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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 26, 1969
Page
6
Classified ads start at 75 cents for first 15 words with 10 percent late payment surcharge. Death and funeral notices priced at 60 cents per column inch, photos at 1.00 per column inch. Deadline Tuesday 1.30 p.m. Herald Office.
Obituary for Vern Allan Ritchie of Bagot Manitoba notes a funeral service held Thursday June 19 1969 at McMaster Funeral Home Portage La Prairie with Reverend Earle Armistead and organist Mrs. W Galbraith. Interment Evergreen Memorial Gardens. Card of thanks and community notices follow including thanks to hospital staff and various local organizations and volunteers. Separate display ads and sale notices list farm equipment hay land John Deere mower and related items with contact names and phone numbers.
Russell Robertson expresses gratitude to those who sent cards and visited during his stay at MacGregor hospital and to those who offered help at home. Special thanks are given to Dr. Hew and hospital staff.
Fred Lake thanks friends and neighbors for hospital visits cards calls and car service. He credits Dr Hew and the nursing staff for excellent care and expresses gratitude for the support received during illness.
A mortgage sale of a valuable suburban property will be conducted under powers granted by a Memorandum of Mortgage and the Real Property Act. The sale will be offered under terms to be produced at the time of sale.
C W Slark Auctioneer offers Village of Austin Manitoba Lot Four Block Fifteen South East Quarter Section Twenty Nine Township Eleven Range Eleven West Plan 7893 with garage and filling station. Auction June 30 1969 at 10 a m Central Daylight Time. 20 percent cash deposit. balance per sale terms. Reserve bid applies. Further details from Charles W Sing solicitor Portage la Prairie.
MacGregor residents hosted and visited relatives and friends during mid June with gatherings in Ninette Hartney Winnipeg Regina and Whitewood. The note lists numerous local and regional visitors including the Lye Richardson wedding and various trips to Edmonton Winnipeg and Portage with several extended family and friend suppers and overnight visits.
The MacGregor and District Community Centre committee says it plans a slave auction to raise funds. No final date yet, but an event could occur in a couple of weeks. Proceeds would go to the community centre. Watch for further notices.
Manitoba Wildlife Federation passed three resolutions at its annual meeting protesting immediate flooding of South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba. The lake would be flooded if Manitoba Hydro obtains provincial approval to divert the Churchill River for a hydro power project. About 600 Indigenous people living near the lake would be relocated. The resolutions urge more studies on the proposed flooding, to assess recreational losses and to release previously undisclosed reports from the last Legislature.
Available at Denwal Pharmacy with contact numbers 685-2295 and 685-2285. The listing offers a for rent pearoom house and several animal care items including elastrator burdizzo hoof nipper and mosquito fogger with weekly or short term rates.
A Canadian Press survey reports at least 11 deaths over the weekend across prairie provinces. Alberta saw nine traffic fatalities including a two car collision near Wetaskiwin and a car pedestrian death in Calgary. Saskatchewan losses include two twin McBain deaths in Moose Jaw and Sylvanai, a Broadview area crash, plus a drowning death. Manitoba records a single fatal car crash near Grand Rapids. Names withheld in several cases.
Alberta doctors will raise fees by 6.5 percent on July 1 as the province joins the federal medical care plan. Over three years, total increases since 1967 reach 16.5 percent. The medicare payment will not cover the full 1969 fee schedule, with patients potentially paying the difference. House calls rise to 9 dollars. office exams range 9 to 14 dollars, up from 8 to 13. The plan currently covers 96.5 percent of the 1968 schedule.
District reserve schools run a program to teach Blackfoot culture and language about Napi the trickster. Bob Black Plume and Rufus Goodstriker educate children in Blackfoot legends, woodcraft, and beadwork while volunteers grow. Students write stories and will visit historical points this spring. Principal Derek Lees notes many adults also lack cultural knowledge.
A one ton chlorine cylinder fell from a forklift at Vancouver’s waterfront, breaking and releasing fumes. Four firemen, four dock workers and two ambulance drivers, plus a woman and her son in a passing car, were overcome. Twelve people were hospitalized and six remained for observation. The cylinder rolled into a safety net and into Vancouver harbor during removal from a truck.
Honor of Miss Pat Grove scheduled in Katrime Hall on Monday June 30 at 8 30 p m. Everyone welcome to attend the date late summer gathering with participants and local supporters.
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