13 Aug 1963
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1963
Page
1
The observer notes dangers and distractions on the road while preparing to travel west. Friends warn of bears and rattlesnakes as Alberta and Rockies loom, yet the house fills with colorful pamphlets on travel. The tone blends humor with wary curiosity about the long road ahead.
A train carried 270 Hereford cattle from Calgary Monday night as the first leg of a 535 head shipment to Russia valued at 250000 dollars. Alberta Hereford Association secretary Reuben Hamm said this brings totals to 1200 head sent to Russia in four years. The cattle travel to Montreal by rail then sail to Leningrad aboard a cattle ship.
Jack Jones of 337 Aberdeen Street was fined $29 by Magistrate H W D Cox in city police court for assaulting Christian Seefried by striking him in the face on August 8. Seefried testified he was preparing to drive away from a hotel parking area when attacked.
Court notices show several individuals fined for unpaid parking tickets and minor infractions. Names include Charles Boylan Gord Crane Joyce Bell Derwood Hadler and John Nelson Russell Scherer Maurice Van Ieperen Edward Felesky Joseph Shorr and Theodore Schmidt with assorted sums from five to twenty nine dollars. The incidents reference disturbances speeding and equipment violations among others.
Health inspector Dunlop and city officials oversee a battle over sewage odors and methane control. Allan Gunter and Tom Miyanaga present findings that hydrogen sulphide issues are fading as old septic sludge digests. A decision on emergency dosage and a spray pump for odor control will be made today after consultations with K C Hartlerode.
Announcement claims a new substance called Bio-Dyne, offered as ointment and suppository Preparation H, shrinks hemorrhoids and repairs damaged tissue with a money back guarantee after trials. It cites rapid relief and reduced tissue injury with no thorough testing details.
Fragmentary notes mention false teeth, rock or slip concerns and a non acidic ine or paste. Cited items include breath checks and counter arguments for paste and drugs. The readable text points to dental fitting and maintenance questions without full context.
A Burns Crescent resident reported a person attempted to enter her side door around 12 10 a m today. Police searched the area but found no suspect or further evidence.
Rev A H Maschmeyer will lead a joint service at St Pauls Lutheran for Maria Bayer 77 and her husband Reinhold who died August 8. Maria died Monday attending Reinhold’s funeral. Interment at Hillside Cemetery. Pattison Funeral Home directed. Surviving children include Ida Hilda and four sons. siblings listed.
Two Medicine Hat men, Stanley Sauer and Phil Baker, suffered superficial cuts and bruises when the car they rode in overturned on the Hilda Schuler highway eighteen miles north of Medicine Hat. Sauer drove the southbound vehicle towing another. a tow-bar broke causing a ship lash and both cars to roll into a ditch ending on their roofs. Police estimated vehicle damage at 1300 dollars. The crash happened about 6 p.m. Monday.
At Calgary buyers saw 1,800 cattle and 20 calves offered with steady trade. Prices held for butcher steers up to 25.80 and heifers to 28.90, cows and bulls steady, replacement stock scarce. Hog sales absent early. Monday's hogs up 30 percent. Sows and lambs steady. stocker and feeder steers 24 to 25. good cows 16.75 to 17.75. good bulls 17.90 to 18.50. good lambs 19 to 19.40.
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