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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 16, 1952
Page
2
The school tax forms a large part of property bills and trustees oversee school operation. Trustees are elected and responsible for staffing and education in the community. While often criticized they are generally dedicated to serving the pupils and schools.
At the annual meeting in Saskatoon representatives from seven provinces discussed problems in teaching. They agreed that teachers are the key to good education, more vital than buildings or equipment, and stressed maintaining standards over tax cuts. Trustees must understand educational and youth social problems in their communities.
The text argues quality teaching matters more than lavish school buildings or equipment and that trustees must choose between funding salaries to attract good teachers versus building costs. It notes Canadian boards’ views on education problems of the time.
Dr. J. A Anderson of the Board of Grain Commissioners urges Manitoba farmers to plant licenced Canadian wheat varieties Red Spring Lee Redman Thatcher Regent Saunders in the north Stewart Minchum Carleton. He warns unlicenced imports like American Mida degrade Canada’s export quality and world market prestige by lowering whole-car grades.
Emily Kimbrough endorses Blue Bonnet as her favorite margarine in a promotional piece. The ad touts Bore Boxset Margarine variants, nutrition claims, and ease of use for cooking and spreading.
Former Saltcoats Saskatchewan residents Dr and Mrs J B Morison now with the Canadian Emigration Dept in Glasgow visited Saltcoats and were hosted by Provost Gourlay who received a plaque to send to the Saskatchewan mayor.
A federal information release says rocket flax performs well across brown and black soil zones and is recommended for most of Saskatchewan. It should not be used in grey wooded soils or North Battleford Lloydminster areas due to short frost-free periods. Dakota and Redwing varieties suit short seasons. Rocket flax yields highly, resists rust, and has high oil content.
A. R. Sandy Cross of Calgary paid 29400 at a Perth Scotland sale for a fine Shorthorn bull. The event also notes the Amerigo Vespucci naming of North and South America.
Pattern 271 offers a quick decorative bed linen set with embroidery and ready-made eyelet ruffles. The transfer features a single motif 642 by 224 and two pieces 5% by 1314 inches, with color matching options and a mailing request for twenty five cents in coins.
The 1952 edition from the Household Arts Department offers twenty five cent book with ninety one illustrations and six easy patterns printed inside. Includes plain address lines for order andPattern Number NEW. Winnipeg Newspaper Union listing at 60 Front Street W Toronto.
A collection of short, dated humor scenes including a boy with a bow and arrow asking for his "other arrow" stuck in a car, office banter about Romans, marriage remarks, a smiling doctor, a retiring fisherman and a junior angler, paratrooper jokes about boiled barbed wire, a hairdresser appointment delaying romance, and a sailor sending a loving telegram with an extra word offered.
A 1880 settler’s journal paints rough frontier living with log homes and storage cellars. The Canadian Pacific rail push spurred lumber yards that expanded from timber sales to a broad building materials trade. By 1925 diversifying products included insulation, vapor-seal paper, asbestos shingles, plaster boards, picture windows, glass blocks, plywood, acoustics, and metal barns, all offered by local lumber merchants.
Langford artist Kay Neilson born in Copenhagen with 25 years in Canada aims to spend 12 years carving Hudson’s Bay Company history. He finished 36 panels in three months depicting a 1697 battle in Hudson Bay between British ships and a French vessel.
Kangaroos live in social bands of 21 to 50 and browse mainly at dawn, dusk, or moonlight. They are entirely herbivorous and spend mid day resting and playing.
Provincial game supervisor Harold Read says Saskatchewan moose numbers are increasing after hitting a low six years ago. The government conservation program is slowly bringing moose back, with Regina noted as a reference point.
A finely carved Indian talking stick was presented to Lieutenant-Governor Clarence Wallace by Chief William Seow in Victoria British Columbia. The staff will be set in the ground before the chief as a tradition when he wishes to address the tribe.
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