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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1951
Page
2
Canada welcomes new citizens amid labor shortages in many industries and farm help demand. Since 1949 immigration policy has drawn thousands from the United Kingdom and Europe, benefiting the economy and aiding displaced persons.
Saskatchewan Lloydminster field may hit a record level this year as production through May reached 468 810 barrels up from about 400 000 a year earlier. Full last year yielded 1 052 532 barrels with peak output in summer and fall. The field concentrates heavy oil.
Three messenger girls at the Douglas Aircraft plant in El Segundo California use roller skates to speed delivery of blue prints to engineers. Phyllis Cook June Singer and Betty Romanowsky deliver prints in less than half the walking time, allowing engineers to spend more time on work and less time searching for data.
A collection of brief humor bits and captions including quips about new paint jobs, titles, hiccups, editors, trousers, and leadership. Lightweight wordplay features punchlines and playful misunderstandings, with situational humor and regional slang sprinkled throughout.
Alice Brookes advertises bewitching kitchen wear aprons and potholders with little fabric scraps for contrast. Embroidery transfers and cutting charts for two aprons accompany Pattern C7057. Send 25 cents and write name address pattern number to obtain pattern. 2944
Ralph Wiseman, Rosetown, Sask., used 5000 hours and 800 dollars to build a 46 foot wing span glider. Norman Bruce of Calgary test flew it to 300 feet at 30 mph. The craft mirrors airplane controls and is one of three in Canada. Wiseman must pass Transport tests for licence before he may fly. Born Moosomin, educated Swift Current, resident Rosetown since 1935.
Victoria police chief asks two of the citys three girl pipers to stop playing for waterfront tourists. Mary Fletcher and Dinah Kerr both 17 were told to quit with Anita Baird 15 still performing briefly at boat time. A complainant called the continuous piping grim and unbearable.
The 44 year old Candle Lake resident Curley and her husband Conn run a trap line and lake resort sixty miles north of Prince Albert. She began trapping in 1929 after marrying to remain in the bush, and now manages camp duties, wood cutting, and twelve cabins. She dislikes dresses, cans hundreds of quarts each year, and loves Candle Lake as the only home she wants.
CALGARY Mrs Mary Dover shows a break in gender norms as she advances from lieutenant colonel in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps to Calgary alderman and Alberta Legion vice president and now serves as chief warden for the city Civil Defence Program. She highlights her lineage with A E Cross and Col J F Macleod as Western pioneers.
Breeders of Hereford cattle from North and South America Australia and Europe begin a four day session seeking a world organization for Herefords. H A Lindsey Field of Australia proposes a federation to create a world authority with rotating world conventions. D A Andrew of Calgary backs the idea along with other supporters.
Alberta government officials announced the start of the first bomb-proof building in the province. Poole Construction has won a $60,000 contract to construct a reinforced concrete alternate headquarters for civil defense, replacing the current government administration building.
Vancouver reports more than 700 head of purebred B C dairy cattle to be sold in the United States in a record mass sale. Leaders Harry Reifel Geert Kear and W H Savage state milk industry conditions drive the move with initial shipment of 60 head to Portland Oregon in September and later sales planned for Boise Idaho and Ogden Utah.
Regina officials say local scales are closer to balance than Ottawa where R W Maclean reports about one in ten scales in Canadian cities are out of balance. Local standards division notes the Ottawa figure may be high for Regina.
A historical note states that the total weight of earthworms in a pasture with medium clay loam soil nearly matches the combined weight of the livestock the pasture can support. This highlights soil biology's large role in grazing ecosystems.
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