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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1966
Page
4
Classified ads detail personal notices birth cards memorials and death and funeral notices with rates of 150 per insertion and 10 percent late charges for unpaid bills. Deadline requires ads to be at the Merald Office by Tuesday 130 p.m. Photos cost 4 per column inch and death notices 60e per column inch.
Obituary for Miss Lilian Elinor Rowlatt of MacGregor formerly of Austin notes her Portage la Prairie birth and long residence, with surviving siblings and a large funeral at Christ Church Austin. Engagements announced for Glenda Mae Peck to Leonard Martens of Vancouver, and Elaine Ann Outhwaite to Ronald Lyle Emerson, with September weddings planned. Includes thanks from Ross and Judith Nichol, and sale notices for farm equipment, a 59 Ford wagon, pig wire, and a trailer in MacGregor and Austin listings.
A collage of 1960s MacGregor Austin and area ads including for sale of a John Deere 65 combine and other equipment, a 1956 Silom truck, glass-lined hot water tank, a movable 2-story house, lard, a Wemtemen upright piano, and various services. Includes wanted ads for an office assistant, bus drivers, body man, and help. rental and lost items. various small-town notices and contact names such as Abe Wiebe, Henry Driedger, Louis Kreitz, Mrs. Louis Kreitz, Fred Snaith, Jim Cox, Gerald Murray.
The International Nickel Co of Canada Ltd Manitoba Division announces 40 hour week non contributory pension plan medical and hospitalization sickness and accident and life insurance security savings plan with starting rates 2.26 per hour surface and 2.48 per hour underground. A personnel representative Mr W Latimer will interview applicants at the National Employment Office Room 208 Post Office Building Portage la Prairie on Monday August 15.
Separate tenders will be received for caretaking of the six room elementary school and the new nine room school building plus auditorium. Tenders close August 23. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Frank Hay, Sec Treas, MacGregor Consolidated SD No 2434.
Tenders will be received for one 1966 school bus equipped to Manitoba specs to trade one 1961 36 passenger Chevrolet school bus. Tenders due by 6 pm August 23. Bus to be delivered no later than October 31, 1966. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Frank Hay Sec Treas MacGregor Consolidated SD No 2434.
The School District of Langley No. 2082 invites tender for motor vehicle liability insurance and student transport services. Tenderers must submit bids on a daily rate basis for transporting listed students from various locations, with the lowest bid meeting requirements accepted. Office of Official Trustee, 116 Edmonton Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In Boston Bar British Columbia a centennial stagecoach horse named Suez drank a published amber beer offered by a pub owner. Driver Art Perry led a horse from the sixanimal team into a pub during BC’s 100th birthday tour. The horse drank the beer and the owner called it the strangest thing he ever saw.
MacGregor residents report visits from Clare Tarr and family at Ita, Reg Sharp and Wayne Sharp from Brandon, George Albinet and family from Portage with Jack Smale and Wm Bennett households, and Iva Shaw visiting Winnipeg. Family gatherings include Doug Lamb in Calgary with Mrs A R Lamb, Earl Andersons plus Neepawa visitors, and Bob Wakefield from Grant Park High reaching Reach for the Top finals in Winnipeg before losing to Toronto. Six other Canadian cities competed in the event.
Three people died and three others were injured in a Friday night two-car collision on a municipal road about 15 miles northeast of Swift Current Saskatchewan. No identities or further details released.
Electrocuted Scott Johnston, 25, of Cypress River Manitoba, was killed while working with a Manitoba Hydro crew on a 2800 volt power line in Brandon. An autopsy and inquest have been ordered.
Sunday visitors include Fawcett and Lloyd at Hulme home while Vint and Verla of Minne dosa visit relatives. Camp Totogan attendees, Delta Beach camping, Kreitz family weekend guests, birthday and anniversary wishes, Delta holiday, Rathwell wedding coverage, and local kinship travels shared among Myrna Frank, Steve Borozny, and various families.
Mr and Mrs Bill Mulley hosted Sunday visitors Frank Taylor's home. Lawrence Heselwood and family visited Ken Nedty of Comer. A daily vacation Bible school drew eighteen children at Katrime hall with a parents’ program and lunch. Reunions occurred as John Wall and Grace Payne's relatives from North Surrey renewed acquaintances. Privy visitors included Tim McGree or Keewatin and others at John McKee Home. Various locals hosted dinners and visits including F Deegan family, F Amannaid boys, and the J Wallan household.
Ducks Unlimited Canada reports an excellent waterfowl breeding season across the prairies due to plentiful water and favorable weather. Production is strong though still below the 1950s peak, with earlier seasons, increased bag limits to six ducks, and renewed nesting momentum after early storms. Broods show large sizes and high maturity aided by reduced mortality from good habitat.
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