14 Dec 1956
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1956
Page
1
The Senior Citizens' Club Christmas party spotlighted the Kiwanis Club septet performing a specialty razzle. The event drew attendees and showcased local entertainment within the community gathering.
Fulton seconded the motion and the crowd roared as Mr. Diefenbaker was proclaimed winner. Delegates rose in approval while Quebec supporters of Flemming remained quiet. Flemming and Fulton offered congratulations to Diefenbaker as a bouquet was presented to Mrs. Diefenbaker.
A telegraphed warning from Medicine Hat urges Conservative delegates meeting in Ottawa to avoid creating a Liberal style splinter platform. The note, filed by a Gas City housewife, urges self determination, expanded education, curbing monopolies, administrative government, a helpful foreign policy, and a health plan as the party’s path.
The Finnish freighter Petsamo en route from Montreal to Britain radioed for urgent help 130 miles off western Ireland as engines failed and she drifted in a gale. The 4,497 ton ship with a 35 man crew requested assistance and the British tug Turmoil was sent from Cork to aid.
Rebels launched a fresh wave of bomb and machine-gun attacks on two police barracks near the border as authorities prepare wider arrest powers and a frontier curfew. Prime Minister Lord Brookborough warned of harsher steps, with helicopters and police tracking suspects amid continued general alert in County Fermanagh.
Chinook conditions linger in Western Alberta with temperatures dropping to 10 to 20 below as a cold air surge creeps across the prairies. Weather facts note a quick cooldown and brief respite before further conditions.
A condensed report lists traffic violation figures for 1956 noting excessive speed 170 cases without due care 56 failing to stop 52 impaired driving 2671 failing to yield right of way 23 and other violations 178.
The Council of Social Services coordinates aid as the first Hungarian group, about four to five of 34 emigrants, arrives in Medicine Hat to begin rehabilitation in Canada. They travel from Quebec City aboard the Arosa Sun and will be met at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the CPR station and housed at St. Joseph's Home as a temporary reception center with support from Red Cross Salvation Army ICDE Walter Huckvale chapter and local clubs.
In a terse交流 exchange two hobos speak about holidays and work. The first declares hatred of holidays while the second agrees that leisure makes one feel common when no one works.
A Medicine Hat mother Patricia Bliss and her three week old Shane were injured in a car truck collision last night near Fort MacLeod. An unidentified two month old infant died in the crash and two others were injured. Arthur Ledine Bow Island driver and Tillie Mahalicz Lethbridge passenger were injured. Truck driver Earl Brown of Houston Texas was not hurt.
A ground search party reported sighting something definite five miles south of Chilliwack in the hunt for the missing TCA airliner. No description was given. A helicopter was sent from Sea Island rescue centre.
City approves a three month experiment by Medicine Hat Transportation Ltd. The first Crescent Heights run departs 7:00 a.m. from downtown, followed by hourly trips to 11:00 p.m. Debarkation is Woolworths. An 7:30 a.m. Crescent View Norwood run and half hour East runs to 10:30 p.m. The service uses extra bus with drivers Fred Ronan and Ken Craig under subsidy from the city. Route includes First Ave to Tenth St and Division Ave.
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