Coast Fog Brews Fatality and Violent Robberies
In a 36 hour period of heavy winter fog near Vancouver a 16 year old, Dwayne Myers of Abbotsford, died from injuries on the icy Trans-Canada highway. Nine people were arrested in robberies with violence, including a milk truck hold up and a taxi driver robbery. An adjacent incident involved a silent burglar alarm tripping at a warehouse and an intruder confronted by a woman with a cane.
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Vancouver
Pacific
Dwayne Myers
Abbotsford
B.C
Here
Bob Featherstone
New Westminister
Ray LeCompte
United States
U.S
Peter Syme
Annie Rolfe
Girl Walks Out Of Hospital After 11 Years
An 11 year old Alberta girl discharged from the Red Cross Crippled Children's hospital walks with two artificial limbs for the first time. Originally from Dawson Creek now in Calgary, she is set to attend regular school as staff praise her courage and expected smooth adjustment to normal life.
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Alberta
Alberta Red Cross Crippled Children’s Hospital
Dawson Creek
Calgary
Medicial
Fire Brigade Contained Fire at Own Hall in Wawanesa
Fire officials say a Sunday blaze damaged the interior of the Wawanesa fire hall and its engine and hose. Investigators suspect an overheated stove started the fire as crews remained inside the hall to fight the flames. Wawanesa lies about 90 miles southwest of Winnipeg.
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Wawanesa
Winnipeg
Woman Hangs Self in Winnipeg Jail
Winnipeg police report Mrs. Lillian Buck, 43, died by hanging in a central station cell early Sunday after being picked up on a drunkenness charge Friday night. An inquest is scheduled for Monday.
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Winnipeg (Cp
Lillian Buck
CCF Members Study Aggie Procedures in U S Midwest
Four CCF MPs and Saskatchewan MLAs traveled through Weyburn en route to minor North Dakota to study U S agricultural policies. Hazen Argue and Alex Bryson join Allan Brown and Ed Walker to confer with North Dakota Farmers Union leaders Glenn Talbot and Rick Joyce. They plan to use findings to push agricultural measures in Parliament and the Saskatchewan legislature.
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Rick Joyce
Argue
Saskatchewan
Smilestones Debate on National Debt Pass to Future Generations
A wry remark contrasts pessimism and optimism on national debt, warning that passing debt to the next generation could end longstanding ancestral reverence. The quip frames a broader debate about fiscal policy and intergenerational burden in a concise, period-voice style.
$44,000 Missing From P O and Clerk Vanishes in Canada
Britannia Beach, British Columbia. Postal assistant John Black, 42, disappears after a $44,000 Christmas payroll goes missing from the Britannia Mine and Smelting Co post office. Police consider foul play possible while investigators with RCMP and the post office probe leads. The money, in small bills, was registered and insured. Black was last seen Thursday night near his home. A new payroll shipment is due Tuesday.
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Britannia Beach
B.C
John Black
Britannia Mine
Post Office
Black
Canada
RCMP
Former West German intelligence chief escapes East Berlin by rope
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz, ex intelligence chief, vanished in Berlin and was later found to have escaped from a Russian building by climbing down a clothes line from a kitchen balcony. A wife-luring attempt on Heinz failed. Kolb faces misused funds charges.
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Berlin
Reuters
East Berlin
West Berlin
East Germany
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz
West German
Defence Office
Jakob Kolb
Defence Department
Kolb
Heinz
Former Cliff Girl Dies in Pit Crash Near Claresholm
June Page 17 of Redcliff was killed when a car left the highway near Claresholm and plunged into a roadside gravel pit. William Brett 21 of Calgary was injured. police investigate. Page had trained as a nurses’ aide at Vulcan hospital and lived with her father since age four. She is survived by her father and twin sister Jean.
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Claresholm
Page
Redcliff
William Brett
Calgary
Here
June Page
Robert Page
Miss Page
Vulcan Hospital
Robert Page, Jr
California
Jean
Medicine Hat seeks to block Alberta loan interest by province
Mayor Harry Veiner announced a city plan to challenge Alberta’s right to charge interest on loans to municipalities. The move, supported by most aldermen, aims to force courts to rule on legality and would save Medicine Hat about 20 000 dollars annually if interest is eliminated. Other towns may back the effort for interest-free provincial loans for public works and schools.
