Four Major Projects Revealed In Medicine Hat Boom
Four new business moves boost Medicine Hat this fall with three new units and a major addition. Goodyear starts a $4.5 million tire plant immediately. Beny Motors opens a second garage at Fourth St and Division Ave. Hollinsworth to run women’s wear at Gust’s Foods site. Soan Company opens downtown clothing branch likely on Third St. Co-op store expands. Beny Canada buys Fourth St site for Beny’s Compact Car Centre with GM cars. Fred Pitts to manage. Donald Andrews arranged property deals.
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Medicine Hat
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Beny Motors
Fourth St
Division Ave
Hollinsworth Chain
Gust’s Foods
Soan Company
Third St
Medicine Hat Co-op
Beny Motor Company (Canada) Ltd
F. C. Beny
Fourth St. S.W
Fred
General Motors
Beny
Fred Pitts
Pitts
Donald Andrews
British Canadian Trust Co
Macleod’s
Cohen
Medicine Hat Co - Operative Association
Hollinsworths to occupy Gust's Store site in Calgary
Hollinsworths will soon occupy the present Gust's Food Store at 616 Third St. S.E. The company, led by Winnipeg president A. W. Mitchell, plans a complete line of women's clothing and accessories with remodeling by Kent McLean of Toronto via Calgary. Target date is early next year.
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Hollinsworths
Gust’s
Third St. S.E
A. W. Mitchell
Winnipeg
Kent-McLean
Toronto
Calgary
Hollinsworths Company
Dayton’s Department Store
Mitchell
Sam Cohen
Saan Stores
Medicine Hat
Saan
Cohen
Canadair and Orenda win starfighter contract package
Canadair Limited and Orenda Engines Limited won a combined 91.5 million dollar contract to build 200 CF-111 Starfighters for the RCAF replacing Sabres in eight European squadrons. Orenda engines will power the jets under an 80 million dollar contract. Defence Minister O Hurley announced Canadian firms will secure about 30 percent of Lockheed airframe work for West Germany and Canada, with sub contracts to Canadian companies.
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Ottawa
Canadair
Orenda
RCAF
Canadair Limited
Montreal
Orenda Engines Limited
Malton
Ont
Rcaf Air Division
Europe
West Germany
Defence
O’hurley
Lockheed
de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited
Toronto
Avro Aircraft Limited
Avro
A.V. Roe (Canada) Limited
O'Hurley
Massey Enters Hospital for Kidney Infection
Governor-General Vincent Massey, 72, was admitted to Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital for kidney infection treatment. He arrived in a private railway car from Port Hope and is expected to stay about a week, postponing his Canada trip as Maj. Gen. George P. Vanier will succeed him on Sept. 15.
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Montreal
Trovel
Vincent Massey
Royal Victoria Hospital
Lionel Massey
Canada
Vancouver
Arctic Circle
Massey
George P Vanier
Mr. Massey
Smallwood Refuses to Repeal Labor Laws in Newfoundland
Premier Smallwood told St John’s Friday night his Liberal government would rather lose the August 20 provincial election than repeal labor laws enacted during last winter’s loggers strike. He also criticized Opposition Leader Malcolm Hollett for promising the Newfoundland Federation of Labor to repeal the laws.
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ST. John’s
Mld
Smallwood
Newfoundland
Malcolm Hollett
Newfoundland Federation of Labor
Morristown Man Uses Gadgetry to Beat $1 Parking Ticket
Arnold and Sprinz challenged a one dollar meter fine in Morristown New Jersey using a transistorized stethoscope like device a humidity sensitive timer and an electronic data box to prove the meter ran fast. The judge dismissed the case after Sprinz showed the meter lost five minutes.
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Morristown
N.J
Arnold
Sprinz
Sprint
Castro denounces Trujillo as core Caribbean tension figure
Fidel Castro accused Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo of finances behind anti-Couba plots and criticized U.S. officials and a Santiago Chile conference as ineffective. He described a covert American agent’s role in luring Trujillo, and William Morgan of Ohio testified Trujillo offered money to betray Castro. Morgan said he would stay in Havana to prevent revenge.
