Edmonton Plans Meet Expansion for 350 000 Population
Edmonton plans a comprehensive citywide development scheme led by Noel Dant to guide growth for a projected urban population of 350000. The plan, ready in a year for council study, will spawn a new zoning by-law addressing highways downtown congestion parking housing and lot sizes.
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Edmonton
Fdmonton
Canada
Noel Dant
Mr. Dant
London
England
Dant
Toronto
Chicago
Christmas Eve Services Planned by Medicine Hat Churches
St Barnabas Anglican and St Patrick's Roman Catholic plan Christmas Eve and Day masses. St Patrick's begins at midnight Dec 24 with services through Christmas Day. St Barnabas starts 11:30 PM Christmas Eve with services at 8 AM and 11 AM. Westminster United presents a Christmas in Song program led by Mrs. Ed Pederson. St John's Presbyterian holds 11 AM Christmas Day service. Fifth Avenue church hosts a junior choir musical pageant on Sunday Dec 27.
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St. Barnabas Anglican
St. Patrick's
St., Barnabas
Fifth Avenue United
Ed Pederson
St. John's Presbyterian Church
Fifth Avenue Church
Bob Wise Reflects on Christmas Behind Barbed Wire
Hollywood AP recounts U S Army captain Bob Wise who spent years in communist and German prisons. Wise travels from Tacoma to join his son for Christmas after serving as technical advisor on The Prisoner-of-War Story. He recalls a brutal 25 day march and a later forced feast shipment amid stalled truce talks.
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Wise
Tacoma
Wash
Yuletide
Robert Kent
United States Army
Pilgrims flood Bethlehem for Christmas despite war and snow
Pilgrims from Israel and Arab lands arrive in Bethlehem for Christmas amid tensions and heavy snowfall. From Nazareth and inside Israel 383 and 1,456 Christians join the Arabic community to celebrate, as planes resume airlift from Beirut and the Church of the Nativity prepares for Mass with crowds beyond capacity.
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Round Tables Suggestions For Coronation Stir Debate
The Guardian reports Round Table proposes changes to broaden the coronation to include Commonwealth nations. It suggests moving homage to Westminster Hall and having each country declare loyalty in its own language, with Anglican bishops from other Commonwealth countries and concerns from Canadian religious groups about church representation.
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the Guardian
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Canada
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Westminister Hall
Canterbury
Geoffrey Fisher
Manchester Guardian
Commonwealth
United Kingdom
Dermot Morrah
Arundel Herald
Pup Rescued From 38-Foot Well With Sea Anchor Aid
In Carlsbad a 10 day old puppy, trapped in a 10 inch well, was lifted to safety using a canvas sea anchor. Wayne Gregory and W. W. Burr lowered bread and milk to lure the pup aboard. Rescuers, after several attempts, retrieved the black and white female from the hole and the Humane Society took custody.
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N. M
Wayne Gregory
W. W. Burr
Gregory
Crash Survivor Is on Safe List in Local Hospital
Bow Island resident William Weir, one of three survivors from a fatal crash south of Bow Island on Tuesday night, is listed as satisfactory. Inquests into the deaths of Gordon Kelly and William Levy open for body identification and burial release as Weir recovers. Levy, a former Medicine Hat resident, was 39 and left a Calgary widow and five children.
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Bow Island
Gordon M. Kelly
William Levy
Calgary
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Levy
Medicine Hat
Mr. Levy
Second St
City
Alexandra Composite High School
Katie Brown
Claresholm
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Front Page Christmas Feature
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette uses its first page for a Christmas Eve scene with a colored village church image and a Silent Night verse, pushing the usual news to page 3. This holiday front page centers on "'Twas the Night before Christmas" in a seasonal display.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
We Found Peace Tops Hatters Library Read List
The Hatters public library reports its seven most borrowed titles of 1953. We Found Peace by Greg Campbell leads, followed by The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain, Houses in Between by Howard Spring, The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall, Steamboat Gothic by Frances Parkinson Keyes, and The Cain Mutiny by Herman Wouk. Monsarrat resides in Canada as part of the UK information delegation in Ottawa.
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Hatters
Bob Block
Greg Campbell
Thomas B. Costain
Howard Spring
Nicholas Monsarrat
Weather 'As Is' Best Prediction Christmas Day
The Canadian press reports few areas will see a white Christmas unless snow already on the ground. Snow flurries or light snow may occur before Christmas Day but strong winds could erase much of it. Vancouver Victoria Edmonton have little to none. other regions vary from five inches on Vancouver Island to heavy falls in northern Ontario and twenty eight inches at Armstrong. Newfoundland shows six to eight inches in most parts.
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British Columbia
Calgary
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Ontario
Armstrong
Newfoundland
Two-Headed Hartley Baby Shocks Indianapolis
A Hartley family in Indiana faces a rare conjoined twin birth with the infant born in Indianapolis hospital showing two heads two stomachs and one shared body. Father Cecil Hartley a 44 year old naval ordnance worker supports seven other children and hopes to raise his son normally. Medical experts note late embryo division produced Siamese twins with partial body sharing.
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Ron Kenyon
Toronto Telegram
Indianapolis
Indiana
Cecil Hartley
Hartley
Thad
Eall
U.S.A
Mr. Hartley
Jim Jordan
The
Indianapolis Times
Jordan
Tickets On Sale Boxing Day At Arena Gardens
Tickets go on sale Boxing Day from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at Arena Gardens.
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