Kensington Home Hit By Lightning As Storm Lashes City
A severe storm struck late Tuesday with 30 mph winds and heavy rain across Alberta. Lightning damaged the O K Springer home at 91 Huckvale Crescent and a wall at a Second St SE construction site was blown over. No injuries or fires occurred. a gas refrigerator leak was extinguished. Weather officials noted .15 inches of rain citywide with ongoing showers in Calgary and Edmonton. Harvesting delays of 48 hours were forecast for Medicine Hat and Moose Jaw as storms moved through the region.
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O. K. Springer
Huckvale Crescent
Fifteenth Ave
Bill Zachary
Springer
Sandra Springer
Second St. SE
CHAT
Trans-Canada Highway
Bill Scott
Alberta
Calgary
Edmonton
Medicine Hat
Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw
Givenchy Rebels Paris Couture With Bare Knee Hemlines
Paris fashions review highlights Hubert de Givenchy’s winter collection as rebellious next to Dior. Skirts near kneecaps with bold waistlines, capes, reversible coats and dramatic color contrasts define two silhouettes Empire-sack and bolero bodice with full skirt.
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Paris
Reuters
Hubert de Givenchy
Paris Couture
Dior
Givenchy
Ulster
Paper Mailings A Tax Burden? Second class rates eyed
The Commons Public Accounts Committee heard that increasing second class mail rates could cut the growing deficit in post office operations. Auditor General Sellar urged redefining what qualifies for the rate, citing railway guides and bank reports as examples. Savings would be negligible.
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Boyle
Commons Public Accounts Committee
National Printing Bureau
Hull
Watson Sellar
Auditor-General
William Hamilton
Explosion rocks Buffalo rooming house near convention
A violent blast in a Buffalo rooming house near the New York state Democratic convention injured two and left at least one person missing. Authorities continued to search the wreckage after dawn.
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Buffalo
N.Y
France Tightens Security After Algeria Attacks
Paris reports secret measures to quell a wave of sabotage and killings by Algerians. Troops and police guard transport, comms, and industry as Surete Nationale leaves are canceled. Four officers wounded in Paris and southern France, with oil depots torched in Marseille Narbonne and Toulouse.
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Paris
Reuters
France
Surete Nationale
Criminal Investigation Department
FLN
Algeria
Marseille
Narbonne
Toulouse
State approves Faubus ruling to close Arkansas schools
Arkansas lawmakers voted to back Governor Orval Faubus's plan to close public schools rather than permit integration. The House approved 94 to 1 and the Senate 33 to 0 as the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to review the Little Rock desegregation dispute. The vote followed Faubus's Tuesday speech urging action.
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Little Rock, Ark
Arkansas House
Senate
Orval Faubus
Arkansas
U.S. Supreme Court
Faubus
Little Rock
House
Canadian Soldier Wounded in Beirut
A Canadian soldier Ralph Hall of the Canadian Postal Corps attached to a UN observer mail unit was wounded in a Beirut clash. He remained on the danger list but consciousness returned and doctors said he should pull through. Hall, 26, is married to Vera and has a child in Virden Manitoba.
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Lebanon
Set
Ralph Hall
Canadian Postal Corps
United Nations Observer Group
Hall
Middle East
Vera
Virden
Man
Harold A. Bauer
Anoka
Minn
Dag Hammarskjold
New York
Jordan
U.S
Hammarskjold
Amman
King Hussein
Pearson Bars Libs From Extra Printing Probe Sessions
Liberal Leader Lester Pearson ordered eight Liberal MPs not to attend two extra Public Accounts Committee sessions probing the 16.2 million Printing Bureau in Hull. He cited the need to avoid thinning their participation in Commons debates as the session nears its close.
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Bruce Phillips
Ottawa
Liberal
Lester Pearson
Public Accounts Committee
Hull
Pearson
CCF
Jack Pickersgill
Harold Winch
Alan Macnaughton
Macnaughton
Mr. Macnaughton
Pickersgill
Lionel Chevrier
Printing Bureau
Commons
Redcliff approves seven-mill tax hike for new school
Redcliff council, meeting Monday, set the 1958 tax rate at 54 mills up from 47 mills in 1957 to fund a new elementary school joint with the province. The budget totals 182,850 with 174,510 revenue and an estimated 8,340 deficit. School costs include major funding for the new school, with other items like council raises and CPR crossing costs under review.
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Redcliff
CPR
Board of Transport Commissioners
Dave Broadfoot
Infant suffocates on plastic bag in Ellenville
A five month old boy, Michael Jr., suffocated when a plastic food bag was pulled over his head while napping. The incident occurred in Ellenville as his mother, Mrs. Michael Luis, gave him the bag for play. He was found dead two hours later.
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Ellenville
Michael Luis
Michael Jr
Quemoy Battle Rages Near Formosa Island Chain
In Amoy Bay Chinese forces pound Quemoy and nearby islets as Nationalist and Red warships clash. Nationalist and Red artillery fire exchanges follow shelling that shattered Red positions and spurred a regional fleet movement off the Formosa coast. A U.S. defense spokesman said no invasion fleet is evident.
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Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy
Amoy Bay
Defence Ministry
Tungling Island
Tan Islets
Weston
Liu Hoh-tu
Red China
Chuhan Islands
U.S. Formosa
Drowns Near Empress After River Swim
Amelio Turtato a 20 year old Lethbridge resident and Italian immigrant drowned in the South Saskatchewan River about three miles south of Empress while swimming with three companions. He entered the water after 7 p.m. and was pulled under by a swift undertow. RCMP from Leader Sask investigated. body recovered about 11 a.m. Tuesday after dragging efforts. The coroner ruled no inquest would be held.
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Lethbridge
South Saskatchewan
Empress
Amelio Turtato
Italy
Turtato
RCMP
Sask
Empress Ferry
Alta-Sask
Empress Town
J. Dusevic
No Decision Mace On Colombo Plan
Prime Minister Diefenbaker told the Commons Canada has made a final decision on increasing aid to Commonwealth countries under the Colombo plan. He dismissed a Canadian Press dispatch claiming a near fifty per cent rise as purely conjecture.
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Diefenbaker
Commons
Canada
CCF House
Hazen Argue
Argue
Ottawa
Montreal
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Romuald Bourque
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Mr. Boyle
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Saif al Badr
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