If You Want Make It Straight Gambling Don t Ene In Charity
Ottawa reports on a parliamentary committee hearing where Mrs. Dorothy Long of the Women's Missionary Society urged strict gambling limits. She argued against lotteries including church raffles, saying charity must not be funded by gambling and that total abolition is preferable to any relaxation of laws.
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WMS
Reg Hardy
News Ottawa Bureau
Ottawa
Dorothy II, Long
Women's Missionary Society of the
United Church of Canada
Nancy Hodges
British Columbia
Long
University of Toronto
Cochairman
Walter Hayden
Local Weather and Transit Notes From Calgary
Telegram style brief notes from Calgary include temperature hints from Cool Low, High 20, and mentions of Med Hat and Lethbridge. It references route details and page identifiers A3 No 218 with a coded segment 451 aig Gud potD.
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Calgary
Eight on Ski Expedition Tackle Canadian Icefields
An eight member Canadian Icefields Ski Expedition led by Peter Bennett will traverse the Jasper to Banff region crossing the Alberta British Columbia boundary on skis and foot with crampons. Peggy Austin is the sole woman in the group as they test lightweight equipment and diet across marked and unmarked crevasses and avalanche zones over three weeks.
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Rocky Mountains
Jasper
Rockies
Peer Aubright
Peter Boswell
Terain
Canadian Rockies
Alberta
British Columbia
Banff
Pat Boswell
Peter Austin
Peggy
Defence Research Medical Laboratories
Peggy Austin
Hermann Smith Johannsen
The
Laurentians
Peter
Toronto
Ted Pope
Murray Sniveley
Allan Bruce-Robertson
Scott Glacier
Alberta Ministers to Gain Pensions for Service
The Alberta legislature gave first reading to a bill creating pensions for cabinet ministers after 10 years service and compensation for MLA disability or death. Ministers would contribute five percent. maximum pension 50 percent of final five years' salary, achievable after 25 years.
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Nova Scotia
Sasatchewan
Alberta
Hugh John MacDonald
Calgary
Alberta Short Course Allows Student Teachers in Remote Areas
The Alberta legislature gave first reading to a bill permitting six week trained student teachers to run classrooms in remote areas for four years. Opposition critics call it harmful, while Education Minister Aalborg calls it an emergency measure. The plan requires admission standards, screening, and pays student teachers about 200 dollars less than full teachers. The act lasts until July 1 1958 unless extended by cabinet.
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Edmonton
Alberta
A. O. Aalborg
Liberals
Social Credit
CCF
Alberg
University of Alberta
Education Department
Aalborg
Returned letter costs five cents in Ottawa
A new postal regulation in Ottawa imposes a five cent charge when letters are returned to the sender as undelivered. The levy, not announced with other postal increases, becomes effective April 1. The total cost rises to ten cents for misaddressed letters.
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Ottawa
Polio Vaccine Trials Could End Polio In Years
Dr. Jonas Salk and colleagues test a dead-virus polio vaccine on hundreds of thousands of children. Early results show antibodies form against all three virus types, with side effects minimal. If trials succeed, vaccine could start next year and possibly provide lifelong protection.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
New York
Jonas E.salk
University of Pittsburgh
National Foundation For
Nature
Salk
Church Groups Oppose State Lottery Racket
Ottawa reports two Protestant groups denounced state lotteries as harmful to Canada’s moral, social, and economic well being. The Christian Social Council of Canada called lotteries the official sanction to a shady racket while the Woman's Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada called gambling appallingly bad economics. Both presented briefs to Commons Senate committee on capital and corporal punishment lotteries.
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Ottawa
Canada
Christian Social Council of Canada
Canadian Council of Churches
Cial
Woman’s Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada
Society
Commons Senate Committee
Salvation Army
T Society of Friends
Rional Ymca
Woman’s Missionary Socie
Cana
Louisia
Fear Break Israeli Arab Uneasy Truce
A Western diplomat warns the Israeli Arab truce could fail if border violence continues. After an Israeli attack on Natal Jordan that killed nine Arabs and an ambush killing 11 Israelis, tensions rise as Russia vetoes a UN resolution. Israel seeks Security Council action while Jordan calls for UN intervention at the armistice commission.
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Max Harrelson
United Nations
N.Y
United Nations Security Council
Jordan
Natal
Russia
Andrei Vishinsky
Egypt
Israel
Suez
United States
Britain
France
Security Council
Third resignation hits Edmonton Police force
Detective Douglas Ellis, a 13 year veteran of the Edmonton Police Department and former morality squad member since 1951, has offered his resignation. Acting chief constable Alex Riddell announced the move, noting Ellis gave no specific reason. It marks the third resignation in the force recently.
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Edmonton (Cp
Douglas Ellis
Edmonton Police Department
Morality Squad
Alex Riddell
Ellis
Force
Smilestones Lions Joke Sparks Tiny Tamer Wit
In a playful exchange, a young lion tamer jokes that his size limits danger while his mentor notes the lions’ patience. The quip underscored a lighthearted moment amid a circus crowd.
Weather pattern holds firm on prairies with cold snap
EDMONTON CP reports no change in the unusual prairie weather. Weak disturbances move across with snow flurries followed by a return to cold air. Afternoon highs hover near 20 while March averages lag by 15 to 25 degrees. Medicine Hat clears today then clouds Wednesday with light winds. Lethbridge прогноз zero to 20.
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Edmonton
Prairies
Medicine
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
Churchill defends U.S. hydrogen tests in Commons
Prime Minister Churchill rejects Labor demands to pressure the United States over its hydrogen bomb tests. He says Britain cannot curb U.S. tests and warns against hindering Allied strength, arguing restrictions are impracticable and that the tests defend against a potential third world war. He notes Britain’s limited knowledge of U.S. H bomb experiments.
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London
Churchill
United State
House of Commons
Britain
United States
Pacific
U S Triggers Second H Bomb in Secret Test
The Atomic Energy Commission announced the second thermonuclear test in the series, carried out Friday March 26 at the Marshall Islands testing ground. Reports say the March 1 blast produced a hydrogen weapon far exceeding Hiroshima’s power, with estimates of 600 to 700 times its yield.
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United States
Congress
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
U.S
Marshall Islands
Hiroshima
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