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Harold K. Miles
Havana
Fidel Castro
Trujillo
Cuba
Castro
Dominican Republic
Rafael L. Trujillo
United States
Miami
inter-American Foreign Ministers Conference
Santiago
Chile
Caribbean
U.S
Christian Herter
Herter
Latin America
Republic
William Morgan
Toledo
Ohio
Morgan
Mother Punishes Son After Traffic Court Fine
Mrs. William Morris paid a $15 traffic fine for her 18 year old son Michael who was arrested for running a red light and driving without a license. After payment she slapped him on the hand prompting magistrate Charles Solomon to offer a $10 reduction. Mrs Morris said wait till she gets him home.
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New York
William’Morris
Michael
Vauxhall Woman Missing From Lethbridge
Police search for Mrs. Margaret Sanders 31 of Vauxhall Alta who vanished after visiting relatives in Lethbridge. She was last seen Tuesday noon in the downtown area.
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Lethbridge
Margaret Sanders
Vauxhall
Alta
J.H. Carpenter
Ranchers suspect rustlers use tranquilizer guns in Montana
Montana ranchers suspect rustlers are using tranquilizer guns to subdue cattle during loading. Senator James Murray announced the FDA will send an investigator after a Montana Cattlemen’s Association letter cited a pellet loaded gun that shoots tranquilizers. The association urged Congress to regulate sales and use of such guns.
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Washington
Montana
James Murray
Food and Drug Administration
Art Watson
Great Falls
Montana Cattlemen’s Association
Congress
Ball Tournament to Continue in Medicine Hat
Rain threatened the Rotary baseball tourney but officials announced it would proceed as scheduled. Cloudy conditions with scattered showers are expected today and Sunday, with a low around 50 tonight and a high near 70 on Sunday.
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Rotary
Medicine Hat
Typhoon Georgia Kills 126 in Central Japan
The storm sliced a 150 mile path across Honshu, hitting Shizuoka and Yamanashi hardest. Police report 126 dead with 119 missing and 712 injured, about 10,000 homeless, 24 fishing vessels sunk, and 1,185 bridges washed away as Georgia moved toward the Japan Sea and toward Vladivostok.
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Tokyo
Georgia
Japan
Shizuoka
Here
Honshu
Japan Sea
Vladivostock
Yamanashi
Little Rock Quiet Amid Integration at Two High Schools
Four Negro students walked to and from classes at Hall High and Central High in Little Rock as the city enters its third day of school integration. Police monitored but no protests occurred. Governor Faubus suggested possible use of state police if disorders continue, reversing earlier stance. At Hall High three Negro girls entered and left without incident. at Central 16-year-old Jefferson Thomas was the only Negro student.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orval E. Faubus
Hall High School
Central
Jefferson Thomas
Ottawa posts peacetime budget deficit record for 1958 59
Canada reports a peacetime budget shortfall of 509 million dollars for the year ended March 31 1959 with revenues of 4.75 billion and expenditures of 5.36 billion. Finance Minister Fleming notes deficits beat prior records including the wartime peak and earlier forecasts. Defense led spending while personal corporate and dividend incomes fell.
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Ottawa
Fleming
Canada
Home Lot Sales Signal Construction Boom in Medicine Hat
In Medicine Hat, 138 home building lots in the east Crescent Heights subdivision were sold in two weeks, totaling an estimated 1.3786 million dollars. Purchasers must start buildings within six months to meet city code, with winter construction anticipated. Projects planned include a 600 thousand dollar post office federal building, Simpsons Sears store, a 200 thousand dollar provincial Home for the Aged, and new grocery stores by Gust’s and Taylor Bros.
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Medicine Hat
New East Crescent Heights
Simpsons-Sears
Third St. S.E
Fifth Ave
West Crescent Heights
Gust’s Food Store
Fifth St. S.E
Taylor Bros
Division Ave
Third St S.W
Forest fires rage across Labrador countryside
Fires in Labrador continue to spread out of control as multiple hotspots erupt nationwide. Strong winds and dry conditions fuel the blazes, threatening forests and nearby communities. authorities brace for worsening conditions into Friday.
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St, John’s
Nfld
Labrador
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Fourth St. S. W
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Amenen
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Arena Gardens
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