Petition Drives Against Riverside Park Parking Meters
A merchants petition circulates opposing meters on First Street Riverside Park side while clarifying CPR property will not be metered on South Railway Street. City plans include meters on several blocks, prompting calls for more off street parking near Toronto Street school. About 200 additional meters have been authorized for downtown installation.
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Second St
First St
Riverside Park
South Railway
CPR
Chamber of Commerce
Merchants
Toronto St
Merchants Generall
Medicine Hat
First Real Rain Ends Drought for Vancouver Fire Crews
The first real rainfall in 29 days drenched the Vancouver forest district and eased firefighter strain. A forestry official said continued rain could lift the closure order. Fires remain controlled along the coast, with Burns Lake district in north central British Columbia heavily scorched but now contained on three sides.
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Vancouver
Vancouver Forest District
Burns Lake
British Columbia
Canada Reports 9 Canadian Casualties in Korea List
Ottawa dispatch says Canada’s 129th Korean War casualty list lists five killed in action two wounded in action and two injured in action. It references the 1st battalion of the Royal 22nd regiment and notes totals: 951 casualties comprising 173 dead 702 wounded 66 injured nine missing and one prisoner of war.
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Ottawa
Army
Royal 22Nd Regiment
Korea
Polio cases rise in Alberta and Manitoba totals
Alberta reports 13 new poliomyelitis cases raising the provincial tally to 258, Calgary records its ninth polio death of the year, Frances Loreen Clazie, 23, dies in Pincher Creek. Manitoba totals reach 227 with eight deaths and seven new cases, including five with partial paralysis.
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Edmonton
Alberta Health Department
Calgary
Alberta
Frances Loreen Clazie
Pincher Creek
Lethbridge
District
Ponoka
Leduc
Wetaskwin
Rockyford
Glendon
Vancouver
British Columbia
Health Department
RCAF
Kimberley
B.C
Victoria
Provincial Health Department
Winnipeg CP
Manitoba
Cuba Produces Record Raw Sugar This Year
Cuba reported a record raw sugar production of 7,964,000 short tons for the current year, reflecting a peak in output.
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Cuba
Two Ships Collide Off California No Casualties Reported
In heavy fog off the southern California coast the Swedish motorship Stratus and the United States steamship Coos Bay collided six miles east of Anacapa Island near Ventura. No casualties were reported though Coos Bay’s engine room flooded and a 15 foot hull breach was noted. The Stratus stood by to tow the Coos Bay until tugs could arrive, then planned to proceed to Los Angeles harbor under her own power.
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Ventura
Calif
Coos Bay
Los Angeles
Anacapa Island
Stratus
Coos
Quint In Brazil Dies Second Baby in Five
In Sao Paulo a second of Mrs Maria Albano's quintuplets died at the maternity hospital last night. The five babies were born Tuesday night and placed in incubators. Maria Angela had been chosen as the survivor's name. The hospital said the remaining four were in good condition after the first death. No details on the others' condition were given.
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Sao, Paulo
Brazil
Maria Albano
Sao Paulo Maternity
Maria’ Tereza
Remand for Taber Post Master Rae on Theft Charge
Lethbridge news reports Post master John Rae of Taber is remanded without plea on a charge of stealing 13 585 dollars in cash money orders and stamps from Taber post office. Rae, a 15 year postal employee, was arrested yesterday and remanded to Tuesday. police say shortages were found Monday and that entry through a window is suspected. Police chief J E Pittaway says the cash money orders and stamps have been recovered.
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Lethbridge
John Rae
Taber
Alberta
Rae
J.E. Pittaway
Tabor
Harvest Operation Get Underway Across Prairies
Thirteen percent of Manitoba's wheat had been threshed or combined by Thursday night in the Aug 14 21 prairie weather and crop report. Saskatchewan and Alberta were in early harvest stages with regional variations in expected yields from 15 to 35 bushels. hail caused significant losses across thousands of acres in both provinces.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canadian Pacific Railway
Agriculture Department
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prairie Provinces
Irvine
Winnifred
Milk River
Spring Coulee
Coalhurst
Albertta
Trinidad Family Traveling Prairies Passes Through Medicine Hat
A Trinidad family of seven, parents and five children, traveled through Medicine Hat this morning on a vacation from Trinidad. Marian Holt, a local citizen, chatted with them in the Terminal cafe while the colorfully described group awaited bus connections. She called the children pleasant and said some were “cuter than can be.”
