Irrigation Ditch To Benefit 10
A new two and a half mile irrigation ditch near Irvine is nearly finished and will tap an unused water source. It will transfer Elkwater Lake spring run-off to Cavan Lake for summer distribution to the Ross Irrigation District farms. Leonard Anderson notes Elkwater Lake sometimes runs over into July, improving supply. Farmers paid per acre to join and maintenance fees. the project is largely government-installed.
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Jean M. Holt
Irvine
Ross Irrigation District
Elkwater Lake
Cavan Lake
Leonard Anderson
Irrigation District
Gros Ventre
Woolley Farm
Feldman Lake School
Anderson
Ross Creek
Wittke
Dunmore
Henry Cavan
No Inquest Into Death Of 'Hatter
Medicine Hat businessman Litman Gibbs died August 1 in Medicine Hat at 53. No inquest was announced by acting coroner Dr. R F Fairbairn. Funeral service led by Rabbi E Klein at Sons of Abraham Synagogue. Interment in Hillside Cemetery. Survived by wife Sylvia two daughters Roselyn and Leita a sister and a brother. Predeceased by son Allan in 1957.
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Medicine Hat
Litman Gibbs
R. F. Fairbairn
E. Klein
Sons of Abraham
Mr. Gibbs
Aberdeen St
Gibbs
Hillside Cemetery
Pattison Funeral Home
Lipton
Sask
Sylvia Frieden
Dysart
Calgary
Alberta Credit Jewellers
Sylvia
Roselyn
Pappelbaum
Edmonton
Leita
Montreal
Mary Gibbs
Clara
B. Stone
Joe
Vancouver
Allan
Tailor-made weather and huge crowd at nuclear pact signing
Rod Edwards reports on a climate favorable to public turnout as world powers sign an underground tests excluded partial test ban agreement. The event draws an exceptionally large crowd and widespread attention to the pact's implications.
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Rod Edwards
7,000 Watch Air Display In Tailor-Made Weather
Medicine Hat hosted an air show featuring RCAF and civilian aerobatic teams drawing an estimated 7,000 spectators. The two hour display, praised as the best ever in Medicine Hat, included a Canadian Legion Pipe Band opening and Milt Harradence in a Mustang that briefly delayed his Calgary return due to engine irregularities.
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RCAF
Medicine Hat
Ken Kinvig
Manuel Raber
Calgary
Canadian Legion
Harra
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Signed by U S Britain and Russia
The United States Britain and Russia signed a partial nuclear test ban treaty in the Kremlin Grand Palace forbidding atmospheric underwater and outer space tests. Underground testing is allowed. The ceremony featured Dean Rusk Lord Home Andrei Gromyko with U Thant and Khrushchev present.
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Reuters-Ap
Moscow
United States
Britain
Russia
Kremlin Grand Palace
Dean Rusk
Lord Home
Andrei Gromyko
Ekaterine Hall
United Nations
U Thant
Khrushchev
Thant
Americans Repel North Korean Raiders in Dawn Clash
Three U S soldiers repelled seven North Korean raiders in a pre dawn engagement near a demilitarized zone outpost. The two hour fight left three Americans with grenade fragment scratches and no confirmed Communist casualties.
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Seoul
Korea
U.S
Panmunjom
United Nations
North Korea
North
South Korea
Armistice Commission
Division of Power Suggested
The Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities urged a Halifax summit to sort which tasks fit provinces and which require all levels. It cited trade, transportation, resource conservation, land use, housing, unemployment relief, education, and health as areas needing cooperative action.
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Montreal
Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities
Federation
Halifax
Dr Sinton Leaves Medicine Hat for Red Deer Practice
Dr E J Sinton leaves Medicine Hat with Mrs Sinton and children Heather Hilary John and baby Jeremy to set up an independent eye surgeon practice in Red Deer. He earned MBChB and B in 1951 from the University of Aberdeen and came to Medicine Hat in 1960.
