23 Jun 1955
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 23, 1955
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Ked RDS and slide analysis in pool 56 with unclear context. The readable bits point to a technical or sports data note but lack concrete events, names, places, or dates to verify a full card item.
Canada’s 3600 mile hard surfaced route from coast to coast faces delays due to weather and funding. By end of next year only portions linked via back roads to completed sections may allow all Canada to drive coast to coast. Total cost near 300 million, with Ontario leading in paved miles and Quebec not yet signed.
Weather brief shows hot trend with low 55 and high 80 while air temperatures pulse across locations. Mentions readings labeled 8557 8559 7948 8157 for Calgary and neighbouring areas. Local forecasts expect warmth to continue with variable humidity and pockets of sunshine.
The Senate drug committee chaired by Thomas Reid calls for harsher penalties including a possible life imprisonment for drug trafficking to curb Canada’s 3,200 addicts. It urges special offences, compulsory minimums, treatment centers, free drugs for addicts, and training funds, citing Vancouver as the worst hotspot with about 1,500 addicts.
Cool moist air spreads from British Columbia into Alberta with scattered thunder showers in western regions. Temperatures are expected to rise well above normal today and Friday across Alberta.
Bert Thomas continued his third attempt to swim the 18.3 mile Strait of Juan de Fuca. He faced strong tides and a rising wind as he was about seven miles from shore on the north coast of Washington state near the opposite side from Victoria.
The Edmonton Chamber of Commerce proposes a set of resolutions for the 1955 Canadian Chamber of Commerce convention in Winnipeg October 3 to 6. They urge removing deductions limits, allowing charitable donations to apply to prior or future years, increasing gift tax exemption, and raising estate exemptions under the Succession Duties Act.
Lucero urged praise for Peron as president and commander in chief while rumors spread. Federal police report 14 arrests in Buenos Aires province for untruths. La Epoca cites at least six in the capital. The supreme war council continued trials of those tied to the revolt as marines and officers were freed.
Canadian journalist Douglas Blan chard was seized for 36 hours by police in Buenos Aires after filming the destruction at government house. Released on ambassadorial demand Maj Gen LaFleche, tipped by a smuggled message, Blanchard’s case stems from anti Peronist clashes linked to fights with the church.
Alexandra Composite High School senior Bruce Charles Northam seeks a fourth J. W. McConnell Wilson Memorial Scholarship at McGill University Montreal. He is valedictorian of the 72 graduates and has led in drama choir and junior Red Cross while studying at ACHS.
Portage la Prairie reports Jim Bonnar, 21, Rowland, won the Manitoba and Western Canada Plowing Championships with A. T. Brown Carberry runner-up. Mayor Harry Weiner of Medicine Hat defended his title against Portage mayors and issued a challenge for a wild cow milking contest next year. W. Billingham Portage won the walking plow. The event drew 100,000 spectators and the 77-year-old J A McMurchy of McConnell, noted for Selkirk wheat rust resistance, also competed.
Examinations continue at the high school tomorrow the third day of the week. The timetable lists Grade 9 Social Studies Language Part B from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and Grade 12 English 30 literature from 9 to noon on Friday June 24.
Premier E C Manning will speak at a major campaign rally in Medicine Hat for three southeastern ridings. The event features candidates Mrs E G Robinson Harry Strom and Wilson E Cain and airs on local radio after Manning’s taped address. He travels to Calgary Friday for another rally.
Ottawa Mayor Charlotte Whitton announced she will not retire in July as previously stated. The update clarifies political plans amid a busy public schedule.
The source cites alleged involvement of security forces in pressuring Peron out of office. Lucero later retracted statements he was said to have made against Peron and described him as aligned with the armed forces.
A Toronto librarian argued libraries should serve an elite readership and not be overwhelmed by radio quiz fans. The Saskatchewan panel defended universal access as essential to community development, while Alberta officials criticized missing school library funding and limited government support.
A classroom joke features Johnny answering a subtraction riddle. The teacher asks if he has six apples and gives away three, and Johnny confidently says he would still have six. The humorous misinterpretation highlights a playful math moment.
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