Health minister says teens not drug users in Canada
Ottawa reports 3 212 drug addicts nationwide with 2 364 criminal addicts. Minister Martin says most addicts are not in school and Vancouver mostly affected but shift possible. Committees discuss penalties and possible visits to Britain for study as hearings continue.
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Canada
Senate Committee On Narcotics
Health Department
Vancouver
Reginald Hardy
Ottawa News Bureau
Donald F. Brown
Walter A. Hagen
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Great Britain
Britain
S. K. Jaffary
School of Social Work
University of Toronto
Vancouver Drug Syndicate Split Shakes City Underworld
The Vancouver Sun cites a break up of one of the citys two major drug syndicates after William Semenick's preliminary hearing. The remaining group reportedly dominates the $10 million a year underworld market as addicts and peddlers face a heroin shortage and reduced daily capsules. Police note several gang figures disappeared after the courtroom expos and rookie officer Joe Haywood is now on guard inside the new headquarters.
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Vancouver Sun
William Emenick
the Sun
Underworld
Sun
Semenick
Joe Haywood
Haywood
Labor Party Faces Showdown Over Bevan Rift in Britain
The Labor Party, with 298 MPs, moves toward voting to withdraw the whip from Aneurin Bevan at a private meeting. Bevan’s leadership, hydrogen bomb policy, and party unity are tested as Attlee, Morrison, and Gaitskell vie to shape the postwar direction ahead of the 1956 general election.
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London
Aneurin (Nye
Bevan
Labor
Attlee
Gaitskell
Labor Party
Pri
Marily
Link Men With Passing Bogus Checks Locally
Taker and district men arrested weeks ago in Lethbridge on attempted bank robbery charges are now believed linked to the mulching of Medicine Hat banks for thousands of dollars. Suspected as part of a group behind the fraud, the episode saw all local banks as victims. Grain cheques were circulated in exchange for money. Police are ready to press charges of uttering and passing worthless cheques.
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Taker
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
Candlemas Season Ends Tomorrow On Prairie Weather Change
The article notes Candlemas ends tomorrow six weeks after Medicine Hat’s gophers saw their shadows signaling the start of winter. A warmer spell is forecast across the prairies on Wednesday as a Gulf of Alaska storm nears Alberta tonight bringing the last cold cloudy spell.
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Medicine Hat
Prairies
Gulf of Alaska
Alberta
Trail locals blocked from U S convention access
Officials of a Communist-led mill and smelter union report four Trail locals denied entry to the United States for a Spokane convention. The incident follows a string of security and labor tensions across North America.
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Mill and Smelter Union
Trail Local
U.S
Spokane
Storm pushes warm Pacific air into western Canada
An intensifying storm center in the Gulf of Alaska drives warm Pacific air into western Canada. Warming starts in the Peace River region Wednesday and spreads gradually southward.
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Edmonton
Gulf of Alaska
Canada
Peace River
Flea and dog at a whimsical circus ending walk home
A lighthearted caption describes a tired flea asking a canine friend after a day at the flea circus whether they should walk or ride home. The exchange captures a playful moment between small comic characters.
Enabling Bill Proposes Marketing Boards Across Alberta
Alberta legislature introduced several first reading bills on Monday. A marketing control bill would require 51 percent producer support to form boards for poultry, hogs, vegetables, honey, cheese, and certain seeds. a 10 percent petition could trigger dissolution or a plebiscite, with 51 percent vote needed to scrap. Other measures include seed grain relief, gas regulation, short-term school borrowings, and Bow River Development Act drafting tied to irrigation projects.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Halmrast
Alberta Federation of Agriculture
Farmers’ Union of Alberta
J. E. Clark
SC - Stettler
Industries
Labor
Willmore
Calgary
Bow River
St. Mary- Milk River
Cree actor Jonas Applegarth enters movie business
Vancouver report details how six foot Cree Jonas Applegarth moved from his Samson reserve farm near Ponoka Alberta to Hollywood. He earned roles in Battle Cry Drum Beat and Saskatchewan while awaiting further Warner Bros projects. He faces US and Canadian taxes and plans to invest in his farm.
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Vancouver
Jonas Applegarth
Hollywood
Hobbema
Ponoka
Alta
Applegarth
Raoul Walsh
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Shining Lighttower
Warner Bros
United States
Court Opens for Charged Sergeant
Moose Jaw CP report says six of twelve witnesses were heard in the case of former city patrol sergeant Harold H. Goodman charged with driving with impaired ability and causing a disturbance. Goodman was committed for trial after a preliminary hearing in city police court last November. He is accused of hitting a parked taxi and appealing a two count disturbance conviction in which one count was dismissed and the other fined $20 plus costs.
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Moose Jaw
Harold H. (Scotty) Goodman
George W. McPhee
Goodman
Freed Man Provoo Due To Government Delays
John David Provoo, once sentenced to life for wartime treason, was ordered freed after a federal judge found deliberate government delays prejudiced a fair trial. Judge Roszel C. Thomson dismissed the indictment and barred a second trial, citing denial of speedy trial rights and improper venue and testimony in prior proceedings.
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Baltimore
John David Provoo
Roszel C. Thomson
Provoo
Corregidor
New York
Maryland
Thomsen
One Dead and Two BC Schools Closed Amid Flu Outbreaks
Influenza outbreaks hit Campbell River and Gibsons on Vancouver Island and the Howe Sound area. The death of Forest Oakford and serious illness of Lorraine Wartnow highlight rising fevers and nose bleeds. Schools shut, 70 percent absenteeism at Campbell River elementary, 268 of 778 high school students ill. Authorities monitor the spread and consider further closures if needed.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Campbell River
Vancouver Island
Howe Sound
Gibsons
Here
Forest Oakford
Lorraine Wartnow
J. Phillipson
Phillipson
Port Melon
Sechelt
Pender Harbor
Phony doctor charged with indecent behavior in Glasgow
Crown attorney J W Gibb described Charles Fraser 26 who posed as a city health inspector and asked women to undress for scarlet fever checks. Fraser faced 22 charges of indecent behavior and was remanded for sentencing by a higher court.
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Glasgow
J. W. Gibb
Charles Fraser
Gibb
Fraser
Bruce Northam Clinches Third Local Speaking Title
Bruce C. Northam, 17, wins his third local Knights of Pythias oratorical contest in Calgary, earning Alberta’s spot in the western finals in Spokane. He also holds a $50 Golden Jubilee scholarship and a $25 Calgary trip fund, with this year as ACHS valedictorian.
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Knights of Pythias
Calgary
Alberta
Spokane
Wash
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Leonard I
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N. W
Seattle
New York
K.P
Bruce
Red Cross
England
Sweden
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Rathbone Lodge
Medicine Hat School Tax Cut Cuts Five Mills
Medicine Hat pupils will gain at least three mills relief as the province boosts education aid. The high school board adopts a revised budget cutting the school tax demand to 40 mills from 43, with provincial grants totaling 221,478.59 to cover a 641,174 expenditure.
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Medicine Hat
Alberta
Chinese orphan smuggled to New York adopted by aunt
A five year old Chinese girl nicknamed Mao Mao arrived at La Guardia from Hong Kong to join her aunt Mrs. Kway Pao Kee who fled Communist China three years earlier. The child traveled via Hong Kong Vancouver and Seattle and may have faced perilous escape methods.
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la Guardia Field
Hong Kong
Red China
Chang Kwei Hong
Kway Pao Kee
China
Ling M. Kee
Grace Line
Chekiang
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Vancouver
B.C
Seattle
Wash
Mao Mao
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