Medicine Hat School Board reveals 1955 finances
The Medicine Hat School Board report shows 613,093.81 in revenue with 57.88 percent from local taxes and 36.92 percent from provincial grants. Expenditures total 642,013.46 with instructional salaries at 60.24 percent. Major changes include higher teacher salaries and debt charges, and a new grant basis aiming at a 25 mill levy. Provincial grants totaled 226,343 with allocations across operations, equipment, night classes, bursaries, and tax reduction subsidy.
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Medicine Hat
School Board
Geo. H. Davisoff
Alberta
Steveville Dinosaur Park plans discussed at provincial meeting
At a Thursday meeting in Brooks provincial officials, ranchers, Calgary Zoological Society members and others discussed Steveville Dinosaur Park plans. A combined museum and administration building was proposed on a plateau near San Creek nine miles northeast of Patricia with exhibits, signs, and a large concrete dinosaur.
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Ment
Calgary Zoological Society
San Creek
Patricia
Badlands
W. G. Anderson
Medicine Hat
Calgary
St. Georges Island
Park Road
Charles Sternberg
National Museum
Ottawa
Sternberg
Steveville
Potter Chamney
Alberta Geological Society
W. A. Wood
University of Alberta to open highway engineering school
Premier Manning announced in the Alberta Legislature that a post graduate highway engineering school will be established at the University of Alberta. The program will begin immediately with partial operation planned for next fall offering training for highway transport engineers and short extension courses.
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Edmonton
University of Alberta
Manning
Alberta
Pakistan Declares Itself Islamic Republic in Karachi Ceremony
Mirza Iskander Mirza sworn as Pakistan first president amid celebrations in Karachi as Canada and other envoys send congratulations. Pakistan votes republic with Moslem name amid protests from non Moslems while awaiting presidential election.
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Karachi
Pakistan
India
Commonwealth
Iskander Mirza
Dominion of
Canada
T. C. Davis
Japan
St. Laurent
Ottawa
Constituent Assembly
Mirza
Students Receive New Choir Gowns for Graduation
Delivery of black bengaline gowns completed for Medicine Hat High School graduates this spring. The gowns, purchased by the students' union, will be rented to graduates for the ceremony at a fee of 3 dollars each. They are of fine quality and expected to serve future graduands for several years.
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Medicine Hat High School
Students’ Union
Roundup of wild horses in British Columbia ordered
RCMP orders a wide scale roundup of wild horses across Upper Cache Creek near Fort St John to stop court battles over horse theft and protect range grass. Unbranded horses will be shot after labeling, with owners to claim their animals. cattlemen support the action as pasture competition ends. Trucks move north toward the Yukon for possible markets. some horses owned by Indians and thoroughbreds notable in herds. No slaughter date set.
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Fort ST. John
B. C
British Columbia
RCMP
Yukon
Alaska
Upper
Cache Creek
Vancouver
Peace River
Bear Flat
Gold Bar
Pine Valley
Sweetwater
Welcome Move Rcmp
Eight Egyptians Dead as Cairo- Aswan Express Overturns
The Cairo- Aswan express derailed about 100 miles south of Cairo. Eight Egyptians were killed and several injured as the train overturned after the rails subsided due to water intrusion from a nearby canal. officials noted tourists suffered no confirmed casualties.
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Cairo
Reuters
Soviet Major Blunder Sparks British Outcry Over Serov Visit
British newspapers condemn Gen. Ivan Serov, Soviet police chief, as a villainous figure rivaling Nazi leaders. His arrival to oversee security for Bulganin Khrushchev's April visit triggers harsh editorials and calls him the arch-priest of political persecution.
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London
the. Kremlin
Britain
the Cause
Ivan Serov
Soviet Union
Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Hitler
Himmler
Goebbels
Serov
Kremlin
Khrushchev
Europe
The
Daily Mirror
Cassandra
Gan Alexandrovitch Serov
Daily Mail
News Chronicle
Reds Split Rumor and Debate Stir American Communists
Moscow deflation campaign shocks U S Communists stirring talk of a split and possible purge. Daily Worker editorials and letters to the editor spark contrasts with Times and World Telegram commentary. Foster and Max deny ouster claims and promise continued discussion within the party.
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New York
Moscow
United States
Daily Worker
Max
Foster
Special Session Monday on Traffic Safety in Medicine Hat
City council will hold a special meeting Monday night to hear a petition from the Medicine Hat Safety Council. President E A Amos and directors plan a fifteen point traffic safety brief to launch a campaign aiming to extend the city’s record of 1 000 consecutive days without traffic fatalities and encourage attendance by teachers, education authorities, and parents.
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Medicine Hat Safety Council
E. A. Amos
Medicine Hat
Amos
Predict Gain 1000 Students in Six Years
Present enrollment in Medicine Hat public and high schools is 3300 and is projected to reach 4300 in six years. The rise implies 25 percent more staff and 20 percent more accommodation, driven by full classes and postwar expansion. Net student gain 945 after accounting for 1315 leavers, with costs rising 300000 to 400000 and the budget exceeding one million dollars.
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Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat Officials Laud Safety Campaign Milestone
Calgary Chief Partridge and Medicine Hat Chief Bull praise The News Safety Campaign as Medicine Hat reaches 500 consecutive days with no traffic fatalities. They credit public cooperation, the Alberta Safety Council, and the city’s drivers for the milestone while urging continued vigilance and courtesy on the roads.
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Calgary
Medicine Hat
Canada
Larry S. Partridge
City wary of large luncheon crowds
Winnipeg Mayor George Sharpe expressed alarm as the civic finance committee reviews a railway union request to host about 700 or 800 attendees at a convention luncheon next August. He cited upcoming nurse and junior chamber conventions and said the city cannot handle that many guests.
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Winnipeg (Cp
George Sharpe
Civic Finance Committee
Sharpe
Education costs rise in postwar period for Riverside schools
The final statement by Geo H Davison reveals sharp rises in school charges and capital costs. Per pupil cost totals 198.21 with breakdowns for charges 42.63, administration 2.99, salaries 204.90, maintenance 19.87, aids 11.52, and other expenses 1.85. Debenture debt stands at 1,514,650 to fund additions to Riverside Connaught Alexandra and the new high school Central Park. Total student registration last year reached 3,296 with staff of 120 teachers and 143 total board staff.
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Riverside
Connaught
Alexandra
Central Park
Weather outlook for western prairies mild with flurries
Pacific disturbances keep western prairies mild with cloudy skies and strong easterly winds in Saskatchewan. A few snow flurries expected in Northern Alberta overnight. Temperatures Saturday range from 50 in Southern Alberta to 30 in Northern Saskatchewan.
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Edmonton
Prairies
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Smilestones At the Restaurant
A brief skit set at a dining table where a man says the other is gorgeous and a woman replies she has a healthy appetite but notes it is not nice to rub it in.
Three Greek Cypriots sentenced to life for gun carrying
A British judge in Nicosia handed life terms to three Greek Cypriot youths for carrying firearms under emergency rules. The judge spared them the death penalty, citing their surrender when challenged by British troops amid ongoing anti British violence over Cyprus union with Greece.
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Reuters
John Harding
Mediterranean
Greece
Bernard Shaw
Harding
Britain
Makarios
Cyprus
union-with-Greece
Church of England
Tory Party
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