MacGregor Beef Club Year Begins with New Officers
Alison Leckie reports the 1965 66 MacGregor Beef Club started November 3 with nine members and new officers led by President Art Scora and Vice President Bryan Hay. Activities included Awards Night, calf weight prizes, raffles, a combined Christmas party, bonspiels, a toboggan trip, seed packaging for Retarded Children's Society, Easter tour to Winnipeg, achievement day at MacGregor fair, showmanship prizes for Art and Gay Scora, and a 1966 Awards Night in Carberry.
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Alison Leckie
MacGregor Beef Club
Art Scora
Bryan Hay
Judy Kreitz
Lynne Leckie
John Scora
Louis Kreitz
Art Leckie
Garry Leckie
MacGregor
Mem
Bers
Hidden Valley
Sid Hay
Cliff Lee
Children’s Society
Winnipeg
MacGregor Fair
Gay Scora
Ter
Brandon Fair
Killarney
Kreitz
Carberry
Canada Farm Growth Best in The World
Canada led the world in farm production growth in 1966 according to the US agriculture department annual World agriculture report. Russia followed. China faces drought and mismanagement sparking imports of Canadian and Australian grain. Farm prices slipped globally while manufactured goods and retail food rose. Population growth offset gains in less developed countries.
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Canada
US Agriculture Department
Russia
China
CNR Moves Record Grain Shipped in 1966
The CNR prairie region moved a record 138,500 cars carrying 277 million bushels of grain to Fort William Port Arthur Churchill Vancouver and Prince Rupert. The total exceeded 1965 by 22,631 cars. Officials expect continued high shipments from Manitoba and Saskatchewan through winter.
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CNR
Prairie
Lakehead
Churchill
West Coast
Fort William
Port Arthur
Vancouver
Prince Rupert
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Wishart’s Service Phone 857-5468 Former Wilman Motors
Wishart’s Service, located at Eighth St. and Sask. Ave. West, lists phone 857-5468 and notes it was formerly Wilman Motors.
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Wishart
Wilman Motors
Eighth St
Sask. Ave
Sask. Ave. E
Manitoba Extends Crop Insurance Provincewide
Agriculture Minister Harry Enns announced a full province wide crop insurance program with broader coverage and lower premiums. The plan uses average yields, lowers top coverage thresholds, and raises subsidy levels to 25 percent, benefiting high productivity farms while removing the 90 percent stage.
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Manitoba
Harry Enns
Prairie farmers ride 1966 crop boom to record harvests
Prairie regions posted a record wheat yield of 844 million bushels in 1966 after expanding planted area by 2 million acres. Canada exported a record 546 million bushels, aided by a large Soviet order, while Saskatchewan led with 560 million and Alberta added 193 million. Livestock profits followed grain gains, though costs rose and farmers faced transportation and price pressures.
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W. J. Parker
Manitoba Pool Elevators
Lady Luck
Geneva
Canada
Russia
China
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
GM recalls 269000 cars for defective steering shafts
General Motors recalls 269,200 new cars for faulty installation of collapsible steering columns. Eight failures reported, five Pontiacs, two Chevrolets, one Buick, mainly at low speed during parking or turning. Canada recalls about 8,000 El Camino, Chevelle, Beaumont, Tempest, Oldsmobile F 85 and Buick Special models. No accidents linked. defect due to installation misalignment, not design.
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General Motors Corp
U.S
Oshawa
General Motors of Canada
Canada
Alberta Hail Claims Jump Eightfold in 1966
The Alberta Insurance Corp will pay about 300000 in crop hail claims for 1966, nearly eight times 1965. Northern Alberta accounted for 364 of 443 claims, 214 from Peace River. Premiums fell from 7.2 to 6 percent as farm membership rose to 4408. The 1967 guarantee is forecast to exceed 27000000, over double 1966.
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Alberta Insurance Corp
Alberta
Peace River
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John Deere
Christianson Ltd
First Street
N.W
McMaster
Portage LA Prairie
Mr. Enns
Enns
Canadian Wheat Board
Ninth Street
Help Borton
Mary Maxim
Ralph
J. S. Thomson
G. M. Hay
Ford Sales & Service
Austin
Denwal Pharmacy
Man
Austin Credit Union
North Norfolk
P. B. Ewen
Austin, Manitoba
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