31 Aug 1956
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 31, 1956
Page
1
A Pacific disturbance tracks through British Columbia toward Alberta bringing showers tonight and Saturday. Regional highs yesterday reached 65 in Edmonton and Calgary with variable winds and light precipitation recorded.
RCMP probe into the death of 15 year old Yvan Emile Be ledeau of Debden Saskatchewan. The youth was found dead Tuesday in a cistern at Debden after reportedly tarrying the cistern prior to death.
A brief Fargo dispatch notes at least eight people were injured on Thursday in an incident. Details are sparse with ongoing investigations and no official statements yet from authorities.
Mayor Harry Weiner and Legion president Jack Oldham announce a plan to apply the city rebate of 535 toward down payments on war time homes over seven years. Four and five room houses would sell for 6545 and 7345 with a 10 percent down, lowering cash needs to 118 for small and 199 for large homes. The scheme would boost annual city taxes from 60 to 120 per house, raising about 6000 yearly per hundred homes, benefiting veterans and the city.
George H. Maclver of the Canadian Wheat Board informs Alberta Linseed Oil Co. Ltd that the export ban on district flaxseed is lifted. Medicine Hat company can accept flax for cleaning, re shipment and export with the first carload moving out this weekend. The five bushel quota remains, but export orders to the Orient are now unobstructed. Flax acreage has quadrupled this year with expected yields around 20 bushels per acre.
Medicine Hat adopts a municipal subsidy for a private ambulance firm run by Bill and Hec MacGregor with two vehicles and 24 hour service. Subsidy set at 7000 dollars per year plus 2000 possible deficit top up. operations include hospital removals and emergency, accident, maternity, and convalescent calls handled under RCMP and city police and fire department dispatch.
In Clinton Tennessee a court-ordered desegregation of Clinton High School brought 12 Black students into a town of 4,000, triggering clashes and protests led by Washington segregationist John Kasper. Kasper was jailed after mass meetings and threats to keep Negroes out.
This article argues nursing offers a secure, rewarding career with mobility across towns and societies. It notes over 400 000 registered nurses in North America and a growing demand fueled by rising health needs, insurance coverage, and population growth.
New York AP reports Cornell University medical school findings from an automotive crash injury study. Two thirds of fatally injured motorists suffer injuries in multiple body areas and researchers aim to engineer safer cars by analyzing seat belts, door locks, padding and crash factors. The project involves Ford Chrysler and U S health agencies with data from 11 states.
Toronto report notes wholesale potato prices rose 60 cents today with a 75 pound bag at 2 dollars versus 1.40 on Thursday. Growers cite poor growing and harvesting weather as the cause. Six weeks earlier prices had climbed to 4.50 from 3.50 for the same quantity. Potatoes later traded at an average 1.25.
President Eisenhower affirmed U.S. recognition of Egypt's sovereignty and commitment to a peaceful solution of the Suez Canal dispute while guaranteeing continued international use of the waterway.
The bureau of statistics projects a all Canada wheat crop of 512.25 million bushels for 1956 based on Aug 15 yields, up about 4 percent from 1946-55 average. Prairie output expected around 490 million bushels, with other grains figures listed and potatoes and hay slightly down or steady.
Otto Torn, 45, pleaded guilty to assaulting a 54 year old girl. He was sentenced to seven lashes and five years in penitentiary. Torn sought psychiatric treatment and the magistrate ordered lashes no later than ten days before release.
Dolores Jordan, 26, of Calgary and Burnaby, credited with possibly saving two girls from the Alaska crash that killed 15. Six of seven survivors arrived in Vancouver on a CPR ferry flight. Captain Thorn ton Tweed remained hospitalized with a skull fracture.
Touch stated this blast far surpassed the prior test a week earlier, asserting the device equaled nearly 1,000 tons of TNT in destructive force.
In Los Angeles James Merkouris, 40, sits hand and foot shackled in a lighted isolation booth as jurors decide if he is sane or insane for the murder of his former wife and her husband. He has previously been convicted and sentenced to death, but the Supreme Court ordered a new trial.
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