West Berlin crowd denounces wall shooting victim
A large West Berlin crowd gathered near Checkpoint Charlie to protest the shooting of 18 year old Peter Fechter by East German police. They shouted murderers as U S authorities urged restraint and promised to examine future actions.
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Red Cosmonauts Majesty in Moscow Welcomes Space Heroes
Premier Khrushchev led a grand May Day style reception atop Lenin's Tomb for Maj. Andrian Nikolayev and Lt-Col. Pavel Popovich as thousands cheered their orbital achievement. The Soviet announcement named a new unmanned satellite spacecraft, Cosmos VII, marking further space program progress.
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Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
Soviet Union
Satellite Cosmos VIII Launched by Soviet Union
Moscow reports the Soviet space program launched Cosmos VIII, a scientific satellite in the Cosmos series, distinct from the Vostok program. Cosmos VII previously carried radio telemetric systems and trajectory measurement devices.
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Moscow
Reuters
Russia
Tass
Fashion overalls or formal: Alberta school dress rule endures
Art Evans recalls Albertan court ruling upholding a school board ban on T shirts and blue jeans in class. He notes past teachers dressed plainly due to wages, contrasts with today’s sharper teen style, and quips about fashion’s pull on schoolboys and life beyond school.
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Alberta School Board
Marlon Brando
Elvis Presley
Edmonton
House of Dior
Southern Alberta Harvest Battered by Late Rains and Drought
Southern Alberta farmers report scant yields due to late July rains and ongoing drought. Despite some improvement in coarse grains on fallow, irrigation districts show the only bright spots with high outputs in Bow Island and Burdett. The report notes low subsoil moisture, limited hay, and potential feed shortages for cattle through winter.
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Saskatchewan
Medicine Hat
Crop reports from Bindloss and Aden districts outline drought and hail damage
In Bindloss the crop varies from poor to fair with inadequate rainfall and late growth. Harvest will be about a month later and costly, with 20 to 100 percent hail damage in parts. In Aden the outlook is historically poor due to drought and hail, with little grain expected except readings near Bow Island irrigation for feed.
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Coutts
Bow Island
Ed Henline
Space duo circling Earth in adjacent orbits
Soviet Maj. Nikolayev and Lt.-Col. Popovich orbited Earth for three days in close proximity. They ate slept and tested equipment then landed six minutes apart in the Kazakhstan Desert. Nikolayev completed 64 orbits in 90 hours and Popovich 48 orbits in 70 hours.
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Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
Kazakhstan
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Nikolayev
Gherman Titov
U.S
Hat honors 14 people in Medicine Hat story
West Crescent Heights subdivision recognizes 14 residents for contributions to Medicine Hat coverage. CHAT radio manager Orville Rope denies anti CBC network stance as Oct 1 CBC launch approaches. Donald Schneider, 21, convicted of breaking into Redcliff Drug Store, sentenced to six months in Lethbridge jail. A 20 ton blast at Suffield Experimental Station occurs as routine procedure.
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Donald Schneider
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Lethbridge
Suffield Experimental Station
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