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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 24, 1947
Page
2
The article argues for improving housing, education, and recreational facilities in Western Canadian farms. It notes urban living attracts youth, and emphasizes the injustice of farmers lacking attractive surroundings despite contributing to the country. Government and agricultural groups advocate ongoing improvements.
The Prairie Rural Housing Committee with federal and mortgage corp involvement funds research by Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba on farm home water and heating systems sewage disposal and materials costs. Manitoba work designs farm homes kitchens and community centres for rural needs while consulting farmers for practical home layouts and equipment to ease farm life and improve living conditions.
Professor J A Russell of the University of Manitoba announces a $33 825 budget for the Western Farm Housing study for the year ended March 31 1948 with about 15 percent funded by each Western province and 55 percent by the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation. The project will take about two years to complete with interim plans to aid farmers as a tremendous need. Construction has lagged due to labor and material shortages, and rural housing plans will be tailored to prairie farms rather than city houses or eastern Canada designs.
The estate of the late James Turner of Carroll Manitoba near Brandon will disperse about fifty head of registered Aberdeen Angus cattle on Saturday October 25 at 1 PM standard time. The herd descends from Karama 2nd of Glencarnock.
The Flint Journal praises Canada as a safe pleasant vacation spot. It notes courteous police and friendly people, contrasting with stereotypes about speed minded drivers. The piece invites readers to visit for a bright sunny land and welcoming atmosphere.
The old seamen of pre radar days relied on two crucial tools eyes and ears. They could sense dangers radar might miss and hear signals instruments could not. They never relaxed, one minute of calm could spell disaster, reminding us not to overdepend on unreliable equipment.
The First Seven months of 1947 saw hog slaughter under inspection reach just over 2.5 million, down 5.6 percent from 1946. Eastern Canada rose 21 percent while the West fell 28 percent, with Eastern weeks already higher than 1946 since late April and Western weeks above 1946 by mid July, though future prospects in the West remain uncertain.
A collection of light quips and comic exchanges including a storm stranded commercial traveller, a mental institution visit, a farmer and sunset remark, a country road ride mix up, an egg breakfast remark, Irish banter about Pat, a sailor with U boats, a diamond ring sales pitch, a constable and an actress, a shoe return complaint, and a Chinese cook with bear tracks.
Chile imposes a temporary prohibition on a wide range of luxury imports from Canada due to shrinking dollar reserves. The decree expires December 31 and covers items such as refrigerators, heaters, pottery, glassware, lumber, footwear, textiles, radios, plumbing supplies, and cutlery while excluding heavy machinery, agricultural tools, newsprint, rubber, and chemicals.
The Jack Miner Foundation has arranged a memorial edition of Jack Miner And The Birds, compiled from two books and 20 magazine articles. Publishers Reilly Lee in Chicago and Copp Clark in Toronto issue a multi hundred page volume highlighting Miner's conservationist life and writings.
The Brandon Sun reports quirky rules from Fred Meyer on animal laws. In Colorado Springs a dog has one bite while Pasadena bans barking dogs. Other laws protect bullfrogs and rabbits in Hayden Arizona while California requires a hunting license to trap a mouse and Colorado forbids trout fishing on horseback.
A collection of aphorisms on truth from Browning Ruskin Eddy Emerson and Suckling emphasizing honesty as a practiced virtue. Includes lines about truth guiding speech resisting falsehood and the world hearing truth in the long run.
Water color portraits by Fit.-Lieut. Paul A. Goranson and Fit.-Lieut. David E. Hornell honor the two Victoria Cross recipients from the last war. The paintings depict P.O. Andrew Charles Mynarski of Winnipeg and another airman. both men died in the actions that earned the honors. Paintings were created from photographs.
Alberta's 13 million dollar road program across 88 projects is one third complete, with paving on the Lethbridge Medicine Hat route nearing finish. Minister W A Fallon says projects are at least 50 percent along and the plan should finish on schedule if weather cooperates.
An employee of a UK aircraft firm made a successful descent from a jet fighter traveling over 500 mph. The test demonstrated new apparatus devised by the firm’s head.
Mrs. W R Dilworth of Pincher Creek Alberta visits Nijmegen Netherlands and Adegmen Belgium battlefield graves on a return trip with relatives. She calls the pilgrimage uplifting, praising the care given to Canadian fallen soldiers. Her son James Robert Dilworth, 27, died September 13, 1944 and Herman Clifton, 25, died December 12 of the same year.
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