Korean War Correspondents Host Children Party in Seoul
In Seoul Korean children gathered at the correspondents billet for a party aimed at 20 youngsters but hundreds arrived. Despite help from the British NAAFI the US Eighth Army blocked food purchases causing shortages. Photographers and reporters covered the event as crowds pressed at the gates and some prizes were distributed amid celebrations and disappointment.
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Seoul
United States Eighth Army
Korea
NAAFI
Navy
Army
Air Force Institutes
New Anne Adams Pattern Book Offer with Easy Sewing
The notice advertises vector style patterns including a stand out dirnci-pouf skirt with square neckline and ribbon tie belt, pattern 4989 in sizes 12 to 20. It offers 35 cent pattern orders, illustrated instructions, and a summer pattern book with glamor fashions and thrift patterns.
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Anne Adams
Grant To University For Medical Education Study
The Rockefeller Foundation of New York has granted the University of Saskatchewan $10,000 to support Dr. Wendell McLeod in studying medical education and research during the coming year. He will travel to observe methods and advances while preparing a four year medical course with the university hospital.
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University of Saskatchewan
Rockefeller Foundation of New York
Wendell McLeod
McLeod
W. S. Lindsay
Medical College
Saskatchewan
University Hospital
Edmonton planning commission marks first birthday
The Alberta government district planning commission for Edmonton area celebrates its first year. Twenty members oversee the future use of 3,000 square miles around Edmonton, including five planning technicians and fifteen commission members.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Western Briefs Pack News From Across the West
Edmonton reports an average of 37 blood transfusions daily per Red Cross Commissioner Robert Muir. Pemberton notes Railway Superintendent William Stewart tours 400 miles by car along rails with special steel flanges on a 1937 car. Central Butte buys a snowmobile for winter patient transport. Saskatoon plans a $1,000,000 power house for the university hospital. Churchill welcomes the C. D. Howe as the year’s first Hudson Strait navigator amid ice. Winnipeg wheat board opens delivery quotas after July 31 for grains. Harry Steel retires after 40 years with the Winnipeg Free Press, the paper’s first full‑time news photographer.
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Edmonton
Red Cross
Robert Muir
Pemberton
B.C
William Stewart
Pacific Great Eastern Railway
Winnipeg
Harry Steel
Winnipeg Free Press
Free Press
Steel
Saskatchewan Man Joins U.N. Food and Agriculture Office
Dr. George Dian of the University of Saskatchewan soils department will move to Rome to join FAO with a technical assistance program for developing nations in the Far East and Africa. His wife, a fungal expert, will accompany him as FAO aids soil mapping and fertility surveys. Dr. Ignatieff at Washington also works on North and South American FAO projects.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Food and Agricultural Organization of the
United Nations
George Dian
University of Saskatchewan Soils Department
Rome
Italy
F.a.u.’S Techni
Prairie Regional Laboratory
Dian
Soils Department
Rothamsted
Rothamsted Experimental Station
England
Wendy Ritchie
London University
F.A.O
Dr. V. Ignatieff
University of Alberta
North
South America
Washington
Saskatchewan Seeks Oil From Exploration Efforts
Work continued on 14 wildcat wells and 20 core holes in June as Saskatchewan's natural resources department reported 111,619 barrels of oil produced from 173 wells, mainly in the Lloydminster and Lone Rock fields. For the six months, net production reached 579,985 barrels.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Natural Resources Department
Lloydminster
Lone Rock
Farmers Shift From Wheat To Coarse Grains In Canada
Ottawa reports prairie farmers are switching from wheat and summer fallow to coarse grains and flaxseed in 1951. Spring wheat acreage drops to 24.82 million acres from 26.09 million, summer fallow down to 20.31 million from 20.998 million, while oats and barley acres rise.
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Ottawa
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Not Necessary For Irrigation Farmer To Change Methods
Carl Anderson of Brooks Alberta said irrigation farmers need not switch to specialized crops or limit land to a quarter section. He told Saskatchewan dry land farmers at a 600-person meeting that farming a quarter to a full section is possible with proper planning equipment and labor. The gathering, opening of a campaign by the Saskatchewan Rivers Development association, pressed for immediate federal action on the South Saskatchewan river irrigation dam project.
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Alberta
Carl Anderson
Brooks
Eastern
Anderson
Saskatchewan
South Saskatchewan River
Saskatchewan Rivers Development Association
Awards Mark Saskatchewan Newspaper Convention Highlights
The Saskatchewan division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association concluded its annual convention in Saskatoon with installation of Stirling King as president by Andrew King. Awards announced by Imperial Oil sponsors honored Milestone Mail, Grenfell Sun, Shaunavon Standard, Swift Current Sun, Yorkton Enterprise and Estevan Mercury for best all round papers across circulation classes, plus top editorial page honors. Delegates totaled 160, an increase of about ten from last year.
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Stirling King
Estevan Mercury
Saskatchewan
Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
Saskatoon
Andrew King
Stirling
King
George Lancaster
Melfort Journal
Syd Stevens
Shaunavon Standard
Walter Ashfield
Grenfell Sun
Peter Diener
Tisdale Recorder
Ken Mayhew
Yorkton Enterprise
Walter Telfer
Humboldt
Humboldt Journal
Indian Head News
Swift Current Sun
Dominion Textile
Norman MacLean
Elmwood Herald
Arthur Leech
St. Vital Isance
Ken Walls
Barrie Examiner
Bill Cranston
Midland Free Press
Gatheriig
Dike Under Construction at University of Saskatchewan
A protective dike is being built on the University of Saskatchewan campus to shield the hangar building after four feet of runoff water flooded it last spring.
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Saskatoon
University of Saskatchewan
Case Dismissed in Vancouver Slipper Claim
A Vancouver woman who walked in uninvited lost her damages claim against a local garage after slipping and falling into a grease pit, the court ruling the injury case dismissed.
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Vancouver
Floating store sails British Columbia coast aboard ship
Vancouver report features Bill Graham and family running a mobile department store on a 70 foot schooner hull converted into a floating shop. Stock includes clothing, shoes, lingerie, jewelry, toys, candy, watches, soft drinks. They visit isolated communities and meet chiefs like Henry Speck.
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Vancouver
Bill Graham
British Columbia
Bill
Henry Speck
Turnout Island
Old Hanson
Lagoon
Minstrel
Alert Bay
Grain Shipments Hit Record at Vancouver Port
Grain shipments from Vancouver during the crop year ending July 31 stood at a post war peak with more than 65.44 million bushels of wheat and 3 million bushels of barley sent to world markets. UK, India, Japan and South Africa were top customers. 1949 50 year total was 61.096 million bushels. The note mentions early watches first made in Nuremberg in 1747.
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Vancouver
H. H. Smith
Canadian Wheat Board
United Kingdom
India
Japan
South Africa
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Morne Ldoms
University
Central Presse
Canedern
Britain
London
Frank Spencer Spriggs
R.A.F
Western Briefs
Central Butte
Sask
Hospital Board of
Power House
Churchill
Man
C. D. Howe
Hudson Strait
U.N
Macauley Institute
Aberdeen
Scotland
Entral Press
Sherman
U.S. Naval Operations
Lynde D. McCormick
Forrest P. Sherman
Naples
Spain
U.S
West Coast
Nuremberg
Germany
Les Carroll
Soenonr
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