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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 16, 1963
Page
2
Ottawa launches Operation World Markets urging rapid expansion of foreign sales for labor intensive Canadian manufactured goods. Trade commissioners, with the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, interview export minded firms as confidence grows that exports surpass natural resources as the nation’s growth engine.
A public policy discussion argues governments must curb rising costs and avoid shifting every expense to taxpayers. It notes salaries and other items swell budgets while private enterprises must balance ends with income. The piece warns continued tax growth risks business activity and overall progress unless economies tighten.
A fragmented passage reflects on modern man fearing silence and being conditioned by radio and television. It hints at the constant need to fill every moment with noise, suggesting a critique of contemporary media influence and its impact on attention and contemplation.
Manitoba dairy farmers are becoming specialists to meet rising costs and quality goals. In Winnipeg the shift includes pipelines and automatic milking systems, bulk tanks, and modern barns. By 1961 bulk tanks expanded, boosting milk quality with higher No 1 grade can and bulk tank shippers.
Unofficial returns from most polls show a total of 7,900,838 votes cast, beating the prior record set in 1962 as turnout reached about 80 percent of 9,875,473 eligible voters. Liberal party won 120 of 265 seats with 41.7 percent of the vote, Conservatives 95 seats and 28 percent, Social Credit 24 seats, NDP 17, with independents and Communists also polled.
Longstanding travel patterns by affluent Canadians shifted after 1962 as the weaker dollar curtailed overseas junkets. A Recom mmodation Association study found 25 percent of native Canadians had never left their province, while 20 percent had visited only one other. Ontario and Quebec plates outpaced U.S. vehicles in the Maritimes, and Quebec hosted roughly 50 percent more visitors from nearby provinces than in 1960, signaling a renewed domestic travel boom.
Elm Creek and Winnipeg visitors appear across a busy local schedule. Families like the McIntoshes and Laings host guests from Treherne and Winnipeg, while 4H club members tour to Winnipeg. A community bingo event is noted with door prizes and a wedding anniversary celebrated for Mr. and Mrs. Nelson.
Two teams of surgeons at Veterans Administration Hospital performed a six hour operation on May 5 to transplant a healthy liver from a donor who died of a brain tumor into William Grigsby 47 of Denver. Grigsby is said to be recovering after the first critical week. The breakthrough could open new treatment avenues for previously incurable diseases amenable to this surgery.
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