Alberta plans higher 65 mph limits on four lanes
Alberta Highways Minister Gordon Taylor announced proposed changes to the Vehicles and Highway Traffic Act to raise speed limits to 65 mph on provincial four lane and divided highways, and 55 mph for trucks at night. A first offense fine hike to 200 is urged along with a 300 second offense and 500 third offense or jail.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Gordon Taylor
Taylor
RCMP
Calgary
Alberta Motor Association
Alberta Motor Transport Association
Alberta Safety Council
Edmonton Police Force
W. A. Cruickshank
Seventh St closures affirmed by Medicine Hat safety panel
Medicine Hat traffic safety committee upholds closures of Seventh St SW to the Trans Canada Highway and Ninth St SW to Gershaw Drive. City planners discuss service roads and permanent crossings, with a safety slogan contest for 1959 to be announced December 22.
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Medicine Hat
Gershaw
Seventh St
Sixth
Sen . Laine
Ald
Helen Gibson
City of
AMA
Ron Eckroeth
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Larry King
Old Hope
Sixth Ave
Fourth St
Carswell
Newspapers Stop Pubs As New York Strike Paralyzes Press
Major New York newspapers halted publication as delivery men went on strike. The World Telegram and Sun The Journal American The Post The Long Island Press and Long Island Star Journal ended editions. The Daily News The Times and The Herald Tribune suspended after final editions. About 3 000 Post and Herald Tribune workers were furloughed.
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NEW York
Manhattan
Queens
World-Telegram and Sun
Journal-American
The
Post
Long Island Press
Long Island Star-Journal
Daily News
Times
Herald ‘Tribune
the Mirror
the Post
Herald Tribune
the Times
Seven youths injured in Edmonton car crash on Great Road curve
Police stated that seven youths, four teenage girls among them, were injured when a car lost control on a curve on Great Road in Edmonton. The car struck a light standard after passing. The front seat occupants were boys while the back carried the girls.
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Edmonton
Pearson Sees Rail Subsidy Hint Ahead of By Election
Liberal leader Lester B Pearson suggested Ottawa may introduce a rail subsidy to ease freight rate inequities. Speaking in North Kildonan at an Anton Weselak campaign stop, Pearson faulted the Tories for delaying action on rate increases tied to proposed wage boosts and warned of emergency measures if not addressed.
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Winnipeg
Lester B. Pearson
Ottawa
Prairie
Maritime Provinces
North Kildonan
Anton Weselak
Springfield
Pearson
Mishap Kills Ex City Man Ross Perrin
A former Medicine Hat resident Ross Perrin aged 44 of Calgary died when his 1958 car slid off a highway and dropped 75 feet down a Creston B C bank. Born June 16 1914 he lived in Medicine Hat from 1926 with a career spanning Lord Strathcona Horse RCAF CHAT radio and Tilden Rent-a-Car. He was survived by two brothers Douglas and Kenneth.
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Medicine Hat
Ross Perrin
Calgary
Creston
B.C
Mr. Perrin
Lord Strathcona Horse Regiment
RCAF
CHAT
Tilden Rent-a-car
Douglas
Capt
Kenneth
Plan to curb traffic at St Patrick's Church intersection
The Interim Development Board heard criticism of the Riverside corner described as the city’s worst intersection. Craig urged creating a traffic island and a dead end at Second St NE to route vehicles toward the Finlay Bridge, proposing a roundabout and new North Riverside road. The proposal was not referred to council. A separate permit for a home near Aberdeen and Sixth St SE was referred to safety for report amid concerns it may worsen hazards. The board also discussed Hillside cemetery expansion and potential need for a new burial site.
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St. Patrick’s Church
Riverside
Finlay Traffic Bridge
Second
Third St
Second Ave
Second St
Craig
Finlay Bridge
Crescent Heights Hill
Third St. A
IDB
Council
E. Schick
Aberdeen St
Sixth St
Traffic Safety Committee
Schick
Hillside Cemetery
Hillside
Ed Elford
Berlin Leads NATO Talks as Paris Conference Opens
Paris reports that NATO military leaders met to discuss European security while ministers from Britain the United States France and West Germany planned separate sessions in Paris next week to frame a broader NATO summit agenda. Discussions covered nuclear tests the Rapacki Plan and a European free trade area under EC E.
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Paris
Reuters
Berlin
NATO
Britain
United States
France
West Germany
Iceland
Norway
Bjarne Oen
Lauris Norstad
Cental Europe
Russia
Geneva
Rapacki
Europe
UN Disarmament Subcommittee
Organization For European Economic Cooperation
Oceanfront Oceanside Hotel Razed By Early Fire
Fire destroyed the 400 room Oceanside Hotel along with three guest cottages and three shops in Magnolia Massachusetts. The winter resort area suffered unoccupied structures as townspeople estimated damages near 1 million dollars.
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Magnolia
Mass
Oceanside
Atlantic
Women See Surge in Farm Labor Among Canadian Workers
Ottawa economists note an unprecedented rise in women farm workers this year with about 55 000 monthly averages versus 39 000 last year while men drop from 719 000 to 671 000. Possible explanations include increased involvement of wives and daughters and more women taking seasonal vegetable and fruit farm jobs.
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Ottawa
Army doctor warns trousers danger may exceed nuclear fallout
Maj Gen Elbert Decoursey told a Louisville audience that wearing trousers raises reproductive temperatures and could cause many mutations, potentially far more than bomb fallout. He cited Stockholm research and noted upcoming weapons may increase radiation sickness, while 85 percent of Hiroshima Nagasaki victims suffered burns.
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Louisville
Elbert Decoursey
Stockholm
Ien
Gen. Decoursey
Fort Sam
Houston
Tex
Nature
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Teamsters Barred From March Convention by Court Ruling
A federal judge ordered the Teamsters Union to comply with reform orders from court-appointed monitors. Judge F Dickinson Letts cancelled plans for a March 1959 convention and empowered monitors with authority to approve any new meeting, noting their role is not advisory. Hoffa faced limits on seeking to end the monitorship.
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Washington
Teamsters Union
F. Dickinson Letts
James R. Hoffa
Letts
Teamsters
Hoffa
Teamsters Push Nationwide Police Union Drive
The Teamsters led by James Hoffa announced a nationwide drive to unionize 10 million public workers including all policemen with New York as a primary target. New York Mayor Wagner and the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association oppose the plan, saying police should not be unionized and backing the police commissioner.
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Miami, Beach
PBA
New York
U.S
Chinook Fails to Warm Medicine Hat as Cold Lingers
A Chinook wind is expected to raise Medicine Hat temperatures to 25 Friday while Saskatchewan remains under cold air. Snow is possible tonight in parts of Canada with Vancouver at 37 degrees and Graham Ontario at 87 below. Graham records its third straight night as Canada’s coldest spot, Medicine Hat forecast to drop to 15 above.
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Medicine Hat
Saskatchewan
Canada
Vancouver
Graham
Ont
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