Committee Autos Unchanged Board Reelects Szewczyk as Chair
M F Szewczyk is reelected chairman and S S Hunt reelected vice chair as the large area board keeps the same committees for 1344. The board reviews an agricultural course timetable, funds for farm shop equipment, a $50 000 borrowing by law, and bus use for hockey transport. Delegates are named to the Winnipeg trustees convention with an alternate secretary-treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S&s
Mountain
M. F. Szewczyk
Cecil Durston
S.S. Hunt
Winnipeg
Ed Johansen
K. A. McKillop
Bullmore Heads 50th Anniversary Jubilee Committee
The committee will arrange a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Dauphin being chartered as a village in 1898. Plans note a July charter date and tie in with the annual agricultural fair. Delegates from rural counties named. other organizations expected to appoint delegates.
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Bullmore
Dauphin
D.M.C.C Council Plans Closed Meeting On Expropriation
Following a closed session with the town solicitor the council seeks a joint meeting with the Dauphin Memorial and Community Centre directors to discuss land expropriation for the D.M.C.C. site. The resolution specifies the gathering as a committee of the whole meeting.
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D.M.C.C
Dauphin Memorial and Community Centre
Calgary man sells parking meters to city in error
A Calgary resident offered his parking meters to the town after hearing it wanted them installed. The council did not buy them and filed the letter in the archives.
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Calgary
Health Unit Reports 1947 Dauphin Statistics Show Shifts
Annual figures for Dauphin town and surrounding municipalities show 48 deaths 36 marriages and 147 births in 1947. Marriages dropped 33 from 1946 while births rose to 354 total with 312 in hospitals or at home. Sixteen infants died under one year and heart trouble led deaths.
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Dauphin
Dauphin Town
Dauphin Rural
Ochre River
Ethelbert
Dauphin Police Report Shows Crime Decline in 1947
The 1947 annual police report for the town detachment RCMP notes fewer investigations and prosecutions than 1946, with 340 investigations vs 370, prosecutions down to 202 from 221, and court convictions at 184 from 198. Shoplifting included six cases with four adults convicted and two juveniles restitution.
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R.cmp
Milk supply short for Dauphin still ships in
Dr. O McGuirk reported 22 dairy herds supply milk to Dauphin but remain insufficient. Milk is shipped from Ste Rose, with portions not TB tested though precautions ensure most comes from tested herds. A by law requires all supplying herds to be TB tested.
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Dauphin
O. McGuirk
Council
Ste. Rose
Winter Arrives with Frosty Weather Across the Area
Area residents note a sharp drop in temperatures after weeks of milder springlike conditions. The cold grip persists as thermometers fall to new lows and refuse to rise.
Volkers Elected Head of Local School Board
W. T. Volkers was elected chairman of the local school board at the first meeting of the year held Wednesday evening at Mackenzie school. W. K. Marsh was named to fill the vacancy from the last municipal election, and the ten member board named committees for the year with chairmen listed as follows.
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W. T. Volkers
MacKenzie
W. K. Marsh
Volkers
J. G. Blinkhorn
S. Hunt
A. Tyler
A. E Marcroft
Geo Sumpter
H. Love
J. E. Burton
W. D. Strang
Blinkhorn
Hunt
Strang
Marsh
Love
Marcroft
Burton
Tyler
Sumpter
Fuel
Province seeks 5000 grant for road paving project
The council asked for a $5,000 provincial grant to help pave streets leading to No. 5 and No. 10 highways after a reminder from district engineer H. W. R. Gemmell. Last year a similar grant funded Main street paving costing over $55,000.
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H. W. R. Gemmell
Main Street
Local School Board Seeks To Cut Trustees
The local school board discussed reducing trustees from ten to five as the area board takes on more duties under the large area plan. A committee will meet the area board to determine steps to shrink the local board. Also, A. E. Marcroft was named delegate to the trustees convention in Winnipeg and C. McTavish hired as caretaker at Henderson School.
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Area Board
Large Area Board
A. E. Marcroft
Winnipeg
C. McTavish
Henderson School
Coyotes Shot During Past Year in Rural District
The rural municipal office records show 132 coyotes 1 timber wolf 3 bears and 3 cubs turned in over the last year. Bounties total 697 dollars half from the municipality and half from the province. George Travis led Dauphin area with 21 coyotes. Steve Negrych was runner-up with 12 coyotes one timber wolf and a bear.
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M. F. Szewczyk
Game and Fish Association
Dauphin
George Travis
Steve Negrych
Dauphin Curling Bonspiel Opens With Forty Rinks
Dauphin’s 90th annual bonspiel began with $1 rinks and forty outside entries in the Eaton grand challenge and Stelck’s primary events. Local officials officiated at the opening as visiting skips from across Manitoba and beyond joined in a week of matches plus two seven-enders highlighted so far.
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Dauphin
T. Eaton
Stelck
Dennison Motors
Cruise Dairy
Eli Bay Ltd
Bryce’s Bakery
Lawrence Baker
Ketwood
Ab Gowanlock
Eaton
Howard Derrick
Charlie Volk
Earle Mabley
Earle Birnie
Bill Mably
Baker
Cliff Hudson
W. Kitson
Jack Henry
Winnipeg
Ralph Moore
Brandon
Tom Wishart
William Witton
Portage
Earl Murray
Neepawa
Ivor Thurston
Yorkton
John Hume
Flin Flon
Herb Lorimer
Inglis
Rus Shiels
Shoal Lake
Pudge Fletcher
Art Ripley Plumas
Fred Wilmott
Douglas
B Walker
Macdonald
Cecil Loney
Russell
Dunnigan
Carlyle
Joe Brown
Birtle
Pete Brodie
Onanole
Grandview
Gilbert Plains
Ochre River
Ste. Rose
McCreary
Winnipegosis
Kitson
Bruce Dobbyn
D’arcy Bell
Bill Mizibrocky
Ed. Johansen
Bonspiel
Claude Dunbar
Keith Thompson
Engineer Sees Dam Worsening Floods Near Vermilion River
Town engineer E. G. Waller told council that a dam beside the bridge on Second Avenue by the Vermilion river near the tourist camp is holding back water for the power plant and may be causing spring floods. Lowering it two feet could reduce flooding. committee to decide. A separate complaint claimed rot in unused fire coats from a local firm.
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Second Avenue
E. G. Waller
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Esmond
Firth Brothers
Devonshire
du Val
Coats
Ae Ieee
Airforce
W. G. White
the Store of Service
Lea A
Annual Police Report
Auphin Yy
Delanue E
William Holden
Billy DE Wolfe
Edward
Arnold Mona Freeman
Ladd
Alan Ladd Russell Bendix
Trumphi
W. L. Bullmore
J. L. Bowman
K.C
Manitoba Curling Association
Roger Watson
Howard Heath
Charlie Barnett
Magnet
Melton
John Gardner & Son
Hardware & Groceries
Wvy
Texas Seeders
Sunkist Rae
Clark’s
A. K. Campbell
United Stores Limited
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