Bus Firm Expands Fleet With Three New Flossy Sew Units
Medicine Hat Transit Ltd orders three new General Motors buses for local service. Delivery by end August with service starting September. The employee owned firm will run ten buses, eight in regular service, after Sept 1. The co op began in October 1953 with municipal support and has grown from five used units to a seven bus system before this expansion.
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Medicine Hat Transit Ltd
A. Curt Newton
City of
Equal Safety Record Whistle Accolade in Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat ties Canadian record with 628 days without a traffic fatality and aims for 629 days as whistles sound at noon. Mayor Weiner urges civic action. red numbers on highway signs display the record daily, with plans for a 1000-day milestone and a community holiday if reached.
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Medicine Hat
West
Weiner
C.P.R
Police Department
Safety Council
A.M.A
Service Clubs
Medicine Hat News
City Council Eyes Shopping Hours Plan Vote Next Week
The council may rule next Monday on retaining current shopping hours or hold a public plebiscite at the next election. Merchants favor clarity on hours and sale types after six pm, while clerks oppose a wide night shopping spree. A special committee failed to reach consensus, with a draft due for civic governors later and an August 20 deadline possible.
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Ald
J. W. Douglas
Hardy Delmart
Ron May
George Murray
Vic Hadler
Tony Sox
Ed McCombs
Peace Ceremony Unveils Marker on Canada United States Border
Citizens of Medicine Hat invited to a Sunday afternoon ceremony at Wild Horse on the Canadian US border to unveil a bronze plaque marking over a century of peaceful relations. The Kiwanis event includes band concerts, national anthems, a keynote by Harold Doolen, and the dedication of the international peace marker as part of the Montana Kiwanis District convention in Havre August 5-7.
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Medicine Hat
Wild Horse
U.S
Kiwanis International
Montana
Havre
Robert Gunderson
Alex Hosic
United States
A. H. Hartwig
James C. Millar
Harold Doolen
Billings
International
K.J
Simon H. Reynolds
Rochester
N.Y
National Guard of
Boy Scouts of
George Gosman
Dillon
F. W. Gershaw
E. G. Robinson
Kiwanis Club
Crop Prospects Favorable Across Prairie Provinces
The bureau of statistics reports generally favorable crop prospects across the Prairie provinces with excellent growing conditions. Apart from extensive hail damage, little damage to grain crops has occurred to date, based on field reports received Tuesday night. Conditions vary in other parts of Canada.
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Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Bureau of Statistics
Bureau
Canada
Suffield Considers Incorporation As Village for Utilities
Local leaders in Suffield push to form a private village governing council with its own mayor to manage debts for electrification and a new waterworks. The plan ties into rural electrification and a DRB water supply while funding is amortized over 15 years to keep property taxes moderate. A community representative plans to travel to Edmonton for official incorporation discussions.
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Suffield
Alberta
Suffield Defence Research Board
DRB
Ralston
Edmonton
Sir Bernard Docker Loses Bid To Reappoint Chairman
In London a crowding overflow meeting at a luxury hotel voted down resolutions to restore Sir Bernard Docker as chairman of the Birmingham Small Arms Company. Directors’ May dismissal of him from the post was endorsed, leaving the 25 million pound combine under existing leadership.
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London
Reuters
Bernard Docker
Birmingham Small Arms Company
Penguins hatching at Vancouver Stanley Park Zoo sparks suspense
The first captive-born penguin in Canada and second in North America hatched at Stanley Park Zoo. Curator Alan Best said the sex is unknown, the egg laid 56 days ago, with two other eggs nearing hatching. Officials debated actions if the egg failed to hatch.
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Vancouver
Canada
North America
Stanley Park Zoo
Alan Best
Zoo
Best
Cake Came Too Late For Little Angel
Four year old Chris Barnes died just after midnight from leukemia after a long hospital stay in Albuquerque. His mother Doris Barnes spoke of feeling privileged to have him and described his smile as angelic as nurses recalled his bright demeanor during his two week hospital term.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Chris Barnes
Chris
Doris Barnes
Fresh milk ban remains in force in Sept-Iles
Typhoid deaths of two children in Sept-Iles Quebec keep the fresh milk ban in force for months. President Eisenhower says he feels well but not as strong as a year ago. A British source reports the U K is prepared to use force to keep the Suez Canal open including possible re occupation.
