Three Gas City Cowboys Win Calgary Stampede Titles
At Calgary Stampede finals six top cowboys competed as Stan Walker Jerry Weiss Rocky Rockaber rode to medals. Copenhaver led North American bucking horse standings with nine Acres and collected about 1612 dollars for the week after a 357 point ride.
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Gas City Cowboys
Calgary Stampede
Calgary
Deb Copenhaver
Post Falls
Idaho
Nine Acres
Copenhaver
Casey Tibbs
Fort Pierre
S. C
United States
Wolford
Casey
Tibbs
Buck Boyce
Missoula
Mont
Jerry
Gene Gunderson
Water Valley
Canada
Walker
Wilf Gerlitz
Black Diamond
Plane crash at Midway kills 22. Braniff plane in flames
A Convair airliner bound Dallas Chicago clipped a sign at Midway in fog and flipped, killing 22 and injuring 21 of 43 aboard. Coroner McCarron called for inquest while Braniff and civil aeronautics investigators review the crash.
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Chicago
Midway Airport
Walter McCarron
Braniff Airlines
Dallas
Tex
Braniff
McCarron
Civil Aeronautics Board
AFL Air Line Pilots’ Association
Wichita
Kan
Kanée
Air Force Reserve
Texas
Navy
Train collision in San Bernardo kills at least sixty
In dense fog one passenger train rear ended another at San Bernardo station. Sixty dead, more than 100 injured as doctors and emergency crews worked through panicked scenes. President Ibanez ordered swift investigations and aid for families.
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San Bernardo
Chile
Carlos Ibanez
Santiago
Ibanez
Casablanca Death Toll Rises Amid Four Days of Riots
Casablanca reports 22 dead as rioting continues for a fourth day, lifting total killed in four days to 63 with over 100 wounded. French tanks fire on rioters in the Old Medina. a grenade killed 14 Moroccans in the New Medina. European casualties include a Spanish youth slain by a rock投. Police and soldiers near 16,000 guards.
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Carl Hartman
Casablanca
Morocco
North Africa
Medina
New Medina
France
Sunskike
Missing Redcliff man believed to suffer breakdown near Hat
A 30 year old Redcliff draftsman William Craig disappeared Friday night while driving to Medicine Hat. Police suspect a nervous breakdown from heat and overwork after World War II malaria, with only seven dollars and a blue 1949 Ford left at home.
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Redcliff
Medicine Hat
William Craig
Craig
RCAF
Craigs
Marilyn
John Bull
Drownings and storms hit Alberta and Saskatchewan hardest
Six child drownings and at least eight accidental deaths occurred over the weekend in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Drownings included twins and two brothers near Edmonton area, Tasak Luteyn drowned in a 15 foot pool near Nanton. Lightning killed a youth and a boy died under a lumber pile. Okanagan Valley winds and rains devastated Summerland orchards. Crop insurance surveys began as unemployment fell to a low since 1953 with 157 thousand seeking work.
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Alberta
Saskatchewan
Edmonton
Okanagan Valley
Summerland
Canada
Reporters Excluded From Talks at Geneva Summit
More than 1 200 reporters observe a partial return to secret diplomacy as top sessions are closed. Four UN open debate principle found impracticable for high level deals. Press officers will release speeches after sessions unless ruled otherwise, with briefings by each delegation.
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Geneva
United Nations
Indochina
Korea
Dear Masie A former hunt and peck typist goes touch
The piece recalls a person who transformed from a slow hunt and peck typist to a skilled touch typist, celebrating a notable improvement and efficiency in office work.
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Masie
Humiture Readings Raise Heat Alarm in Medicine Hat
The city endured a scorching Sunday with humidity hitting a yearly record of 100 as subsoil moisture feeds the damp air. Humiture values fluctuated from a noon reading of 66 to morning 77, reflecting a miserably humid, hot day.
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T. H
Ontario Family Injured In Elkwater Highway Crash
A two car head on collision on the Elkwater highway sent a Ontario family of three and a Eagle Butte resident to Medicine Hat General Hospital with multiple injuries. Gilbert Thompson Emma Thompson and Milton Thompson all suffered serious injuries with shock and a compound leg fracture for Milton. Ralph Hassard of Eagle Butte received unspecified injuries. Witnesses said one car attempted to pass and failed to see the oncoming vehicle. Traffic was halted for about an hour as RCMP and ambulances responded.
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Elkwater
Ontario
Eagle Butte
Medicine Hat
General Hospital
Gilbert Thompson
Moria
Ont
Emma
Milton
Ralph Hassard
Thompsons
Herb Thompson
Twelfth Street
S. E
U.S
Milton Thompson
Hassard
RCMP
Thompson
Belleville
Ontario Hydro
Toronto
Willard Captures Fifth Calgary Chuckwagon Victory
Hank Willard, a famed cowpuncher from Queenstown Alta, won the Calgary Stampede chuckwagon race for the fifth time. He posted a night time of 1.12 and an overall 7.06.6, beating Dale Flett and Ed Kroschel who finished second and third. Prize money totaled 1,250 for first with 950 and 725 for runners-up, and all 16 finalists received pay. Orville Burkinshaw won best-dressed contestant.
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Calgary
Queenstown
Alta
Hank Willard
Gas Company
Willard
Dale Flett
Hand Hills
Ed Kroschel
Beiseker
Don Allen
Orville Strandquist
Frank McMann
Bob Gooch
Strandquist
Gooch
Orville Burkinshaw
Warm Ridge Continues Across Western Prairies
Weather summary from Edmonton notes hot conditions across the Western Prairies with temperatures in the eighties and nineties. Skies stay mostly sunny with Western Alberta seeing a few cloudy intervals and scattered thunderstorms over the next day or two.
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Edmonton
Prairies
Alberta
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