02 May 1952
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 02, 1952
Page
1
Communist negotiators refuse to approve a United Nations command package to end the armistice deadlock in Korea. Vice Admiral C Turner Joy says no comment on 78 minute secret session as main armistice delegations resume talks tomorrow at Panmunjom.
Canadian history teaching in Quebec shifts from patriotic framing to a text based approach. Canon Lionel Groulx leads Institute of French America History which publishes L Histoire du Canada Par les Textes. Three professors present documents and writings to expose history through primary sources. The Education Department weighs revisions but keeps primary grades unchanged.
Lloyds of London remitted an insurance settlement to the Gold Hill Hotel in Malvern Worcestershire after a measles outbreak emptied the house. The hotel, serving visiting parents to nearby boarding schools, faced loss of business as school authorities banned visits during outbreaks.
Brooklyn wins 3 to 1 over Chicago as Labine allows three runs and Campanella drives in runs. Lown and Atwell paired for Chicago pitching.
US spokesmen described Japan's May Day riots as anti American and clearly alien inspired by ruthless communism. General Ridgway cited at least 1800 injured and up to seven killed, while Ambassador Murphy compared the unrest to European communist demonstrations.
In Ottawa and at the Commons committee, B C cattlemen pressed for reimposing a prairie cattle import ban as two new foot and mouth cases appeared near Weyburn. Agriculture ministers from Manitoba and British Columbia announced ongoing investigations into disease handling and tighter controls on Saskatchewan and Alberta imports. The outbreak near Regina prompted criticism of veterinary services and delays in testing after the initial Nov 26 report of vesicular stomatitis.
Federal veterinarians quickly disposed of a second herd found with foot and mouth near Weyburn Saskatchewan. A total of 263 head were slaughtered in two days, bringing the Weyburn area total to 1 3505 animals destroyed since the Feb 25 outbreak.
Manitoba seed ing is well advanced with early wheat sown and above ground in places. Saskatchewan and Alberta show progress. CPR and CNR report seeding two weeks ahead with moisture described as very good in Saskatchewan and amply supplied in Alberta while Manitoba moisture is below normal.
City retains Blair line service to May 3 deadline while preparation for a June 25 bylaw vote on a new operator proceeds. George Connor of Moose Jaw and the Medicine Hat Transit Company Limited plan to run the local buses, with G M Blackstock to approve the bylaw and a two thirds ratepayer yes required. George Matheson to manage the city line after the transition, with service extending July 17 19 stam pede event noted.
Two Taber residents were injured when a car rear ended a Ford truck on No. 3 highway near Seven Persons. Julie Barg sustained facial lacerations while her father Charley Price suffered multiple injuries including broken ribs. Laczkowski, who drove the truck, pushed the car into a ditch to prevent a fire. Barg's car was mostly ruined. RCMP investigate.
AP dispatch notes twenty four F84 jets clashed with Mig 15s over northwest Korea. Allied air forces hit rail lines Chongju to Sinanju and a supply train near Chongju with 25 rail cars damaged. Ground fighting sees heavy artillery and mortar fire amid hot 90 degree weather and only light contacts.
AP reports C S O steel workers end their strike responding to President Truman. Union chief Philip Murray says 650000 workers will return to their jobs as soon as possible and a White House meeting with industry lawyers is planned. Legal challenges to presidential seizure of mills are noted.
Belem Brazil aerial rescue teams reported a Pan American airliner burning before a crash in dense jungle. US rescue units ended efforts as unsafe, while a Brazilian Catalina planned medical drop 40 miles away. Among 41 passengers several named individuals linked to Canada, Britain, and the U S. The flight departed Rio de Janeiro for Port of Spain on a 12 hour night trip to New York.
The Colonial Development Corporation reports Britain's 12 month losses near £3,000,000 on tropical ventures including a proposed factory ship to process shark, tuna and crawfish off West Africa. Rising hazards such as steel shortages floods and disease worsened outcomes with the African Queen ship failing to meet revenue expectations. Loss may exceed £300,000 on the shark liver oil alone.
Washington officials expressed renewed hope for the release of Associated Press correspondent William N. Oatis from a Czechoslovak prison. The Czech government allowed American ambassador Billis.O. Briggs to meet Oatis for about 30 minutes at Prague police headquarters, the first contact by a U.S. official since his arrest on April 23 of last year.
Ottawa CP report says the Commons committee voted unanimously to cap Saskatchewan’s losses at 15 percent during redistribution. The 35 member panel rejected a 10 percent limit proposed by Stanley Knowles, and accepted a plan projecting seat shifts: Saskatchewan down to 17, Manitoba to 14, Nova Scotia up, Ontario and Quebec with gains, total seats rising to 265.
Bonn reports the Western Allies will not concede further on German troop commitments. The Free Democrats and German Party oppose the current peace contract terms seen as near sovereignty for West Germany in exchange for a 400,000 man European army contribution. Coalition rift risks ratification in the West German parliament.
In Tokyo rioting yesterday a stone shattered a window of a car carrying Lt Col Douglas A Kellough of the Canadian liaison mission to Japan. Kellough was unharmed. Two Australian mission cars and two army jeeps were also stoned. an Australian sergeant was beaten and a British car had its windows broken.
Howard W. Blakeslee reports a tiny, jigsaw-like germ found in every cancer examined across human and animal cases. Researchers Eleonor Alexander-Jackson and Virginia Wuerthele-Caspe note the germ’s presence in human, dog, rat, and mouse cancers, yet its role remains unproven.
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