Canada tests civil defence in nationwide Tocsin drill
Sirens sound as Operation Tocsin activates Canada’s civil defence network across major cities. Prime Minister Diefenbaker and officials join provincial wartime headquarters to map survival plans and readiness measures in the event of nuclear war.
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Canada
Diefenbaker
S. F. Clark
R. B. Curry
Ottawa
The
Commons
U.S
Board of Broadcast Governors
Tocsin
Emergency Measures Organization
Volunteers Man Posts In CD Test
An emergency civil defence exercise in Medicine Hat simulated effects of a 1961 Canada alert. At 8:13 am the alarm activated fire sirens and by 8:28 the CD headquarters were manned. Hospitals and schools shifted operations and volunteers were mobilized to assist police and city departments.
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Canada
Medicine Hat Civil Defence
Calgary
Holy Cross Hospital
Medicine Hat
General Hospital
River Heights
Alberta
Hamilton Explains Grain Deal Amid China Commitment
Ottawa Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton said China has committed to buy the same grain quantities Canada will sell under the new 2% year agreement. He rejected claims that only 28 million of 186 million bushels are firm and noted future terms will be negotiated. He cited past wheat pricing lessons from 1946 that could have cost Canada billions.
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Ottawa
Alvin Hamilton
Canada
CCF
Commons
China
Mr. Hamilton
Argue
Hamilton
Britain
Record Set Then Fall Kills Flier
Navy medical officer Victor Prather died after falling 25 feet from a rescue helicopter following a near perfect ascent to a new balloon height of 113 500 feet in the Gulf of Mexico. Cmdr Malcolm Ross survived the lift. Prather died aboard the carrier Antietam seven hours later.
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Washington
Navy
Cmdr
Victor Prather
Gulf of Mexico
Antietam
Malcolm Ross
Ross
Victoria woman sues CPR for injuries from 1960 train crash
Mrs Elsie M Winter of Victoria launched a BC Supreme Court action against the Canadian Pacific Railway seeking general damages for pain and suffering plus 375 for medical expenses after a September 1 1960 Medicine Hat collision incident. The suit arises from a Winnipeg Vancouver trip when she tripped over a bag in a train corridor and suffered whiplash injuries and tendon strain requiring hospital care.
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Victoria
Elsie M. Winter
Canadian Pacific Railway
Medicine Hat
Commission Told To Go to Laos
Britain and Russia will instruct the international control commission for Laos, meeting in New Delhi, to go to the Indochina kingdom at once. An Anglo Soviet reply to the control commission’s last message may be delivered in New Delhi today after talks in Moscow between Sir Frank Roberts and Georgi Pushkin.
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London
Reuters
Britain
Russia
International Control Commission For
Laos
New Delhi
Indochina Kingdom
Foreign Office
Dor
Frank Roberts
Georgi Pushkin
Workers Win Demands Rail Crisis Settled in Montreal
The ceasefire ends an 18 month dispute as the SNR and CPR agree to meet full wage demands of 15 non operating unions. The accord raises pay by 14 cents over $1.77 hourly, retroactive to Jan 1 1960, with back pay for members. The contract expires year end and a new round may begin in November.
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Montreal
SNR
CPR
Canada
British Columbia
Pacific Great Eastern
Illation Board
Gordon
Milwain Conciliation Boards
Frank Hall
Government approves nylon bloomers for post office workers
London AP reports women at Dollis Hill research station must wear nylon bloomers to keep a dust free environment for super sensitive radio tubes. Union leader Laurie Sapper notes workers will also get nylon stockings and overalls from the government. The plan includes inspections near dust-recording instruments to verify compliance.
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London
Laurie Sapper
Girls’ Union
General Post Office
Dollis Hill
Sapper
Astronaut Shepard Reaches 115 Miles In Suborbital Flight
Cape Canaveral reports Alan B. Shepard rode a Redstone rocket into space and landed in the Atlantic after 115 miles up. The 37 year old navy commander described the view as beautiful. He spoke of seeing the east coast from space and praised the mission as a step toward orbital flight and Moon exploration. President Kennedy asked for a Washington welcome for Shepard.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Alan B. Shepard
Atlantic Ocean
Lake Champlain
Shepard
United States
Kennedy
Washington
Hugh Dryden
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Dryden
Spaceflight Mission Tests Man's Inflight Tasks
Crew members were told not to speak to the astronaut and doctors urged him to tell his story without bias. The suborbital flight fell short of Soviet Yuri Gagarin’s orbit but proved man can perform useful chores in space. Shepard reported success in pushing levers and operating controls during the flight.
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Lake Champlain
United States
Russia
Yuri Gagarin
Earth
National Space Agency
Shepard
Mercury flight records and recovery details reported
The article describes astronaut Alan Shepard reporting from a space capsule during a Mercury mission terminated test 108. NASA officials confirm the mission ended with Shepard to be retrieved from a helicopter aboard the Lake Champlain. The flight, launched after delays, carried by the Redstone rocket with Kurt Debus and Werner von Braun overseeing operations.
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Cape Canaveral
Mercury
Shepard
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U.S
Lake Champlain
Kurt Debus
Debus
Werner von Braun
Space Flight Laboratory
Russians react to US spaceflight as Shepard completes
Reuters reports Soviet Embassy spokesman in London reacting to the milestone U S spaceflight. He says the Soviet Union had already ended its space exploration phase and offers no special comment on America’s achievement as Shepard experiences weightless motion after launch.
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London
Reuters
U.S
America
Macmillan
Shepard
President Kennedy
Bess
Cabinet Overrules Assent to Saskatchewan Bill
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Diefenbaker says Lieutenant-Governor Frank Bastedo reserved assent to a Saskatchewan mineral contracts bill without Ottawa guidance. The cabinet may issue instructions to lieutenant-governors to avoid similar actions, citing 1882 precedent and national interest concerns.
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Ottawa
Saskatchewan
Frank Bastedo
Diefenbaker
The
Commons
Bastedo
Fulton
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