Cattle Prices Skyrocket After Ban Removal
In Inch Creek on Aug 14 price records for commercial cattle in Canada were shattered at the first fall community auction as steers sold for 27.25 per hundredweight. Cows brought 26.25, heifers 26.25, and top bulls 18.75. The embargo on cattle shipments to the United States, in effect since 1942, was lifted starting Monday, drawing American buyers. 510 head sold for a total of 107074.43 dollars, averaging 209.05 per head. Top loads included 27.74 and 26.75, with Swift and Mrs Edith Marr of Twin Butte among winners. The next sale dates are Sept 1 at Park Bend, Sept 2 at Lundbreck, and Sept 3 at Pincher Creek.
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New life expectancy figures from 1946 report
Federal statistics show average life expectancy for babies born today at 67 years, with white males averaging 63 to 58 years remaining and white females about 63 years. Nonwhite groups show shorter remaining life, with variations by sex and age.
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Storms And Floods Hit Britain Hard
Storms and floods devastate Britain and parts of Europe with swollen rivers washing away bridges and landslides blocking roads. Britain bears the heaviest damage while farms report catastrophic losses though some officials expect crops to recover with better weather.
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Canadian Army Was Diversified in World War II
Ottawa officials reveal the Second World War Canadian army enlisted 730,000 men from 48 countries. The largest foreign group was 39,907 born in England, with 2,850 born in Russia and Ukraine, and other sizable totals including Scotland 18,208 Ireland 6,585 United States and Alaska 19,068 Poland 5,144 Newfoundland 2,500 Wales 212, plus three Albanians and three Montenegrins.
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Fletcher Elected Mayor of Trail in By-Election
In Trail British Columbia on August 14 by election due to the death of Mayor J. E. Bryan, E. G. Fletcher defeated his lone rival 24 to 343 to become mayor. S. N. Mitchell was elected by acclamation to the aldermanic seat Fletcher vacated to run for mayor.
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King Has A New Dog Quiets Now Admit Food Short
Prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King welcomes a new Irish terrier Pat the Third at Laurier House in Ottawa. The dog, his third, signals a calm companion through years of political life and retirement. In Berlin, Soviet occupied Germany faces food shortages as Moscow promises fat deliveries amid harvest concerns.
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Alberta candidates urge turnout despite election issues
Alberta voters face a provincial election next Tuesday with three major parties stressing turnout over policy disputes. Social Credit seeks a fourth term as 450,000 eligible voters are urged to vote. Liberal and CCF leaders denounce the notion that voting for Social Credit is a vote for socialism. The plebiscite on rural electrification sits alongside the election, with Manning arguing private versus public power depends on voter choice and that widespread electrification remains limited for now.
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Famous Publisher Harmsworth Dies in England at 78
Lord Harmsworth, 78, last of three famed siblings who helped mold modern British press, died in London. He aided the Daily Mail’s rise, served in WWI era government posts, and later held League of Nations and Empire Press Union roles. His son Cecil Desmond Bernard succeeds to the title.
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Mother And Two Sons Are Car Victims In Calgary Crash
A Pincher Creek family, mother Nora Woods and her two sons Donald and Glen, are in serious condition in Calgary hospitals after a late night collision between their car and a streetcar on 17th Avenue East. Father Arthur Woods and daughter Gloria Jean escaped unharmed. the mother required amputations and transfusions. Arthur Woods, an oil worker from Pincher Creek, had recently moved from Edmonton with his family and was returning from a visit when the crash occurred.
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Quebec Unveils Potential World Largest Titanium Deposit
Premier Duplessis announced eastern Quebec near Lake Allard as the site of a possible world leading titanium ore deposit. He outlined a 25 million dollar project to develop it, with a government mine authority calling the find pivotal for Canada's mineral future. The ore, refined into high grade alloys and paints pigments, is compared to gold. A 2 million dollar railway bridge plan was also announced along the Ottawa river.
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Ottawa appoints Skelton as assistant deputy trade minister
Alex Skelton, director-general of economic research in the reconstruction department, is named assistant deputy trade minister. He will direct economic research, industrial development, public projects and commercial relations and foreign tariffs. Skelton, a Rhodes Scholar, previously served as secretary to the Rowell-Sirois royal commission and was a member of the Canada United States joint economic committee from 1941 to 1944.
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Pravda Accuses U S Agents of Consulate Violation
Pravda accuses that U S intelligence agents in New York wore police uniforms and violated immunities by entering the Soviet consulate after a Russian school teacher, Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina, was seized. The piece quotes the incident as a gross breach of diplomatic immunity.
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Bernadotte Still Hopeful for Palestine Peace
Stockholm reports Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator, remains hopeful of a Palestine settlement if a six week truce holds. he expects possible resolution by mid October. In Jerusalem Arabs and Jews clash as Israel seeks an early cease-fire, with three Jews killed and heavy fighting near the city. In Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion faces a cabinet crisis over alignment with the United States or the Soviet Union as Palmach tensions rise.
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Russia demands full control over teacher in mars case
Washington reports Soviet protest over Mrs Kosenkina the Russian school teacher who leaped from the Soviet consulate window and said she was held prisoner. United States rejects the demand stating no right to force her under anyone’s control. Panyushkin and Lovett discussed the issue for about an hour and forty minutes in a report released by the state department press officer. The Soviets pressed for a one hour guard posting at the consulate and for the consulate to see her, for consular protection, and for moving her to a location chosen by the consul general.
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Direct Palestine peace talks rejected by Egypt
News reports from Stockholm dated August 14 state Egypt informed Count Folke Bernadotte that Cairo rejected Israel’s proposal for direct Arab Jewish peace talks. Egypt said it had followed Bernadotte’s cease fire orders but urged any lasting peace solution come from him.
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