along approaches. Reports say up to 90,000 occupation troops are present as Moscow pushes for stricter censorship and punitive measures against liberal reformers. Talks between Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Kuznetsov and Czechoslovak leaders continue with hard demands.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Strasnice
Hormenice
Vassily Kuznetsov
Moscow
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Time Magazine
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Wallace
Harry Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
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