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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 11, 1958
Page
3
Rodney Touche reports in The Financial Post Day that new car demand is rising though specifics are scarce. Dealers note growing order backlogs while production remains constrained by the 1959 model launch, helping offset last year's slump as interest returns.
Canada launches a major Arctic submarine survey with an advance party of nine heading north next March to map the continental shelf off the northwest Arctic coast. The effort aims to study gravity, magnetic fields, currents, ocean floor, sediment, life, ice conditions, and geology, potentially expanding Canada’s land mass by 20 to 25 percent. A larger team may operate through mid-June, with Isachsen as a key airlift and staging point, while electronics help fix precise positions on moving ice.
British designer Digby Morton plans a next season with vivid Mexican styles for British and Canadian women. He features Aztec patterns and Mexican garments, adapting zarapes as beach wear and windbreakers, with Western touches like a golf outfit. Susan Small fashions join Britain and Canada with lightweight jersey and new courtelle fabrics for 1959.
The Honorable Errick F. Willis announces two appointments to Manitoba's livestock branch. Peter M. Herner becomes dairy cattle fieldman effective Nov 1, formerly agricultural representative at Ashern, University of Manitoba graduate 1950. E H Church named beef cattle fieldman replacing John de Pape who moves to Abbotsford B C. Church, a 1949 U of M graduate, hails from Camrose Alberta where his family runs purebred Shorthorns.
Vancouver reports mechanization replacing traditional high riggers in BC logging. Mobile metal spar trees, up to 100 feet, are gaining traction with loggers. Initial cost around 20000 dollars, but supporters claim savings of 1 to 2 dollars per thousand feet logged. Spars, like wooden rigs, haul logs over tough terrain and can be trailer mounted, moved, and set up in hours. Manufactured in Vancouver and Nanaimo.
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