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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 19, 1961
Page
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Canadian press report details fires in British Columbia Manitoba Newfoundland and New Brunswick with hundreds of fires burning thousands of acres. BC fights multiple blazes near Prince George and Yukon border while Newfoundland communities face evacuation risk. Manitoba endures its worst season with 95 fires 11 out of control. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick report growing fire activity with limited home threat.
Tunisian demonstrators clashed with French paratroopers in Bizerte during a night of disorders. Reuters reports 20 French soldiers and 32 Tunisians injured as protesters reached the governor’s palace with a Bourguiba message before withdrawal to the Casbah.
A strong quake struck central Japan killing five people and injuring 11. Four dam workers were buried by a landslide in Ishikawa, a swimmer was killed by a falling rock, and tidal wave warnings were issued then canceled for several prefectures as Mikoyan tours the Osaka Nara Kyoto region.
Maj Yuri Gagarin, Russia’s first astronaut, arrived in Budapest to attend Hungary’s independence day celebrations. He was met by about 20,000 people, accompanied by his wife Valentina and their seven month old daughter Gala, according to Budapest Radio.
In Sirmione Italy a swan at the castle moat struggles to swim after being adopted by a foster hen. Attendants rescue the bird repeatedly as the mother swan died before the hatchling learned to swim.
A Manitoba accident kills a father and six children in a single train car crash. Authorities report the tragedy as a fatal railway collision with unknown causes. Berliner reports meanwhile note tense Allied deployments as Lyndon Johnson vows firm stance on Berlin.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev may have won the first hand in the Berlin crisis as observers question Ulbricht's measures. The move halted refugee flows, integrated East Berlin into East Germany, and isolated West Berlin while Western powers consider retaliation. Johnson pledged U S commitments and sent troops to Berlin.
Woodstock Ontario reports Herman the Hermit, a famed stray German shepherd, missing Tuesday after being lured away by a female German shepherd owned by Allan P. Jacklin. The dog was found back under a wild cherry tree near Woodstock, described as a romantic adventure.
Mrs Victor Cuthbert said she and her husband drove to Woodstock to fetch Herman the hermit dog from the Jacklin car by the dog house. The dog, found near the cherry tree last April, resisted efforts to move him. A London couple donated a dog house and visitors have kept him fed.
Cholera cases prompt mass inoculations as tens of thousands queue at government centres. Eight confirmed and 18 suspected cases reported with unconfirmed figures possibly over 100. Public pools closed and beaches deserted. chefs avoid raw vegetables.
About 600 inmates at the Walpole state prison voted to add pole vaulting to their athletic program. Warden James A. Garvin vetoed the plan with a single dissenting vote, blocking the sport.
A riot in a Bordeaux Jail cell block holding 190 prisoners was quelled as guards used tear gas and flames were contained. No inmates were reported injured, one guard was hospitalized for smoke, and about 60 police aided the effort. Fires caused damage to a control tower and a mattress factory, with guards stopping further arson attempts.
Calgary officials and union representatives signed a memorandum of agreement formalizing Thursday's 38 day transit strike settlement. The contract adds fringe benefits worth two cents an hour in 1961 and 1962 and a nine cent per hour general wage increase for next year, lifting the average basic driver wage to 2.18 dollars.
Norman Marshall Campbell a 40 year old Calgary man was charged with the knife slaying of Elizabeth Treend 51. The warrant followed his arrest and questioning by RCMP in Penticton after Campbell was detained in Calgary. He was the former principal of Sunnybrook School at Cessford and had worked in Banff Calgary and aircraft industries.
Tokyo AP report says Hiroyuki Kawamoto a 22 year old ultra rightist was arrested at Yokohama station as he awaited a train to Osaka where Mikoyan tours. Police say he carried a four inch blade a letter to Mikoyan and a note reading I will kill him. He is jailed on suspicion of murder plot and firearms law violation.
A CN Railways express struck a car at a level crossing near Dugald Manitoba killing Antoine Walleyn his five daughters and his five year old son and leaving the mother Germaine Walleyn as sole survivor. Coroner's inquest opened with the jury adjourned indefinitely.
The State Department said it will hire more African Americans for the U.S. diplomatic service. A meeting Wednesday with 35 leaders from the Equal Employment Opportunity Movement yielded recommendations that the department welcomed.
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