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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1949
Page
2
A Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter notes that Canada still offers many opportunities for ambitious energetic entrepreneurs. It cites 1940s capital investment, expanding industry, and advances in agriculture while urging settlers to apply scientific research to farming and to seize evolving markets both at home and abroad.
Zenon Park Saskatchewan resident Robert April a 16 year old farm boy alerted CN Rail crews after spotting a washout from a cloudburst He ran a mile to the station and arrived as the train came in The superintendent M D Thompson praised the boy and warned of possible further contact from the railway after the incident
Ottawa reports Canada will ship 1300 tons of surplus raspberries to the United Kingdom this fall. The berries, bought by the federal government from British Columbia growers as a price support, were stored as a loss and sold for about $500,000. In Britain they will be used for jam.
Regina reports three Ontario museum representatives will search Eastend area quarries in Cypress Hills Saskatchewan for fossils of a rhinosaurus and ancient horse. The team aims to two months of fieldwork near Eastend and plans visits to Swift Current and Wood Mountain districts.
W A McAdam British Columbia's Agent General in Britain sent a crate of BC strawberries from Mission City as a birthday gift to the King. The crate included an illuminated parchment scroll bearing Mission district seal.
Summer traffic crowds Canadian highways as inexperienced drivers populate the roads and accident rates rise. A cautionary message urges drivers to slow down and drive carefully. It warns against drinking and driving and states not to let any crash ruin the summer holiday.
MEDICINE HAT Alberta farmers may soon haul cotton bales from over 110 localities in Alberta and Saskatchewan. S. F. Scott head of the Medicine Hat development committee says cotton sprouts about one inch on a half acre test plot, part of a regional program across southern Saskatchewan and southern Alberta. He notes the seed from Veron Texas withstood Alberta’s cold, and long sunny summers could sustain a western Canadian cotton industry. About 100 pounds of seed are planted in test plots, many in Saskatchewan at Swift Current and Victoria, with Alberta plots mainly in the southeast and others at Brooks and Bow East Calgary.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports farmers intend to plant 481600 acres of potatoes in 1949, down 5 percent from 508200 in 1948 and the smallest since 1916. Eastern provinces drop 7 percent to 380500 acres, while Western Canada reaches about 101100 acres.
A collage of light lines and quips from a bygone era. A doctor questions adherence to medicine, a violin progress note, and a Philadelphia Symphony moment ends with a humorous streetwise quip.
Vancouver report notes British Columbia has one doctor for every 687 people the highest ratio in Canada. Dr F L Whitehead secretary of the B C College of Physicians and Surgeons states the province has 1606 doctors with 425 registered from foreign countries after the war.
The Agriculture Department forecast shows all crops prospects at their most optimistic in 12 years. Record high wheat and last year's corn stocks set the stage for abundant meat, eggs, milk, and dairy products, with potential farmer controls to curb surpluses and tax burdens.
Golden Prairie Sask Vern on Ermine led a 10 entry calf show at Maple Creek with Alfred Kohl calf second and Norman Jaster calf third.
At the 12th annual convention of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities more than 400 mayors chose Saskatoon as the site for next year's meeting. St Boniface Mayor George C. MacLean was elected federation president. Also noted, mentions sheep buried under snowdrifts.
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