Parliament in uproar over gas pipeline bill clash
Ottawa faced near chaos as opposition members blocked the Commons and blasted leadership over the Trans Canada Pipe Lines loan bill. The dispute centered on granting up to 80 million dollars to finance 90 percent of the Prairie segment of a 2200 mile gas line to Ontario and Quebec.
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Ottawa
Progressive
CCF
Harris
Government House
Commons
Fulton
Committee of the Whole
Howe
Progressive Conservative
Liberal
Social Credit
Robinson
Treasury
Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd
Alberta
Ontario
Quebec
Tragedies Hit Calgary Cathedral Construction Site
Ronald Graham died in Calgary after a 30 foot fall from a scaffold during tar application on St Marys Cathedral. Fellow worker Tom Nicholson survived the incident, with Graham succumbing in hospital from injuries sustained in the fall. In Coleman Alberta a child, Ronald Fira, died after being struck by a car while a half mile east of town. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Skura and was playing near the highway when the accident occurred.
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Calgary
Ronald Graham
St. Mary’s
Graham
Tom Nicholson
Oleman
Alta
Ronald ~ Fira
Lethbridge
William Skura
Coleman
Defies Chair Order and PC MP Suspended
Progressive Conservative Donald Fleming was suspended from the Commons for the rest of today’s sitting after opposing chair orders. The vote was 131 to 55 as Fleming left the chamber escorted by cheers while Ellen Fairclough draped a Canadian flag over his desk.
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Ottawa
Donald Fleming
Commons
Toronto Eglinton
Fleming
Ch.mber
CCF
Ellen Fairclough
Hamilton West
Big bids in Alberta oil gas lease sale top estimate
Edmonton auction raises 13.9 million with Compagnie Francaise des Petroles paying 2.57 million for 160 acres in Bonnie Glen. Bids from nearly a dozen bidders released later results for Pembina and Wildcat parcels. Regina candidates for June election were nominated. Prince Albert bowlers plan a 25 hour bowlethon aiming for a Canadian record.
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Edmonton
Mines Department
Bonnie Glen
Erskine
Fennbig Valley
Joffre
Sundre
Sturgeon Lake
Southfields
Pembina
Wildcat
Compagnie Francaise Des Petroles
Calgary
Prince Albert
Timmins, Ont
Charles Smith
William Apps
Italy Votes in nationwide local elections in 1956 test
Nearly 30 million Italians vote in 7,143 municipalities including Rome Bologna Ferrara and Taranto where Christian Democrats seek to hold power against a rising Communist led front. Pope Pius XII urged Catholic unity and prayer through Cardinal Micara as LOsservatore Romano urged solid Catholic voting.
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Rome
Italy
Alcide de Gasperi
Communist Party
Democrats
Socialists
Monarchists
Italian Social Movement
Trieste
Clemente Cardinal Micara
Pius
Vatican
L’osservatore Romano
Christian Democrats
Bologna
Ferrara
Taranto
Smilestones humor on marriage longevity in banter
A light exchange jokes about lasting marriage. The speakers note a woman’s twenty years with the same husband, while a second voice quips that after ten years no man remains the same. The dialogue captures humor and social observation.
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Darling
Virus leak on DC-4 cargo awakens rapid health response
A live polio virus crate dropped by a Washington cargo handler leaked aboard a Capital Airlines DC-4 en route to Johns Hopkins. Quick action immunized 7 Washington cargo workers and advised Baltimore workers to seek shots. Pilot crew and stewardess received vaccines. passengers were not exposed.
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Baltimore
Capital Airlines
Washington
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Pittsburgh
Jonas Salk
Argentine government mobilizes strikers over Independence Day crisis
In Buenos Aires the government mobilized striking transport workers into military control after a Wednesday protest halted city transit. About 1,000 frontier police and city police guarded public order while 356 protesters were detained and 25 remained in custody as troublemakers. Labor demands included a 500 peso raise, jail releases, and reinstatement of fired workers.
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Buenos Aires
Pedro Aramburu
Patagonia
Juan Peron
Alberta clinic aims for city turnout record
The 1 500 Medicine Mates citizens not yet X rayed at the Alberta Tuberculosis Association mobile clinic will be seen today or tomorrow. Kinsmen club officials coordinating with the ATA said the clinic will be by the courthouse this afternoon tonight and tomorrow morning for those still missed.
