04 Dec 1967
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 04, 1967
Page
1
The report summarizes weekly accidental deaths in Canada, noting 36 traffic fatalities and additional deaths from fires, miscellaneous causes, and one drowning. Ontario leads with ten traffic deaths. Quebec reports nine on roads, with small totals in other provinces. No PEI or New Brunswick road fatalities.
A 25 year old man died from a head and neck wound after a single shot. The accused faced a court adjournment to allow the lawyer to attend. Coroner said autopsy was performed but findings not released. No plea or election taken as the case proceeds. Survivors include parents and four brothers and three sisters. Funeral date to be announced.
Cardinal Spellman lay in state at Saint Patrick's Cathedral as thousands filed past the catafalque after a requiem. Archbishop Maguire administers the archdiocese until a successor is named. funeral set for Thursday with all surviving American cardinals invited.
A US air force C-7 Caribou crashed about 260 miles northeast of Saigon on November 30 killing all 26 aboard. En route Pleiku to Qui Nhon the plane went down near Qui Nhon after the crew reported a course change due to bad weather. No cause is confirmed.
American forces and South Vietnamese Marines boxed in a Viet Cong battalion in the Mekong Delta in a day long battle that left about 4 U.S. dead and 38 wounded and 15 South Vietnamese dead with 50 wounded. The action followed shelling of a U.S. destroyer and an army headquarters outside Saigon.
A Hyde Street cable car sped down Hyde Street in heavy rain, slammed into a car, burst into flames, and injured 27 passengers. One man, James Van Baalen, 30, was critically burned as autos were damaged and more riders were hurt.
More than 50 groups oppose Vietnam involvement as protestors prepare to hand in draft cards at a Brooklyn church. Pacifists plan a sit in at the main induction centre to block reporting for service.
Mild pacific air covers central and southern western prairies today while northern areas remain under Arctic air with cloudy skies and light snow. A heavier band of snow moves through northeastern Alberta and northwestern Saskatchewan with an upper level disturbance, then clearing begins this evening as the system passes.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy speaks to a 2,500 strong crowd at the Conference of Concerned Democrats in Chicago. He calls Johnson's Vietnam war immoral and urges McCarthy in 68 as the crowd chants against Johnson. An overflow 1,500 hear via speakers as the event doubles as campaign theater.
In Cape Town, Drs Jan H. Louw and Chris Barnard led the first successful human heart transplant. Louis Washkansky, 55, showed the new heart pumping but remained in critical post operative condition. The donor Denise Ann Darvall, 25, died in a car crash and the operation lasted about five hours.
In Montreal Stanfield tells Quebec PC delegates that Canadians are ready for broader French-speaking rights nationwide. He notes English Canadians must accept shared leadership and urges patience as Quebec unity efforts boost the party with Leopold Carriere elected as united front president.
Britain's economy faced another strain as 36 500 locomotive engineers obeyed a 241 page rule book delaying freight and passenger trains. Rail workers protested government efforts to streamline work, with road congestion and bus strikes compounding disruption across Cardiff Nottingham Southend and North London suburbs.
Fifteen teenaged girls drown when a boat capsized and sank 124 miles south of Bangkok. Seventeen others are missing. In New York, two fires killed eight children in separate incidents, five in a Brooklyn home and three in a Mauritius site.
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