Canadian Wheat Crop Surges in 1953 to 530 Million Bushels
Ottawa reports the Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates Canada’s 1953 wheat harvest at 530.654 million bushels, up 87 percent from drought‑hit 1952, with Manitoba Sask at Alberta contributing record gains. Prairie output forecast to rise 97 percent to 511 million bushels, near the 1952 drought‑scarred year and well below the 701.973 million bushels record in 1952.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Alberta crops forecast set high by provincial estimates
The Alberta Department of Agriculture places provincial wheat at about 115 million bushels vs 84 million last year. Oats 122 million, barley 92 million, flax and rye 3.46 million each, with Edmonton area yields around 34.4, 58.9 and 38.2 bushels per acre respectively. Southern yields vary from 4.6 to 21.4 bushels per acre, as farmers rush to harvest before freezing. Statistician R E English notes grain remains well filled and early harvesting may affect quality.
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Edmonton
Alberta Department of Agriculture
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Calgary
R. E. English
Department
Prairie harvest forecasts revised from 1961 census figures
Crop estimates updated for wheat oats barley rye and flaxseed based on 1961 acreage and weather outlook. Wheat yields rise to about 19.7 bushels per acre nationwide with Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta higher than last year. Prairie acreage to wheat totals 26.31 million acres.
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Bureau
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prairies
Province approves feed shipping aid for drought plains
Edmonton policy provides four cents per mile for fodder transport with up to six dollars per ton for hay and three dollars for straw. Target areas include Warner county east of range 15 and Forty Mile districts to Suffield Jenner Redcliff. Applications go to county or district officials with claims due by March 31 1963.
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Fred Colborne
Calgary
Social Credit
Warner Vung
Range 15
Forty Mile
Medicine Hat
Suffield- Jenner-Redcliff
Hanna
L. C. Halmrast
Field Crops Branch
Department of Agriculture
Edmonton
Minister proposes fewer civic elections in Edmonton
Municipal Affairs Minister A J Hooke favors reducing election frequency and says Edmonton could set a pattern for others. A city committee studies alderman terms and whether a City Act change is needed for the next legislative session. He expects higher turnout with longer terms and notes possible moves for other Alberta towns.
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Edmonton
A. J. Hooke
Hooke
Mr. Hooke
What, No Men Allowed Here
London AP reports the founder of the Society for the Protection of Utter Feminity says membership is growing with support nationwide. Portrait painter Sara Leighton, 26, notes the group is female only and seeks women to quit voting and withdraw from competing with men in business.
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London (Ap
Sara Leighton
Miss Leighton
Society
Alberta probes drug link to baby deformities
Edmonton Health Minister Dr. J D Ross said the Alberta department of health is studying a possible connection between drugs other than thalidomide and infant deformities. The report notes ongoing investigation and official statements.
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Edmonton
Alberta Department of Health
J.D. Ross
Murder Charge Laid in Edmonton Slayings
Edmonton police charged 29 year old Earl Lehr with capital murder for the strangulations of his wife Delores and mother in law Dion Lehr at a northeast Edmonton home. Investigators said the killings occurred about 9 15 p m and the bodies were removed for autopsies. Lehr was to appear in court amid limited details.
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Edmonton
Earl Lehr
Delores Lehr
Dion Lehr
Lehr
MacMurray
Alberta
M. F. E. Anthony
Anthony
Four Die In Crash at Edmonton Construction Site
Four people died and three others were hospitalized after a six-vehicle pileup at a road construction project 15 miles west of Edmonton on Highway 16 near Spruce Grove. A car, oil truck, and grain trailer were among the vehicles involved as traffic slowed three miles east of Spruce Grove.
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Edmonton
Here
Spruce Grove
U S Proposes Ongoing Talks on Nuclear Test Ban
At Geneva the United States urged continued meetings of the American British Soviet subcommittee during the fall recess to finish a test ban by year end. Arthur Dean said a Nov 1 target allows a treaty to take effect Jan 1, 1963, if inspections are agreed. Britain backed Kennedy on suspending underground tests but insisted on on-site inspections.
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Geneva
United States
Arthur Dean
U.S
UN General Assembly
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
New York
Joseph Godber
Britain
Soviet Union
Godber
Kennedy
Dean
Old-Time Medicine Hat Resident Mary Hargrave Dies at 87
Mrs. Mary Jane McKee Hargrave died early this morning at age 87 while living with her daughter Miss Margaret Hargrave at 78 2nd St SW Medicine Hat. She was among Medicine Hat's earliest residents, arriving in 1883, and was survived by sons Howard and Campbell and daughters Elaine Edith and Miss Hargrave. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
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Medicine Hat
Mary Jane McKee Hargrave
Margaret Hargrave
2Nd St
Hargrave
J. C. Hargrave
Samuel Porter
Howard
Trail
B.C
Campbell
New Westminster
D.C
Elaine
R. A. Panters
Toronto
Edith
EJ. Rutherford
Miss Hargrave
Fleeing Spy Loses Again In Deportation Case
In London the Court of Appeal upheld a government order to deport Dr. Robert Soblen to the United States. Soblen's lawyers abandoned plans to appeal to the House of Lords and he will seek a representative review by Home Secretary Hrooke before deportation. The decision marks a fourth adverse ruling in British courts.
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London
Court of Appeal
Robert Soblen
United States
House of Lords
Soblen
U.S
Solomon Kauffman
Lords
Hrooke
F. Ilwyn Jones
John Hobson
Home Secretary
Britain
Ito
Ten Years with Nasser Fifth of a Series
Cairo area contrasts with life of Egyptian fellahin near Ahmed’s village. A traveler recalls a five year old sedan, a mud house, a transistor radio, and the pivotal role of the water buffalo on village farms. The piece details livestock and costs, explaining buffaloes as essential to peasant life and farm work.
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Egypt
Ramals
Wiyel
Lana
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