Tragic Bow Island Crash Kills 13-Year-Old Girl
A 13-year-old Bow Island girl, Maybelle Gould, dies after a car she rode in skids into a passing CPR freight near Centre and South Railway streets. Driver Richard Woodcock, 18, is detained. two witnesses describe the impact as the train, about 35 mph, struck the car. Coroner to call an inquest. town mulls protective crossing signals. funeral plans pending.
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Bow Island
Maybelle Gould
Bow Island Elementary
Richard Woodcock
Jean Conquergood
Steve Clay
Grassy Lake
Canadian Pacific “Extra
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Centre
South Railway
R.F.P. Bowman
CPR
Richard Martin
Kenneth Olson
Gould Girl
Gould
E. G. F. Skinner
Alfred Egan
Egan
Helen Gould
Ralph Gould
Gladstone
Man
Pattison
Joyce
Jim
Woodcock
Giffard Woodcock
Alberta
Murder Appeal Dismissed in Warner Case
The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed Alberta’s appeal to reinstate Warner’s murder conviction for the 1959 strangulation death of Stanley Valpeters near Edmonton. Valpeters’ body was found with a belt around the neck in a roadside ditch. Warner testified Valpeters assaulted him and planned to give liquor.
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Ottawa
Supreme Court of Canada
Alberta
Cecil Raymond Warner
Edmonton
Alberta Appeal Court
Warner
Stanley Valpeters
Valpeters
Yule Vacation Begins Friday for Medicine Hat Students
Medicine Hat students in districts 76 and 21 enjoy a 10 day Christmas break starting Friday with schools closed at 4 pm. Public schools plan Christmas concerts as the fall term ends.
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Medicine Hat
Gold Coins Vanish From TGA Plane in Canada
A box of gold coins valued at 18000 dollars disappeared on a Trans-Canada Airlines jet en route to Toronto from London. Investigators suspect the package, shipped for Bank of Nova Scotia display use, was loaded in London and removed in Montreal. Interpol and RCMP are involved as searches span Montreal Toronto Winnipeg and Vancouver with no firm lead.
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London
Bank of Nova Scotia
Air. Express
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Montreal
Winnipeg
Vancouver
F. H. Woods-Johnson
RCMP
Woods-Johnson
United States
ASTCA
Malton
Zurich
Switzerland
Interpol
Europe
TCA
North Star
Electoral College Vote Begins
The 537 electors assemble in state capitals to cast the presidential vote. Kennedy leads with a Trump of 303 to Nixon 220, Byrd 14, and others unpledged. Hawaii’s late recount swung to Kennedy by 55 votes. An Alabama Mississippi bloc and unpledged electors influence final totals.
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Washington
John Kennedy
Hawaii
Richard Nixon
Kennedy
Nixon
Harry F. Byrd
Dem. Va
Byrd
Alabama
Mississippi
Kidney graft patient Patrick Kin dies after recovery
Patrick Kin, who underwent a pioneering kidney graft from his father in October, died today in London. His father recovered normally, while Patrick had shown progress until last weekend when he was rushed back for emergency treatment.
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London
Patrick Kinsella
Patrick
No Parking Overnight Downtown Medicine Hat
Public works superintendent Jim Carswell urges motorists to avoid overnight parking in downtown Medicine Hat. Snow crews will begin clearing First, Second and Third Streets from South Railway to Fourth Ave at midnight and also clear Sixth Ave from Finlay Bridge to Fourth St and the subway.
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Public Works
Jim Carswell
Medicine Hat
South Railway
Fourth Ave
Sixth Ave
Finlay Bridge
Fourth St
Snow Closes Highways in Medicine Hat Area
A weekend snowstorm dumped 3.4 inches on the Medicine Hat area and caused roads to clog as highways plows operated. Cold temperatures fell with a 20 mph wind drifting snow. Medicine Hat reported a 1 pm reading of three above zero. The northeast storm began Sunday at 1 pm and ended today at noon.
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Medicine Hat
Departments of Highways
Hiroshima Air Hero Arrested
In Dallas Texas AP reports former air force pilot Claude R. Eatherly 41 of Van Alstyne was arrested after being identified by a patrolman while driving a car with a woman passenger. He had disappeared November 22 from a VA hospital in Waco where he was a mental patient.
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Dallas
Tex
Airborce
Japan
Veterans’ Administration
Claude R. Eatherly
van Alstyne
Waco
Eatherly
East Germany Threatens Berlin Traffic Halt Over Pact
East Germany warns that without a new trade pact signed this month, all travel agreements with West Germany for Berlin will be invalid starting January 1. The warning appears in Neues Deutschland, the Communist party newspaper, signaling a major transport dispute amid stalled talks.
Twenty Known Dead as Fire Rages Aboard Carrier Constellation
A massive blaze on the USS Constellation killed twenty and injured hundreds as 4,200 civilian workers remained aboard. Fire crews fought the fuel fed flames amid smoke and shifting lists while rescuers extracted 20 bodies and freed trapped workers from steel compartments.
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New York
Constellation
Edward Cavanagh
Admiral Schuyler Pyne
Cavanagh
New York City
Canada Sees Export Growth Cut Trade Deficit in Q3
Canada’s export sales rose in the third quarter helping reduce the international trade deficit to 114 million dollars, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported. Commodity trade posted an 89 million dollar surplus while invisible items produced a 203 million dollar deficit, keeping nine month deficit at 894 million. Long term capital inflows funded most of the gap with two notable features a substantial direct investment inflow and a sharp drop in stock and bond inflows.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
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Menlik Square
Workineh
Brazil
TGA
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Little Cloud
Charles W. Gibbings
Rosetown
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Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
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John Phelps
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