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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1951
Page
7
In a desert stakeout over a gold map the narrator grapples with betrayal and thirst. A mirage of a turquoise lake tempts escape, but rain returns sanity to Jack and the narrator refrains from murder. The storm renews strength and shifts the tense bond between them.
An 86-year-old woman in Saanich pleaded guilty in police court to a change of bootlegging liquor and was fined 300 dollars after police found nine cases of beer and five bottles on her premises. The report also notes coaching moves and meat market plans in other cities.
Leonard Hook of Winnipeg president of the Western Canada Insurance Underwriters Association says rate reductions in prairie provinces rural fire insurance outweigh increases. He cites revised methods processes and materials lowering rural fire hazards and notes a simplified on the spot rating system was adopted with Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta agents advised of the changes.
Saskatoon report details Gertrude and Sheila Purvis, close friends who share a trailer project. Gertie, a 1930 Chevrolet with vintage parts, hauls the frame while Sheila built the trailer herself, a six by eight foot aluminum cabin with bed and storage. Miss Purvis, a school teacher from Islay Alberta, plans to teach at Grandview School near Lloydminster this fall.
Edmonton officials say the $8 million Mc Coll Frontenac Oil Co East Edmonton refinery should begin production around October 1. When finished, it will process up to 5 500 barrels of Redwater crude oil daily. Government Men Elected Winnipeg names Iliffe president of Institute of Public Administration of Canada succeeding Davidson. Saskatchewan vice president is T H McLeod. Lethbridge fall fly control sprays target next year’s fly elimination. Gimli air station graduation: 42 earn wings after 40 weeks. Proudest graduate P F Wagner wins RC A F scroll of honor. Swift Current Burns and Co post record day with 361 cattle totaling 113 850 51 to Minors of Abbey Sask, biggest lump sum in Frontier City stockyard history.
A Swedish Stramit Corporation plan to build a strawboard plant at Innisfail signals renewed interest in straw building boards on the prairies. Earlier examples near Regina and Lebret show straw blocks and boards used in homes and studios, with potential for farms to export straw for value added products and aid rural economies.
Premier Douglas Campbell announced Manitoba will adopt a federal old age pension starting January 1, 1952 for residents aged 65 to 69. The plan provides 40 dollars monthly to eligible individuals who pass a means test, with federal and provincial cost sharing and the province covering administration.
Louis Wicart, French physician, says Soviet cancer researchers are on the eve of a solution. He is among 12 French doctors on a three week visit to Russian health centers.
A $100000 blaze leveled the hub building in Penticton British Columbia damaging or destroying a restaurant taxi office confectionery bowling alleys and a billiard parlor in the Okanagan valley city.
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