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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1950
Page
2
The piece argues that nurse shortages threaten health systems in Canada despite expanding hospital spaces. Dr Charlotte Whitton warns that bed growth will require more nurses by 1952-53 and calls for government action to safeguard population health amid regional disparities in health services.
Dr Whitton warns that only about 750 nurses graduate yearly while hospital beds and social services grow. He says the shortage threatens disaster response in war and national health progress without attracting more young women to nursing. The issue concerns the country and must be addressed promptly.
The Ottawa income tax appeal board ruled grain hedging is not a normal or necessary incident in earning farm income. It dismissed Ralph A. Hurlburt of Camrose Alberta in his 1946 tax appeal after evidence showed a net loss of 2450 dollars in futures trading with L M and R G Byers.
A car load of 13 steers sold through the Cattlemen's Association in Williams Lake British Columbia brought a record price for Cariboo beef outside prize stock. Canada Packers paid 26.50 dollars per hundredweight for the average 1100 pound carload.
In Hutchinson Kansas Chester Guettche and W S Swan discovered they occupy each other’s houses after six years of living in the wrong homes. Each paid taxes on his own property. now they plan an even trade with Guettche transferring the mortgage on his house.
A beaver swept into Winnipeg by the flood selects the basement under Arnold Davey’s newly built house as his den. He gnaws exposed wood and shapes a cozy nest, showing notable judgment in finding shelter with the protection of the Department of Game and Fisheries chief.
In Winnipeg eight year old Marlyne Greenspan was severely burned when a bonfire clothing caught fire. Thirteen year old scout Eugene Baron acted fast tearing off burning clothes and rolling her in mud, likely saving her life before she faces skin grafts.
Tests at Marjack Calmar No. 1 near Calmar suggest a major extension of the Leduc oil field. The well, privately owned by S J Cohen of Vancouver and his son Jack, shows water line deeper than thought and oil flow of up to 4950 feet per hour between 5201 and 5257 feet.
A collection of light anecdotes from family life and shop floor humor. Jokes range from a child confusing Plymouth Rock with a chicken to marital vows and daily misunderstandings. Witty exchanges highlight suburban manners and small miscommunications.
Okanagan Valley residents advocate Alberta gas piped by an all Canadian route to the West coast. Donald M. Hueston of Ottawa says the region would gain a fast industrial future with cheap Alberta gas. He adds time will not, you may delay.
Ottawa announces Canada’s largest geological survey program to map gold and base metal areas in Manitoba at Elbow Lake and Flin Flon and to study oil and gas potential near Lake Winnipeg, Churchill and across ten provinces with 83 field parties. Seven crews to Manitoba.
Calgary report shows Alberta collected 36 million dollars in oil lease sales over 14 months, boosting provincial wealth. A quarter section sold for 1,611,000 dollars, bought by Crown Trust, near Redwater field, with adjacent quarter at 1,519,000 dollars matching a prior Royalite record.
Victoria reports the British Columbia Federation of Agriculture discussed income tax relief for poultrymen who lost flocks to Newcastle disease. About 200,000 birds have been slaughtered to eradiate the epidemic, and the group proposed federal health and animals service inoculation as an alternative to mass slaughter.
Oil companies load 300 pack horses at Fort St John as scouts prepare oil discovery missions into the Northwest Territories. Horses are imported from Peace River area. Oil workers flood Fort St John and Dawson Creek hotels as crews arrive from Edmonton and Calgary.
The article notes that June became a popular wedding month due to the goddess Juno, namesake of the period, being regarded as the patroness of happy marriages.
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