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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 19, 1957
Page
2
A pattern book describes wheels with large rubber tires and wooden wheels for a carriage or cart. It includes a bottom shelf for serving trays, stock lumber sizes, and a cutting list with assembly directions. The pattern includes an eight inch circle for the wheels and finishes guidance. Price of pattern 443 Is.
A home workshop notice describes making a weathervane from patterns 407 and 241. Each pattern costs 35 cents and shapes to follow a roof line. Patterns are mailed from Home Workshop Patterns in Vancouver British Columbia.
The Journal reports the St Andrew's Anglican Church Parish Hall in Humboldt Sask is being demolished with completion expected by end of June 1957. Sid Hall purchased the hall and will oversee the teardown while Rev F A Creighton notes no immediate rebuild plans, though long term reconstruction is being studied.
The Highway Traffic Board announced an amendment to the Vehicles Act allowing four headlights on automobiles. J A Christie said manufacturers now sell cars with four headlights and many readers asked about legality. A second amendment shortens dimming distance from 1500 to 500 feet to improve visibility and reduce unnecessary travel without seeing the road.
J A Christie, chair of the provincial highway traffic board, released the Safety Lane dates for Saskatchewan. Town by town the checks run from May to September with five trained men operating free inspections and drivers urged to participate for road safety.
The public increasingly accepts illness of mind as real as physical disease and advances in medicine and psychiatry have led to many mental health cases being permanently cured.
The Government approves initial prices paid by the Canadian Wheat Board for the 1957 crop year starting August 1. Wheat No 1 Manitoba Northern in store Fort William Port Arthur Vancouver at 1.49 per bushel. Oats No 2 Canada Western in store Fort William Port Arthur at 0.60. Barley No 3 Canadian Western Six Row in store Fort William Port Arthur at 0.96.
A Pembroke Ontario letter writer suggests a Be Kind To Editors Week encouraging writers to present legible, well constructed copy so editors can avoid using their blue pencils for a week.
A chaotic collage of anecdotes and malapropisms about tides of money and law. A river rights case drags on with a sleepy judge as a lawyer proclaims for water. A newlywed couple arouses neighbors with talk of a New York sculptor. A parrot, a barber, a sailor and a Toronto telegram punctuate this humorous miscellany of misfit snippets.
Backward children, often labeled retarded, may become useful citizens able to earn a living through targeted training and education programs.
The report notes that Britain imports more than half of the nation's food supply, highlighting dependence on overseas sources.
The Southern Manitoba Music and Speech Arts Festival opens its 1957 sessions in Morden with C. C. Strachan noting the 25th anniversary. Day one in the Collegiate Auditorium showcased the Morden Instrumental classes and earned praise for performances as enjoyable and fairly high in standards.
Vintage sewing pattern notice for a women’s waist sizes 30 to 46 inches. Includes S-gore skirt variation with tab detail optional and faille linen wool fabrics. Directions provided. pattern number 4673. price 40 cents. mail order to Anne Adam Pattern Dept Toronto.
The Moosomin Union Board met with Whitewood officials after an in principle acceptance of a plan to join the Monsomin Union Hospital District and build a local hospital. No official word yet from the Hospital Planning Commission.
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