Grasshopper Threat Grips Prairie Provinces Sharply
Canada agriculture research warns grasshopper infestation on prairie lands could surge in 1973. From 12 000 to 13 000 square miles infested in recent years, with Saskatchewan hardest hit and regions in Manitoba Alberta seeing rising levels. Migratory grasshopper dominates overall with regional variants. serious outbreaks centered in Red River Valley and southern Saskatchewan.
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Prairie Provinces
Canada Department of Agriculture
Prairies
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
Red River Valley
Neepawa
Plumas
Pipestone
Deleau
United States
Rosetown
Saskatoon
Fort Qu'Appelle
Weyburn
Last Mountain Take
Kyle
Corinne
Coronach
Camrose
Wainright
Nanton
Carmangay
Vauxhall
Taber
Warner
Bow Island
Manyberries
Gleichen
Brooks
Red Deer River
You Have a Date The Katrime mixed
The Katrime mixed will be held from February 28 to March 3. The Senior Citizens Get-Together Club will hold a card party on January 23 at 2 p.m. in the Masonic Hall. Watch for further notice of Talent Show Feb. 24 in the Memorial Hall. Sponsored by MacGregor Lions Club.
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Masonic Hall
Memorial Hall
MacGregor Lions Club
MMA Says Manitobans Getting Good Value
A Manitoba Medical Association study group says Manitobans receive good value for health care dollars and that community clinics should be trialed only if they save costs without lowering care quality. They oppose the government white paper’s broad clinic expansion and urge retention of fee for service. The group plans to present a formal response at a Winnipeg meeting of about 1,200 doctors citing cost and distribution concerns.
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Manitoba Medical Association
MMA
Manitoba Governement
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Medical Association
Tout
Peter Connelly
Grow Grain Farmers Told By Minister In Commons Speech
Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan urged farmers to grow grain for all they are worth and said the government expects record grain sales and overall production in 1973. He pledged full financial backing from money-lenders and continued support for farmers during his tenure.
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Eugene ‘Whelan
Ban Imported Commercials Could Aid Canadian Ad Firms
Ontario Tory leader Gordon Walker says a proposed ban on U S made television commercials is being considered by the select committee on economic and cultural nationalism to level the field for Canadian owned advertising agencies. He notes U S ads aired here are cheaply repurposed for Canada, depriving Canadian producers of potential revenue.
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United States
Gordon Walker
Progressive Conservative
London North
Walker
Ontario
Progressive Conservative Campus Association
Canada
Railways keep grain cars under government move plan
CP Rail and Canadian National will keep their full fleet of old style grain boxcars in addition to about 2 000 new hopper cars. The agreement forms part of a contract with the Canadian Wheat Board. Fewer than 1 000 of the new cars are in service and the rest are due from factories by February 31 at a cost of 42 million dollars to move Prairie grain to the coast for overseas shipment.
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CP Rail
Canadian National Railways
Canadian Wheat Board
Justice
Otto Lang
Lang
Wheat Board
Saskatchewan
Alf Gleave
NDP
Saskatoon- Biggar
Discrimination Is Charged in Alberta Hutterite Silence Claim
Werner Schmidt, a Social Credit leadership candidate, accuses the Progressive Conservative government of discriminating against a minority religious group by pressuring the Hutterites to stay silent about the Communal Properties Act. He calls the move a breach of human rights and free speech as the 1947 act, limiting colony size and separation, faces repeal on March 1.
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Alberta
Werner Schmidt
Social Credit Party
Schmidt
Bob Dowling
Dowling
Meetings to discuss Duck Mountain plan in Manitoba parks
A series of meetings with Dauphin and Swan River sites will examine the provisional master plan for Duck Mountain provincial park. Minister Laurent Desjardins announced public sessions February 6 and 7, plus a January 22 staff briefing, inviting briefs by March 31, 1973.
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Duck Mountain
Laurent L. Desjardins
Dauphin
Parklands
Duck Mountain Park
Swan River
Duck ‘Mountain
Child's Lake
Blue Lake
Singush Lake
12 Women Enter Movable Moustache Contest at Base
At Canadian Forces base in Trenton Ontario a moustache growing contest drew 12 wives of servicemen when registrations opened. Organizers aimed to prove everyone includes women as part of a winter carnival event.
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Canadian Forces
Trenton
Ontario
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Schuler
Alsask
McMaster
Portage LA Prairie
Manitoba Consumers’ Bureau
Province of Manitoba Consumers’ Bureau
Province of Manitoba
Onsumers’ Bureau
Office of the Rentalen
Nitoba
Ric Ove
the Liquor Control Commission
Province OF
AusTin and District Community Centre
O'Keefe
Pat Kowalchuk
Jean Lowe
Austin Ladies Curling Club
Fensee
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada
Prince Ave
E. C. Brooker
Lloyd Green Jack
Disability Insurance
Matthews
Jake Funk
Ree
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