Rain Bases Drought Seeding General Within Next Week
Rain eases drought threat across the prairie provinces with topsoil moisture improving though subsoil reserves remain short. Seeding could become general by mid month if conditions stay favorable, with regions in Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and the Peace River district noting delays from cool wet weather and winds. Grasshopper surveys show higher 1961 outbreak prospects, up significantly from 1960.
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Prairie Provinces
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Peace River District
Dauphin
Peace River
Bureau
Residents Face Increase In Garbage Pick-up Fees
City budget edits Tuesday raise the monthly garbage charge from 50 cents to 1.00, effective July 1, adding about 15000 to current year revenue. Commercial rates rise too, trimming police duties by shifting parking meter inspection to four commissionaires at 135 weekly each.
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City Sanitation Department
Tom Legge
Farmers May Use Dieldrin on Grain Crops
The district agriculturist Jack Anderson says farmers may purchase Dieldrin through his office for use on grain crops. He notes it may also be applied to pasture and foliage with grazing banned 30 to 60 days after treatment. The agriculture department recommends Heptachlor and Toxaphene for pastures and foliage.
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Jack Anderson
Anderson
Department of Agriculture
Alberta
Saskatchewan
School Budgets Edmonton Bound for Review
Alberta school boards sent budget figures to the education department as part of the 32 mill levy education foundation program. Deputy Minister Dr W H Swift said no changes yet but data should reveal trends within a week. Calgary minister Colborne said committee work will start soon and hear district complaints, with Calgary and Edmonton to receive special consideration.
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Education Department
Alberta School Board
Education Foundation
W. H. Swift
Calgary
F. C. Colborne
Social Credit
Calgary Centre
Edmonton
68 Aboard Crashed Airliner
An Air France airliner with 61 passengers and 4 crew crashed in the Sahara Desert after last radio contact at 1 10 am. No signs of life were sighted at the wreckage near Edjele. A dawn search by military and civilian planes from Algeria and southern France was launched.
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Marseilles
Sahara Desert
French Congo
Paris
Edjele
Mediterranean
Marseille
Air France
Algeria
France
Run-off levels vary across Canada in April report
The water resources branch says April runoff was below normal countrywide but above normal to excessive in British Columbia and parts of Eastern Canada. Kootenay river in BC dipped below normal while other rivers such as Fraser and Columbia exceeded norms.
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Ottawa
British Columbia
Canada
Northern Affairs Department
Water Resources Branch
Kootenay
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Assiniboine
Alberta
Bow
North Saskatchewan
Lee Creek
Columbia
Fraser
UN Soldier Flown Home From Congo After Ill Son
Pte. Marcel Bougie arrived in Petawawa Ontario after being flown from The Congo to see his six week old son Michel who is being treated for jaundice. His twin Marcel died two days earlier of jaundice and pneumonia. Bougie is 28 and had worked as a cook at the Canadian UN headquarters in Leopoldville.
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Petawawa
Ont
Marcel Bougie
Congo
Michel
Marcel
Pte
Bougie
United Nations Command
Leopoldville
Policeman Resigns in Bayside Township Ontario
Leonard Lalonde resigned from the Bayside Township police force with a request for 1593 dollars in back pay. Council approved 1144 dollars. Lalonde had been chief until demotion to constable. Adrian Cote remains the chief as the force’s only other constable.
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Sudbury
Ont
Leonard Lalonde
Bayside
Council
Lalonde
Konstable
Forte
Adrian Cote
Calgary Man Charged After One Day Escapade
Police charged Charles Thomas Latham of Moose Jaw with false pretences after a rapid sequence began when ten men were recruited by the National Employment Service and told to report to a service station where a delivery business office was being set up. He allegedly used the same tale to cash two checks.
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Calgary
Police
Charles Thomas Latham
Moose Jaw
National Employment Service
Delivery schemes unfold at Calgary service station
Police say a man using the name Ken Kennedy booked five rooms at a downtown hotel claiming to be part of a musician group for a Calgary show at Jubilee Auditorium. He left without paying a $19.50 hotel bill after promising repair work on delivery vehicles would pass to the station.
