Chiefs from St. John’s Regina join Medicine Hat safety tribute
Regina and St. John’s chief constables praised the Medicine Hat News Safety Campaign for raising citywide safety awareness. The campaign reported 491 days with no fatalities and neared the 500th day on March 26, with officials from St. John’s noting three fatalities in 1955 for Newfoundland’s 75 000 population.
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Regina St. John’s
Gas City
St. John’s
Nfld
Regina
Medicine Hat News
L. Strange
St. John's
Newfoundland
Newfoundland Constabulary
Cyprus Archbishop Makarios and the political stalemate
In Nicosia I meet Archbishop Makarios, a Machiavellian figure seen as a possible force to end terrorism. He hints that amnesty for murders could ease Cyprus toward pacification, while deeper currents between his residence and Government House clash with Britain and Turkish minority tensions.
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Nicosia
Makari
Richelieu
Intrigu
Murde
Cyprus
Machiavellian
Government House
Britain
Alberta Wheat Pool mails 200000 reserve redemption cheques
The Alberta Wheat Pool announced cheques totaling about 200000 dollars were mailed this week to members who sold reserves in older age groups. The release notes this is part of roughly 500000 dollars allocated for reserve redemption by delegates at the last annual meeting.
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Calgary
Alberta Wheat Pool Today
Smile stones and shy talk at a slow dance
A playful exchange unfolds as a young man dismisses being uninteresting while the girl insists she is worth knowing, revealing curiosity about what attracts him to her. The moment captures a light hearted flirtation in a social setting.
Mme Joliot Curie Dies in Paris at 58
Paris reports the death of Mme Joliot Curie at age 58 in a Paris hospital. Daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, she and her husband Frederic Joliot were awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry for artificial radioactivity discovery.
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Paris
Abel Bie
Pierre
Marie Curie
Frederic Joliot
Orphans of the ice chase provincial hockey final berth
Medicine Hat Cantalinis, led by Bruce Hogle, seek a spot in the provincial intermediate hockey finals by facing the Adderson Hustlers tonight at the arena. A win pushes them toward Ponoka Stampeders. a loss ends the best of three series. The Cantalinis lineup features the Link and Knibbs brothers, Dick Gray, Bill McCulley, Johnny Panagrot and others as local fans rally behind Hatters hockey.
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Medicine Hat Cantalinis
Adderson Hustlers
Jim Smith
Bill Starling
Ponoka Stampeders
Cantalinis
Link
Knibbs Brothers
Dick Gray
Bill McCulley
Johnny Panagrot
Bill Cha
Crafting grotesque root lamps by Dr W G Anderson
Dr W G Anderson, a 75 year old retired physician from Dorothy Alberta, hobbies with juniper root to craft grotesque lamps. He uses a jackknife and sandpaper with shellac in three coats, spending 15 to 50 hours per piece and drawing roots from Manyberries and Lost River for unique shapes.
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W G
Winifred George
W.G
Anderson
William G. Hodgson
Dr. Anderson
Dorothy
Alta
Bill
Hodgson
Manyberries
Lost River
British Soldiers Wounded in Cyprus Ambush
In Cyprus five British soldiers were wounded in an ambush in the Troodos mountains southwest of Nicosia. An official report said one Cypriot riot killed when the ensuing battle followed.
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Nicosia
Troodos Mountains
Cyprus
Entomology shifts at Suffield to wartime gains postwar
Dr. Henry Hurtig becomes research adviser in the entomological division as Suffield Station transfers from Defence Research Board to Agriculture. The entomology program expands to peacetime aims including insecticide use for grain and fruit protection and human safety, with postwar field tests in Yukon and Lake of the Woods.
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Suffield Experimental Station
Henry Hurtig
Entomological
Suffield
Entomological Division
of Science Service
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Defence Research Board
Department of Agriculture
Hurtig
Science Service
Ottawa
Dr. Hurtig
National Research Council
Yukon
Lake-of-the-Woods
Ontario
Coast Guard Rescues Crews From Etrusco Freighter
Coast Guard crews reach the battered Italian freighter Etrusco off Scituate Massachusetts and begin rescuing its 30 man crew. The first rescued is chief officer Gaetano Marcelliano who reports all aboard in good condition after the ship ran aground Friday night in a blizzard with 70 mph winds and heavy seas.
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Scituate
Mass
Coast Guard
Etrusco
Marcelliano’ Gaetano
Etrusca
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