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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 27, 1970
Page
3
The Canadian Wheat Board released first delivery quotas for the new crop year affecting wheat oats and barley. An advance quota in lower grade wheats applies to most Prairies blocks to support early sales commitments. Quotas are allotted to shipping blocks rather than individual country livery points.
Premier Ed Schreyer announces Ben Hanuschak will vacate the Speaker role in the Manitoba Legislature to become Consumer Affairs Minister. Hanuschak, NDP member for Burrows, sworn in for the new post amid cabinet reshuffles. No Speaker successor named. Philip Petursson to leave cabinet while retaining Wellington riding.
William John McKeag, a Winnipeg businessman and Liberal supporter, will become Manitoba’s seventeenth lieutenant governor, at about age 31, youngest in the province’s 100 year history. He succeeds Richard S. Bowles, who retires Sept. 1, with the swearing in likely Sept. 2.
Ducks Unlimited Canada reports favorable conditions for a strong fall waterfowl flight from the prairies. Nesting is late but abundant water supports fledging. Southern Alberta benefited from timely rains. Notable rise in canvasbacks, previously scarce in recent years.
Four major Canadian food firms including Catelli Habitant Campbell Soup Heinz and Libby McNeill raise prices by three to 11 percent citing higher packaging costs and wages. The price hikes, reviewed by the competition commission, aim to boost revenues by 5.85 million to partly offset cost increases of 7.37 million. Companies wholesale sales last year were about 200 million and would absorb 1.512 million.
The University of Saskatchewan will allow a limited number of financially needy students to pay up to 300 worth of tuition with grain. Last year 65 students qualified. Only farmers and their children at Saskatoon or Regina campuses may join, and grain delivery costs are borne by participants. Grain used for feed at an experimental farm. oats 44 cents a bushel barley 65. Little wheat priced at current rates.
Federal grants totaling nearly $300,000 were awarded to two Manitoba companies. Koneer Electric Manitoba Ltd. in Winnipeg received 247,000 to expand its plant for a new transformer product, expected to create 60 jobs. Souris Plastics Ltd. in Souris obtained 51,000 to build a plastic pipe plant, creating 12 positions.
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