Refunds totaling two million reach 251301 Canadians
Treasury staff issued income tax refunds totaling about 2 000 000 to 251 301 Canadians nationwide. Cheques averaging 8 dollars go to employers for distribution to employees with exemptions raised to 1 000 dollars for singles and 2 900 dollars for married persons.
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Ottawa
Treasury
Jhrice
Budgt
Montreal
Winnipeg
Regina
Saskatoon
Calgary
Edmonton
Vancouver
Charlottetown
Vencouver
Great Lakes gale closes navigation season at lakehead
A severe autumn storm battered the upper lakes with winds up to 65 miles per hour at the lakehead. Port warnings were issued as grim weather persists across the Great Lakes. Two Mohawk Navigation freighters the Shaughnessy and the Saskatoon carried grain to Sault Ste Marie, likely the last down bound vessels on Lake Superior.
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Great Lakes
Alst Sar
Lakehead
Mohawk Navigation Company
Shaughnessy
Saskatoon
Sault Ste Marie
Luke Superior
Protest Over Govts Move To Use Troops At Power Stations
Wildcat strikers in London held mass meetings to oppose government dispatch of Royal Naval technicians to three London electricity plants to avert a total shutdown amid a wage dispute. About 1,000 workers walked out over a two cent hourly raise, with bonuses excluded and union leaders divided on the arbitration verdict.
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London
Royal Naval
Dartford
George Saaces
Army
Air Force
Navy
Arbitration Council
Israel warned by US on Jerusalem moves
The United States advised Israel to avoid inflammatory actions after the UN decision to internationalize Jerusalem. Parliament meets this afternoon as Prime Minister David Ben Gurion is expected to reject the UN assembly resolution for an international regime over the Holy City, already divided into Jewish and Arab camps.
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Israel
Tikl Aviv
CAP
United States
United Nations
Jerusalem
David Ben Gurion
UN Assembly
Holy
India Crash Kills 11 and 19 Survive U S Air Disaster
Karachi area Pakistan transport plane crash kills 11 of 21 passengers and four crew with two Pakistan army generals among the deceased. The DC-3 went down in desert country north of Karachi discovered by early aerial searchers. (Continued on Page Six)
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Karachi
Pakistan
Here
Pakistan Army
Pak Air Company
Sher Khan
Iftikhar
William Chertown
Brooklyn
N.Y
Neville Lassiter
Arlington
W. J. Davis
Lloyd L. Porter
Alexander, Va
Tilley Boys in Basement Blast
Three boys aged 9 to 10 were injured in a basement gas explosion at a near-complete store foundation. Stanley Su lak 10 Edward Sulak 9 and Laurel Scobsen 8 touched off the blast after re lighting a gas burner left burning for concrete drying. Passersby helped extinguish the flames.
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Tilley
Stanley
Edward Sulak
Laurel Scobsen
E. Tatem
Acobsen
Chinese Reds Make Americans Squirm Aboard Lakeland Victory
Chinese Reds charged the United States government seven thousand dollars to move ousted Consul General Angus Ward's party and baggage from Mukden to Tientsin. Ward recounts the trip as about six hundred miles with a party of twenty in ten freight carloads, all in third class unheated wooden benches.
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Lakeland Victory
Taku Bar
China
United States
Angus Ward
Mukden
Tientsin
Ward
U.S
Clothing Drive Nets Odds and Ends for France Relief
In Philadelphia the textile institute fund drive for France yielded surprises with clothing bundles concealing items such as two cameras a set of silver candlesticks a silver chafing dish 12 hand carved buttons 13 pieces of costume jewelry 18 pocketbooks a box of toys and 60 women's hats discovered inside.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Textile Institute
France
Athletes and Meat Diet Myths Debunked by Nutrition Expert
London reports nutritionist Dr Arnold Bender says British athletes gain little from red meat before events. He notes protein needs depend on body size, not workout type, and balanced diets provide adequate protein from milk eggs fruit nuts and bread. He also cautions against relying on steak for psychological boost before fights.
