Regina hear ing into prairie air routes ends after two weeks
The Air Transport Board concluded its longest hearing at Regina courthouse with five air companies and about 20 prairie community submissions. The Dec 1960 action began as TCA sought to abandon the milk run linking Winnipeg Brandon Yorkton Regina Swift Current Medicine Hat Lethbridge Calgary.
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Sask
Air Transport Board
Prairie Air Routes
Trans- Canada Airlines
Intercontinental
Trans-Continental Air Service
Winnipeg
Brandon
Yorkton
Swift Current
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Calgary
TCA
Pacific Western Airlines
TransAir
Western
Northwest Industries of
Edmonton
LC Airlines
ICA
Foothills
Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Trans-Continental
North Battleford
Prince Albert
Sasatoon
North Prairie
Lloydminster
PWA
Peace River
Dawson Creek
Medicine Wat
Trans-Air
Northwest
Saskatchewan Government Airways
SGA
Trans- Air
Ian McPherson
McPherson
Roof Work Underway On Heights Ice Rink Project
Workmen raise corrugated roofing on the Heights Recreation Centre artificial ice rink as crews push toward a holiday opening. Roofing at the Hill rink lags while Heights engine room is complete. weather and supply delays hinder a firm opening date.
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the Heights Recreation Centre
The
Hill Recreation Centre
the Heights
City Recreation Commission
Heights Rink
Berlin Talks Open as U S Presses Hard on Policy Change
Paris AP reports a path for Western leadership in Berlin talks with the Soviet Union hinges on Moscow adopting major policy changes. Kennedy and Macmillan won NATO approval to pursue a cautious plan, including a Bermuda meeting December 20 21 to direct U S diplomacy and possibly involve Khrushchev. The Berlin formula emphasizes resuming diplomatic contacts to seek a negotiated peace.
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Paris
United States
Berlin
Soviet Union
U. S
Kennedy
Macmillan
NATO
Bermuda
U.S
Moscow
Llewellyn Thompson
Andrei Gromyko
Khrushchev
Congo’s Tshombe Flees as UN Advances Near Kinshasa
Reuters report states Katanga leader Moise Tshombe and his staff fled Elisabethville as UN forces scored a major offensive. Positional gains include the capture of the Lido Hotel near Tshombe’s residence and reports place him heading toward Kipishu on the Rhodesian border.
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Reuters-Ap
Elisabethville
Moise Tshombe
Congo
Katanga
United Nations
Tshombe
Kipishu
Lido
Congo Policy Altered Amid Katanga Tensions
The United States revised Congo policy to back a suspend shooting as Katanga President Tshombe leaves, while UN troops gain freedom to reinforce. Britain France Canada and Norway pressed for curbs on fighting, amid protests that policy aids Soviet aims. Elisabethville and Leopoldville see heavy UN offensives with 6,000 soldiers engaged, tunnels and key routes contested, as Tshombe seeks talks with Cyrille Adoula.
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United States
Congo
Allie
U.S
United Nations
Katanga
Muise Tshombe
Cyrille Adoula
Tshombe
Britain
France
Canada
Norway
Kennedy
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Massart
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Ethiopia
India
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UN Air Arm
Trish
Central Congo
Brussels
Adoula
NATO
Paris
Denmark
World Force
Ottawa
Diefenbaker
Moise Tshombe
U.S. Wins as UN Defeats Red China Membership Bid
In the General Assembly, a Soviet resolution to oust Nationalist China and admit the Peking government failed 36 to 48 with 20 abstentions. Britain supported the Soviet move, while Canada and most Western nations opposed. The vote followed a year of tense debate over China’s UN representation.
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Peking
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China
Mao Tse - Tung
Chiang Kaishek
Formosa
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Canada
Mauritania
Guter Mongolia
Mongolia
Australia
Colombia
Italy
Japan
Enclave Braced For War In Goa Crisis
Goa’s Portuguese enclave prepares for possible Indian attack as Governor-General Manuel Vassalo e Silva orders forces to stay on alert. Reports cite 30,000 Indian troops, naval attention, and jets sighted near the 1300 square mile territory amid frontier tensions.
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Panjim
Goa
Reuters
India
Manuel Vassalo E Silva
Bombay
Blitz
V. K. Krishna Menon
Vassalo
Vikrant
Diefenbaker
Portugal
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Grandma Moses
Manslaughter Charge Laid in Bus Train Collision
A manslaughter charge was filed against Duane Harris, 23, driver of the school bus in the fatal collision with a passenger train that killed 20 children. Bond set at $1,000 in Greeley Colorado.
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Greeley
Colo
Duane Harris
British Application Gets Boost
Paris Reuters Britain’s bid to join the European Common Market received support from the Western European Union assembly. The body urged agricultural global accords to aid Commonwealth exporters if Britain enters. It also backed aiding British farmers and fruit and vegetable producers toward low tariff integration. Austria Sweden and Switzerland pursued talks on possible association with the rival Common Market.
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Paris
Reuters
Britain
Assembly of the Western European Union
Austria
Sweden
Switzerland
European Free Trade Association
Common Market
FUA Pushes Law for Mandatory Rural Support
At the Alberta Farmers Union of Alberta convention delegates urged the province to enact a law requiring all rural landowners to pay a half mill on their assessment into the FUA treasury. The levy would fund membership for all resident and non resident farmers and Hanson said it would raise about $200 000 for promotional and educational work.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Farmers’ Union of Alberta
FUA
Welcome Hanson
Eichmann verdict and world turmoil headline
Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to hang by a Jeru salem court after being found guilty on 15 counts in the Nazi war crimes trial. The piece also surveys Congo Katanga tensions, NATO diplomacy, and global mentions from Goa to Cuba. Grandma Moses dies at 101, two by-elections boost Quebec Liberal strength.
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Carman Cumming
Israel
Jerusalem
Adolf Fienmann
Gestapo
Gideon Hausner
Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann
Congo
India
Goa
United Nations
Katanga
Elisabethville
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