Battle for Bizerte Rages as French Advance
The French assault on Bizerte intensifies with air and sea support. Paris reports about 100 Tunisian deaths and 60 captured as troops retake areas around the naval base. Tunisian officials claim at least 50 dead and hundreds wounded. Bouguiba breaks diplomatic ties but eyes UN Security Council as clashes continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bizerte
Tunisia
Bourguiba
France
United Nations Security Council
Walker Opens '61 Stampede in Medicine Hat
Federal Works Minister David J. Walker declared the 15th Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede open as sun broke through clouds. A parade drew a crowd 5 to 10 percent larger than last year’s 24,000 along downtown streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Shuttleworth
Medicine Hat
Federal Works
David J. Walker
Stampede Parade Delivers Spectacle in Medicine Hat
A packed Medicine Hat crowd witnessed a two mile Stampede parade featuring 11 bands, 80 plus floats, horse teams, and a Canadian Legion Pipe Band. Prominent attendees included Federal Minister of Public Works David J. Walker and Mayor Harry Weiner. Winners spanned Bow Island Scouts, Walter Hutchison, Black and White Trail Beef, Eatons, The NEWS, Maple Leaf Milling, Kinsmen Club, Hawthorne's Mens Wear, and more. Parcels of color and orderly crowds marked the event under ideal weather despite a light rain threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson Porter
David J. Walker
Harry Weiner
Rod Ashburner
Canadian Legion
Medicine Hat City
Bow Island Scouts
Walter Hutchison
Trail Beef
Eatons
The
NEWS
Maple Leaf Milling
City Kinsmen Club
Hawthorne
Durr. Bros
Mary Eli
Bow Island
Pally Marion _Heidinger
Wisdom
Warren Cavan
Dunmor Shite
PFRA Boundaries Expanded to Include Wider Prairie Area
Ottawa announces PFRA boundary extension to cover all settled farming areas of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta due to Western drought. The move adds Interlake Melfort Carrot River North Battleford Prince Albert north to form a 110 million acre zone with continued focus on water conservation and land use.
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Ottawa
The
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
Canada
Winnipeg
British Columbia
Prince Albert
Manitoba
Interlake
Melfert
Carrot River
North Battleford
Saskatchewan
Alberta
PFRA
Diefenbaker
Halmrast
Weather threats delay U S space shot and late strike talks
Cloudy weather threatened to wash out Virgil Grissom s third space attempt at Cape Canaveral with a 50 50 launch chance set for Friday morning as 5 000 ground crew waited for a go signal. At Montreal, Trans Canada Air Lines flight attendants talks continued under tight mediation with a strike deadline looming and a possible settlement before 12 01 a m.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Virgil Grissom
United States Space Agency
Weather Team
Montreal
Trans - Canada Air Lines
Remi Duquette
Florida
Weather Bureau
Grissom
November election discussed as possibility by MP Walker
Walker spoke at a Medicine Hat barbecue weighing factors for a federal vote this year. He listed reasons Diefenbaker might delay such a vote to 1962 or hold it in November if dissolved early. He noted Ontario tax moves could hurt Conservative federal candidates and discussed a regional irrigation project feasibility.
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Ted Brunsden
Medicine Hat
Walker
Tex Fenske
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
House of Commons
Diefenbaker
Leslie Frost
Ontario
Police Point
Parade Day in Medicine Hat Delights 25000 Spectators
Thousands lined the boulevards for Medicine Hat 1961 Stampede parade featuring 90 floats 100 mounted cowboys 11 bands and clowns. Ray Schmaltz of Glidden Sask entered a tiny wagon drawn by goats while a YWCA float squirted water on spectators and nurses from the hospital ward float drew cheers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Park
Ray Schmaltz
Glidden, Sask
Medicine Hat General Hospital
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Isolat
Habib Berguiba
Radio
Tunis
Paris
Premiée
Michel Debre
Medicine Hat Police Association
Bow Island Boy Scouts
YPC
David Walker
Stampede
IM Shuttleworth
Jean Holt
Evy
Evert
Stockholm
America
Ringling Bros. Circus
B.A
Riverside Park
EID
Agriculture Department
Agriculture
Alvin Hamilton
U.S. Space
TCA
Canadian Air Lines Flight Attendants Association
CLC
Little Cloud
Patrick Roe
First
Second Streets
Medicine
St. Sixth Ave
Calgary
Renbar “Drilling
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