Alberta to Build Steel Bridge on Trans-Canada Route
Alberta plans a steel bridge over the South Saskatchewan near Medicine Hat on the Trans-Canada highway this year. Highways Minister Taylor outlined seven major steel bridges for 1952 and explained grant formulas funding local districts. He noted 1952-53 grants total 3,880,000 with 75 percent provincial and 25 percent district contributions and urged districts to improve district roads. The transcript mentions wider future district highways and adherence to standards amid audits of certain districts. Prince Edward Island history note appears at end.
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Edmonton
Alberta
South Saskatchewan
Medicine Hat
Taylor
House
Alberta moves to back housing facilities and crafts
Alberta government introduces legislation to encourage new housing facilities with municipal borrowing aid from the province and federal funds. The plan aligns with the National Housing Act and aims to expand land acquisition and servicing for housing projects. Also, $10,000 is slated to promote handicrafts as a cultural and industrial asset. The province plans a $7 million loan to support the telephone system upgrade to automatic dialing. J L Reid named third member of the reconstituted Alberta power commission.
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Edmonton
Alberta
A. J. Hooke
Calgary
Sidmonton
Hooke
House In Committee
Quebec
New Brunswick
Canada
Gordon Taylor
Parliament At a Glance
CCF leader M. J. Coldwell says Canada should not be silent on South Africa's policy of racial segregation. Toronto Spadina MP David Croll warns the stand strains Commonwealth relations. John Diefenbaker proposes a motion for a Canadian bill of rights.
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M. J. Coldwell
C.C.F
South Africa
David Croll
Toronto Spadina
John Diefenbaker
P.C
Lake Centre
Danvers Armored Car Robbery Seizes $600000 Loot
Three gunmen robbed an armored car in Danvers Massachusetts about 20 miles north of Boston taking nearly all the cash valued at about $600000. The vehicle was unattended while guards were in a drugstore and the robbers fled in a black sedan. Federal agents joined the investigation as authorities questioned witnesses and traced the movement of bundles between cars.
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Danvers
Mass
Boston
Lawrence Johansen
United States Trucking Company
Massachusetts
North Shore
Danvers National Bank
Johansen
National Bank
Edmund Noonan
Danvers Square
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Reserve
Eisenhower Expected to Join Campaign in May
General Eisenhower will resign as Allied commander in Europe next month and return to the United States to lead his presidential bid around the third week of May. Sources say he will not announce before April 2 or before the staff exercise April 7 to 11, and he has avoided active campaigning to date.
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Paris
Reuters
Eisenhower
Europe
United States
Supreme Command
Viscount Montgomery
Western Allies Return Russian Note on German Unity
In Moscow British American and French envoys delivered replies to the Soviet note on German unity to Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky. The messages reflect Allied positions amid postwar diplomacy and indicate continued Western concerns over Germany’s future.
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Moscow
Reuters
Britain
United States
France
Andrei Vishinsky
Russia
Mild Weather With Patchy Snow Across Canada
The past mild spell continues with considerable cloudiness and light snow in Alberta today. Saskatchewan is sunny today and tomorrow cloudiness spreads east while Alberta gains sun. Medicine Hat reports a few clouds today and little temperature change with light winds. tonight low 20 and high tomorrow 40.
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Alberta
Saskatchewan
Medicine Hat
East German Youth Officials Ordered to Report Western Radio Listeners
The East German free German Youth organization directs officials to denounce anyone who listens to Western hostile radio stations to the state security service, according to DPA.
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Berlin
Reuters
Free German Youth Organization
DPA
Secret war research on Quebec Island revealed
An isolated island near Quebec City, Grosse Isle, is described as a key site for dangerous biological and chemical warfare research. The facility supports tests not conducted on the mainland, linked to defense aims and historical quarantine use, with Suffield as Canada’s main BW base and periodic scientific arrivals.
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Ottawa
Canada
Grosse Isle
St Lawrence River
Quebec City
O. M. Solandt
Suffield
Defence Research
Marketing Scheme Hopes Assured Eradication In 10 Days
Agriculture Minister Gardiner said he expects in ten days to assure Canadians that the foot and mouth outbreak in south Saskatchewan is completely wiped out. He also spoke of a comprehensive surplus meat marketing plan to be ready for provincial review by April 2, with federal plans covering pork and beef.
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Ottawa
Gardiner
South
Saskatchewan
Kiwanis Clubs
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
U.S
Attlee Wins a Double Victory in Commons Clash
Clement Attlee secured a double win over Aneurin Bevan's left wing by upholding a new disciplinary code for Labour MPs and keeping Attlee as chair of parliamentary Labour meetings. Bevanites pressed for a broader conscience clause to allow deviations on issues like rearmament and licensing, but terms were not disclosed.
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London
Clement Attlee
Aneurin Bevan
Labor
Commons
Attlee
Parliamentary
Labor Party
Bevan
Parliamentary Labor Party
Enen
Senate approves bill to register foreign propagandists
The senate unanimously passed a bill requiring all foreign diplomats who prepare or disseminate political propaganda to register as propagandists.
