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The Leader-Post from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada • 5

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The Leader-Posti
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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THE LEADER-POST. REGINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1131- Holiday death toll ises to 22 Weather delays search for plane Air force takes i)ij step in 58 OTTAWA (CP The RCAF gayi 1953 for was highlighted by iu first ma.or gtep into the missile age." This wag a reference to Prime Minister Diefenbakers Sept. 23 announcement that the American TAGE THE Coutlulilc's neck not fractured Constable Allen. T. Hindson, 23, of the City Police, who was Injured in a fracas in a downtown cafe eaily on Christmas Eve, has been from General hospital.

Early reports said the constable had suffered fractured neck when he fell against a counter. Later, X-rays showed there was no fracture. However doctors said the constables neck was badly bruised and he will be off woik for three or four days. A man has been charged with assaulting Constable Hindson. ACCOUNTS SQUAKED CONCORD.

N. C. API Wesley Hooks ate his Christmas turkey with mixed emotions. Wesley was riding home with a live turkey on the front seat beside him. Suddenly, the bird began flapping its wings.

Hooks reached for the gobbler, lost control of the car and seconds later found himself in a ditch at the bottom of a 10-foot embankment. His minor injuries requited hospital treatment after which he went home. The bird was killed in the crash. While Hooks was in the hospital some friends retrieved the turkey and dressed it for him. He got even Christmas Day.

Glass bill is $600 John James Roach, 25. the pip fitter's assistant who went on a thermal plate glass indow breaking spree on Dec. 17 ha been given a $50 bond to be of good behaviour for 12 month. Acting Magistrate W. W.

Cameron also ordered Roach to make a total of $600 63 compensation to the owners of the broken plate glass windows. Roach, married with two children had been drinking all day on Der. 17, police said. He left his room in the Hotel Ehrle, broke two windows on the second floor of the hotel, walked east on Eleventh avenue to MacLeod's Ltd. hardware store and kicked In a thermal plate glass window, then kicked in another thermal plate glass window owned by Christie Grant department stores, over the avenue from the police station.

Earlier estimates placed the glass damage at 5714. In court Tuesday lawyer Harold Tick, representing Christie Grant and the Pisch block, owners of the glass, said total damage was $000.63. NORTH BATTLEFORD (Spec 11 Low cloud and irlng condition! hampered an early search tor two men missing aboard plane in Saskatchewan! north. Down somewhere in the Cree Lake area are 39-year-old George Young of Unity and Walter Clark of Buffalo Mr. Young la the pilot of the Canuck aircraft which has been missing since Tuesday on a flight from Pasfield Lake to Buffalo Narrows.

The plane wai carrying a load of fish. The owner of the aircraft H. Mi'Phalt of McPhail Airways of North Battleford, guid that a learch of the area yesterday had to be called off because of a cloud ceiling of about three hundred feet and severe icing conditions. By THE CANADIAN PRESS Highway mishaps accounted for most of Canada's accidental death toll as it mounted to 22 during the first 48 hours of the Christmas holiday period. Trafic fatalities stood at 17 while fires took two lives, both in Ontario, ami other accidents caused three deaths.

A Canadian Press survey, which started at noon Wednesday and continues to Sunday midnight, showed thii provincial breakdown at noon today with trafic deaths bracketed: British Columbia 1 ID. Alberta 1 (1), Manitoba 3 (Si. Ontario 9 131, Quebec 3 I2i, New Brunswick 1 ill. Nova Scotia 2 (2), Newfoundland 1 0, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island were fatality-free. The Canadian Highway Safety These cond.tions continued Thursday, MAY BE LOST Speculation is that the pilot may have lost his way in the heavy cloud and been forced to land when he ran out of gas.

Fuel aboard wag good for about four hour flying tune. It is about Bom arc anti-aircraft mis she will three hundred miles from Pasfield he introduced into the Canadian air defence lygtem in 1961. In a year-end review, the air force laid today 1953 also saw tal new equipment the Argus anti-submarine plane come into squadron service in the Maritime. Development work continued on the CC-106 turbo-prop long-range transport and the Cosmopolitan medium-range transport. Both are being built by Canadair Limited, Montreal.

