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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1965
Page
1
In Amherstburg Ontario Negro residents planned a march on a model car raceway after a week of racial antagonism. Ku Klux Klan graffiti and a gasoline burned cross spurred an emergency meeting where leaders urged a probe by Ontario officials.
U S military sources say a large Vietnamese relief force reached the besieged Duc Co camp with little resistance from the Viet Cong. A two mile long convoy fought through ambushes to break the siege on Route 19 in the central highlands as both sides suffered heavy casualties. Route 19 remains cut in several places by Viet Cong, closing the only land route to government-held areas.
Athens AP reports King Constantine ready to accept a coalition to calm Greece's political crisis. Stephanos Stephanopoulos refused the mandate, bowing to Centre Union pressure. Advisers weigh a crown council excluding Papandreou and EDA as 26 deputies favored attempting a coalition with other factions.
The Alberta Department of Agriculture said heavy rainfall in the week ending Aug 7 caused lodging and crop damage in Southern Alberta. Barley and early wheat were ruined near Timber, south of Lethbridge, with general rain affecting other areas.
Singapore Foreign Minister S Rajaratnam says Singapore could urge Indonesia toward peace with Malaysia but is not acting as mediator. Jakarta reports Sukarno intends to crush the Malaysian federation as Singapore seeks Commonwealth ties as an independent nation.
All India Radio reports Indian troops inflicted heavy casualties on infiltrators in Kashmir Tuesday night with some prisoners taken and light Indian losses. It denies Pakistani claims of road and bridge damage while outlining intensified mopping up operations.
A avalanche at the Portillo Andes ski resort crushed a patrol camp near the main hotel, killing five people including Michael Fogel of Mount Royal Quebec and Roland Hock of Binghamton New York. Milton Orliotti of Portland Oregon and two Chileans died. two Chileans were wounded.
Canada announces a cash sale of about 187 million bushels of wheat to the Soviet Union, the second largest ever after 1963. Shipments start this month and finish by July, via St Lawrence and Atlantic ports, adding to a earlier 27 million bushel deal.
A joint congressional subcommittee report accuses Britain and other shipping countries of discriminatory freight rates against the United States. Senator Paul Douglas says American exporters pay about one third more to ship to England than English shippers pay to the U.S. The British government denies the claim, noting average charges per 100 dollars of exports to the other side.
Med icine Hat Mayor Harry Veiner and Moncton's Leonard C. Jones Jr. entered a tommycod fishing contest on the Petitcodiac River. Both failed to get a bite and the event was declared a draw by Inspector Al Huger. No rematch is planned.
In SEARCY Arkansas a Titan II missile silo explosion during maintenance killed 53 civilian workers with two survivors. An Air Force investigation led by Eugene M Zuckert was ordered by President Johnson and a team works to determine safety failures amid rescue efforts and silo environmental monitoring details.
Vancouver coroner Glen McDonald will seek assistance from 150 coroners at a Milwaukee seminar on the June 8 Canadian Pacific crash near 1100 Mile House and on the arsenic death of Esther Castellani. He plans to discuss case files and how others handle possible nonaccidental arsenic deaths.
William Houle, Montreal president of the Canadian Postal Employees Association, says he is too busy to run for federal president at the Toronto convention. He would only seek the post to replace Hood in a leadership crisis, otherwise he aims to stay on the executive. He also labeled ballots on salary increases and strike votes as a joke.
Federal officials report Roberto Ramirez admitted shooting the captain and four seamen aboard the Seven Seas after a dispute about Fidel Castro. The vessel, Panama-flagged and American-owned, sailed toward Tampa for repairs with three killed in their cabins. The cook Gerald Davison remains missing.
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