Beer Price Hike Prompts Sticker Shock For Bottled Beer
Changes take effect Wednesday May 16 raising bottled beer to 27 cents per bottle while draught remains 10 cents. The higher tax from eight to 10 percent drives the bottled increase as brewers shift costs. Also notes discuss bridge odds of a 13 card all one suit hand and water restrictions not yet decided for 1951 amid MacArthur hearings with optimistic hints on Korea.
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Trade dept denies Canada sugar stockpile claim
Ottawa reports world speculation over a sugar stockpile after Canada signed a sugar deal with Cuba. the department denies any plan to hoard sugar amid the chatter. The roundup also notes NZ reproaches from Doidge over Korea, Ontario's 14 day NZ visit ends, and other dispatches.
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One Known Dead as U.S. Ships Collide Near Cape Henry
The navy seaplane tender Valcour and the collier Thomas Tracy collided five miles east of Cape Henry before 11 a.m. One man aboard the Valcour is dead. Crews were fighting the fire and later reportedly under control as the collier headed toward Hampton Roads under its own power. The transport Thuban would bring the deceased and 160 Valcour crew to Norfolk later today.
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United Nations Bans War Shipments to China
The U N sanctions committee voted 11 to 0 with Egypt abstaining to impose a world wide embargo on shipments of war goods to Communist China. The 14 nation group will seek assembly approval with likely opposition from the Soviet bloc and India. Britain and France shifted stance as rubber cuts and U S comments influenced London.
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Warren Will Seek U S Presidency Forecast From Tulsa
In Tulsa a forecast by party leaders suggests Governor Earl Warren of California may pursue the 1952 Republican presidential nomination. Warren, previously noncommittal, was not active at the meeting, though his name surfaced in lobby talk as a potential candidate amid Dewey backing Eisenhower.
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Unknown Road Opens Vast Untapped British Columbia Frontier
Vancouver dispatch reports the Kemano river road near 400 air miles north will grow into a major link for a vast B C development. The Aluminum Company of Canada plans a 550 million dollar project including a 1600000 horsepower power plant, a 10 mile tunnel through the Tahtsa Mountains, a man made lake in Tweedsmuir Park, and an aluminum plant at Kitimat producing up to 500000 metric tons annually. 175 workers already live there as 1200 construction crews arrive, with Claude Beadell calling the effort the biggest since the railway.
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B C Children Defy Law By Missing School
In Maillardville B C, more than 670 Roman Catholic children stayed from public schools in protest after the Catholic schools were closed two months ago. Spokesman Joseph Haddock says religious instruction will continue in own schools despite the prosecution threat. Parents risk prosecution under the school act for unauthorised absence.
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Money cannot buy happiness, says ten million vs nine
A proverb-like remark asserts that wealth beyond a certain amount does not increase happiness, noting a man with ten million dollars is no happier than one with nine million.
U K Paratroopers May Be Sent To Iran
Britain readies its 16th independent parachute brigade for instant alert amid Iran oil fears. Foreign Secretary Morrison monitors Iran developments as whispers of a forceful stand grow.
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Red Army expands bridgehead across Choyang River front
On the central Korean front Chinese troops expanded a bridgehead across the Choyang River northeast of Chunchon threatening a second spring offensive by a 500000 man Red Army. UN patrols probed no mans land with limited opposition as two clashes occurred on the western front.
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Doukhobors Start B C Prison Blaze
Twin fires at dawn damaged two of six buildings housing Doukhobor prisoners at the New Westminster federal penitentiary. Warden R S Douglass said the inmates started the fires with mattresses but no one was hurt and there was no riot. He noted the steel structures could not be burned and cited ongoing Doukhobor protest symbolism.
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Crop Prospects for 1951 Bright In Southern Alberta
The Lethbridge Herald reports prospects for the 1951 southern Alberta crop are bright though rain since Sunday slows seeding by two to three days. May rainfall totals rise to .94 inches at the municipal airport, April to 3.13 inches. Seeding is general with early wheat one to three inches high from Macleod to Medicine Hat. irrigation lands slightly behind. Farmers expect about average wheat, 20 percent higher flax and barley, normal oats. 60 percent of wheat seeded, 25 percent oats, half barley.
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Condition Unchanged Of Stone's Daughter
Lt col J R Stone’s two year old daughter Moira suffers a serious eye disease at University hospital. An eye was removed last Thursday and doctors monitor the remaining eye for possible spread. Col Stone on compassionate leave from Korea returned home to Edmonton.
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Shawinigan Falls Celebrates 50 Years of Industrial Growth
Shawinigan Falls marks a golden jubilee for 50 years of rapid development from a river bend to a major industrial centre. Power from Shawinigan Water and Power spurred mills, chemicals, aluminum, and plastics plants, with 38,000 residents and a new city hall.
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Rains Slow Seeding In Southern Alberta
Heavy weekend rains soaked southern and central Alberta delaying seeding and disrupting bus service from Calgary to Hanna. Edmonton saw showers while Banff reported 1.39 inches and Calgary 0.90. conditions improved except for transport delays as forecasts called for tapering rain.
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Calls for Greater Output for Defence
The Economic Cooperation Administration reports Western Europe has reached record industrial output 38 percent above 1938 and agriculture 10 percent above pre war levels but warns further expansion is needed to meet defence goals. It notes rising prices and shortages will hinder gains and foreign trade remains weak.
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Fire at Kano movie theatre kills fifty, injures three hundred
Fifty people died and about three hundred were seriously injured when a fire swept through a cinema in Kano, northern Nigeria, late last night. Police and emergency officials reported the toll and said investigations are underway.
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