Ottawa approves swifter unemployment insurance expansion
Both chambers back a retroactive raise in supplementary benefits for those with exhausted regular benefits. The 25 percent increase to 100 percent and a minimum 60 day entitlement accelerate to help jobless between January 1 and April 15. Royal assent follows rapid Senate readings and swift governor general approval.
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Ottawa
Ripple Rock
Commons
Senate
Patrick Kerwin
Massey
Progressive Conservatives
Soviet offer to share atomic power experience with world
The Soviet government announced it would share scientific and technical experience from its atomic power program, to be disclosed in a report to the UN committee on atomic energy. Academician D V Skobeltsyn was named Soviet representative to the 1955 UN conference on atomic energy.
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Foreign Ministry
Leonid Ilyichev
Soviet Union
United Nations Committee On Atomic Energy
D.V. Skobeltsyn
Russia
Skobeltsyn
United Nations
N.Y
Ralph Bunche
Bunche
Brazil
Canada
United States
France
India
Britain
Dag Hammarskjold
Geneva
UN General Assembly
Former German POW Deported From Canada to Germany
Adolf Kratz 33, last German prisoner of war held in Canada, released after nearly 18 years at Saskatchewan Penitentiary and deported to Cologne. He had been imprisoned for a 1943 prison camp murder in North Africa, an uprising at a camp near Medicine Hat, Alberta. Spokesman cited family pleas including Kratz's 74 year old mother.
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Ottawa
Canada
Germany
Justice Department
Adolf Kratz
North Africa
Medicine Hat
Alta
Saskatchewan
Cologne
Kratz
Saskatchewan Health Chief Probes North Saskatchewan Pollution
Regina reports Saskatchewan director of sanitation J. G. Schaeffer has traveled to Edmonton to join Alberta officials in probing a recurrence of North Saskatchewan River pollution blamed on an Edmonton plant. The issue follows last winter’s contamination in Prince Albert and North Battleford, amid calls for an interprovincial pollution control body.
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Regina (Cp
J. G. Schaeffer
Saskatchewan
Edmonton
North Saskatchewan River
Prince Albert
North Battleford
F. B. Roth
Schaeffer
Alberta
Roth
Immigration Not a Factor in Unemployment Says Thorvaldson
G S Thorvaldson of Winnipeg president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce says immigration does not cause unemployment. He urged increasing immigration to boost life standards, aiming for 30 million people by 1975, with Canada adding about four million annually.
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Kitchener
Ont
G. S. Thorvaldson
Winnipeg
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Thorvaldson
Kitchener Chamber of Commerce
Canada
Abbot
Orphan Girls End 10000 Mile Trip
Two shy brown eyed sisters Elizabeth 14 and Barbara 13 stepped from a train into the arms of their grandfather Anton Pape Sr three miles south of Humboldt Saskatchewan ending a 10000 mile journey from a Yugo slav orphanage. The Red Cross arranged the trip and Winnipeg provided winter clothing as the girls learned to speak Croat and reunite with family.
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Humboldt, Sask
Pape
Elizabeth
Barbara
Anton Pape
Here
Anton
Hungary
Canada
Red Cross
Winnipeg
Wersher
Yugoslavia
Weather Summary: Temperatures Remain High Across Regions
Edmonton report notes today and Saturday temperatures 10 to 15 degrees above seasonal normals. Snow in southwestern Saskatchewan will end this afternoon as conditions ease.
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Edmonton
Saskatchewan
MFA charges oil profits fueling high living costs in Manitoba
The Main Farmers' Union urged Manitoba to probe the oil industry as excess profits rise. It cited Imperial Oil earnings from 1951 to 1953 and urged immediate emergency legislation, a plebiscite on marketing, debt relief extensions, consultations on federal changes, ending daylight saving time, and a link of the CNR line with Hudson Bay Railway.
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Winnipeg
Farmers’ Union
Canada
D. L. Campbell
MFA
James Patterson
Neepawa
Imperial Oil Company
Imperial Oil
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Manitoba
CNR
Lake Manitoba
Hudson Bay Railway
Kindellan
Gas price drop cited by Imperial Oil official
Winnipeg based Imperial Oil official Denis Kin dellan argues prairie oil development lowered costs for farmers and cut wholesale gasoline in Winnipeg from 27.5 to 21.9 cents per gallon, a over twenty percent drop. He says high profits claims by the Farmers Union are misleading and profits support reinvestment in the business.
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Winnipeg
Denis F. Kindellan
Imperial Oil Company
Prairie Oil
Mr. Kindellan
Manitoba Farmers’ Union
Imperial
Kindallen
Sand Lake Association reports no horse thefts in 1954
Sand Lake N Y AP reports not one of the 42 horses owned by members of the Association for the Mutual Protection against Horse Thieves was stolen during 1954.
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Sand Lake, N. Y
Sand Lake Association
Sofia and Fani Mircsopulu Reunite With Parents in Canada
Sofia Mircsopulu aged 28 and Fani 23 travel from Hungary to Canada with Red Cross help to join their mother Katina Micheff and father Floria Micheff after years of separation since 1948. The girls may adopt the Micheff surname in Canada while their brother Vasilake remains in Poland.
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Sofia
Fani Mircsopulu
Katina Micheff
Faer
Floria Micheff
Fani
Greece
Hungary
Red Cross
Canada
Mirosopulu
Micheff
Micheffs
Florin Micheff
Katina
Florin
Stanbury
Canadian Red Cross
Vasilake Mircsopulu
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Roumania
Bulgaria
Vasilake Mircsopotu
Hammarskjold Says Fliers Could Be Freed with Chinese Talks
UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold reported Peiping talks with Chou En Lai raised many questions including a UN seat but omitted any conditions for releasing 11 American fliers held by China. Lodge expressed optimism the fliers will be freed after Hammarskjold's briefing.
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United Nations, N.Y
Dag Hammarskjold
China
Chou En-Lai
Peiping
Hammarskjold
Chou
Hammarkjold
United States
Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U. S
Dulles
Britain Braces as Snow and Slush Tie Up Travel
Snow and slush cripple major routes in Britain with drifts up to 12 feet blocking Midlands and rural roads from Devon to Cornwall. The House of Commons clock stopped for five hours as weather halted events. trains ran late despite ghost trains aiding switches. London airports saw early delays up to two hours while many sports and other events were canceled.
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Britain
Big Ben
House of Commons
Midlands
Tamar Valley
Devon
Cornwall
London Airport
Chinese Aircraft Cripples Forces of Red Invaders
Reuters reports from Taipei note fourth straight day of raids as Nationalist forces claim destruction of Communist vessels near Chiku Shan and Yushan. US Army Gen Charles Bolte arrives with officers to discuss military cooperation with Nationalists during a two day stay. Nationalist Parliament ratifies the U S mutual defense treaty signed last month.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Reuters
Chikushan
Tachei Island
Yushan
Tachen
Defence Ministry
Charles L. Bolte
United States Army
Hsiao Pu
Washington
U. S
Lawyer Pews In For Defense At Church Service
A humorous church scene unfolds as a lawyer sits beside a colleague during a service and asks about progress. The colleague replies that the defense is just beginning, delivering a lighthearted moment in a solemn setting.
Fighting Widens In Costa Rica As War Drags On
Bulletin from The News reports Costa Rica’s four day war at a near stand still with an inter American commission saying bombings originated on foreign soil. Other items note atomic document loss speculation, political shifts in England and Canada, and public health and regional protests.
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Costa Rica
inter-American
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