EDMONTON, Alberta (Sep. 20)
The City Council of this city, out of consideration for the religious practices of local Jewish merchants, has adopted a city ordinance permitting retail stores to remain open late on Thursday evenings instead of Friday evenings as originally planned.
The decision was taken as a result of a request to this effect by a committee of clergymen of the three major faiths who told the city authorities that permitting the stores to remain open Friday evenings would either cause a drop in synagogue attendance because Jewish merchants would keep their stores open late on Friday to compete with non-Jewish retailers or would cause Jewish shopkeepers to suffer serious financial losses.
