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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1966
Page
4
Classified ad notes rates for want ads and death notices. It announces the estate of JekiN EEOC with proceedings in Portage la Prairie Manitoba, requiring claims to be verified and filed by March 1, 1966, with Miller Miller & Miler as solicitors for the intended administrators.
The page lists an obituary with names Harold and Jack, St Pauls Anglican Church service, Rosehill Cemetery, and McMaster Funeral Home details. It includes birth announcements for Jayson Howard and Kelly Robert Bindle, several thank you notices, a bereavement acknowledgment, and multiple local sales, rentals, and notices including farm and equipment listings. Also contains community notices about Manitoba Medical Service joining a local MacGregor group and practical ads for farming supplies and services.
Ivor Olson extends thanks to friends and organizations for cards and parcels and to those who phoned about his health. Grateful for quick help from his family and Dr. Ford when he fell ill and after returning home.
The Lege Family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for acts of kindness, sympathy, and flowers during their bereavement. Special thanks to Doctor Ford and the nursing staff of MacGregor hospital.
Preliminary Pan American Games entries exceed one thousand with Canada planning 400 athletes, the Dominican Republic 192, Uruguay 149, Dutch Antilles 47, and Brazil 290, as five nations commit to participation.
Funeral services and ambulance services are listed with contact numbers for Gladstone Avenue and MacGregor locations. Agent H. S. Borton is available via phone numbers 8 and 129-3-MacGregor for assistance.
Manitoba premier Premier Roblin charged the federal government with ignoring Manitoba's legitimate transportation rights in air rail and road issues. He spoke after returning from a Caribbean vacation on the Can Air agreement and urged urgent federal action rather than more commissions.
Miss Elizabeth Ann Bank of Port Arthur Ontario granddaughter of Mrs Amy Purkess appeared on the TV program Whats My Line at Fort William. She wished all the announcers a happy New Year for 1966 and left viewers with best wishes.
Dr. Albert Corner of the Animal Diseases Research Institute in Hull notes faster transport raises disease risks and urges updated veterinary services. He cites Atlantic flights reducing ship delivery times from weeks to hours and calls for stronger preventive partnerships and better emergency capacity across Canada. Dr. Robert Curtis of Ontario Veterinary College highlights rising herd numbers and growing demand for veterinarians, but points to salary issues and difficulty staffing teaching positions.
Regina's Charles W. Gibbings, president of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, told the Women's Canadian Club that Canadian farmers must move from a surplus mindset to one of scarcity as world population nears 6 billion by century's end. He warned of a cost price squeeze but said price hikes should not greatly raise food costs, and noted grain prices have been flat for 17 years while farming costs rose 55 percent.
Stuart Armour of Toronto told the Winnipeg Lions Club that Canada applies a double standard on exports. He cited the St Lawrence Seaway tolls as harming Canadian producers overseas while calling for higher export volumes. He noted Seaway costs of 313 million and Welland canal improvements estimated at 374 million would benefit the economy.
MacGregor locals with relatives Ottawa and Niagara Falls, sen Marsh and Ethel North, patients in the local hospital, and Albert Blair in the Winnipeg General. Music Workshop attendees in Brandon included Mesdames Ford, Sims, Armistead, McGregor, Hiay, Lamb of MacGregor, Stone and Harkness of Beaver, Petuit of Bagot, Lynn Crocker of Rossendale, Sally Graham of Winnipeg. Dennis Lamb, Lindsay and Darcy visited Winnipeg with Payne and Gilmour relations. Nicholls hosted Austin visitors.
BEAVER NEWS reports the rink of Dorothy Ion Lyla Lamb Evelyn Smith and Dorothy Thompson placed second in the first event at the Austin ladies bonspiel last week. Notices include visits by Bary Jan Smith Greg and Brad Schneider and family gatherings for Maxine’s third birthday.
Premier Duff Roblin stated a universal Manitoba medicare plan would exceed the federal estimate of 28 per capita and could be implemented for less than Ontario’s 40 per capita projection. He noted exact figures aren’t ready due to ongoing federal negotiations.
In Gillingham England teachers at the engineering school abandoned recalling hundreds of student names. As a solution all staff and students now wear lapel identification badges to identify themselves.
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