25 Jun 1949
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 25, 1949
Page
1
REG WARDY analyzes popular votes from five general elections in Canada. He notes Conservatives hover near 1.5 million votes except 1930 peak, Liberals pass 2 million in 1940 and 1945, yet seat counts vary widely. The piece urges electoral reform to align votes with representation.
The article notes how Liberals and Conservatives tallied millions of votes but won varying seats across elections. It highlights 1940 Liberal landslide with 2,536,514 votes for 178 seats vs Conservatives 39 seats. 1945 Liberal 2,170,625 for 127 seats. 1935 Stevens Reconstruction with 84,215 votes for one seat. Social Credit 132,767 votes for 17 seats.
The Amazon River discharges an enormous volume of freshwater into the Atlantic, so vast that seawater near ships hundreds of miles offshore remains influenced by river waters.
In Prague Protestant groups reportedly back the embattled Roman Catholic church as the Communist government pressures all faiths. Vatican sources warn Archbishop Beran and his assistant Matocha may be arrested, while the nation recalls John Huss, a 15th century critic of Rome.
An English company plans the world’s largest dragline with a 30 ton bite and a weight of 1500 tons. The machine will be used in open cast mining projects, marking a major advance in earthmoving capacity.
The Paris scene shows surface wealth from American and tourist dollars while underlying shortages persist. In contrast to Britain, France benefits from stabilizing policies, lower black market activity, and improved living standards aided by Marshall Plan support. Meanwhile Britain endures rationing, scarce meat, and continuing strikes though resilience remains. The Bath Mouse Club introduces Britain’s first Mouse Derby with unpredictable, humorous appeal.
Medicine Hat voters will mark ballots in multiple polling divisions listed including Connaught School Airport Riverside Scout Hall Crescent Heights Nicholls Implements Montreal School Community Hall Flats 1012 Ross St Elm Street City Hall Toronto Street Arena Gardens Kitchener School High School Elizabeth School. Most divisions have up to 300 voters per station with about 10 000 eligible voters citywide. Ballots must be marked with an xoed.
Former Greek premier Sophoulis died at his summer residence at 88 after a long illness. A Liberal leader and ally of Truman Doctrine policy, he helped lead Greece against Communism and held postwar premier terms from 1945 to 1946 and for a record duration thereafter. Born 1860 on Samos, he studied archaeology in Athens and Germany and published well known archaeology writings.
Fifteen peasants were killed when police opened fire on a rioting crowd at Suwana, about 150 miles from Jaipur, during protests against government orders to surrender grain. Local authorities gathered funerals as officials investigated the clash.
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