Mayor Signals $15 Million Province Subsidy Demand
Mayor Harry Weiner announced support for the Union of Alberta Municipalities request for a guaranteed provincial subsidy fund of $15,000,000 per year. He said he would drop his push for a $10 per capita jubilee year grant to towns villages and smaller centres if the province accepts the proposal.
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Harry Weiner
Union of Alberta Municipalities
Alberta
UAM
Hardy
Citizen’s Research Institute of Canada
Medicine Hat
Weiner
Calgary
Edmonton
Two Planes Collide Killing 15 Near Burlington Ky
A mid air collision southwest of Cincinnati killed 15 people. Ten passengers and three crew were aboard a Trans World Airlines jet. two others were in a Douglas DC-3. The crash occurred en route to Ohio. the other craft owned by Mr and Mrs Frederick Lennep. Rescue crews recovered corpses from the wreckage in a gully while one plane lay two miles away. The cause may never be known and the TWA plane had just been cleared.
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Burlington, Ky
Greater Cincinnati
Trans World Airlines
TWA
Ohio
Dayton
Cleveland
Arthur Werkhaven
Edward Agner
Battle Creek
Mich
Frederick Lennep
Kentucky
Lennep
Frances Dodge
Lenneps
Detroit
Lexington
Wharton
Opposition Parties Support But Believe It Scanty Fare
Labour Minister Milton Gregg's bill to raise supplementary winter unemployment insurance benefits, potentially totaling around 10 million dollars, passed first reading in the house. Opposition called it "scanty fare" but supported as at least something, while urging real job creation and broader policies.
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Reginald Hardy
News Ottawa Bureau
Ottawa
Milton Gregg
Oliver Twit
Gregg
George H. Hees
Toronto-Broadview
F. G. Hahn
Newe Weve
Medicine Hat
C. E. Johnston
Bow River
Ford Strike Talks Postponed Again In Canada
Negotiations between Ford Motor Company of Canada and the United Automobile Workers were postponed again in Toronto as meetings were set to resume at 2 30 p m after a Tuesday postponement. Company officials cited union documents and uncertain plans for tonight. About 9 000 Ford workers in Windsor Oakville and Etobicoke remain idle in the 94th day of the wage strike.
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Toronto
Ford Motor Company of Canada
United Automobile Workers’ Union
CSO
Ford
Windsor
Oakville
Etobicoke
Two Missing After Airlift Plane Crash at Stewart AFB
Two Air Force C-119 Fly Boxcars ferrying 3,000 airborne troops to Alaska crashed near Stewart Air Force Base Tennessee and three airmen earned safety while two crew members remain missing. Seventy-three paratroopers and crew escaped unharmed, with another incident earlier near Miles City Montana involving 33 paratroopers.
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Stewart Air Force Base
Tenn
Alaska
Montana
Air Force
Miles City
Mont
J. G. Johnson
Fort Campbell
Edmonton
503Rd Airborne Infantry Regiment
Canada Holds Onto Its Title King of World Grain Exports
Winnipeg CP report notes Canada remains the top grain exporter for 1953-54, supplying about 30 percent of world bread grain trade with 437.9 million bushels in the crop year Aug 1 1953 to July 31 1954. Factors include weaker demand, Argentina’s return to markets, stronger U S competition, and UK purchases dropping sharply.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Board of Grain Commissioners
Argentina
United States
Storm wrecks coast as Newfoundland towns reel from damage
A savage sea storm battered eastern and southern Newfoundland, smashing fishing stages and wharves, destroying buildings, washing away highway segments, and halting an eastbound express. At least seven structures were reduced to rubble while freighters at St John's harbor rode out the swells.
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ST. John's
Mfld
Newfoundland
St. John’s Harbor
Bedford II
Petty Harbor
Conception Bay
Ferryland
White Bay District
Costa Rica reports downing of Venezuelan pursuit plane
A Venezuelan pursuit plane, from Nicaragua, was downed by anti aircraft fire over San Jose after buzzing the capital and firing on residences near the Costa Rican White House. Government troops fought rebels in Villa Quesada as invading forces claimed two Pacific ports Puerto Soley and Puerto Cortez and reported machine gun fire at Turrialba and Cartago.
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San Jose
Cota Rica
Nicaragua
Civil Guard
Villa Quesada
White House
Jose Figueres
Lacsa Airlines
Costa Rica
United Nations
Pacific
Benjamin Nunez
Puerto Soley
Puerto Cortez
Turrialba
Cartago
Cabinet Secrets Prompt Liberal Banter In Ottawa Debate
Liberal MP Elmore Philpott joked that the cabinet is a very clammy lot and no one can uncover secrets. He quipped wives might learn more, referencing Lloyd George. He also teased Earl Rowe about PC support for national health insurance amid the throne speech debate.
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Ottawa
Elmore Philpott
Vancouver South
Lloyd George
Philpott
Earl Rowe
Progressive Conservative
Conservative Party of Canada
Wa pa soos Pioneer Bridge Name Favored In Medicine Hat
Alberta’s Gordon Taylor dedicates a named bridge on the Trans Canada over the South Saskatchewan. The 1013 foot concrete girder span cost 850000 and took three years to finish after flood delays. A naming contest favors Wa pa soos linked to Cree legend of Medicine Hat.
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Alberta
Gordon Taylor
Canada
Saskatchewan
Chamber of Commerce
Medicine Hat
Historical Society
Smilestones Two Alberta Girls Meet Oil Man
Two Alberta girls discuss a future meeting with an oil man estimated to be worth about a million dollars. One notes the figure, the other quips that the million-dollar neighborhood is her favorite.
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Alberta
Protection push behind Canada gas import licensing plan
Ottawa outlines licensing of U S gas imports to protect the $300 million Trans-Canada pipeline, consumers, and stable supply. The act would require government approval and raise questions on supply reliability and conflicts with existing or proposed lines, potentially accelerating Union Gas Company of Canada's plan to triple imports from Panhandle Eastern into Ontario.
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Ottawa
U. S
Alberta
Canada
Federal Power Commission
Union Gas Company of Canada
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company
Union
U.S
Hamilton
Ontario
Peete Nee Ae Mees
Britain says Peiping talks not a failure
London denies reports that Hammarskjold's Peiping mission failed to free American fliers. The British Foreign Office endorses UN spokesman notes no immediate results but says contacts will be maintained. Regular reports came from Humphrey Trevelyan in Peiping, with limited informal contacts to Hammarskjold.
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London
Foreign Office Today
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
Peiping
Foreign Office
Red
China
Hammarskjold
Britain
Humphrey Trevelyan
Trevelyan
Mild air moves into western Canada with sunny periods
Ontario sourced weather bulletin notes cold air in Saskatchewan while milder air approaches Alberta. By Thursday afternoon western Saskatchewan will see warmer temperatures with sunny periods, and highs expected around 15 in Saskatchewan and 40 in southern Alberta.
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Edmonton
Saskatchewan
Alberta
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Liament
Massey
Vincent Massey
E. E. Baxter
United Kingdom
U.K
Sec — Canada
Stewart Macleod
Wa-pa-soos
Los Angeles
Joseph F. Samson
Samson
By Douglas Leiterman
Tigerss
Regina Pats
Uncle Tom
S Cabin
PIM Ss
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