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Medicine Hat
Alberta
Harry Veiner
Weiner
Capaverant
Calgary
Edmonton
Vancouver Heart Balm Verdict Awards $75,000
An eight member jury awarded Rose Wozny $75,000 in a breach of promise case against Vancouver hotel owner Mike Kasky. The verdict includes $15,000 plus $60,000 interest in property claimed jointly. The award, amid a kerosene lamp due to a blackout, is described as one of the largest in the British Commonwealth for such suits.
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Vancouver
Rose Wozny
Mike Kasky
British Commonwealth
Headingley Jail Riot Forecasted Amid Ongoing Tensions
The Free Press reports rising tension at Headingley provincial jail with a riot level feared as officials battle fresh violence. A Saturday melee damaged windows and equipment, with inmates demanding a new doctor tobacco access and better food. A weekend meeting with Governor Weeks and Attorney General Schultz yielded no lasting resolution.
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Winnipeg
The
Free Press
Manitoba
Headingley
Ivan Schultz
E. G. Weeks
Schultz
Mr. Weeks
Mr. Schultz
Nes A
Mendes-France wins confidence vote on Indochina policy
Paris AP report says Premier Mendes-France secured 310 to 172 support in the National Assembly for his Indochina policy, clearing a four day debate on German rearmament. He noted U.S. aid of about 400 million dollars for South Vietnam in 1955 and pledged gradual withdrawal of French expeditionary forces.
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Harvey Hudson
PARIS
French National Assembly
Pierre Mendes-France
Indochina
Paul-Henri Teitgen
Mouvement Republicain Populaire
MRP
Edly
European ‘Defence Community
Mendes- France
E.ne
Assembly
United States
Viet Nam
Dulles
China
Mendes
France
West Germany
Fra
U.S
Indochi
Mendes-France
Depu
Fre Expeditionary Corps
Nam
Geneva
Georges Bidault
Mendes - Fri
Bidault
Insi
Papal Christmas Address Planned From Vatican Radio
Pope Pius will deliver a world Christmas message via Vatican radio at noon Friday though he remains ill and will not read the full text himself. Jurors in the Sheppard murder trial recessed for lunch on their fourth day of deliberations without a verdict. A large section of the Italian airliner wreckage was hauled from Jamaica Bay. A Toronto doctor warns malnutrition affects a third of Canadians despite vitamin rich foods. An 18 year old Toronto youth faces grievous bodily harm charges after a laneway attack on a 17 year old girl. Robert Bates, 26, jailed for seven years on three charges after escaping the B C penitentiary. Britain expects to ratify Western defence and German rearmament pacts despite a Soviet threat to annul the Anglo Soviet treaty.
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Pope Pius
Vatican Radio
Toronto
William Turner Nixon
Robert Bates
B. C
Foreign Office
Britain
Paris
London
Alberta ends hot spell after weekend record heat
Weatherman says the warm spell is over though temperatures remain above normal across the western Prairies. Calgary hit 62.5F, Edmonton 53F, Lethbridge 61.1F, Medicine Hat 58F, with Saturday record highs in several cities. Readings showed 30F above normal in northern Alberta and 25F higher in Saskatchewan.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Calgary
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
Prairies
Saskatchewan
Mercury
Swift Current
Saskatoon
Regina
North Battleford
Prince Albert
Fireball sighted over Edmonton sparks meteor talk
A blue glowing fireball streaked from the northern Alberta sky Sunday night seen by about 100 people. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada logs sightings, will forward data to Ottawa, and possibly dispatch a search if a crater is found.
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Jim Shrimpton
Edmonton
Alberta
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Space
Earth
Society
Dominion Observatory
Ottawa
Canada
Edmonton Society
Seattle
Camrose
Alla
Abee
Here
Outer Space
Mild spell continues as white Christmas chances drop
EDMONTON CP reports a peak mild spell with temperatures 20 degrees or more above normal. Chances for a white Christmas are fading as the mild pattern persists.
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Edmonton
Woman Drowned After Car Plunges Into River
Edmonton residents Mrs. Jean Sigmond and driver W E Lamb were involved when a car leaped 150 feet over a cliff into the North Saskatchewan River. Lamb escaped with a cut nose. Sigmond drowned. A witness said the vehicle failed to turn at the hill foot. Robert Sole helped pull Lamb from the car as he was rushed to hospital amid fears of pneumonia.
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Edmonton
North Saskatchewan
Jean Sigmond
W. E. Lamb
Robert Sole
Edmondh
Lamb
Sigmond
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