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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 28, 1971
Page
3
Auctioning household furniture, appliances, and a 1966 Oldsmobile Delmonte at Worry Store on Saturday October 30 and Monday November 1 at 11 30 am. Items include range, refrigerator, TV, furniture, tools, firearms, a platform scale, lawn mower, ladder, and a 1966 car. Store property and fixtures to be bid with reserve. groceries, hardware, and dry goods also offered.
N W Central Plains discusses highway signage to highlight historic Arden Ridge sites. Foreman notes gravel and clay deposits suitable for concrete and pottery industries. Community open to a large scale feedlot, while many area farmers already raise cattle.
Vancouver actor Chief Dan George, age seven, hunted near the Alberta border with outfitter Frank Laviolette in the Grand Detroit Camp region. He wounded the buffalo from 200 yards, then followed a blood trail for three miles to complete the hunt. The 20-square-foot hide will become a rug, but the meat was inedible due to tuberculosis.
The postal code arrives in Manitoba as the first province to be coded with Ottawa already using it. Announced by MP E. B. Osler on behalf of Postmaster-General Jean-Pierre Cote, the alphanumeric code aids mail sorting, with area precision in urban parts and village identifiers for rural posts. It will roll out to Saskatchewan in 1972 and across Canada by 1974, appearing as the last line of the address after the name and street designation.
Alberta and Manitoba move toward a prairie farm machinery testing centre prompted by Clarence Barber’s royal commission. Saskatoon’s Jack Messer announced the plan after a meeting with Barber and 75 business, farmer, and government representatives.
Resources Minister Sidney Green said a crown corporation will build a $7.5 million ownsite hotel at Leaf Rapids in northern Manitoba as part of the Rutland Lake mining development. He noted the community may operate or lease the hotel, stressing local control could outperform private operation and criticizing fears about community management.
Rene Chartier, special assistant to Premier Ed Schreyer, told the Canadian Pharmaceutical Advertising Club that Manitoba aims for lower drug costs by 1973 at the latest. He said no concrete program exists yet and warned pharmacists to share responsibility in a health care delivery system, hinting at legislation for generic substitution and a possible central purchasing center to cut prices.
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