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Newspaper
Lethbridge Herald
Location
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 10, 1949
Page
1
A bespectacled 16 year old youth was held on a homicide charge in the scissors slaying of a 12 year old neighbor. The victim was found behind a garage with bound hands and feet after a struggle. police say the suspect admitted the killing and described a fight in a bathroom over a chemistry set.
Lethbridge, Nanton hit 33 below, with Parkland Chin and Barnwell at 30 below and other readings from 28 to 20 below. Roads open though caution urged as cold persists. A Yukon break is forecast easing temps Monday toward 10 to 20 above in western centers. Cranbrook records 27 below, with 25 below Saturday night, sun limited.
Calgary officials forecast an almost immediate price rise for California citrus and celery after frost damage last week. Wholesalers expect oranges up six cents a dozen and lemons up twelve cents per two dozen, with celery rising about three cents per pound.
President Truman warns of a large deficit without higher taxes and proposes a defense heavy budget for the coming fiscal year. He requests funds for Western Europe arms, universal military training and various international commitments, touting peacetime record spending and rising international obligations.
Buffalo dispatch reports Willie Wilson, 27, died from ax blows in his home. His bride of six weeks, Dorothy Wilson, 27, was charged with murder. detectives quote her as saying he accused her of infidelity and she struck him twice after arising.
The Canadian Congress of Labor passed a resolution urging changes to the Alberta Labor Act so a union can be certified bargaining agent by a majority of voting employees, not just a majority of those eligible. Other resolutions seek repeal of penalties, a 76 cent hourly minimum, 40 hour work week, full accident reports to unions, and 100 percent compensation to injured workers.
San Diego report says a two engine private plane crashed in the mountains northeast of the city near Julian, about 60 miles away. Five of six aboard were killed, one woman survived severely injured after the wreck that reportedly came down from a snow storm.
C D Orchard BC deputy Minister of forests was elected head of the Association of British Columbia foresters at its first annual meeting Saturday. The inquiry suggests a lighter note on naming the president.
Trade Minister C D Howe notes Canada’s industrial expansion is rapid and cost-effective, with manufacturing output more than trebling in dollar terms and doubling in real terms over ten years. He cites 1945 to 1948 investments of 1.6 billion and postwar efforts to reduce U S dollar constraints, boosting exports to the United States of items once imported.
Thomas A. Blake a British nurseryman who founded the British Settlers Association and planned to lead 100 Kent families to a new Kent Ontario settlement was told he cannot enter Canada. Ontario House would resist the emigration, while Blake recounts a 1925 Winnipeg bootlegging sentence and a 1925 blackmail conviction as motives for departure. Scotland Yard probes his activities and the settlers group. The project aimed to settle 100 families on 100000 acres near Timmins Ont with 350 acre farms for wheat and pigs.
The article outlines a proposed North West Gas agreement pricing 6 to 13 cents per thousand cubic feet with an average of about 10 cents over 25 years. It estimates daily gas value at roughly $16,500 based on 7% of pipeline production and local Alberta consumption rates.
A report says the Demand End group sought help from the Big Four to end the war, but none are interested in a one sided mediation. AP correspondent Spencer Moosa, from Peiping, notes likely Communist control of Peiping and Tientsin within a week and hints at a possible truce between Nationalists and Communists in those cities.
The British United Nations office protested the landing of British troops at Aqaba, Trans- Jordan’s Red Sea port near Palestine. Israel said the British deployment could only threaten southern Negev territory and its U N delegation to New York refused to transmit a message.
Audie Murphy and Wanda Hendrix, both connected to film, wed Saturday night in Hollywood. Murphy, 24, is noted as the most decorated U.S. soldier of World War II and now pursues acting.
A champion themed turkey sold for a record $31 per pound at the National Turkey Federation meeting in Des Moines. The bronze bread-breast ed turkey weighed 4 pounds 1 ounce and brought $1,135.37 to Dr. J. E. Salsbury of Charles City, Iowa.
Regina report says Premier T. Douglas warned he would eject Estevan lawyer W. W. Lynd from a signing meeting after Lynd walked in uninvited and accused coal company reps of selling out. Lynd, who had quit as counsel, claimed the premier threatened to throw him out and knock teeth down his throat amid three days of moderated talks between companies United Mine Workers and government officials.
Australian wool prices soar signaling a world shortage of warm clothing and rising costs for woollen garments. Australia operates with about 103 million sheep and reports a wool cheque near 648 million dollars for 1948-49, as Britain and continental buyers purchase most of the wool.
The Columbia Basin commission asked the International Joint Commission to undertake an immediate study of how much water could be stored in Arrow Lakes to alleviate the northwest water shortage. The commission noted the joint body comprises three American and three Canadian members.
Andrew Holluk, a 57 year old underground miner for International Coal and Coxe Co., was injured when coal and rock toppled in a Coleman Pass mine. Critical condition at first, his back bones were crushed, then placed in a cast as he improved. discharge expected in several days with two months wearing a cast.
The president’s economic report to congress projects 60 million civilian jobs and 3-4% production gains with inflationary risks in steel and energy. It notes record consumer income and profits but flat real income, and calls for a $4 billion tax increase, price and wage controls, housing expansion, higher old age benefits, minimum wage rise, and farm reform. Two inmates escape Ontario reformatory from dairy barns. Maurice Champhene and Nicholas Nykola chek, both auto theft offenders.
An ad touts a radionic hearing device perfected in Zenith Radio labs promising a 10 day free trial. It claims AMA approval through the Council on Physical Medicine and urges readers to write Zenith Radio Corporation of Canada in Windsor Ontario for full details.
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