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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1953
Page
5
Barbacki, a French university student, says he spent two days and two nights on a narrow ledge on Mont Blanc's Fools Needle. He rode a glide rope for warmth and waited for weather to clear after Chulliat fell to his death. He survived by melting ice water, honey and minimal clothing while clinging to a protected ledge.
Gertrude Edwards, 24, of Lonesome Lake BC, bought and learned to fly a single engined floatplane to shorten mail and groceries trips from five days by boat and foot to about two hours. Her father Ralph Edwards is a migratory bird warden at Lonesome Lake and oversees trumpeter swans.
Rochester inventor Fred DeLorenzo introduces the Speedinformer a compact device mounted under the dashboard with a buzzer connected to the speedometer. A front dash control knob sets a chosen speed threshold and ticks faster as speed rises culminating in a long buzz to urge the driver to ease up.
On the island of Sark, one of the Channel islands, residents speak a Norman French dialect understood by about 300 people. The language remains a distinctive cultural marker amid British governance and channels of tourism.
In a RCA lab in Princeton researchers test a five foot car model with automatic steering and stopping. A two lane highway would use buried electric cables to generate magnetic signals picked up by car coils to steer and shift lanes. A radio tail warns of stalled vehicles and directs to passing lanes.
Bradford reports a regional shift in education as West Yorkshire scrapped secondary school entrance exams for 11 year olds. Instead, placement now uses overall academic records, class tests, and assessed potential to enter grammar, secondary modern, or technical schools, signaling a major reform amid debate over exam fairness and stress.
In Yellowknife Northwest Territories the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co poured its 1000th gold brick weighing 810 troy ounces. Neil Kerr and Ed Thornton lit the milestone as company history notes Cominco began in the area nearly 30 years prior with exploration and eventual production.
The Saskatchewan natural resources department plans about 250 miles of fire guard road this year led by Bronson and Meadow Lake forests. The program also maintains 1 200 miles of existing roads and will rebuild and regrade extensively.
Montreal reports a three year old Eskimo boy recovering from meningitis cannot stand ice cream as it is too cold. Born in Fort Chimo within Ungava Bay region, Markus sie enjoys bread and nurses while his roommate Bobby Snowball, nearly twice his age, provokes sibling rivalries. The ward hosts two Eskimo children whose language baffling the staff.
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