Air board to hear rival bids for western routes
Ottawa officials announce public hearings on competing proposals to run all or parts of the Trans-Canada Airway System routes in western Canada. Transair Northwest Industries and Pacific Western seek new connections among Winnipeg Regina Medicine Hat and Edmonton Calgary and other cities. Saskatchewan Government Airways also seeks a licence.
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TCA
Medicine Hat
Alta
Swift Current
Yorkton
Sask
Brandon
Man
Transair Limited
Winnipeg
Regina
Lethbridge
Northwest Industries Limited
Edmonton
North Battleford
Prince Albert
Calgary
Pacific Western Airlines
Lloydminster
Saskatoon
Peace River
Dawson Creek
B.C
Transair
Northwest Industries
Pacific Western
Vancouver
Saskatchewan Government Airways
Logging Union Recognized by Newfoundland Loggers
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in Newfoundland says it is the sole bargaining agent for about 15 000 loggers after mills recognize the union. It plans a meeting to elect delegates to negotiate a new working agreement and to issue application forms so every logger may join. The union aimed to unify workers following the 1959 strike and replaces two IWA locals within the Anglo Newfoundland Development Company.
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Grand Falls
Nfld
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
CLC
Newfoundland
Taw
Carpenters
International Woodworkers of America
Anglo - Newfoundland Development Company
U.S. Firm On Day's Successor
Western and neutral diplomats press for a temporary UN secretary general as U S Soviet talks break down. Adlai Stevenson and Valerian Zorin meet amid rejection of a four man rotating executive. time set for Monday talks and a possible interim appointee to run the secretariat after Hammarskjold funeral.
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United Nations
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Valerian Zorin
United States
Zorin
Russia
Dag Hammarskjold
Stockholm
Dean Rusk
Earl Home
Britain
Banker Missing After Million Cruzeiro Bank Shortage
Santos Brazil police report Royal Bank of Canada employee Peter Smith Watson 31 formerly of Brechin Scotland has vanished since Sept 21 after slipping from police watch at his home. Earlier this month he was detained four days at the bank in connection with a 352000000 cruzeiros shortage about 1.175 million dollars.
Synthetic Love Affair No Match For Reality
Ronald the Drake preferred a plastic duck all summer until two live ducks attracted him away. The Jordan couple finally lured him home with the plastic duck and a neighbor donated two new ducks. Ronald now shows interest in real birds and ignores the plastic companion.
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Jordans
Ronald
Mayor Refutes Replot Charge in Crescent Heights
Mayor Harry Weiner released a statement denying any council involvement in secret deals over the Crescent Heights replot. Aldermanic candidate Karl Brucker challenged disclosure of land exchange details linked to Rosemont Rental Development Ltd, alleging hidden deliberations behind closed doors.
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Harry Weiner
East Crescent Heights
Karl Brucker
Weiner
City Hall
Attorney-General
Rosemont
MP Families to Ride Free Indefinitely, Ottawa
Transport Minister Baker announced in the Commons that the two major railways will continue to provide free rides for wives and dependents of MPs and senators. The presidents agreed to extend the pass privilege indefinitely, despite prior government cost debates at the royal commission on transportation.
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Ottawa
Commons
Senate
Baker
Royal Commission On Transportation
Syrian Rebels Establish Civilian Government
Syrian rebels install a civilian government in Damascus and declare independence from Cairo. Broadcasts claim 200 Egyptian paratroopers annihilated and 120 invaders captured with no bloodshed. Jordan recognizes the new government, and Mamoun Kuzbari becomes head of the rebel administration. Nasser rejects any bargain and vows to crush the revolt.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Syria
Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Jordan
Hussein
Nasser
Mamoun Kuzbari
Egypt
Revolutionary Command
Damascus
Fisher’s Remark Sparks Victoria Tea Society Outrage
In Victoria the cream of the tea and crumpet set flames over Douglas Fisher’s remark that Canadians view England no longer as a mother country but as a tourist spot. Col M Dopping-Hepenstal and Lady Constance Drayton denounce the claim as lies and nonsense, while others scoff and retreat behind hotel lobby palms.
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Victoria
Douglas Fisher
Port Arthur
Ont
CCF
Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference
England
Col. M. Dopping-Hepenstal
Constance Drayton
Empress Hotel
Frank Boucher
Royal Society of St. George
Dickens Fellowship
Kipling Society
Empress Lobby
Times
Tshombe Given Deadline For Ejecting Mercenaries
Elisabethville reports a UN deadline for Katanga to expel about 100 white mercenaries from its army amid ongoing cease-fire talks and troop inspections. The UN says several dozen mercenaries and officers have been deported, with both sides wary as Congolese forces mass near the border.
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Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Elisabethville
Conor O’brien
Mixed Commission
Tshombe
Mahmoud Khiari
Tunisia
O’brien
United Nations
Ka~tanga
Dreadful Ones Mercenaries Fuel Katanga Conflict
In Katanga, about 400 mercenaries and 30 Belgian officers support Moise Thombe’s army. The men, a mix of French paratroop veterans, legionnaires, South Africans, Rhodesians, and Belgians, mined roads and fired on UN positions, seeking adventure or escape from Europe.
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Moise Thombe
Katanga
United Nations
Elisabethville
Camp
Massart
Europe
Flint man wins world pipe smoking title in Richmond
Arthur Gerdes of Flint Michigan won the 1961 world championship of the International Association of Pipe Clubs in Richmond Virginia. He smoked a straight briar for one hour four minutes 17 seconds beating 19 contestants including his wife Erna and former champ Richard J. Austin.
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Richmond
Arthur Gerdes
Flint
Mich
International Association of Pipe Clubs
Tory
Erna
Small Man In Business Doomed
In St Catharines Ontario two brothers Fred and Art Cavers announce the closing of their 25 year furniture and smallwares family business. They cite government harassment and cut throat competition as factors. They warn the days of the individual family enterprise are numbered.
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ST. Catharines, Ont
Cavers
Fred
Art
Fred Cavers
Prairie drought slashes Canada wheat crop by nearly half
Canada's wheat harvest is forecast at 260.5 million bushels, down 47 percent from last year and 48 percent from the 10 year average. Saskatchewan leads with about 124 million, Manitoba about 32 million, and Alberta around 83 million. Prairies report says harvest conditions were satisfactory for a second year.
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Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
Calgary man faces two capital murder charges
Norman Marshall Campbell of Calgary was charged with two counts of capital murder in Magistrate's Court for the stabbing deaths of Mr and Mrs Henry Albert Treend. A simple murder charge was withdrawn earlier. The couple's bodies were found August 10 in their North Calgary home. Campbell was remanded to October 5 with a preliminary inquiry likely October 12. The revised code defines capital murder as punishable by death and non capital murder by imprisonment.
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Calgary
Norman Marshall Campbell
Henry Albert Treend
Campbell
Ed Adolphe
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Logging Union Recognized
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Terry Appleby
Sudbury
George Appleby
Terry
Rosemont Rental Development Ltd
H. R. A. McMillan
J. C. Kent
Alan Kent
Damascus Radio
Defence
Harkness
Army
Canada
Fisher
Reuters
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Congo
Ndola
Northern Rhodesia
Cape Canaveral
Richard J. Austin
Austin
Lancaster
Gerdes
Paul Spaniola
Spaniola
Vic
Bureau of Statistics
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