Boy Missing In Frigid Saskatchewan River Dragging
The South Saskatchewan River is scanned after Barry William Murray, age 4, vanished from near his Riverside home. Fire crews drag a 25 by 100 foot area near the CPR bridge as neighbors assist and flood of questions rise about the boy's fate. The family had just moved to the riverside area a week ago and the father, a post office janitor, searched the edge with a police presence nearby. The boy wore a blue parka and ski pants and had his father's rubber boots. The body had not yet been found at press time.
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South Saskatchewan
Barry William Stanley Murray
Hector M. Murray
Hat Apartments
Bar
Blaclollickohn
Willie
Barry
CPR
Len Morris
Murray
Riverside
Cambridge Street
Medicine Hat Sees $80 000 Boost In School Grant
A new provincial grants system increases Medicine Hat's grant this year to 354 178 dollars from 273 316 last year. The 55 percent rule uses last year’s operating costs of 634 687 94 to determine the grant. The board expects to finalize its budget after Monday’s meeting.
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Medicine Hat
A. O. Aalborg
Education Department
George Davison
Medicine Hat Board
Alberta legislature balks at lawtrained magistrate plan
Opposition lawyers pressed the Alberta legislature Tuesday to require only legally trained persons as magistrates. Premier Manning called the proposal impracticable and the house defeated the measure 36 to 20. Abe Miller urged reviewing magistrate rulings amid miscarriages of justice and called for a broader overhaul.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Manning
Social Credit
Nouse
Abe Miller
Attorney-General’s Department
W. J. C. Kirby
Red Deer
Wardlow Residents Seek Provincial Aid Over Hutterite Case
Wardlow residents will ask the Alberta government to cover legal costs tied to the Hutterite settlement dispute. Bruce Mahoney of Brooks says the request, filed in Edmonton, stems from the province admitting it overstepped its jurisdiction and should bear expenses incurred by residents.
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Wardlow
Bruce Mahoney
Brooks
Edmonton
Swallows Return To Capistrano In A Swarm
In San Juan Capistrano California on St Josephs Day March 19 swallows gathered over the Mission with about 100 birds seen in flight. a worker noted the flock as scouts ahead of the main group, marking an early and punctual seasonal return.
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San Juan Capistrano
Calif
Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano Mission
St. Joseph’s Day
Attache Detained Briefly By Reds
MOSCOW Reuters Capt Hf R Newton a British naval attache in Moscow was held for two hours last Sunday. He was escorted by armed soldiers to Tsaritseno a skiing resort near Moscow while photographing his son and a friend on a slope.
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Moscow
Reuters
Hf. R. Newton
Tsaritseno
Newton
Pearson backs five year ban on nuclear tests
Ottawa reports Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson urged Canada to back an immediate five year ban on nuclear bomb tests supervised by the United Nations. He called for defense upgrades aligned with space warfare concepts and sought reduced U.S. bases as part of peace diplomacy while promising increased aid to underdeveloped nations. Pearson outlined elite NATO reforms and a possible U.S.-Soviet summit limited to the two powers. He spoke during a national TV broadcast and prepared for a 11-day Ontario tour ahead of the March 31 election.
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Ottawa
Lester B. Pearson
Canada
United States
Russia
Pearson
United Nations
NATO
U.S
U.S.S.R
Ontario
Rebels Die in Havana Police Gun battle
In Havana three rebels were shot dead in a running gunfight with police when they tried to flee after police halted their car in Alta Havana suburb. Rebels were said to be transporting arms and planned to attack a police station. Police casualties were none. In Camaguey province rebels dynamited a bridge. Batista ordered the 7700-man police to crush the disturbance at any cost.
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Havana
Cuba
Alta Havana
International
Camaguey
Fidel Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Water Resources Program Backed by Medicine Hat Chamber
Directors of the Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce approved a report urging pursuit of a water resources project. Preliminary coring on South Saskatchewan sites Rapid Narrows and Whitla could define dam height and feasibility, with potential hydro power for the city and surplus sales, plus re watering of dry lands.
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Medicine Hat
Chamber
South Saskatchewan
Rapid Narrows
Whitla
Calgary Power
Saskatchewan Power Corporation
Saskatchewan
Red Deer Lake
Prelate
Bitter Lake
Big Stick Lake
Fox Valley
Great Sand Hills
Manning Attacks Press in Province-wide Radio Broadcasts
Premier E C Manning denounces newspapers as biased and accuses them of defeating press freedom. He urges reliance on factual information during a five-station Alberta broadcast run by the Alberta Social Credit League across Lethbridge Medicine Hat Calgary Edmonton and Grande Prairie.
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Edmonton
E. C. Manning
Alberta
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
Calgary
Grande Prairie
The
Alberta Social Credit League
Bank Robbery Authors Torch Vault In Saskatoon?
Police in Swift Current, Saskatchewan search for two thieves who entered a Bank of Montreal branch under construction and melted open 17 of 26 safety deposit boxes with an acetylene torch. No money was taken.
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Swift Current
Sask
Bank of Montreal
Diefenbaker Plans Semi Judicial Radio Board
Prime Minister Diefenbaker announced Progressive Conservative plans to create a semi judicial broadcasting board to rule in CBC private station disputes. Solon Low attacked Liberal Conservative policy saying resources are being transferred to the United States to cover Canada’s trade deficit. Stanley Knowles criticised go slow public works spending as the March 31 federal election nears.
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Diefenbaker
CBC
Social Credit
Solon Low
Canada
United States
CCF
M. J. Coldwell
Ottawa
Stanley Knowles
Kenora
Ont
Board of Transport Commissioners
Hull
Que
U.S
Bretton Woods
World Bank For Reconstruction
International Monetary Fund
Low
Europe
Commonwealth
Middle East
Montreal
Federal Trade Department
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