Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes off British Columbia coast
A U S chartered military air transport with 101 aboard crashed 155 miles west of Prince Rupert. Debris and life jackets were found by a Royal Canadian Air Force Neptune. no survivors or bodies were located. Victims included 20 women and children, 39 airmen, 18 Army men, one coast guardsman, 17 defense department employees, and six crew. Flight originated from McChord AFB to Anchorage.
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Prince Rupert
B.C
U.S
Neptune
Fit. Ltd
Bill Steadman
407 Maritime Squadron
Comox
Langley Island
Queen Charlotte Islands
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Army
Coast
Sumner, Wash
Federal Department of Transport Radio
Sandspit
Destitute Evans Family Hidden in Foremost Ontario Link
Pembroke Ontario news release reveals Bert Evans and his wife with three children drifted into Foremost, Alberta area last summer. Local aid helped them, with Jack Metheral offering room and work at his farm before Evans left with earnings. Metheral recalls paying bills and handing over the rest.
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Bert Evans
Pembroke
Ont
Skiff
Jack Metheral
Bridge to Close During Repairs at Finlay Bridge
Finlay Bridge will close to motor traffic at 7 p m for deck repairs and is to stay shut until Thursday. Opening time depends on completion. Pedestrians unaffected. Motorists to use the Trans Canada Bridge. buses adjust stops on north and south sides.
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Finlay Bridge
James Carswell
Public Works
Riverside
Crescent Heights
Eleven FLQ suspects held in Montreal raid roundup
Montreal police continue a roundup linked to FLQ terror inquiry holding 11 persons seven men and four women including eight men detained over the weekend and a woman on Monday. All have appeared before Coroner Trahan as warrants allow detention without charge while reopening the ONeill inquest into the bomb death of W. V. ONeill at a recruiting station.
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Montreal
Marcel Trahan
W. V. O'Neill
O'Neill
le Front de Liberation Quebecois
Girl Dies From Wound In Empress Shooting Death
Five year old Peggy Lee Miller of Empress dies at Empress Municipal Hospital after a .22 rifle shot to the eye. She was accidentally shot by friend Cameron Brister while playing in a panel truck owned by Charles Brister Jr. The gun had been left in the truck after rabbit shooting. An RCMP officer notes an inquest will be held.
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Empress
Peggy Lee Miller
Leonard “Smiley” Miller
Empress Municipal Hospital
Cameron Brister
Charles Brister Jr
Aldermen Block Meter Bylaw At City Council Meeting
Water meter bylaw for all city water services except domestic ones failed to pass on Monday. Aldermen Gibson and Smith blocked its third reading though it may pass at the next meeting. The gas rate bylaw was also blocked by the same aldermen.
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Helen Beny Gibson
Earl Smith
Gibson
Smith
Medicine Hat
J. C. Miller
Mayor Alleges Letter Was Engineered At City Hall
Mayor Harry Weiner denounced a "dog in the manger" letter to The News and blamed an alderman for engineering it over gas rate changes. Aldermen Gibson and Smith blocked passage of the natural gas rate bylaw, delaying the 34 mill rate as talks continue. The council planned to reconvene June 17 or sooner to finalize actions.
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Harry Weiner
Weiner
Helen Gibson
J. J. Muza
Helen Beny Gibson
Earl Smith
J. C. Miller
Gibson
Smith
A. T. Legge
Council Favors Daylight Time for Alberta Cities
Medicine Hat City Council unanimously supports daylight saving time for Alberta. A resolution from Ald. T. R. Osborne will be sent to the provincial government and to Calgary and Edmonton, which have pressed for the change. In places with DST the clock moves back one hour for summer from late April to late September.
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Medicine Hat
Alberta
Ald. T. R. Osborne
Calgary
Edmonton
Council In Brief from Long Open Session
City council endured a five hour plus meeting through Monday night into Tuesday morning. Aldermen backed gas rate bylaw increases and a water meter bylaw not for domestic use. They supported Fire Chief Morris on limiting large gasoline trucks downtown. They favored daylight saving time and elected the centennial grant committee. Sam Lentz proposed removing No Left Turn signs from traffic islands.
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Leonard Morris
Sam Lentz
Youthful Driver in Serious Condition After Collision
Seventeen year old Bryan Page of Medicine Hat remains in serious condition at Medicine Hat General Hospital after a Saturday night crash on Parkview Drive near the golf course. The driver was unconscious with a head injury while a passenger Karen Steele age 16 was admitted with bruises but released the next day. Witnesses said Page's eastbound car swerved across the road after passing two vehicles and rolled over.
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Bryan Page
Medicine Hat
Ini Medicine Hat General Hospital
Page
Parkview Drive
Medicine Hat Golf Course
Karen Steele
12Th St. N.E
Sugar price cuts sweep Montréal refineries
Three Montréal sugar refineries cut wholesale sugar by 80 cents per 100 pounds. Current prices stand at $16.10 for two refineries and $15.95 for the third. Since January there have been 40 changes, with 35 up and 5 down, the largest move yet after a rise from $9.10 in January to a peak of $17.60 last week.
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Montreal
High and Lowly Pay Tribute to Pope John XXIII
The high and the lowly paid homage to Pope John XXIII in a Vatican procession past his bier. The 81 year old pontiff died Monday night after four days ill.
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Vatican City
John XXIII
Vatican
Pontiff
Milan Archbishop Montini Favored To Be Pope Again
Vatican observers note Giovanni Battista Montini 65, archbishop of Milan, as a leading candidate to succeed Pope John. Cardinals prepare the conclave to decide on continuation of John’s ecumenical council and policies including Mindzenty’s Hungary release and better East West ties. The Vatican mourns Pope John as cardinals and diplomats attend the catafalque with Segni and Fanfani paying respects.
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Vatican City
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini
Milan
John
Sacred College of Cardinals
Pope John
Joseph Cardinal Mindzenty
Hungary
Cardinal Montini
St. Peter’s Square
St. Peter’s Basilica
Papal
Vatican
Antonio Segni
Amintore Fanfani
Italy
Catafalque
Segni
St. John Lateran
Vatican-Kremlin Accord: Death of Pope Stalls Thaw
In Moscow AP reports Pope John XXIII's death may halt tentative Vatican Soviet rapprochement. The late pope pursued cautious dialogue with the Communists seeking relief for the Catholic Church behind the Iron Curtain. Observers expect successors to weigh Moscow's stance before further moves.
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Moscow
John
Vatican
Church of Silence
John XXIII
Kremlin
Pope John lauded by Rabbi Klein in Medicine Hat
Rabbi Emil Klein of the Sons of Abraham Synagogue in Medicine Hat ext expresses sympathy on Pope John XXIII's death. He praises the late pope as a great religious leader who served all nations without exception. Boston Archbishop Cardinal Cushing vows immediate campaign for canonization, asking prayers and information on favors attributed to his intercession.
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Emil Klein
Sons of Abraham Synagogue
Medicine Hat
Pope John
Rabbi Klein
John XXIII
Boston
Richard Cardinal Cushing
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