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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 13, 1949
Page
2
A late 1948 assessment from Hon. C. D. Howe highlights high industrial production, strong external trade, and record employment in Canada as the economy shifts from wartime to peacetime. Non agricultural jobs rise, farm work declines seasonally, and agriculture grows steadier while foreign trade remains a key challenge due to dollar shortages.
Winnipeg marks its 75th anniversary as an incorporated city with a week of events from June 5 to 11 including pageants parades concerts and cultural exhibits. The Anniversary Office asks former residents and workers in Winnipeg prior to 1886 to send names and addresses to City Hall.
Two Jordan River residents hunted near a bear den in Tisdale, Sask. In the dark one man peered into the den as the other struck a match, then both retreated quickly when the bear’s teeth were revealed just four inches from the head.
Industrial Trade Surveys offer a broad catalog of over 359 select firms with foreign interests. The publication details how to apply and provides a price of $1.00. Dept. 22, 106 Adelaide St. W., Toronto, Ontario.
A crowd of short gags and exchanges is presented. Volunteers include a young lawyer claiming 24 hogs in court, an angler and a passing woman commenting on a fish, and a double entry joke about profits and taxes. Tiny vignettes cover cows, nurses, French lessons, and a Customs scene. The piece closes with a playful note about the first alphabet carved in stone around 1500 B.C.
Winnipeg reports farmers plan maximum wheat plantings this year amid drought risk and grasshopper pressure. A $1.75 basic price supports higher sowing, with about 27 million acres expected in wheat, up 17 percent from last year, while flax loses price guarantees and other grains compete.
Coutts Alberta on the US border sees a surge as a major port of entry with nine autos cleared per hour in 1948 and total auto traffic around 56 000 for the year. A growing flow of US demand and Alberta oil field equipment boosts truck convoys through the town while officials convert an old warehouse and CPR space for extra offices and plan a new customs terminal funded at 140000 dollars. Establishment as a 1936 port from Montana places Coutts about 70 miles from Lethbridge.
In Manitoba near Island Lake two moose hunters reported a 50 by 50 foot snow free patch ten miles east of Winking Point on Beaverhill Lake. Indians fear a devil using the hunting grounds while game guardians investigate. Officials tentatively point to an underground sulphur spring as the cause.
Northeastern Saskatchewan trappers report large black water beetles the size of a thumb driving muskrats from their lodges. Donald McKen of Orcadia brought beetles to Yorkton, noting buckets of insects in many muskrat homes. Foxes fed on the beetles, tearing open muskrat haunts to reach the insects.
The number of feathers on a bird varies with species season and age. This fact notes natural variation across birds without asserting a specific count or example.
Ottawa Revenue Minister J. J. McCann told the House that farmers may pay their sons up to 400 dollars per year without forfeiting the 400 dollar dependent child exemption. The son must be employed in productive labor and paid in cash. Eligibility depends on the son being old enough to be useful to his father.
The world population stands at about twenty four billion and increases by roughly one percent annually, indicating rapid growth and expanding demand on resources.
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