Saskatchewan snow removal gear guards 8000 highway miles
Saskatchewan is expanding and preparing 110 snow removal units worth 1.4 million dollars to keep about 8000 miles of provincial highways open this winter. The fleet includes 11 rotary blowers, nine truck mounted, plus graders and 3 to 10 ton V blade plows with wing. Winter crews total 250 to 300 men under eight district engineers with priority routing based on traffic and services. Daily road reports inform agencies, with some rural municipal work as conditions allow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan
Highways Department
Road toll reaches 100 in Saskatchewan 1956
Saskatchewan reports its 100th highway fatality of the year per J A Christie chair of the highway traffic board. First half figures show 6 deaths in Q1 and 38 by June, nearing 1955 record. Speeds and drinking linked to many crashes as winter approaches. Iron and nickel note appears as unrelated data.
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Saskatchewan
J. A. Christie
Highway Traffic Board
Mr. Christie
Planning Your Name Address and Pattern Number
Anne Adams Pattern Dept announces guidance on how to plan and record your own name address and pattern number for mail orders. The note lists the department address at 60 Front Street Toronto and urges careful documentation.
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Anne Adams
Department P.P.L
Front Street W
Toronto
Saskatchewan gas expansion reaches over 30 towns and Regina
Saskatchewan Power Corporation plans expand natural gas service to 30 towns hamlets and Regina with a pipeline system that will serve more than 30 000 customers by year end 1957. The article details construction standards from trenching and welding to testing and inspection ensuring safe operation across rural and urban lines.
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Whesang
Hamiete
Ana
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Power Corporation
Regina
Saskat
SPC
Power Corporation
Provincial
Labour Department
Canada
United States
Christmas packet patterns offered by Home Workshop
A Christmas Packet for Children and Grown-Ups includes five patterns with actual-size cutting and painting guides. One pattern costs 35 cents, or the full packet priced at $1.50, mailed from Home Workshop Patterns at 4433 West 5th Avenue Vancouver B C.
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Department P.P.L
West 5Th Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Fight unemployment on local level
Ottawa and District Trades and Labor Council urges local action on winter unemployment. A proposed local advisory committee would cooperate with the National Employment Service to boost winter jobs, especially in construction, amid ongoing national concerns. The note calls winter unemployment a menace to workers.
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Ottawa and District Trades and Labor Council
National Employment Service
Easy to Make This Woodland Fawn Pattern 7306
Simple transfer pattern for a 15 by 19 inch woodland scene titled fawns. Instructions promise easy stitches and gay colors to create a pretty picture. Send twenty five cents in coins to obtain the pattern.
Stunning patterns offered in ALICE BROOKS Needlecraft book
Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street W Toronto promotes patterns and designs for home crafts. Readers are urged to send 25 cents to order a copy of the Needlecraft book featuring dozens of easy hand-work designs.
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Household Arts Department
Department P.P.L
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Disaster aid aids two families after province fire
Red Cross volunteers assisted nine people after two separate fires in the province. A couple with twin babies visited headquarters for aid while Women’s Workrooms staff helped outfits for the children.
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Red Cross
Complex Machinery in Modern Submarines
An overview notes more than seven million different items go into building a contemporary submarine. The article highlights vast variety of components and precision required in naval engineering.
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Bieve
Buddy
Saskatchewan Department of Highways
J Fashions
By -Shine Bedevis
Woodland Friends
By Nice
Brookes
Pardners
Tre
Ingersoll
Ingersoll Cheese CO. Ltd
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