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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 01, 1962
Page
5
An OCR heavy notice assortment lists rates for want ads and a series of heartfelt thank you messages. Names include Norman Pogue Harvey Chant Bonnie Emerson Wayne Zimmermar with thanks to families and hospital staff. Parcel gifts and hospital visits are noted across multiple gestures.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to friends and relatives for visits cards parcels and flowers from hospital stay and return home with special thanks to staff. Classified ads offer real estate trades and sales including houses farms tractors a 1951 Pontiac a 1953 Ford truck a Massey cream separator and a Hereford bull plus a request for an organ and a live-in companion for an invalid lady and a custom water hauling notice all centered in MacGregor Manitoba with contact names and phone numbers.
The hay transport subsidy for farmers facing summer drought is extended beyond Jan 31. Manitoba farmers struggle with fodder shortages and must buy from distant areas. Assistance covers five seats per ton per mile for hauls over 25 miles, with 83 760 tons moved and 1 981 applicants served to Jan 1.
Resources Minister C H Witney Tuesday announced 1962 angling regulations for Manitoba with seasons listed for multiple species across designated waters and provinces. Trout waters begin April 15 in some zones, others run May 12 to March 31. sturgeon and Arctic graf ting seasons also noted with regional designations.
Mr and Mrs Sid Hay hosted a turkey dinner for Miss F M MacWilliam on Sunday with guests including Miss F M MacWilliam Shirley Hay and Jim Lowe of Winnipeg Also present were Mr and Mrs Roy Harkness and family Mr and Mrs Jack Clarke and family Mr and Mrs Lawrence Hesel wood and Shannah and Mrs MacWilliam The Southend annual school meeting drew a good turnout Trustees named Lorne Pennell Lloyd McDougald and Orval Chant Sunday dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Orval Chant and girls John Stewart has returned home from hospital Ed and David Hulme curled in Portage bonspiel on Harvey Jones rink and won prizes earning electric clocks The ladies rink of Marion McGregor Grace Scora Phyllis Lee and Florence Hay won the top event at the Katrimne bonspiel Ed Hulmes rink is curing
In Gunningsville United Church Moncton New Brunswick on December 16 1961 Rev G H Hech united Sharleen Agnes Coughlin eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Lloyd F Coughlin Moncton NB and Able Seaman Gordon Allan Briscoe HMC S Coverdale in a double ring ceremony Bride wore a white brocaded satin street length dress with matching jacket veil tiara and carried pink roses and white mums Maid of honor Miss Francis Mercer wore blue nylon crepe and yellow roses and white mums Groom attended by Able Seaman Reginald Cattel HMCS Coverdale After registry guests enjoyed lunch at the bride's home and honeymoon followed before the groom joined HMCS Crescent at Halifax.
MacGregor locals report weekend visitors including Mr and Mrs Chas Pennell and their relatives who will attend the Winnipeg spiel next week while keeping some names confidential. Winds of change bring new CPR agent Gordon McIntosh to For est and Ford touring cars sell for 530 at Hanna Bros. A January plowing match at A F L Palmer’s farm rewarded Jake Moffatt Adam Inglerton A Smallpiece Wm Shaw and O Turner. Weather ranged from zero to ten below with improving signs and hopes for summer.
A meeting at the Carberry Legion Hall on January 19 led to organizing a Manitoba potato growers association. Roy Bailey chairs the provisional board with Wallace Hood Don Bradley Donn Mitchell and Wm Kohut as directors. About 401 prospective growers attended. regions include Carberry Douglas Souris Portage and Selkirk. A Feb 6 joint meeting with Vegetable Growers Association is planned.
A. L. D. Martin of the Manitoba Department of Agriculture notes Russell oats and Jubilee barley will be scarce in the province. Russell oats, developed in Eastern Canada, shows strong performance and disease resistance, but seed is limited to a few seed houses and growers, with price higher than Garry. Jubilee barley, a Saskatchewan development, is restricted to one elite Manitoba grower and will be mainly available from Saskatchewan sources. For feed, farmers are urged to plant true feed varieties rather than malting types, as these yield more and meet livestock needs.
Mrs. Rhoda Erickson, 44, addressed a Montreal convention of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Transport and General Workers. She switch to fluent French to win an executive role on the national governing body, after proving strong knowledge of the union constitution and locals agreements with the CPR hotel. She previously held multiple local officer posts and aimed to broaden her impact within labor circles.
Harvey Chant, 75, died suddenly in MacGregor. Funeral services will be Thursday at 3:00 p.m. from MacGregor United Church with interment at Evergreen Memorial Gardens. more details to follow next week. Plague threat in South Viet Nam as government buys rat poison to combat rat populations.
Mrs. O Kuebl er and Mrs Leonard Kennedy visited with neighbors on Monday. Thursday evening lists visits among Livingstones Beatties Rostings and Welldoon. Austin visitors to Brandon shared health concerns of Bob Stewart. Portage trip with Watsons noted. Edwin Kuebler spent weekend with Mark Kennedy at Wellwood. Winnipeg visitors join Kueblers weekend trip to Phoenix with Knox and Taylor. Roy Hughson honored at grandparents home with Craig family and Hughson family guests. Katrinen vonspiel curling mentions Roy Harold and Glen Hughson this week.
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