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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 27, 1950
Page
2
The article notes a great concern over a shortage of engineers as Canada expands natural resource development. It highlights rich iron deposits and new oil fields, stressing capital and trained workers, including mining engineers, as essential to sustaining mining operations amid global material shortages and rising demand.
Trained engineers are crucial as mining ranks among Canada's top four industries. Growing concern over declining university graduations threatens future supply. in the coming years the country may have less than half the engineers needed. Currently fifteen percent of mining engineers in Canadian firms are from the United Kingdom, seven percent from the United States, and three percent from other countries.
Reports from Canadian universities show mining engineering makes up about four percent of engineering graduates in 1951 with even smaller shares projected for 1952 and 1953. The Engineering Institute of Canada and others seek to attract students to mining with federal help directing summers work and possible financial aid from mining firms. The aim is to boost future mining engineer supply to meet industry needs.
Charlie Parker boosts business at his highway service station south of Red Deer by opening a roadside museum. Highlights include a Lancaster bomber, an unused streetcar, a 1902 Heisman automobile, and an 1896 steam engine drawing local interest and visitors.
William R. Vallevand aged 20 from Domaine Saskatchewan is among three Royal Canadian Navy sailors promoted to cadets and selected to attend the Canadian service college at Royal Roads Victoria. The note mentions Ann Stephens as the first woman magazine publisher in the United States who published the Portland Magazine from 1835 to 1837.
In Moose Jaw a popular tale says a moose jaw fixed a car wheel inspired the name, but Annie L Wallis disputes this and cites Sioux origins for a bend shaped like a jaw bone. Calgary’s name origin is questioned as Col James MacLeod’s son Norman finds Calgary may mean hard water shelter or a proper name.
In Anchorage a U S Army participant in a field exercise confronted a supposed foe with a rifle loaded with blanks. The "enemy" was a large brown bear in the area during the maneuvers prompting a quick retreat by the soldier.
The Royal Canadian Air Force reported 213 search and rescue operations carried out during 1949. The tally reflects sustained aerial support for missing personnel and aircraft across various theatres, underscoring postwar SAR commitments.
In Newdale, Mrs. Morris Lavery tends an unusual hobby as a gardener. Her tropical yard features a four foot orange tree with two ripe oranges and a lemon tree that yielded a gigantic 11 inch circumference fruit. A grapefruit tree grew vigorously until fall frost destroyed it.
Premier E C Manning said Alberta protests Ottawa over higher freight charges on livestock and seeks Manitoba and Saskatchewan cooperation. The report notes the wartime BTAP produced over 131000 aircrew.
The Canadian Foundation for Poliomyelitis announces four new members to its National Board of Directors Brigadier J A H Trudeau of Quebec City Lieut General E V Sansom of Fredericton J W B Bremner of Regina and Martin Folk of Saskatoon. Dr H J Spooner of Regina named to National Medical Advisory Committee as Saskatchewan medical adviser.
Bata Petroleum Limited of Regina has sold half its 246 800 acre freehold rights under lease from C P R to Royalite Oil Company Canada's second largest crude oil producer The acreage covers North Battleford and Biggar near the Alberta border The consideration was not disclosed Well done is better than well said.
Prince Albert Saskatchewan. A. H. MacDonald, supervisor of fisheries, reports over 60 trout tagged in Lac la Ronge this year to study their travel routes. Results will guide management policies to boost angling on the famed northern lake.
Britain's austerity drive reaches hockey with a 60 pound per week limit for players. Promoters offer jobs to supplement earnings, but clubs cannot exceed the cap.
Vancouver report says a King Island clay deposit near Prince Rupert is tested for healing cuts burns and wounds. MIT scientist Dr. Ernst A Hauser calls the product unique and valuable for arthritis with further study underway. Elephants at birth weigh 160 to 200 pounds.
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