15 Mar 1961
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1961
Page
1
City council pushes federal action to repair the aging Medicine Hat airport as winter weather worsens runway damage. Drainage problems, poor foundation, and repeated frost cracks threaten safety. DOT estimates a new runway at about 500000 dollars.
The CBC will televise a 52 week World of Sport package starting April 8, sponsored by Carling Breweries Limited. It covers major Canadian horse races and Commonwealth finals plus NFL, MLB and US horse races. Other sponsors may join later.
Bank of Canada governor James E. Coyne told Parliament that full production and minimal unemployment justify high costs. He warned against monetary expansion, urged broad policy tools to tackle long standing structural economic distortions, and called for imaginative, selective spending to lift output.
An elderly Grassy Lake man died at the wheel of his small foreign car during the noon rush in downtown Medicine Hat. Police say a heart attack may have caused the crash as the car plowed into the wall near the First Street underpass after exiting the South Railway lot. Coroner Dr. E. G. F. Skinner attended. The deceased's name remains withheld pending kin notification. Over 100 people gathered at the scene.
Russia pressed for immediate General Assembly debate on the Congo to air charges that the new confederation form is a Belgian trick. U.S.-Soviet talks on agenda trimming failed, with Moscow opposing postponement and Washington opposing dropping complaints tied to reconnaissance flights. Soviet delegates sought Afro-Asian backing for an urgent Congo debate.
London reports South Africa withdrew its Commonwealth membership after deadlock over apartheid reforms. The move takes effect May 31 when South Africa becomes a republic, ending hopes of a compromise to keep the nation in the family of nations.
Three bodies were found Tuesday in the smoldering Clifton Hotel ruins after an early morning fire in Summerside Prince Edward Island. Fire crews battled the blaze as survivors were removed and investigators began work at the scene.
The Cuban ambassador and all Cuban diplomatic personnel in The Netherlands resign in protest against Premier Fidel Castro's policies, signaling a formal break with official Cuban representation.
A B-52 eight jet air force bomber carrying an unarmed nuclear bomb crashed from 10,000 feet into a barley field in Yuba City California. All eight crew parachuted to safety though two were injured. The $8 million aircraft was based 40 miles south at Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento.
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