Orion residents push to block Orion school closure
At an Orion Community Hall meeting near Medicine Hat, about 50 Orion elementary parents vow to petition Alberta Education to oppose centralizing Orion pupils with Manyberries. The move by County of 40 Mile No. 8 to close Orion two room school and add four rooms at Manyberries has raged since June 17 with opposition led by Barney Gogolinski and a three member petition committee.
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Orion
Medicine Hat
Alberta Department of Education
40 Mile
Foremost
No. 8
Manyberries
Barney Gogolinski
Don Freed
Howard Weeks
Sam Dickson
Jim Hoey
Orion Group
A. O. Aalborg
Aalborg
Johny Vos of
Burdett
Auditor General urges higher second class postal rates
Ottawa watchdog Watson Sellar told Parliament's public accounts committee that post office revenues fail to cover expenditures and proposed raising second class rates including newspapers. He criticized low-bid contracting and urged streamlined, leaner annual public accounts reports.
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Ottawa
Watson Sellar
Commons’ New Public Accounts Committee
M.P
Alan Macnaughton
M.p.’S
Post Office
Pedestrian accidents in Medicine Hat injure three
Two men and a boy were struck in two separate crashes within an hour. Ronald Berger, 2, suffered multiple abrasions but no fractures. Charles Falkins, 53, and Robert Gold, 50, were hospitalized with pelvis and leg injuries and minor bruises.
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Ronald Patrick Berger
Eighth St. SE
Charles Falkins
Third St. SE
Robert Gold
Maple Creek
Falkins
Gold
Astra Theatre
Berger
Seventh Ave
Seventh St. SE
Eleventh St. SE
Gust’s
John Danderfer
Queen St
Danderfer
Olmstead Sentenced Six Months for Assault
National Hockey League player Murray Olmstead was jailed for six months in Vancouver after being found guilty of assaulting Ralph Rooney at a trapshooting banquet. The Maple Leafs forward claimed Rooney struck him first. The judge noted aggravating evidence and plans to appeal.
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Vancouver (Cp
National Hockey League
Murray Bert Olmstead
Vancouver
Toronto Maple Leafs
Ralph Rooney
West Vancouver
Canada Hall
Rooney
N. J. Bartman
Olmstead
Calcutta
Alan W. Mercer
Montreal Canadiens
Mercer
Nuclear Blast In Space Test At Johnston Island
A nuclear warhead was detonated above Johnston Island in the Pacific as part of an anti missile test series. The Redstone missile carried the device to nearly 100 miles up, marking the first announced high altitude shot from Johnston Island with noise seen from Honolulu.
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Washington
United States
Johnston Island
Pacific
Atomic Energy Commission and Defence Department
AEC
U.S
Nevada
Flax Straw Stacks Fire Ravages Winona Yard
A blaze in Winona Minnesota destroyed 18 of 21 flax straw stacks in a storage yard beside the Archer-Daniels-Mmidland Plant. Damage estimated at 800000 to 900000 dollars. Four firemen were overcome by smoke and four boxcars burned. Police detained two youths for questioning. Each stack held about 50 freight carloads of straw used for cigaret paper.
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Winona
Violence Returns to Cyprus as Gunmen Attack Car
Reuters reports a Turkish Cypriot man killed when gunmen opened fire on his car in Nicosia as British troops clashed with gunmen after an ambush on an army vehicle. July violence tallied 97 deaths, more than double 1956 November’s 44, with three Turks beaten to death in a village.
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Nicosia
Reuters
South Cyprus
Lab Mishap Hurts SES Scientist
A Thursday accident in the Suffield Experimental Station main laboratory caused a serious eye injury and facial cuts to Dr. Jean Louis Farron 3% of Shawinigan Falls Quebec an organic chemist and Laval University graduate. He was rushed to hospital and in better condition the next morning though expected to remain hospitalized. No serious lab damage occurred and Farron who is unmarried planned to fly to Ontario on leave today.
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Suffield Experimental Station
Jean Louis Farron
Shawinigan Falls
Quebec
Laval University
University of Montreal
Alberta
Suffield
Farron
Ontario
Man leaps from Sagamore Bridge. bridge traffic halted
Richard B. Bengtsson, 32, jumped 135 feet from Sagamore Bridge into the canal area causing women to faint and traffic delays of about an hour. Rescue crews searched the water while he explained he landed on a catwalk and fled to a shed to change into work clothes. He is identified as a bridge worker.
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Sagamore, Mass
Sagamore Bridge
Cape Cod Canal
Richard B. Bengtsson
Bengtsson
Canada Urges Early Talks Before Summit
Canada proposes immediate preliminary talks by the Security Council on the Middle East as President Eisenhower calls for a summit on August 12 in New York or elsewhere. Sid ney Smith told the Commons committee Canada leaves place for formal or informal sessions and accepts August 12 for the summit with Britain and the United States backing the date.
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Canada
UN Security Council
Middle East
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
New York
Sidney Smith
Commons
External Affairs Committee
Security Council
Britain
United States
Eastern
Europe
Lebanon
Harold Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
Smith
France
Charles) Ritchie
Dag Hammarskjold
Ritchie
Georges Picot
Pearson
Harkness Under Fire Over Mitchell Case in Commons
Agriculture Minister Harkness faced charges of acting as prosecutor judge and executioner over the dismissal of Montreal cargo checker Walter Mitchell. MP J W Pickersgill criticized secret police reports and alleged political motive while Chevrier defended the actions as proportionate. Further Commons items included Lebanon UN observers and aid to flour and liquor loans.
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Ottawa
Harkness
J. W. Pickersgill
L —- Bonavista - Twillingate
Montreal
Walter Mitchell
Commons
Agriculture Department
Mitchell
Lionel Chevrier
L—Montreal Laurier
Chevrier
Pickersgill
Diefenbaker
Canada
United Nations
Lebanon
Churchill
Ceylon
Brooks
Green
Government House
Che
Weekend Warmth Forecast With Sunny Skies Ahead
The forecast predicts near eighty degree warmth and sunny skies for a weekend. Medicine Hat district should stay mostly sunny with little rain indicated in long range forecasts. Saturday morning may see a few clouds but they should clear by noon with temperatures around mid fifties tonight and higher Saturday.
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Medicine Hat
Pots in Navy Catalog Reforms Signal New Atomic Age
London Reuters reports the Royal Navy is changing its chamber pot listings as part of a streamlining push to fit the service into the atomic era. Old entries show stratified pots for hospital use officers and lunatics, now replaced by generic pots for all ranks infants and medical facilities.
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London
Reuters
Royal Navy
Admiralty
Steelworkers Wage Increase Opposed in Canada
Two of three conciliators urged no wage rise for 7500 Hamilton Steel Co of Canada employees. Majority fears higher costs amid recession. minority seeks 15 to 25 cent raises over one or two years. Old average wage $2.56 hourly. Conciliation nonbinding. seven day action window.
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J. B. Metzler
H. J. Donley
United Steelworkers of America
CLC
Strike vote set Wednesday for Hamilton Steel plant
The United Steelworkers Local 1005 announced a strike vote among 7,500 Hamilton employees of the Steel Company of Canada. The ballot at the plant gates will be secret after a conciliation board report recommended against wage increases following July hearings with eight company spokesmen and ten union representatives.
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Toronto
Diefenbaker
Hamilton
Steel Company of Canada
United Steelworkers of America
CSC
Conciliation Board
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