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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 03, 1938
Page
2
The Federation of Ontario Naturalists urges tighter control of national resources, arguing that current wasteful practices in agriculture and lumbering threaten water supply soil and wildlife. It cites 1936 forest losses and warns of long term revenue and ecological harm unless conservation and sustained yield are pursued.
Admiral Okeda once prime minister, rumored murdered in 1936 coup attempt. Public lament by Emperor Hirohito followed by disclosure that Okeda survived and his brother in law died. He loses social standing for returning to life amid questions of Emperor’s grief.
A new hut near Chamonix France designed to shield climbers from heat and cold opens with space for 20 people. Built of duralumin with asbestos interior and bedding, the fireproof shelter also stays temperature controlled. Nearby at Oland off Sweden coast, prehistoric stone age remains feature Viking ship carved rocks with rower benches.
Mrs. Alice Rowebottom Wright died at eighty after a heart attack. Born in 1858 at Sapperton near New Westminster, she was the mainland's first white child. Her parents arrived from England with Col. Moody's Sappers. She married John W. Wright at seventeen and moved to Lac La Hache where he ran an inn in the Cariboo gold country. She was beloved for her kindness to prospectors.
Ten years after Chester E. Heal's car struck O. J. Scott at a Gas City intersection causing a leg fracture, Scott's car later hit Heal, knocking him from his bicycle and breaking his leg.
The note states that butterfly taste sensors in legs are 1600 times more sensitive than human tongues. It also asserts that since 1591 every Pope has been Italian, reflecting a historical pattern in the Roman Catholic Church. The figure 2266 appears as a trailing token.
W T Scott of the Dominion Experimental Station Harrow Ont urges strict sanitation for poultry flocks. He notes that clean surroundings prevent high mortality and low egg production, recommending daily droppings removal, fresh litter, clean water, annual floor and wall cleaning, and coal tar disinfection. He also stresses range sanitation with ploughing, crop rotation, and Sudan grass.
African Bushmen of the Kalahari may die from starvation if poison arrows are banned by an international conservation clause. The Bushmen Preservation Committee, with British and South African government reps and the University of South Africa, seeks firearms or a special reserve to sustain their 16 000 year old way of life. Senator Boydell argues poison is insufficient to affect Africa's fauna and backs a wildlife reserve solution.
A vintage recipe instructs boiling cloves in water then dissolving Lemon Jell-O in the hot liquid. Salt is added, the mixture is chilled until slightly thickened, then relish and horseradish are folded in. Poured into molds and chilled, it yields a firm Jell-O mold serving 12. Plate pairs with liverwurst sandwiches and crisp lettuce with olives.
A vintage recipe for cucumber relish folded into lime Jell-O. Dissolve Jell-O in hot water with vinegar and salt, then chill. Mix cucumber with salt pepper and onion, fold into the slightly thickened Jell-O, and spoon into half-size molds. Chill until firm and unmold yields twelve servings.
London broadcasts of Julius Caesar presented the play in lounge suits uniforms and a blazer with white flannels while the audience saw felt hats revolvers gas masks skyscrapers and dugouts and listeners heard Shakespearean lines unchanged.
A distressed job seeker refuses a shopkeeper’s offer of a shilling in exchange for work, saying the small payment would suffice and expressing modest needs. The exchange highlights struggle for employment and self sufficiency in a hard economy.
Scientists at a summer workshop describe chilmonas a flagellate that makes starch and fat without light. Dr S O Mast notes a single initial specimen grown 25 days could yield 612 billion cubic metres of culture with 19 billion cubic metres of starch and 6 billion cubic metres of fat potentially supplying each US resident with about 70 tons of starch and 20 tons of fat.
Ig natius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln known as Chao Kung Light of the World and now a Buddhist monk wanders in hiding as Tao La advocates for his reentry. Hungarian passport officials weigh the case of the 60 year old agitator and spy who once planned a Canadian Buddhist mission with nuns and monks in 1934.
The London Midland and Scottish Railway announces its Coronation Scot will sail to the United States next January. The eight coach streamlined locomotive train will enter via Baltimore and be assembled at the Baltimore and Ohio shops before exhibition at the New York World's Fair. It will cover 38 cities over 8121 miles, travel under its own power, and be crewed by an LMS team. The train, celebrating its first year since introduction, previously set the British speed record for streamlined locomotives at 114 mph. The American tour follows the 1933 LMS Royal Scot visit which drew over 3,000,000 spectators.
Germany enacts a family book system to replace the marriage register. Each family will have a record showing births marriages and deaths to connect generations and foster national duty. New leaves will note racial class and domicile as couples marry and offspring are entered in the same pages.
Six camel-riders died after a swarm of bees attacked a passing caravan near a jungle in Suratnagar. Survivors report the group halted to cook and light a fire when the hive swarmed, chasing victims who collapsed within half an hour. One man survived and fled.
Most deep dwelling fish are red yet the pale light in their habitat makes them look gray. The color shift results from light filtering and the animals’ pigmentation.
Former chief of transportation for Canadian National Railways, now Vice-President in charge of Operation Maintenance and Construction with Montreal headquarters. Walton, a renowned Western railway executive, previously led Manitoba District and Western Lines. Born in Palmerston Ontario, he began his career in 1900 as a Toronto Grand Trunk clerk.
The Department of Agriculture notes a Canadian chicken surplus will go to Great Britain. Dressed chickens of three to five pounds sell best in Britain, and exporters need enough of this weight to sustain shipments. Canadian stocks are low, U S live prices are weaker, and Britain shows demand for dressed poultry.
Paris-Soir reports the chief custodian refused an offer of 10000 francs for a blotter bearing King George VI signature. He said he does not traffic in such souvenirs. The blotter allegedly shows an excellent reverse imprint of the royal signature.
Paddy, a Chesapeake Bay dog owned by Mr and Mrs M D McLean of Calgary, was taken to a veterinarian for painful ear canker treatment and now goes alone when his ears hurt. Mrs McLean notes the pain is endured patiently by Paddy.
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