Rains Are Balm to Most Not for Sheep Ranchers
In southern Alberta drought ended rains brought relief to many, but sheep ranchers suffered heavy losses. At Burdett John Neil’s farm about 600 of 1,500 sheep perished in a weekend storm, with 1,000 believed left. Other flocks reported severe damage in Vauxhall and nearby districts amid cold rain and waring winds. Local officials noted dozens of sheep killed and larger losses rumored in Brooks and Medicine Hat areas.
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Fire destroys Medi cine Hat radio transmitter
A fire gutted the Medi medicine Hat airport transmitter Tuesday causing silence of all two way radios in the city dependent on the airport unit. Officials estimate 4500 dollars in damage and say repairs will be made as soon as possible. Firefighters also responded to a Co-Op store roof fire with an air conditioner short circuit. No injuries were reported.
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6Th Ave
Kennedy says liberty possible in a larger Europe across the Iron Curtain
President Kennedy urged in Berlin that liberty may be achievable through a reconstituted Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain. He spoke at the Free University of Berlin about the rising winds of change and the movement of human rights beyond two centuries of history, calling East European police states an anachronism.
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Iron Curtain
United States
Free University
Fars from briquettes may pose cancer risk say doctors
A Calgary doctor notes medical opinion that barbecue briquettes release cancer causing substances similar to tobacco. A Negro leader announced a planned August march on Washington with over 300000 expected participants. A Vancouver Island to Prairie strike by longshoremen could disrupt logging and mineral sites. A Belgian Air Force transport crash near Detmold left eight parachutists unharmed. many were not survivors.
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United States
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Vancouver Island
Detmold
Germany
No News On Monday Dominion Day Publication Break
The newspaper will not publish Monday July 1 in observance of Dominion Day. Advertisers must submit copy for Tuesday and Wednesday editions to the advertising office by Friday at 5 p.m.
Sweden arrests air force colonel in 15 year spy case
Stockholm reports Col. Stig Wennerstrom, Swedish air attache in Washington, charged with selling secrets to the Soviet Union for 15 years. Two Soviet contacts expelled. Wennerstrom recognized by the US and France for his service. Disclosures may push Khrushchev to cancel his planned Sweden visit.
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Stockholm
Khrushchev
Sweden
Soviet Union
Washington
Stig Erik Wennerstrom
United States
France
Kremlin
Wennestrom
Alberta to spend 6 million on prepaid medical care plan
Health Minister Dr. J. Donovan Ross outlined Alberta's plan to subsidize prepaid medical care insurance for about 400 000 low income residents starting Oct 1. The two tier subsidies target those with no taxable income and those earning up to 500 dollars, with caps on premiums and options among 80 private insurers or Medical Services Alberta.
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Edmonton
Alberta
J. Donovan Ross
Saskatchewan
Welfare Department
Ross
Heat Eases as Gordon Faces Budget Debate in Commons
Ottawa reports a cooling in heated exchanges as Finance Minister Walter Gordon's budget comes under crossfire during the sixth day of the budget debate in the Commons. MPs attack the 11 percent sales tax on building materials while Maurice Lamontagne proposes a plan linking bicultural reforms to a renewed Confederation ahead of Canada’s 100th birthday in 1967.
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Ottawa
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Gordon
Maurice Lamontagne
Privy Council
Lamontagne
Canada
Royal Commission On
Drought Aid Questioned After Alberta Rainfall
Rain in Southern Alberta prompted Deputy Minister R. M. Putnam to say government drought aid may be unnecessary as saved pastures ease the strain. He noted the rain should help spring-sown grains and hay crops and that the province will reassess the aid plan after further developments.
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Edmonton
Alberta
R. M. Putnam
Mr. Putnam
Diet Publisher Sat for Ward Diet Publisher Sat for Ward
Former prime minister Diefenbaker and publisher Roy Thomson sat for portraits by Dr Stephen Ward, an osteopath and artist tied to the Profumo scandal. Ward faces charges of living on immoral earnings. nine Royal Family members also reportedly sat for Ward, including the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret.
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Roy Thomson
Stephen Ward
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Christine Keeler
Hugh Ingram
London News
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Princess Margaret
Viscount Amory
Canada
Blast Again Called Off At Suffield TNT Test
Weather again postpones the 20 ton TNT explosion at the Suffield Experimental Station. The blast is rescheduled for 10 45 a m Thursday, weather permitting, after multiple delays.
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Suffield Experimental Station
Saskatoon Club to Move to Hat for Medicine Hat Opener
Saskatoon Commodores owner Spero Leakes announced the team will relocate to Medicine Hat, becoming the Medicine Hat Commodores with Athletic Park as home field. The move aims to boost minor league activity, schedules shuffled to avoid Rotary Ball Festival conflicts, and minor renovations planned for Athletic Park.
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Saskatoon Commodores
Western Canada Baseball League
Spero Leakes
News Today
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Leakes
Saskatoon
Medicine Hat Commodores
Athletic Park
Commodores
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Starainae
Calgary
Edmonton
Royal
Commodore
Wheat surplus ahead hinges on new Prairie crop
Ottawa reports a potential record wheat yield could reach 700 million bushels, topping 1952’s 678 million. Abnormally high exports fade, a bumper crop would repair drought damages from 1961 and revive rising federal storage costs paid to the Canadian Wheat Board since 1956 totaling about 296 million dollars.
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Ottawa
Hays
Canadian Wheat Board
Crown Marketing Agency
Special Meeting Called on Power
A City Council special meeting is set for 4 p m Thursday to review a new electricity sharing agreement with Calgary Power Ltd The deal would shift control of a 30 000 kilowatt unit from Calgary Power to the city by increasing the citys share from one sixth to half The unit cost 2 7 million ten years ago and annual costs split 150 000 for Calgary Power and 30 000 for the city under current terms The new plan would add 60 000 annually in repayments bringing both sides to 80 000 each and expanded city electricity supply is needed.
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Calgary Power Ltd
Calgary Power
CPR Train Delay Hits Medicine Hat Eight Hours Late
The CPR westbound Canadian arrived in Medicine Hat at 5:25 p.m. Tuesday eight hours behind schedule after a minor derailment near Fort William Ontario involving three cars of another train, according to CPR chief clerk Wilfred Kearns.
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CPR
Medicine Hat
Wilfred Kearns
Fort William
Ont
Fredericton Province Goes Bilingual in Schools Fight
Fifth of a Series N B Capital 35 Per Cent French By TIM CREERY Fredericton N B The capital of a province 35 percent French speaking. Fredericton hosts the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and bears statues to Beaverbrook. The province replaced English oriented non denominational schools with a system of separate French schooling and classes in communities. French textbooks increase and courses taught in French. French high school enrolment has doubled in ten years. Moncton opens Vanier High for French students next fall. A new University of Moncton approved with heavy provincial support for French higher education. Royal commission to study municipal finance may recommend equalization grants to improve French school services in underprivileged areas. Our people are speaking French more and better Asst Deputy Minister of Education J Gerard DeGrace says English accept us more and more One third of Teachers College instructors are French. Change dates to mid thirties when he began teaching in 1934.
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Southam
Fredericton
N.B
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Moncton
Vanier
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J. Gerard DeGrace
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