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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1955
Page
1
President Eisenhower presents a 10 year program aiming for 500 billion dollars in annual output by 1965, predicts modest tax cuts in 1956, and urges Congress to expand unemployment benefits and raise the minimum wage. He cautions against stock market speculation and favors private-led growth with government restraint on monopolies.
Relays of helicopters and planes delivered food and supplies to 34 isolated Highland villages. Snowplows began opening roads while 3,300 pounds of aid including fuel and cattle fodder were dropped. authorities in Wick predicted the worst would pass in a day or two.
A brief dialogue features a man praising his dog for intelligence and perfect obedience. The owner asks, is he smart, and the dog responds by following the exact instruction to either come or stay, highlighting the pet’s keen listening.
Britain disclosed it consulted with the United States and New Zealand on a possible United Nations move to secure a cease-fire in China fighting. A foreign office spokesman said the proposal was among several options discussed with the two countries in recent months, but no decision was made.
Four Massachusetts prison convicts holding five guards as hostages for the third day signal potential for a bloodless settlement. Church and medical officials report the men say they are determined to hold out yet show year to year hope, contrasting U S sentencing with indefinite life terms.
All regions will have sunshine Friday with overnight lows from zero to five below. Temperatures will rise to 15 in the north and reach 30 in southwestern Alberta tomorrow.
Ed gar Faure moved to foreign ministry in fifth cabinet shuffle since last June. Jim Weatherall signs with the Philadelphia Eagles after a standout season with Edmonton Elks. Esks announce trade of tackle Bob Dean. GM offers 4 385 000 new common shares in largest industrial issue to date at the SEC. Viscount Allanbrooke cancels Canadian visit. Manitoba treasurer Turner warns St Laurent tax deal carries frightening significance. Nollet notes crop losses push Saskatchewan to diversify agriculture. Brooklands police chief McKayseff is fired. West German parliament delays ratification of Paris rearmament treaties by two weeks.
The provincial women's curling championships occur in Grande Prairie February 24 and 25 with the winner advancing to the western finals in Winnipeg March 15 to 17.
Col Hsiung En tai spokesman for the defence ministry reports 1500 Communist attackers killed by nationalist defenders of Yik iangshan. He notes 720 guerrillas defended the island during the first onslaught and cites 5500 Red Marines in the invasion force.
British freighter Edendale was sunk in a Nationalist Chinese air raid on Swatow. Crew unharmed. Britain protests to Nationalist China and seeks compensation. Nationalist authorities claim the raid sank a foreign tanker, possibly the Edendale, and warn foreign ships to stay away.
Hazen Argue of Assiniboia charged that Prime Minister St Laurent surrendered to Quebec Premier Duplessis in the Ottawa Quebec tax dispute during the throne speech debate. He criticized the proposed tax cuts as a retreat from postwar health, schools, and road aid while Canada moves to ratify the Paris protocol allowing a rearmed West Germany into NATO.
The speaker argues education should remain a provincial matter while accusing the federal government of pressuring provinces like Quebec to accept grants. He cites R. R. Knight and Mr. Duris, blaming Ottawa for lowered education standards across the Dominion and accusing Premier Duplessis and Mr. St. Laurent of surrendering authority.
In British Columbia a union crackdown on communists gains momentum as the International Woodworkers of America reportedly expels a member amid broader IBEW actions. The IBEW suspends 21 workers and three officers on alleged communist activity, with trials planned next month.
Senator Duffus urged national recognition of David Fife the Scotsman who developed Red Fife wheat. He proposed a living memorial about 74 miles from Peterborough Ontario funded at about 300000 dollars. Fife bred the wheat in Otter Township Ontario in 1842 sowing a standard spring variety that spurred Marquis wheat.
In Norfolk, a shipping operator reports one ship ashore at Bermuda, another towed in due to fuel, two more awaiting bunkers in Bermuda, and two returning to the Azores because of fuel shortages. Several vessels run three to ten days late while snow hampers loading.
Mrs Margaret Knight an Aberdeen University lecturer defended her denial of God's existence in a third BBC broadcast amid public uproar. She argued against dogmatic theology and urged applying scientific methods to human problems, while Mrs Jenny Morton countered that scientific humanism leaves vital moral hope unresolved.
An inter American commission proposed a demilitarized zone along the western Nicaragua Costa Rica border to prevent a clash. The five nation panel drew up maps and set the plan to take effect at noon and stay until the OAS directs otherwise after Nicaragua protested Costa Rican F 51 planes briefly violated territory during an attack near La Cruz seven miles from the border. The border region is tense as Nicaragua reinforces garrisons while Costa Rica fights rebels seeking to overthrow President Figueres.
West Germany says Otto Strasser has not been issued a passport as his case remains under study. The ex Nazi ally, living in Paradise Nova Scotia, blames U.S. and French pressure for the delay while planning to return to Germany with Nazi-aligned supporters hoping to unite neo Nazi groups.
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