Fires Still Raging Across Western Canada Provinces
Fires burn out of control in four Western Canada provinces with nearly 2,000 firefighters battling the blazes. Stewart Lake area remains out of control threatening timber as other fires in Johnson Creek and Graveyard Creek areas are also active. Alberta reports 69 fires with only two out of control. grand prairie and Edson fires threaten substantial acres. Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and distant hydro projects face ongoing danger as crews mop up and move in more men.
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Dennis McDonald
British Columbia
Stewart Lake
Alberta
Fred Warburton
Provincial Natural Resource Department
Xoihish
Cmpumxiu
Dawson Creek
Johnson Creek
Graveyard Creek
Chetwynd
B.C. Peace River
Provincial Forests Department
Grande Prairie
Edmonton
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Grand Rapids
Winnipeg
Car Crash Kills Man in Crossfield Alta
David Norman Leeworth 27 of Calgary died when his car hit a three ton flat deck trailer truck in Crossfield Alberta. Two passengers, Seine Anderson of Canmore and Ginette Dumont of Calgary, were taken to hospital with only cuts. Truck driver Frederick Ogilvie 27 was unharmed.
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Crossfield
Alta
David Norman Leeworth
Calgary
Seine Anderson
Canmore
Ginette Dumont
Here
Frederick Ogilvie
Curfew Bylaw Ordering Youth Off Streets in Chalk River
Chalk River village council passed a bylaw requiring all children under sixteen to be off the streets by 9 p m unless with a parent. Parents of youths found after curfew face a ten dollar fine. Police Chief James Brennan cited recent complaints of gang related vandalism.
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Chalk River
Ont
James Brennan
Kennedy asks Congress for multi billion aid reform
President Kennedy urges a drastic overhaul of foreign aid creating a single Agency for International Development with undersecretary of state rank. He requests 4.75 billion dollars in aid for next year and a long term borrowing program totaling about 7.3 billion dollars over five years.
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Kennedy
Washington
Congress
A.I.D
The
Agency For International Development
Secretary of State
U.S
Ottawa Snows Breaks May Records In Eastern Canada
Snowflurries hit Ottawa as a cold mass moved in breaking the latest May snow record in the city. Temperatures fell to 32 degrees overnight, melting by noon, with almost an inch of snowfall at dawn. Toronto also saw a late May snowfall setting two records.
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Ottawa
Canada
Toronto
Freedom Riders Face Trial in Jackson Mississippi
In Jackson a group of 27 Freedom Riders including 25 Negroes and two whites will stand trial at 6 p.m. EDT on breach of peace and disobeying an officer charges. Their aim is to test constitutional rights by challenging segregation in bus and library access.
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Jackson, Miss
Freedom Riders
Jackson City
Deep South
Jackson
Montgomery
New Orleans
Richard Dowling
Dowling
Lunder
George Lincoln Rockwell
Socialites Murdered in Plainfield Two Women Die
In Plainfield New Jersey two prominent women died early when abducted in a white Cadillac the car ran one woman over as she tried to escape and the other was strangled Police later arrested two young Black men Lorelle Parks 22 and Joseph Maxey 23 both employed at a Plainfield auto firm They reportedly came from the south and were linked to valuables found with Parks
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Plainfield
Daniel Hennessy
Elliot Ewell
Westfield
Mack Truck Company
Robert Tyson
New York
Mack
Lorelle Parks
Joseph Maxey
Hennessy
Parks
South
Jury Rules Boy Died By Choking
A coroner's jury in Belleville ruled 10 year old Tommy McNevin died by strangulation at the hands of Warren Williamson 41. Williamson, a United Church elder, father of two and the Cubmaster, killed himself with a shotgun the night before the boy’s body was found roped to a tree in a swamp outside Belleville. Arthur Wilcox testified three ransom notes were written by Williamson.
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Belleville
Ont
Tommy McNevin
Warren Williamson
Williamson
United Church
Arthur Wilcox
Ontario Attorney‘general’s Department
Willliamson
Medicine Hat Welcomed by Wayne and Shuster
Mayor Harry Weiner invites comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster to stop in Medicine Hat when near, following their satire calling the city a “city of passion city of fire.” This marks the second time the pair referenced Medicine Hat on their Thursday TV special. Weiner wired thanks for the publicity and extended the Western welcome.
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Harry Weiner
Johnny Wayne
Frank Shuster
Medicine Hat
Toronto
Wayne
Shuster
Weiner
Nine Hurt As Winnipeg Prague Cafe Explosion Causes Destruction
Firefighters searched wreckage after a blast tore through the Prague Cafe in central Winnipeg. Nine people were hospitalized with cuts and bruises from flying glass as the building and nearby structures were damaged. Investigators sought the blast’s cause while witnesses recalled a loud explosion and smoke.
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Winnipeg
Prague
Gas firm says gas not cause of Winnipeg blast
Greater Winnipeg Gas Company officials announced an investigation found natural gas did not cause the explosion that shook north central Winnipeg late Thursday.
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James Senez
Greater Winnipeg Gas Company
Winnipeg (Cp
Greater
Winnipeg Gas Company
Winnipeg
Boy Hit By Car In Downtown Medicine Hat
A two year old boy was struck and pulled from beneath a car near Eaton's in downtown Medicine Hat. His condition is described as not serious. The driver is identified as Mrs Tom Reilly of 222 Belfast St. The boy's grandmother was also injured and treated for shock, later released. A separate report notes the death of Stanley Britt, 64, at the Dominion Glass plant in Redcliff likely due to a heart attack. Another child, Margaret Joan Medhurst, 5, is set for discharge after a brush with a car injuring her collar bone and burns from being dragged several feet by her parents’ car on an incline driveway.
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Joseph Szostek
Ann
John Newton
Fred Diachum
Winnipeg
Main Street
Euclid and
Selkirk Avenues
Canadian Pacific Railway
Bobby Shields
Fergie Shields
Sceptre
Sask
Tom Reilly
Belfast St
Eaton's
Albert Shields
Eighth St
General Hospital
Saskatchewan
Redcliff
Dominion Glass
Stanley Britt
Britt
Medicine Hat General Hospital
Margaret Joan Medhurst
Don Medhurst
Medhurst
Regina CCF nominates Premier Douglas to lead New Party
The Regina CCF voted 131 to 99 to release Premier T. C. Douglas to lead a new party amid a two day council meeting. The decision follows a split within Regina lawmakers and comes as Douglas signals his willingness if the party supports him.
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Regina
CCF
T. C. Douglas
Mier Douglas
Newwade
Tee de
Rariy Leauer
C. C. Williams
Ed Whelan
Saskatchewan
A. E. Blakeney
Marjory Cooper
Arthur Allen
Douglas
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Parkview Drive
Fleckenstin
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Laois
Henry Bertelsen
Sal
Southeast Asia
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Peter Lin
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