Conservation urged for national act to boost irrigation
Dr C M McConkey of Ontario Agricultural College urged Canada enact a broad conservation act to develop irrigation in Medicine Hat and other regions. He called for a master plan for natural resources, financing public works, and long term planning beyond 10 to 100 years.
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Bruce Hogle
Medicine Hat
C. M. McConkey
Ontario Agricultural College
Guelph
McConkey
Pit
Dominion
Canada
United States
P.E.R.A
U.N
China
St. Mary-Milk-river
Body recovered of Bronx well-digger buried 26 hours
The body of Dominick Attec, 49, was raised from a 20 foot well shaft in Brooklyn after about 26 hours trapped. He died minutes before arrival of Dr. Harold Berson who said Attec died in a semi stuporous state from burns and blast injuries. His wife Maria, 32, collapsed after an all night vigil at the shaft.
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Bronx
New York
Dominick Attec
Harold Berson
Attec
Atteo
Berson
Oklyn
Maria
Third Quebec Town In Fire Disaster
A $6,000,000 blaze in Cabano, Quebec left about 1,800 homeless of 3,200 residents with one missing. Authorities say 65 year old Percival Dicky may be dead though unconfirmed. Army and Red Cross refuges housed about 800 as relief trucks from Rivière-du-Loup arrived with meat milk and bread. The fire, the third Quebec town struck in a week, started from a flaming wood chip at Georges Pelleteri’s planing mill.
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Cabano
Quebec
Percival Dicky
Army
Red Cross
Riviere du Loop
St. Lawrence
Georges Pelleteri
Rest and nourishment plan for twins Brenda Beverley Townsend
Rest and nourishment, with no further medical tests, formed the program today for six month old twins Brenda and Beverley Townsend who on Sunday will undergo an operation to separate them. The children are named at the abdomen but otherwise developed and healthy.
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Edmonton
Brenda
Beverley Townsend
Man Aims for Century, Doctor Counsels Change
A man seeking to become a centenarian asked his doctor if abstaining from drinking and smoking would help him reach a hundred. The doctor replied no but suggested it would feel like it.
Drew Sees Western Gas Oil Boom For Canada
Ottawa, Tuesday night opposition leader George Drew argued that gas and oil could rival electricity in boosting Alberta and British Columbia. He predicted millions of workers and a larger western population as oil, gas, coal, clays, and salts drive industrial and chemical production in Canada before foreign vested interests.
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Ottawa
George Drew
Ontario
Quebec
Alberta
British
Columbia
Canada
Europe
Germany
United States
Filibuster Won’t Halt Alberta to West Coast Gas Piping
Trade Minister Howe said three companies plan to incorporate to move natural gas from Alberta to the west coast despite a parliamentary filibuster opposing two. He noted the bills may pass and called opposition a phony angle. If successful, the move could create a severe monopoly.
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Vancouver
Howe
Alberta
Prairie Transmission, Ltd
Progressive. Com
Liberal
Redcliff Council Approves Water Rate Hike and New Tax
Redcliff town council on Monday enacted pay-as-you-go billing for water with a 20 percent rate increase and elimination of the discount. A new business tax on fixtures will replace other levies, based on one tenth of the assessed value, with approval from the provincial department.
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Redcliff
Medicine Hat
Attais
Main
Broadway
Rotary Plans to Bring Professional DPs to Canada
Rotary International announced a plan to move 500 to 1,000 professional and specialist displaced persons plus their families to Canada. The initiative, disclosed at the Rotary District 151 conference in Vancouver, targets doctors veterinarians chemists agronomists and other professionals with travel and transport funded by the International Refugee Organization. First groups are to depart Europe by the end of June.
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Vancouver
Rotary
International
Canada
Rotary District 151
International Service ‘Committee
International Refugee Organization
Europe
Dominion
Manitoba Flood Sidelights and National Aid Noted
The Manitoba flood prompts wide relief efforts with 200 dikes received by RCMP, and volunteers in Winnipeg call for clothing blankets cots and flashlights. Evacuees seek refuge for pets while Royal Canadian Mounted Police collect supplies and a redeployed chlorinating plant heads to Winnipeg amid national aid and continuing crisis.
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Manitoba
Royal
Lethbridge Rotary Clu
Winnipeg
Reliet
Rimouski
Cabana
Quebec
United States
Banned Oil Sucker Bait Touts Jackpine Prospects
Ottawa reports acting postmaster updates as a ban on "sucker bait" literature peddling Alberta oil stocks linked to Redwater Bruederheim Lloydminster. Promoters claim dramatic profits though authorities call property wildcat with limited wells and dubious prospects.
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Ottawa
Lapointe
Alberta
First
Redwater- Bruederheim
Lloydminster
Redwater
Bruederheim
Leduc
Winnipeg Flood Urges Evacuation Of Families From City
Winnipeg flood headquarters urged residents to evacuate families to safer areas as Red River levels rise. Brigadier Morton warned new tributaries could swell, predicting the crisis would last weeks rather than days and urging rapid action to protect facilities and traffic routes.
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Winnipeg
Red River
Brig
R. E
Morton
Seine River
Prairies
Ponte Va
Busines
Si ‘St
BC Worried Over Flood Promises But Aids Manitoba
British Columbia hears flood warnings from Manitoba as snowpack readings raise alarm of peak flows similar to 1948. BC officials brace for possible regional disaster while relief fund directors send $50,000 in aid to Manitoba.
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B.C
Manitoba
Vancouver
British ‘Columbia
Fraser Valley
Winnipeg
Victoria
Lands Department
Hut Apel
Seven Die in Nebraska Floods Headwaters Strike State
Nebraska suffers seven confirmed deaths with ten missing as floods from the Red River and swollen tributaries sweep across the southeast. Thousands are homeless while livestock losses mount and roads bridges and culverts incur heavy damage in North Dakota Minnesota and Nebraska.
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Omaha
Neb
North Dakota
Minnesota
Nebraska
Red ’ River
North
Dad
Tred “Gaand
Mathdahi
Grand Forks
Cambridge
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Drew
By Jonn Bird
Elm Park
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Keith
Lethbridge
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Jackpe
Southam Ottawa Bureau
Ontario’ ‘Securities Commission
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Mission
Pacific ‘ Railways
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