20 May 1971
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Newspaper
Lethbridge Herald
Location
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 20, 1971
Page
1
Fragmentary note mentions a mare named White and her foal born in Toledo. Ownership credited to Dr. and Afrs, with unclear context and no verifiable details.
Ernest Bernnguett of St. Paul Minn. awoke to find his room entered and his trousers missing containing about 355 dollars. Police investigated the incident as a trouser theft in Edmonton on Saturday night or Sunday morning.
Vancouver March 2 The number of BC lumber workers in the strike fell to 36000, down 1006 from last Wednesday, as firms signed 1945 wage demands under the LWYA. Princeton mills added 30 and 32 cent hourly increases for teamsters, fallers, and buckers. A union meeting will weigh a royal commission into contractors claims that BC lumber flowed to the black market during the strike.
Delegates from provincial commands and U S commands meet to map remedies for housing employment and other postwar issues. Key issues include parliament proposals housing shortages and the push for full employment, with veterans and organized labor preferring negotiated settlements.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Churchill ally in urging shared efforts to end hunger through a nine point food conservation program. Wheat acreage grows to high levels while rationing and restrictions persist, with Canada and the United Kingdom coordinating via the combined food board to secure harvests through 1947 and beyond. John Bracken criticizes policy on wheat expansion.
In Winnipeg a 60 year old woman Mrs Herman was killed in a North Winnipeg rooming house slashed with an axe. Abraham Goodman a 63 year old baker who stalked her was wounded by police and is hospitalized under guard. He may face charges if he survives.
An official announcement said Earl Granville the Northern Ireland governor refused to receive a delegation seeking the release of hunger striker David Fleming from Crumlin prison in Belfast. The governor acted after consulting government ministers as Fleming neared 58 days of fasting.
Edmonton police hold Christy John Maddison 24 for six arson charges after a south side block fire left 32 homeless. Investigators say kerosene cans found at the scene linked Maddison to several fires, with possible additional charges to come. Damage estimated at 120000.
Musical festival results list multiple winners from Lethbridge and Raymond across age groups. Winners include Bev erley Knowlden in violin, Marian Paulence, Rosemary Adams, Thomas Wood, Jalayne Rowland Raymond, Kay Salmon, Francis Atterton, Karma Woolley, Edward Koboda, Lawrence Harker, and Raymond Public School rhythmic ensemble.
The United Nations war crimes commission reports 282 death sentences among 735 defendants tried across western and southern Europe, southeast Asia and Australia with 318 imprisonment and 155 acquittals. US, British, Allied forces report varied outcomes. Czechoslovak trials show 44 death sentences in Bohemia and Moravia. Navy trials in the Pacific yield 17 death sentences. The six months into the Nuremberg trial finds four top Nazis missing.
Two youths injured in a Sunday evening crash three miles north of Cardston on the Indian reserve. Enid Lee and Bryan Nelson suffered injuries including a broken collar bone and head lacerations, bruises, and shock. A 1946 Chevrolet owned by Kirkham Lee rolled over several times. the car was a total loss. Jim Gladstone, a reserve member, found the pair and took them to Cardston Hospital.
The British House of Commons approved the government nationalization bill for the coal industry by 324 to 1. Other items note a Winnipeg bakery confessing to fatally attacking a woman, clashes along the Azerbaijan border deemed minor, a royal commission espionage hearing on Edward Mazerall, lumber released for veterans homes, a coast to coast auto trek near its end, a Calgary strike vote for beverage dispensers, compulsory reseeding ordered in the USSR to bolster crops, and other brief items from Winnipeg to Vancouver.
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