Russians Claim Biggest Blast From Mount Berymanny Eruption
TORONTO CP A Soviet scientist said a March 1956 eruption of Mount Berymanny in northeastern Russia produced a force far stronger than the most powerful hydrogen bomb. Dr George Gorshkov, head of the Moscow Volcanological Lab, called it one of the most awesome explosions in modern times. The blast devastated about 200 square miles, sent shock waves around the globe, and moved a rock weighing thousands of tons six miles in a lava stream, though no deaths occurred due to protective terrain.
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Moscow Volcanological Laboratory
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International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
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British West Indies
Merchants Fix Petition Wording On Store Hours
A merchants association meeting at the Assiniboia Hotel decided to proceed with a petition among Medicine Hat merchants to maintain current store hours. The decision followed a prior general meeting discussing extensions or changes to hours and seeks signatures to support keeping present hours.
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Merchants’ Association
Assiniboia Hotel
Faubus Offers Talk With Federal Officials Over Little Rock Crisis
Governor Faubus notified President Eisenhower that Arkansas officials are ready to discuss evidence behind using the state militia at Central High School. He said he will cooperate to uphold both constitutions, while National Guardsmen kept a ring around the school. Six Minneapolis students were briefly detained and later released as authorities described the knife carrier as sightseeing.
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FBI
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Central High School
New Orleans
Abuses Alleged Over Alberta Oil Dividend Payments
Edmonton police report wholesale abuses of the $20 oil royalty dividends with claims by vagrants new arrivals and others not qualified. Regulations require 21 years old and 10 years residency including the last two years in Alberta. Deputy treasurer Kenneth J. Hawkins says declarations will be cross checked over six to seven months using an electrical computing machine. Officials estimate the cost will exceed early estimates as many falsifiers may be beyond reach. About 550,000 residents are eligible for the dividends.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Kenneth J. Hawkins
Hbecause
Smilestones marriage results when a man meets the right woman
A fragmented wedding note discusses marriage and divorce outcomes, noting that happiness comes when a man finds the woman who truly understands him, while separation follows for some.
Relics Found From HMS Fury Shipwreck in Arctic
The Canadian navy's Arctic patrol vessel Labrador recovered relics from HMS Fury on Fury Beach Somerset Island during a helicopter reconnaissance. Capt. Thomas C. Pullen and J. Robert T. Murray led the discovery with Halifax commander, locating an air sighted anchor along with five other anchors two cannon chain cable ice saws and 11 cannonballs.
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Fury
Somerset Island
Canadian Arctic
Navy
Labrador
Naval Headquarters
Thomas C. Pullen
Oakville
Ont
Halifax
J. Robert T. Murray
Saint John
N.B
Fury Beach
Two Airmen Die When CF-100 Crashes Before CNE Crowd
In Toronto the RCAF CF-100 twin jet plummeted into Toronto Harbour during an air show practice near the Canadian National Exhibition. Wing Cmdr Howard R. Norris, 37, of Regina, was identified as the pilot. navigator FO Robert Clair Dougall, 22, of Merrickville, Ont., was recovered but the pilot's body remained missing. The crash occurred as thousands watched jets perform above the water front.
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Air Defence Command
Howard R. Norris
Regina
Robert Clair Dougall
Merrickville
Ont
Dougall
D. Dougall
Air Force
Norris
Jet pilot misses ferry as plane stalls above harbor
Fourteen yacht club ferry passengers credit Wing Cmdr. Howard Norris of Regina with saving their lives by steering a CF-100 away from them before the jet crashed into Toronto harbor during an air show. Norris and navigator FC Robert Dougall of Merrickville, Ont. were killed as the aircraft stalled at the top of a climb above See-FERRY in front of thousands.
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Howard Norris
Regina
FC Robert Dougall
Merrickville
Ont
Unionists Reject Salary Plea in Britain
In Blackpool England the Trades Union Congress representing 8 300 000 workers rejected the Conservative government's call for wage restraint. Delegates approved a resolution vowing not to accept policies cutting living standards and pressed for negotiations or arbitration with the possibility of withdrawing labor to seek justice. Frank Cousins head of the Transport and General Workers Union urged readiness to act if needed.
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Blackpool
England
Reuters
Con ‘Gress
Frank Cousins
Transport and General Workers Union
Tropical Storm brewing in far Atlantic far from shipping lanes
Miami AP reports a ship 2300 miles east southeast of Miami radioed a falling barometer and rising winds. Forecaster Davis says the storm forms in the open Atlantic, a dusting area with no regular lanes, and will move toward busier shipping as September births many historic hurricanes.
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Miami Weather Bureau
Atlantic Ocean
Walter Davis
Atlantic
States work on integrating classrooms across the nation
As federal orders spur school integration Dallas Texas begins desegregation after Christmas. In Sturgis Kentucky a Negro student joins 17 others amid heckling while state police clear a path. Arlington Virginia restricts enrollment under a pupil assignment law awaiting appeal. North Carolina cities enroll Negroes in white schools while a Boston boycott ends as eight Negro children enter two integrated schools. Lake Charles Louisiana continues a boycott of a nearby Negro school.
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Faubus Move Seen as Test of Federal Authority
The Arkansas governor's use of the National Guard to block Black students from Central High in Little Rock is viewed as a deliberate challenge to federal authority and the Supreme Court ban on school segregation. Analysts expect a federal response, with potential contempt of court or broader action, as other southern states watch Ike's next moves.
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Canada Deports London Gang Boss Jack Comer from Quebec Jail
Canada orders the deportation of Jack Comer self styled London gang boss while he is jailed in Quebec City. Comer told reporters he will not appeal and blames press coverage for his trouble. Immigration minister's order followed a department board inquiry into his fitness to enter Canada. He had planned to visit a Winnipeg relative but claimed illness in the family.
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Canada
Jack Comer
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Britain
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Quebec
Comero
Gene Letourneau
England
Winnipeg
Davie Fulton
Immigration ‘Appeal Board
Fulton
Inquiry Board
Diefenbaker Signals Possible Rise in Pensions
Prime Minister Diefenbaker arriving in Calgary hinted the government is studying increases for old age pensions. He refused to specify changes and said the question would be taken to Parliament. He also noted possible revisions to the Indian Act, citing last winter’s Hobema incident.
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Diefenbaker
Ottawa
Hobbema
Alta
Havana Government Subdues Uprising After Day of Fighting
Government troops, tanks and warplanes crushed a rebel uprising led by naval and maritime police forces near Cienfuegos, 150 miles from Havana. About 400 rebels were killed or captured as police headquarters were bombed and battles raged for a day amid Cuba's armed forces day remarks by President Batista.
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Batista
Cienfuegos
Havana
Fidel Castro
Cayo Loco Base
Cienfuegos Bay
Cuba
Warm in Alberta with highs near 80 in most areas
Warm air moves northwest across Alberta and western Saskatchewan with temperatures in the 70s and low 80s. A cooler northwestern flow Saturday will bring highs around 70 in the north while the south remains near 80. Patchy high clouds move with the warm air but some sunshine is expected in all regions.
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Sas‘katchewan
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