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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1970
Page
4
Deadlines and rates for notices, classified ads, and death notices are listed with a 60e per column inch charge for death and funeral notices and 1.50 per word for notices, plus 10 percent late charges for unpaid ads. Includes promotional dental product offer.
Mr and Mrs Alex Tabolotney announce the engagement of their eldest daughter Cara Ann to Arthur Joseph Melodowic son of Mrs Helen Melodowic. The wedding is set for October 17 at 4 o clock in the Austin United Church. In memory Herb Ritchie died August 17 1969. He is remembered by his wife and family. For sale one section of land south of Gladstone contact Portage 857 4002.
OR SALE LO 105 Furnace an oil furnace complete with tank and controls Apply Mrs A Grove 685 2023 FOR SALE Dutch camper 34 like new insulated with sliding windows 250 or grain will take grain or shop tools Apply John Harder Ph 685 2246 FOR SALE Young Chickens 45c per lb Mrs Leslie Ph 637 2170
A lone armed robber, likely under the influence of drugs, fled with about $2000 from a Fidelity Trust Co branch in River Heights. Police describe an 18 or 19 year old man, five five, slim, dark brown curly hair, who escaped by swimming to a boat on the Assiniboine river.
Premier W A C Bennett, aged 69, said in Winnipeg that he received the flower children peace sign and replied with a three finger Boy Scout salute asking if he had done a good deed today. A Vancouver Scouting official doubted the gesture’s intended meaning.
In Formosa, officials say the 1971 fiscal year budget is raised to 467500 dollars to curb rapid population growth as Nationalist China intensifies family planning efforts across the island.
Classic car ad lists a 1964 Pontiac Laurentian four door sedan with rebuilt six cylinder engine automatic transmission and custom radio. Regular price 995.00 sale price 895.00.
Mrs Vantut returns home after spending weeks with her son daughter in law and children at Edmonton. The Edwin U C held a meeting Wednesday afternoon with six members present. Devotional period by Anne Pallister Roberta Chapil and Nell Painter followed by lunch. Meeting closed with the Lord s Prayer. Nearby farmers enjoy a dry warm spell. Jimmy Robinson visited the Beberdorf home recently. Mrs G Beberdorf attended her niece s wedding at Frobisher Sask then visited Estevan then Moose Jaw then Edwin.
Trainees at Sprucedale workshop return from Sherwood Forrest Beausejour camp in July and report a good time. Activities resume despite heat and a come and go Tupperware party on August 20 with a lawn tea and bake sale at the workshop. Clothes left from the June 27 walk-a-thon include a Pedro jacket and sweaters, pickup at the workshop on weekdays. Money collected from the June 27 walk-a-thon can be turned into Austin and MacGregor credit unions.
Best wishes go to newlyweds Mr and Mrs Terry McGregor as friends recall their wedding in Treherne on Saturday. Provincial travel and visits are noted with Mrs Roy Grover and Miss Grove holidaying at Victoria BC and others visiting Misnedosa and Vancouver. Birthday to Myrna Frizzley and anniversary for Orval Chant on August 14. a Portage railroad crossing incident is briefly described.
MacGregor locals note attendance at John Early funeral in Killarney on August 5 and promote an August 16 old time picnic at MacGregor fairgrounds with lunch and BYO cups. The report lists numerous visiting relatives from Prince George Winnipeg White Fox Emerson and other communities and recounts many social visits, weddings, travels, and hospital stays among the Chant Love Ardagh and Corrigal families.
Calgary plans two test cases against landlords and contractors for zoning breaches. Mayor Rod Sykes says at least 100 permits were issued for duplexes while fourplexes were built, with court action planned against a couple as a test. He notes breaches persisted, worsened when the bylaw was invalid for about a week last year.
Jerry Turkenburg watched as his three-year-old cat Peanuts leaped onto a gull while gulls were being fed in the backyard at Wadena Saskatchewan. The gull lifted, flew the length of the yard at five feet, then crash landed before the gull shook the cat free.
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