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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 23, 1949
Page
3
A two day coyote hunt near Regina drew 400 hunters and 1000 onlookers. Organizers H G Ellis and H Seidler faced strategic hurdles yet reported 17 coyotes taken with plans to refine methods for future hunts and to push coyote control as a provincial effort.
Pattern 4736 offers a stylish outfit with shawl plunging collar wing cuffs French-style pockets and pleated skirt control. Available in sizes 12 to 40 with 445 yards of 39 inch fabric for size 16. Includes illustrated instructions and order details from Anne Adams Pattern Institute Winnipeg Newspanion.
Assays of radioactive material sent to the Dominion government radioactivity laboratory in June showed encouraging signs for prospecting and possible ore grade uranium oxide ranging from 1 to 6.98 percent. R H Havard outlines winter program. G M Cartney retained as consult ing geologist. Offshore diamond drilling and subsurface work planned on the Gulch showing in the Black Lake district of northern Saskatchewan.
In Victoria British Columbia a seven year old boy was nearly killed by a 200 pound buck in Beacon Hill park. Park sightseers Robert Chambers and Victor Buchko pulled the deer by its antlers and freed the child before the buck swung him against bushes. The boy crawled back over the fence and vanished.
The site of the George Washington Masonic Memorial is noted as having formerly been owned by George Washington, marking a historic tie to the nation's first leader.
Handy drawings describe an oil drum tipper stand built to hold 45 gallon drums. The design uses %-inch welded piping with curved bottom runners like a sled to tip the drum upright under the end and then tip it back once attached, enabling convenient access to the faucet.
The poem praises the weather man for daily help with chores and sunny breezes that dry laundry. A village anecdote notes Mrs V Charles unpaidly tending the church clock. A final line mentions Mongolia’s Gobi desert once being an inland sea.
Two Manitobans received decorations from the governor-general at Government House. Arthur Deslauriers, 14, of The Pas, earned the Gilt Cross for gallantry saving his siblings from a house fire. Winnipeg scoutmaster W. D. Watson received the Silver Acorn for service in Manitoba scouting.
A night mail service by helicopter started between Peterborough and Norwich in England. Paul Van Dall of St Brieux Saskatchewan won a $200 fellowship as part of four University of Western Ontario geography graduates honored this year.
A dense list of crossword clues covers topics from mythology and languages to animals and geography. Entries include Whey of milk, island in the Aegean, Gorgons, three legged stop, and many others spanning fashion to science.
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