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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1973
Page
6
Local column reports frost affecting gardens in Austin and MacGregor areas with apples damaged and trees slow to grow. Residents note community visits, travel, and social events as neighbors recount a golden wedding anniversary in Forfar and various patient health updates.
Otto Lang said no Wheat Board probe into reports of Soviet Union selling Canadian wheat. Prime questions by John Diefenbaker prompted Lang to note no proof the wheat is Canadian and suggested it could be American. Context includes earlier remarks by Roland Godin about USSR selling wheat to Europe.
S. G. Cartwright Lethbridge director of pupil personnel services says many five year olds should not be in public school. He notes first graders struggle when parents enroll them early. Under the school act a child need not enter until seven, though local rules permit entering at six as of Sept. 1.
LAVENHAM NEWS reports gatherings across the area. Hartogs from Lundar and Radfords from Bagot visited the MacDonalds for Sunday supper. Gay Neufeld of Clearwater overnighted with Henry Wiebe and joined Abe Wiebe for Friday night. John Martens hosted a Klassen reunion at Portage Park with Abe Wiebe and family. Birthday greetings go to Wade MacDonald, Dave Doerffer and I Fehr. Greg Schneider of Calgary and Henry O Neill of Winnipeg were visitors, with Calgary residents George Wiebe stopping by.
Mrs May Bowman visited with Jean Fox before leaving for Bournemouth England. Local visitors included Mrs W E Adkins Victoria BC and Bruce Simpson West Vancouver BC, en route to Europe via New York to see Keith Friend and family. Winnipeg visitors and birthday events highlighted Mrs Lake’s birthday September 17 with a dinner party, and Joyce’s mother’s birthday celebrated by John Tomehuk and family from Portage along with many others.
The Common Market imposes a ban on export of hard wheat based pasta from Italy due to rising world prices and a looming shortage. Italy dominates hard wheat use for pasta and bread, and the export controls follow prior actions on cereals and soft wheat taxes aimed at curbing speculative selling.
Party president Graeme Haig said a leadership convention this fall would be virtually impossible due to the extensive planning required. Sidney Spivak wants a fall vote to test popularity, but no challengers have emerged and an executive meeting is expected to set a deadline review for late February or early March. If uncontested, the convention would serve as a confidence vote for Spivak, who became leader in 1971 with 22 seats in the 57 seat legislature.
The Adams Hart Bernath family held their first reunion on Sunday July 15 1073 at the Warren Hart farm Pembina North Dakota with 120 attendees from three provinces and six states. Descendants traced to two Ontario migrations united by marriages between Hart and Bernath lines. Prizes went to the longest married couple and the oldest member Jack Adams received a gift.
Rev John K Wurz testifies before Justice Urie on 1961 to 1968 income tax assessments for 64 Darius Lent Hutterite colonies in Alberta and Saskatchewan. He says signing a tax agreement would breach faith and that the group cannot own property individually. The Tax Review Board decision is under appeal, with two other Hutterite groups having signed on. The dispute stems from 1961 tax exemptions and 1968 shifts to personal taxation. The article notes undisclosed amounts and mentions a separate note about the MacGregor Ladies Curling Club meeting on October 3 at 8 pm.
The Department of Regional and Economic Expansion delays moving staff out of Ottawa as civil servants resist relocation. Four regional offices planned outside the city, including Moncton Toronto and Saskatoon, would affect about 270 employees. Officials cite reluctance and lack of deputy ministers to run the new posts.
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