1957 Traffic Violations Summary
Traffic violations recorded include excessive speed without due care failing to stop with impaired ability and failure to yield right of way. The list shows Dale day with multiple entries and scattered figures.
28 May 1957
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 28, 1957
Page
1
Traffic violations recorded include excessive speed without due care failing to stop with impaired ability and failure to yield right of way. The list shows Dale day with multiple entries and scattered figures.
Lions Club Park at the foot of Second Street East opens to the public next Saturday June 1. Washrooms and kitchen facilities will be available. Playground equipment is in place and well used. Groups wishing to book the kitchen should contact Pete Evans at city hall 6 5971.
Thirty merchants in Medicine Hat join annual Dollar Days with extra stocks and big savings. The News published the flyer last weekend and mailed it yesterday to district and rural points. tomorrow it reaches Medicine Hat with the regular edition.
London AP reports Mayflower II logged 138 miles in 24 hours during its Plymouth voyage, one of the best days of the replica pilgrimage to Plymouth Massachusetts. Skipper Alan Villiers said the ship was making 544 knots and all well, placing it about 600 miles from the West Indies.
Nine Medicine Hat High School graduates plan to enter teaching, the largest group in over a decade. Five seek two year training bursaries and four seek one year bursaries of 300 dollars yearly, half funded by the department. Principal N A Wait urged the scholarships, praising the group as finest to date.
Unanimous support from separate and public school boards for Medicine Hat health unit to urge city council to consider a bylaw and hold a public referendum on fluoridation. Dr. J M Brown cited long term tests showing reduced tooth decay in children. cost estimated at 25 cents per person yearly. A bylaw would go to electors after council draft, needing two-thirds approval.
John E. Richardson of Edmonton was acquitted in Medicine Hat Supreme Court on counts of uttering forged postal notes and possessing a stolen note. The crown failed to prove the notes were stolen or that forgery occurred. Richardson, a former Toronto man now in Edmonton, was released on local counts and moved to face other charges.
The Canadian Press reports nominations closed for the June 10 federal election with 868 candidates across 263 ridings. Liberals hold 265 slots, Progressives 257, CCF 162, Social Credit 116, plus independents and minor affiliations. Communist Labor-Progressives field 10 candidates in a bid to consolidate labor unity.
Saskatoon report. Deputy Health Minister G D W Cameron and Dr J Gilbert Turner of Montreal tell the CHA biennial meeting that the national hospital insurance plan, to be in place by Jan 1 1959, provides hospital care at reasonable cost but is not national health insurance. The act covers hospital and out patient services, not doctor bills, and provincial details remain to be worked out.
District returning officer reports no new candidates on nomination day with all sponsors pre announced federal race entries. Most sponsors came from district points, a mix from the city, with several applications showing more than the required ten signatures.
At Banff the 39th Alberta Nurses convention drew over 400 nurses. Elizabeth A. Beitsch led a reorganization into two committees for nursing service and education to align with national standards. Panel discussions urged active aging with new projects, reading, and balanced activity to preserve vitality in old age.
Doctors warn the city faces an escalating mosquito swarm as spraying runs for a week. Millions of mosquitoes swarm Medicine Hat in bomber and fighter formations, challenging residents and public health efforts amid calls for intensified control.
In St Annes England Ernie the Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment will pick winning bond numbers as nearly 1,000,000 tax free pounds are distributed among about 23,000 Britons. Premium bonds began last November amid Suez crisis aims to curb spending and inflation with prizes from 1000 to 25 1 000 pounds.
A salesman asked a man if he ruled the house. The man, with a swelling eye, replied that they had just settled the question, hinting at a recent altercation and household power dynamics.
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