Austin and District News Highlights Local Obits and Events
Austin and Light Hill residents reflect on Christmas and New Year visits from Winnipeg and Brandon kin. Obituaries note the passing of Thomas Hicken at 79 in Deer Lodge Hospital, with a long Austin ties. the Chamber of Commerce considers hardtopping Highway 34 and a night telephone service. Local families send sympathy to the Leckie family of Light Hill.
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M. Thomson
Tario
Austin
Gordon Tario
Winnipeg
Glen Thomson
Brandon
Winnnipeg
Tom Makinson
Don Makinson
Ken Routley
Lloyd Young
T. Hicken
J. Mitchell
Linda
Johnnie
Don Rasmussen
David
Baudette
Minn
U.S.A
Geo. Graham
Chas. Wallace
B. Christensen
Les. Burkett
Harold Wallace
Carberry
J. Mustard
Gladstone
Lorna McLau
Light Hill
Robert Leckie
Leckie
Light Hill District
Vancouver
Deer Lodge Hospital
Thomas Hicken
Hicken
England
Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens
C. L. Morgan
Flin Flon
Chamber of Commerce
Credit Union Board Room
C. Rands
New Year Visits Spread Across Portage Area
Residents of Portage and nearby towns welcomed relatives and friends during Christmas and New Year holidays. Chicago-like long lists show gatherings at the homes of Dow, Pallister, Boak, Lamont, Crewson, Ribordy, Harvey, and others with relatives traveling from Carberry, Winnipeg, Selkirk, Inglis, Portage, and Dauphin. One student departed for HMCS Sussexvale in Esquimalt after holidays.
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Lorimer
Jo-Anne
Susan
Inglis
Petersfield
R. Boyer
J. Lahn
Linda
C. Anderson
Winnipeg
J. Anderson
Selkirk
Kelly MeIver
Joan Stanger
Lynne Rainer
Phyllis Maxfield
Portage
Jim Boyer
Carberry
Dick Eckard
Philadelphia
Carl Pallister
W. Pallister
John Hill
Sussexvale
Esquimalt
B.C
J. Blair
Miami
F. Ribordy
Carman
Stewart Lamont
D. Lamont
Bagot
Mallon
S. Gould
H. Crewson
Elgert
Dauphin
W. ‘Crewson
School Daze at Collegiate After Holiday Break
Valerie Hotel and Phyllis Nelson recount student life at Collegiate as the 9:30 schedule returns, curling signups on the bulletin board, and planned January Gladstone bonspiel. Gym floor work interrupted activities for two days, a Wednesday storm paused events, but students returned rested and eager for classes.
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Valerie Hotel
Phyllis Nelson
Collegiate
Precipitation in 1961 Below Normal Says Forecast Office
Aviation forecast office at RCAF Southport reports 1961 precipitation at 13.24 inches total, 8.51 inches rain and 47.3 inches snow. December 1961 had 8.5 inches snow, with five inches on the ground. temperatures ranged from 32 F to 20 F below zero. Comparisons show 1960 higher snow and different temperature spreads, with December 24 showing the largest daily temperature swing. Average December 1961 temperature was 1.9 F, about six degrees lower than December 1960’s 82 F average.
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Aviation Forecast Office
Rcaf Southport
Canadian orders 13 giant expansion joints from Glasgow firm
Glasgow based George MacLellan and Company Limited secures a contract from the Canadian atomic energy authority for 13 large expansion joints. Sharp Young, the Scottish firm’s sales director, recently returned from a Canadian visit.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Canadian Atomic Energy Authority
George MacLellan and Company Limited
Sharp Young
Canada
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