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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1949
Page
2
Industrial plants rely on safety engineering and central committees to reduce accidents. Safeguards include machine devices and hazard removal, worker education, accident investigation, and discipline for carelessness. Farming lacks similar enforcement though farm machinery causes injuries, especially in the West.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics records show 37 200 farmers injured at work and over 1 000 000 man days lost in Canada from fires and accidents between June 1946 and June 1947. Prairie provinces report 60 percent of accidents though housing one third of farmers. Manufacturers work to fix machine defects and farmers receive safety guidance to cut losses.
The International War Veterans' Alliance plans to promote a chapel at the International Peace Gardens on the Canada US border. The decision was made at the alliance meeting held here.
Importers say Canadians will receive 85 million Japanese oranges for Christmas aboard the SS Island Mail. The $1 million shipment is the largest postwar trade with Japan, yet prices rise to $1.30 per box, about 20 percent above last year and still below the 1947 peg of $1.59.
A collection of short moral quotes on kindness, generosity, and forgiveness from Johnsson Washington Irving Landor Mary Baker Eddy Richard Brooks and George D Prentice. The excerpts emphasize the power of a kind heart to spread happiness and cultivate friendship.
A historical drawing shows installing a hayfork in a barn without a track. It explains rope routing through pulleys to lift bundles straight up then draw them into the mow. It notes how ends connect to fork and draw pulleys and suggests vertical planking to prevent snagging in timber frame barns with cellar beams.
A jumble of jokes and quips about daily life and family scenes. It bobbles with lines about roaches, a baby crying, a boy eating cake, clerks, church weddings, and jokes told by a parent to a child.
An expert swimmer in adulthood, a young sea lion must be taught to swim. thousands drown yearly during the learning process, highlighting dangers in early training and the need for safer methods.
Manitoba breeders entered the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto with the largest Manitoba display ever, featuring 37 horses, 80 cattle, and 48 swine from 63 farmers. Saskatchewan exhibitors sent about twice as many beef cattle, totaling nine carloads with 40 horses, 35 cattle, 30 swine, and some sheep, traveling from Regina to Melville and Saskatoon.
The Canadian Foundation for Poliomyelitis approved a national March of Dimes drive in Ottawa. The campaign plans to begin in January and includes a wheat to flour yield note of 100 pounds yielding 70 pounds of flour.
Calgary gas engineer Stanley J. Davies told the board of public commissioners that Turner Valley natural gas reserves now have a 10 year life. He noted the 1939 estimate of 30 years had forgotten more due to rising industrial demand.
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