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Sept-Iles, Que
Eisenhower
U.K
Suez Canal
Burma presses China to withdraw Red troops
Burma today pressed Communist China to withdraw Red troops. A Winnipeg convention story notes a Trotskyite communist delegation expelled by the Ontario CCF party appearing at the national CCF gathering.
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Burma
China
Ontario
CCF
Winnipeg
Oregon Supreme Court upholds ban on women wrestlers
The Oregon Supreme Court ruled that a state law barring women from public wrestling exhibitions serves public health morals and welfare and primarily aims to reserve wrestling to men. The decision notes the legislature is predominantly male and states the law creates an island on the sea of life impregnable to the assault of women.
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Salem
Ore
Oregon Supreme Court
Sea of Life
Wera
Social Credit Eyes Election In B C Birthday Events
Reports from Victoria indicate the Social Credit party marks four years in power as Premier Bennett hints at calling a provincial election. He may decide tonight after addressing Kelowna festivities, with celebrations planned across the province and a giant birthday cake to be cut by Health Minister Eric Martin.
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Victoria
Social Credit Party
British Columbia
Bennett
Kelowna
Social Credit
B.C
Greater Vancouver
Colony of
New Westminster
Burnaby
North Vancouver
Eric Martin
May Bennett
Actress Nancy Valentine Weds Frederick Tillinghast in Yoga Ceremony
In Beverly Hills, Nancy Valentine married Frederick Tillinghast III in a yoga ceremony at the Self-Realization Fellowship Shrine in Pacific Palisades. The couple exchanged roses instead of rings after prior wedding plans were halted by Valentine’s illness and a dispute over Tillinghast’s late night with an ex-wife. The ceremony, part of Valentine’s long association with the Fellowship, follows her 1947 marriage to an Indian prince and an annulment reaction to government nonrecognition.
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Los Angeles
Nancy Valentine
Frederick Tillinghast Iiii
Beverly Hills
India
Maharajah of
Cooch Behar
Pacific Palisades
Tillinghast
Fellowship
Paramhansa Yogananda
God
Pacific storm moves toward British Columbia coastal
A Pacific storm centre approaching the B C coast will bring Western Alberta cloudiness tonight and Thursday with showers arriving tomorrow afternoon. The system will drift slowly eastward.
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Edmonton
B. C
Alberta
Marine Commandant Would Strip and Transfer McKeon
Marine Commandant General Randolph McC. Pate testified McKeon should lose one stripe for drinking and be transferred for stupidity after the night march into a marsh led to six recruits drowning. The seven member court martial hears charges of involuntary manslaughter oppression of recruits and drinking on duty.
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Parris Island
D. C
Randolph McC. Pate
Mathew C. McKeon
Pate
McKeon
Emile Zola Berman
New York City
Berman
Regina Rocket Kills Civilian at Exhibition Display
A bazooka fixed to a military booth at Regina Exhibition building exploded during a public exhibit killing 21 year old Ronald Myee and injuring two others. Captain John Gillis, officer in charge, and Phillip Mah were hospitalized with burns and shock. A coroner's jury was formed. inquiry adjourned to August 10.
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Regina
Ronald Myee
John Gillis
Saskatoon
Phillip Mah
David Isman
No Commitments By Trade Minister
Ottawa CP Trade Minister Howe announced an extra effort to move wheat from Prairie points with below average shipments in the crop year ended Tuesday. Early in the new crop year these points will receive a better-than-average break, though he did not promise shipments would equal other Prairie points. He stressed the aim to ensure proper grades reach ships and wheat is drawn fairly from all Prairie points.
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Ottawa
Howe
Cincinnati 2, New York 3 in National League rout
The Canadian Press reports a game where Cincinnati trailed New York 3 0 in the first inning, then 6 0 in the sixth before a late rally. Klippstein and Nuxhall combined on the mound for Cincinnati while Grisson and Sarni provided key hits for the Mets in a 3 to 2 final.
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National League Cincinnai
New York
Klippstein
Nuxhall
Rence
Burgess
G Grisson
Sarni
L-Klippstein
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