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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1958
Page
3
A fragmented safety guide warns of drowning risks and outlines improvised rescue devices. It describes throwing a buoyant can with a rope to reach a victim, two cans tied as a makeshift buoy, and a teachable pole or plank method for guiding a rescue.
A Melbourne suburb bird sanctuary reports a duck named Booby Hatch Jr. appeared to be sitting on an egg but keepers discovered the object was a grenade with the pin intact. Police removed the dangerous item despite protests. The wrattiesnake is noted as a widespread poisonous reptile in regional forests.
Staff Sergeant S P Yamauchi and Sergeant Major Yutaka Yamane of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps attended the RCASC Summer Camp at Camp Dundurn in Saskatchewan. Yamauchi, a five year WWII veteran, served with a Heavy Repair Shop in Edmonton and later taught Japanese to Allied forces in London. He now serves with BCASC Militia and 156 Company Vancouver. Yamauye is with 140 Transport Company Winnipeg, and this is his eighth camp. His brothers are Don, RCASC clerk in Germany, and Mike, RCAF corporal with 2nd Fighter Wing in France.
A short verse questions who will care for the government while vowing care for birth, death, marriage, and rent. It contrasts personal guardianship with the responsibility of governing authorities. The piece reads like a civic meditation on state versus individual care.
Ken Miller of Sturgeon Valley owns a sow that farrowed 16 piglets on May 20 with one dying, then 11 more on June 8. The 27 total in 20 days marks an extraordinary pig-raising event observed by the University of Saskatchewan Husbandsry Branch. The Times Canwood Sask reports the oddity.
Advertisement for Home Workshop Pattern 105 to build a yard lawn swing. Includes step by step construction and full materials list. Pattern is part of Land Garden Furniture Pack No 37, offering five patterns for $1.75. Vancouver, B C based publisher.
Leah returns to her Arctic settlement after two years in a tuberculosis sanatorium and starts English lessons for local children. With help from the RCMP member and a small warehouse school, she and her peers study together for two years in a 13-house community.
The Times of High River notes a shift in dress codes from strict white collar attire to broader styles. Education and higher living standards have leveled class distinctions, allowing professionals and laborers to mix. The trend toward casual wear is viewed as healthy, reducing snobbery between mental and physical labor.
The piece lauds Germans Italians Hungarians British and other newcomers in the Boundary for integrating well into Canadian life. It argues new Canadians contribute as farmers workers and professionals, buy goods and raise families, and help growth without hoarding wealth. They are described as future Canadians who should be welcomed and accepted.
The Witness notes a spring virus spreading among a select group. It prompts distant glances, long windows, and weather forecasts obsessions in men, while wives notice basement rummaging and a watchmaking hobby. The culprit is a bug bitten fisherman on the loose as fishing seasons begin nationwide.
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