London arms police hunt for killers
London police with guns and tear gas searched for three gunmen after three officers were killed in a suburban London street. Det Sgt Christopher Head and Det Constable David Wombwell died, driver Constable Geoffrey Fox was killed after steering the patrol car. one officer survived. Eyewitness accounts from schoolchildren helped police reconstruct the sequence near Wormwood Scrubs prison.
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London
Wormwood Scrubbs
David Wombwell
Geoffrey Fox
Fox
Scotland Yard
Supt
Thomas Butler
Yard
Bridges halt in Ottawa as probe investigates Rideau collapse
Ottawa investigators pause work on twin Rideau River bridges after Wednesday collapse that killed eight men. Coroner Dr H B Cotham hires Wells Ltd to study the failure while James McNair’s safety unit probes separately. Inquest to follow after both studies, likely four to six weeks, with 28 of 57 injured remaining hospitalised for a long period.
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Ottawa
Rideau River
H. B. Cotham
Ontario
H. G. Wells Ltd
Niagara Falls
Ont
James McNair
Ontario Labor Department
Cotham
Western Grits vs leadership conventions clash
CHICAGO AP taunts and rocks greeted more than 500 civil rights demonstrators marching through a white neighborhood. Police kept the crowd apart with about 600 officers. fifteen arrested. In Muskegon Michigan five injured as 1,500 Black protesters surrounded a police car. 70 officers dispersed the unrest near the Occidental Hotel. In Oxford and Grenada Mississippi officials were ordered to appear in federal court to show cause why they should not be held in contempt for failing to protect marchers. Senate leaders moved debate on a civil rights bill to September 6 after House approval.
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Chicago
Missi Bogan
Detroit
Oxford
Miss
Mississippi Highway Patrol
Grenada
Claude Clayton
Washington
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
U.S
House of Representatives
Fire kills 25 at Salvation Army hostel in Melbourne
A blaze at a Salvation Army hostel in Melbourne claimed 25 lives with one death by burn and 24 by suffocation. Fourteen others were injured as firefighters battled smoke filled stairs. Witnesses said a matron warned occupants to evacuate as the building burned.
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Melbourne
Reuters
Salvation Army
Hoof mouth disease war costs millions
Britain and European nations fight hoof and mouth outbreak costing millions. AFFECTED include England’s 700 year old Eshott Ayrshire herd. Mass slaughtering occurs while some nations pursue inoculation and cordon sanitaires to contain spread across Soviet Union, West Germany, and Bavaria with tens of thousands of cattle and pigs culled.
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London
Britain
England
Eshott
Soviet Union
European
Russia
West Germany
Bavaria
Rail conciliation report on Monday in railway dispute
Ottawa reports say a conciliation board will release Monday findings in the dispute between railways and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. The panel, led by Judge Walter Little, may push the issue to the government as unions plan a September strike deadline.
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Ottawa
Conciliation Board
Brotherhood of Railroad
Ment
Labor Department
Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers
North Korea asserts independence from Soviet China
North Korea’s ruling party declares independence from both the Soviet Union and China in Rodong Shinmoon editorial. The piece argues for autonomous thinking, criticizes foreign “flunkeys,” and signals a cautious stance toward Beijing and Moscow while seeking better ties with Japan through policy of trade and engagement.
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Tokyo
North Korea
Communist Party
Soviet Union
China
Rodong Shinmoon
Jet Us
Peking
Japan
Alberta hail claims surge to record high in province
CALGARY CP The Alberta Hail Insurance Board may face a record number of insurance claims after hailstorms hit Southern and Central Alberta in the last three weeks. General manager J. M. McKay said 2,400 claims have been filed to date, more than double last year and the highest since 1960. He estimates eventual payout around 2.9 million dollars.
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Calgary
Alberta Hail Insurance Board
Alberta
J. M. McKay
Census counts show major city shifts and boundary changes
Ottawa based census data from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics lists 19 cities and over a thousand smaller communities with preliminary 1966 totals. Sault Ste. Marie leads at 73,915 after boundary changes, followed by Longueuil and Trois-Rivieres, with several other cities showing gains or adjustments across provinces.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
DBS
Sault Ste. Marie
Quebec
Farnham
Hull
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Ee Thatcher
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Occidental Hotel
Michigan City
Ross Thatcher
Duart Farquharson
Southam
Saskatoon
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Thatcher
National Liberal Federation
Canada
David Steuart
Western Provinces
Pearson
Federal Treasury
Senate Committee On the Aging
Los Angeles Times
Japan Communist Party
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Lauzon
Longueuil
Noranda
Roberval
Shawiinigan
Trois- Rivieres
Manitoba
East Kildonan
Drumheller
British Columbia
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Duncan
Fernie
Kamloops
Nelson
White Rock
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