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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1956
Page
3
Dr C Carder of Beaver lodge Experimental Farm describes a yearly tillage program to eradicate couchgrass. Start late fall with a sharp implement just below root-stalk depth, then multiple spring passes with a one way disc on a half lap, followed by cultivator wireweeder cycles. Nine to ten cultivations usually suffices, with follow up by chemical if any survive.
An official department of the Canadian Amateur Sport and Physical Fitness Development Service, the Sports Clinic program led by Lloyd Percival offers guidance on athletic training and fitness development. It aims to promote national sports progress through structured clinics.
A Toronto survey of about 1000 teenage athletic injuries in Canada highlights major causes such as poorly kept playing areas fatigue poor conditioning lack of skill and insufficient warm up. The study claims about 90 percent of injuries are preventable and urges athletes coaches and educators to address these risk factors this year. Further details available from Sports College Box 99 Toronto Ont.
The article warns that cross stepping is the main cause of inaccuracy in throwing. It describes how the front foot crosses and toes point aside, locking hips and hindering movement. Lead leg should move straight toward the target with toes facing the mark for better accuracy and speed.
A University of Manitoba scientist Dr L H Shebeski head of plant science says new plant forms may emerge from chemistry physics and selective breeding. He notes chromosome reshuffling mutations via x rays chemicals and temperature shock could yield hybrids with larger yields and pest rust resistance.
D B Goodwillé of the Canada Department of Agriculture told Ontario producers the 1956 concentrated milk output may reach half a billion pounds, with record whole milk production and expanding exports. Domestic demand, rising consumption since 1949, and strong export markets underpin a cautiously optimistic year for both dry skimmed and evaporated products.
A quiz asks which Great Lake region along the Canadian border has the largest area. It then queries Canada’s 1939 housing completions and the 1955 total, the cost of family allowance payments since their 1945 introduction, the Governor General at WWII outbreak, and the share of national income taxed.
The material presents estimates for the coming year at 399.2 million dollars. It lists Lake Huron as a correct answer for item one and identifies Duke of Connaught and Lord Tweedsmuir as figures in item four. It notes 327,552 new dwellings completed in 1955.
Mrs. Sybil Walace slipped and broke her hip entering her mother Mrs. T B Wood's home in Bryan Texas. Mrs Wood helped her to a hospital where she and the other daughter Mrs Clara Wallace moved and were later hurt in the entrance as Mrs Wood sprained an ankle and Mrs Wallace broke her wrist.
Linear puzzle clues list includes multiple across and down entries. Niton symbol and oils again appear. Many lines mix hints for instruments, parts, and common words across horizontal and vertical directions. The grid item shows typical puzzle format with clues for roentgen ray biblical pronoun and other terms.
Cornell marketing specialist Erman Moore reports cracked eggs bring 10 to 15 cents off grade A large eggs. In a 15 month study with associates they created Econ o crax trade name. Eggs were boxed to prevent leaks and damage. Sales rose about six percent in year one while cracked eggs accounted for over a quarter of all sales. Moore mailed a price letter to promote the product.
Mrs Laura Bloxem, a polio victim with limited movement, started a personal telephone service in Sandpoint Idaho. Her first client the Sandpoint Camera Club used her to reach members about a meeting and eggs became a selling point with high attendance and many buyers preferring cracked eggs.
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