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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1953
Page
1
In Panmunjom the 500 North Korean prisoners scheduled for Saturday interviews with Red explainers will join 500 more in the afternoon to discuss reasons for repatriation. Lt Gen Thimayya, Indian chairman, calls the move a personal triumph after days of delicate negotiations.
American delegates urge the United Nations General Assembly to place the army’s atrocity report on Korea on the agenda. Henry Cabot Lodge announced the move after the war crimes division documented 29,815 deaths behind Red lines, including 6,113 U.S. soldiers, with eyewitness accounts and photos.
The New York milk strike drags on as talks break down after five days with 12 million people in the metro area facing milk shortages. Drivers demand a 12.50 weekly package increase while current pay ranges from 82 to 125 weekly, and prices rise to 27 cents delivered per quart. Dairy farmers warn losses reach 250000 daily as milk products shift to butter and cheese.
Arab delegates at the United Nations said Maj Gen Vagn Bennike and his observer staff were threatened with death by Israelis. Bennike said he had bodyguards and would comment only that he had Israeli guards in Israel and Arab guards in Arab territory.
A Royal Canadian Air Force instructor and a student pilot were killed while a NATO student pilot was critically injured when two Harvard training planes collided in mid-air and crashed at the NATO flying school late Thursday. Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra divorce talks surface as marriage falters after two years. Marwell Construction Co. to build a 29 million petroleum products pipeline from Ilaines port in Alaska to Fairbanks. Sir Miles Thomas says Britain leads US in jet technique by about four years and vows to stay ahead.
A Hungarian watchmaker Janos Feher and his seven year old son John were killed when an airliner crashed near San Francisco while en route to New York for polio treatments Feher had toiled long hours in Australia since emigrating in 1949 and sold nearly all possessions to fund his son’s care The widow receives government aid and plans to travel to the crash site.
Alexander Stogra a 62 year old Romanian born garageman of 1971 Crescent View was found dead at home this morning. He apparently died from a heart seizure and was discovered by his employer Adam Kozmyk at 7 10 this morning.
Moscow reports a decree ordering Russian farmers to raise food production by 41 percent over 1950 levels, with plans to invest 8.5 billion rubles in the food industry and activate over 1,000 new factories by 1956. The measure, part of Malenkov’s campaign, notes cattle leaness and aims to boost consumer goods including large increases in champagne and brandy production.
James Patrick Ford of Alexandra Composite High School won the 1952 53 Governor General's Medal for general proficiency in grade 9. Norman A Wait principal announced the honor, noting Ford is the son of Leonard P Ford and Mrs Ford of 846B Third St. The award recognizes the best grade nine student overall in Medicine Hat.
Cloudy conditions persist in Medicine Hat with snow this afternoon and warmer temperatures expected Saturday. Winds from the southeast around 15 km/h today and a light breeze on Saturday.
The Nobel Institute announced Albert Schweitzer and George C Marshall as recipients for 1952 and 1953 respectively. Schweitzer, a noted missionary physician, chaired a hospital in Lambarene. Marshall, founder of the Marshall Plan, is to be 75 in December. No reasons were given for the awards.
An interim government to replace Cheddi Jagan’s leftist regime will be formed in mid-December in British Guiana. Governor Sir Alfred Savage will head an executive council as a single chamber legislature prepares to be created and constitutional amendments are likely to be sent to London.
Funeral services set for Monday at First Presbyterian Church in Edmonton for Dr. John Lyle Robinson Alberta minister of industries and labor who died Thursday at age 83. Premier Manning and cabinet members will attend as burial follows in Edmonton cemetery. Robinson served 51 years as labor minister and represented Medicine Hat starting in 1935. He was a chiropractor before cabinet appointment in 1948. Survivors include his widow and one daughter.
Four Medicine Hat Transit workers take over operation forming Medicine Hat Transportation Ltd. C A Newton becomes manager with Monty Mitchell Alex Dieno and Jake Reichert as drivers. City grants five year franchise and 10 cent per mile subsidy while underwriting three Windsor buses worth 4500 dollars depreciated over three years. The cooperative adds five buses to its fleet.
A brief humorous exchange in which a speaker jokes about ups and downs while an Elevator Girl notes the real annoyance comes from the jerks. The dialogue captures light urban humor and character banter.
President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower will visit Ottawa for two days not three, arriving by train Friday November 13 and departing Washington the following night. The trip includes wreath layings, maple tree plantings at Government House, and formal dinners with Governor General Massey and Prime Minister St Laurent.
Canada has placed defence orders totaling four billion dollars since 1950, with most work in Canada and about 500 million in the United States. Deputy minister R. M. Brophy says the program is levelling out but production must stay at minimum levels to prevent industry collapse. Mutual aid funds 234 million for this year to supply allied partners.
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