Romanian mission tours Canadian irrigation and trade potential
A five member Romanian delegation led by Alexandru Moghioros visits Canada to study irrigation methods. They tour the S and T Ranch in Medicine Hat, view Agriculture Canada labs and Vauxhall lands, and attend PFRA sponsored events in Outlook Sask. Romania may buy up to 750000 in livestock machinery and grains this year.
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Harry Weiner
Alexandru Moghioros
Council of Ministers of
Romanian People’s Republic
D. A. Scholten
Medicine Hat
Gheorghe Hossu
Romanian State Committee For
U.S
Ottawa
Canada
Alberta
Brier Park Underpass To Burgesses This Fall
The Brier Park railway underpass proposal will be submitted again to Medicine Hat property owners at the October municipal elections. A prior March 8 vote failed to reach the two thirds threshold, though the bylaw is set for reconsideration.
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Brier Park
Patrick Roe News
Brier Park Railway
Medicine Hat
Mun
Harry Weiner
Redcliff
Irvine
General Hospital Board
Jim Miller
Helen Gibson
S. F. Scott
Gordon Sissons
C. W. Niblock QC
E. G. F. Skinner
Clinton MacPhail
Cecil Oxenbury
J. W. Douglas
J. A. Bell
Emil Schneider
Parliament Promises Action on Penny Turnstiles in Lavatories
Five women MPs denounced penny turnstiles in women's public lavatories as grossly improper. Labor MP Barbara Castle cited hundreds of letters and a plea that women unite, while Patricia McLaughlin urged greater respect and Barnett Stross blamed antiquated access controls from the 17th century.
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London
Reuters
House of Commons
Labor
Barbara Castle
Patricia McLaughlin
Barnett Stross
Beating Trunk Death Shocks Rural Manitoba
A decomposed male body, wrapped in a bloodstained sheet and tied with a necktie, was found in a buried steamer trunk by a Beaconia farmer near Winnipeg. RCMP could not determine cause of death. autopsy planned in Winnipeg. trunk contained the body for about three weeks.
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Beaconia, Man
Steve Kutey
Beaconia
Winnipeg
RCMP
Richard Geisbrecht
Beausejour
U Of A Hikes Education Course Entrance Rules
Edmonton CP reports the University of Alberta will raise entrance standards for the education program in September 1962. The one year junior program will require six matriculation subjects, up from five, while full matriculation remains for the four year plan. Special teaching certificates in drama music typing and other commercial subjects will be discontinued and these subjects may be taken as majors or minors under the bachelor of education program.
Kennedy defence bills win unanimous Senate approval
The Senate endorsed two Kennedy defence measures with 81 to 0 and 75 to 0 votes, authorizing nearly $1.0 billion for rapid missile ship and plane delivery and extending active duty for fighting units and reservists. House action possible next week. Additional funding to bolster conventional forces included details awaiting committee approval.
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Senate
Everett Dirksen
Illinois
Khrushchev
House of Representatives Armed Services Committee
Carl Vinson
Dem. Ga
House
Kennedy
A. Willis Robertson
Dem. Va
Defence
Robert McNamara
Two Fidel Castro prisoner envoys refuse Cuba return
In Miami two of Fidel Castro's 10 prisoner envoys refuse to return to jail Monday. A trac tors for freedom committee plans to accompany them to Havana at parole end. The group seeks a prisoner for tractor swap and notes earlier May visits.
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Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Gustavo Garcia Montes
Havana
Ernesto Freyre
Castro
United States
Reynaldo Peo
Milton Collazo
Fulgencio Batista
Luis Morse
U K Requests Two Billion Credit From IMF
Britain seeks a total IMF credit of 2 billion dollars in multiple currencies to bolster foreign exchange reserves. About 1 billion may be kept as standby credit, with funds likely in dollars francs and marks. The loan aims to reassure markets about the pound while Britain tightens its economy.
