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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 17, 1962
Page
7
The campaign intensifies as leaders clash over nuclear arms with Liberal Lester Pearson pledging no weapons in Canada while Prime Minister Diefenbaker presses devaluation and economic issues. Polls show Liberals widening lead, but regional contests in Ontario and the Maritimes shape the race for seats.
In Nova Scotia the Liberal finance minister George Nowlan faces a safe seat but party hopes to gain one Halifax constituency and Cape Breton seats amid coal industry unemployment. Angus MacLean remains secure in PHI. NDP and Social Credit struggle in Atlantic provinces. conservatives fare better. Liberal gains likely limited. PCs may keep about 20 of current seats. Liberals could gain five more.
The Canadian Highway Safety Council urges motorists to inspect basics like horn lights glass wipers and mirrors this May during a Spring car-check campaign. It cautions professional focus on tires brakes steering and exhaust while encouraging drivers to prepare for safer summer driving.
In 1911 Manitoba launched a design competition for a new Legislative Building. Frank Worthington Symon of Liverpool won with a famed stone symphony. The Golden Boy atop the dome became a provincial symbol of enterprise and youth.
Premier Duff Roblin reported in his budget address that direct and indirect provincial aid to local government is nearing 70 million dollars per year and has risen since 1953-59 at about 6.2 million annually. In 1961 municipal costs to taxpayers were about 75 million, with province providing around 60 million in aid, equal to 80 percent of local contributions.
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