Pulp mill planned for Whitecourt eyed at $35 million
Lands and Forests Minister Norman Willmore announced a $35 million pulp and newsprint mill to be built by Albertwest Forest Products near Whitecourt, 100 miles northwest of Edmonton. The project, leasing 3,000 square miles of woodland, aims to employ about 1,200 at peak production and yield roughly 300 tons of newsprint daily for Canadian and U.S. markets, with provincial royalties around $400,000 yearly.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Albertwest Forest Products Limited
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Alberta minister tables Cameron commission education reply
Edmonton reports Anders Aalborg tabled a 16 page ministerial reply in the Alberta Legislature detailing the department stance on 280 Cameron commission recommendations. The response suggests limited potential changes to current education policy and leaves several commissioners concerns without official approval.
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Cameron Commission
Alberta
Royal Commission On Education
Anders Aalborg
House
Assembly
Manning Shrugs Off Secession Proposal
EDMONTON AP Prime Minister Manning dismissed Yellowknife mayor Ted Horton's secession proposal as a promotional stunt. Horton urged Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba to rejoin the Northwest Territories and named Fort Smith as a potential capital. Manning said Canada is content with its present status for now.
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Prinier Manning
Yellowknife
Ted Horton
Prairie Provinces
Northwest Territories
Horton
Diefenbaker
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Manning
Four Others Stricken In Regina Baby Deaths
In Regina Regina, two babies died and four others were in serious condition after boracic acid was added to formula at Grey Nuns Hospital nursery. Police report one death today and an autopsy linked the Beck infant to boracic acid poisoning. About 45 babies are in the nursery with half bottle fed. exact number exposed remains unknown.
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Regina
Grey Nuns Hospital
A. G. Cookson
Cynthia Jody Beck
George Beck
J. A. Dupont
Beck
South Africa Return Route Opened for Dietes Plan on Drought
Regina reports federal and provincial agriculture officials map an emergency drought plan for the prairie hemmed by low moisture reserves. They favor seeding oats on summer fallow to secure forage and pasture while avoiding stubble seeding to reduce grasshopper risk. dry lots may finish calves and yearlings on surplus grain if pasture is scarce.
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Regina
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Verwoerd defends apartheid during Commonwealth talk
London report notes Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd calls Canada's stance on South Africa's Commonwealth membership "immature" and defends apartheid. He says the Commonwealth should cooperate despite differences and withdraws South Africa's application when it becomes a republic May 31. Diefenbaker criticizes racial discrimination.
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London
Hendrik Verwoerd
Canada
Commonwealth
Verwoerd
South Africa
Republic
Diefenbaker
Diefenbaker Outlines South Africa Return to Commonwealth
Prime Minister Diefenbaker urged that South Africa rejoin the Commonwealth if it accepts non discrimination, saying there is light guiding a possible return. He spoke to 1850 at a Progressive Conservative dinner after returning from London and noted the conference failed to craft a reintegration formula.
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Commonwealth
South Africa
Diefenbaker
Progressive Conservative Association
Commonwealth Prime Ministers
London
House of Commons
Commons
Verwoerd
South South Africa
UN Congo Troops Join to Crush Anti-White Terrorism in Kivu
In Leopoldville UN and Congolese army units in Kivu coordinate to suppress anti-white terrorism amid reports of bands armed with bows and arrows threatening Europeans. In Katangi province Baluba tribesmen beat UN helicopter crews. Ethiopian troops suffer minor injuries in a clash. A Ceylonese battalion is planned to reinforce UN command in The Congo.
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Reuters
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Kivu
Katangi
Major $8 Million Award for South Saskatchewan Dam Works
Ottawa reports a second contract exceeding eight million dollars for the South Saskatchewan River dam project. A three company team Peter Kiewit Sons Company of Canada Limited Al Johnson Company of Canada Limited and Poole Construction Company Limited will build the upstream half of five division tunnels. Their bid totals 8,658,500 dollars. Earlier this week another contract of similar value was awarded.
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South Saskatchewan River
Agriculture Department
Peter Kiewit Sons Company of Canada Limited
al Johnson Company of Canada Limited
Poole Construction Company Limited
MPs Serve Flapjacks at Ottawa PC Convention
Westen MPs dressed in overalls and straw hats hosted a flapjacks and sausages breakfast at the Progressive Conservative party convention in Ottawa.
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Ottawa
Progressive Conservative Party
U S Fighter Pilot May Be Airman Named in Will of German Ace
In Great Falls Montana Maj Norman L Widen a 19 year old photo and a wartime diary suggest he may be the airman named in the will of German ace Anton Hafner The P 38 pilot shot down over Tunis in 1942 and captured after parachuting into water may be the unnamed American in Hafners will Hafner had downed 80 Allied planes before his death and the search to identify the airman continues
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Mont
Norman L. Widen
Minneapolis
Anton Hafner
Tunis
North Africa
Hafner
Widen
Malimstrom Air Force Base
James B. McClary
Air Force Times
Golly
McClary
Hoffman
Widen’s
Oil Men Missing in Morocco Near Spanish Sahara
Moroccan officials and the U S Embassy say they seek 11 employees of an American oil company missing after disappearing from camps in Rio de Oro near the Moroccan border. Reports claimed capture and rescue by troops, but both sides deny any information on the fate of the men. two Canadians are identified as Brian Walker and Jack Curzon.
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Morocco
U.S
Spanish Sahara
Madrid
Rabata
David Ness
Ness
Rio de Oro
Brian Walker
Cowley
Alta
Jack Curzon
Red Deer
Four Teens Die in Highway 16 Crash West of Edmonton
Police named four Edmonton youths killed when their car struck a parked semi trailer on Highway 16 thirty miles west of Edmonton. Victims were Bruce Hume 18 Martin Bristow 17 Melvin Martin 17 and Robert Fead 16. The truck was stationary on the highway shoulder.
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Highway 16
Bruce R. Hume
Martin Bristow
Melvin Martin
Robert Norman Fead
Diefenbaker Flags Election Issue Over Socialism
Ottawa Prime Minister Diefenbaker framed the coming federal vote as a choice between socialism and free enterprise. He spoke at the Progressive Conservative convention, accusing Liberals and the CCF of slanting left while pledging the Conservatives defend free enterprise. He noted Parliament will consider government projects before an election, which he said will occur after they finish duties. He also signaled human rights as a political advantage.
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Diefenbaker
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Canada
Progressive Conservative Association
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Liberal Party
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