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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1961
Page
5
Local rate for want ads 7s for firm 15 words minimum. birth notices engagements and memoriams priced high. Many customer thanks and memorial verses, sale items including a Mare for harness, roosters for oven, a stock rack and washing machine, plus a 1956 Pontiac and Hereford bull for sale. Also lost cow and tenders for a MacGregor flour shed with deadlines and deposit details.
Classic farm equipment listing describes several tractors including IHC diesel with 863 hours and live PTO, Wheatland 300 gas tractor with torque amplifier, New Idea loader with hydraulic controls, Lanz plow unit at 800 hours, a Massey 44 diesel in excellent shape, and a John Deere overhaul model. All have nearly new tires and are promoted for sale with special pricing and offers.
Bridal couples in Hutt use two wedding cars fitted with white satin seat covers and ribbons. A tape recording of church bells is played as the cars depart, lasting ten minutes.
Manitoba Liberal leader Molgat blasted the federal provincial tax agreement as Ontario biased, warning that tariffs and political deals threaten national unity. He urged Conservatives be voted out, urged water conservation, and urged local Liberals to mobilize ahead of a Portage Neepawa riding convention and Winnipeg party meeting.
Hartford news item lists a Friday Christmas concert at the school with Dee Mrs Gourley Sr returning to Portage after a week with Mr and Mrs A Gourley Melvin Rintoul from Winnipeg and Barbara Smith from Poplar Point visited the Rintoul home. Winnipeg weekend visits by Mr and Mrs W Nowosad, Mr and Mrs D Rintoul, and Melvin Painter. Murray and Brenda in Winnipeg and then Portage with D Gourley family. Wedding congratulations to Mr and Mrs D Lamont on nine years of marriage December 20.
London experts warn a crippling drought could strike Britain within five years due to inadequate reservoir capacity. The water research association is exploring river water purification methods to address looming water shortages.
Two men Baxter of Cadillac and Isbister of McCord found a partially exposed ivory tusk on Gouverneur Dam Reservoir shore. The basal section measures seven inches in diameter and four feet long, dating to at least 30,000 years ago. Provincial paleontologist Bruce McCorquodale notes it likely came from a grassland mammoth, with mastodons also once in the area.
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