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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1969
Page
7
The Christmas edition of the MacGregor Herald will be published Monday December 22 with a regular edition on Thursday December 18. Readers are asked to submit Christmas edition articles promptly and those wanting a Christmas greeting ad should call the office by December 18.
Maureen Crozier told the Board of Industrial Relations that the Alberta government mockingly enforces its labor law on equal pay for equal work. She cited 171 categories from a 20,000-employee survey showing few equal-pay cases and urged enforcement by appointing an inspector. Support came from John McNevin as the Alberta Federation of Labor urged a $2 minimum wage while hearings roll across the province.
An Alberta Supreme Court hearing exposed a Toronto Calgary stolen car ring. Crown witnesses testified Wilfred Krassman 82 of Calgary Adolph Knudson 67 and Sidney Ernest Roberts 52 of Toronto conspired to acquire a station wagon valued at 1400 for 1200. Despatcher James Russell testified Krassman sought the car to drive east with them. RCMP and Calgary police linked the trio to altered vehicle serial numbers and false registration names. The trial continues.
Manitoba Mines and Resources Minister Len Evans announced a new reservoir on the Assiniboine river near Russell will be named Lake of the Prairies. The name came from 43 grade 6 students at Rossburn Elementary School in a June contest. The lake, created for flood control and water conservation, will extend into the Shell River Valley and serve Assesipt Provincial Park, opening in 1970 with water recreation facilities.
The vice-president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada urged abandoning NATO and NORAD to free funds. He told a conference on external affairs Canada could devote one percent of GNP to foreign aid if it quit those alliances.
Residents press for a tourist development program to harness recent publicity and seek local self government better transportation and communications They urge a boarding school and improved residential facilities as debates continue over Nelson River hydro plans and flood risks for Southern Indian Lake.
A bundle of soggy papers found on an industrial site in Burnaby has been identified as Vancouver city hall documents from 1896. City clerk Ron Thompson called them of fantastic archival value, filling a five year gap in council correspondence and missing from City Hall files for over six decades. The recovery includes the federal land lease application for Stanley Park and a 1896 petition from Mount Pleasant residents protesting water shortages.
The Manitoba Crop Insurance Corporation will pay about 2.25 million dollars for damaged and unharvested crops this year. Poor rains caused large payments, with over 4,000 claims filed and about 1.8 million disbursed to 2,400 farmers. Managing director P. H. Ford expects more than 3,500 claims by year end. Wheat oats and barley dominate the claims under an 11 crop plan.
Dr Heard Adams of the University of SaskatchewanEducation faculty and president of the Metis association announced a program to provide flour for needy Metis people in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Farmers Union SFU urged farmers to donate wheat to be milled into flour and distributed through provincial channels with government approval. A distribution plan utilizing elevators and cooperative store facilities was being prepared with focus on the La Loche area.
A University of Manitoba spokesman says a US defense funded research project is underway at Fort Garry campus led by Dr. Ian Rollo in Pharmacology. The work aims to develop pharmaceuticals to combat malaria with Dr. Innis noting malaria's global impact and drug resistance, and stressing openness and nonclassification of results.
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