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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1949
Page
7
The piece argues that federal funding for education is essential as Canada faces teacher shortages. Statistics show 11,000 current vacancies with a projected need for 28,000 more teachers in five years due to rising enrolments. Improved salaries and better school facilities are urged to attract new teachers.
The passage argues that while education is mainly a provincial matter, national welfare justifies federal help. It notes current federal subsidies for family allowances old age pensions vocational training veterans education and claims such grants can aid without disrupting provincial programs.
At a Canadian Teachers' Federation convention in Ottawa, educators argued for more funds to support national education. They noted current tax reliance on real property limits revenue and urged Dominion government financial assistance to raise standards without delay.
Manitoba reports a new tourist record with over 183000 visitors from January to July this year. Most entered by car at 174900, with trains 6138 and aircraft 1650 and 817 by bus, though figures exclude non Manitoba ports of entry.
Two bear cubs at the Moose Jaw zoo were fatally affected by over friendly visitors who fed them ice cream peanuts chocolate bars and candy. A post mortem verdict attributed their deaths to what they had eaten.
Three Kenaston brothers from Saskatchewan designed and built a new light utility aircraft tested in Toronto. It rose to 3000 feet and stayed aloft over half an hour, weighs 2150 pounds, and has a 500 mile cruising range at 150 mph. The pilots include Mickey Found a Trans Canada Airlines pilot Gray a fruit picker and Bud a manager with Found Brothers company.
Aylmer Ontario budding farmer Cliff Lamb, a retired local businessman, plants cotton between tobacco rows last June. He reports flowering plants two to three feet high and predicts maturity in six weeks. He plans to continue experiments next year to possibly create a new local cotton industry on idle soil.
Vancouver report says eastern and prairie unemployed will struggle to find BC jobs this fall as 13 000 people sought 1 161 vacancies in July, BC’s peak employment month, per the Vancouver Labor council.
Edmonton reports travel executives and holiday centre operators aiming to boost autumn visits to Alberta parks and resorts. Officials cite tree color, mild weather, lighter traffic, improved highways, and greater lodging availability with autumn rate reductions as incentives for fall motor tours.
At Churchill Manitoba and Baker Lake Northwest Territories scientists tackle basic research in entomology snow and ice mechanics nutrition archaeology cold protection and related fields Weather stations span the North expanding meteorological knowledge Dominion Observatory researchers study geophysics and terrestrial magnetism Geologists topographers and geographers also operate in the region.
Brandon residents learn Irwin Hauser, a Brandon native and four year former college athlete, has tamed an angry lion in Vancouver. He was bitten during the incident but continued to perform. The tale highlights a local man's unlikely career in the circus world.
Regina report on Dr. Rex McCallum of Moose Jaw and Dr. Joseph Van Dane of Carnduff who fly to treat farm animals. McCallum, a 1943 Guelph graduate, uses a heated two seat Cessna 120 to cover up to 60 miles by air, skis in winter, and maintains a busy schedule including milk fever, mastitis, calving, and office work across towns like Mortlach Chaplin Swift Current.
A collection of light hearted jokes and quips about airline manners smoking habits grocery bills and music lessons. The snippets feature Mrs Hinkledam a grocer's misprint tom cat anecdotes and a professor pupil dialogue with a playful pun count and a widow remark.
A beaver in Island Falls Manitoba eyed the Churchill river dam and its generator room. It climbed a platform near the millrace and explored the dam interior with no fear of workers. A worker lifted it to the ladder and released it 30 feet above its starting point upstream.
The record states the planet has 57,510,000 square miles of land surface. This figure quantifies terrestrial expanse used for mapping and geographic reference.
Regina reports the Saskatchewan government will supply forage seed to farmers in the southwest at half price. Agriculture Minister I Q Nollet announced three mixtures of crested wheat, brome and alfalfa under the 1949 forage crop policy available only to farmers in the southwest agricultural supervisor’s area.
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