31 Jan 1957
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 31, 1957
Page
1
A fragmentary 1957 list shows traffic violations by category including excessive speed and failing to stop. Entries mention impaired ability and non specific offenses with counts like 6 for excessive speed, 3 for yield right of way, and 1 for other violations, though several items are truncated.
Vancouver Rotarians heard Dr. Dale Trout of GE discuss electronic bombardment for food preservation, sterilization, beer enhancement, and chemical process speedups. Saskatchewan officials touted farm business expansion via grain and forage transfers to livestock. Fort St John fines and jailing for assault, Regina fire at a plant, Edmonton appoints Ivan Casey to East Rockies Conservation Board.
J E Harlton and Ken Gilchrist of Sask watch Medicine Hat bonspiel while rival rinks race for Grand Aggregate prizes. Harlton brothers and Vauxhall figures join the event as Sam Gil rink rebounds from 0-3. Harvey Blaney's 7-0 rink dominates, with local figures Gordon McGowan and Norm Erskine noted.
Canada’s board of transport commissioners grants Trans-Canada Pipe Lines a construction permit for the 370 million project with a December 31 1958 completion deadline. The decision covers the main line to Montreal and a 49 mile spur Winnipeg to the North Dakota border, though US export permission and an Ontario North Bay spur are pending. Federal and Ontario support boosts financing to about 371 million.
The Defence Research Board station at Suffield donates 1075 to furnish a day sitting room at Medicine Hat Municipal District Hospital. Dr. G Q Langstroth notes the gift from civilian and military personnel as a gesture to hospital trustees and Medicine Hat residents. Aggregate gifts total 38000 to date.
In London a court awarded Henry Behrens and his wife £3,410 after an elephant stam pede at a 1954 carnival. The couple, one yard and 30 inches tall respectively, were injured when an elephant named Bull panicked. Mrs Behrens suffered three broken ribs and a fractured arm ending work for two years.
U S officials expect King Saud to use leadership influence to urge permanent Middle East settlements and early Suez Canal operation. Eisenhower hosted Saud at the White House for private talks with Dulles, Nixon luncheon, and two formal discussions. bankers and oil executives were invited.
Ottawa reports Louis Stephen St Laurent, Canada’s prime minister, marking his 75th birthday February 1 with a busy workday and tributes planned in Quebec City. He notes he is doing his best, maintains good health, and continues long hours from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. during parliamentary sessions. The piece also mentions Groundhog Day forecasts and a light domestic celebration plan.
Pieces of wreckage from a test flight collision between a giant transport and a jet struck three San Fernando Valley schools. At least four students were killed and as many as 60 injured. The jet’s pilot died when it crashed into a canyon. A flaming main section reportedly struck a playing field where 75 boys were at games.
A slow cloud dissipation and reduced snowfall are expected across the western prairies. In southern Alberta, temperatures around zero are forecast with light to moderate wind. Yesterday’s highs and lows show Calgary at 116 and 47, Lethbridge 4 and 26, Saskatoon -15 and -30, Regina around -ill.
Public hearings into whether firemen are required on CPR freight and yard diesel locomotives begin March 4 as part of a royal commission led by Justice Kellock. The inquiry, expected to last weeks, will review evidence from the BLFE and CPR and is non binding with findings aimed at public backing.
Members of the Harvey Blaney rink at Vauxhall and the J. W. Noland rink of Tompkins await the umpire's ruling in the No. 1 Cantalini Grand Challenge. The rinks were tied 6-6 entering the final end in the Hat Curling Club bonspiel.
Unheralded Jack Cocks of Medicine Hat upset Harvey Blaney 9-3 in the 10th annual Medicine Hat Bonspiel. The Cocks quartet led by Pettigrew Crawford and Myers improved to six wins as Blaney dropped to 7-1, while Joe Falchuk of Mantario moved to 7-0 with an 8-6 win over George Halstrom of Moose Jaw.
Norman Woolley 64 of the district died in Medicine Hat General Hospital following an auto accident Friday January 18 on the Black and White Trail south of Dunmore. He and his wife Ada were in a single vehicle struck by Floyd Potter's car. All were district farmers. Funeral arrangements are with Pattison's.
Bank clearings in Medicine Hat remained high in January 1957 with a total of 7,317,856 dollars for all city banks. The figure compares with 566,034,143 dollars in January 1956, and sits about half a million below December 1956's total of 7,872,859 dollars.
The city saw a marked rise in births and deaths in January 1957 compared with the previous year. Marriages fell below the January 1956 level. Readable totals show 82 births, 34 deaths and 14 marriages, with earlier figures noting 68 births, 23 deaths and 20 marriages in January 1965.
A jumble of names appears in the OCR fragment listing participants and attendees for an annual event. The text names multiple individuals associated with hotels, motors, and leadership roles, including figures such as Hat, Foulston, Gore, Jones, Cleland, Patton, McDonald, McKay, Kerkhoff, and Wolfe, with mentions of Calgary Taber Leth and others, but the exact event details remain unclear.
An initial study by Calgary consultants Haddin Davis and Brown began to assess options for a new crossing at East End. The project aims to compare subway and overpass economics and present alternatives and recommendations to civic authorities for council consideration after a traffic check.
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