Scout Funds Campaign Launched by Lieut Governor in Saskatchewan
A province wide drive to support the Boy Scouts runs September 20 to 25 with donations accepted through month end. Saskatoon and Regina groups lead local efforts while people across Saskatchewan can mail contributions to The Boy Scout Association Regina. Funds aid leader training group formation and provincial operations. The Lieutenant Governor launched the drive by radio with support from Premier Douglas and church leaders.
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Saskatchewan
Boy Scout
Boy Scout Association
Gordon Building
Regina
Sask
T. C. Douglas
Bishop Coleman
Archbishop O'Neill
Father Murray
Boy Scouts
Saskatchewan Horses Vaccinated Against Encephalomyelitis
About 350000 Saskatchewan horses have been vaccinated this year to control encephalomyelitis. Dr J S Fulton of the University of Saskatchewan virus laboratory says officials hope the program will contain an outbreak reported in the Saskatoon and Humboldt districts.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
J. S. Fulton
University of Saskatchewan
Virus Laboratory
Humboldt
Rats Reach Alberta City. State Not Rat Free
Provincial entomologist J. H. Brown says Alberta has lost its rat free status as rats migrate from Saskatchewan and become established, ending North America’s prior distinction.
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Lethbridge
Alberta
North America
J. H. Brown
Saskatchewan
Decoys and chair repair patterns offered by Home Workshop
Home Workshop promotes pattern 312 for re webbing and re tying springs plus patterns for up to date chair frames. Pattern 404 decoy making pattern costs 35 cents and a Sportsman’s Packet of five patterns is $1.50 postpaid, with an address in Vancouver B C.
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Pattern
Sportsman's
Department P.P.L
Home Workshop
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Beginnings of a Flying Nurse in Chilliwack
Vicki Swanson an 18 year old from Chilliwack has earned a pilot license and begun three years of flight training at St Pauls Hospital. She will spend a year at the University of British Columbia for a public health degree. She logged 30 flight hours 12 dual 18 solo. Her father a pilot since 1947 notes she may be the only Canadian girl to learn to fly before driving a car.
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Chilliwack
B.C
Vicki Swanson
St. Paul's Hospital
University of B
Vicki
Canada
Banff July Sets Visitor Record At Park Gates
Banff National Park reports July visitors reached 165 388 through the Eastern gates with 78 percent Canadian. The month beat last year's totals by 3 628 visitors as overall activity rose.
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Banff
Banff National Park
Relics From Riel Uprising At St Boniface Museum
The St Boniface historical society opens a new museum displaying the pistol that killed Thomas Scott and the rope used to hang Louis Riel. Scott was condemned in 1870 for his role in the uprising against the provisional government. Riel was hanged at Regina in 1885 for his part in the outbreak.
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ST. Boniface
Thomas Scott
Louis Riel
New Museum of the
Courageous Toronto girl sets long swim records
Marilyn, a 15 year old Toronto high school student trained since age nine, won second marathon at Lake Ontario and first girl to finish Atlantic City race. She earned 1150 dollars after a 10 hour effort despite sparse hometown reception. Coach Gus Ryder praised her courage and discipline.
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Toronto
Syd Bell
Trim High School
Marilyn
Lake Ontario
Atlantic City
Pablum
Gus Ryder
Fishing cat Victoria nets bullheads after litters
A 12 year old cat owned by Mr and Mrs Loiselle in Victoria continues diving into the creek to fish. She almost always returns with a bullhead, her favorite fish, despite her umpteenth litter of healthy kittens.
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Victoria
Moose Jaw Mayor Leads Drive to Save Historic Rural Church
Mayor L. H. Lowry of Moose Jaw campaigns to preserve a 70 year old rural church once a pioneer hub. Idle for over 30 years, the wooden building has been sold as a cottage but is sought as a historic site.
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Moose Jaw
L. H. Lowry
Old Steamer Yorktown Displayed at Local Fair
A 40-year-old tractor as large as a railway locomotive was shown at the fair. Its powerful boiler powered threshing and a small steam whistle could be heard for miles.
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Yorktown
Percheron Twins Born in Calgary Sire Noted
Calgary horse owner Dr. B W Banks reports Sprucevill Lucille Laet a purebred Percheron mare produced rare equine twins one in 100000 sired by a government stal lion.
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Calgary
Sprucevill
Dr. B. W. Banks
Large ONeill family settles in new aluminum industrial area
The ONeill family Mr and Mrs Orville settle with eight children seven girls and one boy ages one to twelve in the new aluminum industrial area, describing the largest family in the settlement.
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Kitimat
Orville O'Neill
Metis Colony Life to Be Filmed for NFB Documentary
A forthcoming National Film Board sequence will document life in a Northern Saskatchewan Metis colony. The Metis rehabilitation program will be showcased in Eyewitnesses, with Victor F. Valentine as consultant for the NFB unit. The film targets Odeon theatres nationwide next year.
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Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
National Film Board
Provincial Resources Department
Odeon Theatres
Canada
NFB
Victor F. Valentine
Tough insects in Edmonton mock Northwest Territory heat
Frt. Lt. R. J. Goodley of the RCAF survival school in Edmonton jokes that he would rather endure weeks of 50 below zero than face the summertime insect plague of the Northwest Territories at a meeting.
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Edmonton
R. J. Goodley
Rcaf Survival School
Northwest Territories
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Artido LL
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P.O. Box
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P.Q
Benson
Pepar
Riel
Malton
Ryder
Percheron
Will
Fleischmann
Macdonalds
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
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