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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 07, 1960
Page
1
In Maple Bay near Duncan Vancouver men Richard J. Clark age 25 pilot and C Roger Gore 24 died when their single engine Cessna 140 plunged into heavy trees. The wreckage was found after a two hour search five miles from Maple Bay with a note to the pilot's uncle recovered from the aircraft.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker will dispatch a fact-finding team to Elliot Lake to study the local economy and explore alternative uses for the town. The panel includes MP R D Thrasher, labor official A F McArthur, and trade and commerce officials W M Hall and G A Cooper. They will review mortgages held by Central Mortgage and Housing Corp. and assess options as four of six uranium mines face closure and extinction risk.
Ottawa reports a federal health grant of 100000 dollars will fund new quarters for a child guidance clinic in Winnipeg. The clinic will share space in a new building under construction by the Winnipeg school board.
Alec H. Laurie designs a cheap harbor ice breaker using a bubble gun to lift warm water from the lake bottom. Four fans 400 feet apart melt ice at about 70 tons daily, with each burp releasing air and water to the surface. The system aims for Antarctic use.
Negro sitdown demonstrations strategy and clashes escalate in Montgomery and seven states as NAACP spokesmen urge continued action or mediation. Security details of 500 officers, mass prayer plans, and a 5,000 spectator crowd mark tense events amid expulsions at Alabama State College and a near-violence incident at a Columbia South Carolina drive in restaurant.
Bonn defense chief Josef Strauss defended his push for military bases and training areas beyond West Germany saying NATO allies must approve any action. He urged NATO to assume the issue at a Paris meeting and noted Iberian ports can support facility needs amid overcrowding in West Germany.
Rescue teams in Agadir on the seventh day of the quake relief effort confront rotting rubble as thousands of international workers battle disease and quicklime. King Mohammed V inspected the area in a disinfected car amid aftershocks and a waterspout, with thousands killed in the disaster and identification of many victims hindered.
Declared scores from the 13th annual Medicine Hat bonspiel show early and mid morning results. Shannon of MH lost to Nelson Burdette 7 8:15 am while Dickson MH defeated Clink Ralston 9 7. Styles MH fell to Cocks MH 4 7, Pias Wheel beat Dahl Eatonia 8 6, and Marshall Acadia Valley down Cranston MH 4 8 4. Crawford MH defeated Heidinger Burdette 5 8 MH Dunn 9 7 Douglas Hussar. At 10:30 am Gill Leader 7 Lutes MH 3 Basaraba MH 9 Walders Calgary 8 Thompson Ai 8 Kuntz Prelate 7 Wright MH 9 Johnson Gull Lake Finchuk Montario 8 Klasky MH 5 Milne MH 6 Miller Gilroy 2 Sherger Mendham 11 Pennycoeck Ralston 10 Anton MH 11 Glenn Deinstwater 8.
The United States plans an automatic alarm system triggered by the blinding flash of a nuclear blast. More than 100 sensor stations are being installed by the Air Force and will relay data to six major centers including the White House and the Pentagon. The system will only report nuclear hits and aid Strategic Air Command in real time to identify destroyed or intact bases.
Havana reports an official death toll of 46 from the La Coubre explosion as Revolucion accuses U S officials of sabotage to justify intervention. Castro denounces the United States while American photographer Donald Chapman is released after two days detention.
Robert Raymond Cook, 23, appeals a sentence of hanging for the murder of his father Raymond Cook in Stettler Alberta. The 53 year old father and the mother and five children were found bludgeoned and shot in June. Local court judge Peter Greschuk had sentenced Cook to be hanged on April 15.
The Screen Actors Guild began its first strike in history against motion picture producers, shutting down parts of operations at seven major studios. About 14,000 members plan a six week action after rejecting a demand to pre finish films. Independent producers and Universal-International are not affected. Industry figures warn roughly 5,000 workers will be idle at MGM, Columbia, Warner Bros and others. The strike follows the Writers Guild action since January 16, with stars like Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor among those billed on affected films.
Evangelist Billy Graham said he would not consider a proposed test of faith healing between Christian and Islamic groups. Sheik Mubarak Ahmed, leader of the East African Moslem Ahmadiyya mission, urged selecting 30 incurables and having Graham and six followers pray over 15, while the Sheik and his six followers prayed for the patients. The test was to judge who would receive the Lord's grace and mercy, and whose door would remain closed.
In Shawinigan Quebec police said Jacques Nadeau 35 was taken for questioning after Claude 6 and twins Michel and Denis 3 were found dead in their home apparently suffocated by plastic bags. A bag remained over one boy's head. Mrs Nadeau 34 was at church. An inquest is ordered with no date set.
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