Penny Carnival Draws Kids at Central Park Playground
The annual penny carnival drew children from under one to over ten at Central Park Playground on Friday afternoon. Games such as ring toss and bingo plus a house of horrors entertained attendees while raffles and draws awarded pennies worth prizes. Proceeds fund a year end event for children with plans for a park picnic and a kin coulee weiner roast for older participants.
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Central Park Playground
Kin Coulee
NATO push calls France to withdraw troops from Tunisia
United Nations General Assembly approves 66 to 0 a demand that France negotiate troop withdrawal from Tunisia after last month's clash around the Bizerte naval base. Britain, the United States, Canada abstain. France boycotts debate. Adlai Stevenson abstains, fearing delay to talks. Scandinavian nations back the resolution.
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General Assembly
France
Tunisia
Britain
United States
Canada
NATO
Yugoslavia
Bizerte
Berlin
U.S
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Explosion Kills Five at Naval Propellant Plant
Five civilian workers were killed in a blast that shattered a reinforced concrete building at Indian Head Maryland's naval propellant plant. The explosion, the third this year and the eighth since January 1959, scattered victim parts over 500 feet and caused about $200000 in damage. No cause was known. a Navy spokesman cited ongoing high energy propellant research in the building.
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Indian Head
Naval
Troops and Machines rushed to quell Newfoundland fires
Hundreds of troops and more than a thousand airlifted personnel converged on Newfoundland to quell what may be the worst forest fires in the province. An initial 222 men landed at Gander, with 500 more flying in from Valcartier and 400 more at Camp Gagetown ready to deploy. Prime Minister Diefenbaker pledged Canadian sympathy and aid while Newfoundland requests shaped the response and potential national disaster status.
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RCAF
Smallwood
Gander Airport
Gander
Valcartier
Que
Royal 22Nd Regiment
Camp Gagetown
N.B
Diefenbaker
Dinsdale
Browne
Flemming
North Stars
Glenwood
Destructiveness of Fire Can be Seen Everywhere
The Canadian Press reports Newfoundland facing widespread forest fires with heavy smoke and charred trees. E B Ralph, chief forester, commands 140 forestry staff and civilian fighters from a Gander hotel, aided by 1,200 federal soldiers as they divide fronts and press to reclaim damaged areas.
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Gander
Nfld
Newfoundland
St. John’s
Here
Stuart Peters
E. B. Ralph
Forestry
Torester
Two Prisons Escape From Stony Mountain in Winnipeg
RCMP launched a wide scale manhunt for Terrance Sweeney and Dennis Dodington who escaped from Stony Mountain federal penitentiary late Friday night wearing prison garb. Sweeney 21 of Winnipeg and Dodington 23 of Prince Albert were last seen around 6 30 p m and are described as dangerous.
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Winnipeg
RCMP
Stony Mountain Federal Penitentiary
Terrance Herbert Sweeney
Dennis Alden Dodington
Prince Albert
Dodington
Sweeney
Beer Can Satellite Goes Into Orbit In Space Dust Hunt
A 127 pound "beer can" satellite was launched to orbit Earth for a dust hunting mission. It completes an orbit every 98 minutes with altitudes from about 275 miles at perigee to 565 miles at apogee. It marks the 50th American satellite placed in orbit since January 1958.
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Washington
Space Messenger
Janary
Rain slows Newfoundland forest fire threat near Glenwood
About 200 Glenwood families return home as rain aids dampening a wind driven blaze within a half mile of the town. Firefighters save the town while 1,000 troops, ministers, and evacuees move along the Trans Canada Highway during the emergency.
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Gander
Mfld
Newfoundland
Glenwood
Bonavista
Dunn’s River-Swift Current
B C Fire Onslaught Continues Across British Columbia
Kamloops reports intensive forest fires as more than 500 outbreaks weekly overwhelm crews. Last week saw 527 fires extinguished but 559 new outbreaks reported, with 700 workers countering 161 active fires in the Kamloops district including 45 lightning-caused blazes. Costs reach 2.59 million this year, down from 4.47 million last year.
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Kamloops
B.C
British Columbia
Prince George
Prince Rupert
Forest Service
British Protest Over East German Border Rules Sparks Tension
Maj. Gen. Albert Watson II protested to the Soviet commandant over East German limits on crossing points between East and West Berlin. British patrols in West Berlin increased with 100 men and three armored cars amid protests and demonstrations outside two Communist pass offices at Zoo and Kreuzberg stations.
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Berlin
Albert Watson II
U.S
East
West Berlin
Watson
Andrei I. Solovyev
East Germany
Reuters
West
Zoo
Kreuzberg
Big Three Hold Parley On Berlin Crisis Warning
Secretary Rusk met Western ambassadors in a sudden Berlin talks as the United States Britain and France delivered formal notes to Moscow warning the Communists against tampering with air corridors to West Berlin. Allies rejected Moscow charges that spies were airlifted and pressed a solemn warning against any aggressive act.
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Dean Rusk
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
West Berlin
White House
Kremlin
Newfoundland logging feud heats up over fires claim
Premier Smallwood accused the IWA of set fires and facing renewed labor tensions as H Landon Ladd of the IWA says Newfoundland plans to seek recertification. The 1959 strike and police death linger, with decertification of the IWA and new workers’ groups shifting industry.
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Nfld
Newfoundland
Joseph Smallwood
IWA
H. Landon Ladd
International Woodsworkers of America
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Ladd
Toronto
Newfoundland Constabulary
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Newfounhland
Smallwood
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