Mother's Day Tribute From Medicine Hat Children
The R D Marble children of 229 Connaught Drive SW stage a breakfast in bed practice for their mother on Mother’s Day in Medicine Hat. Twins Laurie and Linda serve as host and Brenda waits to kneel and serve. The holiday is observed each year on the second Sunday in May, created by Anna Jarvis after her mother’s 1907 death.
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R. D. Marble
Connaught Drive
Laurie
Flowers
Linda
Brenda
Anna
Cease Fire Challenged as Talks on Laos Stall
In Geneva the right wing Laos government disputed an official report of a Laos cease-fire, threatening to halt the 14 nation talks. U S and Soviet diplomats failed to secure broader Pathet Lao participation, while the truce commission cited a general cessation of hostilities despite local breaches.
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Geneva
Reuters
Laos
United States
Pathet Lao
Ngone Sananikone
Truce Supervisory Commission
U.S
Dean Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
Russia
Rusk
Gromyko
Hollywood Hills Fire Devours 24 Homes and 1000 Acres
A Hollywood Hills blaze swept through brushy terrain near Griffith Park, tearing down 11 dwellings and threatening many more. Winds up to 40 mph fanned the flames as crews fought to halt the fire, evacuating residents and surrounding Camp Hollywood. The cause remained undetermined.
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Hollywood
Hollywood Hills
Los Angeles
Sunset Boulevards
Griffith Park
Firgens
Hollyridge Avenue
Canyon Drive
Beachwood Canyon
Calgary alderman seeks plebiscite on Sunday activities
Alderman Ted Duncan will ask Calgary City Council to approve a public vote on Sunday sports concerts and possibly movies. He hopes to hold the plebiscite June 21 alongside a $1,000,000 school construction plan and to ask Calgarians to approve paid admission for these activities in keeping with the era's religious norms.
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Calgary
Ted Duncan
Calgarians
Ald
Duncan
Alternative site proposed for Flats overpass in city council debate
City council weighs shelving the Allowance Avenue overpass amid controversy over a new location from Bridge Street north of the CP Rail yards to Seventh Avenue south. Engineers note traffic shifts and cost, with Alderman Edwards urging a possible different design and future study.
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Jack Edwards
Allowance Ave
Burgess
Bridge St
Canadian Pacific Railway
Seventh Ave
Allowance Avenue
Aid
James G. Kidd
Cliff Adam
Ald
Edwards
Adam
Ald. Edwards
Allan Gunter
City Council
Gunter
U S policy toward Cuba faltering amid Latin doubts
U S diplomats fear the effort to rally Latin American nations against Fidel Castro is stalling as major powers like Brazil and Argentina hesitate. Washington argues Cuba is Soviet dominated and seeks regional support with a $500 million aid plan, while Castro gains local sympathy amid the failed April 17 invasion.
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Washington
United States
Fidel Castro
U.S
Castro
Cuba
South America
Wih
Moscow
Kennedy
Latin America
Venezuela
Brazil
Argentina
Mexico
Janio Quadros
Caribbean
Defence Minister Douglas Harkness visits for Boomerang operation
Douglas Harkness arrived shortly before noon to take part in the South Alberta Light Horse operation Boomerang. The local militia unit held its regimental status ceremonies this afternoon with trooping. See page 11 for a related photo and details.
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Defence
Douglas Harkness
South Alberta
Gary Cooper In Critical Condition At Home
Hollywood AP reports Gary Cooper remains extremely critical with family spokesman denying death imminent claims. No statement from Cooper's physician suggested an immediate death.
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Hollywood
Gary Cooper
Cooper
Ranchers hail SES grazing offer in Alberta
Southeastern Alberta ranchers welcome the Suffield Experimental Station plan to open about 150000 acres of grazing land to district cattlemen. Details on who will administer the land grazing limits and headage remain unclear, with expectations for a two year term and possible extension.
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Alberta
Suffield
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
PFRA
Carl Anderson
Brooks
Eastern Irrigation District
Henry Cavan
Dunmore
Cavan
Commons
Defence
Harkness
Brunsden
City to clear rat breeding sites after council approves plan
Pest control officer John Pickard says crews will start next Tuesday or Wednesday in Saratoga Park area to wipe out rat breeding zones. He notes ongoing discoveries in a coulee near Elm Street and around Industrial Avenue with at least 12 rats killed last week and more likely killed when a city bulldozer levelled feed lot areas. Medicine Hat has not faced a rat problem in five years.
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John Pickard
Saratoga Park
Pickard
Elm S&i
Industrial Ave
Medicine Hat
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Howard Heid
Longsland
Peets
Jim Needham
Twelfth St
Saskatchewan
Anderson
Mr. Anderson
A. M. Pennie
Ted Bruns
Den
Ottawa
Hargrave Mitchell
Mitchell
South Saskatchewan River
Suffield Experimental Station
Pennie
Little
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