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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 09, 1949
Page
2
The article discusses the role of buildings and equipment in education, noting that modern school design has evolved over the last twenty five years. It points out that Canada had few new schools recently and many older structures remain, often overcrowded or inadequate.
The article explains why Canada built few new schools from the 1930s through World War II due to money, labor, and material shortages. After the war a large backlog emerged, followed by a continuing boom in school construction expected to last about ten more years.
Canada wide school construction programs postwar involve billions. Saskatchewan plans four to five years of five million more dollars for schools after seven and a half million already spent. Provinces including Alberta Manitoba Ontario Quebec and the Maritimes push large school building budgets.
Three Cape Town Mormon girls travel to Salt Lake City to find husbands. They carry blue and white diamond rings and name clean living, devout, and non drinking as their requirements. Telephone operator Joan Baker 22 Typist Anita Kehl 21 and clerk Joyce Kehl 19 speak of their standards. Diamonds reportedly cheaper in South Africa.
Al Alsgard publisher of the Powell River News is elected president of the British Columbia Division Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association for 1941 50 at the three day convention. Other officers include Stanley Orris Grand Forks Victor Ball Fernie vice presidents A W Lundell Revelstoke secretary and directors Ray Daubney Agassiz Lew Griffiths Quesnel C R Fahrni Kaslo J B Creighton Duncan Lance Whittaker Rossland Leslie Barber Chilliwack J E Jamieson Armstrong and J R Armstrong Summerland.
A farmer at the YMCA in Regina donated 25 dollars to the Community Chest appeal and left without giving his name. He said he had heard about a new feather idea and wanted to contribute.
New sources of the Lake Winnipeg Goldeye include Lake Claire and the nearby Baril and Mamawi Lakes in Wood Buffalo Park Alberta.
The Alberta treasury gains 2 866 968 from eight quarter sections in Redwater and Leduc fields. Tanner and Co Ltd of Calgary pays 918 662 67 for Parcel 64 the highest price ever for a quarter section in Alberta. A syndicate led by E H and Co R Tanner plans drilling and management with full syndicate ownership. Parcel 65 sells for 677 267 17 near producing wells.
A collection of light quips and domestic banter. A grandmother recalls meeting a train rider who offered to pick Kentucky Derby winners, and a series of brief exchanges on babies, efficiency experts, fat loss, hats, and golf terminology. The humor centers on everyday family life and social observations.
A reader complains that fictional heroes are always tall, questioning the stereotype in small edition magazines. The note suggests skepticism about exaggerated physiques in compact pamphlets.
CALGARY W C Bill McLean of Kitscoty Alberta chosen as 1949 champion all around cowboy in western Canada by the Cowboy's Protective association. He scored 1747 points after rodeos in Saskatchewan British Columbia and Alberta. Allan Brown Viking Alberta won saddle bronc riding. Everett Wold Ponoka Alberta took steer decorating. Floyd Peters Browning Montana won calf roping. Bob Duce Cardston Alberta bareback bronc riding. Harry Thomson Black Diamond Alberta steer riding. Lawson Fore Los Angeles second with 1660 points. Don Dewar Hoosier Saskatchewan fourth with 1302.
Ottawa reports Canadian soldiers are again playing Santa Claus by producing toys in off duty hours. More than 66 cases of these toys, made by permanent force army personnel, will be shipped overseas soon for underprivileged UK children.
Yellowknife once a booming hub is now in financial difficulty. A Northwest Territories Council report says the town did not grow as fast as expected and remains in a poor financial position despite large federal capital spending. High living costs and fixed wage incomes hinder revenue for municipal services.
In Macleod Alberta hundreds of sheep have been killed by packs of coyotes in the foothills around Macleod, about 100 miles southeast of Calgary. Losses reach roughly 25 percent in the area. Farmers note rising animal losses since Alberta ended the five dollar bounty on coyotes last year. One farmer reported 30 lambs killed, costing about $800.
Saskatchewan agriculture minister Hon. J. C. Nollet urged organized hunts to reduce coyotes in Gravelbourg while local farmers argued the predators are adapting, growing smarter as the debate over control measures continued.
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