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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 02, 1957
Page
7
Beets crop conditions look favorable as rain on Tuesday paused harvesting across southeast Manitoba. K T Kroeker of the Manitoba Sugar Beet Company says the weather is good and a bumper crop is a real possibility, with beets contributing about five percent of last year’s sugar output.
In the Home Workshop presents an unusual wall shelf by A S Blairne for plants and small objects. A variant serves as wall decoration for a child's room with pegs for clothing. Phosphorescent paint makes stars glow in the dark and an 18 inch moon is cut from quarter inch stock. Pattern 39S includes painting directions. price 35 cents.
Patterns 270 271 and 272 provide actual size cutting guides and illustrated steps to assemble a modular unit set with shelves and a desk. Includes corner unit rounded ends and space-saving configurations. Patterns cost 35 cents each plus a service charge. orders to Home Workshop Patterns Department P.P.L. Vancouver BC.
A lively clippings collage from western Canadian weeklies highlights house safety warnings, a 400 pound black bear shot in Saskatchewan, a fire eating bull turned sausage, a blinded horse rescued from hay, odd fruit blossoms in Alberta, wild strawberry patches, a found pocket watch, retriever chicken retrievals, a prank call to a fire hall, and neighborly harvest help by 12 combines aiding Mrs. Moss. Also noted are senior residents ages 90 to 98, a 60th wedding anniversary, a boy finding a US half dime dating 1558, and various anecdotes from multiple towns.
At the Gull Lake Sask council meeting Constable O Connor urged sharper bylaws to support convictions. He called for speedometer calibration, extra insurance for police use of a car, and stricter rules on parking trucks and bicycles. Council approved police funding and signed actions to remove a no parking sign in front of a doctor’s office.
An active Civil Defence program is urged after a claim that one H-bomb could devastate Canada’s eight major cities, risking a quarter of the population. Separately an English shipbuilder reportedly invented non skid chains for autos to improve road safety.
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