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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 08, 1960
Page
5
The article notes a shift from a 16 ounce pound to smaller net weights across items. It cites 14 ounce periods and 12 ounce trays, with half pound cans containing seven and a half ounces, urging shoppers to compute weight per price to verify true value. It references Reader's Digest and the Kincardine News, Ont.
In Norwich England workers aim to freeze soft chalk under a street to allow laying a new sewer. Pipes are driven into the ground and brine is pumped to harden the chalk for tunneling and installation.
A taxi driver mistook Grace Hospital for Shaughnessy Military Hospital in Vancouver during fog. Dr A F Johnston delivered a baby girl before the taxi headed to Grace Hospital where the newborn and mother were reported fine. The report notes the incident amid a stray reference to a hammerhead shark sighting.
Detailed directions for assembling and stenciling in gay colors are on pattern 257 price 80c. An amusing gift for a hard-to-please person uses item 247 with actual-size cutting and painting guides for three door stops priced 50c. Pattern 57 Useful Set-Out Packet offers four patterns for 1.75. Patterns 311 describe three sizes of serves for rolls chips and candies. A crib set with six-inch figures uses pattern 418 50c and included in packet 48 with many cutting and painting guides for Christmas cards and decorations for 1.75.
Pattern 436 provides materials and actual size guides for glittering designs. It is one of four patterns in the Make It Yourself Christmas Packet for Children and Grown-ups, priced at $1.75.
Pattern 398 offers actual size cutting guides and directions at 50c, included in Packet 34 with eight jig saw projects and a largest piece 44 inches high. All for 1.75. A two in one gift combines a toy chest on wheels with a top that serves as a play table, Pattern 252, 50c, part of Child-Pleaser Furnishings Packet No. 47 for 1.75.
Advertisement shows Pattern 384 with cutting and painting guides, 50 cents, in Packet 70 for play equipment total 1.75. Includes Anne Adams patterns for jackets, jumpers, blouses in washable wool and corduroy. Order to Home Workshop Department PPL Vancouver and Anne Adams Pattern Dept Port Town, send 50 cents.
Cozy knitted slippers in worsted yarn advertised as warm and cuddly. Pattern 7074 covers sizes 4 to 12 and uses a single flat piece on two needles with ceff. Send thirty five cents with name address and pattern number to Household Arts Department P.P.L. 64 Front Street W Toronto.
The U S Immigration Service reports a sharp rise in native Canadians moving to the United States in the year ended June 30 1960 with 30990 departures up from 23082 the prior year. The report also shows 46668 immigrants to Canada from the U S listing Canada as last permanent residence a postwar high, up 12069.
A seven year old Baltimore Ohio girl Donna Karpiakis finished her tenth flying lesson. Instructor Randall Pollock praised her skill while noting she could handle the aircraft herself with sufficient height. Donna reached instruments and pedals using six cushions and eight inch stilts.
The fourth annual Pharmacy Extension Course at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon enrolled fifteen participants for ten days of lectures. It aimed to update on pharmaceutics pharmacology and drug therapy with a seminar on industrial pharmacy and a tour of the Eli Lilly International Corporation in Indianapolis.
Mosquitoes, despite their reputations, are fragile insects that cannot tolerate high temperatures or low humidity. Strong winds also prove too much for them, making climate and weather key to their survival.
The Times of High River questions a public relations push for payroll deductions to fund instant savings. It argues that employer led savings shifts responsibility from individuals to bosses and finance firms, warning of loss of personal financial discipline and potential government burden. The piece critiques social promises and urges Canadians to grow up, reject easy delegation, and avoid a benevolent but controlling system.
The Christian Science Monitor notes states grow stern on drinking drivers. A Long Island crash killed four. one driver was drunk with a 22 percent blood alcohol level, prompting calls for widespread chemical testing and implied license consent.
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