07 Jul 1961
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jul 07, 1961
Page
1
In Bat tle Creek Dr and Mrs George Connors direct a party to a parking spot while in Benton Harbor national secretary Mrs Mabel Stodtler posts a notice on the head quarters trailer announcing a city tour this afternoon. News Photo and Engraving.
In METZ France a CF-100 all weather jet from No 1 fighter wing at Marville crashed in an open field killing two Royal Canadian Air Force airmen. Pilot FO Kenneth Sydney Partington 28 of North Battleford Sask and FC Heinrich Hank Thiessen 25 of Coaldale Alta died. Cause unknown. Partington who was single joined 445 Wolverine Squadron in 1959 and Thiessen joined in 1958. Thiessen survived by his wife Ruth Adams of Winnipeg who lives in Virton Belgium near Marville.
The FBI reports the capture of 50-year-old Daniel Jackson Oliver Wendel Holmes Morgan who impersonated a lawyer for 18 months in Washington. He registered July 3 in San Francisco as John Donald Clark and used the alias L. A. Harris while practicing law.
Mediation between Calgary's city and transit workers enters a third day with no progress on pay. A vote could authorize a walkout as early as Monday, threatening service during the Edmonton Maynard conciliation board award rejection. The city maintains a no general wage increase stance while offering minor fringe benefit tweaks.
Donald Wittig a 24-year-old Medicine Hat teacher at Alexandra Junior High died after a 115-volt shock while installing a vent pipe at 956 Queen St. He was on a stove when the drill grounded fault caused the fatal cardiac arrest. Inquiries by city police and provincial electrical inspectors follow the incident.
RCMP detain 13-year-old Taber district girl in connection with the Wednesday night killing of 47-year-old Rade Mamula at his Johnson subdivision home known as Dogtown, near Taber. The victim died from a close range .303 rifle shot to the mid-section. Investigators Corporal H. C. Berry, Corporal D. Vidlan, and Constable N. E. Clare lead the probe at Taber Detachment and Lethbridge Criminal Investigation Branch.
A helicopter chartered to the United States Air Force with six civilians aboard disappeared after departing Cartwright Labrador for Goose Bay. The craft had fuel for two hours and 30 minutes and weather across the region has been foul all week. Names of those aboard were not released.
Two New Delhi newspapers report the birth of quintuplets in a north Indian village. The five children include three boys and two girls born Tuesday in Dabra, about 780 miles south of New Delhi.
The Commons passed a bill 129 to 37 to declare vacant the Bank of Canada governor James E. Coyne’s office. The bill now goes to the Senate as Prime Minister Diefenbaker called Coyne’s statements irritable and intemperate, insisting the government and Coyne remain irreconcilable.
British Overseas Airways Corporation found cracked tail hinge brackets on six Britannia turbo prop airliners. The six planes have been withdrawn from service until repairs are completed.
Robert Thompson, newly elected Social Credit leader, backs an early federal vote and pledges tax cuts funded by aggressive government spending cuts. He touts decentralization, business principles, and welfare-state limits while eyeing a full slate of about 265 candidates across 263 ridings.
Ottawa reports Robert Thompson of Red Deer won the Social Credit leadership amid a secret ballot count that exceeded registered delegates. Five Ontario alternates voted. ballots were burned after the count, with deputy leader Real Caouette chosen by acclamation as scrutiny ended.
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