Conference Delegates Urge Talks for Nuclear Peace
At Belgrade a 25 nation non aligned conference urged an immediate halt to war preparations and global nuclear brinkmanship. The communique backed peace talks and pressed decolonization and regional issues while leaders Nkrumah Khrushchev and Nehru arrived for discussions on a Kennedy meeting.
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Eugene Levin
Belgrade
United States
Russia
Portugal
Angola
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
India
Nehru
Moscow
Khrushchev
Vnukova
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Nkrumah
Washington Appointment For Hopkins
The International Monetary Fund announced the appointment of H. G. Hopkins editor of The Medicine Hat News to its information office. Hopkins will leave The News October 1 after joining in February 1958 and previously worked with multiple Canadian papers and his own publishing firm. IMF details include 70 nations, Bretton Woods origin, and Per Jacobsson as managing director with Louis Rasminsky as Canada’s director.
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International Monetary Fund
Washington
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Today
H. G. Hopkins
Medicine Hat News
Hopkins
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Winnipeg Tribune
Calgary Herald
the Trail
B. C. Times
Edmonton Bulletin
Calgary
Edmonton
IMF
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference
Bretton Woods
New Hampshire
Per Jacobsson
Sweden
Canada
Louis Rasminsky
Bank of Canada
Pearson Foresees UN Intervention in Berlin
Opposition Leader Pearson urged that the United Nations might be required to move into Berlin, though he declined to advise a move next week. He warned of Berlin's danger, calls for negotiations, and opposed exclusive nuclear responses, mentioning the UN General Assembly in New York and Diefenbaker’s Winnipeg speech.
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Pearson
United Nations
Berlin
Mr. Pearson
Suez
UN General Assembly
New York
NATO
Winnipeg
Diefenbaker
Washington
United States
Dallas Integrates Schools Without Incident
In Dallas Texas eighteen Negro first graders entered eight previously all white schools as police directing traffic reported no incidents. Superintendent W T White announced all eighteen Negro students assigned to white schools were inside by 9 45 am with no problems. Galveston also saw thirty five Negro students begin classes at formerly all white elementary schools.
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Dallas
Tex
W. T. White
Galveston
Three Die In Crash On Port au Port Peninsula
Three men Morgan Snook aged 63 T. J. Smith 67 and Richard J. Skinner 38 all of Lourdes were killed when a station wagon collided with a three ton oil truck at Abraham's Cove on the Port au Port Peninsula. Seven people were injured and transported to hospital. Truck driver Marshall King escaped injury and said brakes failed on a steep hill.
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Stephenville, Nild
Abraham’s Cove
Port Au Port
Morgan Snook
T. J. Smith
Richard J. Skinner
Lourdes
Snook
Smith
Skinner
Marshall King
Goulart Engages Leaders to Form New Brazilian Government
Vice president Joao Goulart began talks with political figures in Brasilia to organize a coalition parliamentary system. He aims to name a premier approved by Congress, while Congress shifts executive powers, as civil conflict fears ease after military chiefs relinquished control.
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Brasilia
Joao Goulart
Brazil
Goulart
Janio Quadros
Quadros
China
Congress
Porto Alegre
Rio Grande Do Sul
Ranieri Mazilli
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Auro Moura Andrade
Ernani Amaral Peixoto
Social Democrats
Mauro Borges Teixeira
Goias
Juscelino Kubitschek
Social Democrat
Peixoto
UN Troops Targeted as Riots Erupt in Elisabethville
In Elisabethville Congo anti UN disturbances flare again with mobs hurling stones at UN and Swedish troops. Swedish force uses gas grenades as a crowd of several hundred attacks UN vehicles and refugee cars, while Katanga police fire over heads to quell the violence.
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Elisabethville
United Nations
Katanga
Congo
Toronto Lawyer Charged With Theft and Fraud
Henry Koury a 40 year old Toronto lawyer was charged Tuesday night with theft fraud and conspiracy to steal involving a 300000 mining company transaction. Ontario Securities Commission spokesmen said the charges involve draining funds from Stadacona Mining Company Limited for the benefit of another company.
