Alberta Scouts Leave Tonight For Jamboree
A 350 person Alberta and Northwest Territories contingent departs Calgary tonight on two special trains to attend the eighth Boy Scouts World Jamboree at Niagara on the Lake. The group includes 10 Alberta troops plus Yellowknife Fort Smith and Hay River Scouts. They will join Kootenay Valley Scouts and other international participants for a 10 day event with broad entertainment and activities.
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St. Barnabas Hall
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Ralston
Youngest Canadian newspaperman writes from World Scout Jamboree
Fourteen year old Ronnie Bray joins Medicine Hat News staff to cover the eighth World Scout Jamboree from Niagara on the Lake camp. He will send daily letters detailing the local contingent’s activities weather and food under Canadian Press guidance.
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Medicine Hat News
Ronnie Bray
Bill Ross
Ronnie
Medicine Hat
New Westminster
St. Barnabas
Percy Bray
5Th St. S. E
Niagara on-the-Lake
Alberta Legislature caucus meetings set for Tuesday
Edmonton reports Alberta Legislature will convene Tuesday for caucus meetings ahead of a special session opening Wednesday. Social Credit MPs and Liberal opposition plan outlines. Speaker likely Rev. Peter Dawson and Deputy Speaker James Hartley named. Premier Manning expected to announce a Royal Commission into election campaign charges.
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Liberal
Peter Dawson
James Hartley
Sc— Macleod
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H. E. Strom
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Prowse
Manning
Royal Commission
Legislative Assembly
Broad Assessment Planned Next Year in Medicine Hat
City finance committee plans a general reassessment to take effect in 1957 to standardize the city assessment base, qualify for provincial grants, and correct inequities. The 1947 reassessment is the last, and 60 percent of property assessments are currently on the tax rolls. University students will assist next summer under supervisor Jerry Nuttall.
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Medicine Hat
Jerry Nuttall
Fire Wipes Out Saskatoon Stores
A fire in downtown Saskatoon destroyed two business locations and seriously damaged a third. The J. H. Speers Feed Co. warehouse and store and the St. Louis Hide and Fur Co. store burned to the ground, with a nearby gun shop partly damaged. Loss was about 150000 dollars. Five city firefighters were treated for smoke and heat exposure, and the Windsor Hotel nearby was kept from catching fire.
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St. Louis Hide and Fur Co
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RCMP Crack Post Office Robbery Ring With 7 Arrests
RCMP reported seven men were arrested in connection with a major Port Coquitlam post office robbery. Blank money orders valued over 100000 were stolen. two men already charged with breaking and entering. Five more men face conspiracy to forge and utter money orders charges. Cash stolen totaled 1500 with 50000 to 200 in stamps found later.
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Smile Stones Bills Run Up Spending Says Speaker
A city council session features sharp charges that new bills will push spending beyond limits. Critics say the measures would raise costs for residents while supporters argue they fund essential services and growth.
Connie Blows Itself Out Over Southern Ontario
A hurricane born in the south Atlantic weakened as it moved over southern Ontario on Saturday. Connie lashed northern shores of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie with winds to 45 mph and heavy rain, causing beach and boat damage, power outages, and flooding. Two drownings were reported, echoing last year’s Hazel toll, while farmers welcomed rain that reached four inches in some areas. Police and Red Cross units remained on standby along the Humber valley after Hazel’s last October floods.
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Irish Rebels Raid Alleges New IRA Violence Across Borders
Nine dead and about 38 wounded as nonviolent demonstrators cross into Portuguese Goa territory in a planned peaceful invasion. Reports vary on turnout from 2,000 to 100,000 as Indian organizers press for decolonization. Irish militants linked to the raid raise flags and clash with Portuguese guards near the Terekhol fort.
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Loch Leven Trout Introduced in Twin Lakes District
Fifteen thousand three hundred thirty two Loch Leven brown trout were introduced into the Two lakes of Elkwater district last Friday. The fish were shipped from Calgary and released with help from W. Colby Reesor, George Armstrong, and game guardian Henry Bertelson. The introduction aims to establish a new trout fishing species for the district.
