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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 11, 1971
Page
3
Timely Topics by Joan WSatcher urges Manitoba consumers to support rapeseed oil. A Portage la Prairie survey found only three of eight stores stocked it, with prices around 2.69 a gallon versus 3.49 for peanut oil and 3.98 for corn oil. Recipes available from the Extension Home Economist at 20rd St NE.
A group of western senators formed the Western Senators Farm Council to safeguard Prairie interests. Senator Herbert Sparrow of Saskatchewan chairs, with Ernest Manning of Alberta as deputy and Hazen Argue of Saskatchewan as secretary. The council aims to study legislation affecting the Prairies and improve regional understanding without becoming a power bloc.
Manitoba Minister Sam Uskiw told the Commons agricultural committee that national marketing legislation must safeguard the one Canada concept in interprovincial trade. He proposed a five province regional council and regional quotas tied to five year baselines to ensure fair market sharing across provinces.
The provincial health department reports the worst of last year's hepatitis epidemic is over with 136 cases in January, down from 200 in January 1970, and expects numbers to fall in coming months. Measles figures rise from last January with 125 cases, German measles 51, and ordinary measles 30 versus 17.
Angus Spence, president of the Manitoba Metis Federation, told delegates at the Northern Association of Community Councils conference that the Metis affairs department should not become a department of Metis affairs in its efforts to foster responsible local government in the north. He emphasized he is not anti white and urged caution, noting that great powers remain with the northern affairs department and that communities were not adequately prepared for elections due to coordinators’ heavy workloads.
Jack Schwartz and his 18 year old son Daniel faced a bank robbery charge in Winnipeg after a teller identified Daniel in a lineup. Schwartz proved his son was on a city bus and at a car dealer's lot at the time, aided by a bus driver and a teacher. Judge Sparling called it a travesty to send Daniel to trial.
Manitoba distillery manager says up to one million bushels of Manitoba corn are needed in Gimli in 1971 but not available. The Calvert of Canada used 125000 bushels in 1970 with imported corn meeting quality standards. Regional NP union official notes corn is a risk crop requiring much sun for good yield.
Robert James Krahn and Gerald Alan Empey, both of Thompson, were sentenced to two years in penitentiary after pleading guilty to dynamiting an RCMP patrol on January 12. The magistrate noted serious potential loss of life and injury from the blast if all ten sticks had exploded.
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