Britain Near Settlement in National Rail Strike Talks
Britain moves toward ending an 11 day rail stoppage as the government agrees to talks with strike leaders while the TUC backs negotiations. ASLEF and NUR seek higher wages and improved conditions, with dock and liner walkouts disrupting ports and shipping.
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London
Britain
Reuters
Trade Union Congress
TUC
Eden
Associated Society of Engineers and
Canada
United States
Liverpool
Southampton
Daily Mail
The
Daily Telegraph
Commission
ASLEF
National Union of Railwaymen
NUR
National Union of Seamen
Ascania
Britannic
Empress of Australia
Newfoundland
Saxonia
Petition seeks shorter deer season in southeast Alberta
City and district sportsmen plan petitions against a 60 day open deer season set for November and December. Farmers ranchers and hunters fear herd decimation during the long period and want shorter limits. Bucks only would be legal but it is also the deer breeding season, raising concerns about ruin to southeastern herds.
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Alberta
Defer Authority on Pipeline Until City Completes Dicker
Authority for the South Alberta Pipe Lines Ltd. pipeline from Etzikom to Medicine Hat is postponed until Medicine Hat finalizes land agreements with the province and negotiates with New British Dominion Oil and Gas Co. and Commercial Solvents Corp. The city moves to Edmonton to settle land terms and to seek borrowing for waterworks expansion as test holes for the chemical plant proceed and construction may shift to July.
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South Alberta Pipe Lines Ltd
Etzikom
Medicine Hat
City of
The
Conservation Board
New British Dominion Oil and Gas Co
Commercial Solvents, Corp
New York
Ald
W. E. McCombs
A. T. Legge
Calgary
Edmonton
Utilities Board
Medicine Hat Receives 137,360 Provincial Subsidy
The city gets 137,360 from the provincial government as its share of the municipal assistance grant funded by fuel oil and gasoline taxes. This year’s payment marks a rise from 122,000 last year and 1953 levels. The total to municipalities from this fund is 9,015,205, allocated by population and representing 50 percent of the fuel oil tax.
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Medicine Hat
Pottery Workers Secure 44 Hour Week Contract
An 18 month agreement between Medicine Hat Pottery Ltd and the United Mine Workers of America sets a 44 hour work week with time and a half for overtime and seven statutory holidays annually. Pay rates to be negotiated in the first half year.
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Medicine Hat Potteries Ltd
United Mine Workers of America
CCL
Fred Joyce
Calgary
Warm Trend Returns Over Western Prairies
Weather in Alberta will be mainly clear today and western Saskatchewan should be clear by evening. All regions are expected to be sunny tomorrow with a pleasant outlook.
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Edmonton
Prairies
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Two Words Never to Use Says Father to Son
A father tells his son Kenneth there are two words he should never say, punk and lousy. Kenneth asks for the words, and the exchange remains playful and instructive.
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Kenneth
Ken
Sub-Arctic Nike tests hailed as highly successful in Ottawa
Ottawa reports say sub arctic tests of the U S ground to air Nike missile near Churchill Manitoba proved eminently successful with radar devices and the guidance computer performing well in extreme cold. The Nike aims to locate and destroy enemy aircraft via an electronic brain despite evasive action.
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United States
Ottawa
Churchill
Man
Harris
Stanley Knowles
CCF
Winnipeg North Centre
Marler
Revenue
McCann
Mines
Pradham
Commons
Senate
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Trans- Prairie Pipelines of Canada
Simonds Retires From Canadian Army Post
Lt Gen Guy Simonds, 52, famed WWII field general, retires as chief of the general staff on Aug 31. Maj Gen Howard Graham, 56, named successor. Air Vice Marshal Frank Miller, 47, appointed deputy defence minister, replacing Brig. Gen Bud Drury who moves to private business. Gen Graham has led Central Command from Oakville since 1951.
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Ottawa
Guy Simonds
Canada
Howard Graham
Simonds
Northwest Europe
Frank R. Miller
C. M
Bud) Drury
Gen. Graham
Sicily
Italy
Army
Oakville
Ont
Osprey Persists on CPR Telegraph Lines Near Banff
A Canada Pacific Railway system near Banff housed an osprey nest for three years, complicating telegraph operations and causing concerns for CBC network interference. CPR installed a fifth cross bar to support the nest, avoiding harm to offspring and ensuring smoother messages. The bird and workers now share the pole without disturbing eggs.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Banff
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CPR
Ontario Votes Tomorrow As PCs Face Renewal Challenge
Ontario voters go to the polls to decide whether Premier Leslie Frost's Progressive Conservative government, in power for 12 years, will stay or yield to the Liberals under Farquhar Oliver or the CCF. The 98-seat legislature will replace the previous 90. Biographies of the three party leaders are provided for readers.
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Ontario
Leslie Frost
Progressive Conservative
Liberal Party
Farquhar Oliver
CCF
Liberal
Liberal Leader Farquhar Oliver Eyes Ninth Re-Election
Farquhar Oliver, 51, veteran Ontario Liberal and Grey South candidate, campaigns on familiar battleground for his ninth bid. He is one of the last old style orators, born and raised in Grey South, first elected in 1926 and never defeated there. Oliver has 29 years in the legislature, surpassed only by Harry Nixon and eclipsed by party swings since 1948.