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W. Colby Reesor
Calgary
George Armstrong
Henry Bertelson
Princess Anne celebrates fifth birthday at Bal moral Castle
Princess Anne marked her fifth birthday with a frosted cake at a family gathering in Balmoral Castle today.
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Balmoral Castle
Atomic Energy Could Boost Agriculture Says Swedish Scientist
At the atoms for peace conference in Geneva Prof. L Ehrenberg argues radiation can speed plant mutations to improve wheat barley and other crops and enhance grain size baking quality and protein or oil content He warns about dangers of radiation including potential genetic harm while noting some mutations may be beneficial.
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Bruce Wallace
United States
T. C. Carter
Britain
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Einstein
Stowaway Girl Told No Crew Help Was Given
Victoria CP reports Joycelyn Pilapil of Hilo Hawaii stowed away aboard HMCS Athabaskan during a five week voyage to Hawaii and California. Lt Cmdr Charles Richardson said no crew helped. She was taken ashore by FBI agents at Long Beach placed on five year probation and returned home after pleading guilty to juvenile delinquency.
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U.S. Marshal’s Office
End of British Newsprint Rationing Sparks Fleet Street Feud
After 15 years of controls, Britain will allow newspapers to print as many pages as they wish from March. The move triggers a fierce rivalry among London papers Over print quotas with The Times accused of hogging paper by The Daily Mirror. The Newsprint Supply Company warns voluntary rationing may still be needed as imports and capacity shift.
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News Transmitting to be Revolutionized in Japan
Japan's Asahi Shimbun reports a tele type machine capable of transmitting 1,476 Kanji characters. The six hole tape system, built with Shinko Manufacturing Co, follows the Western teleprinter principle and took four years to develop. This innovation aims to transform news transmission in Japan.
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Tokyo
Asahi Shimbun
Shinko Manufacturing Co
San Marino Chooses Reds Again in National Vote
San Marino, a 38 square mile republic, reaffirms Communist control as Reds and Socialists capture a likely 37 of 60 seats in the legislature. US-based San Marinese voters failed to sway the outcome on Sunday as Communist strength persists since 1945.
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Europe
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Italy
U. S
Belgium
France
Switzerland
Rhee Attacks U S Policy On Korea Liberation Day
In Seoul on Liberation Day 10th anniversary celebrations, President Syngman Rhee denounced American policy in Asia and urged removing the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission from Korea. He called Czech and Polish UNSC truce inspectors spies, while China’s Peiping daily urged a Far Eastern conference for peaceful Korean unification. Rhee said Eisenhower voiced a new policy at Geneva and pressed allies to roll back the Iron Curtain.
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South Korea
Republic
Japan
Syngman Rhee
Asia
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
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UNSC
North Korea
Red China
Peiping Peoples Daily
Peiping Radio
North ‘Korea
Seoul Stadium
Rhee
Eisenhower
United States
Geneva
Wainwright Hopes For Federal Penitentiary Site
Chamber of Commerce and town officials urge the federal government to consider Wainwright as the site for a proposed penitentiary after the July 14 announcement that three new federal penitentiaries will be built. Wainwright, 130 miles northeast of Edmonton, hosts a large army camp and previously had no western site chosen.
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Wainwright
Chamber of Commerce
Canada
Edmonton
Stop Fish and Game Weekly Bingoes Cracks Down
The attorney-general's department orders an end to Medicine Hat Fish and Game Association weekly baby bingoes. The ruling cancels future bingoes, affecting Moose Lodge activities funding a hospital ward. Police say bingoes will be occasional as the code requires.
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Medicine Hat Fish and Game Association
Attorney-General’s Department
Moose Lodge
Harold Watts
Weather outlook Edmonton to Saskatchewan showers Thunderstorms
Slightly cooler air moves southeast from the Peace River region bringing cloud cover to Alberta late today and possible scattered showers and thunderstorms. The weather system will reach Saskatchewan by Tuesday.
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Peace River
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Blairmore Forest Fire Surrounded on Bluff Mountain
Forestry officials report Bluff Mountain fire near Blairmore has been surrounded by a guard. About 150 men fight the blaze using three caterpillar tractors to clear a fire guard. Weather, with winds and heat, will determine progress. daytime hours favored for fighting while night work is less effective due to the fire’s spotty spread.
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