UN Sweden arms-smuggling row strains Cyprus truce
Five Swedish soldiers are held on smuggling charges after Greek Cypriots found 75 rifles 10 Bren guns five bakokas two mortars and ammunition in two UN flag carriers at Potamos Tou Kam bou. UN and Cypriot authorities clash over movement rights as Sweden weighs UN role.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Security Council
George Grivas
Lefka
Grivas
Sweden
K .S. Thimayya
India
Potamos Tou Kam
Bou
Thimayya
Tage Erlander
U Thant
Stockholm
Winds Gusts Reported At 77 MPH Across City
Strong winds up to 77 mph caused minor damage citywide. A plywood sheet struck a car near 8th Street and 6th Avenue, a power line fell in the 300 block of 12th Street SW, and two large tree limbs crashed in front of The NEWS building at noon. Electrical fluctuations followed morning wind, rain, and snow across the province.
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8Th St
6Th Ave
12Th St
NEWS
Grounds inspection on expansion bid for Medicine Hat grounds
Representatives of the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede Company met the civic finance committee after an on-site inspection to discuss expanding northward. City aims to keep some area for residential development. Finance committee approved sale of a 20 by 200 feet east strip on Gershaw Drive for $1,230 to the Dogs and Suds drive-in for parking.
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Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede Company
Civic Finance Committee
Eugene Burton
Emerson Porter
R. C. Gardner
Rod Ashburner
Dogs and
Gershaw Drive
Youth offender jailed for multiple forged cheque crimes
A Brooks youth, 18 year old Arlington C. Zibell, was sentenced by Chief Justice H. C. Farthing in Supreme Court to two years in Prince Albert Penitentiary. The defendant, on his fourth uttering charge, had previous convictions for uttering forged cheques, false pretences, and break and enter theft. A psychiatric treatment recommendation accompanied the sentence.
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Brooks
Supreme Court
Prince Albert Penitentiary
Arlington C. Zibell
H. C. Farthing
Zibell
Perry Minor
Gerry Pappin
Arlene Lukey
Medicine Hat Co-op Ltd
Roy Wiedemann
Lukey
Wiedemann
Justice Farthing
CPR query promised to press rail service complaints
Prime Minister Pearson promised to take MP concerns over CPR Montreal to Vancouver train service to the Canadian Pacific Railway. H A Olson noted reservations have been hard to obtain and that additional accommodation was cut in recent weeks. Olson urged Pearson to raise the issue in Pickersgill's absence.
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Ottawa
Pearson
Montreal-Vancouver
Canadian Pacific Railway
H. A. Olson
Medicine Hat
CPR
Montreal
Vancouver
Pickersgill
Mr. Pearson
Canada trims balance of payments deficit in Q2
Canada reduces its current account shortfall to 175 million in the second quarter aided by a surge in overseas exports led by wheat. The six month deficit remains above last year at 452 million with the United States deficit rising to 1.07 billion. Gold holdings and IMF position gain as capital inflows rise. Wheat shipments to Russia helped ease current account pressure.
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Canada
United States
Bureau of Statistics
U.S
International Monetary Fund
Russia
Hat City Voters Hit 14,562 With Fluoridation Plebiscite
Medi cine Hat reports 14,562 eligible voters in municipal elections and the fluoridation plebiscite. Civic support totals split into 11,917 public school backers and 2,645 separate school backers, up 233 from last year.
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Medicine Hat
General Motors Hit by Nationwide Auto Workers Strike
The United Auto Workers and General Motors failed to reach a new contract before an 11 a.m. EDT deadline. UAW expects 260,000 GM production workers idle as talks break off in Detroit with leaders citing a dehumanized factory system and demands beyond non economic issues.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corporation
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
Cleveland
Ohio
Framingham
Mass
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Leonard Woodock
Reuther
Louis G. Seaton
Seaton
Ex Hatter hurt in blast at Edmonton refinery
Four men were seriously burned in an explosion and fire that halted operations at a Texaco refinery in southeast Edmonton. The injured are Douglas McQueen 47 formerly of Medicine Hat Stanley Clarke 42 Ronald Travers and Edward Waritsky 33 all of Edmonton. Hospital officials report extensive and severe burns.
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Edmonton
Texaco
Douglas McQueen
Medicine Hat
Stanley Clarke
Ronald Travers
Edward Waritsky
Ontario GM plant to lay off 12000 workers if US strike unsettled
About 12,000 hourly workers at GM of Canada in Oshawa may be laid off Monday if the U.S. strike remains unresolved. A company spokesman said operations could run today and possibly Monday before shutdown. Local 222’s contract expires Oct 31 as UAW negotiates US and Canada master and local agreements.
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Oshawa, Ont
General Motors of Canada Limited
General Motors
United States
UAW
Canada
Queen dissolves Parliament Ahead of Oct 15 British vote
Queen Elizabeth signed a royal proclamation dissolving Parliament ending the longest peacetime session in 58 years. The move triggers the Oct 15 general election and ends Churchill’s political career as retirement takes effect. Prime Minister Douglas Home remains in office amid a shifting Conservative Labor contest.
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London
Elizabeth
Winston Churchill
Privy Council
Balmoral
Scotland
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
Douglas Home
Harold Macmillan
British doctors doubt Italian's test tube babies claim
British physicians question Dr Daniele Petrucci's claim of 28 live births by artificial conception using a "biological cradle" in Bologna. They note the 1961- era evidence is old, and Petrucci has not submitted results to Lancet or BMJ, raising skepticism about the findings.
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London
Daniele Petrucci
Petrucci
University of Bologna
Discovery
Glasgow University
Britain
Steak and champagne breakfast signal Humphrey campaign edge
Senator Hubert Humphrey rides the jet built aura of success in 1964 as Lyndon Johnson’s running mate, with first class treatment and a public persona of warmth. He contrasts with Barry Goldwater’s austere, hurried style, arguing for expanded federal programs while labeling Goldwater as opposed to education, health care, and equal opportunity.
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Bruce Phillips
Southam News Service
New York
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Minnesota
Senator Humphrey
United States
John F. Kennedy
West Virginia
Lyndon B. Johnson
Humphrey
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
Goldwater
Antoines
Humphreys
Senate
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