Prepare for Action On District Roads
Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce wins support for a provincial roads pact to secure a north south highway and a Bindloss crossing bridge. Delegates from Oyen Acadia Valley Empress Bindloss Hilda Schuler urge survey of Highway No. 41 north of the Trans Canada Highway and early bridge construction over the South Saskatchewan River.
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Medicine Hat
South Saskatchewan River
Chamber of Commerce
Oyen
Acadia Valley
Empress
Bindloss
Hilda
Schuler
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Roads Committee
Alan Ken
E. G. Robinson
Chamber
R. H. ‘A. Lacey
Theo. Mantz
Robinson
Harry Strom
Cypress
Hilda-Schuler
Hilda- Schuler
H. G. Moore
South Saskatchewan
Moore
Government Records Ten Million Deficit
Ottawa bureau reports the government ran a deficit of more than ten million dollars in the first month of the 1958 59 fiscal year. Charles King reports from Ottawa on the startling shortfall and its potential implications for early budget planning.
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Charles King
News Ottawa Bureau
Ottawa
Mystery Submarine Remains Unidentified Near Buenos Aires
Argentine navy reported an attack on a high speed submarine 650 miles south of Buenos Aires during maneuvers in Calfo Nuevo. Depth charges were fired, an oil slick appeared, and a search by naval units proved fruitless as embassies denied any belonging to their countries.
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Buenos Aires
United States
Arturo Frondizi
Calfo Nuevo
Frondizi
U.S
Russia
Britain
South Atlantic
Peru
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
U.S. Navy
Atlantic
Pacific
Surprise attack on submarine off north Australia
An unidentified aircraft fired on the British submarine Aurochs off north Australia. The sub dove to safety with no damage or casualties among its 60 Royal Navy crew. The claim followed Argentina’s report of depth charges against an unidentified submarine in the South Atlantic days earlier.
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Sydney
Australia
Reuters
Royal Navy
Argentina
South Atlantic
Mr. Impact Joins The NEWS Editorial Page
Herblock the Washington Post cartoonist known as Mr. Impact joins The NEWS as a regular feature on the editorial page. The move spotlights his sharp political cartoons and clear forceful style for readers nationwide.
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Herbert Block
Washington Post
Herblock
Pflimlin Emissary Heads for Algeria
Paris AP Premier Pflimlin sends Jean Louis Vigier to Algiers to discuss a return to military civilian rule. Vigil is on Gaullist advice, amid reinforcements arriving in Algiers as insurgents press reform. Government urges urgent constitutional reform as parliament considers changes.
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Paris
Pierre Pflimlian
Algeria
Jean-Louis Vigier
Charles de Gaulle
Gaullist
Algiers
Pflimlin
Vigier
Pierre Guillain de Benouville
Switzerland
Aftrer Pflimlin
Junta
France
Committee of Public Safety
Sahara
National “Assembly
Two youths recaptured after Nanaimo home robbery attack
Two 17 year old Brannan Lake industrial school fugitives, fleeing with a broken leg, were recaptured two hours after the assault on Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Rioux in their Nanaimo home. The couple were bound to kitchen chairs, while robbers stole money, two knives, and crutches.
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Nanaimo
B.C
Brannan Lake Industrial School
Jacques Rioux
Wellington
Nanaimo General Hospital
Rioux
Nanaimo Rcmp
Eisenhower proposes U.S Russia meet in Geneva on nuclear tests
President Eisenhower proposed to Premier Khrushchev that the United States and Russia name scientific experts to meet in Geneva within three weeks to discuss policing a suspension of nuclear tests.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
United States
Russia
Geneva
Britain
France
White House
State Department
U.S
Soviet Union
Ernest O. Lawrence
University of California Radiation Laboratory
James’ “Brown Fisk
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Robert F. Bacher
Atomic Energy Commission
California
Institute ‘of Technology
Japan
Risenki
Funeral for Fire Victims at Anahim Reserve Cemetery
A mass funeral will be held at the Anahim Reserve cemetery for 12 Indian children killed when a fire destroyed the hospital school on the reserve in British Columbia. One child was rescued, Sister Mary of the Cross is hospitalized with burns, and RCMP will continue investigations with a six-man inquest adjourned to May 27.
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Williams Lake
B.C
Anahim Reserve
RCMP
Sisters of Christ the King
Canada
Here
Vancouver
British Columbia
Cariboo
William Mark Duke
John. Patterson
Dave Cummings
Anq
Alexis Creek
Wendy Char
Sister Mary of the Cross
Mary
Wendy
John Hennessy
Mary Friday
Cornell Students Attack President Over Party Rules
Several hundred Cornell students attacked the president's home in Ithaca after a torch light rally protesting proposed tighter campus party rules. A smoke bomb was used, rocks and eggs were thrown, windows broken, and President Deane Malott urged calm while vowing not to be ruled by a mob. Officials consider stricter off campus party regulations including possible bans.
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Ithaca
N.Y
Cornell University
Deane Malott
Malott
Cornell
Lowry Hearing Set For June 9
In Cardston Alberta a preliminary hearing for Vera Loyd Lowry on a murder charge was continued to June 9 after defense moved to reduce the charge. The magistrate ruled a probable case for murder exists and Lowry remains out on 5000 bail until the next court date as an appeal for new bail is considered. Blondie Takau, eight, died April 7 in a Calgary hospital.
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Moscovitch
Alberta Supreme Court
Blondie Takau
Calgary
Lowry
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Medicine Hat Superstors
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Superiors
Donald Fleming
Canada Council
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