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Alberta Tuberculosis Association
Alberta industry earns 33 million from lease sales
Edmonton CP reports the provincial government collected 33,283,861 from petroleum and natural gas lease sales in proven fields and wildcat lands. Pembina led bids with 18,463,112, including 898,711 for a 320-acre parcel. total bids across all parcels exceeded 54 million, pushing year-to-date lease and related income toward 70 million and lifetime receipts beyond 525 million since 1947.
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Edmonton
Pembina
Bonnie’ Glen
Erskine
Fenn-Big Valley
Joffre
Sturgeon Lake
South
Sundre
Wildcat
Triad Oil Co. Ltd
Compagnie Francaise Des Petroles
Bonnie Glen
Ohio Oil Company
Leduc
Bailey Selburn Oil and Gas Ltd
Crow’s’ Nest Pass
Pembina Field
Ohio
Marked Upswing Building in Medicine Hat Grows
Construction of new homes in Medicine Hat accelerates with 36 permits issued this year toward a projected 225 dwelling starts in 1956. Town Planner Ron Thompson returned from Calgary with word that Crescent Heights subdivision registrations should clear today, allowing lot sales early next week as Ken Sington and Crescent Heights openings advance.
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Medicine Hat
Kensington
Crescent Heights
Ron Thompson
Calgary
Ratepayers meetings in L L D No 11 set for Schuler Cypress View
The first of two ratepayers meetings for L L D No 11 will be held tonight at Schuler starting at 8 o clock where MLA Harry Strom will speak. The second session will take place Saturday at Cypress View School at 8 o clock with the same program and speaker.
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L.L.D. No. 11
Schuler
Cypress View School
Harry Strom
Quebec youths seek eye corneas for the blind
Three Montreal and nearby Quebec youths, ages 18 to 19, condemned for a priest slaying near Brandon in January 1955 had petitions for corneal donation if no clemency arrived. Government commuted their hangings to life imprisonment, and families visited them at Headingley jail before return to Montreal.
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Winnipeg
Quebec
D. C. M. Kyle
Gerard Yvon de Tonnancourt
Claude Paguin
Montreal
Guy Ferragne
Riviere Des Prairies
Que
Brandon
Kyle
Charles Paquin
Claude
Headingley
A. M. Monnin
Paguin
Gerard de Tonnancourt
Gerard
Joseph de Tonnancourt
Roger Despadie
Weather disturbance tracks through Alberta and Saskatchewan
A disturbance moved through Alberta bringing clouds and rain and is now crossing into Saskatchewan. A second disturbance is expected to pass through Alberta and Saskatchewan Saturday with brief clouds and little rain. Afternoon temperatures today and Saturday will hold in the low 70s across regions.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Forest fires threaten British Columbia as floods rise
In southeastern British Columbia a number of families evacuate homes as rivers swell after 50 days of heat. The Sechelt peninsula blaze remains out of control burning 2000 acres of fir and cedar. Creston dikes hold as 12 tractors and 200 men work to create a break between two lakes to curb the coast fire.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Interior
Sechelt Peninsula
Creston
Nelson
Guy Constable
Kootenay
Idaho
Kootenai
Bonners Ferry
D. B. Taylor
Debutantes Party Splashing Success In Thames Swim
A royal debutante party aboard the Royal Princess off Chelsea London ends with guests diving into the Thames after a boat drift. Duke of Kent watches as Felicity and Penelope Drew are presented to the Queen. A guest makes a bowler hat dive for bets while lifebelts are used to recover him.
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London
Thames
Duke of Kent
Chelsea
Felicity
Penelope Drew
Herbert Whincup
Eisenhower urges universities to aid free nations in science centers
President Eisenhower tells Baylor University graduates that communism is a gigantic failure and calls for free world cooperation. He proposes a European union as a pillar of free strength and asks leading American universities to help needy nations with modern science education centers to promote world peace.
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Waco
Tex
Eisenhower
Baylor University
Fisenhower
United States
Medicine Hat Girls Lead In Summer Sports Interest
Sports director reveals 170 girls aged 10 to 17 show interest in softball this summer, compared with 155 boys. Forty three girls express willingness to play baseball, with results released in The News sport pages.
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Medicine Hat
Alex Kaleta
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Truman
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Missouri
le Havre
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