Five Die In Two Alberta Traffic Crashes Sunday
Weekend traffic toll in southern Alberta includes five deaths and four injuries. A head on collision east of Irvine killed four BC family members and critically injured a Stirling woman. A six year old Medicine Hat boy was treated for head and facial wounds after being struck in a parking lot. A Redcliff couple’s car rolled into a ditch near Schuler but the parents and two daughters survived. An inquest is ordered by the Medicine Hat coroner.
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British Columbia
Irvine
Stirling
Alta
Raymond
Medicine Hat
Bruce Dwayne Doering
Box
Market Square
Adam Bechtoff
Orion
Doering
Henry Boehler
Third St. SE
Redcliff
Hilda-Schuler
Schuler
Quathinski Cove
Quadra Island
Vancouver
John Ernest Blenkin
Marie Elizabeth Blenkin
Marjorie
Patsy
Blenkin
Mac
Medicine Hat General Hospital
Lethbridge
Swift Current
George Stanley Dinn
Larry Homulos
Olga Dresko
E. G. F. Skinner
Portuguese ship Save burns with 237 dead or missing
Lisbon reports 23 percent dead or missing aboard the grounded and burning Portuguese transport Save off Lourengo Marques Mozambique. Of 490 aboard including 44 crew, 253 were saved as hull explosions and flames split the vessel amid heavy seas and rescue delays.
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Mozambique
Africa
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Lusitania
Ves
Axis Sally released after 12 years in jail
Mildred Gillars known as Axis Sally walked out of Alderson prison after 12 years. In 1949 she was convicted on related charges and sentenced to 10 to 36 years. She declined to state her plans, saying only after 15 years in prison what is there to say.
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Alderson
W.va
Mildred Gillars
Miss Gillars
E. E. Nieminen
Ashtabula
Ohio
Reason
Axis Sally
U.S
Hees Opens Stampede Amid Transit Strike Threats in Calgary
Calgary's Stampede opens as George Hees arrives from Ottawa to ride or drive a chuckwagon if possible. Officials juggle a wage dispute with transit workers while top rodeo prizes reach about 86 0000 in cash and entry fees across the week. Attendance records loom with 591 715 peak in 1959 and 526 431 last year amid weather caveats.
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Diefenbaker
Ottawa
Orville Burkinshaw
Stampede
Calgary Stampede opening sparks citywide disturbance
Police arrested 12 youths after a horn blasting celebration on downtown Calgary streets. A firecracker caused minor damage to a photographer as about 1,500 celebrants clogged 8th Avenue and buses were diverted while police cleared the crowds.
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Calgary
8Th Avenue
34 Highway Fatalities Across Canada Over Weekend
The Canadian Press reports 34 road deaths in a 54 hour span across Ontario, Alberta, Newfoundland, Quebec, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island. Drownings total twelve with regional splits. Quebec and Ontario saw multiple fatalities including two triple deaths in Ontario.
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British Columbia
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Prince Edward Island
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
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Couple Drowned Near Bassano Alberta In Canal Rescue
Mrs. Richard Hardin of Bassano and her seven year old daughter Connie drowned in an irrigation canal near Brooks Alberta. The girl reportedly fell in and her mother tried to rescue her but both were pulled under by a strong undercurrent ten feet from shore. Mrs Hardin's body was recovered later Sunday while the girl's body remained missing with ongoing dragging operations.
Air Crash Kills Two Near Pincher Creek
Two men died when their two seater aircraft crashed in a field about 18 miles southwest of Pincher Creek Alberta. Identified as Steve Tivador 36, a farmer from Glenwood district and Steve Yaklin 29 of Yarrlow British Columbia an oil refinery employee at the scene.
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Here
Steve Tivador
Glenwood
Steve Yaklin
Yarrlow
B.C
Explosion Wrecks Utica Building Blamed on Arson
A gas explosion destroyed the Victoria building in downtown Utica injuring one man. Fire Chief labeled the blast arson after reports screws were loosened on a gas meter. Flames damaged the basement, ruptured windows blocks away, and residents were evacuated in a five block area.
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N.Y
James F. Mullen
Fred Bednarczuk
Victoria
Buffalo
Flood Waters Ravage India
Floods sweep southern India with Kerala reporting 37 deaths as monsoon rains push floodwater toward the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal. Other states face rising danger and thousands are left homeless from the deluge in Keala Madras and Mysore.
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India
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Madras
Mysore
Arabian Sea
Bay of Bengal
Kerala
Pro Ball May Come To City
Medicine Hat fans could see the Western Canada Baseball League come to town as the Medicine Hat Meridians discuss relocating. Officials from the team and league will meet civic and recreation leaders this afternoon to explore a possible move with home games likely starting July 18. The league includes Lethbridge Edmonton and Saskatoon, and Medicine Hat has been without pro baseball for two years since the old Superiors folded.
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Western Canada Baseball League
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Edmonton
Saskatoon
Superiors
Desperate Search Continues for Missing Dennise Sullivan
Footprints and clothing found on Polar Mesa spur renewed search for 15-year-old Dennise Sullivan of Rockville Conn kidnapped a week ago by Abel Aragon who killed her mother and wounded a companion. Aragon shot dead when questioned. authorities link him to the slaying and the kidnapping. Boothroyd recovering from facial wounds.
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Moab
Utah
Dennise Sullivan
Rockville
Conn
The
Salt Lake Tribune
Polar Mesa
Here
Abel B. Aragon
Jeannette Sullivan
Charles Boothroyd
Dennise
Boothroyd
Coyne Defends Stand on Principles at Bank Fight
James E. Coyne, Bank of Canada governor, tells Senate banking committee his clash with the government centers on protecting integrity and principles. He notes attempts to urge a May 30 resigning instead of a public policy issue. hearing stretches over hours with weak voice as pension increase scrutiny arises.
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James E. Coyne
Senate
Bank of Canada
James Coyne
Banking and Commerce Committee
Coyne
Ttine
Senator Aseltine Pushes to Kill Tariff Bill Amendment
Ottawa reports Senator Walter Aseltine challenges the Liberal majority move to withdraw an amendment from a government tariff bill. The amendment would allow appeals to a tariff board against ministerial decisions, a change rejected by the Commons. Prime Minister Diefenbaker urged withdrawal ahead of a potential general election on Senate reform.
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Salter Hayden
Ontario
Senate
Walter Aseltine
Saskatchewan
Asel
Commons
National Revenue
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Parliement
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