Arrival Of 1958 Across Canada Heralded In Various Ways
The Canadian Press reports diverse New Year’s Eve plans across Canada. British Columbia marks 1958 as a centennial with special church bells. gifts await the first baby born after midnight. Weather ranges from sun to freezing rain. Ontario expects snow flurries and cold. Quebec treats New Year’s as religious and family time. Cabarets in Toronto promise $50 per couple tolerances. Montreal will close bars early. liquor laws shape Maritime celebrations.
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British Columbia
Vancouver
Holy Rosary
B.C
Ontario
Lake Erie
Montreal
Quebec
Maritimes
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Mackay Weighs Liberal Leadership Bid
Calgary mayor Don Mackay says he is considering entering the Liberal leadership race at the Ottawa convention January 14 to 16 after receiving support from backers in eastern and western Canada. Other declared contenders include Lester B. Pearson and Paul Martin.
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Calgary
Western Canada
Ottawa
Liberal Party
Don Mackay
Mackay
Lester B. Pearson
Paul Martin
Massey and Bowlen Deliver New Year Messages
Governor General Massey spoke in a CBC New Year address stressing Canadian unity under the crown and noting Quebec’s founding 350th anniversary. Alberta’s Bowlen highlighted the year’s historic royal visit and the 1957 Parliament opening as significant national milestones.
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Massey
Bowlen
Ottawa CP
CBC
Alberta
Canada
Prince Phillip
Smilestones Woman Builds Life Paragraph by Paragraph
A thoughtful profile follows a woman who notes that the best years come from speaking up about her choices. She reflects on time, growth, and the impact of sharing experiences publicly.
Africa Asia conference urges Western imperialists to quit the region
The African Asian conference endorsed a resolution demanding end to Western imperialism in the Middle and Far East while avoiding references to Communist areas. It backed self determination cases in Okinawa, West New Guinea, Goa, Korea, and Cyprus, and condemned the Baghdad Pact and Eisenhower doctrine. It also called for an immediate end to nuclear weapons tests and opposed foreign bases.
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Cairo
Middle
Far East
United States
South Korea
U.S
Anup Singh
India
Okinawa
Donesia
West New Guinea
Netherlands
Goa
Korea
Cyprus
Committee On
Russia
Britain
Ben-Gurion cabinet resigns and serves on caretaker basis
Ben-Gurion announced the resignation of his 16 member cabinet amid a dispute with Achdut Avodah over a leaked cabinet decision to send a two man mission to West Germany on military and security matters. The cabinet will remain caretaker until Knesset approves a new lineup.
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Ben-Gurion
Achduth Avodah
Labor Unity
West Germany
Mapai
Socialist Labor
Abduth Avodah
Mapam
United Workers
Israel
Knesset
Giora Isephstal
Settlement Ends New York Bus and Subway Strike Threats
In a two year pact reached at city hall, Transit Authority workers receive 32 cents per hour in wage increases starting immediately with a 15 cent rise and a 10 cent raise on January 1, 1959. The deal avoids a New Year’s Eve subway strike and a bus drivers walkout, with private lines still threatened and awaiting talks.
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New York
City Hall
Robert F. Wagner
Transport Workers Union
Transit
Michael J. Quill
TWU
Macmillan Holds Open Door to Summit with Bulganin
Prime Minister Macmillan drafted a note to Soviet Premier Bulganin leaving room for a summit on cold war issues while demanding careful preparation and real results. He plans an early foreign ministers conference to restart disarmament talks and lay groundwork for a later leaders meeting, with replies coordinated among allies in Paris on January 8.
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London
Macmillan
Nikolai Bulganin
United Nations
United States
France
Paris
Bulgaria
Artistic Thieves Leave Nice Note Cardboard Safe Stolen Cash
In Sumerville South Carolina Coburg dairy workers found a cardboard box painted to resemble a safe in place of the real one. The real safe was dragged to a back area and cracked open yielding 350 dollars in cash. A note painted on the back read Keep smiling.
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Summerville, S.C
Coburg
Americans Blamed for Jamming U K TV with Police Radio
London reports that American police radio chatter interrupts British TV viewing on winter evenings. BBC engineers cite sunspots and sporadic signals as cause while listeners complain messages cut in mid sentence with fragmentary details.
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London
United States
BBC
Illinois
Sheriff's Office
Ottawa Eyes Deficit Financing To Boost Public Works
Ottawa may run a deficit next fiscal year with spending seen at 5.5 billion dollars or more and a possible rise over current outlays. The plan centers on larger provincial shares of the tax pot and more public works projects as national production falls short of 1957 targets.
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Harold Morrison
Ottawa
Roy Osborne Ends 45 Years With News
Roy Osborne retires as publisher of the Medicine Hat News after 15 years in that role and 45 years with the paper. Fred McGuinness succeeds him as assistant publisher, with Osborne noting teamwork and city business support as keys to the paper’s long service amid Medicine Hat’s growth.
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Roy Osborne
Medicine Hat News
T. Roy Osborne
Fred McGuinness
Medicine Hat
Osborne
U.S. Highway Deaths Decline Slightly in 1957 Eleven Months
The National Safety Council reports 34 880 highway deaths in the first 11 months of 1957, about 2 percent below the 1956 figure. November fatalities total 3 530, down 2 percent from 1956. The council calls the trend encouraging.
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Chicago
United States
National Safety Council
Council
New Year Day Edition Skip Prompted by Holiday
News will not publish regular edition tomorrow New Year’s Day but promises complete news sports and features in Thursday’s issue with full coverage and regular sections.
Traffic violations filed in 1957 list
A late day record lists 1957 traffic violations including excessive speed without due care failing to stop impaired ability and fair yield right of way violations and other related infractions.
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Toronto
le Cabaret
Youngster
Optometrists
2Nd Street Medicine Hat
J. J. Bowlen
Ek See — Bowlen
Charles Patterson
Transit Authority
Transport Authority
Bulganin
U.K
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