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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 11, 1968
Page
2
Current Comments recaps a lengthy western trip through Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia with road notes and local tidbits. It mentions Mrs Lawri Hall’s fall in The Pas, wedding and family events in Beaver Lake and Lavinia, local sports honors, and light commentary on postal rates and a carrier pigeon anecdote.
Coal was discovered on Vancouver Island in 1835. School notes back to fall, wedding greetings to Don Kennedy and Nellie Gerrard, and town chatter from Shoal Lake, Hamiota, Regina, and Winnipeg. News items include CBC CBW Winnipeg anniversary, rainfall totals at Hamiota since April, and assorted local anecdotes and quotes.
Thirty BC men attended the first Nova Scotia defensive driving course with no accidents recorded. In BC barbers raise to 2.50 while jokes about billiard ball tops amuse some. Poet Walter Malone offers hope with Opportunity as a motto. A nutrition expert touts cheese as high protein, though cheese steak remains unfavored. Hippie leader David DePoe laments rising dropouts, while a scientist links human origins to a fish. Premier Bennet urges proper spelling of British Columbia. Overheard at St Regis: Humphrey aims to defeat Nixon. Joe Zaleski and the Blue Bombers weigh in.
The Provincial Soil Testing Laboratory will add nitrate analysis to its services starting September 15. It will provide nitrogen recommendations based on nitrate results while phosphorus and potassium follow existing soil test guidance. Priority is given to nitrate analyses from September 15 to October 15 with samples due by October 15 for fall fertilizer orders.
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