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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 23, 1980
Page
2
A Manitoba farmer faces theft from fuel tanks near a main highway. Despite locking tanks, thieves took about 100 gallons with excess spilled on the ground. Police warn attackers may carry a knife blade on a hockey stick. proposed dye in nozzles could aid capture, though difficult. The piece condemns theft and laments distrust among neighbors.
Reggie doubts widespread discrimination against German Canadians in Winnipeg citing Maclean’s writer R Doern and his political career. He argues English emigrants faced more overt bias in the early 1900s and notes no enduring signs of similar treatment against third generation German Canadians during his 75 years in the city.
An international arms sales tale from 1980 recounts a Canadian representative involved in a proposed courtesy payment. Two loaded suitcases containing gold coins worth up to ten million dollars disappeared, then reappeared unclaimed at Toronto's airport baggage carousel before finally being boarded for South America.
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