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Toronto (Cp
Henry Koury
Toronto
Ontario Securities Commission
Stadacona Mining Company Limited
Police recover holster amid Havelock bank robbery probe
Ontario police chase leads across bush for cash and securities stolen at gunpoint last week. Staff Sgt. Stan Palmateer led 14 officers on a 75 mile trail as five men are captured and charged with armed robbery. Authorities found a gun holster and clothing possibly belonging to the bandits Tuesday night.
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Peterborough
Ont
Havelock
Stan Palmateer
Kennedy orders resumption of nuclear tests in Nevada site
President Kennedy approved resumption of laboratory and underground tests with no fallout to meet security duties to the United States and free nations. The British American plan asks Russia to join in a ban on atmospheric tests. Moscow likely to reject. Talks on a multi nation disarmament conference to follow with Valeria Zorin.
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Russia
Nennedy
Free Nations
Moscow
Khrushchev
Diefenbaker
Canada
Ottawao
John J. McCloy
U.S
New York
Valeria Zorin
United Nations
White House
Nevada Desert Test Site
Kennedy
Central Asia
City Plans Brief for Airline Case in Medicine Hat
The City of Medicine Hat will file a brief with the Air Transport Board over Trans-Canada Air Lines withdrawal from the Prairie Milk Run. Aldermen Sissons Miller and city engineer Gunter were tasked to draft the brief, informed by FR Balston’s planner report. The chamber of commerce plans to submit its own brief.
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Medicine Hat
Air Transport Board
Trans-Canada Airlines
Gordon Sissons
Jim Miller
Allan Gunter
Gunter
FR. W. Balston
Living Index Moves Up as Prices Rise in Canada
Canada’s July living costs rose with food and gasoline increases lifting the consumer price index to 129.1 on August 1. Bread, eggs, coffee and meats edged higher while most vegetables fell. transportation and recreation costs also climbed with football game admission boosts.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
Angler Hooked Bat Bites Angler At Chandos Lake
An angler fishing at night on Chandos Lake near Apsley northeast of Peterborough felt a strong tug and found a bat on the line. The bat bit the man on the thumb, was killed, and is being tested for rabies. Officials noted the incident occurred in Ontario.
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Peterborough
Ont
Lands and Forests
Chandos Lake
Apsley
Tropical Storm Carla Aims at Western Cuba Later Today
Tropical storm Carla moves slowly north northwest through the western Caribbean at eight mph, with 70 mph winds expected to reach hurricane strength before noon and threaten Florida and the Keys as it nears Cuba. Betsy strengthens east of Bermuda on a separate track through the open Atlantic.
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Miami
Fla
Carla
Cuba
Florida
Florida Keys
Caribbean
Yucatan Channel
Mexico
Betsy
Anhour
U.S
Bermuda
Atlantic
Alberta Wheat Harvest Earliest in 25 Years
Alberta's harvest is ahead of normal with 87 percent of wheat cut and 63 percent threshed by Sept. 2 according to the Alberta Wheat Pool. Oats cut 71 percent and threshing 41 percent. barley 83 percent cut and 59 percent threshed. Average wheat yield forecast at 15.5 bushels per acre, well below the 19.4 average of the past 20 years.
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Calgary
Alberta
Alberta Wheat Pool
Progress in GM UAW talks extends contract to Monday
Detroit AP reports General Motors and the United Auto Workers say significant progress was made in a night of talks. The expired contract is extended to next Monday, delaying a 11 a.m. strike deadline for 325,000 GM workers.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
United Auto Workers Union
Walter Reuther
UAW
Louis Seaton
Reuther
Ford Motor Company
Chrysler Corporation
RCMP Seek U S Negro Wanted in North Carolina
RCMP sought Robert Franklin Williams a 36 year old American Negro described as a pro Cuba campaigner. Authorities said warrants for kidnapping were issued in Munroe North Carolina after a gunpoint abduction at the Williams residence. Williams reportedly attended Fair Play for Cuba Committee meetings in Vancouver Toronto and Montreal and hoped to reach Cuba.
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North Carolina
RCMP
United States
Robert Franklin Williams
Canada
Cuba
Williams
Vancouver
Toronto
Montreal
Munroe
N.C
Stegall
Munro
Plane Crashes in Atlantic Off Bermuda
A U.S. WB-60 reconnaissance plane from Kindley Field weather squadron crashed at sea near Bermuda. Five crew were aboard. at least one survivor was reported. A 20-man liferaft was dropped and one crew member was seen entering it.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Kindley Field
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