This is How It Happens safety lane findings
Fort William reports 288 vehicles passed through the Junior Chamber of Commerce safety lane with 104 defects found on 17 cars. Headlights caused 91 defects as the lane runs during safe driving week. Calgary safety council backs broader court authority to suspend licenses amid rising auto accidents.
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Fort William
Calgary
Calgary Safety Council
Alberta Safety Council
Albertacces
Jack Farish
Western Roundup items from Canada report social and housing notes
PORT ARTHUR A 25 year old polio survivor in an iron lung died in isolation hospital. CALGARY Housing slump hits as 26 Cra Brian Heights lots unsold. DRUMHELLER A fish turned out to be a full grown 10 inch salamander. VICTORIA Construction of a Fraser River tunnel estimated at 16 million dollars.
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Port Arthur
Kalevi Oksanen
Calgary
Russell Riley
Cambrian Heights
Drumheller CP
Andy Kaynes
Rosedale
Victoria
Fraser River
Edmonton
Peace River
CPR Strike Threatened as Firemen Face Elimination
Ottawa The Canadian Pacific Railway faced a strike threat from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen after CPR proposed removing firemen from freight and yard diesel locomotives and cutting pay for passenger diesels. The union seeks a about 25 percent wage increase and other benefits as CPR says cost reductions are needed for private ownership viability.
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Ottawa
Canadian Pacific Railway
CPR
Cmpany
Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen
CNR
Ian Sinclair
Sinclair
Canadian Pacific
Steel firms And Union Fight Back To AvoId Strike
New contract proposal offered by the three major steel firms to the United Steelworkers aims to avert a nationwide strike set to begin at midnight Saturday. Furnaces are cooling as a precaution to prevent damage while negotiators pursue a three year compromise.
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New York
United Steelworkers Union
Gary
Ind
Pittsburgh
Medical drive fuels blood donations in southern Alberta
Medicine Hat residents contributed 1300 bottles of blood to the Red Cross in early May. Calgary reports record demand with 2319 bottles dispatched from the Calgary bank to southern Alberta hospitals before month end. Plasma and blood fractionation also saw some southern Alberta contributions balanced by needs.
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South Alberta
Medicine Hat
Red Cross
A. W. Haley
Calgary
Alberta
Southern
Southern Alberta
Mr. Haley
Water Diviner Chooses Spot to Drill for Well
Manitou mayor M E Ridley backs a $226000 waterworks project and $100 from his own funds to a Selkirk water diviner Joe Molenski and son. Drilling began at a town outskirts site chosen by brass rod guidance after previous drillings failed. Town secretary treasurer Gordon Davison says the diviner’s method was tested and proved correct, though engineers doubted the approach.
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Selkirk
Man
Joe Molenski
Manitou
Gordon Davison
Mr. Davison
Diviner
Ridley
Czechoslovakia
Only Half Salk Vaccine Sent But Incidence at Record Low
Ottawa reports the pre holiday polio inoculation drive is only halfway to its target as deliveries lag. Connaught Laboratories shipped 2.3 million doses this year, about double the planned amount, with 61 cases of polio recorded by June 9, a record low compared with last year.
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Ottawa
Canada
Toronto
Connaught Laboratories
Empire Leaders Meet in London at Commonwealth Talks
Commonwealth prime ministers meet in London to review strategy amid Russia’s recent moves. Eden opens the 10 day conference outlining potential UK defence shifts as leaders discuss tactics, with Canada represented by St Laurent and Pearson.
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Alan Harvey
London
Commonwealth
Russia
Anthony Eden
Eden
Downing Street
United Kingdom
Canada
St. Laurent
Pearson
Norman Robertson
Robert Bryce
Empire
Global and domestic political tensions flare across capitals
Across London Moscow Havana Algiers Lima Washington Taipei and Belgrade, a flurry of urgent actions unfolds. Britain trims defence spending to fight inflation, Russia opens its frontline air tech to Western observers, Cuban arrests target Batista assassination plots, Algerian rebels suffer losses, Peru imposes stern anti rioter measures, U S senators attack Chief Justice Warren, and artillery shells pound Quemoy as tensions rise.
Parliament committee backs ending capital punishment for youths
Ottawa report says a special parliamentary committee urged abolishing the death penalty for murderers under eighteen and recommended replacing hanging with either the electric chair or gas chamber for other cases.
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Ottawa
Committee Proposals on Capital Punishment in Canada
Ottawa committee urges retaining the death penalty for murder and treason, with 21 and 18 age restrictions, centralized executions, and electrocution preferred if feasible. It backs full Crown disclosure, competent defense, automatic appeals, and a right to Supreme Court review, while noting fashioning of hangings as obsolete.
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Ottawa
Provincial Court of Appeal
Supreme Court of Canada
Commons
Senate
Quebec
Ontario
New Brunswick
Miss Ottawa's Ma Won Beauty Crown
Ottawa contestant Mary Ellen Victoria Weber aims for Miss Canada 1956 crown in Hamilton on July 28. The 18 year old clerk typist known as Vicky hopes to match her mother’s past triumph, twin sister Christine is Miss Taxation in Ottawa Civil Service. Vicky is sponsored by a local theatre and a jewelry store.
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Ottawa
Mary Ellen
Victoria Weber
Hamilton
Mary
Ellen
Vicky
Christine
Taxation
Ottawa Civil Service
Weber
Reminds Farmers Need To Float Level Land For Irrigation
Will Scheuerman of Medicine Hat warns recent rain may cause farmers to neglect land preparation for irrigation. Floating and levelling land enables more acres per day with less work. He advises setting aside irrigated land yearly and getting field ditches ready for next year. An irrigation demonstration is at Walter Miller’s farm Friday June 29 at 1 30 p m with Scheuerman Anderson Goddard McAndrews Harrington and Simmonds assisting.
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Scheuerman
Department of Agriculture
Frontier
Jack Anderson
Walter Miller
Mr. Scheuerman
Mr. Anderson
Spence Goddard
Cy McAndrews
Doug Harrington
Bob Simmonds
Majority of local restaurants grade A in dish test
Medicine Hat Health Unit completed dish washing sanitation checks in local restaurants. About 60 percent earned A, 40 percent B, none below average. Initial C grades improved to B in final check. Cards showing grades will be distributed. district towns to be checked in the fall.
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Medicine Hat Health Unit
Smillestones: Husband Breaks Umbrella to Rainstroke Revenge
A jealous husband finds his wife with another man and shatters the umbrella over his knee. He declares, There now I hope it rains, turning a domestic moment into a darkly comic moment of ironic justice.
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Tommy Dutton
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Britain
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Cuba
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Callao
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Mississippi
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Wisconsin
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