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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 10, 1955
Page
1
Calgary commissioners propose reducing the mill rate to 41 from 48 while assessments rise 16 percent. The move yields small per-household savings despite higher overall revenues, with a total 1955 city budget around 15.4 million dollars. Public services including fire, police, parks, and welfare see varied increases to fund new costs and programs.
Brandon report says the preliminary hearing for three Roman Catholic Quebec hitchhikers accused in the murder of a parish priest in a small Alberta community continues into its second day. One suspect has two brothers who are priests.
American Sabre jets were attacked by 12 to 16 Communist fighters over international waters in the Yellow Sea about 50 miles southwest of the Yalu river. Eight Sabres were involved in the combat near Ansung and Sinuiju air bases, with two MiGs shot down and another likely destroyed.
Crown witnesses are slated to testify as Claude Paquin 17 Gerard Yvon de Tonnancourt 17 and Guy Ferragne 18 face a Jan 9 pistol slaying charge in the death of Rev Alfred Quirion of St Edouard Alberta A preliminary hearing was delayed four months by legal technicalities The opening day featured the identification by Mrs Ela Robinson the Brandon insurance agent wife of her husband and mother in law as the trio’s accuser
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Foreign Minister Molotov plan to attend the Warsaw conference opening Wednesday to discuss unifying the Soviet bloc armed forces under a joint command. East Germany Czechoslovakia Poland Hungary Romania Bulgaria Albania join. China to send an observer. The move follows Moscow pledges to counter remilitarization of West Germany.
The Commons Senate committee on capital and corporal punishment and lotteries will hold two closed meetings this week to explain execution methods including hanging gas chamber and electric chair. One official hangman will testify on executions in Korea and the destroyer Sioux remains in the Korean theatre basing at Sasebo Japan.
Pacific air brings cloud intervals to southern Alberta and Saskatchewan as a disturbance moves east from the northwestern United States. Otherwise today and Wednesday are expected to be generally sunny with mild conditions.
Regina reports continued flood danger in the Qu Appelle valley with 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 acres flooded and erosion damaging lakeside cottages. Civil defence co ordinators warn of rising water as dikes are built and preparations for summerfallow seeding proceed if weather holds.
In Fredericton a contempt of court application was filed in Queen's Bench Division against five newspapers and Mrs Lina Thibodeau. Justice J E Michaud said a written ruling would follow. Thibodeau was convicted April 23 of murdering her husband and faces execution June 29. Defense counsel J A Pichette claimed press reports damaged the case.
Six families evacuated and about 20 more isolated at Belleview Manitoba due to Pipestone Creek floods. Homes in the village area are dry while outlying farms are submerged, with residents likely to stay in place until floodwaters recede.
The West pushes ahead with a plan to sign an Austrian independence treaty this weekend despite a Russian demand to exclude economic concessions. Russia wants reparations kept as in 1949, to be handled in a separate pact.
Notes suggest a meeting of Big Four leaders and foreign ministers with dates to be set later. Dulles and Molotov would meet ahead of a summit between Eisenhower and Bulganin to outline a conference, with no binding decisions expected.
About 7,000 members of the International Chemical Workers Union AFL CIO in the United States abandon the union over corruption allegations and join District 50 of the United Mine Workers of America. Fred Joyce, District 50's Western Canada rep, says roughly 140 locals are involved and a Rebel's Convention occurred in St. Louis. He notes no impact on Canadian chemical workers totaling 10,000.
Regina hosts the Dominion Drama Festival with Regina Little Theatre presenting S N Behrman’s Jake and Toronto Playcrafts performing The Country Girl. Critics noted strong grouping and stage movement while praising Jane Fansworth and Anne Tower but flagged costumes and some line delivery. Mrs Gerda Wrede, the adjudicator, called the evening delightful overall.
In the National League clash Brooklyn edges Chicago 3 to 0 with Newcombe and Campanella on the mound and Snider homering for Brooklyn. In the American League Chicago wins 4 to 0 over Boston as Dorish allows seven runs. Rivera Carrasquel Kell homer for Chi.
Robert Mitchum filed a $1 million lawsuit in Superior Court against Confidential magazine claiming the report of a Hollywood party where he allegedly arrived nude and covered himself with ketchup is completely false. The actor says the piece seeks to defame and ridicule him and attached the magazine copy to the suit.
Ontario legislator James Dempsey, a Renfrew South figure, told delegates he took funds for his 1951 campaign without reporting them and seeks continued Progressive Conservative backing. He acknowledged receiving money from John Drohan and said he hopes Frost's party will clear the matter or he may run as an independent.
Prime Minister Pidulsonggram asserts third world inevitability, while Alberta Wheat Pool forecasts a five percent wheat seeding drop from 5,862,000 acres. Sudbury Star sold to Thomson. Saskatoon hospital opens. labor unions merge in 1956. Toronto polio case after Salk shot. Gerry McNeil eyes comeback. barbiturate trace in Harold Johnson urine after boxing bout. Liverpool port continues six day wildcat strike.
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