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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 12, 1949
Page
2
Canada has seen rising farm incomes and higher living costs over recent years. The shortages from wartime disrupted labor and materials, but shortages have mostly eased while demand for farm and factory outputs remains strong. The period since the war is described as the most prosperous in Canadian history.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports cash farm income for the first half of 1949 reached 1 0565 million dollars, with increases in all provinces except New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island where potato value fell. Wheat board payments and livestock sales boosted totals while prairie provinces show substantial gains.
Firestone Tire and Rubber of Canada will expand in the West with new warehouses planned for Regina and Vancouver. Edmonton will see an addition to existing facilities, with construction to begin next spring. Growth in population highway traffic and farm mechanization drive the western expansion.
New Westminster reports that 1950 plates will invert colors from this year with yellow letters on black. Oakalla jail workshops fill orders for about 162000 passenger plates and 59000 commercial plates.
A collection of short, dated style quips and jokes from a humorous column. Bits include a fortune teller predicting unhappiness until age 60, a husband and wife exchange about the mother visiting, a midget car owner requesting fuel and oil, a railway ad for sleepers, a lion tamer with a sugar trick, a heckler boast, and wordplay about cows and hearing.
Beaver protection plan in effect along the Ontario Manitoba border creates a five mile no beaver zone with heavy trapping urged for registered trapline owners to stop infected animals migrating westward. Authorities aim to prevent the spread into Manitoba’s beaver muskrat country. About 2737 B.C., the Chinese emperor Shen Nung wrote a book on , 2850.
Douglas Green reports that farming ranks high in danger due to machinery and livestock. Saskatchewan with 120,000 farmers and 85,000 tractors illustrates rising mechanization risk. In June 1946 47 millions hours of farm work lost to fires and accidents, with 37,200 people injured and 400 operators permanently disabled. Quebec is cited as relatively safest. prairies bear most accidents due to greater machine use.
Sunrise Monday November 28 marks the Manitoba big game hunting opener and closes at sunset December 8. Deer hunting is open province wide except sanctuaries, moose opens north of the 53rd parallel, barren ground caribou closed except special northern licences, no elk or woodland caribou seasons, and legal minimums include one year age, with bag limits of one male Virginia or mule deer and one male moose.
The Buffalo harbor handles more than 16 million tons of water borne freight each year despite being frozen four to five months.
An old advertisement touts Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills as quick relief for backache and joint pain. It claims the remedy acts on kidneys and liver to ease aching and sluggish systems and suggests housewives notice easier daily chores. Distribution at drug counters for over 50 years in Canada.
VICTORIA Prospecting in British Columbia this year has been well maintained with 1 652 claims staked in the province for the first seven months. The prior year’s comparative period recorded 1 636 claims.
Ottawa reporters describe a Commons scene where Red McIntosh apples sit on desks as George Fulford and George Cruickshank compare fruit. Fulford hopes Ontario apples prove their quality against rivals while Cruickshank boosts British Columbia produce with both a large and small apple in hand.
Lethbridge Alberta S C Heckbert of Vermillion president of the Western Canada Fairs association urged fair managers to focus more on youth work. He said young people's work is an integral part of fairs and to keep them engaged they should be offered greater opportunities to display handiwork.
Weeds allowed to grow up under an electric fence may touch the live wire and ground the system reducing its effectiveness. Authorities warn landowners to clear vegetation to maintain barrier integrity and avoid outages or safety hazards.
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