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Prime Minister King was not at all sure at week's end of his own personal election. In the constituency of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he was still leading CCFer Edward LeRoy Bowerman. But his margin had been sliced to 200-odd votes, and the soldier vote had not yet been announced...
...Gladys Strum, 38, CCFer from Saskatchewan. Since the Liberal Party's Mrs. Cora Casselman, delegate to the San Francisco conference, and Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, Labor Progressive, were beaten, Mrs. Strum will be the only woman in the new House of Commons. She is the wife of a Saskatchewan farmer, mother of a 14-year-old daughter. A good campaigner, she defeated popular Ernest Edward Perley, Progressive Conservative incumbent, who was a three-time winner, and National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton...
...many an astute political observer, even among the old-line parties, was willing to concede that the CCF had a good chance of running a reputable second. It ran a dismal third. Plainly the people wanted no economic didoes, no flagrant change in the status quo. Only in Saskatchewan did the party make any sort of a showing-and in that CCF bastion a CCF success was a foregone conclusion. Elsewhere, the people voted as resoundingly for capitalism as they did for King...
...Prime Minister achieved a success even in the heart of Saskatchewan. Against strong CCF opposition, he won his own personal election in the remote riding of Prince Albert...
Result: for a total outlay of $693,000, Saskatchewan has acquired a tax-free power company which last year showed net profits of $334,000 and which had 400 miles of line and some 8,000 customers. Probable next step: provincial purchase of another private power company, in the province, Saskatchewan's Prairie Power...