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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1961
Page
1
Officials in Island City announce expanded efforts to identify rats and implement control measures across neighborhoods. The program includes targeted traps, public reporting channels, and collaboration with university entomologists to study infestation patterns and improve baits.
The Suffield Experimental Station prepares a 100 ton TNT blast with scientific teams from Canada the United Kingdom and the United States. The test is scheduled for Thursday at 10 30 am weather permitting. Minister Douglas S Harkness will not attend due to urgent Ottawa business.
Prime Minister Macmillan told the House of Commons Britain would willingly join a European federation or common market and urged unity with Europe. He argued isolation harms the Commonwealth and warned against a Western Europe rift while stressing no sudden flood of cheap labor or social-security changes would be forced upon Britain.
Belty Buttes Alberta August article notes Blood Indian members gather for sun dance festival after rain delays. Buffalo Society leaders kick off with sacred dance. Horn Society and Red Belt Braves prepare grass or chicken dances. True sun dance prohibited by law. preparations began weeks ago with groups leaving Cardston.
A massive forest fire driven by 25 mph winds burned near Brownsdale drawing near Sibleys Cove and Lead Cove. Red Cross reported 12 structures destroyed including Orangemen's hall, with four houses and the rest barns or sheds. Temperatures expected to reach the 80s as the blaze advanced. The fire entered Brownsdale late Tuesday, a 200‑person village 90 miles northwest.
Hollywood police report that literary critic Ben Ray Redman died by suicide after telling his wife he felt low about international affairs. He overdosed on sleeping pills leading to the death.
The Calgary transit strike entered its 23rd day as 436 members of local 583 received the first $25 weekly allotments. The funds come from the international union with about $7,000 raised from other sources for a special strike fund to sustain health and insurance plans.
The man who will rise tonight to nominate T C Tommy Douglas as New Party leader will be M J Coldwell.
Ottawa delegates to the New Party founding convention clash over Communist infiltration and the party's broadening of its base. Trade unionists push for rapid adoption of a program while debates on Marxist leadership and CCF ties unfold. Mr. Coldwell urges sticking to principles as he contemplates Saskatchewan leadership.
A constitutional straw vote in Ottawa shows strong preference for the name New Party for Canada's new leftist grouping with 1452 total votes. Delegates criticize the name as ridiculous while committee chair J H Brockelbank supports it. Howard McCurdy leads opposition.
Doreen Siegfieid 19 and airman Garry Prout were in a car that left the highway near a radar station 200 miles northwest of Montreal. The two were stationed at the RCAF radar site. Siegfieid died at the scene, Prout was hospitalized in serious condition.
The Winnipeg Tribune reports a potential rich new oilfield under southwestern Manitoba farmland. A well near Pierson, 75 miles southwest of Brandon, yields over 30 barrels of high grade oil daily, surpassing Alberta's Redwater field. Drilled on W. E. Chalmers farm, near the US border and Saskatchewan line, this is called the highest grade since Manitoba's oil discovery over a decade ago. A government official expresses strong optimism.
Anti aircraft batteries fired on French planes violating Tunisian air space near the Algerian frontier. Tunisian officials cited 50 violations in two days and suspected French air surveillance for Algerian rebel movements toward Bizerte. The cease fire and UN mediation frame Tunisia’s crisis with France as diplomatic for now.
Two violent convicts held five captives at knifepoint inside Kingston penitentiary for 28 hours before surrendering. The hostages were released unharmed and sent home. the suspects, identified as John Peters and Real Hamel, were moved to the penitentiary’s psychiatric ward. A prison spokesman noted the names would not be released.
The B C government converts B C Electric into a Crown corporation and takes control of the Peace River Development, declaring a move to secure 20 year power supply from Peace or Columbia rivers. Shareholders receive cash and special securities totaling about 214 million, with the deal retroactive to Tuesday.
Mayor Tom Alsbury traveled to Victoria with Vancouver council members to assess a potential annual municipal loss of nearly seven million dollars from the British Columbia Electric Company takeover. They fear losing 1.8 million in BCE taxes and incurring a transit system loss of about 5 million, while Premier Bennett announced the immediate BCE take over and power project surveys at the legislature opening.
Vancouver CP reports shock anger and puzzlement across society as the British Columbia government moves to take over the B C Electric Company. Investment dealers express confusion unionists worry BCE employees are stunned and management questions future plans. CCF legislators hail the nationalization as a victory in a long battle.
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