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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 12, 1964
Page
6
Seed treatment offers a few-cent per acre protection against bunts blights smuts and seed rotting organisms with mercury based chemicals providing broad control. Rates vary by crop with mercury powders liquids and captan formulations plus wireworm control options and cost per acre around 5 to 60 cents. Machines for mixing and applying treatments are available and early treatment before sowing yields better results.
A Prussian army chaplain Johann Sussmilch inspired science by statistics. London eighteenth century data showed high infant mortality, prompting hygiene, water and sewer upgrades, law reforms, and police enforcement. Advances led to hospitals, science, and improved infant survival from one in four to over nine in ten.
Manitoba 4-H expands career explorations for rural youth with extended extension work, career days, and regular discussions on CBC Farm Forum. Since starting two years ago, the effort has identified beneficiaries and seen increased demand for talks by 4-H specialists and agricultural reps, with the Canadian Council on 4-H Clubs endorsing expansion.
Readable event coverage from MCI highlights include a bonspiel won by Morley Aiken’s rink with trophies and other teams taking prizes. Education Day drew over 80 visitors with biology chemistry geography displays and a radio play by grade 10. The arm forces visit promoted officer training and nursing careers. Faith Harkness suffered an accident and must wear a cast.
Sympathy extends to the O'Brien and Kitson families on recent passings. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ferris of Neepawa and Mr. and Mrs. Don Brugger hosted visitors. R. H. Brown spends days at the A Giercki home. The curling club thanks donors for pies and help during Katrime 1. Bert Heselwood and family of Transcona spent the weekend with J Heselwood. he arrived from Winnipeg after a month away in hospital.
Mr and Mrs Davey Streich and family visited in Winnipeg over the weekend. George Currie visited in the district on Thursday and watched curling. Mr and Mrs Joe Belous and family were Sunday visitors in Brandon with Mrs Edna Warburton and Mrs Annie Main. Mrs Main and Mrs Warburton returned home with them until Monday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Ralph Schneider visited in Brandon last Saturday with Ralphs father Andy Schneider who is convalescing at the home of his granddaughter Mr and Mrs Lawrence Gray. Mr and Mrs Jack Reid and family of Winnipeg visited Sunday with Mrs Freda Reid and boys. Doug Tyerman and friends Clare Clark and Jerry Wale of Minnesota spent the weekend at the Cliff Tyerman home. Doug and Sandra Tyerman and friends visited in Portage and Gladstone on Sunday.
Multiple churches in MacGregor and Austin-Sidney area publish their Sunday services and related activities for March 15. Listings include St Pauls, Christ Church, Bethel, Calvary Tabernacle, Evangelical Mennonite, and MacGregor United Church with times for services Sunday School prayers and evening worship, plus youth rallies and midweek prayer sessions.
Nelson Shoemaker and L Gladstone cite the Winnipeg floodway as a potential world wonder. In the Legislature Agriculture Minister George Hutton is urged to seek American Society of Civil Engineers approval. The project, costing about 68 million dollars, aims to divert floodwaters with a 26 mile ditch around Greater Winnipeg, slated for completion in spring 1968 after significant earth removal.
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