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...longest gas pipeline is going to be built across Canada. This was announced last week by Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe after a four-day conference in Ottawa with officials of two pipeline companies. Canadian-owned Western Pipe Lines Ltd., which had sought permission to transport Alberta's natural gas to Winnipeg and Minneapolis, and U.S.-controlled Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., which wanted to build an all Canadian line, had agreed to merge. The new combine will build a 2,240-mile pipeline from Princess, Alta. to Toronto and Montreal. The pipeline will be 200 miles longer...
...Smiley discovery is the biggest event in a year of high-pressure oil exploration all over Saskatchewan. Until last year, the province had run a poor second to neighboring Alberta in oil exploration. Through most of 1953, however, while Alberta drilling dropped 3%, Saskatchewan's increased almost 100%, with some 75 Canadian and U.S. companies taking part. At year's end there were 14 established oilfields in the province, with about 450 operating wells...
Most other Saskatchewan wells yield heavy black crude, rather than the lighter, and more valuable oil produced in Alberta. The Smiley strike, yielding a 32-to-36°-gravity light oil, has given Saskatchewan oilmen reason to hope that, in quality as well as quantity, their wells may some day match Alberta's best. Oil companies have already budgeted a record $40 million for development...
Last week DuPre, Author Reynolds, the Reader's Digest and Random House, the book's publisher, were all themselves subjected to the most horrible torture in publishing. Across Page 1 the Calgary (Alberta) Herald (circ. 56,456) was the headline: CALGARIAN ADMITS SECRET SERVICE STORY WAS A FABRICATION! GEORGE DUPRE TELLS HERALD HE WAS NEVER...
...manager of Calgary's Commercial Chemicals, Ltd., found that he was an outstanding citizen in Calgary, leader in the Boy Scout movement and an active member of United Church of Canada. At war's end he worked as confidential assistant and security officer to Nathan E. Tanner, Alberta's Minister of Mines and Minerals, who supervised the provinces' vital natural resources...