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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1949
Page
2
The International Children's Emergency Fund aids millions of displaced and destitute children in need of shelter and care. Canada contributes $1,075,000 this year, a substantial increase over last year's $400,000, supporting the UN effort and humanitarian relief.
Canada backs the United Nations Appeal for Children with government funds and broad Canadian support. Critics note nearly 10 million spent locally in a year on emergency supplies while about 2 million was donated, urging continued aid to aid European and Asian children.
Maurice Jackson, founder of Canada’s only all-girl orchestra formed in 1945, notes the band has lost 15 members to marriage. The group draws recruits aged 17 to 22 from prairie and eastern provinces.
In Wagga New South Wales Hon Robert Menzies leader of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament appeals to 500 electors to stay firm, joking that he dislikes ripe squelchy tomatoes. The Australian Department of Information reports the event.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes including tales of vanity, medical missteps, military humor, wordplay starting with q, Minerva trivia, Deauville manners, seasick sailors, doctors, schoolboy essays, and a final numeral 2353.
Manitoba expects record high manufacturing output in 1949 with a projected gross of 483 million dollars up from 450 million in 1948. Employment reaches about 42 000 with gross wage earnings near 87 million. 40 new plants expanded output. Rural electrification aids small towns and British firms increase Western Canada presence.
A caption notes the son winning the grand championship in the Yorkshire class at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto for Carl Roberts and Son of St Adolphe Manitoba.
Canada's health minister said a small supply of cortisone will reach Canadian researchers after January 1. Paul Martin noted the drug shows promising relief for arthritis but remains experimental and may require ongoing treatment if widely used.
The occupied farm area of Saskatchewan totals 59.4 million acres, about half of prairie provinces farmland and roughly one third of all Canada’s cultivated land.
Canadian entrants dominated the International Hay and Grain show in Chicago. Amy Kelsey of Erickson British Columbia won the wheat queen title, while Sydney Pawlowski of Spedden Alberta earned the barley king honor and L. E. Peterson of Victor Montana took the barley crown. Kelsey now holds the wheat queen title and must win one more time to secure permanent possession of the trophy.
Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta report 1949 western flax crop over 2 million bushels with about 95 percent reaching top grade. Mean oil content 40.3 percent and iodine value 186 units for early samples, vs 41.1 percent and 285 units last year.
A Toronto women’s club offers a $100 prize in a national literary contest for non professional Canadian writers. Essays on Building A United Canada must be under 2000 words and submitted by February 1, 1950.
Northern Manitoba has become a vast beaver nursery with beaver pelts contributing about 425000 in 1947. The province operates a regulated trapping and transplant program to steady yields while protecting breeding stock and reducing railway damage caused by beaver dams.
Construction will begin this spring on a 6000 barrel per day oil refinery for British American Oil Co to be built four miles east of Edmonton on the North Saskatchewan River. About 500 to 600 workers are expected during 12 to 14 months of construction. Imperial Oil Ltd now operates the only refinery in Edmonton with McColl Frontenac planning a $10 million Edmonton area plant. British American Oil already runs refineries at Moose Jaw and Calgary.
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