Editorial on Food Prices in Step With Inflation
The piece argues food prices drive cost of living but other goods and services also raise living costs. It notes November grocery prices up 41.1 percent since 1961, while overall CPI excluding Food rose 41.2 percent. It compares government expenditures from 1961 to 1971, highlighting rises at federal, provincial, and municipal levels and questions who fuels inflation.
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Canada
Statistics Canada
Edmonton
Ontario
Budget boost for schools keeps mill rate modest
Honourable Eileen Dailly announced large increases in provincial grants for elementary secondary and college education while keeping the province wide school mill rate modest. She said homeowners will see reductions in local school taxes in 1973 due to a higher Home Owner Grant and noted the ND P government expanded funding to districts to improve educational services. The 1973 combined provincial grants and payments total 339 060 000, up 46 970 000 from 1972, with a province wide average mill rate of 32 76 mills and a basic levy of 24 70 mills.
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Eileen Dailly
N.D.P
Easter Customs and Hockey Ramblings Across Ontario
The writer muses on Easter symbols like the hare and eggs, tracing their origins from pagan springs to Christian resurrection. He laments Stanley Cup playoff coverage and Montreal Canadiens bias, then shares personal hockey memories, a tornado anecdote from 1956, and local news about Easter travels, Elks initiation, and a thawing lake with returning swans.
Baha i World Centre hosts third international convention
Delegates from Baha i National Spiritual Assemblies across 113 countries attend the April 29 session at the Baha i World Centre in Haifa Israel to elect nine persons to the Universal House of Justice, the 1963 established governing body. The gathering reflects unity through diversity as it shapes Baha i governance for future progress. Nearby Red Rock nursery and research center south of Prince George, operated by the B C Forest Service, hosted 484 visitors in 12+ groups in 1971.
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Haifa
Israel
Universal House of Justice
Baha’u’llah
Relion
Red Rock
B.C. Forest Service
Prince George
Hudson Hope Club Notes And Wedding Congratulations
The Hudson Hope Rod and Gun Club meets on the second Thursday each month with the next gathering on May 10. Trap shoot practice occurs every Wednesday night. Congratulations to Bruce Brough and Debbie Galbraith on their wedding with many out of town guests. Also congrats to Wade Tucker and Doreen Cota on their Hudson Hope wedding. The Associated Chamber of Commerce met at The Peace Glen Hotel with twenty attendees, featuring visitors from Fort St John Dawson Creek Fort Nelson Hudson Hope and King Gething spoke on iron and smelting facilities in the area.
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Hudson Hope Rod and Gun Club
Bruce Brough
Debbie Galbraith
Wade Tucker
Doreen Cota
Hudson Hope
Associated Chamber of Commerce
Peace Glen Hotel
Fort St. John
Tony Brummett
Earl Hanson
Chetwynd Bunne Hoffman
John Jackman
Larry Tuck
Taylor
Peter Black
Black
Mr. Johnson
Dawson Creek
Hanston
Mr. Ryan
Fort Nelson
Derrick
Pat Moore
Bonnie Pollen
Georgia Freer
King Gething
Mel Kylle
Claude
Noreen Stubley
Don Smith
B.C. Research Council
Keen wins contract to remove Alaska Highway bridge
Public Works Minister J E Dube announced Keen Industries Ltd of Fort Nelson secured a 108 545 dollar contract to remove the Mile 206 7 Alaska Highway bridge in British Columbia and replace it with a structural plate pipe culvert 20 feet in diameter after submitting the lowest tender among seven bids.
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Alaska Highway
B.C
Keen Industries Ltd
Fort Nelson
J.E. Dube
Chet Echo Advertising and Subscription Rates Notice
Chet Echo published weekly at Chetwynd by Echo Publishing Ltd announces advertising rates for legal and municipal ads at 17 cents per count line for first insertion and 15 cents for subsequent insertions. Display rates on request. Subscriptions: Canada and Commonwealth six dollars annually, U.S. and foreign countries eight fifty. Single copy fifteen cents. Second Class Registration 214]
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Chetwynd
Echo Publishing Ltd
Canada
Commonwealth
U.S.A
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