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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 15, 1948
Page
2
Canada enjoys broad prosperity with industrial growth and rising incomes. Agriculture profits rise as farm incomes improve, reducing farm debts per figures from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports a 42 percent reduction in farms with mortgages on lands or buildings from 1941 to 1946. Building and land debts fell from 173,102,500 to 80,444,000, down 53.5 percent, with Saskatchewan showing the largest drop. Agreements for sale debts declined from 123,393,800 to 80,043,500, a 34.9 percent fall, with Alberta showing the greatest decrease.
Farmers report rising operating and living costs with April index at 183.2 based on 1935-39. Farm machinery prices rebounded after initial controls, taxes and wages climbed, yet first quarter 1948 income rose $64.6 million from 1947 and $105.6 million from 1946. Farmers lowered debts, strengthening current and future security.
Selected recipes detail stuffed tomatoes with cheese and crumb topping baked at 350 for 20 minutes yields eight servings. Also instructions for stuffed potatoes bake 450, scoop, mash, season with salt pepper onion juice and butter then fill shells and bake ten minutes. Grated cheese may top.
In Augusta Maine a black bear was seen with a traveling bag prompting Game Warden Charles Harmon of Aroostook County to pursue. He frightened the bear into dropping the bag containing lipstick.
The Edmonton Journal reports spectacular gold discoveries about 150 miles northeast of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories may prove the most significant extension of the mining field since the 1830s.
Two daughters of Mr and Mrs R J Livingston Cloverdale BC pose with their Shetland pony Brownie on an 80 acre farm 24 miles from Vancouver. Barbara age 7 has won a cup for dancing the Highland Fling. The family reports a bountiful oat and hay harvest this year.
Herbert A. Pass of Green Cross Insecticides urges grain farmers to spray stubble with 24-D after harvest to curb perennials. He cautions a safe 2,4-D limit in early summer and notes fall spraying eases next year's weed treatment for stubborn thistle and blindweed.
A sequence of reflections from Jefferson Horace D'Israeli and Gibbon on how style forms early, the power of careful word choice, and the enduring judge of a great work. It closes with St John and Mary Baker Eddy locating truth in revered writings.
In Windom Kansas Ailiff Neel invited flying farmer friends to visit and 24 small planes landed at his farm. Mrs Neel prepared breakfast and guests toured and flew, making a day of unexpected landings and social flying camaraderie.
A historical note confirms that Chinese culinary practice incorporated spices more than 4,000 years ago, reflecting early trade and dietary patterns. The finding underscores an ancient tradition shaping regional flavors and cooking techniques across early Chinese societies.
A collection of short humorous vignettes features a mother's eyes and grandpa's teeth, misheard school lessons about axes and taxes, a florist out of geraniums offering petunias, neighbors' opinions, and a patient recounting mothball indigestion. The light anecdotes capture ordinary people in casual, gently comic exchanges.
A New York couple fishing near Peterborough Ontario celebrate 25 years of marriage by landing a muskie after 25 minutes of fishing and fighting, with the fish weighing exactly 25 pounds. The tale ends noting Beethoven began violin lessons at age five.
Lions club sponsors a $2000 play park project in Herbert with a wading pool and other facilities. Edmonton Lloydminster to borrow $80000 for a new school under Alberta Ontario council approval. Williams Lake cattle hit by blackleg outbreak kills thirty on Riske Creek range. inoculations completed. Red Deer student Eoin L Whitney wins $1500 Putnam scholarship to Harvard after fellowship at Caltech. Flin Flon beaver exhibit animals killed by dogs at Hapnot lake before Rotary show. Northern Alberta virgin territory to be explored by 20 oil firms across 4,000,000 acres in a Lac La Biche to Lake Athabasca triangle. Herbert clinic formed with Dr. I H Mazer and Dr. Z B Claman. weekly services planned at Hodgeville Rush Lake Chaplin.
Wilkes-Barre report says farmer Henry Bobbin could not move 40,000 cabbages to market. He offered them to the public but none appeared. After renewed appeals, crowds collected the surplus and an additional 1,000 cabbages planned for market were also taken.
Ottawa reports Canada is surpassing the Belgian Congo as the top producer of uranium ore. Arvid Thanaes, 47, head of the radio-activity division, travels between Ottawa and Eldorado to monitor the vast government uranium enterprise. He says Canada is on a bright atomic future and may already exceed Congo output, possibly ahead of Russia too.
Canada’s industrial workers saw record pay envelopes in seven years with average weekly earnings at $40.49 on July 1 across eight leading industries. The rise from $40.02 on June 1 and $36.15 the previous year reflects gains in manufacturing and other sectors.
The 1930 population tally put Alaska at 72 524 on Oct 1. Thousands of soldiers moved in and out during that period. In the latest census of American territories Alaska is omitted.
A photogravure on World News in Pictures shows an eagle measured at seven feet one inch wingtip to wingtip, held by the two daughters of Mr and Mrs John Pauls of Demaine Sask. Mrs Pauls killed the eagle with the stick shown after it ate a chicken and became entangled in a fence.
Edmonton reports record grain shipments from the Peace River district for the year ending July 31 totaling 23.85 million bushels, up 0.5 million from the prior year. Wheat accounted for about half, with oats, barley, rye and flax making up the rest. country elevators held 650,000 bushels at year end as companies expanded with new elevators at High Prairie, Woking, Grimshaw and two at Dawson Creek.
Three doctors at New York University College of Medicine report that common table salt helps prevent hair graying caused by vitamin deficiency. C I L Agricultural News notes the claim.
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