Birmingham Church Tragedy Burials Spark Nationwide Mourning
Three more young victims of the Birmingham church bombing prepared for burial as nationwide sympathy actions mobilized. Across cities, leaders urged Sunday mourning for Denise McNair Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley, with extra police in Birmingham and memorial services planned in Nashville and New York area stores.
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Birmingham
Ala
Cp-Ap
United States
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Denise McNair
Addie Mae Collins
Cynthia Wesley
Massachusetts
Cape Cod
Taylor Reverses Decision on Driving Ban for Tarrabain
Edmonton driver Leslie Merle Tarrabain 29 with over 40 convictions had his licence suspended for five years after Highways Minister Gordon Taylor approved a board recommendation. Earlier reports misstated actions and suggested rejection.
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Edmonton
Gordon Taylor
Leslie Merle Tarrabain
Provincial
Taylor
Olson Attacks Leaders Wheat Sale Criticism
Regina report outlines the vast scale of a Canadian wheat to Russia deal. It totals 228 million bushels valued around 500 million dollars, enough bread for over 1.5 millenniums at current Regina consumption. The piece estimates logistics include a freight train 863 miles long and 507 freighters to ship the wheat, plus 9.12 million acres required at 25 bushels per acre and about 1,000,000 man hours for harvest. It also notes storage would require 5,070 elevators averaging 45,000 bushels each.
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Regina
Russia
Saskatchewan
Flight Time Change May Slow Hat Mail Delivery
Postmaster Sam Goldie discussed a proposed shift in east to west air mail via Trans-Canada Airlines stopping at Saskatoon and Edmonton instead of Regina and Calgary. Delivery timing depends on Edmonton arrival. morning departures could enable same night truck delivery, while evening departures risk delayed arrival and uncertain delivery in Medicine Hat.
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Eastern Canada
Medicine Hat
Trans-Canada Airlines
Montreal
Saskatoon
Edmonton
Regina
Calgary
East
Sam Goldie
NEWS
Goldie
TCA
Canada Faces Economic Reckoning Warns Publisher
Basil Dean publisher of The Edmonton Journal warned at a Pacific Northwest trade meeting that Canada and the United States have overextended finances since the war. He urged solving the fiscal problem or risking international receivership, while Jack Davis pressed gradual North American free trade and tariff reductions.
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Harrison
B.C
Basil Dean
Edmonton Journal
Canada
U.S
Pacific Northwest Trade Association
Vancouver
Jack Davis
Coast Capilano
Canada Faces Rush As Prairie Wheat To Russia Soars
Canada launches a burst of shipping and rail activity after a $500 million sale of 228 million bushels of Prairie wheat to Russia. The order demands 50 million bushels monthly for ten months, straining ports from Hudson Bay to the St. Lawrence Seaway and prompting a Wheat Board plan for freight car allocation.
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St. Lawrence Seaway
Hudson Bay
Seaway
Canadian Wheat Board
Lakehead
Cindy Lacks Big Punch Strikes Beaumont Port Arthur
Hurricane Cindy, weakened but deadly, drenched the Gulf coast with heavy rain flooding Jefferson County Texas. Civil defense declared a state of emergency in Beaumont and Port Arthur as residents fled soggy homes and rescuers used boats to reach stranded people.
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Tex
Gulf Coast
Jefferson County
Port Arthur
Douglas Talks Election on Nuclear Warheads in Canada
Ottawa NDP leader T. C. Douglas said the party will push the nuclear warheads issue to trigger a general election if needed. He stressed the issue would unite MPs to topple the Liberal minority government, while distancing himself from timing rumors. Douglas returned to Ottawa from Europe and planned meetings in Burnaby BC for the provincial campaign.
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Ottawa
New Democratic Party
T. C. Douglas
NDP
Regina
Liberals
Douglas
Burnaby
B.C
Train slams Mexican workers bus in Salinas crash
A speeding freight train plowed into a makeshift bus carrying Mexican field workers in Salinas California killing 28 and injuring 35. It marked the deadliest vehicle accident in California history.
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Salinas
Calif
California
Thompson Sees Trap In Wheat Sale Debate
Medicine Hat Social Credit MP H. A. Olson opposes party stand against Canada’s huge wheat sale to the USSR. Orthodox Social Credit leader Robert Thompson, in Auckland, contends Canada is trapped by Communism in the 228 million bushels sale to Russia.
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Patrick J. Roe
H. A. Olson
Medicine Hat
Social Credit
Canada
Russia
Robert Thompson
Social Credit Group
Auckland
N.Z
Hat
New Zealand
Agriculture Committee
Social Credit Party of Canada
UN panel calls for immediate expulsion of South Africa
A special United Nations committee urged the General Assembly and Security Council to expel South Africa for its rigid racial segregation. It also proposed penalties from last year, including an arms embargo, petroleum embargo, and a halt to foreign investment. The panel, formed by 11 Asian, African and Latin American nations, submitted its report as the 18th General Assembly session agenda was drafted. African racial disputes led the provisional agenda alongside the Buddhist issue in South Viet Nam and the status of Communist China.
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United Nations
General Assembly
Security Council
South Africa
World Organization
Assembly
South
Viet Nam
Pearson
Canada
Canada and allies debate trading with Communist states
Mr Thompson in New Zealand urged Canada and others to avoid economic dependence on Communist countries warning it could invite Moscow backed risks. US and UN coverage notes Prime Minister Pearson shaping UN speech and Canada’s push for peacekeeping while Canada’s milling sector braces for sustained exports and a 29 5 million bushel flour tranche.
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Canada
Mr. Thompson
New Zealand
Gastronomic straw vote pots up in Vancouver burgers
In Vancouver patrons at three restaurants vote with Bennett Fulton Perrault and Strachan Burgers ahead of the BC election. The weekend stunt drew court threats and $250 fines yet proves popular and promotional, not a political referendum.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
John Dyes
B.C
Dyes
Bennett Burgers
Social Credit
Bennett
Perrault Burgers
Perrault
Strachan Burgers
NDP
Kennedy and King to Meet Over Birmingham Race Issue
President Kennedy will meet Thursday with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr and six other Black leaders to discuss the racial situation in Birmingham Alabama. The meeting signals a new White House effort to address civil rights tensions in the city.
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Washington
Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
Birmingham
Ala
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