Victoria Day Weekend Brightens Medicine Hat
A hot Victoria Day weekend drew Medicine Hat residents outdoors with mid eighty temperatures across Saturday Sunday and Monday. The period saw minor injuries from fireworks and a serious car crash near Whitlaman while a motel electrical panel fire caused substantial damage. Junior Chamber of Commerce delegates enjoyed a busy provincial convention, and local golf tennis and boating activities drew crowds as mountain parks opened for National Parks season.
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General Hospital
Airport Road
Ranchmen
Chambers of Commerce
Jaycees
Medicine Hat Golf Club
Medicine Hat
Don Oliphant
Elkwater Park
Richmound
Redcliff
LaVern Hughes
Fourth St. SE
Harry O. Verhaest
Whitla
Meg Palmer
First St. NW
Donald Schmedelski
Third St
Len Morris
Trans Canada Highway
Firecracker mayhem mars cities on Victoria Day
Police in Hamilton struggled to disperse a 400-strong crowd of firecracker throwers while officers and a police dog faced a volley of fireworks. Fires erupted at a clothing shop and a gasoline soaked tire sparked flames at a street intersection, tying up traffic for an hour with no arrests.
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Hamilton
Victoria Day
Canada
Toronto
Ont
Winnipeg
Werre
97 Street
Jasper Avenue
Edmonton
They Don’t Feel Terribly Welcome
In Lockport New York a family uses a large white headstone on their lawn with the epitaph Here Lies a Salesman to deter peddlers from stopping at their home. The unusual display signals their stance against door to door sales in the nearby community.
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Lockport
N.Y
Nazis Rally Sparks Racial Tension in Montgomery Bus Ride
A busload of 12 Nazi demonstrators routs through Montgomery amid martial law as 18 freedom riders faced ongoing segregation protests. Police report violence at the Greyhound station with photographers attacked. five rioters fined for disobedience.
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Arlington
New Orleans
American Nazi Party
George Lincoln Rockwell
Freedom Riders
Martin Luther King
Montgomery
King
Alabama
John Patterson
Leavey
Riser
Greyhound
John Seigenthaler
Robert Kennedy
Seigenthaler
Kennedy
Forest Fires Fought by 250 Men in Alberta District
More than 250 men battled a score of forest fires in the Peace River district of northwest Alberta. Four major blazes around Grande Prairie worsened officials’ fears of a severe fire season amid hot dry weather.
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Edmonton
Peace River
Alberta
Grande Prairie
56 Died Violently At Long Weekend
The Victoria Day long weekend saw a spike in fatalities across road, river, and lake accidents. Ontario reported multiple deaths adding to nationwide tolls amid continued warnings and emergency responses.
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Ontario
Blast ruins probed after deadly Cumberland plant blast
Investigators comb the charred remains of two buildings at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in Cumberland for the blast causes that killed nine workers and injured six. The site is described as a giant crater as fire burned for seven hours.
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Cumberland, Md
Allegany Ballistics Laboratory
Hercules Power Company
Wilmington
Del
Navy
New Murder Laws Outlined by Canadian Government
Ottawa report says Justice Minister Fulton defends keeping death penalty for deliberate murder while introducing life imprisonment for impulsive and unpremeditated killings. Mandatory life terms apply to non capital murder and juveniles under 18 for capital murder. hanging remains execution method. Parliament debates show majority favor retention of capital punishment.
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Ottawa
Fulton
Commons
Frank McGee
York Scarborough
House
Escapee Victor Rat Captured After Extensive Search
Victor Rat, 32, who escaped from a provincial jail working party last Monday, was found about 20 miles north of Prince Albert Sunday afternoon. The man was taken to RCMP cells here for detention amid reports of attacks on a young girl and a clubhouse caretaker earlier in the week.
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Prince Albert
Victor Rat
Here
Rat
RCMP
Victoria Day 1961 Celebrations Across Canada
Canadians enjoyed a long snow-free holiday weekend with fireworks and 21-gun salutes. Ottawa drew thousands to see 2,000,000 tulips, while police managed traffic and Montreal cracked down on firecrackers. Six Nations marked Bread and Cheese Day near Brantford.
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Victoria
Mercury
Hudson Bay
Atlantic
Parliament Hill
Ottawa
House of Commons
Netherlands
Montreal
Halifax
Toronto
Prisoner Trade Still in Doubt
The United States faces congressional pressure over a proposed tractors for prisoners exchange with Cuba. Fidel Castro threatens to halt negotiations as U S officials weigh private efforts to swap earthmoving equipment for about 1,200 Cuban inmates. A fund raising committee met with a delegation of 10 Cuban prisoners paroled to the United States.
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Dean Rusk
Cuba
Castro
Walter P. Reuther
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Milton Eisenhower
United States
Ponoka Jaycees conquer Medicine Hat convention scene
A playful Ponoka group of bearded “Latin American revolutionaries” toured Medicine Hat as Alberta’s Jaycee convention unfolded. The Ponoka Jaycees won the highest attendance, with 18 of 25 members present, as other convention coverage appears on pages 3, 6 and 12.
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Ponoka
Fidel
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Jack Judge
Ponoka Jaycees
Alberta and
Nwt
Joan Davis Dies at 47 in Palm Springs
Palm Springs California television and radio comedian Joan Davis died in a Palm Springs hospital today after a heart attack. Miss Davis aged 47 had a long run with her television series I Married Joan in which Jim Bagh played the male lead.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Joan Davis
Miss Davis
Joan
Jim Bagh
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Fish and Game Association
Kin Coulee
Elkwater Lake
Ala
Canadian Highway Safety Council
Manitoba
Quebec
Nova Scotia
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
New Brunswick
THE
Brantford
Queen Victoria
Six Nations
Washington
U.S. Congress
Fidel Castro
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