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Kennedy
Calgary
Jubilee Auditorium
Operation 40 plan for Cuban dictatorship revealed
The Chattanooga Times reports a secret unit named Operation 40, created to seize control after a failed invasion and establish a Cuban dictatorship possibly under Capt. Manuel Artime. The Times finds no CIA involvement and notes Cuban exiles express relief that the invasion failed.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
The
Chattanooga Times
the Times
Washington
Charles Bartlett
Cuba
Manuel Artime
Central Intelligence Agency
United States
Voice clues track Toronto con man at city hall booth
A man asked Henry McHerry at a CNIB confectionery booth to change a $10 bill, but handed a $1 bill. Henry later thought he recognized the voice of the same man who asked to change a $20, and police arrested Cecil Irving, 56, on fraud and attempted robbery charges linked to a Feb. 10 Imperial Bank of Canada incident.
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Toronto
Cpj
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
City Hall
Henry McHerry
Henry
Cecil Irving
Imperial Bank of Canada
Frameup Claim by Football Star in Newport Case
Former pro footballer George Ratterman denounces his Newport arrest as a frameup after a woman charged with him in a hotel incident. Tests showed he was given chloral hydrate. Ratterman says he was drugged and had never met the woman, April Flowers, amid ongoing court proceedings.
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Newport
George Ratterman
Campbell County
Committee of 500
Ratterman
Tito Carinci
Juanita Jean Hodges
Kettering Laboratories
Cincinnati
Cleveland Browns
National Football League
Montreal Alouettes
Als
Ottawa withholds grain sale details in Commons
Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton refused to reveal the long term wheat and barley sale agreement with Communist China signed in Hong Kong on April 29. The House voted 146 to 41 against publication of June 1 to Nov. 30 contracts and 149 to 44 against publication of June 1 to December 1963 terms valued at about 362 million dollars. Opposition questioned pricing and exchange rates used to value payments in pounds sterling.
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Ottawa
Alvin Hamilton
China
Hong Kong
Wheat Board
Canada
Australia
Hamilton
George McIlraith
Ottawa West
Mcllraith
CCF
Walter Pitman
New Party
Peterborough
Liberals
McIraith
McIlraith
Commons
Michener
House
Swart Elected First President of South Africa
Charles Swart, veteran Nationalist and former justice minister, was elected as the first president of the Republic of South Africa by Parliament. The vote stood 139 to 71 in a joint session electoral college, paving the way for a May 31 republic proclamation.
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Cape Town
Reuters
Charles Swart
Republic of South Africa
Swart
South Africa
Hendrik Verwoerd
Henry Allan Fagan
Fagan
United Party
Commonwealth
Commonwealth Prime Ministers
London
Verwoerd
Nationalist
Medicine Hat Population Tops 24000 After Census
Medicine Hat's official population reached 24,015 after the 1961 enumeration, up from 23,172 last year and 23,980 in the first tally. City officials say the gain comes from residents previously missed by census takers reporting to city hall.
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Medicine Hat
Dick Dietrich
Floods Sweep Midsection as Miss, Ill, Ind, Kans See Widespread Damage
Damaging spring floods spread through the U S midsection with thousands homeless and roads closed. The worst hit areas include southern Illinois Missouri Indiana Kansas and Kentucky with Red Cross and Salvation Army aid on scene. Officials report fear of disease and widespread disruption though some easing in Ohio and Oklahoma.
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Chicago
United States
Illinois
Missouri
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Ohio
Oklahoma
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Laos Truce Team Flies to Scene Before Geneva Talks
Officials of the international control commission flew to the rebel held Plain of Jars to reinforce the Laotian truce ahead of the Geneva conference opening Friday.
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Laos
Vientiane
International Control Commission
Plain of Jars
Pilot Checks Studied by ICAO for Licensing Rules
International Civil Aviation Organization officials study regular heart tests for aging pilots and a mandatory grounding age as part of proposed new licensing standards. The ICAO team led by Samar Sen of India met in Montreal to draft changes while noting Laos has unsettled conditions and seeking a trustworthy cease fire before Geneva talks. Accompanying Sen were Leon Mayrand of Canada and Albert Morski of Poland. a Polish interpreter joined the mission bound for Vientiane.
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Montreal
International Civil Aviation Organization
ICAO
Samar Sen
India
Laos
Sen
Geneva
Xieng Khouang
Canada
Leon Mayrand
Poland
Albert Morski
Vientians
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