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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1951
Page
7
In Seoul a party for 25 Korean children was organized by war correspondents with prizes and meals. A crowd of hundreds gathered outside the correspondents’ billet as supplies faced delays, then food was served inside while prizes awaited.
Advertisement describes a new dress pattern with a deep hem and square neckline, size range 12 to 20, pattern 4989. It notes cap sleeves, ribbon tie belt, and 355 yards of 35 inch fabric for size 16. Includes illustrated instructions and asks readers to send 35 cents in coins with size name address and pattern number to order.
Promotion from Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg and Toronto unions invites readers to mail 25 cents for a copy of the summer pattern book. Features glamor fashions and thrift pattern illustrations in all sizes with a free Jr Miss sun suit pattern included.
The Rockefeller Foundation provides 10000 to the University of Saskatchewan to support Dr. Wendell McLeod in studying medical education and research. He will travel to observe methods and advances as he prepares a four year medical course and university hospital plans.
Edmonton district planning commission, formed by Alberta, celebrated its first year. Twenty members oversee future growth across about 3,000 square miles around Edmonton, including five planning technicians and fifteen commissioners.
Edmonton reports an average 37 blood transfu sions daily per Red Cross Commissioner Robert Muir. In Pemberton BC railway chief William Stewart tours 400 miles by car and on rails with a special steel flange car. Central Butte Sask buys a snowmobile to move patients in winter. Saskatoon to build a $1,000,000 power house for the university hospital. Churchill Man ship C D Howe first of year through Hudson Strait amid ice. Winnipeg Man wheat board opens post July 31 deliveries for grains and oats. Harry Steel retires from Winnipeg Free Press after joining in 1921 as first full time western news photographer.
Dr. George Dian of the University of Saskatchewan soils department will move to Rome to join the FAO technical assistance program aiding undeveloped regions in Asia and Africa. His wife, a fungal expert, accompanies him. Dian's career includes Rothamsted and Macauley Institute work and wartime soil research.
Saskatchewan oil activity rose in June with 14 wildcat wells and 20 core holes as the natural resources department reported 111 619 barrels produced from 173 wells mainly in the Lloydminster and Lone Rock fields. First half production totaled 579 985 barrels.
Ottawa reports prairie farmers cut spring wheat acreage to 24,820,000 acres from 26,093,200 and reduced summer fallow to 20,312,000 from 20,998,000. Oats and barley sowings rose, with coarse grains and flaxseed gaining ground this year.
Carl Anderson of Brooks, head of eastern irrigation district, says irrigation does not force crop specialization or small landholdings. He notes farmers can work quarter to full sections if prepared with plan, gear, and labor. About 600 Saskatchewan farmers at a Rivers Development meeting urged federal action on a South Saskatchewan river dam.
At Saskatoon the Saskatchewan division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association crowned prizewinners and installed Stirling King as president. Notable awards went to Milestone Mail, Grenfell Sun, Shaunavon Standard, Swift Current Sun, Yorkton Enterprise, and Estevan Mercury among others. 160 delegates attended the convention.
A dike is being built on the University of Saskatchewan campus to protect the hangar building after four feet of runoff water flooded the structure last spring.
A Vancouver woman who entered a garage uninvited lost her damages claim after slipping into a grease pit and sustaining injuries. The court dismissed the case against the garage, ruling no liability.
Vancouver report highlights Bill Graham and family running a mobile shop aboard a converted 70 foot schooner. They tour isolated coastal communities with a $10,000 stock of goods, offering clothing, shoes, lingerie, jewelry, candy, and soft drinks to residents including Chief Henry Speck and others along Turnout Island Lagoon and Alert Bay.
Vancouver port grain shipments for the crop year ending July 31 rose to a post war peak with over 65.44 million bushels of wheat sent abroad and about 3 million bushels of barley. Major buyers included the United Kingdom India Japan and South Africa. The note adds a German historical aside about the first watches in 1747.
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