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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 21, 1957
Page
5
Agricultural news notes grass seed availability through the Department of Agriculture. The Soil Conservation Forage Policy, started in 1956, aims to address problem areas on Class IV land.
The report covers soil and forage seed mixtures for nongrain land with five-factor limitations, offering 10 to 30 acres aid via the policy and urging contact with the Hamiota Agricultural Office by October 20, 1957. It also details a busy week in sport, with juvenile provincial finals in Virden, a Bantam upset in Brandon, and senior club playoff progress, plus Parker’s invitation to Estevan Junior camp.
A comic column criticizes CBC TV winter programming and the costly plays chosen for Canadian taxpayers. The writer mocks the quality, notes viewers may retreat to silence, and jokes about preparing for a flu season invasion with masks, sprays, and arm scrubs.
A chaotic monologue features threats of chemical sprays and insects, mockery of Asians, crude jokes about cleaning methods, and xenophobic jabs toward Chinese people. It ridicules neighbors, farm life, and family routines with scattered details and hostile humor.
McConnell School will open on Wednesday August 28. Miss Benny Hindman visited cousin Brenda Nicol in Brandon last week. Mr and Mrs J C Richardson returned from The Pas where they spent holidays. Master Kenneth Lief is spending a few days with his grandparents.
A 900 passenger excursion group from Canada and the United States embarked last Friday on CNR's 21st annual tour to Churchill Manitoba. A second 250 passenger party departs Friday on a special CNR train to explore north of 54. The six day journey covers 2000 miles with stopovers at Dauphin Flin Flon Cranberry Portage and The Pas before returning to Winnipeg. Passengers enjoy scenic views and briefings by local notables and can view motion pictures aboard the cars.
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