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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 29, 1970
Page
5
Timely Topics discusses the shift from scrub boards to non-automatic washers highlighting lower initial cost portability and ease of relocation. It outlines buying factors including tub material size construction features safety enclosures and options like pumps timers dual tubs and portable small capacity models with extractors.
Children across Canada will collect Friday after school for UNICEF during Halloween. Residents are urged to donate in the orange and black UNICEF boxes as volunteers go door to door in the evening.
Date rich community calendar with meetings and socials at MacGregor United Church MacGregor Memorial Hall and Austin Memorial rink. Events include UCW meetings Bazaar bake sale shower and rally with guest speaker Marilyn Huband from Winnipeg and Anglican women invitation.
A local Austin district column notes Mr and Mrs Gordon Hay driven to Regina, Mr and Mrs Bred Amann hosted by Mr and Mrs John McCrae with son Gary, and Mrs Wm Moncur moving to the museum in Boissevain where he has worked for months. Wilfred Booth of Winnipeg, old Austin teacher, visited with Mr Powers and son Garry on Thanksgiving Day. The U C W of Austin United Church plans a smorgasbord on Saturday November 7 and Austin Memorial rink event set for Wednesday November 4 at 8 PM.
A Calgary driver recalls a pig leaping from a small truck on the Trans-Canada highway near Banff. The hog rolled about ten times yet appeared uninjured, trotting away toward Banff as the incident spurred talk about road hazards and a comical close call.
The Public Meat Market owners Tony and Alex Kovalik were fined $125 in Winnipeg magistrate's court after selling hamburger with 43 percent fat from a first purchase and 38.1 percent fat on a return visit. The case noted that ground meat above 30 percent fat is illegal and the owners claimed the meat was advertised as fatburger and unaware of illegality.
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