Ferngulf explosion triggers Vancouver hearing on aid delay
Vancouver officials report two SOS signals were received after the Norwegian freighter Ferngulf exploded, killing one crewman and injuring several others. Fireboat limits and radio timing spark controversy as officials review why aid was delayed and how harbor protection should be organized.
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Point Grey
United States Coast Guard
Seattle
Hugh Bird
Elmer Sly
Magnus Larsen
Thorshaven
Faroe Islands
Per Stadlund
Haugesund
Vancouver Harbor
Chief Bird
Burrard Inlet
Thomas How
Department of Transport
Air Services
U. S. Coast Guard
Bird
O Sly
Department
False Creek
Finance Minister sets July 6 date for tax-sharing talks
Ottawa reports Finance Minister Fleming proposed Monday July 6 as the opening date for a federal provincial conference on tax sharing. He suggested two private days for ministers and officials to work out details if needed, after which Frost of Ontario questioned the timing.
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Ottawa
Fleming
Commons
H. J. Robichaud
L . Gloucester
Hazen Argue
CCF House
Frost
Ontario
Kuter Named NORAD Head by Canadian Government
Defence Minister Pearkes announces Canada concurs with President Eisenhower in appointing Gen. Laurence S. Kuter United States Air Force as NORAD commander. Kuter, 53, former Far East Air Forces chief, succeeds Gen. Earle E. Partridge who retires July 31.
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Ottawa
Pearkes
Laurence S. Kuter
United Sates Air Force
NORAD
Kuter
Far East
Ladies Scared Em But Still Had to Pay
Paris police monitored a protest as 30 prostitutes faced loitering hearings. The magistrate fined each with sentences of three days’ imprisonment and one thousand francs amid giggles and tears. Afterward the defendants vowed not to work for civil servants.
Battle over MacArthur labour post in Commons
A Commons clash centered on Alastair MacArthur as labor representative on the commission. MacArthur and three other nominees drew party criticism amid a tax, immigration, and unemployment insurance package advancing in Ottawa.
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Murdo Martin
CCF
Timmins
Provincial
Federation of Ontario Professional Fire Fighters
Alastair F. MacArthur
Toronto
Paul Martin
Essex East
Starr
MacArthur
Fairclough
Ontario
Floods Threaten Oil Centres in Venezuela
Floods in northwest Venezuela threaten the Mara caibo basin oil hub. Torrential rains over 72 hours have inundated 20,000 huts in Cabimas City, southwest of Maracaibo, with half the city under water and damage estimated at 10 million bolivars about 3 million dollars.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Reuters
Maracaibo
Cabimas City
Mercy killings defend physician in cancer case
Doctors and churchmen defend Dr Maurice Millard who admitted giving a lethal dose to an elderly cancer patient seeking mercy in Burton on Trent. Millard cited compassion and a peace with God as he spoke to the Rotary Club amid debates on euthanasia ethics.
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BURTON - ON + TRENT
England
Reuters
Maurice Millard
Killick Millard
Millard
Rotary Club
Charles McDonald
The
Euthanasia Society
McDonald
Julian Huxley
Shots Killed Mack Parker in Mississippi Kidnapping
Mack Charles Parker, a 23 year old Black truck driver, was killed by two high speed bullets after being kidnapped from his jail cell in Poplarville Mississippi. A six man jury found death caused by two 38 caliber bullets. Parker’s body was found in the Pearl River near Bogalusa Louisiana after an FBI and Mississippi patrol search.
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Miss
Mack Charles Parker
Mississippi
Pearl River County
Pearl River
Bogalusa
Parker
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mississippi Highway
Churchill Visits Dulles and Marshall at Army Hospital
Churchill and President Eisenhower visited John Foster Dulles and General George C. Marshall at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Dulles uses a wheelchair. Marshall, frail after strokes, is retired from the Army chiefs post. Churchill, 84, observations included a hospital painting assessment.
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Britain
Walter Reed Army Hospital
John Foster Dulles
George C. Marshall
Marshall
U.S. Army
Churchill
Dulles
Althouh
Ottawa to Expand Employment Insurance Benefits and Coverage
The bill before Parliament expands insured workers to those earning up to $5 460 a year and extends protection to inmates serving up to two years. Weekly benefits rise to 21 for single and 30 with dependents, while maximum unemployment pay climbs to 36 for dependents and 27 for singles. Incidental earnings rules also loosen.
San Diego Couple Admit Killing Two Young Sons
A mother Wanda Brogdon and her unemployed boyfriend Kenneth Merriam told police they planned and carried out the murders of her two sons, ages 3 and 5, because they were bad. Merriam described strangling the older boy first, then the younger, in the Laguna Mountains. They will be arraigned on two counts of murder. The 19 month old daughter was unharmed.
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San Diego
Calif
Here
Kenneth Archie Merriam
Wanda Brogdon
Merriam
David Wayne Brogdon
Virgil Brogdon Jr
Don Keller
Cynthia
Laguna Mountains
Margaret Schmitter
Roof Fire Forces Evacuation at Sacre Coeur Hospital
A stubborn fire on the roof of a five story wing at Sacre Coeur Hospital in Montreal prompted the evacuation of 392 patients Tuesday night. Firemen from 15 stations fought the blaze for two and a half hours, with water damage extensive on lower floors. Red Cross, civil defence workers, nurses, doctors, nuns, and 100 police aided in moving patients to other wards or homes. Flames rose as high as 35 feet, drawing large crowds to the north-end Cartierville facility run by the Sisters de la Providence.
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Montreal
Sacre Coeur
Red Cross
Civil Defence
Sozurs de la Providence
Cartierville
Clear Skies Across Alberta and Saskatchewan Forecast
Skies clear over Alberta and most of Saskatchewan with sunny conditions expected tonight and Thursday. Temperatures rise to the high 50s to low 60s, near early May normals. Medicine Hat to see a low of 30 tonight and a high near 60 tomorrow.
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Alberta
Saskatchewan
Medicine Hat
First Stages Of Reading Are Painless By Jack Hutton
Thirty children at Brock Public School study early literacy as Canadian actors sing on record about gardening. The lesson shows kindergarten as preparing to read by building speaking, vocabulary, and experiences, with group participation and practical projects.
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Jack Hutton
Brock Public School
Brock
Johnny
Daddy
Toronto
Sue
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Calgary
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Wigan
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