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London
Arnold Bender
Britain
Crokes Laboratories Ltd
Bender
Statistical Vote Review and Elected Aldermen Result
The review lists four elected aldermen Scott Gardner Douglas McCombs Hawthorne Gust Thiessen with vote counts. By Lows show by laws rejected on bus franchise commission form gov t, hospital insurance plan approved, and a total News estimate of 4 681 votes from 9 677 electors. Also reports ratepayers and non ratepayers turnout and historical plebiscite results with subway and hospital grant context.
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Scott
Gardner
Douglas
McCombs
Hawthorne
Gust
Thiessen
Hector Lang
Mgr
J. W. Douglas
Connaught
Recount Possibility Looms After Tight Alderman Race
Mrs. Lillian Gust and Alderman Don Hawthorne tied for fifth with 2 070 votes each while W. J. McCombs led the contest with 2 086 votes. The city clerk noted a minor miscalculation but upheld the close spread, leaving room for a recount request within 14 days with a $25 deposit, under Medicine Hat charter terms.
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Lillian Gust
Gust
Ald
Don Hawthorne
W. J. McCombs
Hawthorne
W. A. Keith
Medicine Hat
Mothers Infants Have Some Names
Mrs Norma Jean Chiles gave birth to a son at Springfield city hospital. Two girls named Norma Jean married cousins named Chiles. The two girls then had sons in the same hospital on the same day in the same room, posing a challenge for nurses to keep the babies straight.
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Springfield, D
Norma Jean Chiles
Springfield City Hospital
Gertrude Stein
Norma Jean
Counsins
Chiles
Would Train Youth In Use of Autos
Washington safety experts rate teenage driver education as the top repair for the U S auto toll. Norman Damon of the Automotive Safety Foundation calls high school training the most important hope for safer driving while Lou E. Holland of the AAA says extending training to all high schools would help solve the safety problem. Delaware survey shows untrained drivers incur about five times as many accidents as trained drivers.
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Washington
United States
Norman Damon
The
Automotive Safety Foundation
Lou E. Holland
American Automobile Association
America
Holland
Delaware
Smilestones Scene Seeks Help as Man Describes Hard Times
A lone figure pleads for aid in a dim street corner scene, speaking to a passerby about unemployment and claiming only a revolver and nothing else. The exchange captures a moment of desperation and vulnerability in a cold night setting.
Pair Lead Police To Cabbie's Body
Two 18 year old farm hands Kenneth Bevin and Gervin Patenande led police to the battered body of taxi driver Lucien Brunette after their capture in a barn. The discovery followed an $800 bank robbery in Ormstown and Brunette’s disappearance Sunday night. Huntsonton, near the Quebec New York border, is about 48 miles southwest of Montreal.
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Huntington, Que
Lucien Brunette
Kenneth Bevin
Gervin Patenande
Donnelly’s Bridge
Huntington
Montreal
Brunette
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Ormstown
Cabbie
Quebec- New York
Cold continues across Canada's prairie region
The CP report notes ongoing extreme cold across the prairie provinces with no relief expected. The average region temperature was 20 below zero, Fort McMurray hit 38.7 below, Brochet reported 28 below, and Regina and Brandon were forecast to reach 25 below with Winnipeg in the 20s below.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Prairies
Fort McMurray
Alberta
Brochet
Manitoba
Regina
Brandon
Medicine Hat Ballot Battle Elects New City Council
In Medicine Hat 1950 municipal elections four of nine council seats changed hands. Alds Scott and Douglas re-elected. new members Gardner and McCombs join council. Hawthorne and Gust defeated. Thiessen finishes seventh. Voter turnout 3,770 of 9,677. A hospital insurance plebiscite passes 1311 to 723.
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Medicine Hat
Ald
S. F. Scott
J. W. Douglas
R. C. Gardner
W. E H. McCombs
Gardner
D. S. Hawthorne
Lillian Gust
Ald Hawthorne
Ethel Thiessen
Scott
Douglas
McCombs
Gust
Ald. Hawthorne
Alberta
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Doug Gard
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