Road Toll in Canada Reaches 70 Fatalities in Week
The Canadian Press reports Canada logged 70 road deaths in the seven days ending Friday, rising 21 over last year and 13 above 1960. Ontario led with 27 deaths, Quebec 18, Saskatchewan 7, British Columbia 9, with each province recording fatalities. Sunday saw 12 deaths, Saturday 23, and New Brunswick marked its first weekly death.
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Newfoundland
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Nova Scotia
Alberta
McNaughton Warns Columbia Plan Risks Canada's Water Rights
Gen. A J G L McNaughton warned the Canada U S treaty could turn the Columbia River basin into a perpetual water store for power and flood control. He said the draft plan threatens Canadian storage and sovereignty while expanding U S demands and potentially delaying parliamentary study.
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Canada
Alaska
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Kootenay
Oil Sands Plan Filed in Calgary
Cities Service Atha basca Incorporated along with Imperial Oil Richfield Oil Royalite filed with the Alberta Oil and Gas Conservation Board a 356 million plan to mine and process Athabasca sands at Mildred Lake and build a 295 mile pipeline to Edmonton. Daily output would reach 100000 barrels by 1970 with hearings set January 15.
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Athabasca
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Richfield Oil Corporation
Royalite Oil Company Limited
Mildred Lake
Athabasca Sands
Edmonton
Alberta
Great Canadian Oil Sands Limited
Great Canadian
Cities Service
Feature Starts Monday on Civil Defense Series
The News launches a Monday editorial page series by Archibald Hugh Mitchell MBE director of Civil Defense for Medicine Hat. Mitchell outlines wartime planning for families including food stocks shelters and evacuation. He brings military and civic credentials from Alberta and Germany to the discussion.
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Archibald Hugh Mitchell
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Medicine Hat
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Fort Macleod
Alberta
University of Alberta
Canadian Army
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Oberhausen
Ruhr
Control Commission For Germany
Flement
Walter Barber
House of Commons
Social Credit Party
Cuban groups claim Soviet missiles in Cuban caves
The Second National Front of Escambray and Alpha 66 accuse Cuba of hiding Soviet missiles and aircraft in vast caves and say 15,000 Soviet troops are stationed on the island. U S intelligence estimates 9,000 to 15,000 troops in Cuba. The groups say they formed a military pact a month ago.
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Body Found in Frosty Run Shaft After Mine Blast
Rescue teams locating one of 37 miners trapped 650 feet underground at U.S. Steel Robena No. 3 mine near Frosty Run. body found about 4,000 feet from the blast area as families endure the wait. Ventilation work and gas removal hindered progress amid fires and rock falls. Bishop Joan Wright offered condolences to grieving families.
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U.S. Steel Corporation
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U.S. Steel
Robena No. 3
Pittsburgh
Joan J. Wright
Eugene Zuzak
Boumedienne's grip on Algerian army wanes threatens coup
Algiers reports Boumedienne the taciturn defence minister, once seen as the likely strongman to replace Ben Bella, is losing influence over Algeria's 45,000 man army. Diplomats say the dispersed force is eroding his command and coup prospects as time passes.
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Houari Boumedienne
Algeria
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Ahmed Ben Bella
Youssef Ben Khedda
Ben Bella
Commons Orders Probe into Drugs
Fifteen MPs will study drugs pesticides and weed killers, with a Commons committee to report on law and practices governing drug control and contamination risks in food. Names of members pending, debate over drug cost inclusion and possible amendments discussed. Health costs await Reform Commission findings as Atlantic development board clause-by-clause reviews continue.
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House of Commons
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Essex East
T. C. Douglas
New Democratic Party
Marcel Lambert
Monteith
Restrictive Trade Practices Commission
Commons
Atlantic Development Board
Island votes Monday in third PEI election of month
Prince Edward Islanders head to the polls Monday for the third provincial election in a month. Premier Walter Shaw 75 and Liberal Alex Matheson 59 made final appeals Friday before a 48 hour ban on political broadcasts.
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Alex Matheson
Shaw
Rebels seize Seria refinery in Brunei outbreak
Seven people were killed and police wounded as rebels struck the Seria oil complex. Gurkha troops arrived from Singapore to quell the revolt while Brunei town remained under threat and reinforcements moved toward Kuala Belait. The uprising reportedly spans Brunei Sabah and Sarawak areas with estimated rebel strength and claims of a revolutionary prime minister.
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Sarawak
Kuala Belait
North Borneo
Weston
Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin
Data Setia Marsal
Associated Press
Manila
A. M. Azahari
Rankyat Party
Brunie
Azahari
Indian PM Sees China To Withdraw Forces In Northeast
Prime Minister Nehru told Parliament that Chinese Communists plan to pull back their armed forces from northeast India while keeping two civilian outposts at Dhola and Longju. He noted disputes over the McMahon line and explained differing border interpretations with China.
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Nehru
India
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Longju
McMahon Line
China
McMahon
Bhutan
Smog, disasters, and Doukhobour visit grip western news
A week of thick smog in London, a fatal Eastern Air Lines DC-7B crash near Idlewild, and the Grey Cup disruptions dominate the Western week. Fog, shipping delays, chlorine scare in Cornwall, Doukhobour protest encampment in Victoria, and Red Adair’s gas well fire stoppage highlight a turbulent period with miners trapped in Pennsylvania and political clashes at a Manitoba farmers meeting.
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Charlotte N.C
New York
Idlewild
Lake Ontario
Toronto
Medicine Hat Welcomes 25 000th Citizen Aaron Thompson
The Hat records Medicine Hat's 25 000th citizen Aaron Craig Thompson born at Medicine Hat General Hospital to Mr and Mrs Stanley Thompson last Saturday. City Council unanimously approves two one way bridges over South Saskatchewan Finlay plus a Fifth Ave bridge plan. Pendant d Oreille gas fire blown out by 150 pound dynamite load at 8 20 am Thursday by Paul Red Adair. CUAs 1963 auto insurance increase for Medicine Hat announced.
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Texas
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Canadian Underwriters Association For Automobile Drivers
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