Pearson Arrives For Day In City In Regina Visit
Liberal leader Lester Pearson arrives in Medicine Hat and Regina for a day of events. He speaks to Young Liberals, meets candidates, and tours Alberta towns before continuing to Manitoba. In Regina crowds hear his farm policy critique of the Conservatives.
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Pearson
Medicine Hat
Lester B. Pearson
Alberta
Manitoba
CPR
Mr. Pearson
Assiniboia
Louis Kohn
Federally
CCF
Liberals
Tories
Mike Pearson
Purity Dairy authorized to move Medicine Hat milk to Lethbridge plant
Purity Dairy Limited gains permission from J B Moore of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners to truck raw Medicine Hat milk to its Lethbridge plant for processing and return packaged dairy products to Medicine Hat. Protests from local producers and health department conditions tone the decision. Some months needed for further study and equipment before changes.
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Purity Dairy Limited
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
J. B. Moore
Board of Public Utility Commissioners
Moore
Stan Fabbi
Public Utility Board
Reds Agree To Preliminary Talks For Summit Meeting
Russia has offered a limited foreign ministers session in about two months to set the agenda and participants for a future summit with the United States and its allies. Washington regards preparatory work as paving the way for substantive top level talks, while Moscow seeks to confine work to timing, venues, participants, and program.
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Reds
John M. Hightower
Washington
Russia
United States
Moscow
ALL
Foreign Ministry
Paris
Kremlin
Dulles
U.S
Eisenhower
Bulganin
Budget surplus shows decrease in Canada in latest report
Ottawa reports the January surplus at 34.1 million dollars as the 1957-58 fiscal year unfolds. Totals show 10 month revenue 1.3058 billion and expenditure 3.891 billion, with full year outlook shrinking toward 80 million dollar surplus.
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Ottawa
Fleming
Fuchs Near Polar Crossing Victory Count
London reports Dr. Vivian Fuchs signalling he is within sight of crossing the Antarctic continent overland. The 50-year-old British explorer leads a nine man Commonwealth team aiming to complete the 2,000 mile trek from the Zealand side as winter approaches. Sir Edmund Hillary accompanies the expedition, charting the final crevasse ridden stage toward Scott Base.
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London
Vivian Fuchs
Fuchs
Pole
Scott Base
Zealand
Sir Edmund Hillary
Mt. Everest
Navy hunts unidentified submarine contacts off Atlantic coast
Newport Rhode Island AP reports a large US Navy force including the anti submarine carrier Leyte scanning for unknown underwater contacts along the Atlantic. Escort Squadron 10 joining from Norfolk and other ships deployed after reports from US venues and a Washington headquarters statement. A Jacksonville Journal claim of a Russian sub surface sighting with a hammer and sickle on its hull received no official confirmation from Washington.
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Newport
R.I
United States Navy
Leyte
Atlantic
Navy
Norfolk
Washington
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Jacksonville
Jacksonville Air Station
Florida
Jacksonville Journal
Murder rapes yield 410 year term for Walter McGomery
Walter McGomery, 20, was sentenced by Judge Henry W. Dieringer to 410 years in prison for murder two rapes and an assault to rape. The victim, Susan Turner, 37, was killed after resisting a rape attempt in an alley on July 6, 1957.
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Chicago
Walter McGomery
Henry W. Dieringer
Susan Turner
McGomery
Death Toll Feared As Turkish Ferry Capsizes
A crowded ferry Uskudar sank in a sudden Marmara Sea storm near Izmit. About 200 aboard, 16 rescued, teens among passengers. Initial reports ranged up to 300 feared drowned. 350 tickets sold in Izmit. The disaster follows another major shipping loss nearby days earlier.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Sea of Marmara
Istanbul Radio
Uskadar
Izmit
Gulf of
Turkish Maritime Bank
Uskudar
Eskimos Survive Ice Floe Ordeal
Two Eskimos missing six days were found safe at Igloolik Island after drifting with an ice floe in Foxe Basin. A man and a teenage boy reached the Hudson's Bay post 1,440 miles northeast of Winnipeg. RCAF planes continue to search the area. The party was separated from three other families during walrus hunting when a shifting ice block separated from the shore. Temperatures ranged from 40 below to 20 below, with eleven dogs an 18 foot sled and blubber stove aboard.
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Winnipeg
Foxe Basin
Arctic Circle
RCMP
Frobisher Bay
Baffin Island
RCAF
Edmonton
Hudson’s Bay Post
Igloolik Island
Here
Ooglit Island
Trading Post
Melville Peninsula
Newfoundland
New Hollywood Sign Exalts Beautiful Cars at Vine Corner
A vintage display at Hollywood and Vine proclaims that pedestrians pass the most beautiful cars in the world. The sign touts glamour and automotive design, reflecting mid century showmanship and city spectacle.
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Hollywood and Vine
Submerged Bus Found Near Levisa Fork After Tragic Crash
Search boats report locating a submerged school bus about five feet under the surface 200 yards downstream from the crash site on the Levisa fork. The bus struck a wrecker and rolled 30 feet into 20 feet of water killing 23 students and the driver. Army engineers plan to anchor the bus from a floating barge as divers descend to secure and drag it out. Local residents describe the scene as a crowd wept while investigators worked through the night.
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Prestonsburg
Levisa Fork
Big Sandy River
Army
John Mundy
Coast Guard
Donald Horn
Horn
Bennie Blackburn
Diefenbaker Campaign Encounters Weather and Campaign Snags
Prime Minister Diefenbaker faced rain sleet and snow across central Canada while campaigning in Nova Scotia. In Vancouver the sun shone for CCF Leader M J Coldwell who criticized Liberals and Diefenbaker over unemployment and trade policy. Coldwell accused Diefenbaker of dissolving Parliament to dodge CCF pressure for full employment.
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Canada
Diefenbaker
Nova Scotia
Vancouver
CCF
M. J. Coldwell
Social Credit
Solon Low
Alberta
Peace River
Victoria
Pere
Cane Breton Island
Liberals
Coxheath
Sydney
United States
Coldwell
Reds to Free 34 Passengers From South Korean Airliner
North Korea announced it will release 34 passengers and crew of a South Korean National Airlines DC-3 that disappeared near the border on February 16. Two American pilots, William P. Hobbs and Lt Col Howard W. McLellan, will be released at a time/place set by US officials. Some Korean passengers may be returned via Red Cross channels, with two West German nationals also to be freed after government contact.
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Seoul
South Korea
Reuters
North Korea
Pyongyang
William P. Hobbs
Howard W. McLellan
United States
National Airlines
Pusan
Red Cross
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the News Ottawa Bureau
Saskatoon
Quappelle
Alvin Hamilton
Kindersley
Jessie Caldwell
National Liberal Womens’ Federation
Tory H. F. Jones
Roy Knight
Hamilton
Cudworth
Swift Current High School
Irvine Stroder
Swift Current
Maple Creek
Regina
U.S. Navy
Drs. James and Findlay
Optometrists
Graburn Building
Turvey
Second Street
S.E
Japan
Askudar
Manama
Bahrein
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