UN Congo Crisis Worsens As Militants Attack Stanleyville
In Congo clashes two Canadian UN personnel are wounded while Congolese attacks strike UN headquarters in Stanleyville. A U S Air Force plane is seized and beaten crew reportedly included Canadians. Ethiopian troops defend a hotel office as UN officials warn the situation is completely out of hand.
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Leopoldville
United Nations
Congo
Associated Press
Stanley
United States Globemaster
Stanleyville
Everw
Missé
Rainer
U.S. Air Force
Lumumba
Rain and hail cut Bow Island crop prospects in 1960
Alberta Wheat Pool analysis shows Medicine Hat to Grassy Lake in Crop District No. 1 with the poorest outlook in the province. Wheat 55 percent, barley 58, oats 55, flax 59, rye 71 percent. overall a lean season ahead as drought and hail hit yields.
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Bow Island
Alberta Wheat Pool
Medicine Hat
Grassy Lake
Medicine Hat - Grassy Lake
Ameria
Durham
Burdett
Lemonade stand battles lemon car deal in Toronto
Andy Smith staged a protest before a west-end Toronto car lot claiming it sold him a lemon. He paraded with a sign showing a giant lemon as the business opened a lemonade stand in response.
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Toronto
Andy Smith
Manning Touted as Social Credit National Leader
Edmonton CP report notes national president of the Social Credit party praises Premier E. C. Manning as likely next leader. Dr. R N Thompson of Red Deer says five Western provinces and Quebec back Manning, with a national convention possibly in Ottawa at Easter 1961 to align with a looming election.
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Edmonton
Social Credit Party
E. C. Manning
R. N.thompson
Red Deer
Alta
Manning
Phar
Vpantey
Tow
League
Thompson
Quebec
Low
Ottawa
Diefenbaker
Mr. Thompson
Dr. Thompson
Mr. Manning
British Columbia
Alberta
W. A. C. Bennett
Robert Bonner
Social Credit
Surrey
B.C
George Hahn
McCorquodale Revealed As Mental Home Escapee
Calgary Alberta papers reveal Ronald McCorquodale, convicted murderer, escaped Selkirk Manitoba mental hospital in 1953 and fled before bludgeoning 10 year old Lynne Lefurgey in a Calgary church basement. He later died in Ponoka Alberta while still in confinement. Authorities debated cabinet knowledge of his reprieve and death sentence commutation.
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Calgary
Ronald McCorquodale
Manitoba
Lynne Lefurgey
McCorquodale
Selkirk, Man
Selkirk
Calary
Ilacharge
Ponora
Alberta
Ponoka
Albertan
G. F. Butterwick
J. P. S. Cathcart
Dr. Cathcart
Cabinet
Butterwick
Secretary of State
O'Brien to File Olympic Stories
Andy O'Brien a 27 year veteran sportswriter with The Standard and Weekend will bring inside Rome Summer Olympics stories starting Monday in The NEWS. He started writing for The Standard in 1931 and has covered many fields including the 1946 Igor Gouzenko spy case. He recently reported on Squaw Valley winter events in California.
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Andy O’brien
The
Standard
Weekend
Rome
O’brien
Igor Gouzenko
Aswan Dam Pact Signed By Russia and UAR Officials
Moscow agreement provides 900 million ruble credit for Aswan dam completion. UAR minister Musa Arafa and Soviet deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan attend with Nur Ed-din Khali present. Total project cost near 1 billion dollars. Russia had previously lent 400 million rubles for the first stage.
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London
Reuters
Soviet Union
United Arab Republic
Moscow
Aswan Dam
Tass
U.A.R
Musa Arafa
Egypt
Ivan Arkhipov
Soviet Committee For Foreign Economic Relations
Anastas Mikoyan
Nur Ed-din Khali
Russia
AFL-CIO backs Kennedy Johnson ticket in 1960 election
The AFL-CIO general board endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as best for the nation and labor. It assailed Nixon as partisan and unfit, urging 14 million members to vote for the Kennedy Johnson pair in November and launching a drive for maximum voter registration and labor campaign funds.
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Washington
Afl-Cio General Board
American Labor Movement
Richard Nixon
Nixon
John Kennedy
Massachusetts
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Afl-Cio
Ban to End PRETORIA
South Africa will lift the state of emergency next Wednesday, announced Justice Minister Francois Erasmus, ending nearly a year of Nationalist rule since March 30 to quell racial and political unrest.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Justice
Francois Erasmus
Labor group slams papers over unemployment blame
The Ontario Federation of Labor condemned Ontario newspapers for shifting responsibility for unemployment from the federal government. Secretary-treasurer Douglas Hamilton accused papers of excuses that workers prefer unemployment insurance to work, warning of a prolonged job shortage without government action.
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Toronto
Ontario Federation of Labor
Ontario
Douglas Hamilton
Federation
Kalonji appeals for volunteers in Congo crisis
Albert Kalonji, self styled president of the mining state, Bakwanga, appeals for black or white volunteers to repel central government forces. He says 300 Lu mumba troops aided by Tunisian UN troops overran southeast Kasai, disarming his 800 men. He seeks aid from France Britain the United States and French African partners.
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Elisabethville
Reuters
Albert Kalonji
Bakwanga
Patrice Lumumba
Luluaboung
Kasai
United Nations
Leopoldville
Kalonji
Lumumba
Etat Minier
Congo
France
Britain
United States
Africa
Civil service wage increases described as a staggering blow
The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada denounces federal civil service raises for 45 000 workers as a staggering blow. The plan lifts pay by 200 to 2500 yearly, adding to 140 000 employees already boosted since April. The institute urges immediate government comment to head off criticism.
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Ottawa
Association of Canada
Civil Service Commission
W. M. Marshall
Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada
Professional Institute
London beatnik mob dispersed with police dogs in Hampstead
In Hampstead London police used dogs Friday night to break up a 1000 person beer stained beatnik gathering on a quiet street. Bands and a TV set blared in a clubroom as a snake-eating contest climaxed the event. Residents complained of sleep disruption as police cleared the area and spectators were kept away.
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London
Hampstead
Chelsea
Grace Bloom
David Joseph
Frank Ward
Weittan, To
Scotland
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