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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 27, 1957
Page
7
The article notes yellow fever appearing in North America with severe epidemics in New York and Philadelphia in 1668. It mentions Anne Adams and Pane La wee 42-24 percent Pattern Dept. at 60 Front Street, Toronto, as part of the text.
The bulletin notes February 1 price indexes higher for eight cities and lower for two, with increases from 0.2 to 0.7 percent and a 0.1 percent dip elsewhere. It cites December wholesale price rise, lumber output by region, housing starts and completions, strong merchandising sales led by grocery chains, and record passenger car sales. Education records show December university enrolment up 9 percent to 75,100, while farm numbers fall nearly 8 percent since 1951. Manufacturing highlights include rising pig iron steel ingot output and vehicle production up about 25 percent from last year, totaling 82,108 units over two months.
Press dispatches from Ottawa report Prime Minister St Laurent as non-committal on most Canadian Labour Congress demands and openly opposed to others. The CLC proposal to redistribute House seats to favor urban and industrial areas would, if implemented, disenfranchise rural farmers, a move likely to alienate Prairie Provinces voters.
Cuba is identified as the largest island in the West Indies. The note specifies its size within a geographic grouping.
The St James city council weighs a long advocated plan to reserve a city block for a future municipal hospital amid rising costs. It also advances a new public library building and requests collaboration on library grants, noting over 3 000 subscribers including 2 000 children. The Lions Club praised for fostering the public service.
Polio sufferers in Saskatchewan face lifelong impairment while March of Dimes funds mobile rehabilitation and clinics across eleven points. The campaign seeks public support to sustain brace making, appliances, transport, and two vocational centers in Saskatoon and Moose Jaw for polio handicapped citizens.
The Record thanks the group of over thirty rural correspondents who weekly gather and forward news from west central Alberta communities. The editors acknowledge the time spent on phones and visits and value their loyal assistance in delivering community reporting.
The Dauphin Herald reflects on Manitoba industrial prospects after Portage la Prairie lands a five million dollar Campbell Soup plant. It notes Dauphin council and chamber of commerce push for manufacturing investment, with Mayor McLean urging a joint conference to explore local opportunities and product-based plants.
The Rural Scene editorial argues the minister of finance bears the burden of balancing demands from all government levels and departments. It urges Canadians to back taxation resistance and oppose shifting financial burdens onto the Dominion government to prevent inflation and unchecked spending.
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