Remiss in library services in Manitoba cited
Manitoba has been remiss in library services for the bind and partially blind, says CNIB director Bob Storey. He told the Manitoba Library Association meeting that visually handicapped people are too low a priority for libraries. A resolution urged a province wide conference of lay persons and librarians to boost citizen participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
Bob Storey
Manitoba Library Association
Town Happenings Paint Crew Prep for Winter Festivities
Painters and decorators work through the village as cooler weather signals winter. Four Way Motors gains a face lift by Carruthers-Funk and Co. applying fresh paint to stucco just ahead of the annual car show and the Tartan Days Festival. Murray Lamb debuts his building makeover with new exterior finish.
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Four Way Motors
Carruthers-Funk and Co
Ccar
Murray Lamb
Murray
Bank of Montreal
Ronald Olsen
Souris
Bev Barber
Olsen
Jim Turner
Jim
Turner
MacGregor
Ormy
Yellowhead highway fund drive moves through conference
At the Western Highways Ministers Conference in Prince Rupert Bonar Bain and Tom Shandro presented a proposal to seek federal funds for upgrading the Yellowhead highway. The plan envisions a four province joint expenditure of 377 million dollars to raise the highway to Trans Canada standards and meet current and future needs.
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Yelowhead
Association
Yellowhead
Murta Calls for Higher Wheat Prices to Aid Farmers
MP Jack Murta for Lisgar Manitoba urged a minimum increase of 1.50 per bushel for wheat and a raise for barley and oats, to be retroactive to August 1 1975. He argued farm incomes have leveled while costs rise, pressing for Board price realism as House resumes in October.
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Jack Murta
Lisgar
Manitoba
Murta
Marta
Wheat Board
Otto Lang
Canadian Wheat Board
Municipal finances show permits totaling significant amount
The rural municipality of Sort Norfolk belts presented a council bill of 133 420 58 seeking payment. The reeve and council faced expenditures tied to building permits amounting to 103 000 dollars amid ongoing budget concerns.
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Sort
Norfolk Belts Requie Co
Ever Ete Om
Jake J.thiessen
Austin
Herman Weber
North Norfolk
MacGregor Seeks New Highway Mileage Signs On Town Promotion
The Manitoba department of highways will receive a letter from MacGregor village about installing mileage signs from major junctions to MacGregor. The move follows a council request led by Clare Tarr to boost town promotion.
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Manitoba
Department ‘of Highways
MacGregor Village
MacGregor
Clare Tarr
Tarr
MacGregr
Carberry- Neepawa
Portage
Looking to the Future Libraries Convention Outlines Actions
Itoba Library convention endorses future action themes for libraries. Resolutions chair Douglas Steinburg calls for discussion on AML 10. The Manitoba Library Association asserts $2,000 in term deposits and $3,205.13 in savings to fund an ongoing Library Awareness Program with budget to be set by the incoming executive.
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Itoba
Douglas Steinburg
University of Manitoba Extension Library
Manitoba Library ‘Association
Weibe Bros Horse Auction At Pratt Clears Stock Fast
The Weibe Brothers held a Pratt district horse sale at the Pratt store with Rodgers Auction Service. The auction drew a crowd and cleared almost their entire stock including 80 head of weanling colts saddle horses two quarter horse crosses standard beds Appaloosas and pintos. Prices reached as high as 120 for a single horse and the Weibe family called the event satisfying after much work raising the animals.
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Rooten
Tom Mix
Welbe Boys
Pratt
Weibe
Rodgers Auction Service
Lady Godiva
Lone Ranger
Welcome to New Faces at M.C.1 and Freshie Days
After three weeks back at M.C.1 the school welcomes new nines and tens and introduces new staff like Kowalayk teaching English and Esau helping caretaker Outhwaite. Freshie days included a three day initiation ending with a dance and crowning Glenn Parkess and Kathy Woodward as freshie royalty. Football setbacks to Neepawa and Glenboro mark the season, next game at Carberry. Volleyball practices begun, yearbooks arrived, and remaining souvenir invitations can be picked up at the school.
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M.C
Kowalayk
Esau
George Outhwaite
Glenn Parkess
Kathy Woodward
MacGregor
Howard Harkness
Pam McGregor
Austin
Betty Lowe
Rossendale
Sandra Lamont
Don Nichol
Neepawa
Mth
Glenboro
Carberry
Vollyball
Allison Tart
Glenboro 14 Mustangs blank Manitoba clash
Glenboro, last year’s champions, throttled the Mustangs 14 nothing as Glenboro’s speed size and power overwhelmed the defense. Howard M Rae and Don Nicoll starred on defense while referees Dennis Lamb Morley Hartel and linesman Ray Hill kept a busy pace. Crowd donations reached 95.52 dollars as the team eyes a win at Carberry on Sept 24 and a home game on Sept 28 against Treherne.
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Macaregor Mustangs
Glenboro
Mustangs
Don Nicoll
Dennis Lamb
Morley Hartel
Ray Hill
Carberry
Treherne
Farewell honors the Wark family
A farewell tea and presentation honored Albert and Doris Wark with guests wearing boutonnieres. Harvey and Edna Kane and others presented best wishes, a speech by Fed Clarke, and lunch hosted by numerous hostesses. Albert and Doris shared personal farewells before the event ended.
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Albert
Doris Wark
Boutonniere
Doris
Harvey
Edna Kane
Bonnie ‘Telford
Beverly Barber
Theresa
Ann Barber
Tamara
Mabel Montgomery
Fed Clarke
Tome
Manitoba student earns MSSS scholarship in Manitoba
Richard Rumancik of Beaver, Man is one of two provincial MSSS scholarship recipients. The 200 scholarship award, tenable at the University of Manitoba, honors high grade 12 averages and science interest shown at the Manitoba Schools Science Symposium at the University of Winnipeg. Richard, son of Mr and Mrs Phillip Rumancik, is in first year engineering at Manitoba.
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Manitoba Schools
Richard Rumanciki
M.S.S.S
University of Manitoba
University of Winnipeg
Richard
Bay
Phillip Rumancik
Beaver, Man
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Ption
Sterling Lyon
Sidney Spivak
Progressive Conservative Party
Lyon
Mr. Spivak
NDP
Abe Dreidger
Ed Gyurki
Ozzie ‘Aausland
Air Command Band
Winnipeg
Jim Ruth
Jean Wright
Sidney
Henry Mancini
Liberace
Farmer
John Robertson
Manitoba ‘School Library-Audio Visual ‘Association
Weibe Brothers
Pratt District
Mustang
Howard M.rae
Wark
Edgar
Ewan and Moore
Hill View
Adge
McRae
Richard Rumancik
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