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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 16, 1950
Page
7
In a rural schoolhouse Matt Tuggle confronts Miss Winters about discipline as the superintendent ends the investigation. A story of old wounds, a rusty pocketknife, and a brittle willow switch exposes past grievances and a stubborn stand for order.
Winnipeg report notes likely good duck crops in Manitoba and Saskatchewan with Alberta affected by drought. Ducks Unlimited general manager George Fansett outlined 380 projects across the three prairie provinces, funding 350000 dollars for new duck marsh dams, funded largely by American sportsmen and 30000 subscribers.
Two rare trumpeter swans were found dead at Cut Bank Lake in Grande Prairie Alberta. Game officials froze the bodies and shipped them to the University of British Columbia for a post mortem to determine the internal cause of death.
Ottawa announces Canada will participate in an international trade fair in 1952 at the Michigan State Fair Grounds in Detroit. The Government's Exhibition Bureau will canvass Canadian industries to select companies to represent the country.
Cheques totaling 2986.06 were distributed to 11 Fillmore calf club members from sales of 11 calves at Weyburn show and sale. Charles Parker markets oddities at his Red Deer highway station including a Lancaster bomber and a 1902 Helsman auto. Churchill hosts a three day dominion official conference on housing a community centre with school chapels and a commissary. Melville Rotary shows ten year activity review and nearly 11000 given to Red Cross hospital band flood relief and youth groups. Elaine Deslisle wins BC zone Webster Memorial trophy pilot navigator title in Vancouver with Edward Mona as runner up. Carrot River issues 66000 in permits for dwellings Empress Hotel additions and Royal Bank build. Union Hospital under construction and memorial rink project planned.
An advertisement urges customers to buy Moone's Emerald Oil from drug stores claiming rapid relief from eczema and related skin troubles. It touts lasting effect, immediate itching relief, and dry flaky eruptions, promising antiseptic action with no greasy residue and offer of satisfaction or money back.
At a two day Alberta division convention of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Charles McLean publisher of the Strathmore Standard was elected president for 1951. He succeeds Charles Clark of the High River Times moving up from first vice president. Ben Knowles of the Fort Saskatchewan Record becomes first vice president and Bert Ford of the Lacombe Globe is second vice president. Two new executive members Robert Munro of the Vulcan Advocate and Ron Newson of the Olds Gazette join Fred Johns of the Leduc Representative and Bob McCrea of the Hanna Herald, all re-elected executives.
About 135 scientists from Canada United States Alaska Great Britain attended the International Alfalfa conference at the Dominion Experimental Station in Lethbridge Canada for the first time. Delegates heard progress reports from U S and Canadian researchers and later inspected alfalfa fields in southern Alberta.
Officials of Edmonton North Oil report a light brown crude oil show in a test from a wildcat well two miles north of Edmonton, the closest well drilled to the city. The independent firm notes the discovery as a notable early result.
Altona Manitoba. A local co operative factory has begun full production crushing sunflower seeds into salad oil and cooking oil. The oil is marketed largely within Manitoba.
Ottawa agriculture department will continue 73 percent of livestock freight cost for national exhibitions if provinces cover 25 percent. Only Toronto Royal Winter Fair is national. Ontario bears full cost. Quebec City official notes tracking entries to see if higher costs deter farmers. Regina hosts Western Canada Fairs dates for next year: Brandon July 2 6 Calgary July 9 14 Edmonton July 16 21 Saskatoon July 23 28 Regina July 30 August 4. Winnipeg hosts convention January 23 28. Alberta Dairymen’s Association proposal on Bang’s disease to be considered.
Uraninite crystals containing 80 to 90 percent uranium were blasted to the surface in the Nunn Lake area 140 miles northeast of Prince Albert. Crystals exceed one inch in diameter and lay two feet below the surface. The find could yield an easy mine like the Black Lake deposit 425 miles north.
The British Columbia Chamber of Mines reports a promising uranium find in the Bridge River mining district. Samples from a vein 20 inches wide are being assayed and react amazingly on Geiger machines. Vancouver engineer Glenville Collins says it looks like some of the most highly radioactive ore yet found in B C.
In Vancouver a robber, seeking narcotics, grabbed a box from a drugstore but the clerk quickly handed him an empty carton. The thief departed empty handed as police monitor the incident.
Halifax police investigate the theft of three monkeys from a docked steamer carrying a wild animal convoy that included two king cobras, two leopards, and twenty pythons bound for the United States.
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