Tree Planing Car Marks 37th Prairie Tour Across Canada
The Tree Planting Car enters its 37th annual tour through the Prairies with stops at each itinerary point for eight o clock meetings. Schools arrange pupil visits, and audiences view farming results, tree planting methods, and shelter belt layouts via illustrated talks. Grandchildren of early attendees join the tour this year, continuing a family memory of the voyage on wheels.
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Western Canada
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Shelter Belts Field Shelters Pay Big Dividends
The Canadian Forestry Association, a national group with about 25,000 members, works to secure public understanding and cooperation in conserving soil forests waters and wildlife. It is supported entirely by plants and donations.
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Canadian Forestry Association
Our Travelling School House Car Carries Education Across Canada
The travelling theatre and lecture car known as the Tree Planting Car travels across Canada and the United States. Donated by the Canadian Pacific Railway, it began service after World War I and offered 16 mm sound movies in early years. It carries a message from prairie towns to distant communities and has received wide press and radio attention.
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United States
Australia
Wdertaking
Canadian Pacific Railway
Safety awards for CNR employees recognize low accident rates
Safety awards were won by Manitoba district and Portage Brandon division employees of the Canadian National Railways western region for records set in 1956. J R McMillan vice president western region presented the shields, accepted by I Lucas general superintendent Manitoba district and A C Nicholls superintendent Portage Brandon division. The roads built by ancient Rome still form the skeleton for the highways of Europe.
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Canadian National Railways
Manitoba
Portage-Brandon
J R. McMillan
Western Region
I. Lucas
A. C. Nicholls
Rome
Europe
Misses Maternity Top Pattern 7036 With Embroidery
Ad for Pattern 7036 from Toronto Household Arts Department offering Misses' Maternity sizes 10 12 14 16 with two 5x4 inch embroidery motifs. Includes pattern transfer directions and cost of 35 cents plus option for free patterns in Alice Brooks Needlecraft book. instruction to send name and address.
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Household Arts Department
Department P.P.L
Front Street
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Ann
In the Home Workshop pattern mail order notice
A pattern titled In the Home Workshop offers an actual-size guide for building in a shop. It is mailed with step by step directions and is one of five patterns included in the Sportsman's Pack for $1.
Bedroom Chest Patterns for Home Workshop Pack
The notice offers 12 inch by 18 inch wide chests priced at 35 cents each with a Bedroom Furniture Packet of five patterns. Orders should be sent to Home Workshop Patterns Department P.LP.L. at 4433 West Lth Avenue Vancouver British Columbia.
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Lth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Goose arrivals signal geese fly north and gophers reappearing
Swift Current and district residents report the first wild geese seen heading north this season. Mac McGillvray and George MeLeod observe honkers Friday and Saturday, while a gopher near the old cemetery was spotted last week. The Sun notes these are early signs of wildlife returning as winter ends.
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Mac” McGillvray
George Mec-Leod
Riverdene
Porter Pay Johnston
Old Cemetery
Thaws Bring Three Million Gallons to Wolseley Water System
Wolseley residents will have a three million gallon water supply from two reservoirs fed by rapid thaw melt. The mild weather two weeks ago melted snow, filling the town reservoir to overflow at the new earth-fill dam south of Wolseley. P F R A officials told editor Harry Scriver the storage would meet demand as water flows through the drop outlet.
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Son Follows in Father’s Footsteps as Keith Morrison Heads C of C
Keith L. Morrison, a St. James barrister, was unanimously chosen to succeed J. R. Rice as president of the St. James chamber of commerce at the annual meeting in the Albany Room of the Assiniboine Hotel. Morrison follows his father, who led the chamber about 20 years ago.
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Keith Morrison
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Keith L. Morrison
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J. R. Rice
Double back crossed tomato lines show early ripening and large fruit
Researchers from nine Experimental Farms across prairie provinces report cooperative breeding using Earlsworth and Morden BB3 as parents. The double back cross aims to combine very early maturation with large fruit size to produce lines useful for hybrids or further crosses.
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Praine
C. Walker
Morden
Canada Department of Agriculture
Earlsworth
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Immigration and Citizenship Committee
Council of Women
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North Hill
Ginter Laszto
Weten
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Ann ‘Tteso
Ty, Siu Reals
Patte
Grenfell, Sask
Winnipeg
Bill Somerville
North Battleford
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Fort Adolphe, Sask
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