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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 21, 1956
Page
7
A survey of recent paper and wood based innovations shows advances in heat resistant paperboard packaging, reinforced paper products, and specialty papers. New items include self adherent wallpipe wallpaper with insecticide, dirt repelling wallpaper, and a paper garbage container for up to fifty pounds of wet waste.
Maurice McGregor, a Canadian bush pilot, was chosen in 1953 to create Pakistan International Airlines in Karachi after arriving in 1955. He trained Pakistani crews and managers with Dutch and other experts, secured U.S. aid for expansion, and then returned to Canada as Canada exported aviation knowhow abroad.
A collection of humorous vignettes features a taxi fare dispute with a stone joke, a Wall Street boss quip about Geiger counters, a yacht hat anecdote from an Iowa club member, and a quip about a father and his brilliant grandchildren.
A fire safety warning urges checking ashtrays and furniture after gatherings to ensure no burning cigarette remains. The precaution could prevent a fatal blaze.
A leading expert on teenage love advises girls who are spurned to burn letters and photos of the boy, date other boys, and gradually forget the romance. The method, like conquering a bad habit, supposedly frees them from past ghosts. Also notes that about two thirds of people use wood for cooking fuel.
Sir Edmund Hillary leads a Commonwealth Transantarctic expedition planning a 1957 58 crossing from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. New Zealand Scott Base hosts observers and depots as Fuchs leads a mixed party with RAF and US vehicles. The venture costs about 1.5 million funded by UK Australia New Zealand and South Africa.
The piece notes a rise in fall headwear with flat crown and Ivy cap styles. It highlights the pork pie model, center crease crowns, and light felts for comfort, plus subtle rep stripes and bows on bands. Caps shrink to smaller sizes with various fabrics and back-buckle straps.
Ontario tomato cultivation rises to 40,000 acres with processing in 21 countries. Essex and Kent counties produce over 26 percent of tonnage and half of the acreage, highlighting regional dominance in the province.
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