Coop Nears 22nd Orbit
Cape Canaveral AP astronaut Gordon Cooper races toward completion of his 22 orbit flight with a planned Pacific splashdown. Ground control okayed the final descent and a Kearsarge recovery group awaits offshore while Cooper photographs the horizon for MIT research and historic navigation tests.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gordon Cooper
Pacific Ocean
Astronaught
Mercury Control Centre
Cooper
Shanghai
China
Pacific
Midway Island
Kearsarge
Walter Schirra
Indian Ocean
Virgil Grissom
Guaymas
Mex
MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grissom
Medicine Hat Stampede Prize Money Tops Six Thousand
The Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede offers more than 6000 in prize money across 374 classes the largest list yet. New Market Fat Cattle Classes include pens of five or fifteen with various weight thresholds and prizes from 10 to 80 dollars.
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Medicine Hat
Dirk Scholten
Brooks Girl Killed in Canadian Accident
Laurie Ann Pozzo, 24, died when a trailer hitched to her father Charles Pozzo’s car ran over her at the Brooks home in Alberta. The car was moving to open a gate when she allegedly ran between the car and the trailer.
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Brooks
Alta
Laurie Ann Pozzo
Charles Pozzo
Real Caouette urges Marcoux to resign as MP
OTTAWA CP Real Caouette Social Credit deputy leader demands Dr Guy Marcoux resign as MP for Quebec-Montmorency saying he has no right to sit as an independent after election as a Social Credit candidate. An AP report from Portsmouth NH notes debris photos said to be from the ocean bottom near the Thresher site where 128 men died.
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Ottawa
Real Caouette
Social Credit
Guy Marcoux
Quebec - Montmorency
Dr. Marcoux
Portsmouth
N.H
Thresher
Irvine Seeks Two Year Delay on Irvine Station Closure
A two year postponement request to close Irvine's CPR station was made at a public hearing by Roy Wiedemann for the town. He cited expected 24 hour telephone service and 150 new rural subscribers plus regional construction and crop prospects as factors in reviving the local economy and need for an agent. CPR official W R Flett argued revenue decline makes closure justifiable. The board will weigh whether to grant a delay or proceed with closure.
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Irvine
Canadian Pacific Railway
Roy Wiedemann
Medicine Hat
Board of Transport Commissioners
Wiedemann
C. F. Gillis
W. R. Flett
Vegetable and fruit growth eyed for Southern Alberta
Alberta Industrial Development Board wrapped a two day Medicine Hat meeting with a preview by George Strachan food technologist Federal Reserve Station Lethbridge. He said irrigation could add 1.5 to 2 million acres to production much land suited to vegetables and sugar beets. Population projections for 2000 A D to 500 million raise food space concerns. California may export until 1980 after which western Canada must supply its own needs and likely export. A full report will appear on The NEWS editorial page.
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Alberta
Alberta Industrial Development Board
Medicine Hat
George Strachan
Federal Reserve Station
Lethbridge
Strachan
U.S
California
Canada
Hat Firms Exhibits Highlight California Gift Show
W Mackenzie Hall of the federal department of trade and commerce western regional office, based in Winnipeg, selected an international fair for Medicine Hat industries to display. He spoke at the Alberta Industrial Development Board meeting in Medicine Hat, noting the California Gift Show in Los Angeles on January 18, 1964 as especially relevant for local producers.
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W. Mackenzie Hall
Department of Trade and Commerce
Western
Winnipeg
Alberta Industrial Development Board
Medicine Hat
California
Los Angeles
Giveaway Contest Is Investigated
EDMONTON CP An official of the Alberta attorney general department says an inquiry is underway into giveaway contests by two national soft drink firms. J W Anderson acting deputy attorney general notes possible lottery elements and potential criminal code prosecutions if confirmed. Authorities are monitoring a Montreal trial where Crush International is charged with running a cash prize lottery via bottle-cap numbers.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Ing
Anderson
Attorney-General
Edmonton trustee denounces education foundation program
An Edmonton public school trustee calls the foundation program inadequate and unrealistic during the Monday night meeting about raising 674,600 to cover building commitments. Vernon Johnson questions the program's ability to fund 90 percent of education costs and cites overlap with the Alberta Municipal Financing Corporation.
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Edmonton
Foundation
Vernon Johnson
Alberta Municipal Financing Corporation
Montreal Firm Charged Over Bottle Cap Lottery Scheme
Crush International of Montreal faces a charge of operating a lottery after offering cash prizes from 1 to 100 dollars to consumers who locate numbers under bottle caps. The provincial police laid the charge under the Criminal Code provisions on lotteries with a May 22 trial date. an official called it possibly Canada’s first such case.
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Alberta
Montreal
Crush International
Quebec
Canada
Liberal government lays out economic plan for Canada
Ottawa reports the Pearson administration outlines an economic program in the throne speech. It calls for a new department of industry and federal funds for municipalities and the Atlantic area to tackle high unemployment. The plan also proposes a royal commission for English French partnership and moves on naval arms policy.
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Ottawa
Canada
Department of Industry
Atlantic
Pearson
Robert Taschereau
Senate
Commons
North Atlantic Alliance
United States
British Columbia
Columbia River
Thompson Seeks National Council Session to Force Social Credit Shakeup
A plan to force a final showdown within Social Credit is to be debated at a special national council meeting, after leader Robert Thompson urged Regina's Martin Kelln to convene. The move follows Dr. Guy Marcoux's resignation as Quebec wing whip and his aim to sit in Parliament as an independent.
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Ottawa
Social Credit
National Council
Robert Thompson
Martin Kelln
Regina
Peg
Guy Marcoux
Quebec- Montmorency
Quebec
Thompson
Real Caouette
Marcoux
Caouette
GATT Talks Open In Geneva With Canada Leading
Canadian Trade Minister Mitchell Sharp nominated Hans Schaffner of Switzerland to chair the GATT conference in Geneva. J H Jake Warren opened the six day meeting of 50 contracting parties in the historic trade talks seen as the most ambitious GATT effort to date.
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Geneva
General Assembly
League of Nations
Mitchell Sharp
Canada
Switzerland
Hans Schaffner
J. H
Jake) Warren
Gatt
Sharp
United Nations
New York
London
Pearson
Schaffner
Warren
Duvalier Defies Opponents in Haiti Reign
Haiti's dictator François Duvalier defies rebels and vows to stay in power after his term expired. He declared re election for six more years following a rigged ballot two years ago. An inauguration is planned for May 22 as crowds are moved into Port au Prince, swelling the capital.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Duvalier
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