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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 22, 1970
Page
2
The piece argues removing tetraethyl lead from gasoline reduces pollution and notes a Detroit area company now offers unleaded fuel. It cites higher costs for unleaded gas, historical damage from lead, and Windsor’s price differences while urging adoption for low-compression engines to curb emissions.
An American psychologist highlights misused labels as D Leon Smith trains Japanese koi at a Buena Park amusement center to play poker. The carp reportedly pick aces and tens, ring bells, retrieve balls, smoke, and kiss their trainer, challenging brain size assumptions about intelligence.
The shift to decimal currency next February forces about 50,000 coin operated tea machines to adapt for new coins. Workers fear delays could disrupt tea breaks and unions warn of possible strikes if machine changes lag. The note cites the cultural urge for tea and readers’ familiarity with penny and shilling era traits.
Proposals from Survival Day sponsors urge a Land Use Act with parks or belts of two acres per 1000 in cities, eight per 1000 in urban areas, and four per 1000 regionally. The brief also calls for family allowance removals, higher child tax rules, extended territorial waters, stricter fisheries enforcement, shipowner liability, a pesticide system, DDT phaseout, salvage recycling mandates, bottle deposits, and lumber sawmill use rules with a 1972 deadline, plus an Air Management Act and public records for industrial effluents.
Six Manitoba highways department workers at Dauphin are reinstated after hearings into dismissal and suspension. Three receive minor discipline with short suspensions or pay cuts, the rest are restored with retroactive compensation. no further damages awarded.
A Manitoba brief from the Western Manitoba Bar Association says legal aid must include the right to choose counsel regardless of means. It calls for full-time aid directors, local eligibility appeals, regular indigent spot advice, and reduced fees as social responsibility. Rural areas should match urban access.
Brandon schools faced multiple bomb scares as 675 Neelin High and 950 Vincent Massey High students were sent home after warnings received by the city fire department around 9 am and again in the afternoon. Police and fire crews found no explosives amid the searches.
A Regina study group found mercury levels in four Qu Appelle Lakes fish exceeded UN limits. Pike, perch, pickerel, and whitefish showed readings from 0.20 to 0.78 ppm, with only one sample within Canada’s 0.5 ppm limit. The July August study cites possible runoff and seed fungicide sources, noting no large local plants dumping mercury. Lakes tested include We Cana, Pasqua, Echo, and Katepwa.
In a February 1738 note John Wesley questions his own spiritual status despite deeds: far from attaining a holy Christian character, he admits universal sinfulness, the insufficiency of works, and hope only in justification through Jesus Christ. He contrasts his attempts at philosophy divinity and almsgiving with true atonement.
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