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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 23, 1961
Page
5
Local ads list rates for want ads with discounts and surcharges and memorials for Elmer Templeton and various family tributes. Multiple sale listings, farm offerings, livestock, buildings, and tender notices follow from MacGregor and Austin communities with contact details and deadlines.
The Springbrook Garden Club reports leaders Mrs Albert Evinson Mrs Alex Tobolotney and Mrs Reg Winterbottom attended a leaders guide demonstration in Brandon East on Wednesday. A bingo scheduled for Saturday at the Community Hall is canceled and chicken bingo will be held at Springbrook School on Friday evening. A regular meeting will precede the bingo. Randy Kowalch
MacGregor locals share Sunday visits among neighbors and relatives from Clearwater Steinbach Riding Mountain and Winnipeg. Christmas prompts and a $100 Free Press Jumble prize mark the week. Winter weather returns with a light snow and hunters hopeful for deer tracks. Football finals loom with Toronto and Winnipeg in Grey Cup contention and a memorable car ride story from Fred Tarr.
Hollywood reports Rosalind Russell embraced playing a 165 year old Jewish woman who falls for a Japanese man in Majority of One. She credits Jack Warner and Mervyn LeRoy for steering her into the part and praises Alec Guinness as the Japanese actor.
Japan sends 147 ships of the world’s largest whaling fleet to the Antarctic for the season opening December 12. The expedition targets about 6,600 blue whales. Britain naturalizes 6,587 people in 1980, including 4,000+ Poles, 48 Russians and 236 Latvians.
The MacGregor collegiate group of twenty seven teachers plus a Plumas delegation held a Nov 14 meeting. Austin's Mr Backowich reported on pensions and the resolution endorsing the new plan was adopted. Trinidad anecdote by Mr Mohammed capped the evening, followed by a doughnut lunch due to a tighter budget.
In North Vancouver a three foot wallaby wandered into a suburban laundry where kids enjoyed the sight as mothers did laundry. Officials later returned the animal to Stanley Park and pondered how it escaped and crossed Lions Gate Bridge unnoticed.
A five day swine short course from December 4 to December 8 at the Agricultural Extension Centre in Brandon covers breeding, pig production, marketing, and financing. Lectures by Manitoba Department of Agriculture and Conservation, Canada Department of Agriculture, and University of Manitoba, with tours to Brandon Packers and local farms. Applications due November 27. tuition five dollars. full-board option ten dollars.
Al fred J. Poole of Kemnay won grand champion and first prize ribbons for a York shire barrow at the Toronto Royal Winter Fair on Thursday November 9. Gordon Hunter of Nesbitt took first in a pen of three Yorkshire barrows. Keith Gorrie of Treherne earned eleventh in live barrow and ninth in a pen. Don Church of Killarney won grand champion Percheron grade mare. The Smith brothers of Carberry secured two red ribbons with a Clydesdale gelding and a Manitoba shield winner. Other entries from William Moore and Son MacGregor won major ribbons for Clydesdales, with additional placings for Moore geldings and others from Katrime Oak River and Oakburn.
Max Kirshner sells his general store in MacGregor after 36 years to A S Fred Snaith formerly of MacGregor. Snaith previously managed the Co op store and moved to Dauphin this spring to run a store there. He will take over January 1.
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