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Washington
Britain
Dutch Girl Wins Title at Miss International 1962
Brown eyed Dutch beauty Stanny van Baer, 19, captured the Miss International 1962 crown in Long Beach California. The Netherlands entrant edged competitors to win the title on Friday night.
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Long Beach
Calif
Netherlands
Stanny van Baer
Gagarin Nova Scotia Visit Scheduled Four Days
Nova Scotia set to welcome Yuri Gagarin for a four day visit starting next Thursday. Cyrus Eaton announced the plan from Deep Cove farm, saying the itinerary from the Russian Embassy in Ottawa appears final. Eaton previously invited two U.S. spacemen to join Gagarin.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Yuri Gagarin
Cyrus Eaton
Eaton
Deep Cove
U.S
Ottawa
Cuban envoy seeks asylum in Quebec to reach United States
Carlos Herrero Cuban consul general at Montreal who disappeared July 18 presented at a Quebec immigration centre and asked for provisional political asylum. He plans to return to the United States and will consult anti Castro groups after awaiting Ottawa's decision.
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Quebec
Carlos Herrero
Montreal
United States
Michel St. Hilaire
Ottawa
Herrero
States
Winds Ease Fire Threat at Newfoundland Villages
A shift to easterly winds reduced the fire threat around Indian Bay Parsons Point and Northwest Arm in Bonavista Bay. About 600 women and children evacuated earlier were told not to return. Firefighters prepared for another tough day as crews widened trenches to guard homes amid Newfoundland’s worst forest fire in 30 years.
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John’s
Nfld
Newfoundland
Bonavista Bay
Indian Bay
Parson’s Point
Northwest Arm
Here
Bowater Award Honors Bruce Phillips for Journalism
Bruce Phillips of Southam News Services has won one of Canada's top newspaper prizes, the Bowater Award for Journalism, with a $1,000 cash prize to be presented to him. The award recognizes work in business fields, social issues, and culture, while Philip Deane of the Toronto Globe and Mail received a separate prize. Phillips previously worked at The Calgary Herald and often contributes to The NEWS.
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Bruce Phillips
Southam News Services
Canada
Bowater
Carning
Mr. Phillips
Tard
Philip Deane
Toronto Globe and Mail
Phillips
The
Calgary Herald
Hitler Foretold German Led Global Coalition in 1928
In a secret 1928 manuscript titled Hitlers Second Book, Adolf Hitler predicted a German led global coalition including Britain against the United States. He foresaw the Soviet Union collapse under Jewish leadership and argued war would remain ongoing after each victory. The book, published in a limited edition, profits go to Nazi victims.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Britain
United States
Hitler
Soviet Union
Munich
Washington
Deutsche Verlagsanstalt
Stuttgart
Munich Institute of Contemporary History
Bow Island Ripped By Hail Storm
A severe hailstorm swept the Bow Island-Winnifred-Burdett district, damaging crops and pasture. Reports say 100 percent loss on several farms with peas beans corn Timothy hay and grain written off while sugar beets might recover. Weather relief followed with heavy rain totaling 0.92 inches and greened grass regions nearby.
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Medicine Hat
Bow Island
Burdett-Bow Island-Winnifred
John Egan
Egan
Elmer Culler
Alfred Egan
St. Mary’s River
Walsh District
Bert Hargrave
Buffalo
Rate Approved For Rapeseed
Ottawa reports that rapeseed will move under special Crowsnest Pass freight rates to Churchill Manitoba the Pacific Coast and the Lakehead. The board of transport commissioners ordered the rates effective August 1 after parliamentary approval and royal assent declared rapeseed a grain under the Railway Act.
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Ottawa
Canada
Churchill
Man
Pacific Coast
Lakehead
Board of Transport Commissioners
Kiwanis Project Awards Individual Trophies To Residents
The Kiwanis sponsored project enters its 18th year with trophies displayed on the block for 12 months. Each block resident receives an individual trophy to encourage maintaining attractive properties and neighborhoods.
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Kiwanis
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