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Medicine Hat
Trinidad
South Atlantic
Venzuela
South America
Marian Holt
Weather Disturbance Clouds Alberta Saskatchewan with Showers
A weather disturbance moving through British Columbia will bring scattered showers to Alberta and Saskatchewan tonight. Maximum temperatures Saturday in the 70s to 80s, cooler than today. Medicine Hat shows a few clouds with widely scattered showers Saturday, little temperature change, light winds, with a low tonight around 55 and a high tomorrow near 85.
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B.C
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Medicine Hat
Radical deputies offer resignation to Peron in Argentina
Fourteen members of the radical party in Buenos Aires offered to resign last night to President Juan Peron because of the situation prevailing in the nation. No further explanation was available.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan Peron
National Congress
Party Een
Piper Plays Lament For Burial of Flood Victims
In Lynmouth England a mournful bagpipe lament accompanied the burial of 13 flood victims from the Lynmouth flash flood. About 60 mourners gathered at Hydrangea cemetery as Rev Theodore Coldman led the service with Soutar and Tom Floyd assisting. An army bugler played the Last Post after the coffin was lowered, and the piper played Flowers of the Forest. Twenty one people are known to have died with 15 missing.
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Lynton
England
Reuters
Theodore Coldman
Lynmouth
Pen. Soutar
Lynon
Tom Floyd
Lack of Nursing Staff Threatens Medicine Hat School
The Medicine Hat Civic Hospital board of trustees debated a pinch-hitting plan to keep the hospital nursing school open amid a shortage of qualified teachers. Mayor Riley and government officials were contacted for support to allow two nurses to take a one month Edmonton course to teach locally, with graduate instructors hoped from the University Hospital program by next April. Doctors and administrators support the school, but low marks last year sparked questions about its ongoing value.
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W.W. Cross
Public Health and Welfare
Edmonton
University Hospital
Alberta
Riley
Medicine Hat Civic
RCAF Woman Hurt After 115 Mile Ottawa Montreal Chase
A 19 year old RCAF airwoman Gladys Linda Rochon of Nanaimo B C led a police chase across Ontario and Quebec ending when a police bullet forced her ambulance into a ditch at Strathmore Quebec. She was hospitalized with shock and no charges were laid. Three people were hospitalized after a collision.
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Montreal
RCAF
Gladys Linda Rochon
Nanaimo
B.C
Queen Mary Veterans’ Hospital
Verdun Protestant Hospital
Ottawa-Montreal
Rockcliffe
Ottawa
Ontario
Quebec
Strathmore
Que
Québec
Detour Mishap Sends Two To Hospital Near Redcliff
Kasper Heidrick drove into a ditch during a detour near Redcliff and Medicine Hat as glare from another vehicle blinded him. He was released with minor injuries. Passenger Michael Holyk remained hospitalized with possible skull fracture. Holyk recently returned from Korea where he served in the military. Accident occurred around 8 00 last night. damage estimated at 400 dollars.
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Redcliff
Medicine - Hat
General
Medicine ‘Hat
Kasper Heidrick
Korea
Heidrick
RCMP
Medicine Hat
Lewis Gives Notice Contracts Ending With Coal Industry
Government officials said John L. Lewis has given formal notice that his contracts with the coal industry will expire at the end of September. The Taft Hartley act requires 30 days notice to inform the government of any dispute. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers Union, notified federal mediators that contracts with both soft and hard coal interests will end then.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
UMW
Shere
Harry Moses
Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association
Josephy Moody
Labor Groups Push Contributory Health Plan at TLC Canada
The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada urged a nationwide contributory health insurance scheme subsidized by the government covering medical, surgical, optical, dental, and psychiatric care. They called for federal immigration reform with a labor department led commission and winter immigration limits, plus a ban on foreign workers until Canadian unemployment is assessed.
