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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 13, 1964
Page
3
The KATRIME district reports weekend visits at Elmwood Neepawa and Glenella, with gatherings for J Brugger 45th and Birkett family passing. Congratulations to Ron and Telford on Feb 8 wedding. A MacGregor family gathering marked 46th wedding anniversary.
Beaver News reports visits from Mr. and Mrs. Marr and others visiting in Gainsborough and with the Smiths. It notes a Beaver UCW meeting set for February 19 at 2 p.m. at Mrs. Jean Harkness, and Miss Joyce Rodgers from Teachers College Winnipeg visiting her parents. Friends congratulate Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson on their 50th wedding anniversary with an at home gathering at MacGregor United Church.
Timber salvage on Duck Mountain in Manitoba recovers millions of board feet of spruce and jackpine plus pulpwood and poles from 1961 fires. Private operators bid competitively in two western zones, with major outputs including fence posts poles rails bridge planking and telephone poles for domestic and neighboring markets. Fire remnants at Cowan and Centre fires yield thousands of cords of wood and hundreds of thousands of board feet of lumber and fuel wood.
A coroner jury urged compulsory smoke alarm equipment in all buildings after ruling a January 22 North End Winnipeg fire that killed four Davis children was accidental. The panel also called for mandatory fireman conducted safety inspections. Dr. Anthony Lewis testified the children died from carbon monoxide and smoke inhalation.
Ottawa officials scoff at a $1,000,000 cost estimate for the Queen's visit to Charlottetown and Quebec City next October. They call it grossly exaggerated and say no estimate is ready. Federal treasury may cover about one percent of the cited figure, with past tours typically yielding more dollar gain than expenditure.
Sunday services are listed for St Pauls Bethel Calvary Tabernacle Austin Sidney and other congregations. Activities include Sunday School worship services prayers choir practice family church night and church services with times across February 16 and 23 in MacGregor Austin and Bagot communities.
Donna Lee Tarr and Nancy Allan won second in the first event at Katrime skating meet. Prizes were socks. A successful skating party on February 2 at MacGregor rink was hosted by the sewing and beer clubs with supper served. Club rep Betty McGregor signs off.
Community notices from Austin include a World Day of Prayer service at the Anglican church on Friday February 14 at 3 p.m. Unit 2 of the U C W will meet February 20 at 2 30 p.m. Also reported are whist drives at the Community Hall with prize winners, a bonspiel at Worthy, and a Manitoba M F A whist drive February 15. Church groups, visiting relatives, corrections to past raffle prizes, and dates to remember are listed among local society items.
A British BOAC Boeing 707 bound for New York was grounded Friday after a mouse was spotted aboard. Passengers were reassigned to another plane while cleaners sprayed hydrocyanic gas and the jet was sealed for hours before resuming flight. The mouse vanished without crossing customs.
The International Committee of the Red Cross will dispatch officer M. J. C. Senn to Rwanda to investigate reports of mass killings of Watatsi tribe members, announced Friday.
The Bagot News reports the Umea Youren women will hold their February meeting in the church on February 19 at 2 o'clock. An installation service for UCW officers will be conducted. Theme speaker is Dr. Jefferson of Vellore Christian College of India. The film The Beloved Surgeon will be shown.
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