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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 26, 1951
Page
9
Carello mutters to himself that one job at midnight will finish his days of restless travel. He contemplates buying a farm and settling down, seeking a simple future away from the road.
Carelle plans a perfect midnight gold heist on a river bridge train. Jordan leads the crew as the mail car doors burst open and guards reveal prison car bars, turning the crime into a doomed attempt at escape.
A deferral contract sparks a legal paradox in ancient Greece when Protagoras sues a pupil who won’t pay until victory. If the pupil wins, payment is deemed unnecessary. if he loses, he still owes nothing since it isn’t his first case yet. The court deadlocks for a century.
A Wisconsin farmer, blaming harsh winter weather from Canada, sends the Dominion a bill for half his fuel. The piece notes the Fraser Valley berry crop loss due to rain diverted to Alberta and suggests billing Premier Manning for the crop damage.
The bureau of statistics says Canada has 1,505,200 horses on farms as of last June 1 down from 1,683,000 a year earlier. The aging workhorse trend shows Dobbin slowly vanishing from rural farms across the country.
Health authorities warn that rabbits showing warts should not be consumed as meat due to potential health risks. Advice urges disposal or safe handling to prevent exposure and illness.
Manitoba reports a continued drop in traffic accidents with the province claiming the continent’s largest reduction. A Fort William girl won 4000 after a taxi crash. A Vancouver baby survived a wasp nest sting ordeal. A Mortlach three year old caused $500 damage in a car incident. Milk prices rise three cents per quart on Vancouver Island. Trans Canada highway work may start near Headingley this fall. A blood donor clinic in Elkhorn drew 124 volunteers. Alberta eyes a large tent caterpillar invasion in 1952 as insects hit a seven year cycle peak.
In Calgary a renamed horse formerly Didsbury Express, now Calgary Stampede, is hailed as one of the buckingest horses by western rodeo riders. The 1,400-pound animal wowed crowds, bucking top riders and drawing page-one attention from the Wyoming Eagle and Denver Post as it looms large for next year's Calgary Stampede.
Amelia Zurick and Nancy Halford, unemployed in Winnipeg in March 1950, toured Europe with $500 each. They hitchhiked across West Europe, worked to fund trips, and visited many countries from London to Vienna. They met Canadians, saw the Festival of Britain, and returned noting Canada's prosperity.
Indian dancers from Cree Chippewa Stoney Blood and Blackfoot nations endure three days without food drink or sleep at the Sun Dance near Rocky Mountain House Alberta. Medicine man Joshua Salteaux leads a dozen dancers as white observers are barred from the sacred rites.
The Canadian wheat board orders immediate delivery quotas eight bushels per seeded acre for wheat and rye at Brancepeth Brock Canora Chaplin Elrose Gorlitz Kamsack Kuroki Lone Rock McGee Melfort Preeceville Tadmore Vera. Ten bushels on wheat allowed at Moose Jaw and Saskatoon. Ten bushels on oats and barley authorized at Carmel Cote Indi Valjean Viola.
Cheques issued cover the final payment of 2.20 dollars per ton for the 1950 sugar beet crop. The year’s total payment reached 15.50 dollars per ton, up from 14.33 the previous year, with total crop payments amounting to 2,309,500 dollars.
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