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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 10, 1947
Page
7
Rod Trent struggles under pressure from his mother to ask Mr Billings daughter Anna Marie to the Festival Dance. After initial reluctance and a rough first impression, Rod finalizes plans to take her, hoping to salvage the social duty amid family expectations.
Mrs. Louise Guerrieri of Washington wearing a simple London hat attracted Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth. The Washington seamstress sent a dress as a wedding gift and earned an invitation to tea with the royal family at St James Palace to view wedding gifts.
In a playful scene Rod compliments Anna Marie as she descends steps, noting her curls and blue eyes. He wonders at her dream-pass and she shyly accepts in a flirtatious exchange about facing the world with glamor and charm.
Shanghai reports the Chinese dollar sliding to 145000 to one US dollar as the foreign exchange committee raises open-market quotes from 64500 to 73000. Officials keep an official rate near 12000 to one, while financiers warn inflation must slow to ease aid programs.
Paul Beckley, 32, orders lunch with 10 or 12 scoops of ice cream, usually vanilla. He says he has eaten big portions since boyhood on an Iowa farm and sometimes has a quart before bed.
An Australian marine branch official says postwar applicants for lighthouse keeper positions have surged as people will do anything for a house. He notes wartime experiences shaped hiring scrutiny.
Trade Minister MacKinnon told a Montreal audience that after a 25,000 mile tour of a dozen countries he regards Canada as an extremely favored nation with great trade opportunities. He noted many large European firms plan to establish substantial branch plants in Canada and highlighted South Africa as a promising long term market for newsprint wheat canned fish electrical equipment and rail components.
London. James Callaghan says about 50 000 potential emigrants have registered applications for berths with shipping companies. The figure for South Africa is 95 000 and for New Zealand 20 000. He adds the position will be fused as passenger ships return from military service and new ships are built, but he cannot say when waiting lists will clear.
John Madelung, a Port Alberni florist, shows a rare two tone chrysanthemum split yellow and mauve. The giant bloom is one of four on a standard mum, a freak of nature not previously seen in his long career.
James Lilly of Ballengee West Virginia said his dog fired a shot that hit his foot on a hunting trip. He claimed the dog stepped on the shotgun’s trigger as he bent to retrieve a game.
British Columbia forest output for seven months of 1947 rises above 1946 with Vancouver District leading a broad increase. July totals reach 296,093,200 feet, up from 211,610,974. seven‑month provincial scale hits 2,212,067,424 feet versus 1,508,873,038 last year.
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