Manning Quiet About Election Sparks Alberta Uncertainty
In Edmonton, Premier Manning delayed announcing a provincial election date after a hectic legislature session. Liberal leader Harper Prowse charged lawmakers held illegal treasury accounts, prompting a three hour caucus decision to call the vote at the earliest possible time. If reelected, Manning pledges a special session to finish spring business.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Manning
J. Harper Prowse
Treasury
Sible
Prowse
Legislative Assembly
Alberta Social Credit treasury branches spark snap election
Alberta premier Manning dissolves the legislature after Liberal charges that Social Credit members benefited from state run treasury branches. The branches, akin to credit unions but not under the federal bank act, enrolled about 70 000 customers and aimed to boost Alberta made goods.
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Phil Adler
Edmonton
Alberta
Manning
Treasury
Credit Unions
Federal Bank Act
Alberta Weather Area Sees Rain South and Sun North
A low pressure area over Wyoming brings intermittent light rain to southern Alberta today. The system moves into southern Saskatchewan this afternoon. Northern and central Alberta will have generally sunny skies today and tomorrow.
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Edmonton
Wyoming
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Serum Shots Resume After Safety Check
The U S government resumes polio vaccination after a week halt for safety recheck. About 11 vaccine batches from Parke Davis were cleared, enabling over a million additional children to be vaccinated. A single shot is one CD. 5.5 million children have had first doses in a three shot series.
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Fred S. Hoffman
Washington
United States
U. S. Public Health Service
Parke, Davis and Co
Detroit
Parke, Davis
U. S
Leonard A. Scheele
Parke-Davis
Public Health Service
Eli Lilly and Co
Indianapolis
Scheele
Ottawa outlines plan for Pine Point mineral deposit rail link
Northern Affairs Minister Lesage outlined plans to develop a vast mineral deposit at Pine Point near Great Slave Lake. A rail line would tap one of the world’s largest lead zinc ore bodies with possible government and Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. involvement. The note also cites the five day week as a key step in expanding federal civil service to 174,000.
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Commons
Lesage
Pine Point
Great Slave Lake
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co
J. J. Deutsch
The
Treasury Board
House
Federal Civil Service
Felix Doubles as an Ashtray in Quebec Artist Studio
Canadian artist Lieut. Maurice Morin in Valcartier near Quebec uses an old woman’s skull nicknamed Felix as muse and ashtray while preparing for his May 27 exhibit at the Citadel. Morin, 26, studies Beaux Arts in Quebec and draws on Inca and Aztec color influences to depict mythological themes.
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Quebec
Lieut. Morin
Morin
Dey
Citadel
Royal 22Nd Regiment
Beauce County
L’ecole Des Beaux Arts
School of Fine Arts
Beaux Arts
Eurena
North Africa
South
Red Nations Form Rival NATO Unit
The Soviet Union and seven European satellites create a unified military command to rival NATO. Marshal Ivan Konev is named supreme commander with headquarters in Moscow. A 20 year mutual security treaty and a single command structure were signed after a three day conference in Warsaw.
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Warsaw
Soviet Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ivan Konev
Konev
Moscow
June sod turning set for Northwest Nitro Chemicals plant
Medicine Hat readies a sod turning in mid June for Northwest Nitro Chemicals Ltd to build a multi million dollar nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer plant. The project, a subsidiary of Commercial Solvents Corp of New York, may employ 250 to 300 workers in operation with construction peaking near 1,000. The plant, located north of Crescent Heights, includes a second storage unit nearby and a new industrial area expansion. Initial investment estimates rise to about 25 million with land and pipeline costs. Technical staff are due to arrive in Medicine Hat next month.
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Northwest Nitro- Chemicals Ltd
Medicine Hat
Thce
Commercial Solvents Corp
New York
Ford, Bacon and Davis Associates
Crescent Heights
Northwest Nitro-Chemicals
Allied Chemical
Early 1955 Ducks Unlimited report on western Canada waterfowl
The Ducks Unlimited Duckological notes a strong start to the 1955 breeding season in western Canada with mallards pintails and Canada geese nesting two weeks ahead of prior years and near the 1952 peak. Blue-winged teal and ruddy ducks are just appearing while surface conditions are excellent. Aerial and ground surveys in mid May will clarify overall trends. Four Whooping Cranes were observed over Inglis Manitoba on April 28.
