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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1950
Page
2
A Canadian article notes farmers face marketing anxieties as prices vary. It cites a New Zealand report urging new outlets for dairy and lamb, with Britain relying on North America for growth and suggesting coordinated shipments to avoid market flooding.
W N Perry president of the New Zealand Federated Farmers urges a goodwill mission to Canada and the United States to discuss marketing New Zealand products here. He backs securing approval from primary producers and assures markets will not be flooded. Canadians will follow New Zealand efforts with interest.
Senator Warren Magnuson says the State Department asked Canada to begin this month technical discussions on a railway from Canada to Alaska. He notes President Truman may appoint a commission to pursue negotiations, modeled after the old International Alaska Highway Commission he led.
Alberta Fish and Game Association reports 151 340 predatory birds destroyed in 1950 campaign including hawks owls crows and magpies. Viking association led province with 16 763 birds removed as secretary George Spargo notes.
The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra expects a prosperous season after its annual meeting. Formed in 1946, the group posted a $6108 operating deficit last year to be covered by a Music Performance Trust Fund grant. Six concerts were staged last year compared to five in 1948 49.
Magistrate Matheson warned repeat drunkenness offenders that a third charge will bring a minimum six month sentence, a substantial tightening from the usual 30 day punishment for Vancouver’s habitual drinkers.
A light collection of jokes and humorous dialogues featuring a range of everyday miscommunications. The set includes a tongue inspection then Noah and the Ark, a horse shoe pun, a hunting dog recognizing a stranger, a girl and her boyfriend, a child and a strong girl, a quiz about Brazil, a marriage money concern, and a pear tree mix up.
A Birmingham woman finds her dog burying a tortoise in a garden hole. A U S man writes a letter criticizing police and is jailed for attempted safe cracking. An Italian husband forbids his wife leaving home yet she notes abuse to police. A US judge fines a theft suspect and the victim for drunkenness. A man in Michigan commits suicide beside his deceased wife after calling a funeral home.
Winnipeg. R. H. G. Bonnycastle vice president of the Winnipeg chamber told eastern delegates at Banff that western Canada will see millions more people as the world population grows and nature provides undeveloped resources. He argued Winnipeg's industrial strength shows it was not harmed by last spring floods.
Mrs. Margaret Jane Bale, said to be the oldest telephone operator in the British Isles, died aged 7? She began on a switchboard in 1900 and was still at work when taken ill.
Mrs. G. C. Ball of Edmonton age 65 won the Canada’s loveliest grandmother title in a contest run by the women’s division of the CNEL. She said it was a complete surprise and that she has three grandchildren.
The sugar beet crop in Canada this year is estimated at about 300,000,000 pounds, the largest ever recorded.
The weather bureau sets the gale as winds from 39 to 54 miles per hour.
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