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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 04, 1969
Page
4
Local newspaper ad rates detail seven cents per word for the first fifteen words with a per word charge for additions. In Memoriams and engagements incur premium pricing. Classifications deadlines require Gerald Office by Tuesday 1 30 p.m. Death notices and funeral notices priced per column inch with photo add on.
Classifieds list WANTED items including a recent sewing machine and Bauer skates size 7 or 7.5 plus two job pitches by S. H. Dickerson and area manager at Texas Oil Company with high earnings potential. Also notices under The Highway Traffic and Motor Transport Board warn of a December 18 1969 hearing in Winnipeg Manitoba and permit applications for drive in restaurants and access driveways with submission instructions.
Funeral held Wednesday November 26 1969 at 2 p.m. from MacGregor United Church for Neil Robert Cook who died November 24 1969 at MacGregor Hospital Interment Evergreen Memorial Gardens Portage la Prairie. McMaster Funeral Home Portage la Prairie in care of arrangements. flowerbearers and pallbearers named. choir attended. Birth announcement for Garth Franklin Thomson born November 21 8 lbs 13 oz. A wee brother for Don and Cheryl. In Memoriam TEMPLER Elizabeth died December 5 1968 remembered by husband daughters sons in law grandchildren and brother John.
Mabel Blaine expresses gratitude for the wonderful care she received as a patient at MacGregor hospital along with thanks for cards fruit and letters from friends and neighbors praising staff and supportive community.
We express sincere appreciation for the many acts of kindness flowers tributes and messages of sympathy donations to MacGregor hospital received from friends neighbors and relatives in memory of our son and brother Neil Thanks to MacGregor bakery baking volunteers pallbearers flowerbearers choir Rev Ritchie organist and the ladies who cared for lunch Mrs Gertrude Cook and family
Connie McDougall expresses heartfelt thanks to friends family Anglican Church Ladies Auxiliary Rural and Village Council for the cards fruit and flowers sent during hospital stay and after returning home. Your kindness is greatly appreciated.
Margaret and Ralph Fiskel express gratitude for cards letters fruit and visits while Ralph was in hospital. They thank neighbors for helping move into a new home and for accompanying them to the hospital noting these acts will be remembered.
A note of gratitude from Archie Cook thanking doctors, nurses, and visitors for support and cards during his stay at MacGregor hospital.
A note of gratitude from Tena Schweitz to friends and relatives who remembered her while a patient at Carberry hospital. Her appreciation for the thoughtful support is extended to all who offered prayers visits and encouragement during the stay.
Sealed tenders will be received by the undersigned for the tuned bar in eGregor rink for the coming season. Tender to be for season. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Tenders close 6 p.m. Saturday December 13. For further information contact Secretary Katrime Man.
The Saskatchewan attorney-general's department is studying a charge of police brutality with a decision due within 10 days. RCMP report is in hand after Carl Harris of Regina swore a declaration alleging he was beaten by three men on a country road east of the city on October 16, with Harris identifying the assailants as city policemen and reporting facial and back injuries.
Manitoba Premier Schreyer said the NDP government will adjust liquor licensing rules, likely allowing beer sales at events like sports meets and fairs without new legislation. The move follows Frank Syms’s appointment as chair of the Liquor Control Commission and Liquor Licensing Board.
Byron Sanders, known as John Randolph on the daytime series Love of Life, served as the model for the figure of Christ in Salvador Dali's crucifix painting. The connection ties Sanders to a notable surrealist work, highlighting cross‑discipline influence between television acting and visual art.
A shower at MacGregor United Church Hall on October 22 honored Margaret Rodgers Nichol bride elect of Oct 11. Guests wore corsages, were escorted to decorated seats, and the group sang Be My Little Baby Bumblebee. Hostesses presented 29 gifts including stack stools and TV trays.
Lennon returns his OBE claiming protest against British support for the United States in Vietnam and Britain's role in the Nigeria Biafra crisis. The 1965 MBEs to the Beatles are noted, with a Buckingham Palace spokesman saying such refusals are rare but have occurred before.
A resolution approved Thursday by the Saskatchewan Council of Women urged federal and provincial governments to acquire 2,000,000 acres in southwestern Saskatchewan for a national park. The area, about 170 miles southwest of Regina, includes prairie, coulees and hills, and would preserve virgin prairie for conservation and recreation.
Visitor figures for January to October 1969 show a 92.2 percent rise at Jasper National Park, with over 1,008,000 visitors compared to 762,858 in the same period 1968. Banff National Park rose 37 percent. Jasper Chamber of Commerce President Robert M. Craig credits the new Yellowhead highway for the surge.
MacGREGOR LOCALS report Mr and Mrs Herb Borton traveled toward Melilla and Lyleton on Sunday. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Gary Sample on their MacGregor wedding. Mrs Art Chant in Calgary attended her son Clifford’s wedding on November 22 with Winnipeg visitors. Various locals visited relatives in McAree McKelvy and Winnipeg. Get well wishes go to Elizabeth Wright and Wayne Moore. Jim Snaith returned to Grand Forks after Thanksgiving. Avon rep Mrs Lillian Gilbert hosted a tea with prize winners Mary Kowalchuk Laura Birkett and Tapioca jar contest winner Vivian McGregor. 499 tapioca in jar.
The Weather Office reported a broad warm spell across central and northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, setting multiple records as temperatures rose well above normal. Lethbridge led Canada with 63°F, while Fort McMurray Edson Vermilion and Jasper logged new highs, and Prince Albert Estevan Broadview Yorkton Swift Current and others also posted records. Mild conditions expected to continue for a few days with a cold front moving in later.
Indians occupying Alcatraz in a 21 acre site endure cold nights, scarce water, and food shortages while demanding federal aid. They reject eviction and seek talks with officials to restore a burned San Francisco Indian center and aid California Indians. Richard Oakes and Adam Newsom voice readiness to stay, citing a 1868 treaty as precedent.
American Falls roared back to life as engineers from the U S Army Corps of Engineers completed a five month study. Water gushed over a 600 foot cofferdam at 10 48 a m EST and rose to a steady roar by noon. Normal flow expected by morning as workers dismantle the dam part of a 1 45 million project to study erosion on the Niagara River bed and face of the falls under the International Joint Commission. Col R Hansen led the turn on and an 11 year old boy pulled a signal cord. Results due October 1971.
A Canadian Press survey notes three fatalities in the prairie provinces over the weekend with all Albertan deaths from non-traffic causes or vehicle incidents. Curtis James Flett, 6, of Turin near Lethbridge, died after a 22 calibre rifle discharged during a play accident. Frank Wenger, 70, of Edmonton, died after being struck by a vehicle Friday night. Harry Burleau, 75, of Grande Prairie, died after being struck by a truck while crossing a street Saturday.
Dorothy McArton, former executive director of Greater Winnipeg Family Bureau, told a corrections committee that 200 polar bears at Assumpone Park are better housed than inmates in Winnipeg Public Safety Building. She contrasted the bears’ natural conditions with prisoners in barred, windowless cells and a brutal weeklong confinement. She noted the bear enclosure improvements parallel renovations to the public safety facility and questioned the treatment of inmates as akin to animal conditions.
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