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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1951
Page
2
The article stresses soil fertility depends on returning crop nutrients and highlights commercial fertilizers as key. It notes fertilizer production has become a large worldwide industry and is widely used where crops grow to sustain productivity.
United Nations FAO official G J Gallister warns of a critical sulphur shortage slowing fertilizer production. Global output remains high but shortfalls threaten Asia Far East and world food growth. Canada has current supplies but risks rise next year as by products from Alberta oil and Athabasca tar sands are explored to offset the gap.
Michael Verigin, 68, arch angel and leader of the Doukhobors, died in Vancouver hospital after pneumonia followed an emergency operation. He had previously run a grain elevator near Winnipeg and worked as a boarding housekeeper in Vancouver before returning to the Doukhobors. He founded a settlement at Hilliers on Vancouver Island and had been ill since July 12. He was not related to Peter Verigin, killed in 1924, but was a central figure in Doukhobor affairs.
The Niagara Falls Review quotes a philosopher’s recipe for healing as a mix of kindness personal interest knowledge of human nature and spirit of service. It frames medical care as a humane approach applicable to all illnesses through the old fashioned doctor’s human factor.
Pattern 7443 offers a crochet Jifficoat in shell stitch using cotton or wool. Includes directions for sizes 32 34 and 36 38 and requires twenty five cents to Household Arts Department z union Wee Peeat Street W Toronto. Also promotes the 1951 Alice Brooks Needlework catalog with twenty five cents for copy.
A collage of brief jokes and quips features a station porter offering to brush off a passenger and a minister debating a church move as a raise. Other gags involve a rescuer’s coin, a clerk’s joke about dependents, umbrella exchanges, college nostalgia, and a man’s failed attempt to win a dollar from the Lord. The humor hinges on wordplay and social misreads.
Ottawa reports an unprecedented egg shortage with Canada importing over two million dozen eggs from the United States and Holland in recent months. An Agriculture Department official says production runs about 2,220,000 dozen weekly, below the 2,700,000 dozen needed, with hope to return to self sufficiency by autumn and not export eggs.
Summer salad idea uses fruit and cottage cheese with a gelatin mold. The recipe blends plain gelatin lemon juice apricot nectar orange sections cottage cheese and greens to form a three layer mold serves six with a cheese topping after chilling.
The first airborne Red Cross blood transfusion clinic leaves Winnipeg for Fort Churchill on August 13. Two RCAF Dakotas will transport personnel and equipment to establish a clinic at the northern Manitoba army base hospital, with another clinic planned at The Pas.
Honesty showed at The Pas as a leather satchel with $2,875 lay on a sidewalk for three hours outside a hotel beer parlor. A passer-by alerted Constable Pat Shaw who recovered the satchel content to the owner, who later had the money shipped to him by express.
An authoritative survey shows 1704 drilling rigs active in western Canada as they search for oil, signaling a surge in exploration activity across the region.
Julius Hagenguth warns there is no completely safe place in a thunderstorm and urges avoiding open fields. If caught on a golf course seek shelter indoors. if unavailable lie on the ground. Do not stay in an isolated tree or a metal car with one foot on ground and one on the car. Keep away from electrical devices and water. lightning rods offer limited protection. about 2,000 Americans are injured or killed annually.
The Post Office Department in Ottawa is assessing a commemorative stamp for the October royal tour of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. A spokesman said a postal tribute is planned, but designing an appropriate stamp is tight for time, so the issue may come after the visit has begun.
In a historical note, the earliest use of printed music notation is dated to 1473 marking a milestone in music publishing and dissemination.
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