Solon Low Dies at 62 in Shelly Montana
Solon E. Low former Alberta treasurer and long-time national Social Credit leader died Saturday in Shelly Montana at age 62. He helped launch Social Credit in Alberta during the 1930s and led the party for 16 years, later serving as juvenile and family court judge. His death follows years of ill health after a 1955 heart attack and his resignation as leader in 1961.
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Lethbridge
Solon E. Low
Social Credit Party
Shelly
Mont
Alberta
Social Credit
Low
Shelby
Eric
Calgary
National Social Credit
Raymond
Medicine Hat
Robert Thompson
John Blackmore
Mr. Low
E. C. Manning
W. A. ©. Bennett
British Columbia
Canada
Louis St. Laurent
Lester Pearson
T. C. Douglas
New
Holiday Accident Toll 75
A Canadian Press survey records 75 accidental deaths during the Christmas weekend up to 7 am today. Traffic deaths led with 51, fires 18, drownings 2, and 9 miscellaneous fatalities across provinces, with Ontario and New Brunswick reporting drownings and Quebec worst for traffic deaths.
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Broughton
Bateman
Canadian Highway Safety Council
Quebec
Chibougamau
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
Ontario
British Columbia
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
B.C
Christmas Card Rush Hits White House in Flood of Notes
AP reports a White House flood of Christmas cards reaching 1,500 daily. In HOPE B C a camp of 1,300 Sons of Freedom Doukhobors reports hepatitis and two more measles cases among radical sons. Seismologists in Uppsala note two strong Soviet nuclear blasts with a possible third. About 3,000 Christian Arabs from Israel and 2,000 Bethlehem pilgrims cross into Jordan in a smooth Yuletide effort.
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Hope
B.C
Stockholm
Sweden
Seismological Institute of
Uppsala University
Israel
Jordan
Freedom airlift brings 426 Cuban prisoners home
A Christmas Eve airlift delivered 426 Cuban exiles from Havana to Miami in a staged exchange for food and medicine. The first of several DC-6 planes landed at 6:06 p.m. EST with 108 prisoners. by 8:55 p.m. the fourth flight increased the total to 426.
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Miami
Fla
United States
Pan American World Airways
Havana
Freedom
Fidel Castro
Longshoremen Seal Atlantic and Gulf Ports
A nationwide ILA strike ties up shipping from Searsport Maine to Brownsville Texas. President Kennedy urged a 90 day delay but was ignored. About 81 000 ILA members walk out over a contract dispute demanding smaller work gangs and accusing featherbedding. Pickets appear at New York Newark Houston Lake Charles amid partial port coverage and phased dock behavior before Christmas.
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International Longshoremen’s Association
Searsport
Browns
ILA
New York
Newark
N.J
Houston
Tex
Lake Charles
Mobile
Ala
Providence
A.L
Philadelphia
Trenton
Wilmington
Del
New York Shipping Association
Koreans Wage Sea Battle Near Yunpyung Island
A South Korean naval patrol boat and a North Korean vessel clashed in a gun battle near Yunpyung Island in the Yellow Sea. Two South Korean sailors were killed and four wounded as the North Korean ship reportedly opened fire first. government officials said damage to the North remained unconfirmed.
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Seoul
Yunpyung
Yellow Sea
Four Hospitalized After Collision In City
Four people were taken to Mac's Ambulance after a two car crash at the intersection of 12th Street S E and 3rd Ave at 8 35 p m Sunday. Injured were Mrs Schneider 77 Louis Job and Erna Jun both of 170 Connaught Drive and Edward Neigel 13 of 267 11th Street S E. Total vehicle damage was about 1400 with 600 on the Job car and 800 on the Degenhardt car. Minor injuries, none detained. A separate 5 a m Sunday crash on 403 th Street S W involved Anthony Andreas Jr of 1166 Queen Street and a parked car owned by A R Collier, with 150 and 600 in damages respectively.
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Mac's
Louis Job
Connaught Drive
William Patrick Degenhardt
12Th St. S.E
Schneider
11Th St. S.E
Louis
Erna Jun
Edward Neigel
1Th St. S.E
Anthony Andreas Jr
Queen St
A. R. Collier
No News On Tuesday Christmas Week
The NEWS will not be published Tuesday, December 25 Christmas Day. Regular edition resumes Wednesday, December 26. Advertisers should submit copy for Wednesday, December 26 and Thursday, December 27 by Friday, December 21.
Bad Luck Blamed In Bay of Pigs Invasion Tale
Humberto Sanchez recalls the 1961 Bay of Pigs mission aboard the freighter Houston. He cites misfortune and delayed launches, air attacks by B 26s jets and Sea Furies, limited anti aircraft, and losses of about 30 men as the Houston was damaged and supplies burned.
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Humberto Sanchez
Ter Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Miami
Fla
Playa Giron
Houston
Puerto Cabeza
Nicaragua
Cuban
Macmillan Faces Munich Label After Polaris Pivot
British papers of varied politics react coolly to Macmillan accepting Polaris as Britain’s nuclear deterrent replacing Skybolt. He returns from Nassau meeting with Kennedy as Guardian notes the Conservative government’s fate hinges on this decision. Herald brands the move as Munich style face-saving.
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London
Reuters
Macmillan
Britain
Nassau
Kennedy
Manchester Guardian
Munich
Daily
Herald
Katanga Battle Breaks Out Near Union Miniere Plant
Heavy firing disrupts Elisabethville as Katangan and Ethiopian UN troops clash near the Union Miniere plant. Reports spoke of many deaths while civilians flee in panic, amid weeks of tensions over Tshombe’s secessionist regime and UN attempts to restore central government control.
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Elisabethville
Reuters
United Nations
Union Miniere
Kantangan
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Leopoldville
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