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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1962
Page
1
In Algiers residents endure daily bomb and gun risks from the long Algerian conflict and right wing attacks yet continue routines. People adapt to patrols, store checks, and curfews as nightlife shrinks and cinema and dining shift to earlier hours.
Immigration Minister L. Fairclough announced revised rules ending racial or religious discrimination in immigration. Backbenchers Bourdages and Browne led the reply praising Diefenbaker and the Progressive Conservative record as the throne speech debate opens with expectations of an election this year.
A refugee family sponsored to start anew in Medicine Hat in October will fly back to Germany from Calgary on Sunday. Mrs Aniele Hawryluk and her son Bruno 14 cited homesickness and said she has nothing against Canada. Bruno enjoyed school here but hopes to return when older. he admires football and aims for work in Germany at 15.
Police hunted a late model car with three passengers when a man reported a back-seat occupant with a weapon. Officers found a toy sub machine gun in the car’s possession and the owner a young boy being driven to a nursery.
Indonesia's President Sukarno told U Thant the door remains open for a peaceful settlement of the West New Guinea dispute. He warned that Dutch maneuvers toward an independent state risk escalation, following a Jan. 15 Dutch Navy attack on Indonesian patrol vessels, while pledging to keep emotions in check.
Reuters reports Congolese soldiers fired on United Nations Canberra jets over Kongolo in Katanga province after spotting a burning village near Sola mission. The UN said no planes were hit and noted mass killings of Catholic priests and missionaries in Kongolo and Sola, with rebels blamed for earlier massacres including 18 priests and a lay brother.
Indonesia prepares to send Sudjarwo Tjondronegoro to UN headquarters as a top aide of Foreign Minister Subandrio. His arrival follows U Thant’s appeal for Dutch and Indonesian talks on a peaceful settlement amid naval clashes, with the Netherlands proposing UN observers in West New Guinea.
Five children aged eight months to five years died when a small wooden home burned on an Indian reserve near Alert Bay on Cormorant Island. RCMP said the cause was under investigation. the blaze left responders unable to save the occupants. The reserve houses many scattered dwellings on the island’s northeast coast.
Eighteen additional air raid sirens will be installed in Calgary by mid summer the Canadian Army said The city now has 17 with two others at Cochrane and Okotoks Air drill Alta will install a siren by next summer Exact installation date was not known.
Canada opens parliament as Diefenbaker flags pensions and grants while international events unfold. Kennedy proposes 1963 defense and welfare spending. Congo Algeria and West New Guinea tensions draw scrutiny. Edmonton pipeline blast kills eight. Whitehorse byelection seat won. bombings shake British Columbia. Halifax salvage and Toronto stock exchange outages mark a volatile week.
Antoine Gizenga arrived in Leopoldville to answer charges he planned to establish an independent government in Oriental province. Premier Cyrille Adoula summoned him amid UN pressure to account for his actions in Stanleyville. About 25 members of G A S party greeted Gizenga as he met UN counsel Hamid Abdoun.
Ndola witness V A Lowrie, fire chief, testifies at the Dag Homer marshjold plane crash inquiry that Hammarskjold may have survived the impact. He notes the UN secretary general’s body was in a half sitting position with a silver wrist disc and ragged rigor mortis not yet set in, suggesting possible non-immediate death. Hammarskjold was en route from Leopoldville to Ndola to meet Katanga’s Moise Tshombe.
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