Chamber Backs Taxless By laws For Medicine Hat
The Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce endorsed five municipal by laws to be voted May 30, warning that not passing them would raise taxes due to short term loans for improvements. The by laws cover extending the electric plant, gas mains, fire equipment, sewers, and four new gas wells.
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Medicine Hat
Chamber of Commerce
Mho
James Kidd
Ald
H. C. Leinweber
Leinweber
Dionne Quints Play Pig Game Amid Laughter
In Callander Ontario the Dionne quintuplets sit in matching navy jumpers and flowered blouses playing cards in a basement rumpus room. Annette tumbles from a chair but recovers quickly, and Marie is the easiest to spot due to glasses.
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Callander
Ont
Annette
Emilie
Dionne
Ontario
Marie
Yvonne
Cecile
Truman's Bold New Program Aims to Aid World Development
President Truman pushes a blueprint named point four to aid underdeveloped areas. Norris Dodd of the FAO says the plan may exceed Marshall Plan impact and promote world peace. Officials estimate a $125 million launch with the U S paying about half and wealthier nations asked to contribute. Continued on page five.
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Washington
Truman
Norris E. Dodd
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Dodd
U.S
United States
Canada
Britain
France
CCF Leader Pushes Public Ownership of Coal Mines and CPR
CCF leader M. J. Coldwell said a CCF government chosen in Canada's June 27 election would nationalize coal mines and the Canadian Pacific Railway. He spoke in Springhill Nova Scotia as Liberal PM St Laurent and Progressive Conservative George Drew campaigned along the Maritime coast. Coldwell urged two state owned railways and mines to run as separate entities competing for public benefit.
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M. J. Colwell
C.c.f
CCF
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Nova Scotia
Springhill
St. Laurent
George Drew
National Party
Seaboard
Coldwell
C.P.R
CPR
Amherst
N.S
Truro
Springhall-Amherst
Louis
Drew
P.C
Ontario
U.K
Windsor Mayor Named in Royal Commission Testimony
Testimony at the Ontario royal commission into Metropolitan General Hospital details a Detroit hotel party with four Windsor figures, including Mayor Arthur J. Reaume. Nurses designated by letters testified in Woodstock judge led proceedings examining hospital administration after Mildred Maybee’s February resignation.
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Windsor
Ont
Royal Commission
Metropolitan General Hospital
Detroit
Mildred Maybee
Reaume
Horace Atkin
Young EightYearOld Flies Atlantic To Visit Medicine Hat
Kenneth Michie eight travels alone from Folkston Kent to Medicine Hat Canada visiting his grandparents. He flew London to Montreal 15 hours, first air journey, enjoyed Iceland landing and takeoff. He left Britain at age three during the war and now weighs eight candles on his birthday cake.
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Bob Shiels
England
Ocean
Canada
Atlantic Ocean
Kenneth Michie
Folkston
Kent
Medicine Hat
London
Gas City
Dominion
Ken
Willian
Michie
Seveneth St
May Arnfield
R.A.F
Kenneth
Britain
Montreal
Iceland
Calgary firm wins No 3 Highway contract bid
Alberta Public Works announced two road contracts totaling 289 312 dollars. The Standard Gravel and Surfacing Company Limited of Calgary received the larger 370 752 dollar award to lay bituminous surface on a No 3 highway west from Medicine Hat for 25 miles. Two other bids were received.
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Edmonton
Alberta Department of Public Works
British Labor Party Purges Red Adherents
The report contrasts Prime Minister St Laurent with Progressive Conservative leader George Drew on an Atlantic tour, noting St Laurent’s measured grassroots style versus Drew’s fiery, attack-driven campaigning. Drew’s vigor and late-night schedule clash with St Laurent’s more restrained cadence.
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Labor Party
Labor bans fellow traveling Communists in party purge
London The Labor party banned all fellow traveling Communists and 14 organizations, affecting over 5,000,000 members and officials. The move follows the expulsion of two MPs, with Attlee and Morrison leading a crackdown on pro Communist policy ties.
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London
Labor Party
Attlee
Herbert Morrison
British Soviet Society
British Communist Party
World Federation of Democratic Youth
Women's International Democratic Federation
Communist Party
Communist Daily Worker
Labor M.P
Ottober
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
Press Association
German girl found guilty of sharing US documents
In Munich Germany Gertrud Mittenentzwei 24 was convicted by an American military court of giving United States military government documents to unauthorized persons for unauthorized purposes. The judge called the act very close to espionage for a foreign power and she received a 30 month jail term.
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Munich
Germany
United States
Gertrud Mittenentzwei
Canadian forest fires caused big loss in 1948
The Canadian resources department reports 1948 forest fires caused record firefighting costs over 2.5 million dollars and total losses near historic highs. Timber damage valued at 5.882 million dollars excludes soil, wildlife, and tourist losses. 82 percent of fires were man made, with 40 percent from careless campers and smokers, up from a decade average.
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Ottawa
Resources Department
Canada
Nationalists Hold Shanghai Defenses Against Red Attack
Shanghai defenses remain in nationalist control along the Whangpoo river corridor despite Red forces pressing on the Pootung area and Liuchiahang. Communiques note river access secured, bridges attacked, and thousands of Reds engaging near Tungkow and Liuchiahang with shifting nationalist troop deployments to respond.
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Shanghai
Whangpoo
Poontung
Pootung
Standard Oil
Tungkow
Liuchiahang
Russians Ease West German Trucks But Keep Permit Rule
Gen George P Hays said Soviets will allow freight trucks from West Germany to Berlin without permits only if they are already halted at Helmstedt. Other cross frontier traffic will still require permits, a move Hays calls a new restriction and violation of four power accords. He plans to protest if talks fail.
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Berlin
George P. Hays
United States
West Germany
Helmstedt
Soviet Zone Economic Commission
Hays
New York
Vassily Chuikov
Germany
Forest Fires in Alberta Now Largely Contained
Fire crews in Alberta report most forest blazes under control with three serious outbreaks in the Lesser Slave Lake region. The outbreaks at Chisholm Lac La Biche and Kinuso High Prairie areas burn fiercely as lines are extended by bulldozers and crews work to prevent spread.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Lesser Slave Lake
Chisholm
Lac la Biche
Kinuso
High Prairie
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Elizabeth
Stock Exchange
W. H. Williams
Canadian Pacific
Fredericton
Paebne
Progressive
Conservative
Martin
Newfoundland
William Lilley, Jr
Los Angeles
Lilley
Rurses
Atlantic
Calgary
Joe
U.S. Air Force
Thomas F. Mantell
National Guard
Fort Knox
Assiniboia
Eagles
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