New Years Babies Named in Medicine Hat Rush
Mrs. Lillian Lawson delivers Gary Thomas at 2:46 a.m. weighing nine pounds seven and three quarter ounces at General Hospital. Annie Morrice gives birth to John Joseph Morrice at 9:45 a.m. weighing seven pounds. Both mothers and infants reported healthy. Lawson family has three other children. Quebec City birth edges Ontario in national stork race ending at midnight.
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Redcliff
Lillian Lawson
Walter Lawson
Medicine Hat
Gary Thomas
Stork
General Hospital
Kenneth
Michael
Quebec
Ontario
Quebec City
Peking sees peace curtain in Viet Nam conflict
Paris dispatch reports French Ambassador Jean Chauvel’s summary of Chinese views from a trip to Peking and Indochina. He cites Peking’s belief that the United States uses a “peace curtain” while expanding the war, and warns of incalculable risks if mistrust is not overcome.
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Paris
United States
China
Jean Chauvel
Chauvel
Peking
Viet Nam
Cambodia
Laos
Figaro
Washington
Geneva
Diem
South Viet Nam
Dien Bien Phu
Prime Minister Wilson seeks meeting with Soviet envoy over Vietnam peace bid
London reports Prime Minister Wilson summoned Soviet Charge d Affaires Vladislen Vasev for a 30 minute talk on the U.S. Viet Nam peace bid and may send a private message to Premier Kosygin. He had met the Soviet diplomat after a Saturday session with Arthur Goldberg and reiterated Britain’s push for unconditional peace talks with North Vietnam.
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London
Reuters
Wilson
Vladislen Vasev
U.S
Viet Nam
Alexei Kosygin
Arthur Goldberg
United Nations
Johnson
Britain
Moscow
Russia
Peace talks push amid Hanoi rebukes and US diplomacy
Washington reports two Johnson peace envoys pressing talks as Hanoi denounces U S moves as trickery. Nhan Dan demands Washington halt all war acts and accept four conditions for end of the war. Harriman travels to Pakistan and Williams to Africa as a bombing pause enters its 11th day.
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Washington
Johnson
Hanoi
Communist Party
Nhan Dan
U.S
United States
W. Averell Harriman
Pakistan
Ayub Khan
G. Mennen Williams
North Viet Nam
Sharp outlines higher 1966 Ottawa expenditures and tax shifts
Treasury faces higher 1966 costs as tax revenue share to provinces grows. Mitchell Sharp says budget will reflect lower income tax yield due to Canada Pension Plan deductions and that growth may slow from 1965. He cites a possible $1 billion international payments deficit and a cautious, inflationary restraint approach.
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Toronto
Mitchell Sharp
Canada Pension Fund
Sharp
Canadian Club of Toronto
Medicine Hat Delivers School and City Services in Cold Spell
Despite temperatures plunging to 20 below, Medicine Hat reports open schools with parent discretion, steady bus service, and only slight increases in taxi use. City officials note no water main trouble and advise keeping a tap trickling for freeze ups as winds ease from 25 to 14 mph.
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Medicine Hat
A. C. Newton
Medicine Hat Transportation Co
Allan Gunter
Prairies
Manitoba
Alberta
Edmonton
Prairie
New York Strike Eases as City Faces Auto Traffic Surge
The two day old transit strike caused heavy Manhattan traffic with Mayor Lindsay threatening city closure to cars. Traffic gradually loosened and officials predicted normal flow by 8 a.m. Quill of the Transport Workers Union must answer a show cause in State Supreme Court as negotiations resume. The strike is expected to cost stores about 40.6 million dollars daily.
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New York
New York City
Manhattan
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
Henry A. Barnes
Transport Workers Union
Aflcio
State Supreme Court
Saskatchewan projects year end budget surplus
Premier Ross Thatcher released a government white paper showing a projected budget surplus of about 14 million dollars for the year ending March 31, compared with an earlier estimate of 249 thousand dollars. Revised 1965 66 revenue and expenditure forecasts show higher revenues and increased spending in several areas. Receipts from education and health tax are expected to exceed the original estimate by at least 3 million, though total tax receipts will be lower than the prior year due to a rate cut.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Ross Thatcher
Thatcher
Wind Chill Chart Guide For Calgary Winter
The article explains wind chill as the deciding factor in cold is how wind makes temperatures feel. It describes reading a chart to combine thermometer temperature and wind speed to assess freeze risk and suggests clipping the chart for daily use.
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Hal Brown Advertising Ltd
Calgary
Kashmir dispute shadows India Pakistan summit in Tashkent
Premier Kosygin hosts as India’s Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistan’s Ayub Khan arrive for a Tashkent conference. Washington seeks peace in Vietnam via Harriman while Kashmir remains core issue with no plebiscite agreement in sight.
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India
Pakistan
Kashmir
Tashkent
U.S.S
Shastri
W. Averell Harriman
Johnson
Kosygin
Washington
Viet Nam
Harriman
New Delhi
Peshawar
Ayub Khan
Prairie blizzard claims two lives and forces school closures
A severe prairie blizzard shut highways and rail lines, canceled buses, and closed many schools across Alberta Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Two people are believed dead from exposure over the weekend including Dr Harold Frank Dyck of Winnipeg whose body was found 12 miles north of Elm Creek Manitoba.
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Edmonton
Prairies
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Morinville
Alta
Calgary
Alberta
Sturgeon
Westlock
Harold Frank Dyck
Winnipeg
Elm Creek
Man
Dyck
Weekend weather brings spring fever and deadly toll
The Canadian Press reports mixed weekend weather across Canada with warm bays in the Maritimes and 15 second tremor felt in Toronto area. Snowstorms hit British Columbia and the Prairies while Ontario saw subzero temps. Traffic deaths projected at 30 plus possible plane crash near Vancouver. Snow disrupted rail travel and cold forecasts persist across the Prairies.
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Maritimes
British Columbia
Ontario
Prairies
Lake Ontario
Toronto
Hamilton
St. Catharines
Canadian Highway Safety Council
Vancouver
B.C
Morinville
Alto
Halifax-Dartmouth
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Dartmouth
New Year Holiday Accidents Toll Reaches Forty One Across Canada
A Canadian Press tally shows 41 deaths during the 78 hour New Year weekend end date. Traffic deaths total 29, fires four, other causes eight with Ontario 15 highway deaths and Nova Scotia one traffic fatality. Saskatchewan reports four deaths including traffic and fire. Three died in a British Columbia plane crash and one in an accidental shooting.
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Canada
Canadian Highway Safety Council
Ontario
Quebec
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Alberta
Manitoba
British Columbia
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