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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 28, 1948
Page
2
The Canadian Welfare Council surveyed the Dominion on rising living costs and found anxiety about affordability. Despite higher incomes and low unemployment, many families struggle to meet current prices postwar controls removal.
The Welfare Council reports savings set aside for emergencies were drawn on to boost family income amid high living costs. The ongoing struggle to stretch inadequate income increases tensions, affects health, and endangers the security of children and the elderly.
The text notes debt rising and nutrition falling as living costs soar. It suggests price controls unemployment insurance and family allowances as potential stabilizers while underlying causes from wartime upheaval must be addressed for lasting improvement. Canada faces a serious but hopeful path to price adjustment.
The Duke of Windsor, after 29 years, joined the Greenbrier orchestra at a gala weekend ball in White Sulphur Springs. He sat at the drums using sticks gifted by Meyer Davis, briefly playing How Are Things in Glocca Morra during intermission as part of a high profile gathering of 300 leaders from business government society and film. The event was hosted by Chesapeake and Ohio, owners of the Greenbrier.
Between 1935 and 1947 prairie farmers built 27 916 dugouts with government aid averaging 105 each. Saskatchewan led with 18 338, Manitoba 8206, Alberta 1372. peak year 1946 47 45. Typical dugout holds water for a year, about 160 by 60 feet and 10 12 feet deep, capacity 350 000 to 390 000 Imperial gallons.
Ottawa reports Little Switzerland fears Canada’s dollar saving trade restrictions in effect since last November. Switzerland runs a favorable balance of trade with Canada, but Canada must pay in hard currency. Swiss officials note dwindling reserves have led Canada to cut imports from Switzerland.
Ottawa reports a heavy air immigration movement likely to match or exceed last year. Trade Minister Howe notes Trans-Canada Airlines carried 11,623 westbound passengers in the past year and a plan to streamline entry processes is under cabinet review. He aims for at least half of newcomers from the United Kingdom with 16 Canadian-built first class planes ready for Trans-Atlantic service.
In Shreveport Louisiana a grocer Travis McCreary hid a $2000 bank roll in his home cook store. He forgot to tell his wife about the stash and while cooking supper the money burned to ashes after the oven was lit.
Short paid air mail letters to Europe will no longer be sent by air and recipients charged double the postage deficiency. They will be sent by surface despatch. Air mail rate to Europe is 15 cents per quarter ounce.
A collection of light anecdotes and one liners featuring a traffic judge warning of jail, a weather pun, family quirks, a pastor’s hat joke, a wife and husband exchange over a misprint, and a comic exchange about poetry and boxing. The items showcase quick humor and social observations.
A Seattle civil engineer said he represents an eastern syndicate prepared to invest 200 million dollars to build a railroad to Alaska. He added governments must first provide 375 million for extending the Pacific Great Eastern railway from Sifton Pass to Fairbanks as a military defense measure.
In 1780 Boston butter sold for 12 dollars per pound sugar 10 dollars per pound and tea 90 dollars per pound as paper money plummeted in value.
The Canadian Commons gave preliminary approval to two bills to ease unemployment shocks. One broadens vocational training to those who exhausted benefits and to unregistered workers. The other raises unemployment insurance payments, from 14.40 to 18.30 weekly for married claimants and 12.30 to 14.40 for singles.
Dr. R. D. Sinclair, dean of the University of Alberta faculty of agriculture, was elected president of the Agricultural Institute of Canada. Vancouver’s J. C. Hackney became a two year director and Canadian director of farm market relations incorporated. Other two year directors include F. N. Miller of Olds and Dr. L. C. Paul of Saskatoon.
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