Microwave Relay Towers Set to Bring Trans Canada TV by 1958
Canada progresses on a nationwide microwave relay network linking coast to coast. Bell Telephone of Canada leads the expansion with stations planned from Sydney Nova Scotia to Vancouver British Columbia, enabling cross country television by 1958.
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Trans- Canada Telephone System
Canada
Sydney
N.S
Vancouver
B.C
Peter Misnakoskang
Long Lac
Ontario
Halifax
Trans-Canada_TV
Bell Telephone
Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Toronto
United States
Buffalo
N.Y
Trans-Canada Telephone System
Quebec
Bell Telephone Company of Canada
Campbellville dominates Waterdown in opening best of seven
Campbellville opened the best of seven series with Waterdown on Friday August 19 and won 15-0 after six innings due to darkness. Jack Roberts pitched a four hit shutout with three strikeouts as Waterdown was held to two runs. Campbellville piled on with five runs in the second and ten more by the third. Seeney led Campbellville with three singles while Henderson Elliott McPhail and Dredge added two apiece.
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Campbellvile
Waterdown
Jack Roberts
Moor
Moore
Roberts
Finnamore
Labelle
Campbellville
Seeney
McPhail
Bill Cairns
Henderson
Elliot
Meron
Dredge
Camphbellville
Elliott
Brush
Burns
Bills
Jersey Cow Tiny Earns 4000 Pound Award
Avonlea King's Tiny-165228-a, a Jersey cow bred and owned by Featherstone Brothers of Oakville Ontario, won a 4,000 lb certificate. In eight lactations she produced 72,731 lb of milk and 4,587 lb of fat, earning the nickname Ton of Gold.
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Avonlea
Jersey
Featherstone Brothers
Oakville
Ont
False Fire Alarms Cost Human Lives
Montreal veteran Anselma Filion warns false alarms burden fire crews. He recalls engines dispatched on false calls delaying response to real fires, costing lives as two perished before help arrived. He notes last year the service responded 1,500 times for nothing.
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Montreal (Cp
Anselma Filion
Montreal
Music Everywhere At CNE This Year Highlights
The Canadian National Exhibition sponsors a Trumpet Band Festival and a wide music competition. About 113 classes cover choirs dancers instrumentalists and singers. A mouth organ band from Christian Island ages seven to nine is among the youngest entrants with nearly 100 competitors in the fiddlers and British National Dancing events also scheduled.
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Ite
Cafigia
CNE
Shell
Christian Island
Ontario
Margaret Jean McDonald to wed John Russell Barr
Mr and Mrs R W McDonald announce the engagement of their daughter Margaret Jean to John Russell Barr son of Mr E E Barr and the late Mrs Barr of Acton. The marriage will take place Saturday September 3 1955 at 7 oclock in Vittoria College chapel.
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R. W. ‘McDonald
Margaret Jean
John Russell Barr
E.E. ‘Barr
Barr
Acton
Vittoria
College Chapel
Public Utilities Commission Here Studies W G Pump
The commission discussed power costs and approved buying a portable sump pump for emergency use. Lambert reported water meter installations keeping pace with new homes. a supply of new disconnects and 35-foot poles is needed. Holiday pay arrangements were agreed if holidays cannot be taken. Accounts totaling 2542.40 were approved for waterworks, fuel, repairs, and supplies.
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Public Utilities. Commission
W.G. Pump
Lambert
Glenlea
Bert
Comantesios
Polish Canadians Honor Dead Heroes at Sikorsky Park Rally
About 3000 Polish Canadians gathered at General Sikorsky Park near Boyne for a mass and rally. Gen Emil Przedzymirski urged Canadians to warn others about Communism, noting Polish volunteers helped drive back the Soviet army in 1920 and emphasizing the cost of war.
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Boyne
Poldand
Europe
Toronto
Emil Przedzymirski
Changes in Scout Cub Packs Start This September
SCOUT A and B Cub Packs will adjust sizes with A reducing from 36 to 24 boys and B increasing from 18 to 24. Six to eight new boys may join from November first, drawn from last year’s waiting list of 14. New joiners and Cubs meet at the Scout Hall on the first Thursday after school opens.
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Murray Scoyne
Akela
Ontario Drives Canada Car Output in 1953
Canada produced 479 649 motor vehicles in 1953 with 98 percent from Ontario. Salaried employees and wage earners in the industry total about 36 000. The report highlights Ontario’s dominant share and workforce size in the sector.
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Canada
Ontario
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