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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 01, 1955
Page
1
A crippled B 47 Stratojet crashed near Lake Charles air base after hitting a power line. It exploded in a trailer park, killing five including three airmen and a young couple inside their home. Debris scattered over a wide area. one engine reportedly failed.
Dramatic floods in New South Wales overwhelm towns like Warren and Narrabri with 40,000 homeless. Rescue efforts deploy helicopters and hospital staff while authorities seek supplies, disinfectants, and blankets amid an estimated 70 deaths.
School board will call tenders this week for a 300000 dollar classroom and auditorium addition to the old high school to convert it to a junior high. Final drawings and specs ready March 3 with a March 30 closing date, architects Stevenson and Dewar of Calgary.
The March lion arrived with a cold snap from five below to 15 below at 8 am and eased to five below by noon. Winds were light with no snow as bettors bet on the lamb to prevail in March.
A humor piece at Medicine Hat Alliance Tabernacle shows eight year old son asking where little canaries come from. Reverend Edwin Lewis explains with a mother canary laying an egg and hatching a chick. The child then blurts about cows laying large eggs, stunning the family.
Prime Minister Churchill told the Commons it will take Russia at least three to four years to field a hydrogen bomb, while Britain and the United States push ahead with atom and hydrogen weapon programs. He warned the Western world faces greater danger as nuclear capability spreads, noting the US currently holds the edge in delivery power and knowledge.
Czechoslovakia hung on in a wild third period to defeat Sweden 6-5 in the world hockey tournament. Germany posted its first win 7-1 over winless Finland. Switzerland beat Poland 4-2 for its first victory.
Regina CP report notes Joseph Thauberger denounces the idea of a Progressive Conservative taking over Saskatchewan Social Credit. Robert Kohaly, PC member for Souris-Melfort, considers leading the Social Credit party and awaits a final decision, while BC and Alberta organizers push the provincially expanding movement.
Civil defense declares a state of emergency as lava rivers advance on the Big Island. About 400 residents flee as 100 acres of cane and timber burn. Red Cross watches from Pahoa High School while Kapoho evacuations continue and extra flights ferry sightseers.
A UC study by Edward Feder finds 12 percent of American teachers read comic books and bright children do as well. Americans buy about 1 billion comics annually, spending around 100 million dollars, more than school book budgets and about four times library budgets. The report finds no solid evidence linking comics to juvenile delinquency.
Twenty six per cent of Alexandra Composite High School’s 122 graduates went to university, mainly University of Alberta, with fifteen per cent entering banking. Among 62 girls, 13 are in varsity, nine in banking, nine in nursing, and 20 in stenography or bookkeeping. 60 male graduates saw 19 pursue university mainly engineering, eight in banking, four in armed services, five in clerical work. The vocational report notes about 80 per cent of commercial graduates found positions and over eight thousand dollars in scholarships and loans were awarded locally, including Maida Millican’s four scholarships totaling 1500 dollars.
Stanley Knowles of Winnipeg North Centre says he may again introduce a private member's bill to have all divorce applications from Quebec and Newfoundland heard by the exchequer court of Canada. This would be his sixth consecutive attempt as he argues Parliament is not suited to handle divorce actions.
Cold air holds across Alberta and Saskatchewan with temperatures near twenty below tonight and only rising to near zero by Wednesday. Strong wind chill and ongoing harsh conditions affect travel and daily life across the regions.
Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian-born British scientist who vanished in 1950, writes to Soviet papers claiming peaceful atomic research in the Soviet Union since his disappearance. He accuses Britain and the United States of using atomic weapons for world domination and urges Western scientists to protest military uses of atomic energy.
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