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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 29, 1948
Page
7
The National Film Board films educate and culture in Canada and showcase the country’s beauty and progress. Their reach extends beyond Canada, informing foreign audiences and promoting Canadian products to boost trade.
The National Film Board produces government aided films seen by about 70 million people in 60 countries each year. Films like The Canadian Wheat Story Tomorrow's Timber and The Fur Trade advertise primary industries while Red Runs the River highlights BC salmon. Fashions by Canada spurred clothing orders and the films draw international visitors and potential settlers.
The text defines documentary film as a branch of motion picture production with wide appeal that records cultural social and industrial progress for British and Canadian audiences and abroad. It credits Britain for postwar advances and Canada's National Film Board for high standards expanding knowledge of Canada and the Canadian way of life.
Farm cash income from selling produce rose to 974.212 million dollars in the first half of 1948 from 732.704 million in the same period a year earlier and 620.193 million in 1946. Including supplementary payments under several acts, total cash receipts reached 989.572 million, up from 742.626 million in 1947. A large share of the rise came from Western Canada through the Canadian Wheat Board's adjusting, participation and final equalization payments on wheat, flaxseed and oats.
The Calgary Albertan reports a museum expedition recovered a fly with eyes at long stalks that flare sideways allowing it to see around corners. The piece humorously suggests humans could benefit from such grafted eyes for safety in traffic and diplomacy.
A furniture company in Ipswich has established a Carter-pigeon service to its London head office due to delays in installing telephone lines. The fleet consists of 70 birds and each delivers a message in about an hour.
A reference item states Canada covers 3,695,189 square miles with an additional figure 2796 appended. The brief appears to be a clipped measurement statistic from a geographic data snippet.
A collage of humorous exchanges and one liners from a joke-themed scene. Cannibal Prince jokes about dinner and marriage as a punny setup. A conceited cricketer excuses himself saying he has a train to catch. Various wordplay jests follow about exams canaries radiators and misprints.
Ottawa reports 1948 wheat crop projected at 391,000,000 bushels, up from 1947, with 362,661,000 bushels from spring wheat and 28,331,000 from winter wheat. Oats, barley, rye, and flaxseed also rise, with prairie five-grain totals and average yields listed for comparison.
A southern Manitoba visitor, a large beaver identified as A1064, toured Winnipeg and appeared unimpressed. The 78 pound, five foot animal, aged about ten, was caught on the Boyne River by game guardian Douglas Ferris. Beavers are becoming a nuisance south of the province and are being caged and sent north to breed.
Ottawa reports rising cigarette use with 8.785 billion cigarettes released in the first seven months, up from 8.321 billion in the same period of 1947. The Bureau of Statistics notes high costs yet increasing consumption.
A two mile tunnel under a Kootenay mountain near Kimberley British Columbia has been completed. It enables Sullivan Mine ore to load directly to the concentrator and eliminates an expensive trans shipping step via Canadian Pacific cars. Built by Northern Construction, it is a key piece of the 2.5 million dollar low level haulage project of Consolidated Mining and Smelting.
The Agriculture Department aims for a 60 million pig spring crop in 1949, an increase of 17 percent or about 9 million more than 1948. The report also notes that about 20 percent of El Salvador's population is Indian.
A Saskatchewan Health News feature outlines the Notes for Lunch-Packing Mothers pamphlet. It details lunch pail choices, packing methods, and nutritious options for rural schools, including jar meals reheated at school and a variety of suggested foods and sandwich ideas.
A Boston downtown church displays a sign reading Look Pleasant, Please. The World's Look ing at You. The plain message highlights modest humor in public spaces.
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