Highway 41 Work Nearer Completion
Three miles of the 15 mile Highway 41 extension near Medicine Hat have been paved, cutting the distance to Schuler by three miles. MLA Harry Leinweber says the project will open up business and fishing access as crews move from lakes northward toward the clay pit corner and eventual Trans-Canada Highway connection.
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Highway 41
Schuler
Medicine Hat
the Hat
Hilda
Harry Leinweber
Hilda - Schuler
Chappice Lake
Church of God
Leinweber
Taylor
Gordon F. Taylor
Clay Pit
Dunmore
New ACT Floats Add Coin-Collecting Parade Start
The Associated Commercial Travellers gain permission to lead Stam pede parade 20 minutes early with two small coin-collecting floats. Proceeds go to Alberta Council for Crippled Children and Adults. Jaycee clowns accompany the floats as entries for Friday’s children’s parade roll in.
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Medicine Hat
Stampede Co
Alberta Council For
ACT
Chinese Russians Continue Feuding Fightin Fussin
Alberta government refuses to fund 79000 dollar extra school requisition by Medicine Hat School Board. City Council pare down the demand prompting ongoing local dispute between factions and officials.
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Fightin
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Rain and political tensions shake Medicine Hat area
Scattered showers fell across Medicine Hat and surrounding districts with Etzikom recording up to one inch while others had traces. A severe storm near Etzikom killed three yearling steers at Rosedale Hutterite Colony. City Hall grapples with provincial education funding, planning to battle government and adjust the mill rate to cover local school requisitions totaling about 200 thousand dollars.
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Medicine Hat
Etzikom
Meterological
Rosedale Hutterite
Grace Stromsmoe
Etiikom
Committee to decide Western Canada veterinary college site
A committee will be formed to choose the location for a Western Canada veterinary college. Alberta Agriculture Minister H E Strom announced after a meeting of four western provinces ministers and federal officials. The panel will be non governmental and seeks a site in Alberta or Saskatchewan, likely tied to the University of Edmonton or Saskatoon. Cost is estimated at 3.5 to 4 million dollars with 25 percent funded by the federal government up to 625000.
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Edmonton
Canada
H. E. Strom
Alberta
Strom
Agriculture
Western Provinces
Federal
Agriculture Department
Saskatchewan
Saskatoon
Harry Hays
Tournament Postponed to Thursday in Rotary Baseball
The Rotary Baseball tournament starting at 5 p.m. today is postponed to Thursday while the schedule stays the same. Finals will be at Athletic Park on Sunday with Prelate and Bow Island opening the tourney.
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Rotary
Athletic Park
Prelate
Bow Island
Hat Man Saves Fellow Worker in Train Tunnel Rescue
Gordon Homer, CPR signals crew member and University of Alberta student, helped an unconscious fellow worker during a carbon monoxide incident in a Golden British Columbia tunnel. He returned to the tunnel to administer artificial respiration and both men were hospitalized, with Homer later released.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Golden
B.C
Gordon Homer
H. FE. Homer
7Th St. S.E
University of Alberta
Edmonton
CPR
Social Credit debates new image and party name
Ottawa CP reports the Social Credit party discusses creating a public image overhaul and adopting a new name. The plan includes Quebec wing Le Ralliement des Creditistes entering provincial politics, while National Leader Robert Thompson favors broadening appeal without changing core principles.
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Ottawa
Social Credit
Quebec
le Ralliement Des Creditistes
Peace Talks Drag On Amid Bitter Chinese Reply in Moscow
Moscow reports say crucial Soviet Chinese ideological talks resumed after a day’s interruption as Beijing fired a sharp rebuke to a Soviet attack. Khrushchev welcomed Hungarian Premier Janos Kadar in Moscow, signaling a contrast with cooled Chinese negotiations and unity with Hungary on socialist world policy.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Janos Kadar
Peking
Kiev
Kievsky
Kadar
FLQ Suspect Seeks Red Cross Help In Beating Claim
Montreal Crown alleges Georges Schoeters a Belgium native and alleged FLQ coordinator was beaten during police interrogation and seeks intervention of the Red Cross under the Geneva Convention. He declared a hostile witness at a preliminary hearing for Gabriel Hudon charged with conspiracy to plant a dynamite bomb at Westmount city hall. He refused to testify claiming political prisoner status while acknowledging Hudon. His wife Jeanne is among 18 charged.
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Montreal
Georges Schoeters
Belgium
Front de Liberation Quebecois
International Red Cross
Emile Trottier
Schoeters
Gabriel Hudon
Westmount City Hall
Cutor
Jacques Bellemare
Russell Senecal
Crown
Defence
Jeanne
Meredith faces possible expulsion from Ole Miss
The Mississippi board considers asking federal court permission to expel James F. Meredith for public statements criticizing Southern officials over Medgar Evers slaying. The scene unfolds amid national debates on federal aid to segregated schools and rising racial disorders in major cities.
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James F. Meredith
Ole Miss
Maryland
Alabama
New York City
United States
Oxford
Miss
Mississippi State College Board
Meredith
University of Mississippi
Medgar Evers
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Lightning strikes school tower in Moose Jaw
Severe thunderstorm toppled stone blocks weighing up to 400 pounds from a school tower and caused damage. No injuries reported. A second item notes a private Modesto plane crash in British Columbia killing the pilot, his wife, and their seven year old son with two daughters in critical condition. A separate two car collision near Lethbridge killed two men identified as Peter Peters and Valdemar Becker. a woman died and Nancy Tidmarsh was seriously injured.
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Moose Jaw
100 Mile House
B.C
Modesto
Calif
Lethbridge
Welling
Alto
Peter Peters
Valdemar Becker
Coaldale
Alta
Nancy Tidmarsh
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Harry Weiner
George Renner
George
Stampede
Ald
Jack Edwards
Alberta Agriculture
Harry Strom
Earl Smith
City Hall
Veiner
Central Foundation Fund
Ilmage
The
National Council
Little Cloud
FLQ
Red Cross
Hudan
Jaycees
Trans- Air
Canada Trust-Huron & Erie
Bill Roseboom
Keith Bennett
Dave Pollard
Bill Onsiow
House of Representatives
Washington
Education and Labor Committee
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