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Washington
Senate
Eight Die In Downtown Los Angeles Hotel Fire
Fire swept through a downtown Los Angeles hotel killing at least eight people and injuring many others. Ten were taken to hospital with burns or injuries as investigators searched for the cause. The blaze was the third major fire of the night following a nearby $400,000 blaze on Broadway and a Bel Air Country Club wing fire.
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Los Angeles
Broadway
Bel Air County Club
Frank Winnie
Prisoner Talks Go Into Secret Sessions
Korean truce negotiators imposed a news blackout during talks on POW exchanges in Munsan. The UN insists POWs decide their own repatriation while the Reds favor mandatory return. Ports of entry agreed by staff officers but major stalemate over neutral recognition and supervising the truce persists.
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Munsan
Korea
U.N
Reds
P.O.W
Russia
Western Provinces Budget Totals Highlight Prosperity
Canada’s four western provinces unveil records totaling 373 million dollars for the coming year. British Columbia leads with 142 million in ordinary expenditures and hydroelectric and road projects drive major capital outlays across the region. Manitoba reports a 500 thousand dollar surplus alongside 22 million capital spend. Alberta tops per capita spending with 125 dollars per person fueled by oil revenues, Saskatchewan follows with 79 and Manitoba 63. Diphtheria deaths in Canada fall to 49 in 1950 from a 1926 1930 average of 912.
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Canada
Manitoba
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
B.C
Alberta Is Canada’s Most Manly Province
A Dominion Bureau of Statistics census shows Alberta has 492 192 men named Mister versus 447 309 women named Mrs or Miss. Edmonton and Calgary lean female, Medicine Hat also female, while Lethbridge bucks with a male majority. Rural districts mostly follow the same pattern with few exceptions, and several towns remain evenly split or male dominated.
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Ottawa
Alberta
Canada
Saskatchewan
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Edmonton
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Red Deer
Stony Plain
Gull Lake
Wood Buffalo National Park
Buffalo National Park
Empress
Sedgewick
Daysland
Rimbey
Bowden
Seba Beach
Thorsby
Gleichen
Wainwright
Beiseker
Milo
Viking
Alix
Bittern Lake
Alberta Beach
Burdett
Hanna
Cardston
Claresholm
Macleod
Pincher Creek
Raymond
Bassano
Brooks
High River
Nanton
Vulcan
Olds
Three Hills
Castor
Coronation
Camrose
Innisfail
Lacombe
Ponoka
Stettler
Rocky Mountain House
Vegreville
Vermilion
Truman’s Plan Aims 300000 Immigrants to U S
President Truman urged congress to admit 300000 newcomers from Europe over three years, about 100000 annually. Senator Hubert Humphrey outlined the proposal as a bill to raise annual immigrant intake, contrasting it with the McCarran bill he says would tighten controls and harm immigration.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
United States
U.S. Senate
Hubert Humphrey
Dem
Minn
Humphrey
U.S
Pat McCarran
Dem.-Nev
McGrath Pushes Alcatraz Closure for Mainland Prison Study
Attorney General Howard McGrath tells the House Appropriations Committee that Alcatraz should be shut down due to high operating costs. He backs the Budget Bureau proposal for a study on building a high security prison on the mainland to save money.
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Washington (Cp
Howard McGrath
Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay
McGrath
House Appropriations Committee
Budget Bureau
Drive-In Hospital Equivalents for Rural Areas Proposed
Dr D G Miller Jr of Morgan town Kentucky describes a drive in hospital equivalent using two small stores to meet most rural medical needs. The setup handles about 10 672 office calls and 2 389 patients with a staff of two nurses a lab tech and a receptionist. Estimated cost around 25 000 with surplus and improvised equipment and no board or room charges.
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Atlantic City
D. G. Miller Jr
Morgantown
Kentucky
Miller
American Academy of
Torch Commandos Call for Elections Amid Malan Clash
In Durban and across South Africa thousands gathered to demand Premier Malan resign amid a government plan to defy a Supreme Court ruling on nonwhite voters. Torch Commando leaders urged electoral action while protests spread from Johannesburg city hall to Bloemfontein and Kimberley with anti-government slogans and calls for unity to topple Malanism.
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Durban
South Africa
Reuters
Malan
Ralph Parrot
Natal
Supreme Court
Sea of
Johannesburg
Daniel Malan
Torch Commando
Veterans’ Organization
A. G
Sailor
Capetown
A. J. de la Rey
Bloemfontein
Kimberley
Harry Oppenheimer
Cape
East London
United and Labor Parties
Torch Commandos
Efort
Hankow bakeries accused of inferior cookie ingredients for troops
A communist newspaper in Hong Kong reports 52 Hankow bakeries charged with using inferior ingredients to bake cookies for Chinese troops in Korea.
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Hong Kong
Reuters
Hankow
Korea
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Tanner
Ure
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