Edmonton Calgary Weather Forecast With Warm Weekend
Sunny and warmer conditions expected across both provinces over the next several days. Saturday afternoon temperatures rise into the mid to upper seventies with no precipitation reported. Daily highs yesterday reached 75 in Edmonton and Calgary, 70 in Saskatoon, while lows ranged from 34 to 40.
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Calgary
Lethbridge
Swift Current
Saskatoon
Esterday
Woe Jaw
Martial law considered as nine Negro students enroll in Sturgis High
Nine Black students who enrolled at the formerly all white Sturgis High faced threats and anger from locals as state officials prepared martial law papers. The National Guard and state police kept a careful watch while rumors of a 1000 strong mob circulated, and buses carried children to class under tight guard.
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Sturgish
National Guard
J. J. Williams
A.B
Williams
Don Sturgilltucky
Missioner
Miesliams
Stugis High
FBI
Bureau of Investigation
Frankfort
Winor Chandler
Marti
Mately
Pleasure Ridge
Dents
Gen. Williams
Don Sturgill
Kentucky
Sturgill
One of a Series So You Want To Be a Printer
A feature promoting printing as a career outlines how printing sustains civilization and knowledge. It highlights eight fields within the industry and describes the roles of printers as scholars, artists, businessmen, or craftsmen. The piece emphasizes the broad impact and variety in printing jobs.
Mars Closeup Visit Spurs Global Mars Study
Astronomers worldwide race to chart Mars based on last night’s close approach of 2,120,000 miles. Seventeen observatories in ten countries report a yellow dust cloud about 2,000 by 400 miles. Palomar telescope not used due to air shimmer.
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New York
Mars
Lamonthussey Observatory
Bloemfontein
South Africa
Slipheri
United States
United States Naval Observatory
Washington
Palomar Observatory
California
Ottawa Drug Taxes Spark Canadian Budget Debate
Reginald Hardy notes tax on medicines fuels public dissent as tariff and sales tax raise Canadian drug prices versus U S costs. He cites 20 percent tariff, 12 cent sales tax, and 40 percent retailer markups, arguing higher national health costs impact Canadians.
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Reginald Hardy
News Ottawa Bureau
Ottawa
National Health
Whiere
G Ment
Walter Harris
Dustry
Canada
United States
U.S
Department of National Health and Welfare
Connaught Laboratories
Old Bridge Game May Hint at Murder Case in Eastbourne
In Eastbourne gossip swirls around a 12 year old bridge party at Mrs Ethel Hunt's home linked to Sir John Hunt's Everest conquest. Police investigate reports of elderly women dying after changing wills, with one beneficiary name recurring. Detective Superintendent Hannam may interview Lady Lynette Tollemache, widow of a baron.
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Eastbourne
Eng
Reuters
Ethel Hunt
Sir John Hunt
Everest
Hannam
Lynette Tollemache
Calgary hotels seek 40 hour five day week wage rise
Calgary hotels and the Beverage Dispensers Union Local 265 plan a 40 hour five day week with pay increases up to 9.50 per hour. Topmen would rise from 60.50 to 70 weekly, waiters and glass washers from 54.50 to 60, and spares from 1.24 to 1.50 per hour. The current contract expired November 1.
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Calgary
Local 265
Grant McHardy
Gull Hooked Then Freed Near West Summerland Beach
George Clark and his son Ronnie fished at Silvery Beach on Little Shuswap when a seagull took 200 feet of line. After a half hour struggle, Clark freed the bird from the bill and released it back to the water.
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West Summerland
B.C
George Clark
Ronnie
Silvery Beach
Little Shuswap
Clark
Operation Catastrophe civil defence drill planned for Lethbridge
Lethbridge officials announced plans for Operation Catastrophe a civil defence exercise scheduled for September 26. The drill will combine civil defence workers with staff from Lethbridge Municipal Hospital and will be the second such exercise held in Lethbridge.
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Lethbridge
Lethbridge Municipal Hospital
Calgarians face potential water rules easing next summer
Reports from Calgary Waterworks Engineer A H Nicholson indicate no watering restrictions may be needed next summer as current limits are slated to ease starting Monday. In Edmonton registrations for Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta have dipped slightly with about 200 medical and 114 dentistry students enrolled, down from last year. In Saskatoon Don MacDonald from Edmonton is hospitalized with a skull fracture after a car rollover near Highgate. In Nokomis CN Railway engineer Alex Yanko was seriously injured after leaning from a stationary train car window.
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Calgary
A. H. Nicholson
Edmonton
University of Alberta
A. D. Cairns
Saskatoon
Don MacDonald
Highgate
North Battleford
Smilestones advises seizing a long-planned move now
A quoted exchange urges action on a long-avoided goal, framing it as a prompt to start immediately and pursue a personal wish. The snippet reflects a conversational, light tone about taking initiative when health allows.
Bonn's plan for German unity through new talks
Bonn proposes that the Big Four start negotiations to unite West and East Germany through free elections. It offers security guarantees to the Soviet Union, suggests a demilitarized zone within NATO if reunification occurs, and calls for a linked disarmament and European security framework without including both German states.
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Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Soviet Union
Britain
United States
France
Russia
West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
West European Union
NATO
Three Teens Held Over Beer Theft and Drunken Spree
Toronto police probe a 12 day juvenile drinking case after three 16 year olds drank 432 pints of beer stolen from a boxcar. The spree involved a car, restaurant, and grocer y break ins with the youths consuming 12 pints daily.
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Toronto
Suez Crisis Deepens as Menzies Mission Fails
Cairo reports the Menzies mission failed and a five power committee deadlock over international canal control worsens the Suez dispute. Nasser rejects the 18 country plan, hints of U.S. intervention to avoid war surface, and Britain and France may pull canal pilots. Dulles briefs Congress while awaiting Washington and London word.
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Cairo
Menzies
Suez Canal
Washington
London
Egypt
Nasser
United States
Britain
France
U. S. State Department
U.S
Dulles
Driver in Motor Grader Case Cleared of Drunken Driving
Winnipeg magistrate Henri Lacerte ruled a highway grader is not a motor vehicle under the criminal code, dismissing a drunken driving charge against Henry Diebert who was found driving a 10-ton grader on a city street on June 24. Defense attorney Allan Code argued the grader cannot be marked as a motor vehicle.
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Winnipeg
Henri Lacerte
Henry Diebert
Diebert
Allan Code
One
Hat Post Office Revenue Surges With 1955 Increase
Revenue at Hat Post Office rose in 1955 to $197,496, up 53 percent from 1950. Stamps accounted for $142,000 and money orders $55,498. Letters processed reached 2,181,255, a gain of 340,312 over the 1950 figure, signaling growing business and a planned new post office.
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Sam Goldie
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