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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 04, 1949
Page
2
A nation wide survey on public health services presented at the Canadian Public Health Association convention in Halifax highlights progress and needed improvements. The eighteen month study points to proposed regulatory changes and emphasizes the crucial issue of school child health for communities.
It notes uneven national progress in school health programmes and suggests objectives. Recommendations include preventive medicine techniques, detection of non permanent defects, control of communicable diseases, and health consultant services for all schools. It advocates keeping individual medical histories to support health instruction and supervision.
The recommendations from the survey emphasize health examinations for entering school children parental education and parental cooperation to raise school health standards. Public health authorities have many duties but school health work is crucial for Canada’s present and future general health. Healthy children with good habits become responsible citizens.
In Vancouver, Justice H S Wood rules gasoline sales on Sundays illegal except for emergencies, doctors or tourists. The test case arose after Les Johnson was convicted under the Lord's Day act for selling gas to police officers on a Sunday.
Charles Harwell of Berkeley California reported two unusual birds seen in the area a large grey owl and a scissor tailed fly catcher both never observed here before in recent counts the sighting draws attention from local naturalists and birders.
British railways use a self cleaning paint for signals that is washed white by rain. The coating increases visibility and enhances safety for fast trains.
Saskatoon report says trade between the prairies and Newfoundland via Hudson Bay is being explored. Frank Eliason, secretary of the Hudson Bay association, notes talks with Premier Joseph Smallwood and hopes to work out a trade plan. Feed grain for dairy cattle could be traded, with prairies possibly importing saltwater fish.
Sir Hubert Wilkins argues homesteading in the Arctic is feasible under a planned economy. He outlines a $9 900 lump sum to start, while lecturing at Standstead College McGill University summer school.
Hospital attendants received a surprise when Joseph Wilson aged 108 was admitted for a fractured hip after a fall nine days prior He stated the fall did not injure him until X rays revealed the fracture the date and location are reported from Montreal coverage.
A collection of light anecdotes and jokes features a mother and daughter in stylish attire, a Scotsman avoiding church, a famous asylum visitor, a forgetful professor, a punning school scene, and a girl teasing about disaster as a name. Rural summers and family mishaps round out the humor.
ST. BONIFACE Man Alexander Desaultels once gave $1,000,000 away for $1 because it takes money to make money. At 84 he recalls discovering a gold vein with a former RCMP inspector on Rice Lake in Manitoba. He sold the deed for 10 cents and got $1 to celebrate, later calling the strike San Antonio Gold Mines and estimating a potential million in value.
Western Canada's most travelled band, the Northwest Air Command Band of the Royal Canadian Air Force, will represent Canada at the Minnesota State Fair. The group has logged over 280000 miles of air travel performing across western Canada and the northern United States in the past two years.
Brilliant British Columbia John Verigin, spiritual head of the orthodox Doukhobors, has no plans for a trek by his followers from Canada. Radical Sons of Freedom members are urged to migrate east to Soviet Russia or Turkey.
Vivian A. Simmons, a longtime tattooist with 4871 designs, says Toronto residents favor arrows and hearts. He quips phooey and notes his favorite tattoo on his lower lip is the Lord's Prayer in Chinese. Pasteurized Milk Is Safe.
Estevan hosted its second annual air show despite wet weather drawing about 1000 spectators. The Estevan flying club sponsored the event with Mayor H Nicholson welcoming RC A F personnel and 25 visiting aircraft including 13 from the United States. Harold Walker of the Estevan club won the balloon breaking contest and a paper cutting demonstration followed. The show featured formation flying and a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter from Rivers Manitoba.
Saskatchewan farmers face fodder shortages as Russian thistle shows high protein content. Officials warn the southwest may see hardships similar to the 1930s, but thistles can be valuable when fed green with hay or oat straw. Farmers urged to retain breeding stock and cut grain where possible to feed livestock this winter. The note ends with a remark about the full moon during eclipses.
Guidance on making plaster mixes from hydrated lime and sand for putty coats and scratch and brown coats. Includes water volumes per 100 pounds lime, soaking times, gauging with plaster of Paris, proportions for putty and base coats, and hair additions for hair-reinforced mixes.
Vancouver report notes Mrs Hal Brunsche of San Francisco has profitable weaving as a hobby. With her loom she produces drapes lamp shades table mats and even complete upholsteries creating income for her household.
Manitoba’s fight against grasshoppers across 25 communities shows early success. Agriculture department officials report casualties up to 100 per square foot in areas with heavy spraying.
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