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Winnipeg
Trades and Labor Congress’ of Canada
Congress
Labor’ ‘Department
Immigration Commission
TLC
Canada
Daughter's Lover Wages Sparks Married Life Talk
A fragment shows a tense exchange about money and marriage. The dialogue hints at worries over a daughter's boyfriend and the narrator recalling past earnings when married.
Harmony Campaign Remarks Test Of Eisenhower And Stevenson
Washington AP reports pre campaign remarks by General Eisenhower and Governor Stevenson tested party unity. Eisenhower criticized intervention in Korea yet warned against attacking China, while Stevenson allegedly irked President Truman with Washington mess comments. Truman avoided comment on Stevenson Sparkman campaign moves.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Eisenhower
Kansas City
United States
Rpublicans
China
Douglas
MacArthur
Congress
United Nations
Stevenson
Truman
Vicepresidential
John J. J. Sparkman
Alabama
Sparkman
Jet pilot walks away from crash in Ottawa area
Po R J Childerhose of St Boniface Man ran out of gas and crash landed his F 86 Sabre in a farmer field near Carleton Place. He walked away with only a cut over one eye after skidding 800 yards at over 100 miles an hour. Wing was knocked off nose and fuselage ripped. he flagged a nearby garageman and rode to Ashton to phone base. RC A L B credited his skill and field conditions for survival.
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Carleton Place
Ont
R. J. Childerhose
St. Boniface
Man
Carleton
Ottawa
Childerhose
Garrageman
Ashton
Uplands
R.c.alb
Youth arrested in Bordeaux for taxi murder
In Bordeaux an 18 year old youth was arrested after a stolen taxi was found with the murdered owner hidden under the back seat. Jacques Marnieres admitted killing the taxi driver when refused permission to drive the cab.
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Bordeaux
France
Jacques Marnieres
National Pride Theme Drives 1952 Toronto Exhibition
Three boys camp at the gates mark opening day of the world’s largest annual fair in Toronto. Gov Gen Massey officiates as 3 million visitors are expected over two weeks. The event highlights Canadian skills with strong foreign participation, nightly Grandstand shows, and notable displays by the armed forces. Agriculture features see growing Canadian entries while American cattle are excluded due to hoof and mouth disease controls.
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Toronto
Vincent Massey
Tony Martin
Shilo
Man
United States
Flood control program near Medicine Hat halted by land dispute
Survey led by Hon Dr J L Robinson reports that a proposed dam on the Seven Persons creek to hold spring runoff near Medicine Hat has been abandoned due to inability to obtain private land or meet asking prices. Mayor Wilson Riley and officials will attend a flood control conference in Edmonton on Sept 4 to discuss a province wide plan including a dyke or breastworks in Medicine Hat.
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J. L. Robinson
Provincial Water Resources Board
Medicine Hat
Wilson Riley
Edmonton
sThis
Iin
Medicine Hat Proper
Square Corner Awarded for Third Street Intersection
A contract was awarded to Ernie Johnston to square the Third Street and Division Avenue intersection. The city completed a survey and the project aims for completion by September 2, the start of the school term. Work includes new sidewalks curbs and gutters to improve pedestrian safety and traffic flow.
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Division Ave
Ernie Johnston
Hillcrest
College
City considers two subway linked crossing fix in Medicine Hat
City council discussed a plan for a two subsystem subway project in Medicine Hat near First and Third Streets to create a pedestrian walk to the CPR depot. Cost estimated at 350000 with a one third city share and one third CPR funding and one third from the grade crossing fund. A public vote on October ethics will be held to authorize by law and funding. The Second Street crossing would be abandoned if approved.
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Medicine’ Hataing
Dominion
First St
Gube Way
CPR
Asia Mexi
City of
Medicine’ Hat
Board of
Transport
Second St
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California
Quint
Piper
Crash
Jet
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