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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 22, 1963
Page
2
The Big Week thrill centers on Gordon Cooper completing a 22 orbit world flight in Faith 7. Capsule performance praised by the public, with Cooper’s wife and two daughters highlighted.
A collage of notes mentions a 15 cent coffee rise and wartime price pressures on coffee sugar and staff. It recalls old ads from 1880s 1890s Manitoba papers, reports home life changes, ranch news and a joke about a pup. Also references newspaper association leadership and a thought on goodwill by Marshall Field.
The United Church announces summer and fall air tours from Winnipeg and The Pas to northern communities including Norway House Oxford House Island Lake Pikangikura and Riverton. Tours cost 75 from Winnipeg and 50 from The Pas with return by Monday. another trip September 14 15 from Riverton to Island Lake and Pikang ikura. Explorers hold graduation services next Wednesday at 3 30 p.m. in Chumah Hall with unknown grandmothers as guests.
In Hamiota United Church R E Clark leads 11:00 a.m. service with Junior Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Senior Sunday School 12:10 p.m. Other churches list services: Oarn er United Church 9:45 a.m. Decker minister A McColl church service 1:30 p.m. Strathclair Pastoral Charge 11:00 a.m. car dale services 2:00 p.m. Church Service and Sunday School 7:30 p.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m.
Local residents visited over the weekend at McConnell with some attending an exam event at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R Le. The piece notes congratulatory messages for Maureen and Mrs. Wicklery on her 80th birthday. Several families from Winnipeg Regina and Ste. Rose are mentioned visiting Hamiota and Fort Garry Winnipeg for family events and a local M.W.N.A. gathering.
Mrs S Lewis and sister Mrs W Rutley visited Dauphin over the weekend. Jim Lewis spent a week at home after a Duck River fishing trip with Jack Lewis of Portage. Visitors in the district included W Davey family from Westbourne at Rodney Lewis home, J Sigurdson of Gladstone with Mrs M Kirk, Corporal and Mrs Andrew and family of Estevan with Mrs Crandle of Brandon, D Porter and C Joynt families of Dauphin at Pollock home, and Ed Cyr of Winnipeg with Mrs Ferris and Harold McConnell at Houck’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Moon of Winnipeg and other residents spent weekends at various homes including McDougall, Pangman, and Scott households. Carlyle McDougall returned from Veterinary College in Guelph. Nick Syrnyk is a patient in Hamiota Hospital. Jean Corbet’s Winnipeg graduation was attended by Mrs. A Little.
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