28 Aug 1959
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 28, 1959
Page
1
Ottawa reports easing money conditions as the government lowers the Bank of Canada rate. Treasury bills sold smaller amounts with yields dropping to 5.33 percent, and bank reserves rose to 1.043 billion dollars while the overall money supply stayed steady. Finance Minister Fleming says bids will again be invited on a reduced bill issue next week.
Montreal report says square peas could be grown and made practical though no one has pursued it yet. Dr. William Hunter of Canada's genetics and plant breeding unit cites the likelihood of shaping plant form color and quality with a development time of five to six years.
London proposes jointly asking the United Nations to send an observer to Laos. Soviet Ambassador Malik criticized the idea but did not reject it. Laos forces clash with pro Communist rebels near Vientiane with no reported government casualties.
diplomats expect the UN disarmament commission to hear a Big Four plan to resume 10 nation talks in Geneva next year. Britain France the Soviet Union and the United States would announce a 10 nation format with five Communist and five Western nations. Western bloc to include Canada and Italy. Eastern bloc to include Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Poland and Romania. The idea arose at the Geneva foreign ministers conference last month.
In Winnipeg CP dispatch President Claude Jodoin of the Canadian Labor Congress rejects direct affiliation with the CCF party. He favors a loose tie and maintains the CLC will abstain from political action while pursuing its trade union functions.
Defence counsel quips about calendar rhyme as Magistrate Chartrand dismisses the charge against Jimi Lewiski for allegedly running a stop sign on June 31, noting the date as a possible error and repeating the old rhyme learned in school.
Ottawa grain bureau projects 1959 Canadian wheat crop at 405.0 million bushels, up 9 percent from 1958 and largest since 1956, led by a 10 percent rise in acreage to 23.06 million acres and a prairie gain of 311.0 million bushels despite a below 10 year average. Durum set at 15.1 million bushels. Oats, barley, rye, and flaxseed also estimated with year ago and long-term averages.
The Borden royal commission on energy will publish its report on Canada's oil industry in Ottawa. It is expected to address a proposed Alberta to Montreal crude oil pipeline and discuss oil export and import plus the role of the new national energy board in oil regulation.
Georgie Gobel stirred civic officials in Toronto with a grandstand act at the Canadian National Exhibition. He dropped a swear word on Thursday night yet kept a medical description of a showgirl Sandra O Neill’s muscles from feet to chest, prompting laughter and questions about censorship. He said in the dressing room he had never heard complaints in the United States.
J Wesley Cairnes about 12 years old was found dead in a Bemidji Minnesota motel with his parents unconscious. An autopsy in Duluth determined death by carbon monoxide poisoning. The Willowdale Ontario family faced critical condition as police investigated the case.
AP reports sixteen dead in Mexico's worst quake this year all in Veracruz with at least sixty injured. Government teams rush to stricken areas as cracks disable roads and lines. Sanitation and aid work underway amid hopes for speedy repairs despite widespread damage.
In San Francisco Basilio weighed 156 pounds the heaviest of his career and Gene Fullmer weighed 15944 pounds at the weigh in for tonight's National Boxing Association world middleweight title bout.
Robert Raymond Cook, 23, was committed to Alberta supreme court on a charge of murdering his father Raymond Cook, 51, as police found the seven bludgeoned bodies in a grease pit near the Cook home 110 miles south of Edmonton. The preliminary hearing produced four witnesses as Crown sought to prove Cook owned a blood-stained suit linked to the killings.
Ottawa reports 102 new paralytic polio cases for the week ending Aug 22 raising 1959 total to 455 with 41 deaths. A year ago seven deaths and 64 cases. Quebec’s tally reaches 326 boosted by the Montreal outbreak.
The Happy Gang is dropped from CBCs Trans-Canada network after 22 years. The Tommy Hunter Show will continue in fall and winter. Sponsors did not renew, but a new sponsor may be sought. The troupe began on CRCT in 1937 and grew famous in rural areas.
Prime Minister Nehru said Chinese Communist forces crossed into Indian territory and overran a northern frontier post after Indian troops withdrew. He noted the Indian Army has taken charge of the entire Northeast Frontier and warned to prepare for any eventuality.
The forecast warns of a bleak weekend across Alberta with very cool conditions. Edmonton may see subfreezing lows, clouds, and possible showers with frost risk in Peace River Edmonton and Red Deer regions. Snow possible near Grande Prairie and Calary foothills while northern areas stay several degrees cooler. The cold wave extends into Saskatchewan by Saturday.
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