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Canada
Ducks Unlimited
Duckological
Bert W. Cartwright
Prairies
Inglis
Manitoba
Woman Arrested After Daughter’s Apparent Suicide
In Hawthorne New York 56 year old Celia Freeman was arrested on vagrancy and possessing a dangerous weapon as authorities investigated the death of her daughter Ruth Papazian 24 who leaped from a speeding Chicago New York express near Harmon station after a bitter quarrel.
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Denver
Colo
East Cleveland
Ohio
Vietnamese Refugees Arrive Aboard U S Transport Brewster
Five hundred Vietnamese fleeing Red foil assemble aboard the U S transport Gen A W Brewster at Haiphong seeking a passage to freedom. Landing ships evacuate 1 990 French Union troops, final forces to exit the northern Indochina port after its surrender to the Vietminh. All personnel and refugees to be sent south.
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Haiphong
North Viet Nam
U. S
A. W. Brewster
Indochina
Paris model Colette Duval eyes border record in para chute
Colette Duval, the Paris fashion model who began para chuting a year ago, prepares for practice drops near Perpignan on the French Spanish border. She aims to surpass the current record held by Monique Laroche.
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Colette Duval
Paris
Perpignan
Monique Laroche
Death toll climbs in Singapore bus workers riot
The Singapore riot leaves four dead as a Chinese detective dies from injuries. Strikers and supporters torch two RAF officers cars near a nightspot. About 27 more unions join the strike, now totaling roughly 30. Police reject claims of inaction during Gene Symonds death.
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Singapore
Police Today
United Press
Gene Symonds
Nigel Morris
Morris
Symonds
New York
Frank H. Bartholomew
Smileestones Bus Note Highlights Station Stops Joke
A passenger asks which end of the bus to exit. The conductor replies the bus stops at both ends, delivering a lighthearted quip about transit etiquette.
Audience criticism marks Dominion Drama Festival showing
Regina audience at the Dominion Drama Festival offered critiques of the Kitchener Waterloo Little Theatre production of Arthur Miller All My Sons. adjudicator Gerda Wrede praised the cast and set but blamed audience coughing for marring the performance.
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Regina
Dominion Drama Festival
Arthur Miller
All My Sons
Kitchener-waterloo
Man faces trial for libellous postcard on polio vaccine
A Florida court orders a man to stand trial after he mailed libellous postcards opposing test shots of Jonas Salk polio vaccine. The case centers on anti vaccine messaging sent to discourage immunization efforts.
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Jonas Salk
Florida
Canadian-born doctor runs New York Citys vast hospital system
Dr Basil MacLean, 60, a former Montreal General Hospital medical superintendent born in Osisawa Ontario, heads New Yorks 34 hospitals with 20 000 beds. He administers a 125 million dollar annual budget and a 200 million dollar building program as commissioner of hospitals.
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NEW York
New York City
Basil ‘‘Srendon MacLean
Osisawa
Ont
Montreal General Hospital
Dr. MacLean
MacLean
Rochester
N.Y
Strong Memorial Hospital
U.S
Saint John
Toronto
Montreal
Regina
Saskatoon
Carolin Davis
Morin Heights
Que
Cup Final Atmosphere and Newcastle Triumph at Wembley
London by Jack Stepler recalls the 1950 Cup Final atmosphere at Wembley where Newcastle defeated Manchester City 3 1. The piece notes crowd energy, a Queen's medal presentation, injury concerns to Jimmy Meadows, and calls for rules changes. It captures the spectacle from Marylebone Station to the stadium entrances.
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Jack Stepler
News London
Wembley Stadium
Geordies
Newcastle
Manchester City
Jimmy Meadows
Bert Trautmann
Manchester
Jimmy Scoular
Wembley
Marylebone Station
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Chris
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