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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1961
Page
5
Community notices list births including a son for Chant and a son for Wright with hospital details, engagements in MacGregor, memorials for Genevieve Reid and Annie O’Brien, heartfelt thanks to hospitals, clubs and friends, plus a wide for sale section with livestock, furniture, and tender offers for local properties and a school district building move.
Notice to creditors of the estate of Trevor Poyser of Austin Manitoba deceased. Claims must be filed verified by statutory declaration with L W Smith MacGregor Manitoba by December 20 1961. Also classified ads list items for sale and contact details from MacGregor Manitoba including feeder pigs sweet clover oats and farm equipment.
Bay horse aged 5 to 78 years for sale weighing about 1600 pounds priced at 125 dollars. Also 1400 to 1500 pound Pi minos 2 to 3 years old at 125 dollars. Palomino stallion 6.7 years old halter broken, 1500 pounds, used as saddle horse for cattle work. Must be seen.
Portage la Prairie area ad seeks a quantity of Rod ney oats suitable to clean for seed. Apply M. Burch, Bagot. Phone 453-15 Portage. Also a separate notice asks for a good home for three small terrier puppies, two males, in Aus tin Man. Phone 3042.
The pontifical mission for Palestine refugees in Beirut has donated $60,000 to establish a centre for the blind in the Gaza Strip, supporting visually impaired residents amid ongoing conflict.
In the matter of the estate of Janet Ann Hay widow of MacGregor Manitoba a notice for all matters before December 20. Dated at the Village of MacGregor Manitoba this 14th day of November 1961. H A Lye QC MacGregor Manitoba Solicitor for the Executors.
Local families from MacGregor report weekend visits with relatives in the district including Snaiths, Chan ts, Bergquists and Bells. Deer season notes, winter weather, Elk and Esks football chatter, missing dog alert, bake sale plans, and social calls across towns feature in a bustling community update. Names such as Jim Cramer Baldur, Harry Shaw, and E F Longley appear amid travel and gathering details.
Manitoba Dairy and Poultry Co operative Creamery won the Royal Winter Fair butter show with its Dauphin plant sample earning the highest score to claim the Champion Rosette. The creamery also achieved the top aggregate score across three butter sections. The Dauphin creamery previously won first prize at the Canadian National Exhibition. Manitoba creameries submitted 92 samples across four Royal sections in 1961. Earlier, East Selkirk couple A. R. Chorney earned an international seed potatoes award.
A Manitoba milestone saw the first safety committee formed on the $13,000,000 International Airport project in St James. Commonwealth Construction Co led the initiative with Labour Dept Inspector R A Dahl guiding safety rules. Committee chair M A Pete Alevest is construction chief. About 200 workers, peaking near 300, and 50 subcontractors are involved. Regular meetings follow Manitoba Building Trades Protection act standards with minutes sent to the department of labor. Other committee members include P Winning J Simm E Wachal F Kraus H McKnight Joseph March J Molnar R I, and H Skaledonig G McKeen from Dominion Bronze.
Austin Community hosts You Have a Date United Crusade for Christ with E Barry Moore of London Ontario as guest speaker from Nov 28 to Dec 3 at Hall. St Pauls W A holds Silver Tea and Bazaar Nov 16 3 to 6 pm in Memorial Hall. WI annual meeting Nov 17 2 30 pm Senior Citizens Club Room. United Church Sunday School Christmas concert Dec 15. Beaver Hospital Aid Old Time Dance Dec 1 Memorial Hall with Urly’s Rhythm Rockets. Junior Farmers meet Nov 21 8 30 pm MacGregor Memorial Hall. Films shown. Junior Red Cross dance Nov 24 Katrine Hall live Sunset Playboys of Glenella.
Manitoba reports September crude oil production of 357730 barrels, down from 385241 in August, with 771 of 878 wells producing as of September 30, 1961. The Mines and Natural Resources minister noted last year’s figures of 789 producing wells out of 883. Khrushchev returns to Tashkent after inspecting cotton farming machinery in southern Kazakhstan, per Tass.
Winners at the Foresters bingo Monday include Mrs Rivett R Frizzley Carol Quinn N Kowalchuk G Frizzley twice Mrs H Legg twice Mrs H Lamb twice Mrs F Wright T Telford Mrs Ernie Duncan Mrs R Sharp Mrs McLoughry Mrs Schnieder W Penrice Glen Quinn Mrs Hulme A McDonald Mrs Montgomery Jr Mrs D Beaudin Mrs J Pogue Mrs A Roberts G Poulton and G Bull. Next bingo set for Monday Nov 27 with a 75 dollar jackpot.
In Leicester England nature advocates defeated a plan for a 2 motorways route through Charnwood Forest. The project will instead pass beneath the forest via a tunnel, following protests from local groups and campaigners.
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