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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 01, 1951
Page
2
Latest 1951 figures show more arrivals from the United Kingdom and Europe. Immigration, after a postwar drop from 125,414 arrivals in 1949, is growing again with government efforts to attract newcomers from the UK and European displaced persons camps.
Officials forecast more than 125000 new arrivals in Canada with subsidies for travel and a lifted ban on German nationals. The influx includes about 50000 from the United Kingdom and similar numbers from displaced persons camps in Europe, plus up to 15000 relatives of residents.
Canada welcomes migrants from the United Kingdom and Europe under postwar policy started in 1949. The editorial argues labor shortages and farm work demand justify immigration, noting room for growth, economic benefits, and the value of newcomers contributing to Canada’s future.
Saskatchewan Lloydminster field may hit a record oil level this year. Through May, production reached 468,810 barrels, up from about 400,000 by the same date last year. Full last year output was 1,052,532 barrels, with peak activity in summer and fall. The field yields heavy oil.
Three messenger girls at the Douglas Aircraft plant in El Segundo California use roller skates to deliver blue prints to engineers. Phyllis Cook June Singer and Betty Romanowsky perform deliveries in under half the walking time allowing engineers more time to work and less time searching for data.
A Winnipeg Newspaper Union catalog offers pattern C7057 for two aprons with embroidery transfers and cutting charts. Send twenty five cents to Household Arts Department Toronto with name address and pattern number. Also available 1951 Alice Brooks Needlework catalogue for twenty five cents featuring crochet knitting embroidery and more.
A collection of short humor including a painter seeking a title, a hiccup joke, editor and reader exchanges, a trousers riddle, and light banter about leadership, independence, drink, and a Scottish nickname known as Cocky.
Rosetown resident Ralph Wiseman built a German design glider costing 800 and taking 5000 hours of work. It has a 46 foot wingspan, 18 foot length, and 250 pounds weight. Norman Bruce of Calgary piloted the maiden flight to 300 feet at 30 mph. Wiseman must pass Department of Transport tests to obtain a licence. Born Moosomin and long-time Rosetown resident since 1935.
In Victoria British Columbia two of the citys three girl pipers Mary Fletcher and Dinah Kerr aged 17 were asked by Police Chief John Blackstock to stop playing for United States tourists along the waterfront Anita Baird 15 performs only at boat time The complainant calls the constant piping grim and says it wears on workers while tourists still photograph the girls
Curley Hanson a 44 year old red headed trapper and lake resort operator from Candle Lake Saskatchewan has spent 20 years trapping while traveling with a circus. She married Conn Hanson in 1929 so she could remain in the bush near Candle Lake where they run a trap line and manage cabins and a garden. She dislikes dresses, dresses, and spends time cleaning cabins and canning produce while cherishing the northern homestead.
Calgary and Alberta public life are recounted by Mary Dover a former lieutenant colonel in the Canadian Women's Army Corps an alderman on the city council and a vice president of the Alberta Command of the Canadian Legion She now serves as chief warden for Calgary Civil Defence noting her family roots from A E Cross and Col J F Macleod founders of Fort Macleod and early Mounties
Breeders from North and South America Australia and Europe gather for a four day session to discuss forming a world Hereford federation. H A Lindsey Field of Australia urged uniting societies into a world authority with rotating world conventions. D A Andrew of Calgary and others endorsed the idea.
Alberta will begin construction of its first bomb proof building. Poole Construction received a $60,000 contract to build a reinforced concrete civil defense alternate headquarters replacing the current government administration building.
More than 700 purebred dairy cattle from British Columbia farms will be sold in the United States in what brokers call the largest organized sale of its kind. Leaders Harry Reifel Geert Kear and W H Savage announce shipments begin with 60 head to Portland Oregon in September, with further sales planned for Boise and Ogden. Their herds from Bellavista Farms Quilchena Farms and Glen Dowan Farms are famed for blue blood Jerseys and milk production.
Regina officials dispute Ottawa based claims that 10 percent of Canadian city scales are out of balance. R W Maclean head of the federal trade department standards division notes the figure, while a Regina official calls that estimate a bit high for the local area.
In a medium clay loam pasture the total weight of earthworms inhabiting the land closely matches the combined weight of the livestock the pasture can support.
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