Transportation role in Canadian agriculture highlighted
A Dominion Agriculture booklet stresses transportation's part in moving farm products across vast distances. It notes refrigerator cars cold storage warehouses and grain elevators enable fresh marketing and surplus carryover while trucks dominate farm product distribution. 1948 license and operation costs for farm trucks and farmers cars total over 64 million dollars.
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Canada
British Columbia
Prairie Provinces
Prairies
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Railways Move Farm Products Through Canada in 1947
The Dominion Department of Agriculture reports railways moved nearly 35 million tons of agricultural goods in 1947. Wheat and other grains totaled 13 million and 8 million tons respectively, with grain from the Prairies sent to Port Arthur Fort William Vancouver and Churchill. Inland waterways also carried farm products from lakeheads for export and to Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland.
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Canadian Railways
Prairies
Port Arthur
Fort William
Vancouver
Churchill
Western Canada
Maritime Provinces
Newfoundland
Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Western Ontario Announces Scholarship and Prize Winners
Three scholarship recipients from western Canada were named by the University of Western Ontario in London. They are Samuel Laimon of Kamsack Sask Ian H Fiddes of Vancouver and Mary Patrician Leith of Victoria.
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Western Canada
University of Western Ontario
London
Samuel Laimon
Kamsack, Sask
Ian H. Fiddes
Vancouver
Mary Patrician Leith
Victoria
Forecast Cure for Cancer by 1960
Canadian scientist Dr. Gerald Wendt predicted atomic research could find a cancer cure by 1960 and even reveal the secret of life. He also said the hydrogen bomb, when produced, will not be used in warfare. The note on aging states that normal people lose 12 to 14 pounds in old age.
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Chatham, Ont
Gerald Wendt
Chatham
É Press
Rosemary Peplinski
Olive Newton
University of California, Los Angeles
Medical School
Daily Laughs and Anecdotes From Coast to Coast
A collection of humorous quips and vignettes from Canada and beyond includes a right turn gone wrong by a lady driver who says she always turns here, a family exchange about stories and engagements, a solicitor’s waiting room joke about a legacy, a palm hotel surprise, baby name debates, and a stage actress’s triumphant cry for help.
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Canada
England and Scotland clash over four hearts on trial bid
In the 1939 England vs Scotland match North opened diamond, South heart, then North found a three clubs rebid to push the hand into four hearts. West led a club through the dealer, heart finesse was declined, and the contract held to ten tricks as a trial bid inhibited early club pressure.
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England
Scotland
South
North
West
Hearts
Joe Griffiths to retire from University of Saskatchewan
JOE GRIFFITHS, longtime faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan and former official and assistant coach at two Olympics, will retire next spring after 20 years on the faculty. In 1937 the university named its new stadium Griffiths Stadium in his honor. Griffiths arrived at the U of S in 1920 as its first director of physical education.
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Saskatoon
E. W
Joe) Griffiths
Canada
University of Saskatchewan
The
University
Griffiths Stadium
Griffiths
U. of S
September Dairy Output Shifts Down and Up
Production of butter and cheese fell eight and twenty-one percent from September 1949. Ice cream rose three percent and concentrated milk products increased twenty percent in the same period. Think Right-Eat Right-Live Right.
Oddities In The News From Canada To Japan And Los Angeles
A Nobleton boy shoots two cows and wounds two on a neighbor's farm. A nine pound calf is born on a Namur farm. A London judge orders a pianist to remove shoes. the court declines a reprimand. Fort William man keeps a deer after a hunting licence payoff. Edmonton speaker notes blue neon lights in Japan attract insects to rice fields. Jean Wallace seeks annulment from Jim Lloyd Randall in Los Angeles.
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Japan
Edmonton
William Jackson
R.C.N
Jackson
H.M.C.S. Athabascan
Jean Wallace
Franchot Tone
Los Angeles
Jim Lloyd Randall
Flin Flon Builds Underground Pipes Amid Urban Oddities
In Flin Flon Manitoba the urban plan moves underground despite a rocky landscape. May or Cecil Stevenson kicks off a 1.315 million starter project with Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting paying 55 percent. The town hallmarks hills and wooden stairways with pipes doubling as cobbled paths and a rocky baseball park as a landmark.
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Canada
Flin Flon
Saskatchewan-Manitoba
Winnipeg
Cecil Stevenson
Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company
Former Saskatoon Paymaster Invents Gadgets in Vancouver
Lawrence Walshe, 66, a former Saskatoon city paymaster now in Vancouver, boasts a string of inventions including an illuminated license plate a self opening envelope and a wind and tax proof flag while noting none have made him rich. He recalls a stove pipe cleaner a zipper safety lock a pocket umbrella and a pie cutter among his catalog.
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Vancouver
Lawrence Walshe
Mr. Walshe
Walshe
Saskatoon
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