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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 26, 1949
Page
7
Martha and Jim celebrate twenty five years of marriage at a party. They watch a young couple dance and reminisce about their youth and enduring love. The scene ends with the couple departing as the young pair’s romance echoes their own.
A tender scene unfolds as Garling and a woman share a moment of love with no future together. She insists they must part, while he pleads for a different fate. They depart arm in arm as red velvet curtains close, signaling an ending.
Prof. A. G. McCalla says prairie barley farmers failed to adapt threshing to dry weather last fall. The Edmonton plant science professor estimates $2,000,000 of grain was too bruised for malting and brewing after a wet prior autumn, due to overconfidence and overly close threshing.
Regina area hosts a Musk ox expedition to map boundary lines of mining concessions around the Black Lake uranium deposits east of Lake Athabaska. An advance plane-load of supplies and caches sustain the surveyors as they extend lines and plan to complete the survey by early spring with support from Saskatchewan Government Airways.
Ottawa reports the Bureau of Statistics sees a distinct possibility of substantial world wheat supplies in 1949 barring adverse weather. Argentina faces reduced estimates from November frosts and drought, Australia shows a crop near last year but above the 1935-39 average, and Canada expects higher spring wheat plantings while flaxseed and rye may shift to wheat.
Parrots possess voice boxes enabling imitation of sounds. however their vocalizations do not convey deliberate ideas or language.
Anne Adams Pattern 4824 offers a two piece outfit with scallop details and a back bow. Sizes range 12 to 42, with size 16 using 37 yards of fabric, 39 inch. Instructions are illustrated and fit tested. Send 25 cents to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
The Winkler chamber of commerce asks the village council to supply every household with poison and instructions to use it in an all out rat control drive. The plan favors winter use since rats travel less. Richard Cannon of Winnipeg was elected president of the Western Canada Photographers association at its annual meeting, succeeding C. J. Smith of Brandon.
The Economic Cooperation Administration announced a grant of 55.44 million dollars as part of Marshall Plan aid to the United Kingdom to purchase Canadian wheat. The aid represents a major single grant in the program.
In Philadelphia a customer who bought furniture under a "Buy now pay as you earn" plan lost his job and quit installments. He argued he was not earning and thus could withhold payment, and he won the court case.
Labor Day 1950 marks the official opening of the Hope Princeton Highway as British Columbia outlines plans to make 1949 the biggest year for road and highway construction in its history.
Lethbridge reports southern Alberta supplied more than half of Canada’s beet sugar in 1948. Beet crops around Lethbridge yielded 1,275,700 pounds of sugar out of 175,714,000 pounds produced nationwide, with Ontario at 6,000,000, Manitoba 20,500,000, and Quebec 1,958,000 pounds.
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