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E. J. Sinton
Medicine Hat
Red Deer
Sinton
Heather
Hilary
John
Jeremy
Dr. Sinton
University of Aberdeen
Man Pays Fine With 2900 Pennies Test of Currency Law
Raymond Atkinson of Medicine Hat faced a liquor possession fine of 29 dollars. He paid in 2900 pennies, but the magistrate’s secretary refused the coins citing the Currency Act which limits acceptance to 25 pennies. Atkinson returned with proper cash and settled the fine.
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Raymond Atkinson
Medicine Hat
Atkinson
Sta
Legal battle over BCE assets resumes in B C Supreme Court
In Vancouver the BC Electric Company dispute returns to the BC Supreme Court with BC Power Corp seeking the assets’ return and dismissal of a court receiver, while the government seeks a stay of proceedings pending appeal of Chief Justice Lett’s ruling.
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Alice Bacon
Labor
Home Affairs
Home Secretary
Ward
Ronna Ricardo
Mandy Rice - Davies
Miss Ricardo
Miss Barrett
Aloysius
Lucky) Gordon
Court of Criminal Appeal
Gordon
Miss Keeler
Vancouver
British Columbia Electric Company
B.C. Supreme Court
B.C. Power Corporation
BCE
B.C
Sherwood Lett
Lett
Bennett
B.C. Hydro and Power Authority
B.C. Power Commission
Robert Bonner
Mysterious Agenda Tonight for City Council Meeting
Mayor Harry Weiner and five of the Hat's eight aldermen will convene two agendas an open regular session and a closed session. A footnote states the council will meet in committee of the whole to consider matters on a separate enclosed agenda. Aldermen Cliff Adam Jack Edwards and Helen Gibson are absent on vacation leaving a five member quorum of nine.
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Harry Weiner
Hat
Cliff Adam
Jack Edwards
Helen Gibson
Gadgets and Gimmicks Attack Libs in Canada
Regina CP reports Liberal party sold Canadians a bill of goods through public relations before the last federal election. NDP vice president Davis Lewis says the Liberals used gadgets and gimmicks to cast Pearson as a knight rescuing Canada. Also notes expulsions and disputes among NDY radicals at a two day national convention.
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Regina
Liberal Party
Davis Lewis
Toronto
National
New Democratic
New Democratic Youth Movement
Mr. Pearson
Canada
Gordon
Saskatchewan
Allan Engler
Jean Rands
Engler
CCF
University of Saskatchewan
Ontario Council
Miss Rands
NDY
Ontario
Soviets snub Chinese at Hiroshima nuclear conference
In Hiroshima, the Soviet delegation led a mass walkout during Chao Pu-chu’s speech at the ninth world conference on nuclear weapons. The Russians, joined by Indians and East European delegates, stood with bowed heads and backs to the speaker as Zhukov escorted them from the audience.
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Hiroshima
Japan
Hiroshima Peace Park
Yugoslavia
Chao Pu-chu
Moscow
Yuri Zhukov
Pravda
Chao
Calgary oil plan ignores wartime ban pact on tar sands
A proposed nuclear explosion to separate Athabasca tar sands remains unaffected by Canada's signing of a major nuclear test ban pact. Rescue officials in Skopje report 1011 killed and 3350 injured as the Macedonian earthquake decimated most of its capital city ten days prior. In Canada this weekend at least 59 people died in various accidents, with a fatal highway crash near Elfros, Saskatchewan killing five children.
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Calgary
Athabasca
Canada
Belgrade
Reuters
Skopje
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Prospect
Stephen ‘Ward
Christine Keeler
Marilyn
Mandy) Rice-Davies
Vicky Barrett
John Profumo
Keeler
Macmillan
Profumo
Dence
Harvard
Khrushchev, Thant Beam
Rusk
City
Little Cloud
Ndper
British Columbia
Rands
RCMP
House
Canadian Pacific Railway
Elfros, Sask
Highway 14
Elfros
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