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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 29, 1954
Page
2
The June 1954 Canadian survey reports 3.233 million milk cows, up from 3.146 million, signaling a continued upward trend though slower than 1952–53. U.S. figures show 22.5 million cows in June, about 15 percent higher than a year earlier, with regional gains and declines tied to farming choices and feed conditions.
A collection of light humor and brisk one liners ranging from a hostess’s thrift joke to a minister’s query about a baby’s name and a desert dry quip about a Texas saloon. The pieces play on wordplay, misdirection and social moments for quick laughs.
Sydney reports a diver named Capt. John J. Johnson found an 12000 ton sunken Japanese carrier 80 feet deep in Rabaul harbor New Britain. About 20 planes remained on its deck seeming intact after likely bombing or torpedo strike.
In Brazil, Brian Fawcett, son of Col. Percy Fawcett, seeks traces of his father and brother Jack, who vanished in the jungle. He plans to survey 28,000 square miles near Cuiaba, chasing legends of a white king ruling a remote tribe as new searches revive old mysteries from 1925 onward.
Ottawa reports 40 million dollars of Bank of Canada’s new notes issued with Queen’s portrait and Canadian scenes on reverse. Changeover targets 1.5 billion in circulation, over about a year. Notes narrower, deeper tints, offset lithography on dry paper. Prince Edward Island records lowest marriage rate while Alberta shows the highest.
In Juicy Lemons Beaujallon Alta locality Mrs M Nycolaichuk of Beauvallon 120 miles northeast of Edmonton grows lemons rivaling southern California with fruits up to 21 pounds each.
The Echo weekly of Pincher Creek Alberta celebrated 53 years of publication last month, marking over half a century of local news service in southern Alberta.
Alberta plans an intensified campaign along the eastern boundary to halt rat encroachment. Agriculture Minister Halmrast says despite three years of progress, co operation is needed and more funding will be sought with pest control officials. The province has spent over 160000 on poisoning since 1951 after 37 rat colonies were found along the Alberta Saskatchewan line.
Canada’s exports to Japan reached 104 924 dollars in 1953, ranking Japan as its third export market after 1952 totals. Japan, with a population around 85 million and growing, faces shortages in foodstuffs and many raw materials, inviting Canada as a key supplier under the Commerce Agreement. Canada’s role is reinforced by a history of competitive performance and equal footing with other suppliers in the dollar area.
A reflective poem notes that people tally money and distance yet cannot measure the value of a smile. The verses ponder what a smile costs in human warmth beyond material measures.
Two Manitoba creameries led the butter print competition at the Central Canada Exhibition in Ottawa August 23 to 27. Maple Leaf Creamery Lundar and Canada Packers Rapid City each earned 97.1 points, with Manitoba firms collecting most prizes across butter prints and solids categories amid entrants from Alberta New Brunswick Ontario and British Columbia.
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