Regina tour shows young students printing trades in action
Three Grenfell High School students Kathryn Ferch Arden Hood and Ronald Fehler toured Prairie Publishers CKCK radio Caxton Press and observed engraving camera room typesetting and high speed presses. The vocational program is education department run with no pay and aims to expose students to printing trades.
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Grenfell High School
Grenfell Sun
Regina
Kathryn Ferch
Arden Hood
Ronald Fehler
Prairie Publishers Ltd
Canada
Dave Rogers
Leader-Post
Ernie Rust
CKCK
Caxton Press
Department of Education
Miss Perch
the Sun
Grenfell
Sask
City can afford wage hikes say union
Union organizer Pat Lanahan told the Civic Employees Union at its banquet in the Legion Home that Swift Current could grant 15 percent wage increases without raising the mill rate. He urged better department administration and improved worker relations to fund higher pay while maintaining living standards.
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Swift Current
Civic Employees’ Union
Pat Lanahan
Legion Home
the Sun
Sask
Prairie Pioneers Lodge launches applicant screening in Swift Current
Prairie Pioneers Lodge directs municipalities to distribute admission forms for the senior home project in Swift Current Saskatchewan. Priority will be based on financial social age and physical ability with a March 15 screening by the committee led by Leonard Corrigan. Rates start at 67 dollars monthly for a single occupant in the main lodge and 26 dollars for a couple in cottages plus utilities.
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Prairie Pioneers’ Lodge
Swift Current
Jack Mcintosh
Leonard Corrigan
Prairie Pioneers Lodge
Vern Blanke
Henry Blanke
Prairie Pioneer Lodge
the Sun
Sask
J V Forrest Appointed General Superintendent at Moose Jaw
Promoted J V Forrest of Fort William is named general superintendent of the CPR Saskatchewan district at Moose Jaw effective February 1. He replaces L R Smith transferred to Vancouver. Forrest has led Fort William terminals for 2 1/2 years and served as Moose Jaw assistant superintendent in 1949 after joining CPR in 1920.
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J. V. Forrest
Fort William
CPR
Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw
L. R. Smith
Vancouver
Mr. Forrest
Railway
Roger Bacon and the origins of eyeglasses and science
The text notes Roger Bacon among the first to use magnifying lenses to aid reading. It traces his curiosity, skepticism toward occult arts, and the idea that eye observation leads to truth. It links Bacon’s lens description to early scientific method and the later development of modern eye care and lens grinding.
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Bacon
Humboldt marks 100th straight fire-free day record
Fire Chief R Cameron reported Humboldt completed 100 consecutive fire-free days, setting a town record. The last fire within town limits occurred October 19, a grass fire. 1957 fire losses totaled 2565, the lowest in years, with gas installations credited for reducing fires.
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Humboldt
R. Cameron
Cameron
Journal
Humboldt, Sask
Canadian manufacturing hourly wage in 1957 stat
Average hourly wage in Canadian manufacturing on October 1 1957 was 160.5 cents, up from 153.3 cents a year earlier and 129.2 cents five years earlier.
Lacombe Water Fluorine Level Deemed Ideal for Children
Local dentists Dr Murray Boyce and Dr Dalton Deedrick told Lacombe nurses alumni that town water naturally contains 1.2 parts per million fluorine, an ideal level for children's dental health. They noted artificially fluoridated water aims for 1 to 1.5 ppm, and adults gain no extra benefit from natural fluorine.
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Lacombe
Murray Boyce
Dalton Deedrick
Dr. Deedrick
Indian student wins new senior matriculation scholarship
Tom Stevenson a 22 year old from the Cowesses band Broadview Saskatchewan won a senior matriculation scholarship worth 750 to 1000 dollars. The award was presented at the fourth annual Indian and Metis conference in Winnipeg. Stevenson studied at Brandon and Birtle. Fourteen scholarships are being issued this year by the federal department of Indian affairs to promote higher education.
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Tom Stevenson
Cowesses
Broadview
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg
Tom
Brandon
Birtle
Federal
Department of Indian Affairs
The
Express
Sask
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Department of Natural Resources
Fort Qu'Appelle
Harold Longman
Joe Thauberger
Sedicin
Union
Pioneer Lodge
Subharshan Singh
Bruce Doak
Torquaway
UNEF
Egypt
National Defence
MEN OF
Vision
Roger Bacon
Anne Adams Pattern Dept
P.P.L
Front Street
Fluorine
Reanut Sweet
Fleischmann
Suger
Freischmann
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