Air Defence Command stood ready 24 hours a day throughout ttie year to detect and attack any hostile aggressor. FIRST ARROW FLIGHT Lake to Buffalo Narrows. The search for the plane, when weather permits, will be concentrated between Buffalo Narrows and Cree Lake, since the plane was reported over Cree Lake Tuesday. The aircraft has survival gear aboard and the passenger, Mr. Clark, is an experienced bush-man, Mr.

Young is an experienced northern flier. The RCAF search and resue squad is prepared to assist In search operations when the weather permits. CONTINUING Punniuliy fanner is fined .0 Peter Piatt, 28, a fanner tf Punmchy, was fined 350 and had his licence suspended Jor four mondis in city police court when he pleaded guilty to an impaired ability charge. Cecil Cameron, 48, of 2360 Smith street, was fined $150 and lost his drivers licence hr IS days when he pleaded guilty to a similar charge. CONTINUING World peace said uneasy (Continued from Page 1) THE EASY WAY SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-Mem-bers of Governor George D.

Clyde's administration gave him two Christinas gifts Tuesday. They called them the "keys to success in balancing the state budget. The item: A rubber slide rule and a tiny press that prints fake money. Gromyko warns nuclear war iContinued from Page 1) Conference had forecast 40 road death! for the period between 4 p.m. Wednesday and midnight Sunday and a total of 80 deaths up to midnight Jan.

1. HIGHER RATE CHICAGO (API Traffic deaths in the U.S. during the iirst quarter of the long Christmas weekend were running at a higher rate than the all-time record for any holiday. Safety experts expressed alarm and said that unless motorists are "shocked Into better behavior a death toll record may be set. The rale of fatalities was more than seven per hour since the count started at 8 p.m, (local time) Christmas Eve.

It was far higher than the National Safety Council's pre-holiday estimate of 620 deaths during the 102-hour period which ends at midnight Sunday. At 3 a m. MST the toll was 295 dead: 234 In traffic accidents, 34 in fires, and 27 In miscellaneous accidents. The count also was at a faster clip than for a comparable period during the 1956 four day Christmas holiday period when the all-time record of 706 traffic deaths was recorded. That mark is the highest traffic death toll for any holiday period.

THREE KILL 12 Among the hundreds of acci dents in the U.S., three took the lives of 12 persons. Five were killed in a flaming two-car collision near Jackson, N.C. In a second two-car collision at Coasts N.C., near Raleigh, three persons were killed. Four persons lost their lives In a head on crash of two autos near Michigan City, Ind. At Sacramento, a Grey hound bus loaded with 34 holiday travellers skidded into' a crowd of people on a highway, killing a woman and Iniuring her husband.

In the one-day Christmas holiday last year, traffic deaths totalled 225. Twenty seven other persons died In fires and 26 were killed in miscellaneous accidents. Canadas productive forests some 900.000 square miles. Generally the Canadian forests belong to the Crown. lo removed Dec.

8, Serovs new assignment was not announced. The Supreme Soviet also adop-ted a liberalized new penal code that follows the Anglo Saxon principle of placing the burden of proof on the prosecution instead of the defendant The code restricts the number of crimes punishable by death although keeping a wide definition of one. high treason. It makes any form of war propaganda a crime. Deportation and deprivation of citizenship were eliminated as criminal punisliments.

The parliament earlier had approved a new budget giving more money to industry, scientific re search, education and social welfare. It accepted Khrushchevs program to make youths work while getting high school educa tions and above. Khrushchev did not speak during the four-day session. ROAST Choice, Grain Fed Young, Tender, Nutritious Whole or Half LB. Charges awaited VENTURA.

Calif. (AP)-Mur-der indictments will be sought today against a mother and two men she is accused of hiring to carry out a jealousy-inspired plot to kill her Canadian-born daughter in-law. More than 12 witnesses have been subpoenaed for the grand jury investigation of the slaying of Olga Duncan, 30, including her husband, Frank Duncan of Santa Barbara. Duncan, who disappeared Sunday. was found Thursday night in Hollywood living under an assumed name.

