Mayor Offers 1000 For Wolf Cindy Citizenship Check
Hitchhiker John McGovern returns to Medicine Hat with Cindy the wolf as Mayor Harry Weiner pledges 1000 dollars if four conditions are met. Cindy must be certified two thirds genuine, Canadian emigration and Israeli immigration clearances obtained, and McGovern must transport Cindy to the east coast. Calgary zoo confirms Cindy as a Timber Wolf and officials await Israeli response.
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John McGovern
Medicine Hat
Cindy
Harry Weiner
Wolf
Stride
Calgary
Fires Ravage Newfoundland Forests Amid Grim Weekend Toll
Fires scorch over 750 square miles of timber as hundreds flee coastal villages in Bonavista Bay and Trinity Bay regions. Evacuations rise with remote communications down while officials prepare to close woods to all but emergency travel.
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ST. John’s
Nfld
Newfoundland
New Chelsea
Winterton
Hants Habor
Trinity Bay
Here
Bonavista Bay
Aspen Cove
Transport Department
Acadia
W. J. Keough
Keough
Reginald Penney
Hants Harbor
Gordon Ash
Public Fires Blamed On Carelessness In B C
The British Columbia Forest Service says the public causes most fires with 70 percent from human activity this year. Crews brace for a disastrous weekend as weather shows no rain. Recreation is banned in vast forest areas across the Lower Mainland Vancouver Island and Nelson district, hitting industries overall.
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Victoria
British Columbia Forest Service
Forest Service
Lower Mainland
Vancouver Island
Nelson Forest District
Four Fishermen Believed Dead After Plane Crash
A single engine plane from Ephrata Washington crashed into the woods near Tetachuk Lake Burns Lake British Columbia setting a forest fire. Four American anglers were believed killed including pilot Dr Emile Etienne and passengers Leonard Macnamara Larry Sheib. Witnesses say the craft circled then went down amid an inferno as lodge guests fought the blaze.
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Red Fern Lodge
Tetachuk Lake
RCMP
Prince George
Department of Transport
Ephrata
Wash
Tweedsmuir
Emile Etienne
Quincy
Leonard Macnamara
Larry Sheib
Soap Lake
Etienne
Sheib
Allen Gaugh
Cabinet Plans to Study Stock-Watering Plan
Alberta agriculture minister told Redcliff that no immediate plan exists to bring Bow River water to 70,000 acres via a siphon. A fuller cost survey for stock watering will be released in about three months to Medicine Hat and Redcliff Chambers of Commerce, after preliminary province surveys found such a scheme not economically feasible.
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Ronalene
Redcliff
Bow River
Leonard C. Halmirast
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Redcliff Chambers of Commerce
Irrigation Planning Board
Halmrast
Henry M. Sangster
R. H. A. Lacey
Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce
PFRA
Lacey
St. Mary’'s Milk River
Big Muskie Catch Turns Into Rope Lasso and Batting
In Kawartha Lakes the Pigeon Lake muskies story centers on three female novices, Mrs. James Rae and two Scarborough teens, who hooked a 22 pound muskie on a worm and light line, used a rope to lasso it, clubbed it with a paddle, and towed it ashore after the line snapped. Tourists and anglers crowded as the fish was landed and photographed.
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Pigeon Lake
James Rae
Toronto
Scarborough
Sharon Burnett
Judy Angove
Mrs. Rae
Judy
Break Indicated In Transit Strike In Calgary
Calgary transit supervisors return to work as 24 employees are needed to plan and schedule a reactivation of buses. City commissioners approve transit reorganization, while talks resume in closed session after a long strike that began July 11.
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Calgary
Hopes Rise for New Berlin Summit Parley
Bonn reports linked East West talks appear likely with a potential Berlin summit. Adenauer teased negotiations with Moscow while Khrushchev and Rusk expressed cautious optimism as refugees flood toward West Berlin and sanctions loom as leverage.
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Berlin
Konrad Adenauer
Russia
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Kennedy
Macmillan
de Gaulle
Washington
Dean Rusk
Blast Hurls Engineers From Locomotive In Somerset
A boiler explosion on a passenger train in Wells England hurled two engineers from the cab. The train continued burning along the Cheddar Valley with a guard applying the emergency brake miles down the line. Both engineers were found badly injured and taken to a hospital in critical condition.
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Wells
England
Cheddar
Somerset
Miss Canada Contests Crown Ottawa Student Miss Canada 1962
Connie Gail Feller of Ottawa won the Miss Canada title over 23 rivals in Burlington Ontario. The 20 year old flamenco guitarist and singer will compete in Miss America in Atlantic City next month and uses a $1,000 scholarship for studies at the University of Ottawa.
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Burlington, Ont
Connie Gail Feller
Ottawa
Connie Gail
Iris Thurwell
Toronto
Atlantic City
N.J
Canada
United States
Europe
University of Ottawa
Miss Feller
Victoria
Helena Marie Holden
Sylvia Wilson
Claudette Tousignant
Central Toronto
Anne Marie Perron
Dorval Gardens
Patricia
Anne Little
Manitoba
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Israel
McGuinness
McGovern
Atten
Indian Bay
DEAD
St.anthony
Dunn's River
Miles
Pittman's
B.C
Peace River District
North Coastal
Little Cloud
Burns Lake
Dave Broadfoot
Western Canada Reclamation Association
Medicine Hat Chamber Irrigation Committee
Les Gunderson
Jack Cocks
Redcliff Chamber
George Hawreelak
Bobcaygeon
Kawartha Lakes
Sharon
Bonn
Reuters
Adenauer
Paris
West Germany
West Berlin
Olympic Stadium
Tomboy
Miss Canada
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