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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 13, 1968
Page
2
Opinion on advertising puffery across industries including hotels and automobiles. Argues for truthful ads and suggests employees read ads to see the fantasies they are asked to live up to, noting a Wall Street Journal finding that hotel service often worsens despite prestigious names.
The British Tie Manufacturers Association reports a record sale of 50 million neckties last year. The piece weighs fashion forms against informality, noting changing attitudes in Communist and Western dress. It jokes about the necktie's passion and suggests hats as a stronger fashion passion.
A Moscow suburb shopping center opens a government stocked supermarket with varied canned bottled and fresh goods and efficient counters. Shoppers avoid multiple queues as self service and pay as you go begin in specialty shops. The piece humorously notes limits like no horseradish and scarce frozen foods while praising increased efficiency.
The National Council of Women urged a careful re-examination of taxes on married women before a family unit tax base is adopted. A unanimous resolution questioned the equity and impact on women’s work, while another proposal seeks federal aid under the Occupational Training Act for single parents with dependent children.
Winnipeg and District Labor Council appoints Harry Munro fifty five as full time executive secretary succeeding Art Coulter who becomes secretary of the Manitoba Federation of Labor. Munro a former Winnipeg bus driver has been active in council affairs since 1956. appointment announced at a regular council meeting.
At the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities convention in Alberta the East West split flared on a resolution to study port development for Churchill Manitoba to export Canadian wheat. Eastern and Western delegates clashed, with The Pas mayor HL Trager defending the motion and alleging Western discrimination, while Eastern delegates urged referral to the CFMM executive.
The Metis Federation, upset at not being invited to the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities conference in Edmonton, received an apology from Edmonton Mayor Vance Dantzer. Tom Eagle confirmed a telephone call from the mayor explaining the invite decision and inviting a letter of views. The Metis leader said they were disappointed but glad the issue was clarified and not repeated.
The Queen’s Bench granted interim injunctions to Custom Abattoir Ltd and St. Boniface Abattoir Ltd to stop picketing by 87 workers from a wildcat walkout last Monday at two St. Boniface slaughterhouses. The court will reconsider the orders Thursday.
Historical notes outline fur trade posts along the Assiniboine River including River la Souris and Montagne a la Bosse with returns of 60 packs mostly buffalo and wolf hides. Fort Esperance, River de la Cocquille, and Tremblante linked to beaver and otter profits. Hudsons Bay entry altered supply routes. Grenfell Post Office, later Kingsley, established 1881 with James Keating as first postmaster.
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