There is no charge against the 30-ycar-old lawyer. District Attorney Roy Gustafson has said he will ask the jury to return murder indictments against Duncan's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, 54: Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya, 22. REPORTED CONFESSION All three are in custody and Baldonado is reported to have told police Mrs. Duncan promised him and Moya 36.000 to kill her sons pregnant bride.

Authorities say Baldonado admitted he and Moya lured the nurse from her apartment on the night of Nov. 17, beat and choked her to death, and buried her in a lonely area 20 miles north of this southern California coastal town. Both Mrs. Duncan and Moya have denied any connection with the murder. Olga was born near Dauphin, and came here a year ago from Vancouver.

He then visited two Rome hospitals. Later, receiving 60 orphans and 20 mutilated and crippled chil dren in the Vatican consistorial hall, he broke down and cried. Smiling through the tears he told the children: "You know, in tills life you only cry twice. The very young, ond old, they can cry." Clear weather over most of the United States brought the cars out In droves, and traffic deaths mounted rapidly. The National Safety Council estimated there would be 620 deaths during the four-day holiday, 86 less than the record In 1956.

A bright, folksy Christmas greeting to the world came from Queen Elizabeth. On radio and TV she said, "It seems to me that Christmas is just the time to be grateful to those who add fullness to our lives the prophets and dreamers, philosophers, men of ideas and poets, artists in paint, sculpture and music. NEED FAMILY SECURITY "Even so, we need something more. We all need the kind of security that one gets from a happy and united family." She also spoke of extensive royal travel plans, then added, "We have no plans for space travel at- the moment" President Eisenhower, following a quiet family Christmas at the White House, was going today to his Gettysburg, farm. The Eisenhowers planned to stay at the farm through New Years Day.

On the other side of the world Fciping radio said Christmas in Red China was observed by Protestants and Catholics in their churches and homes. The Chinese Reds, after firing 46 artillery rounds at the Nationalist Quemoy Islands in the morning, declared a cease fire for the rest of Christmas Day. The Nationalists had already announced they would not reply to Christmas Day Communist fire. Woodacrcs Sliced Side 1-lb. pkg.

Mediators 69c 79c 59c Red Ribbon Beef Properly Aged For Tender Eating lb. FANCY BACON BUMP ROAST GROUND BEEF Safeway Quality 85 lean lb. Senior citizens entertain mayor Residents of Byron Gate entertained Mayor T. H. Cowburn Tuesday night at a concert in which they played all the roles and the mayor presented them with an autograph copy of Regina, The Queen City, for their library.

The occasion was the annual Christmas party put on by the Salvation Army for the residents in its eventide home for men. Following the concert, Brig, and Mrs. R. D. Mcllvenny showed films they had taken in recent years in Pakistan and In-jdia, and Father Christmas arrived to present each man with a gift.

Maj. D. Sharp of divisional headquarters was chairman for the evening. In March, the delta -wing Arrow jet. first supersonic aircraft produced in Canada, made its initial flight.

The government decided in September to continue development of the Arrow until March, 1959, "when the situation will be reviewed again in the light of all the existing circumstances at that time. 27ie RCAF continued to maintain its air division in Europe. The division topped all other NATO air forces in gunnery supremacy. Training slackened off with completion of the major part of tlie NATO air crew training program, started in 1950. The RCAF has trained more than 5.500 air crew from 10 NATO countries.

Air Transport Command carried more than 70,000 passenger and nearly 7,000 tons of cargo. More than 180 scheduled round trips were made to Europe. Families of victims remembered ROGERS CITY, Mich. (AP-Chrlstmas for the families of the men lost with the Great Lakes freighter Carl D. Bradley was as happy as friends could make it.

