Unpaid Bills Put City Hospital in Deficit
City hospital finances show a six month loss of 400 on expenditures of 177 303 and revenue of 176 902 including 91 300 guaranteed by public plans. Uncollected accounts amount to 22 434 of which 63 168 were collected 73 75 per cent. Legge urges better collection to avoid further borrowing and outlines budget controls for 1950. A joint council hospital board meeting will review the situation amid calls for public disclosure.
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General Hospital
A. T. Legge
Council
Legge
City Treasury
Ald
Hawthorne
Robt. Calder
Hospital Board
Ald. Hawthorne
Calder
Redcliff
Medicine Hat
B. C. Armstrong
Lang
H. C
Dairy cattle entries begin for Medicine Hat Stampede show
Forty three dairy cattle entries have been received for the exhibition to be held with the Medicine Hat stampede July 21 to 23. Competing for prize money and a Crystal and Don dairies showmanship award are Mrs A Millington Arthur Millington Frank Millington Mrs Mary Holt Bill Woolfrey and Larry Massey of Thelma.
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Medicine Hat
Crystal and Don Dairies
A. Millington
Arthur Millington
Frank Millington
Mary Holt
Bill Woolfrey
Larry Massey
Millingtons
Albert Anderson
Pashley
Ted Herman
Schuler
Ibition
Parade Details All Ironed Out
Medicine Hat prepares for a record shattering Stampede street parade through downtown Thursday morning. A final committee meeting chaired by Gordon Simmons ironed last minute details, briefed judges, and assigned section marshals.
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Medicine Hat
Gordon Simmons
Mews
Groveland Fla Civil Unrest Flares After Nighttime Fires
In Groveland Florida a mob attacked a Black village area after a man was defeated and robbed and his 17 year old wife injured. Three Black homes were burned as residents evacuated. Sheriff McCall used tear gas on the armed mob of about 50.
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Groveland
Fla
Lake County
W. V McCall
Stuckey’s Still
Sherriff McCall
Charlie Greenlee
Samuel Shepherd
Wal
Gypsy Rose Lee Impresses Edmonton Reporters at Exhibition
Two Edmonton reporters visiting Gypsy Rose Lee at the Edmonton Exhibition describe her as motherly and skeptical of their appearance. She dismisses their frayed collars and stains with a sharp quip about them looking like bathing bachelors as she surveys her palace on wheels.
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Edmonton
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy
Alberta Premier says gas reserves insufficient for export
Premier Manning declared Alberta has insufficient natural gas reserves to permit exports outside the province. He said no export applications will be favorably considered until reserves meet present and future domestic and industrial needs under conservation and proration practices. The policy clarifies sessions after earlier legislation granting export permits with cabinet approval.
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Edmonton
Manning
Alberta
Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board
Typhoon Tokyo Death Toll Rises to 14
The typhoon that blew through Monday left 14 dead as national rural police reported 195 houses destroyed and over 5,000 flooded. The storm also damaged 104 roads, destroyed three bridges, and left 11 fishing boats missing.
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Tokyo
National Rural Police
Glass industry faces labor bottleneck in Britain
In Stourbridge England the crystal glass trade faces a skilled worker shortage as war losses and conscription drain apprentices. The industry relies on hand blown pieces and long training, with firms like Stuart & Sons Ltd losing many workers to war work and unable to quickly replace them. Half of annual output is exported.
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Christopher Young
Southam London Bureau
Stourbridge
England
Airmail
North America
United States
France
Stuart & Sons Ltd
Britain
Woman In Belleville Claims $1.25 Million Inheritance
Dorothy McGuire, 28, a stenographer and mother of four, says executors informed her she will inherit one quarter of a $5,000,000 estate left by her uncle who died in an auto crash near North Bay. She has yet to receive funds and did not meet the uncle, who lived in New York.
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Belleville , Ont
Belleville
Dorothy Mcguire
Harry
North Bay
New York
McGuire
Sandra
Toronto
Murder Site Becomes Tourist Mecca in B C
In Mission British Columbia tourists flock to Silver Hill the site of a double murder. Ivar Johnson a 70 year old recluse allegedly shot two women. George Barrett husband of Johnson second victim returns home near Johnson’s burned house. Police believe he set fire before fleeing. Road crews work on the Barrett road amid disputed boundaries linked to the killings.
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Barrett Road
Ottawa Pessimistic Over Trade Outlook
Ottawa officials said Canada faces a grim trade and dollar outlook as Commonwealth ministers plan import cuts. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott warned that 25 percent cuts in timber metals and pulp and paper could hit exports hard, risking a $250 million loss and pressuring the deficit with the United States to drop below $50 million.
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Reg Hardy
Southam
Ottawa Bureau
Ottawa
Canada
London
Douglas Abbott
Commonwealth
Abbott
Mr. Abbott
Nickel Beer Pioneer Honored By Neighborhood Club
In New York Sam Atkins slashed beer to five cents last March sparking four months of brisk business at his St. Mark's Place bar. Neighbors raised 300 for a diamond studded watch to mark his 52nd birthday on August 4. The crowd credits the nickel price with drawing steady custom. Sea leopards are the fastest and strongest Antarctic seals and can reach 15 feet.
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New York
Sam Atkins
Sam
Charles Consey
St. Mark’s Place
Scouts Learn About Canada At Jamboree Camp
Nearly 3 000 Boy Scouts from Canada the United States and Cuba gather on rifle ranges near Ottawa for the first Canadian Scout jamboree. Scouts age 14 to 17 share literature, watch province pageants, and travel by special trains amid incidents of travel and illness as they raise funds by odd jobs and craftwork.
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Connaught
South March
Ont
Canada
Ottawa River
United States
Cuba
Boy Scouts of America
U.S
King’s Scouts
Dominion
Ottawa
Bill Lynch
Port Arthur
Alberta
Bill
Slayer of Nine a Religious Maniac, Psychiatrist Says
John George Haigh alias vampire was condemned to die for the murder of Olive Durand Deacon. A psychiatrist testified Haigh suffered paranoid insanity and followed a mystic, blood drinking cult since adolescence. Prosecutors called murders premeditated for gain.
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Lewes
Sussex
England
John George Haigh
Olive Durand- Deacon
Haigh
Henry Yellowlees
London
Glasgow
Yellowlees
Monday High
Durand-Deacon
Durand- Deacon
David Maxwel Fyfe
Christ
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John Robertson
St. John’s Church
C. S. Hunt, R.V
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Medicine Wat
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Donald
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