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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1952
Page
2
A Royal Commission report notes Canada lacks a national library and cites long distances from Ottawa. It recalls the parliament building’s historic fires and the storage of valuable books due to space limits, urging action on a national library to preserve archives.
The Royal Commission highlights cultural advances and calls for a national library as part of Canada’s growth. The library would complement Parliament, serve as a central repository for books and records, and free the parliamentary library to focus on its primary function for Parliament.
In northern Saskatchewan a 43 mile road from Candle Lake to Isonard Lake is under construction to support pulp mill traffic in the Prince Albert district. Robert N. Gooding of the Resources Department notes it as the branch’s biggest project this year. Since starting May 24 crews are eight miles north of Torch River with 28 miles remaining.
A collage of brief humorous exchanges shows a father praising thrift and a son learning from him while various characters—an employee, a vicar, neighbors, a goon, and a married man—quip about work, love, mischief, and social norms in light, cartoonish dialogue. The snippets poke at timing, honesty, and everyday foibles with playful irony.
Burnaby researchers W. E. and E. M. Norman report discovery on a two acre plot after a 30 year search. They uncovered prehistoric tools including 200 to 300 pound granite axes belt axes knife handles and spears suggesting giants once inhabited the region.
England uses six bushels of wheat per person each year according to data cited. The figure shows per capita grain consumption and reflects national dietary patterns and agricultural output.
Wash and sterilize jars, use up to three quarts per batch, and precook fruit before adding sugar. Black currant jam uses six cups currants with five cups water then sugar and 5 to 8 minutes boil to jam stage. Goose berry and jewel jam mix fruit with sugar, boiling 5 to 12 minutes until thick, then fill hot jars and seal.
The Conservation Board overseeing a 9000 square mile area has built 16 lookout towers with short wave radios and expanded roads to access heavily wooded regions. It supervises logging and grazing, fights erosion, and conducts insect surveys, aiming to restore watershed health and promote tourism while safeguarding forest and water resources.
New Brunswick farmers view grass silage as the answer to winter cattle feeding replacing hay storage. Last winter about 75 silos existed with expected 100 percent growth this year, storing 30 to 300 tons per farmer. Silage cut and stored while wet reduces hay losses and one Jersey cow milk yield rose by 100 pounds in the first week. The program began mid June with 75 extra staff in 1952 focusing on trench, upright cylinder, snow fence and stack silos.
Ottawa reports the ten yearly census of Canada is priced at about seven million dollars, a two million saving from the original nine million estimate. Dominion statistician Herbert Marshall said final costs may land one to two million below the 9 million figure as remaining work on compiling figures continues.
Lightning kills about 300 people in the United States annually with nearly a quarter seeking shelter under trees. The text also notes the flute as one of the oldest wind instruments.
Provincial telephone systems in the Prairie Provinces totaled 303 819 lines in 1951, amounting to 10 percent of Canada's national total. This reflects regional growth and growing communication infrastructure across prairie centers.
Regina reports the pale western cutworm infestation in Saskatchewan is forecast to be as serious as this year. R E McKenzie of the Agriculture Department says forecasts come from Saskatoon and Lethbridge laboratories. The affected area runs from Macklin to Humboldt to Regina and Radville and down to the US border. Damage this year was not widespread. To prevent spring infestations, weak growth should be destroyed in summerfallow fields by late July and fields left undisturbed through August and early September.
Sgt. P. George Bernatchez a veteran of the last two wars and resident of Granby Quebec set a 70 minute 11 second time to outpuff 100 contestants at an unofficial Canadian ex service pipesmoking contest held at Queen Mary Veteran's hospital in Montreal.
Sullivan reports a bantam chick at his farm with four distinct legs. The freak chick was one of seven birds hatched recently. Two extra legs were fully developed at birth and attached to an extension of the backbone with tiny toenails, feet pointing upward.
Albino mouse discovered by Meryl Lepper near Irricana, Alberta, described as unusually pale and living wildlife sighting reported recently.
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