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Ontario
Grey South
Liberals
Harry C. Nixon
Brant
United Farmers of Ontario
T. L. Kennedy
Mr. Oliver
Oliver
Progressive Conservative
CCF
Walter C. Thomson
John Ko Ok
Leslie Frost Ontario politician and wartime veteran profile
Leslie Frost born September 20 1895 in Orillia Ontario rose from local politics to Osgoode Hall and a long record in Victoria constituency. He served overseas in World War I and was discharged as a major. After 1921 he practiced law in Lindsay alongside his brother Cecil Frost.
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William Sword Frost
Glasgow
Confederation
Orillia
Frost
Cecil Frost
University of Toronto
Osgoode Hall Law School
Toronto
Lindsay
Victoria
Cecil
Osgoode Hall
Ontario CCF Leader Donald MacDonald Maps Path to June 9 Election
Donald MacDonald, longtime Ontario CCF leader, aims to revive the party in the June 9 Ontario election after a career spanning teaching, Queen's University advanced degrees, a wartime RCN service, and political organizing. He was born in Cranbrook 1913 and rose to lead the party 18 months ago amid changing fortunes since 1951.
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RCN
Mr. MacDonald
Cranbrook
B.C
Ormstown
Montreal
United States
MacDonald
Macdonald College
St. Anne de Bellevue
Queen’s University
Kingston
Ont
Queen’s
England
Scotland
We & 7
Six Die When Twin-Engine Plane Crashes Near Edmonton
Six air line employees aboard the Lockheed 14 were killed when the Associated Airways craft crashed during a practice flight near Edmonton on the Winterburn Indian reserve. The victims include two Edmontonians, a Charlottetown pilot, and an Edmonton mechanic’s helper. The crash marked the fourth Associated Airways incident in recent weeks, with earlier deaths in the Arctic and near Cambridge Bay. A witness reported the plane tearing through tree tops and burning. only tail and wing tips remained.
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Associated Airways Ltd
Lockheed 14
Winterburn
Winterburn Indian Reserve
John Paul Charlottetown
R. W. Schneider
Eldon Johnson
Mechanic's Helpers
de Long
Roagh Horne
Charlottetown
R. W Schneider
Associated Airways
Schneider
Horne
Arctic
Joe Rubenick
Lockheed
RCMP
RCAF
Bill Wilde
York
DEW
Cambridge Bay
N.W.T
Yellowknife
Auto workers idle as strikes hit Ford Rouge and GM
More than 55,000 workers were idle as walkouts affected Ford and General Motors plants. Ford settled with the UAW on a three year wage plan while GM resumed negotiations and prepared a fresh offer. Tool and die workers at Rouge led the strike over smaller raises, compensating with local grievances at several plants nationwide.
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Ford Motor Company
United Auto Workers Union
CIO
Genera Motors Corporation
Ford
UAW
General Motors
Rouge
Dearborn
United States
Monroe
Mich
St. Louis
Kansas City
Buffalo
Cleveland
Linden
N.J
Tarrytown
Rochester
N.Y
John W. Livingston
General’ Motors
F U A Delegates Vote to Support Marketing Act
Far mers Union of Alberta delegates from District 13 vote 68 to 12 in favor of the enabling act at Moose Hall during the annual convention. Debate centers on board creation, dairy quotas, and cross border impact with B C and Saskatchewan while concerns about price effects and broader provincial controls are aired.
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Farmers Union of Alberta
Moose Hall
B.C
Alberta
B. C
Saskatchewan
Walter Nelson
Irvine
Medicine Hat
Hawrelak Opposes Central Authority Taxing Plan
Edmonton Mayor William Hawrelak told a banquet at the Alberta Associated Chambers of Commerce and Agriculture convention that a province wide central taxing authority for industry would erode municipal autonomy. He urged careful study of municipal assessment practices to improve uniformity while preserving local autonomy.
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RED Deer
William Hawrelak
Edmonton
Hawrelak
Alberta Associated Chambers of Commerce and Agriculture
Milwaukee Tops Mets In Extra innings Late Rally
Milwaukee 4 New York 5 in a 12 inning game as the Mets pull ahead with a late rally and secure the victory over the Brewers. The box score shows 17 hits for Milwaukee and 14 for New York.
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National League
Milw
New York
Farmers Union courts rural voters in Alberta election talk
Henry Young of Miller spoke in Medicine Hat urging district forums before the June 11 provincial vote. The Farmers Union of Alberta says it will not form a political wing but will ask all candidates to answer questions and receive fair speaking time to help farmers judge who will best serve their interests.
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Farmers Union of
Albert
Henry Young
Miller
Medicine Hat
Young
Anglers Missing Four Days After Gas Can Found
An empty gas can recovered from the Churchill River is the only trace of three anglers missing for four days. A province wide alert in Agassiz BC lists Fritz Hoeft Otto Hoeft and Mrs Christine Clauston missing more than a week.
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Churchill River
British Columbia Rcm
Agassiz
Fritz
Otto Hoeft
Christine Clauston
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Leonard Steele
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