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Under the Sea. Typical of the new-day miners who have striven to boost production is John MacPherson, who lives in an eight-room house in Villa Nova outside Glace Bay. Last week "Tossy" MacPherson, father of seven girls and a boy, was on the night trick. He slept until midday, had a noon meal and then, carrying his supper in a lunch box, walked a quarter-mile to Dosco's Sydney & Louisburg Railway to catch the "Hobo," a work-train of boxcars fitted with benches...
...principal mine-operating subsidiary of Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd. ("Dosco"), which controls 90% of Nova Scotia's coal pro duction, besides the steel plant at Sydney, where iron ore from Newfoundland is reduced...
Western Hospitality. Balloting for the leadership came last on the program, and by that time most of the opposition to Louis St. Laurent had faded away. After playing coy for two days, Nova Scotia Premier Angus L. Macdonald withdrew. Health Minister Paul Martin reluctantly got on the St. Laurent bandwagon. The Peck's Bad Boy of the Liberal Party, onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, never had a chance, and wound up with just 56 votes...
Fogo, a Halifax lawyer, Nova Scotia-born-&-bred, is a man without political ambitions for himself, a reliable worker behind the scenes, whose political gift is to stop bootless quarreling and secure quiet settlements. Liberals expect him to make a good convention co-chairman (French-Canadian cochairman, Joseph Blanchette). But since he was only 23 when the last Liberal convention was held, he has a bit to learn about the procedure...
...when the late Sir Wilfred Laurier died, D. D. McKenzie, the acting party leader, and William Fielding, of Nova Scotia, were the top choices when the convention began...