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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1946
Page
9
Henry Castillon K C of Vancouver notes a 93 year Nanaimo coal strike. Indian miners began in 1853 with four shillings a day and gifts for chiefs before quitting over pay. Miners were lowered into shafts in tubs and no settlement was reached. The speaker calls it the longest strike in history.
The 1946 Western wheat crop averaged 13.8 percent protein, unchanged from 1945 and 0.2 points above the 20 year mean. Provincial figures show Manitoba and Saskatchewan up by 0.9 and 0.3 points, while Alberta is down by 0.7 points.
A widow recounts awaiting official telegram news of a husband lost at sea. She struggles to learn his cause of death, finds solace in memories and her children, and discovers his immortality through them. The spring brings renewed hope as she links Ron and Janet to his life, imagining him guiding their world.
Anne Adams Pattern 4531 offers a complete sewing kit for dolls 12 to 22 inches with a hat jumper jacket blouse coat robe pajamas and lingerie. Includes illustrated instructions and requires 20 cents for mail order to Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Winnipeg Manitoba.
The parcel service to Albania Bulgaria and Romania resumes after suspension with limits on weight and value. Each sender may dispatch up to two parcels weekly to different addresses, not exceeding 11 pounds per parcel and 25 dollars total value. Commercial shipments to Bulgaria and Romania allowed. Albania remains gift parcels only.
Sculptor Lawrence Tenny Stevens envisions a 150 to 200 foot high plastic buffalo statue atop Cedar Mountain to honor Buffalo Bill. The design would include an elevator, lunch room, curio shop and possibly a cocktail lounge inside the sculpture.
Weekend break in at a Wilmington furniture store left $2,200 of items damaged and $400 stolen. A penny under tape and a pencilled note reading We didn't take all your money were left behind as the suspects fled.
Sask Air warfare on coyotes is waged today near Ogema as two Canadian licensed hunters Irving Larson 23 and Walter Colly 36 of Stanley North Dakota fly a ski aircraft within 30 miles of Ogema. Colly shoots coyotes while Larson maneuvers the plane and they skin animals on the spot. They have fired on 11 coyotes in one morning with pelts valued at 12 dollars each. The coyotes reportedly stand on hind legs as the plane sweeps low.
The Vancouver Province reports a new profitable industry emerging from an experimental lobster planting 80 miles north of Burrard Inlet. More than 1,600 lobsters bred by Dominion Government are thriving, with eggs forming and promising steady supply for chefs. The Queen Charlotte Island crab fishery and coastal shrimp beds attract renewed attention, signaling a potential regional marine bounty.
In London Ontario four players Tak akemura Mary Murkami Fred Kagawa and Arthur Nanada dealt perfect bridge hands in clubs diamonds hearts and spades in order with no bidding. Miss Murkami called it astonishing and referenced a lengthy bridge statistics note from Ely Culbertson. The piece also mentions the earliest use of the term Indian summer as 1794.
A British sergeant in Germany refused to retaliate after an old woman spat at him while directing a convoy. He offered a bar of chocolate, she cried, demonstrating discipline and restraint as virtues taught by the fighting services. Sir Philip Joubert cites the lesson at a London Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Ardell Hagen converted a 20 foot high barrel into a dwelling after failing to find a home for his family. The structure sits near Devils Lake and includes a ham burger stand on the first floor with 14 foot diameter living quarters on the second floor.
Australian Gus Crooke proposes an arched aluminum sole and high aluminum heel shoe with a detachable rubber or leather base. Each pair includes spare heels for quick replacement. Weighs about 2%% ounces and claims to bear heavy pressure. World patents applied. orders from North and South America France India Palestine South Africa Singapore Burma.
A recipe for chocolate cup cakes with a bake time of 20 to 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven yields one dozen cakes. After cooling, hollow centers are filled with Jell O Butterscotch Cream Filling and topped with frosting or sauces.
British Columbia sees tourist traffic almost double the 1945 level in the first ten months of the year. Through October 31 American car entries reached 160,495 versus 90,318 in 1945, while Canada overall posted 1,384,000 foreign cars, up 79 percent.
Mars has an atmosphere but it does not contain enough oxygen to sustain human respiration. The thin air requires life support or specialized gear for any manned activity on the planet.
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