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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 14, 1949
Page
7
Marty Higgin s memory of Ed to fight for him drives a proxy battle over house and barns on a prairie farm. She redefines home with painted green bungalow and pink barns as Ed weakens. Rusty the collie watches as Marty asserts control and confronts Ed’s stubborn resolve.
Marty insists on painting barns red as Ed consumptive owner loses patience. Rusty aids as Marty prepares an order from Barnes Hardware. Ed demands a drink and a respectable color while Marty jokes about a two game victory and moves to paint.
Anne Adams offers pattern 4993 a simple dress with no shoulder or side seams and two parts plus optional collar belt and panty. sizes 2 4 6 8. size 6 dress requires 21 yards of 35 inch fabric and 7 yards panties. price 25 cents and requests name address and style number to be sent to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man.
In Radi um Windermere Radi um Hot Springs Mrs E C Peatfield went to greet a visitor at her back door at 10 30 pm. The intruder proved a 300 pound black bear, which her husband and son John chased away after she screamed.
Western Briefs report Harold Porter wins the final Moose Jaw Racing Pigeon association race with 111 birds in the 210 mile Elkhorn Manitoba to Moose Jaw Saskatchewan event. Other items note Cliff Stewart, Saskatoon Royal Roads graduate, joins the navy executive in England and Edmonton oil interest prompts surface rights talks.
More than half of Canada’s yearly flour production is exported making flour the country’s fourth ranking export commodity.
Lethbridge Alberta water plan grows into a $20 009 000 project aimed at drying lands across 507 449 acres in the St Mary Milk river area. Work began in 1946 under dominion and Alberta supervision with 120 000 acres already irrigated. The St Mary river dam near half complete will be Canada’s largest earth filled dam costing 5 250 000 and expected to impound 320 000 acre feet. Construction employs 300 to 400 men and 15 000 cubic yards of material daily.
The Labor Department opened a campaign to retain university graduates in Canada. Deputy Minister Arthur MacNamara urged universities to inform alumni and publishers through alumni magazines about job opportunities. About 12,000 employers would be queried to gauge demand for university trained personnel and uncover thousands of openings.
Regina reports a severe nurse shortage leading the Red Cross to temporarily close three of its eight outpost hospitals in Saskatchewan. Officials warn further shutdowns may follow if staffing does not improve.
Trap Line inspector H Wells flew to Norway House to discuss registered trapping lines for Indians and others. He said Indians favor registering their lines and hope to gain assent of part time trappers to the plan.
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