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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1952
Page
7
A man proposes twice to Marian with changeable plans then marries Agnes after a coffee spill leads Marian to flee The Crossroads cafe becomes the turning point as the narrator chooses Agnes for a quiet informal wedding and vows she will be the best wife.
Anne Adams Pattern Dept. based in Winnipeg reports with the Winnipeg Newspaper Union and the Toronto address at 60 Front Street W. Details unspecified.
A two ton sonic device arrives in Saskatoon to deter ducks harming crops. Saskatchewan game commissioner E L Paynter says the high frequency emitter has unclear effective range and has been used to deter birds at airports and starlings on buildings. The experiment is a joint effort with Canadian Wildlife Service, National Research Council, and federal resources department.
Benjamin Graham of Vulcan and his brother Joseph Graham of Calgary reach their 90th birthday becoming Canada's oldest identical twins. Benjamin moved to Alberta in 1904 and took land near Vulcan. Joseph arrived in 1915 and later retired to Calgary with his wife. The brothers also celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary last New Year.
Ottawa reports that dense three row shelter belts 18 feet high reduce cross wind speeds by 10 to 20 percent in Saskatchewan and Manitoba fields. Caragana hedges 7 to 9 feet high also shelter areas, with snow drifts 2 to 4 feet deep and 30 to 65 feet wide near hedges. Shelterbelts slow wind, lessen soil movement, and may raise yields by moisture storage from snowfall.
Benefit payments to Canadian families from about sixty life insurance firms in Canada reached a record for the first half of this year at more than 129 million dollars. Death benefits totaled 51 million, up about 11 percent from last year, while living benefits exceeded 78 million, about 60.5 percent of total payments. Living benefits rose over two million from the prior year and were 62 percent higher than the first six months of 1942, due to increased use of living benefits in life insurance over the past decade.
In 17th century France bookbinders were held in such esteem that they were exempt from taxes. Elsewhere ancient Egyptians noted cancer as a disease as early as 1500 BC.
John Gallagher, a 63 year old former coal miner who worked 45 years in England and Alberta, now tends a garden near Drumheller. He grew 7000 gladioli this year and plans to expand next year, honoring his late wife Martha who shared a lifelong love of flowers.
An antiseptic oil claims to relieve itching burning toes and feet including barber's itch salt rheum eczema and related skin troubles. It promises rapid action through deep penetration and safe use with rare failure, available in the original bottle at modern drug stores.
Regina report surveys Saskatchewan farmers across towns like Mortlach Canora Kam Sask Swift Current and Nipawin. They discuss crop yields prices machinery costs labor wages and the prospect of 25 bushels per acre while noting weather repairs and rural depopulation debates.
Premier W A C Bennett told Pacific National Exhibition directors that British Columbia will reduce the admission tax on exhibitions and community affairs from 17 percent to five percent. In Regina and Calgary reports, local notes include a leopard’s death and a ham radio operator farmer.
The report by C. M. Sternberg recommends creating a provincial park around the dinosaur beds and badlands southeast of Drumheller. It also calls for a Drumheller museum to showcase the area's natural history, according to Hon. A. J. Hooke, Alberta minister of economic affairs.
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