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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1947
Page
2
Postwar Canada maintains close imperial links with Britain while gaining a clearer view of US perspectives. Diplomatic practice adapted during war to urgent needs and remains essential to shaping future international relations as Canada grows more influential.
Sir Shuidham Redfern argues Canada must strengthen ties between Britain and the United States to counter rising anti democratic sentiment. He urges Canada to use all resources of conciliation and patience to promote unity among Western democracies as a key factor in preserving world peace.
A compilation of quotable lines on truth, inspiration, and courage from Emerson Mary Baker Eddy Backus Stone Cudworth and Hitchcock. The quotes stress truth as summit of being, revelation from spirit, the courage to speak and hear truth, and the link between truth love and divine governance.
A historic recipe page lists ingredients and steps for a chocolate cake with walnuts and three chocolate fudge squares. It provides flour, sugar, eggs, butter, milk, vanilla, and baking guidance plus an alternative frosting-like candy making method with precise temperatures and cooling steps.
A string of lighthearted quips about merchants, spouses, and small town life. A centenarian boasts about endorsements while others joke about recognition, salaries, and wit. A farmer sells butter, a dog bowl debate, and a humorous church moment close the collection.
Spokane architect George M Basque and his wife start a 100000 dollar model dairy farm at Chattaroy Washington to memorialize their son killed in Okinawa. The 280 acre project will fund education for worthy boys from farm profits and be completed in two years with a modern layout and various buildings.
The Turks treat green as sacred and limit its use largely to prayer rugs, reflecting its religious significance in their culture and practices.
Oregon State Highway Commission proposes heating a 510 foot section of highway on the east edge of Klamath Falls. Natural hot water wells would be tapped to pipe hot water through the pavement to prevent icing.
Canada claims two championships on opening day with wheat and oats. Alex M. Stewart of Ailsa Craig earns Oat King of North America after winning on a Beaver oat sample.
Saskatoon constable Bill Brace stopped in Dagwood's at McLean and ordered a 35 cent sandwich with four bread slices and a long list of fillings including tomatoes eggs beets onions lettuce ham two hot dogs banana potato beef pork and cabbage. The whale shark is the largest fish with teeth too small to bite and it feeds through its gills.
Phil Allan a University of Alberta student spent six months roaming the Northwest Territories and Yukon covering 6000 miles. He worked as a band leader in Yellowknife deckhand on a Mackenzie River sternwheeler wood-chopper at Fort Yukon hod carrier in Dawson and house painter in Whitehorse. He paddled the Arctic Ocean saw an Indian wedding and learned the Chilcoot Pass trail. He plans to write a book and may take his keepsakes to the Orient.
Canada’s furthest north gold mining town receives six registered cows flown 675 air miles from Edmonton aboard a commercial aircraft. Fresh milk costs 65 cents a quart in Yellowknife, where air express service was not used.
The RCMP annual report tabled in Commons notes a total of 24 613 cases under Canadian Criminal Code acts ending March 31 1947, up 6 391 from the prior year. Increases split across breaking and entering theft theft general assault general driving intoxicated robbery with violence and arson while cattle stealing fell and safe blowings rose 17 to 66. Two RCMP dogs Tell and Ignatz traced two prairie criminals Baker and Johnson from a Stranraer Sask pool elevator theft with a $500 haul. Baker got two years less a day and Johnson five years.
Gordon Haughton waited eighteen months for a new motor car and finally received it. A year and a half later he won a second car in a lucky draw in Toronto.
Mrs Patricia Winiman told court her baby crawled on the floor and pressed the accelerator as she drove 54 mph in a 20 mph zone. The judge praised the originality of the excuse and fined her $25.
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