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20 Aug 1986
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Medicine Hat News in Medicine Hat, Alberta
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 20, 1986
Page
1
Frost Nip Hits Corn Crops In Alberta Region
Medicine Hat area faced record low temperatures this morning as frost touched corn crops south of Bow Island. Unofficial read was 4.3 C at the airport. official Medicine Hat low was four degrees. frost holes may exist and damage, if any, will show in a day or two per climatologists. Maureen and Bob Laidlaw reported frost on van tops near Bow Island. they farm beef and crops along the South Saskatchewan River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Hat
Bow Island
Will Prusak
Federal Atmospheric Environment Service
Edmonton
Pat Kyle
Alberta Weather Centre
Kyle
Maureen Laidlaw
Bob Laidlaw
South Saskatchewan
Edmond post office shooting claims 14 dead
A part time postal worker, Pat Sherrill, opened fire at the Edmond Oklahoma post office killing 14 colleagues and wounding at least six before killing himself. Police and FBI SWAT found Sherrill with multiple handguns after negotiations failed. The attack, the deadliest by a lone gunman since 1984, occurred as about 80 workers were in the building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmond
Okla
Pat Sherrill
Washington
Sherrill
Edmond Post Office
FBI
United States
McDonald’s
San Ysidro
Calif
Ron Blackwell
Lettter
Oklahoma City
Vince Furlong
Post Office
PLC
Bob Macy
Nuclear earth penetrator tests at Suffield range draw protests
Tests at Defence Research Establishment Suffield involved vertical firings of DNA Earth Penetrator projectiles into soft soil at 500 feet per second. Activists say the devices have nuclear applications and could threaten missile silos. The 1975 Technical Abstract Bulletin notes four sizes tested and links to Pershing II research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Strickland
News
Suffield
U.S. Defence Nuclear Agency
Cheri Abdelnour
Washington, D.C
Bill Robinson
Project Ploughshares
Defence Research Establishment
U.S
Defence Research Establishment Suffield
DRES
Defence Nuclear Agency
DNA
Peter Chapman
Canada
Europe
Robinson
Waterloo
Ont
Department of the Army
Air Force
Defence Department
California Research and Technology Inc
Woodland Hills
Calif
Abdelnour
Los Angeles
Prairie Flat Hest
Suffield Block
Aid package sought for Alberta oil industry within six weeks
Energy Minister Neil Webber said Ottawa and Alberta will negotiate a financial aid package for the struggling oil sector within six weeks. He noted industry interest has been weaker than expected and urged a rapid stabilization program to funnel money to companies for investment. Premier Getty dismissed Ottawa’s royalty-cut idea as crazy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Ottawa
Alberta
Neil Webber
Webber
Marcel Masse
New Democrats
Thasn
Masse
Don Getty
Montana Supreme Court lifts stay in Smith death case
The Montana Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution for Ronald A. Smith clearing a path to a new death date in Kalispell. Smith's lawyer said a federal appeal is likely potentially delaying the date five to eight years. Smith, 28, from Red Deer Alberta, was convicted in 1983 for two execution style slayings near Glacier National Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Mont
Ronald A. Smith
Montana Supreme Court
Smith
James Bartlett
Kalispell
Bartlett
Keedy
Montana
Red Deer
Alta
Glacier National Park
Michael Keedy
Thomas Running Rabbit Jr
Harvey Mad Man Jr
Denial mars bar mitzvah claim of Crazy Horse descent
Oglala Sioux executive director Ramon Bear Runner says Crazy Horse had no children confirming Littlesun Bordeaux cannot be his descendant. Littlesun, 13, is in Israel for a bar mitzvah, met President Herzog and aims to become a rabbi. The boy’s mother says tribal elders would decide any on-reservation leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Ridge
S.D
Reuter
U.S
Israel
Crazy Horse
Ramon Bear Runner
Bear Runner
Littlesun Bordeaux
Tel Aviv
Littleson
Chaim Herzog
Jerusalem
Armalona Greenfield
Sun
Herzog
Spokane
Wash
Littlesun
Sitting Bull
George Custer
Little Big Horn
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Teresa
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Beeen Geen
Graham Kelly Depeche
Esa Benvenes
Joel Brass
Peete
Penne Bee
Bebe Beep
Pena
Furlong
Flathead
Littie
Bordeaux
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