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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 20, 1952
Page
7
Ramona and her mother host a stranded traveler who frets about being “not aggressive” as a cooking mishap and a storm spark romance. In a perilous rescue at night, the blue-eyed man saves Ramona from a chilly lake rescue, sparking unlikely affection and hope for the summer.
Anne Adams Pattern Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, located at 60 Front Street West, Toronto, issued a notice regarding pattern services and organizational contact.
In 1949 France recorded a literacy rate of 93 percent, reflecting strong gains in education. The figure highlights nationwide basic literacy levels amid postwar reconstruction and school expansion efforts.
January sun duration in Vancouver fell to 8.9 hours for the 31 days, the lowest on record, while Regina reports a 2,600 foot walk through tunnel at RCMP training barracks. Other brief items note Vancouver hosting 10 weeks of horse racing, a push for a 32 hour week by BC’s largest union, and cattle disease reports in Alberta.
Regina reports 1951 saw the highest American car entry to Saskatchewan with 16 788 arrivals, about seven percent above 1950. Rail and bus figures to year end not yet available, but air travel rose. parks like Prince Albert and Lac la Ronge drew more visitors than ever before despite August rains.
Alberta Council on Child and Family Welfare approved recommendations barring girls under 18 from accepting counter girl waitress or hotel chambermaid jobs without written parental permission. Mrs. Harold Riley, council president, cited rising teen temptations and urged safeguards.
Louis Pasteur, famed French chemist and bacteriologist, lent his name to the method used to purify milk, a technique widely adopted in dairy science and public health.
A Buffalo couple found their one cent tax refund at the Internal Revenue Office after taking a day off. Fort Erie’s Vito Passero discovered an eight ounce egg with three yolks. Devonport farmer dressed a turkey that swallowed a gold sovereign. Barcelona’s Noahs Ark Society plans a 25th anniversary feast for zoo animals led by Don Guillermo Ciervo. Marblehead men who stole Elmer Davis’s car left only the body and two ash trays. Thieves stripped the car of engine wheels transmission seats and wiring. Drought in Queensland widens fox diet to melons on farms. A Bronx grand jury saw a Bermuda flyer poster in Rikers Island library.
The New York Times editorial says the Canadian dollar reaching par with the U S dollar marks not a fluctuation but a deserved recognition of Canada’s vast productive gains. It notes Canada’s shift from a largely agricultural nation to one of the world’s major industrial countries.
Ottawa reports a sharp drop in world wheat supplies will push Canadian growers to higher prices and possibly export premiums for months. Argentina may have no wheat to export. the U S and Australia also show large declines while Canada maintains a growing on hand stock. The international wheat agreement guarantees Canada a sizable market this year.
Winnipeg report says the Canadian Federation of Farm Equipment dealers will forward a petition to Ottawa calling for tax and duty exemptions on certain farm equipment and attachments. Mel Cunningham of Red Deer Alberta, president, noted profits are under 4.4 percent with rising costs and freight increasing pressures.
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