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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 29, 1962
Page
2
The Electronics Association of Canada highlights electronics moving from production lines to all business functions. Computers now handle accounting, inventory, research, and market analysis while linking banks, post offices, and manufacturing for speed and accuracy. Electronic devices will control and monitor processes across industries, making electronics indispensable in Canada.
Canadian motorists paid provincial governments over 624 million dollars in licences and fuel taxes last year, up nearly 10 percent from 1960. After parking meters tolls safety inspections and sales tax the car adds a heavy burden. The piece notes the automotive industry's economic importance and questions if rising public costs could push society toward mass transit or higher income taxes.
Canadian garment firms braved the British market with women's and children's dresses last year but British manufacturers copied their ideas this year. A Canadian designer laments that pioneers lose out when Paris sets trends and spies recycle French concepts worldwide, urging fresh models to outpace rivals.
The piece urges advertising reform citing public distrust from exaggerated claims. It praises truthful, respectful ads and calls for consumers to boycott products that insult intelligence while supporting agencies that promote dignity and avoid double talk.
Thoughts on tempering human longing and the pursuit of virtue. Quotes from Burton Aristotle Horace emphasize restraint, contentment, and the limits of wealth and status in shaping fortune and character.
A government plan integrates with Manitoba Hydro to relocate natives from Chemara win and Moose Lake due to a Grand Rapids hydro project reservoir. A new road from Denbeigh Point to the village site will be tendered November 22 and built by spring, with 12 houses under construction and 14 moved to new foundations.
Dr Charles C Sesdhey warns that per capita water use could outpace supply by 2000 if not reduced and pollution cut. Antarctic snow cores melted at University of Wisconsin may reveal cosmic dust fall rates. Harvard and Cornell archaeologists dig Sardis finding a prehistoric burial site and a Jewish synagogue indicating ancient activity.
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