Nine Bodies Found in Robena Mine Disaster Toll Rises
Rescue teams in Carmichaels Pa report the ninth body located before noon, raising the total recovered to 16 with 21 miners still missing. Ventilation is disrupted and repairs will delay body recoveries as crews press deeper toward the mine face about 1,000 feet from the blast site.
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Carmichaels, Pa
U.S. Steel Corporation
Robena No. 3
U.S. Steel
Pittsburgh
Lewis Evans
State Secretary of Mines
Evans
Pay Boost Announced for Federal Civil Servants
Ottawa Finance Minister Nowlan announced retroactive pay increases for about 65 000 federal civil servants. The move affects longstanding government employees and signals a broader raise plan.
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Ottawa
Nowlan
PFRA Grazing Levy Urged by Hamilton
Regina Canada Federal Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton urged farmers to back a one cent per head levy on cattle grazing PFRA community pastures. Funds would return to municipalities losing revenue, with 80 new pastures planned this year. He cited foreign wheat demand and outlined a three to five year program to boost pasture participation and access to good land.
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Regina
Alvin Hamilton
PFRA
Hamilton
Europe
Japan
Canada
Vatican physician returns home as Pope recuperates after weekend
Vatican City reports Pope John Paul II’s personal physician leaving for Bologna to rest and regain strength while the pontiff remains on a recovering path. The doctor is expected back in Rome by week’s end.
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Vatican City
John
Bologna
Hat Short-Change Artist Reported in Medicine Hat
A police report describes a man with fair hair brown eyes about five eleven 180 pounds wearing a blue coat and tan pants who short changed Toshach's Appliances by 18 dollars and Red Owl Foods by 20 dollars Saturday in Medicine Hat.
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Medicine Hat
Toshach’s Appliances
Red Owl Foods
Nehru casts doubt on China cease fire tactics
Prime Minister Nehru warned in a radio address that China may be using a cease fire and withdrawal as a ploy and told Indian troops to be ready for a long struggle. He urged Parliament to refer the frontier dispute to the International Court of Justice if China withdraws to the September 8 lines. He urged determination against imperialist tactics and noted the potential for renewed fighting in the Himalayas.
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New Delhi
Nehru
China
Himalayas
Peking
International Court of Justice
India
Ceylon
Four Suspects Sought in $1.5 Million Mail Truck Robbery
Federal investigators say they have identified four prime suspects in the August Plymouth Massachusetts mail truck heist that yielded $1.5 million. Evidence includes a police uniform piece and foot lockers found in a Massachusetts residence. Police are guided by a staged “war of nerves” to coax surrender.
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Washington
Plymouth Mass
U.S
James F. Kelleher
J. Edward Day
Boston
Kelleher
Massachusetts
Christmas Cheer Drenched as Man Smashed Basement Wall
Santo Marzen stored three 40 gallon barrels of wine along a basement wall when Carl Waldemar Larson, 19, lost control of his car and crashed into Marten’s house. The collision caused six feet of wall to collapse and about 100 gallons of wine to spill.
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Vancouver
Santo Marzen
Carl Waldemar Larson
Marten
Potato Top Issue In PEI Election
In Charlottetown polls opened under cloudy skies with rain forecast. Thirty seats are contested by Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties as farmers drive the campaign with the potato as the election’s core issue. The Liberals push a potato floor price while the government counters that it would ruin the industry. The Liberals promise grain crop compensation for harvest disruption from wet weather.
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Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island
Island
Walter R. Shaw
Shaw
Cabinet Decrees Pair Will Hang
The federal cabinet will not intervene in the death sentences of Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, slated for execution in Toronto early Tuesday. Both men had appealed to the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. appeals were dismissed with no mercy recommendation. Turpin murdered Const. Frederick Nash in Toronto last February. Lucas, a Detroit resident, was convicted in the Toronto slaying of Therland Crater, an undercover agent for the Detroit Bureau of Narcotics.
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Ottawa
Toronto
Justice Department
Fleming
Arthur Lucas
Ronald Turpin
Ontario Court of Appeal
Supreme Court of Canada
Turpin
Frederick Nash
Lucas
Detroit
Therland Crater
Detroit Bureau of Narcotics
Three youths die and two hospitalized from car carbon monoxide fumes
Calgary youths Gerald Banks 18 of Standard and Kenneth Pederson 17 of Standard died from carbon monoxide in a car four miles north of Strathmore while Arthur Ginn 19 of Calgary and Banks’ companions were injured and taken to hospital. Authorities believe the car left the highway and stalled in a ditch with fumes entering the vehicle as the engine ran for warmth.
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Calgary
Gerald Banks
Standard
Alta
Strathmore
Kenneth Pederson
Arthur
Ginn
Secret Communist Plot Reported in Iceland
Reykjavik Morgunbladid reports secret Communist plans to seize Iceland's government. A nine member committee drafted a four year program for a national front with leftist allies, a political police, and key official placements. The plan aimed to bind Iceland to the Soviet bloc through trade deals and loans.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Morgunbiadid
Communist Party
National Front
Soviets Unveil Record Military Budget for 1963
The Soviet government announced a record 87.6 billion roubles total budget for 1963 with a 3.6 percent rise in military spending to 13.9 billion roubles. Finance Minister Vasily Garbuzov spoke at the Supreme Soviet as Premier Khrushchev watched, while economic head Veniamin Dymshits outlined large boosts for chemical industry and agriculture investments.
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Moscow
Theooviet
Vasily Garbuzov
Supreme Soviet
Khrushchev
Garbuzov
Veniamin Dymshits
Indus
Dymshits
National Economic Council
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