"Nothing was lacking, said Mrs. Melville Orr, one of 33 women widowed when the big vessel broke apart in a Lake Michigan storm last month and left some 50 children fatherless. Most of the youngsters probably had a bigger Christmas than they ever had in their lives." Mayor Kenneth Vogelheim described the day as "unbelievable. NONE FORGOTTEN Not a child was forgotten. It took weeks of preparation to ensure that everything would be just right.

"Christmas was wonderful under the circumstances, said John Blasky, a bank president and member of a committee administering a disaster fund for the families. A firm in Grand Rapids that asked to be kept anonymous sent boxes of clothing. Another company sent enough to outfit every child. "Gifts of toys came in by busloads and truckloads," Blasky said. The children had two or three times as many gifts as they could carry and still some boxes had to be stored away lor other parties.

TURKEYS, FOOD BASKETS The Chamber of Commerce at nearby Little Posen sent two huge baskets of food to every family. Each got a turkey plus traditional trimmings. The Presque Isle county health and welfare fund sent cheques of $5 to each child and 310 to each i widow. And the Bradley Ship Disaster Children's Fund, sponsored by the Detroit Times, arrarged for group hospital and medical protection to be paid by the fund which now stands at 3120,000. Only two men of a crew of 35 survived the disaster when the Bradley went down Nov.

18. Twenty-three of the crew members were from Rogers City, a town of 3.873 high on Lake Huron whose livelihood comes from its ships and the limestone they haul from its quarries to steel mill furnaces. Pulp and paper is the largest employer amongst all the manufacturers in Canada. HEINZ Fine Quality Stock-up Feature 10-oz. tins GREATEST ADVENTURE in TRUTH or LEGEND! Talks start with engineers NEW YORK (AP) Eastern Air Lines, having reached agreement with its striking machinists, returns to the bargaining table today with its striking flight engineers.

The line has been grounded for more than a month. Also out of commission is American Airlines, awaiting a decision by striking pilots on a seven-point settlement formula' proposed by federal mediators. The company accepted it. Chances are slim that the two carriers will be operating in time to take care of a post holiday transportation crush. Meanwhile, 29 Caribbean governments.

noting that tourists are the main source of their economy, have appealed to President Eisenhower and State Secretary Dulles for an early settlement of the Eastern strike. encouraged NEW YORK (AP) Negotiators return to the bargaining table today in an effort to restore peace in the city newspaper industry throttled by a deliverers strike now in its 17th day. Presses at the nine major dailies remain shut as federal med iators sit down again with repre sentatives of the striking Deliv erymen's Union and the publishers. The talks recessed Wednesday on a faint glimmer of hope. Federal mediator Walter Maggiolo said he and other mediators were "quite encouraged by the continued progress being made and the atmosphere in which the parties deliberations are being conducted.

About 15,000 of the papers. employees have been furloughed. hi any are members of nine other newspaper unions, all AFL-CIO, which are not supporting the independent Deliverers' Union. Another 5.000 employees still are on the job on a stand-by basis. HEAVY LOSSES Pre-Christmas advertising and circulation revenue losses exceeded 520,000,000.

The deliverers membership turned down a publishers offer of 37 a week over two years a formula accepted by the Newspaper Guild of New York. The deliverers have been demanding a wage raise plus a shorter work week and an extra holiday. Basic pay under the deliverers old contract, which expired Dec. 7, as 3103.82 for a 40-hour week. The nine closed dailies are The Times, Herald Tribune.

Daily News. Mirror, World Telegram and Sun. Post. Journal-American, Long Island Star Journal and Long Island Daily Press. rppp Grade A Medium AO.

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the liberals rammed through the controversial amendment to the rational security law. Under ihe amended law. journalists face possible prosecution for so-called "contemptuous criticism" of the president assembly aid chief justice. ORANGES GRAPEFRUIT Mexican Sweet, TOMORROW AT 10 A.M. The Last The Elmer Safety Shows! Mini AMO FUN FOR ALL I Our Selection Includes Music For Every Taste Texas, White or Pihk Size 48t FF-ICES EFFECTIVE SATURDAY DECEMBER 27th On One Wide Screen 7 3 HEItmMAII music stores PRIZES Grand Trtw to be given away Saturday morning.

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