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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 07, 1948
Page
2
An editorial urges Canadians to protect farms, forests, and minerals through soil moisture programs, forest conservation, and reclamation. It notes wasteful mining and the need for better planning and cooperation to safeguard Canada’s resource-based economy for the future.
Roy Brown swallowed a wood chip 35 years ago while chopping wood. A Syracuse surgeon removed a petrified fragment from the upper lobe of his right lung after Brown began having trouble now at 51. He is recovering at home.
Canada sees stable employment over two years with 52 to 54 percent of those over 14 employed and unemployment around 1 to 2 percent. November figures show 4,847,000 employed and 87,000 unemployed among job seekers, plus 4,069,000 others not in the labor force. A recent drop from mid August reflects seasonal factors.
The World Book Encyclopedia states pollenization is the bee’s key role. Without pollen transfer among flowers, over 104000 plant species could fail to form seeds and die. The text notes earthquakes occur globally at about 8000 per year.
Ruth and Phillip McCheane of Borden Saskatchewan top the Western Canada Dressed Meat Show with a 408 pound nine month old Hereford steer carcass selling at 51 cents a pound. The event, part of the Saskatoon Industrial Exhibition, drew strong crowds alongside the annual Western Canada Dressed Poultry Show judged by Jack Pawley and team.
Fragmented comic snippets show a club meeting interrupted by wives confronting henpecked husbands. A country lady checks into a city hotel and jokes about rooms as rain threatens, while other exchanges joke about medicine candy and family dynamics.
Winston Churchill receives a seated cross legged Buddha from a deserted Burmese temple near Mandalay via the will of Gen Sir Pan Hamilton. The will notes the idol to ease him during political stress with its placid features. The text adds a quip about three kinds of people.
A frosting guide describes cream butter with sugar and peanut butter mixing to light texture, then folding in remaining sugar for a cake or cupcakes. It covers a meringue style top frosting with egg whites sugar water corn syrup and vanilla cooked until peaks form and colored with food coloring for pastel shades.
A concise note suggesting elephants show a liking for onions comparable to their fondness for peanuts, illustrating an odd dietary tidbit from an unspecified source.
Britain faces a massive emigration wave as about 250 000 people await transport to the Dominions. Roughly 60 000 have already left for Canada Australia New Zealand and South Africa with Canada 36550 Australia 4500 New Zealand 4800 to 6000 and South Africa 10000 to 12000. Government figures show up to 95 000 for South Africa and 50 000 for Canada and 20 000 for New Zealand while Australia reports about 107 000 applications. In a separate note Soviet envoy Alexandre Panushkin arrived in New York and spoke of possible Moscow Washington ties before visiting UN veteran Andrei Gromyko.
In Canberra a Papuan group urges the Australian government to grant higher wages, claiming a £5 weekly rate is needed as no rations are received. They warn they will stay if paid. otherwise they threaten consequences. Also noted is the St. Peter's bell in Rome weighing 18,600 pounds.
Scientists at UCLA conducted a 15 minute test in a 250 degree Fahrenheit chamber to assess if jet pilots can endure extreme heat during supersonic flight. Dr Craig Taylor said the air corps sponsored the study to gauge acclimation to heat stress at 1,000 miles per hour speeds.
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