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Another grandiose Social Credit idea turned out last week to be bankrupt. In Alberta's Supreme Court, Chief Justice Horace Harvey and his four colleagues ruled that Premier Ernest Charles Manning's sweeping "Bill of Rights" was unconstitutional. The court's reason: Alberta's brand of Social Credit would infringe on Dominion control of banking...
...Account. In Calgary, Alberta, steam-shovel operator Harry Gallelli, excavating a basement, uncovered a cache of several hundred U.S. silver dollars and 50^ pieces, rushed happily to a bank, learned they were all counterfeit...
...type of plumbing joint he had invented, 2) a Government investigator inquiring into the political complexion of the Kansas City Star, 3) a writer looking for special material for his novel, 4) a paste salesman wanting desk space and a telephone, 5) the owner of a coal mine in Alberta on the lookout for unemployed coal miners; telephone calls from all sorts of people asking specific information (e.g., "what's this new country club in town people have been asking about?"), an invitation from a local civic organization to participate in one of its projects, the usual...
Temperatures skidded to 25° below at Lethbridge, 23° below at Medicine Hat, 34° below at Penhold, Alberta. Snow fell 5 ft. deep in eastern British Columbia. At Nelson, B.C., plows were trapped in towering drifts. Some 15,000 residents of the Crow's Nest Pass area in the Rockies were isolated for days when snow drifted 12 ft. deep. Coal mines had to shut down. Towns ran short of coal and some were almost out of food...
Eight miles west of Pincher Creek, Alberta, which had 36 in. of snow, 40 people spent a shivery night in a snowbound bus. In Cardston, Alberta, Mrs. Andrew Fulton took a worried look at snow-clogged roads, telephoned her husband in Lethbridge and said she hoped he would try to get home by Christmas...