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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1949
Page
2
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports a dimmer global wheat outlook for the current year. US production is expected to match last year, while other countries, including Canada, face less favorable prospects despite past shortages.
Wheat production across regions shows higher or steady Acreage in the United States might match last year’s 1.288 billion bushels while Europe and Canada face drought, grasshopper pressure, and poor seeding rates. Forecasters warn weather and conditions will determine final harvest with a likely smaller output than 1948.
Lucy the three month old St Bernard prefers twenty dollar bills to horse meat. Foley left eighty dollars on his desk while preparing meat and returned to find the only twenty dollar bill chewed to a corner. In Monroe Sharon Broge finds honesty pays when she returns a wallet containing fifty three thousand dollars in cash and negotiable securities and receives a five dollar reward.
Forest fires along Prince Albert National Park’s western boundary may indicate three pairs of rare whooping cranes nesting in isolated marsh land and lake areas. Jimmy Cripps of Waskesiu Golf Club and firefighters saw five cranes flying low in the district. a sighting report has been sent to Ottawa’s wildlife service.
A seaplane in Coeur d Alene Idaho enforces a no parking law against whistling swans on lead poisoned lakes. Hundreds of swans were killed last year as they paused on polluted waters en route to Canada. This year the game department planes herd them to cleaner waters farther north.
Frank Franta, 15, won the top prize at the Vancouver Boys' Club hobby show with a display described as two pair of socks gaudy with bright diamonds. He is now knitting a sweater for himself.
Provincial authorities in Edmonton announce two new rat exhibits to be shown across Alberta. Recent rat sightings are linked to railway cars, with several rats observed in the province.
Regina reports a shot dead whooping crane in the Wilkie district. Fred Bard, director of the provincial museum, says the bird, one of only 33 remaining, was likely killed last fall during migration to Texas. The incident alarms naturalists and provincial game commissioner E. L. Paynter, who urge public cooperation to protect endangered wild life.
Premier Manning announced a special Alberta Legislature session set for July 4 to enact further laws on conservation and rationing of natural gas and oil. The session will also address legislative provisions for company applications to export natural gas.
A Canora Sask spring institute resolution asks the department of education to provide compulsory departmental examinations for all students in grades 8, 11 and 12.
Regina square dancing returns with Les Loadman, a top caller, noting dancers take the floor eagerly. He recalls starting at 13 and recalls his loud voice once drew complaints as he calls dances.
A string of lighthearted and pun filled vignettes features an irate farmer mocked by a minister about weather and crops. A sailor esque mischief ends with a girl and a brother, a sitter meeting a boy, and a running duo joking about a dotted line.
J. S. Duncan of Toronto, president of Massey Harris, said the outlook for another bumper crop on the prairies is favorable. He cited sales reports from his company and information from farmers, saying pessimism in urban areas is unwarranted.
Tourists begin arriving in Cranbrook British Columbia with Californians and Albertans leading the influx. City tourist camp reports overflow days as the season starts.
A gully near Neidpath was filled in hours using two tractor drawn one way discs and chrome grass sowing. The demonstration, jointly by A Woodall of the Dominion experimental station P W Coolican and Walter Vanharlem of the University of Saskatchewan, shows gullies formed by wind or water erosion can be controlled with common farm implements and proper methods.
The Canadian Welfare council reports donation patterns in Canada. Executive director R E G Davis notes almost 60 percent of individual contributions come from households with taxable incomes under $3 000. The text adds the meaning of the name Frank as "free."
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