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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 02, 1948
Page
2
Under Dr. Sidney Smith and the Canadian Youth Commission, studies on education in Canada reveal facts about youth training and its vital role for the nation’s future. Reports discuss school operation and public interest across communities.
The commission found consensus that education should extend to all Canadian children, teaching must attract the ablest youth to the teaching profession, school health should improve, curricula must meet child needs, and better school buildings and federal funding are essential. It notes funds as a major barrier and commends educational bodies for constructive criticism.
A vintage health ad urges readers around age 40 to use Dodd's Kidney Pills to prevent kidney and bladder issues. It claims decades of efficacy in maintaining kidney and bladder health, promising greater happiness and energy in the years ahead.
The British ministry of agriculture reports England and Wales sowed 2,340,250 acres of wheat in 1948, up 265,000 from last year. Potatoes gained more than 73 additional acres, totaling 1,014,840 acres.
An engineer asserts that rearward facing seats in aircraft increase safety in a forced landing. The report notes this claim as a safety plan for planes. A separate detail mentions a motorcar uses 45 different kinds of steel in a medium-priced brand.
Alberta bans caribou hunting for the year and tightens big game limits. Open seasons for deer, moose, elk, mountain sheep and mountain goats are reduced with specific bag limits and defined hunting dates.
D E Woodsworth of the National Film board spoke at the Green Lantern conference in Winkler Manitoba about a south central Manitoba film workshop planned for late summer. Technical training will cover sound projectors film strip projectors and wire recorders. Altona will remain the main film repository for the area including Lowe Farm Roland Manitou and Winkler.
Archaeologists report finding glass bottles in Egypt dating back more than 4000 years. The discovery pushes back the timeline for glass use and suggests complex craft traditions in ancient Egyptian society.
Ottawa reports progress in correcting Canada’s unfavorable trade balance with the United States though purchases from the U S still exceed exports. Canada seeks dollar payments from other nations, aided by European recovery program aid, while noting dollar shortages in countries not receiving ERP support. First four months 1948 Canadian sales to the U S reach 421.533 million dollars vs 320.237 million in 1947, up 31 percent. Unfavorable U S trade balance for Q1-Q3 1948 stands at 107.9 million dollars versus 203.2 million in 1947.
Ottawa reports a new postal scheme allowing standard one ounce letters to travel by air mail to major Canadian centres starting July 1. The plan makes Canada the first nation to adopt all-up mail service nationwide. The experiment will use Trans-Canada Air Lines routes and may extend to feeder lines.
A note reading this rain has got me down was found beside the body of Marlowe Mc Kenney aged 50 in a gas filled room in Portland. Rain had fallen for 13 consecutive days. The report also notes Canada more than doubled its steel output during the war.
Victoria British Columbia forest officials report a likely record year as the first quarter output shows log scale at 762 484 174 fbm up from 721 002 257 fbm in 1947. Also 6 794 590 feet of poles 29 202 cords of fuel wood and 107 370 hewn ties produced in three months.
A man in Blackpool sent a postcard to the fire brigade reading I can smell burning. The crew arrived 24 hours later and found timbers smouldering under the man’s hearth, which they extinguished.
Ottawa report shows 358,709 live births in 1947 across the Dominion versus 330,732 in 1946, the previous record year. The bureau of statistics notes a busier year for newborns nationwide.
Mrs Elfrida Webb, supervisor of speech correction in Vancouver public schools, told the Vancouver Kindergarten Teachers Association that baby talk among seven and eight year olds is not cute and should be corrected early, as lisping and related defects can persist without intervention.
Vast swarms of locusts invade Guatemala threatening Mexico. The director-general of agriculture says they will likely eat more than a third of the Guatemala corn crop as they move through El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
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