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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 09, 1951
Page
2
A Department of National Health and Welfare report shows more than 170 blind Canadians, with 10 517 receiving pensions. The numbers have fallen by 50 in a year, including 17 in Newfoundland and two in the Yukon. It warns of too few oculists and insufficient eye hospitals to support a full health scheme.
Many blind Canadians can earn a living, yet pensions aid those with no means or insufficient income. To qualify, a blind person must be over twenty one, have resided in Canada twenty years, and show need. The article commends work to prepare the blind for independence and calls for more eye disease care and blindness prevention.
A report finds more blindness in rural areas than cities, especially in the Maritime Provinces and Quebec. Oculists cluster in urban centers, leaving rural districts without specialists. The public needs better information on prevention and more eye care facilities nationwide.
Regina report notes only 18 percent of approved Saskatchewan poultry flocks reacted to pullorum blood tests under the provincial policy. Poultry commissioner F. E. Payne says the low reaction rate supports the value of the testing program.
Otto Kaiser once mayor of Duisberg has taken work as a carpenter with his brother's construction firm in Vancouver British Columbia He emigrated after declaring Germany far from democracy in 1945 he led the Ruhr Valley city. Rabbits may have up to 20 offspring a year.
Ottawa reports total crop insurance payments for 1949 at 22,046,709 with Saskatchewan receiving 15,374,262 across 49,658 awards. Alberta total 6,339,358 from 33,442 payments, Manitoba 333,089 from 2,072 payments. Heaviest losses clustered in Saskatchewan west of the third meridian and south of the South Saskatchewan river.
Government officials announce a $14 million bombing and rocket range will eliminate 75 Alberta trap lines and two timber berths on the Alberta Saskatchewan border 100 miles north of Lloydminster. Defence Minister Claxton disclosed the plan in Parliament. The federal government will handle compensation to the affected trappers. 36 of the 75 are Indigenous.
A humorous dialogue scene captures a family's foibles as a wife deflects vanity with imagination while a father quarrels over a faulty typewriter and a daughter teases him about Marian and gym weight amid playful mischief. The excerpt ends with a 2931 marker.
A 1921 Canadian 50 cent piece sold for $200 at the Canada Coin Exchange mail auction, the highest price yet for the coin. Neil Carmichael, exchange manager, noted only nine specimens are known to exist.
Intensive investigation will start this year to assess commercial development of low grade chromium near Winnipeg Manitoba about 100 miles northeast of the city. The National Research Council of Canada and U S research authorities join 12 mining firms owning roughly 120 nickel copper chrome claims near Bird River in the project.
Edmonton announces a legislative amendment to the Vehicles and Traffic Act requiring every motor vehicle in Alberta to undergo a safety inspection within 12 months and obtain a certified road worthy designation. From July 1, drivers must display windshield stickers to prove compliance.
Ventures Ltd. and Falconbridge Nickel Mines of Sudbury merge to create a five million share company named Mask- Was Nickel Chrome Mines. Vendors of the acquired properties receive under a million shares in the new corporation.
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