Target on Pool Plan for Calgary City Parks 1960
The Calgary parks committee recommends overhauling city swimming facilities by replacing fill and draw pools with a filtration system. An expenditure of 36500 for sidewalks and filtration at the Rotary pool was referred to the finance committee for negotiation. Finance authorized the city comptroller to discuss backing expenses with Rotary officials. No agreement yet. renovations may start this fall and finish by spring opening if approved.
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Parks Committee
Calgary Brown
Aldermen and Recreation Commission
Rotary
Finance Committee
A. T. Legge
Irish KLM Crash Unsolved Despite Inquest Verdict
An inquest jury ruled the KLM Super Constellation deaths of 99 aboard off the Irish coast resulted from a violent Atlantic impact with no clear cause. Pathologist Dr John D Kennedy found no drowning, burns, or fire evidence. Shannon air traffic said radio transmission was distorted on arrival from Amsterdam.
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Galway
Ireland
Reuters
Atlantic
John D. Kennedy
Kennedy
Shannon
Amsterdam
James Googeham
Gander
Robbery at Standard Bank in Alberta Nets $4105
RCMP surrounded southern Alberta after a gunman robbed a Royal Bank of Canada branch in STANDARD of 4105 Monday. The masked man demanded cash at 2 50 pm, threatened teller Jim O Neill and fled in a car. no customers were present and employees saw little of the vehicle.
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Standard
Alta
RCMP
Alberta
Royal Bank of Canada
Calgary
Jim O'Neill
Nichol
Longest Hour Of Her Life In Saskatchewan Well Rescue
Rose Valley Saskatchewan mother of four clung by fingertips to the side of a 25 foot abandoned well for more than an hour after slipping in four miles west of Rose Valley. She saved herself, her sons fetched help, a rope and ladder were used, and she was treated for shock with good condition reported.
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Rose Valley, Sask
Rose Valley
John Brown
Berny
Ere
Brown
Broadcasting Legislation Outlines New 15-Man Board
Ottawa government introduces a bill creating a 15 member broadcast governance board to regulate CBC and private stations. Full time members serve seven years, part time five. salaries set by cabinet. headquarters in Ottawa. licensing authority remains under the Radio Act.
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CBC
Ottawa
Board of Broadcast Governors
CBC Board of Governors
Nowlan
Commons
Fowler Royal Commission On Broadcasting
Board of Governors
CBC Board
Ottawa to Allow CBC Unlimited Spending on Programming
The government proposed a bill to create CBC broadcasting governors and let the CBC spend unlimited sums on programming without cabinet approval, within its budget, while purchases of property stay capped at 100000. The change aims to cover higher radio and TV equipment costs and maintains CBC independence over program spending.
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Ottawa
CBC
Commons
Nowlan
Board of Broadcast Governors
Group To Probe Hargrave Case In Alberta
A sub committee of the Alberta Joint Council of Cabinet Ministers and Civil Service Associations will investigate the dismissal of P. D. Hargrave, 19 years Brooks experimental station superintendent. Hargrave will appear before the panel in Edmonton. members include Anthony Earnshaw, E. D. Betts, and John Hart.
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John Hart
Attorney General’s Department
E. W. Hinman
Faubus Urges Board to State Plan on School Integration
Governor Orval Faubus pressed the Little Rock school board to declare immediately how it will resist integration of Negro pupils. He signaled possible action by the legislature if the board remains silent and urged talks with Negro parents and NAACP leaders to calm the community.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orval Faubus
Arkansas
Virgil Blossom
U.S. Court of Appeals
Central High School
Faubus
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Legisla
Ture
A Little Praise For Oft Maligned
Montreal report from the Royal Automobile Club of Canada deems back seat passengers a help when they provide information without irritation. It cautions against shouting to avoid startling drivers and urges speaking up only on obvious misses.
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Montreal
Royal Automobile Club of Canada
RAC
Terrorism Warning Amid Okanagan District Turmoil
RCMP warned of more terrorist violence in interior British Columbia. Three dynamite cases totaling 375 sticks were stolen from a Merritt highway yard. Arson hit near Krestova and another blaze burned over 5 000 acres. Harry Bosey 20 of Winlaw charged with making an explosive. Pereveresoff 20 died in a dynamite blast. Police investigate further dynamite theft linked to Oliver Penticton Vernon incidents.
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Kelowna
B.C
RCMP
Okanagan
Kootenay
British Columbia
Highways Department
Merritt
Krestova
Sons of Freedom
Ndt
Freedomite
Harry Bosey
Winlow
Philip Pereveresoff
Oliver, Penticton
Vernon
Appeal Started To Save a Life
CRANFORD New Jersey AP social worker Louis Rousin sent a 1.95 cheque to Alabama Governor James E. Folsom urging clemency for Jimmy Wilson 55 condemned for the July 27 1957 robbery of a Marion Alabama woman. Rousin calls the case an example of “un civilized action.”
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Cranford
N. J
James E. Folsom
Alabama
Louis Rousin
Jimmy Wilson
State Supreme Court
Folsom
Estelle Barker
Marion
Ala
Wilson
Kousin
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Betty Belfrey
Toronto
Ontario
Yesteryear
City Council
Gary Leppard
F Allowance Ave
University of Alberta
Gary
Medicine Hat
KLM
Standard Bank
CHC
Hargrave
The
Pereveresoff
Bajey
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