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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 26, 1950
Page
7
Martin wrestles with keeping a red velvet sofa for Jane as a stern manager offers it for four hundred fifty six dollars. A wealthy relative and a young love complicate the choice in a tender moral moment about desire and honesty.
A speaker reflects on finding sincere people and hopes her advice helps two to marry before time runs out. She directs the funds to Banker Walford as she contemplates delivering the message to her niece about a forthcoming wedding with a “sincere” partner.
Ottawa announced federal grants to Pangman and Cupar Saskatchewan for new nursing units under the hospital construction program. Each project will receive 1500 from the federal treasury to support facility expansion and health care access.
Western Briefs reports from Lethbridge and Regina outline the Southern Alberta Baseball association asking the provincial government to amend the Lord's Day act to legalize Sunday baseball and softball. The item appears among other brief regional notes.
About 600 parent teacher delegates at the Vancouver convention urged the provincial education department to establish a model school to train teachers in mental hygiene and to expand facilities for retarded and mentally ill children. A motion to ban 25 cent novels with sex or crime content was rejected.
Thirteen year old Donna Henderson from a bush area northeast of Edmonton has been chosen Alberta's Cinderella by three judges after letters were read in a Calgary newspaper. She arrived in the city wearing blue jeans Sloppy Joes and a mackinaw.
Vancouver freight outlook points to a record grain export season with March totals showing strong gains. Elevators shipped 41 million bushels by end of March, up from 2 million year earlier. Deep sea cargo vessels totaled 32 in March carrying 344000 tons, up 33000 tons. Export markets shift from Europe to Japan Latin America and the Mediterranean.
The Redwater oil field overtook Leduc in total producing wells. Imperial Oil finished three more producers to bring Redwater to 391 vs 390 at Leduc. Leduc is three years two months old, Redwater one year eight months.
Edmonton and nearby oil fields will be included in the 1950 goodwill tour of the Vancouver Board of Trade. The tour begins May 15.
Winnipeg reports a shift to a brighter outlook for Western Canada crops. After subsoil dryness in wheat regions and prior drought fears, improved surface moisture and a milder freeze up have reduced worry of another drought cycle.
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