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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 13, 1951
Page
6
Living costs have risen steadily and the price index hit a spring record. National income reached $14.164 billion, eight percent above 1949, with salaries and wages at $8.3 billion, six percent higher. Consumer spending rose as Canadians spent $1.5 billion, while output was about $17.7 billion.
Farmers did not share in income gains in 1950 as net farm income fell from 1 513 000 000 in 1949 to 1 424 000 000 a six percent drop. Causes cited include higher operating costs and lower wheat prices. Agricultural production is 20 percent above pre 1939 levels, despite labour shortages and rising farm input costs. Since 1946 farm labour has declined by 170 000.
The piece argues that farm incomes lag behind rising costs and incomes in other sectors, noting 120 000 farmers and workers left the land in three years. It calls for floor price debate and policy action to ensure farm earnings track other industries while wheat demand remains strong.
In Ashcroft British Columbia ranchers report heavy losses from cattle rustling as prices rise. Cariboo Cattlemen’s Association president Tom Wilson cites organized gangs suspected with meat smuggling to Vancouver. Rustlers target pure bred steers, dehorning and branding removal, with up to a dozen head lost by individual farms.
The Wage Stabilization Board rule frees 75 to 80 percent of farm workers from stabilization rules by allowing wage increases up to 95 cents an hour. Public member William M. Hepburn announced the exemption to reporters.
In Minnesota, U S navy planes dropped 16 bombs on May 24 and 26 to form artificial lakes within the Rosseau game refuge and public hunting grounds north of Sundown. Works Minister William Morton was informed by state officials about the plan.
Labor minister C. E. Greenlay announced changes to the Manitoba civil service act. Administrative and clerical staff will work 30 minutes longer each weekday from July through August, while most staff will have Saturdays off during the two‑month period. Currently Saturday work lasts four hours.
Vancouver buyers see halibut cheaper this year with first auction showing a 3 to 4 cent drop per pound from 1950. Industry sources cite a large carry-over from last year and a Atlantic coast conservation scheme as factors. Medium fish sold wholesale at 21.1 cents, large at 19 to 20 cents, and chicken at 18 cents.
A successful businessman returns after eight years to his old town station. Surprised to find no familiar faces, he seeks out the station master, a childhood friend. The master greets him with a snappy line asking if he is going away.
A humor column paints quick gags about two jobs in six months and a boy rushing home for fear of a spanking. A minister, a baker shop sign mockery, a naive honeymoon, coeds puzzled by football cleaning, and a farmer seeking fire protection all deliver punchlines in breezy vignettes.
Gasoline made from Alberta crude oil went on sale recently in Ontario for the first time. Oil moved by pipeline from Edmonton to Superior, Wisconsin, then by ship to Sarnia, marking a new supply route into Ontario.
British Columbia researchers test penicillin fortified feeds on large farms to boost production and cut costs. Clarence Landstrom reports 25 percent extra weight gain for turkeys using antibiotic-enhanced feed at five cents per hundredweight, with one ounce more weight per two week old poult.
Mr Landstrom notes poults fed the new feed show better feathering vigor and lower mortality. Mortality rate reached two percent. Tests of the supplemented feeds on hogs have just begun on British Columbia farms.
A fragment notes the hide of a hippopotamus reaching about two inches in thickness. No other details are provided.
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