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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 20, 1964
Page
5
Classified and local notices list rates and deadlines for ads. Death and funeral notices priced per column inch with photo options. Card of thanks expressed by families and organizations. Sale listings include farm equipment, animals, real estate, and miscellaneous items with contact details across MacGregor, Sidney, Austin, and area.
A large US and Canadian company seeks a local representative for its Crop Service division. Requires recent agricultural background and local respect. Full-time or part-time start may fit with farming duties. Earn $100-$150 weekly with chances for advancement. Write Mr W McLachlan, Manitoba Sales Mgr, 1251 Redwood Drive, Winnipeg.
Earmarked opportunity with a 60 year old firm offers part time engagement in exclusive product lines. Potential earnings exceed $20,000. Company handles financing and collections, no age barrier, no advertising required, training provided.
Sealed tenders will be received for the Orange Hall in MacGregor a structure 18 ft by 38 ft with a 14 ft kitchen. Tenders close February 25. Highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. For further information contact the undersigned Grant MacDonald.
Notice to creditors of Irene Jones late of Brandon Manitoba to file all claims with solicitor H A Lye QC MacGregor at his Hampton Street office on or before March 16 1964 dated February 12 1964.
The regular W L meeting will be held in the Senior Citizens Club Room at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday February 27. Hostesses are Mrs Hotel Mrs Grove Mrs Hodge and Miss Fox. MacGregor will hold the neat whist drive on Friday February 28 at 8 p.m. in the Senior Citizens Club Room.
A long roster lists numerous curlers and participants headed for a bonspiel. Names include Gordon Taylorson Walllace Martin Joe Lambert Jack Thompson MacGregor Wm Kitson Chester Cairns A Bachalo Geo Morris Portage Bryce McRorie Sim Menzies Howard Cobbe Ken Yuill Glen Wright Perry Adams Walter Adams Lorne Wright Portage I Davidson L. James Barrie Brown Jim Ferris Macden Jack Emerson Nelson Hulme Audley Nicholls Ab Fawcett MacGregor Jones J Gilmour A Early I Lowe Austin Wm Brydon Garnet Critchton R Moran W Ferguson Nels Perkins Jim Adamson J Ferguson G Adamson T Hinchliffe Gladstone Jerry Cobbe Garry Cobbe George McMaster Glen Ellwood Jack McCulloch Don McCulloch Tom Tunski Francis North Rossendale Mel Thomson Russ Leckie Fred Amann Dick Carruthers Austin G Irwin Allan Bryson Dave McKenzie Barrie Rodgers Gordon Hay J Steiss W Arthur J Towle Steen B Steen Cliff Nelson M Olmstead Carberry RF Culbert Jim Watson Cliff Blagden Wes Henry Rostendale Russ Pugh Bud Scharien Dave Roy Howard Roberts Turnside.
Premier Duff Roblin delayed a Manitoba Legislature request for immediate provision of textbooks and transportation to private school pupils. Laurent Desjardins had moved to grant services amid a plan for a legislative committee on shared services, noting 21 Roman Catholic students in St. Vital kept home for three months to protest a public bus fee.
Manitoba Telephone System posts a deficit of 109,004 for the year ending November 1963, reversing a prior year surplus of 876,814. Factors include a severe April sleet and wind storm, over 200,000 more in grants in lieu of capital taxes, and higher anti-tapse costs per line to 529 from 596. The system serves 215,447 telephones.
Mrs. M. Little and family spent the week visiting with Br and Gox in Winnipeg. Many locals hosted visitors from Brandon, Orangeville, and Winnipeg. Sympathy sent to Jack Smale after Herbert Smale’s Winnipeg death. Gladstone Laundry opened with 290 registrations and a lively banquet featuring emcee Ollie Gibson and entertainment reputed to include “the Beatles.”
Miss Betty McLaughlin of Brondon spent the weekend at a new home. Betty visited with Mr. and Mrs. C. Orchard at Neepawa. Sunday supper guests at the J B. Caskey home included Tom Thomasson family and Chris Thomasson of Seaver. Congratulations to district ladies joining MacGregor bonspiel prizes. Lawrence Heselwood and girls were guests with Roy Harkness family at Beaver. John Heselwood is a Winnipeg General Hospital patient after surgery on Monday. Three rinks participate in MacGregor men's bonspiel this week. Good luck to all. Sunday supper guests at E Duncan’s included T. Kelly and Roy of Southend.
Manitoba milk use rose in 1963 with Greater Winnipeg area fluid milk sales up 88 percent to 192 million pounds. Brandon Neepawa region sales grew 3.61 percent to 16.82 million pounds, Portage la Prairie district up 4.29 percent to 4.66 million pounds. Bulk trucks now total 27 moving about 13 million pounds monthly to 10 dairies, reducing old van-haulage. Licensed producers in the Winnipeg area declined to 678 from about 1,300 a decade ago.
Manitoba legislator Jake Froese of Rhineland, the lone Social Credit member, told the Throne Speech debate that the province is behind the times in natural resource development. He proposed a new Bank of Western Canada headquartered in Winnipeg, criticized water control and erosion issues, urged speeding up conservation efforts, and called for curbing the Canadian Wheat Board’s powers amid farmer flax overdelivery convictions.
The Basswood United church setting witnessed the wedding of Elser Fenton and Graham Fenton, with Rev. E. Waddell officiating. The bride wore a pearl-embellished peau de soie gown, carried red roses, and was attended by Beverly Graham as bridesmaid, while Peter Picyk served as best man and ushers included James Wilson and Gordon Graham. The couple plans to reside in Saskatoon after a west coast and United States wedding trip.
The Path Head 4-H Garden Club met February 10 at Ivan Taylor home and planned sending 5 to the March of Dimes and 5 to the 4H Council. A curling party was set for February 29 at Katrime rink if available and a social event in Path-Head school in March. Four members will travel to Wellwood on February 22 for a 4H bonspiel. A rink skipped by Wayne Abbott placed second in the Beef Club Bonspiel at Katrime on February 1. Lunch was served by Mrs. Taylor after recreation.
The Austin bonspiel opens Monday with about 45 rinks anticipated. Six events offer four prizes each, and every rink plays six games. Entries go to Roy Snaith or Hamilton Gilmour via listed phone numbers.
Regina CP reports careless hunters caused the death of 203 cattle and 39 horses, plus 3 pigs, 10 sheep, 2 goats and 24 tame ducks in Saskatchewan over five years. Wildlife Branch paid 42,307 in claims to owners. Ernie Paynter urged better farmer hunter relations at the Saskatchewan Fish and Game League meeting, warning misuse could threaten hunting privileges.
Archaeologists in Budapest report a limestone quarry discovery of stone tools and bone fragments from a prehistoric animal dating to about 50000 years ago, aligning with the Heidelberg Man era.
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