Wainwright Enjoys Period Of Expansion
Wainwright progresses through a building and population boom driven by proximity to Camp Wainwright. in 1951 adds 224 6m in value and 297 000 in business construction. 1952 permits reach 317 4 residential and 85 600 business. 1953 permits exceed 201 000 for residences and 120 000 for business including the new school. population rises from under 1000 in 1941 to over 2500 by 1953.
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Buniding Boon
Wainwright
Wainwright Star-Chronicle
Stitch in Time Prevents Tooth Decay
A tiny cavity detected by a dentist can grow within a year and threaten the entire tooth. Early fillings are easy and affordable, but if untreated the tooth may need to be sacrificed and replaced with an artificial one.
Home Workshop pattern offers versatile storage and silk screen frame
The article presents a flexible storage unit pattern suitable for clothing or linens by removing tying racks and adding wide trays or magazine shelves. It also describes an adjustable silk screen printing frame pattern with instructions, materials, and prices, including mailing details from Prairie Publishers Limited in Vancouver.
Humorous Vignettes From Everyday Life
A collection of short, humorous sketches and quips describing work fatigue, beauty and money, misunderstandings, and misadventures. Jokes cover a nose job price, a lamp post reply, lunch breaks, a plumber father, a lion versus elephant, a separation case, a military test, a loud bus conductor, a bullock buyer, a postman joke, and a Scots prospector send six men to replace those eaten by lions.
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Africa
Mounting Weed Control Problems Outlined At Municipal Convention
Manitoba farmers face annual losses around 50 million dollars due to weeds. H E Wood, chair of the Manitoba Weed Control Board, spoke at a Union of Municipalities meeting in Winnipeg outlining major damage from dockage, weed competition, moisture and nutrient depletion, and higher tillage costs. Mechanization and chemicals since 1951 improve control, with wild oats posing the largest single loss.
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Manitoba
H. E. Wood
Manitoba Weed Control Board
Union of Municipalities
Winnipeg
Wood
Mr. Wood
Women win most Manitoba civic seats in elections
In Manitoba elections women won 21 of 31 seats with two thirds defeating men for council and school board posts. Mayor Edythe Brown led Lac du Bonnet to re election by acclamation, Portage la Prairie saw Mrs. F. E. C. Richardson top the school board, and Brandon elected Mrs. FE. C. Cowand to its council for the first time in 15 years. St Boniface was the sole city without a woman winner.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Lac du Bonnet
Edythe Brown
F. E. C. Richardson
Portage la Prairie
Lloyd Henderson
FE. C. Cowand
Brandon
Brown
St. Boniface
Fruit Filled Buns and Rolls from Simple Dough Method
Instructions describe shaping a loaf with maraschino cherries then forming a jelly roll and nine sheets, baking at 350 degrees for 4 minutes and 30 minutes, then making rolls and frosted fruit buns with sugar glaze and almond flavor. The text gives dough portions, rising times, and oven temps for several pastry items.
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Tor & Warnee
Youngsters rink trail to host small ice arena
A developmental hockey rink for children at the trail site in B C will mimic full size facilities with a 147 by 70 foot ice surface. Walkways encircle the area and will hold several hundred spectators.
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Trail
B.C
A_ nockey
Good Oats Field Pibroach Alta D N Rod Dick
A district farmer produced 103 bushels per acre from a six acre oats field in the 1953 crop season. The common cold costs victims two billion dollars annually.
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Pibroach
Alta
D. N. Roddick
Plenty Of Gas In British Columbia
British Columbia’s Peace River district holds 2.2 trillion cubic feet of proven natural gas, more than Alberta’s 1.5 trillion, and could supply markets in the northwestern United States and Canada. Premier W. A. C. Bennett urged federal action on the West Coast Transmission pipeline plan and oppositions rumors.
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British Columbia
Forthern Peace H River
United States
Canada
Social Credit
W. A. C. Bennett
West Coast Provinces
Federal Power Commission
Bennett
West Coast Transmission Company
Edmonton
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Johnny
R.F
George Ferguson
Vegreville
George
Fleischmann
Bette
Dodd
Soesee
MacDonald
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
Pegg
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