Regina tour of printing plants by Grenfell Sun students
Grade nine students Kathryn Ferch Arden Hood and Ronald Fehler along with a Grenfell Sun editor visited Prairie Publishers CKCK and Caxton Press in Regina to witness printing engraving radio broadcasting and newsroom operations. The trip highlighted a vocational program under the Education Department with no pay for students or instructors and featured a story in the Sun with a staff photo.
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Eee Geeig
Witerfell High School
Grenfell Sun
Regina
Kathryn Ferch
Arden Hood
Ronald Fehler
Prairie Publishers Ltd
Canada
Save Rogers
Leader-Post
Ernie Rust
CKCK
Caxton Press
Department of Education
Miss Ferch
the Sun
Grenfell
Sask
City can afford wage hikes says union leader
The City of Swift Current could fund 15 percent wage increases for Civic Employees Union members without raising the mill rate. Union organizer Pat Lanahan spoke at the union’s second annual banquet in the Legion Home, urging better departmental administration and improved employee relations to cover the cost. Each worker should be paid according to duties and living standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift Current
Civic Employees’ Union
Pat Lanahan
Legion Home
Pioneer Lodge Opens for Senior Home Applications in Swift Current
Final plans for the Prairie Pioneers Lodge project move toward a March 15 Swift Current meeting. Applications for admission are to be made to municipality secretaries with screening by priority factors including financial and social status, ages, and health. Rates are 67 dollars monthly for singles, 62 for couples in the main lodge. cottages at 26 dollars monthly plus utilities. The lodge holds 72 in the main hostel and 148 in cottages, totaling 222, with landscaping by Vern Blanke in memory of Henry Blanke. a matron and secretary manager will be hired.
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Directors of
Prairie Pioneers’ Lodge
Swift ‘Current
Jack McIntosh
Leonard Corrgan
Swift Current
Pioneers Lodge
Vern Blanke
Henry Blanke
Prairie Pioneer Lodge
the Sun
Sask
J V Forrest Appointed CPR Saskatchewan District Superintendent
J V Forrest of Fort William is named general superintendent of the CPR Saskatchewan district based in Moose Jaw, effective February 1. He replaces L R Smith transferred to Vancouver after two and a half years as Forrest heads Fort William terminals and has worked for the railway since 1920 with prior service at Moose Jaw in 1949.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. V. Forrest
Fort William
CPR
Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw
L. R. Smith
Vancouver
Mr. Forrest
Railway
Roger Bacon and the origins of eyeglasses
The thirteenth century monk Roger Bacon is portrayed as a precursor to modern eye care. He explored magnifying lenses and the eye’s limits, noting a curved and flat lens form and suggesting usefulness for the elderly. His curiosity helped seed the scientific method behind lens grinding and vision correction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Bacon
Bacon
Humboldt marks 100th straight day fire free record set
Fire Chief R. Cameron announced Humboldt reached 100 consecutive fire free days, a town record. The last call was October 19 for a grass fire. For 1957 total fire loss totaled 2565 dollars, the lowest in years. He credited natural gas adoption and urged continued precautions with stoves chimneys and furnace lint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humboldt
R. Cameron
Cameron
Journal
Humboldt, Sask
Hourly wage trends in Canadian manufacturing in 1957
Canadian manufacturing hourly wages averaged 160.5 cents on October 1 1957 up from 1533 cents a year earlier and 1292 cents five years earlier. The figures show a steady rise in earnings over the five year span driven by wage growth across sectors.
Latombe water contains ideal fluorine level
Dentists Dr Mure ray Bovee and Dalton Deedrick told Lacombe nurses alumni that the town water naturally has 12 parts per million fluorine, an ideal level for children's dental health rather than a result of artificial fluoridation. They noted adults gain no dental benefit, but children born here benefit from the natural fluorine content.
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Latombe
Lacombe
Mureray Bovee
Dalton Deedrick
Deedrick
Globe
Alta
Indian student wins new scholarship
Tom Stevenson 22 of the Cowesses band Broadview Saskatchewan wins a senior matriculation scholarship worth 750 to 1000 dollars for top senior matriculation student. Awarded at the Indian and Metis conference in Winnipeg. Fourteen scholarships are awarded this year by the federal Indian affairs department to promote higher education.
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Tom Stevenson
Cowesses
Broadview
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Tow
Brandon
Birtle
Federal
Department of Indian Affairs
The
Express
Sask
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John Marchinko
Department of Natural Resources
Fort Qu'Appelle
Sedici
Dodd
Dodds
Rodney
Union
Pioneer Lodge
Umen
Subharshan Singh
Bruce Doak
Torqunwar
MEN OF
Vision
Anne Adams
Department P.P.L
Front Street
Toronto
Fluorine
Fleischmann
Freischmann
Fleischmayy
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