11 Dec 1957
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 11, 1957
Page
1
In Moscow the Soviet Fleet said Zhukov's dismissal as defence minister did not fix discipline among officers. The navy paper urged party leaders to remove remnants of the past and root out unscrupulous attitudes and amoral conduct within the armed forces.
An Indian chief Sam Paul aged 55 and Dennis Hunter 35 died when their car left a detour and plunged into a ravine near Abbotsford B C. Both wives were seriously injured and taken to hospital with multiple injuries and shock. The four were ejected as a bridge repair detour contributed to the accident. One woman crawled to a house for help.
The Medicine Hat club sponsors a January 11 card party with all proceeds for the cancer fund. Sol Prasow and Liz Gibbs won last Thursday, with Otto Pichtigen and Ed Forner second, and Mr and Mrs Lee Frandsen third.
The Farmers Union of Alberta passes a motion to extend the Prairie Farm Assistance Act into a full crop insurance plan with larger benefits and broader coverage, to be funded partly by provincial governments. The convention also urges a parity price system for all human food grains, Wheat Board handling of feed grains, and quota principles aligned with basic unit quotas, while rejecting carryover quotas and opposing coarse grain handling concerns.
A seven thousand five hundred dollar blaze Monday night destroyed a cafe and damaged a hotel at Love long, sixty miles northwest of here. No one was injured. The cafe was owned by H. Govan formerly of Edmonton.
A Christmas Island post office operates in Cape Breton Nova Scotia serving local residents. The facility handles mail and parcel delivery and maintains regular postal services for the community.
Cut Rate Shoes launches Medicine Hat first self-serve store at 216 South Railway St in the former Green's Shoe premises. Manager Lorna Kleis notes reduced overhead and savings passed to customers with a wider selection of women girls and men's footwear opening at 9 am tomorrow.
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