23 May 1962
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 23, 1962
Page
1
The NEWS republishes a moisture chart found in an Ogilvie Flour Mills desk, updated with local weather officials. It shows yearly moisture in 41900 area years 1960 1962 397A Ty. Pix OBZ BF whither the weather.
Ottawa reports that work on a new Finlay Bridge is slated to start in the fall of 1963 as the new government, to be chosen in under a month, confronts a sharp financial crisis unseen since 1947. The article notes the incoming administration faces severe fiscal constraints and outlines the looming budget pressures.
Public meeting at Redcliff Civic Centre 7 30 p m will hear Alberta agriculture minister L C Halmrast outline plans for the east block of the Redcliff Ronalane scheme as part of Bow River development. Local chambers and farmers attend with mixed views on irrigation and district growth.
Cont inental Airlines jet broke apart in stormy skies near Canterville Iowa. All 45 aboard died. One survivor died in hospital after eight hours in wreckage. Takehiko Nakano 27, engineer with addresses in Oak Park Illinois and Los Angeles California, removed from mid fuselage and died later. radar indicated only one plane in vicinity. another Cessna found safe in Columbia Missouri.
City Council authorized engineer Allan Gunter to hire McBride and Reagan of Edmonton to prepare cost estimates for a new four lane Finlay Bridge in fall 1963. The project may cost about 340000 with half funded by the province. The plan envisions a shorter northern approach and earlier traffic diversions with a potential Crescent loop. Alberta Highway Minister Gordon Taylor supported a new bridge rather than repairing or widening the old structure.
Royal Lao soldiers are described as pacifists by nature, despite training by 300 American experts. About 70,000 Laotian troops face the Pathet Lao threat with a nation isolated by geography, lacking railways and sea outlets, complicating military readiness and morale.
Liberal Leader Pearson visited a 3000 strong Toronto farm picnic with a Liberal candidate as Chief, while Prime Minister Diefenbaker held two large suburban receptions. Halifax and Melfort rallies featured T C Douglas and Robert Thompson. Pearson accused Conservatives of breaking five 1958 promises on unemployment taxes spending balance and interest.
The Medicine Hat NEWS announces a wider world news window through a HTNS alliance with London Observer. Readers will see dispatches from Moscow to New York and background stories by notable writers, with HTNS bureaus in major cities and the United Nations.
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