Singapore faces wave of labor strikes after self government
The News reports from Singapore on a nine month strike surge totaling 218. Sympathy strikes dominate with 134 cases, while 71 seek higher wages and others target dismissals or other causes. Analysts note the unrest reflects growing pains of a new partial democracy and anti European sentiment while predicting more strikes ahead.
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Frank Swanson
The
News
Singapore
South East Asia
Island
David Marshall
Marshall
Sais
Federated Malay States
Romance Nears Sudden Climax in Princess Margaret Visit
Princess Margaret spent an hour at Lambeth Palace with Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher amid speculation about her romance with Group Captain Townsend. The Church of England bars marriages to divorced persons, a key hurdle she may be weighing with church leadership before any decision.
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London
Reuters
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Canterbury
Lambeth House
Church of England
Buckingham Palace
Peter
Geoffrey Fisher
Lambeth Palace
Clarance House
Elizabeth
Townsend
Church of of Canterbury
Britain
Princess Margaret
Peter Townsend
Harold Green
Ipswich
Rev. Green
Winnipeg Votes Against Sunday Sport in Close Referendum
Winnipeg voters rejected Sunday commercial sports by a slim margin of 152 votes 34 485 against 34 333 in favor The turnout was 42 percent of the 162 000 eligible The same election rejected two bylaw proposals for a Red River bridge and free way and for six new branch libraries with narrow margins
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Winnipeg (Cp
Winnipeg
George Gardiner
Red River
North
Cold Card Award Ties Second Gold Card for Medicine Hat Girl
Only the second Gold Card to be earned by a Girl Guide in Medicine Hat in 20 years was presented Tuesday evening to Theresa Myers, center, daughter of Mr and Mrs Dalton Myers. Miss Joan Fisher won the first Gold Card. Theresa Myers has six years in No 5 Company and nine years in Guiding, with 16 proficiency badges and faithful service.
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Medicine Hat
Theresa Myers
Dalton Myers
Spencer St
Joan Fisher
J. D. Morrison
Grace Palsenier
No. 5
Salva
Weather improves for Edmonton as warm Friday nears
Temperatures fall to the low 20s overnight with Friday expected to bring a bounce to the mid 50s. Pacific weather systems will keep variable cloudiness and a warmer afternoon than today for late October.
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Edmonton
Pacific
Icelandic Epic Writer Laxness Wins Nobel Prize
Halldor Kiljan Laxness, 53, receives the 1955 Nobel Prize in literature for his sweeping depictions of life on Iceland. He will get 190 214 Swedish crowns and the Nobel insignia at the Stockholm ceremony December 10, with the academy noting his leftist leanings amid easing international tensions.
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Michael Jagerblom
Stockholm
Halldor Kiljan Laxness
North Atlantic
Laxness
Gustaf of
Sweden
Royal Swedish Academy
Oil price cuts sweep Winnipeg as major firms join
Major oil companies except British American join a gas price cutting wave in Winnipeg. Saskatchewan Premier Douglas criticizes federal drift and calls for a poverty and unemployment free nation. British police fire tear gas at Cypriots in protests near Lima and Larnaca. A second suspect is held in a $10,000 Vancouver bank holdup. Victor Odlum, former Canadian ambassador to China, urges gradual engagement with Red China. A prairie fire scorches 1000 acres north of Cardston before containment. Stanley R. Purdy becomes assistant area manager at Calgary Unemployment Insurance Commission. a veteran of World War II.
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Saskatchewan
Douglas
China
Victor Odlum
Victoria
United States
Stanley R. Purdy
Calgary
Unemployment Insurance Commission
South Alberta Regiment
Europe
Medicine Hat hearing to fix gas production allowances
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board will hold a public hearing in Medicine Hat on Wednesday November 16 to set new gas withdrawal allowances for wells in the Medicine Hat field. Owners of gas wells and local interests may present data and arguments to influence the rate, with the city and private enterprises among participants. The board governs gas and petroleum take from Alberta wells and adjusts gas percentages by well age.
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Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation Board
Medicine Hat
Brick and Tile, Ceramics
Glass Company
Redcliff
CPR
Alberta
TB vaccine urged for Canadian armed forces by doctor
Dr A C Sinclair medical director at St Boniface hospital urged vaccination against tuberculosis at the Manitoba Medical Association meeting. He said Canada has more active TB cases now than ever and that B C G vaccine shows 75 to 90 percent effectiveness.
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Winnipeg
A. C. Sinclair
St. Boniface Hospital
Canada
Manitoba Medical Association
Lethbridge TV Listing From CJSH See-Western
Lethbridge daily telecast guide lists CJSH TV channel See-Western programming on page six. Network lineup includes local news, regional features, and scheduled sports and entertainment shows for the evening lineup.
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Lethbridge
Cjsh-Tv
UN Fails to Break Seal Deadlock in Security Council Seat
UN assembly resumes voting on the contested Security Council seat between Philippines and Yugoslavia. On the tenth ballot the Philippines led 39 to 24 with several abstentions. An eleventh unrestricted ballot failed to change the stalemate and a proposed 10 day postponement was approved 21 to 18 with 15 abstentions.
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N. Y
UN Assembly
Security Council
Philippines
United States
Yugoslavia
Russia
India
Reese
Britain
Sir Pierson Dixon
Assembly
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Dixon
Smile stones warning about pedestrians and drivers
A cautionary note warns against running down a pedestrian who may be a motorist moving a car from a parking space. The text emphasizes awareness and safety for drivers and walkers alike.
GM posts record profits exceed one billion in 1955
General Motors reports nine month net income of 913 million after taxes and a nine month total sales near 9.54 billion. GM car sales to date reach 3.622 million, surpassing all of 1954, as executives call this “the best year in its history” for the auto industry.
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General Motors Corp
Harlow H. Curtice
Alfred P. Sloan
United States
Canada
U. S
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