24 Aug 1960
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 24, 1960
Page
1
The Drive and the 200 block of Third St. SW earned high honors after five weeks of judging. Both sections were noted for a one sided block. The fifth week award went to the 2600 block on 15th Ave SW in the Norwood district with a Year presentation ceremony Friday at 7 30 pm at the winning site.
Canadian Army signallers with the United Nations force in the Congo were briefly arrested at Stanleyville amid fraught relations with Congolese authorities. A Canadian trade official said about 30 of 300 civilians in the Congo remained unaccounted for after independence, while Congo’s economy faced import bans and loss of copper and cobalt revenue from Katanga.
Premier Patrice Lumumba ordered Congolese troops into Kasai Province by air to quell tribal warfare. The government requisitioned nearly all Air Congo aircraft to run an airlift between Leopoldville and Luluabourg, the hub of the conflict.
Ottawa cabinet ordered the National Parole Board to keep Ronald McCorquodale of Calgary in custody. The 25 year old killer of Lynne Lefurgey, 10, who was sentenced to death and commuted to life, is deemed insane and will never recover, according to Solicitor General Leon Baker. The murder occurred last November in a Calgary church basement. Lefurgey’s mother protested the commutation.
Over two days heavy rain cut service to nearly 300 subscribers in Crescent Heights and the Flats. About 100 remain without service in the Flats. Officials expect restoration by 5 pm today. Rain caused wet cables and minor street cave-ins with no major damage. The Medicine Hat airport reports 1.52 inches in a 24 hour period ending Tuesday.
In San Jose Costa Rica Christian Herter calls for strong resistance to Soviet and Chinese influence in Cuba. He says Cuba's leaders direct the island toward communism and urges steps to uphold the Inter American System. Fidel Castro rejects invites and vows friendship with the Soviet Union and China regardless of OAS.
Carol Ann Schissler, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Schissler, was the 1960 City of Medicine Hat $500 scholarship winner. She will become mayor Aug. 30, attend the University of Alberta, and spend a day in the mayor's office with lunch with the outgoing mayor. Her term ends Tuesday at midnight.
Ottawa reports a three stage wage increase totaling 14 cents an hour for about 118000 non op railway workers. The plan, approved by board chairman J V Milvain and unions, runs two years to 1961 with a 2 cent retroactive rise and a 5 cent raise next September plus a 4 percent hike by May 1961, aiming to align non op wages with durable goods sectors. The proposal also adds four weeks vacation after 25 years, rejects a 10 cent dues handling charge, and would cost railways about 35 million yearly if extended to all rail workers 51 million. The railways and unions must now decide after a one week cooling-off period.
A 15 day wildcat seamen strike blocked the Empress of England from sailing to Montreal and forced cancellation of another ship to Canada. Passengers will be flown. strikers pursue higher wages as Newport and Southampton crews return to work.
The 24 hour strike that disrupted Boston's rapid transit ended late Tuesday after a settlement announced by Governor Foster Furcolo. The Metropolitian Transit Authority and carmen's union met with Furcolo's executive council to resolve a dispute over overtime. Thousands had walked or carpooled to work during the stoppage.
A conference of union lawyers in Montreal entered its third day as differences between the Canadian Labour Congress and the ousted International Brotherhood of Teamsters persisted. H. J. Gibbons said he remains open to talks, but a meeting date remains unsettled amid behind the scenes maneuvering by representatives from Canada and the United States. The Teamsters were expelled for jurisdictional violations linked to a Vancouver CSC segment, after earlier removals from AFL-CIO.
Bruce Phillips of Southam News Service arrives in the Congo to cover African events with wide implications. He will visit Nigeria for Independence Day October 1 and travel through Southern and Northern Rhodesia Tanganyika Nyasaland and Kenya with plans to return to South Africa for October plebiscite coverage.
President Eisenhower expressed belief that U S Cuban tensions could be settled and floated a possible hemispheric heads of government meeting that might include Fidel Castro but warned against overestimating it. He also defended U S policy on the May Powers incident and discussed UN speech plans.
AP reports Typhoon Car men killed three people and left 5,000 homeless in South Korea with two missing after 80 mph winds. In Formosa tropical storm Elaine flooded 6,000 homes, one man drowned and another is missing as 37,000 seek relief. a village of 700 was marooned.
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