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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 22, 1938
Page
2
An editorial argues Canada’s first ten months show a $66 million revenue gain and $12 million in reduced expenditures, yielding a $7 million net surplus and a $28 million potential year-end surplus. It discusses balanced budgets as a mark of prosperity and explains hidden indirect taxes complicating taxpayer awareness.
Royalite Oil Company will start a six inch pipeline 45 miles from Turner Valley to Calgary to boost crude transport capacity to 24 000 barrels daily. Current output from 35 wells is about 26 000 barrels daily with a four inch line and 13 000 barrel daily capacity under pro ration.
Shrimp in Alaskan waters are much smaller than those found along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, highlighting regional size differences in crustacean catches.
Sir Stenton Thomas governor of the Straits Settlements opens a graving dock now second only to Southampton's for the Queen Mary. Singapore is ready to base the royal navy's largest ships as dry-dock facilities expand. A note adds that dried eggs are valued at a pound equal to three or four pounds of frozen eggs.
In a gala scene the Polish pianist Paderewski tells the Russian ruler he is not Russian but a Pole. The czar replies there is no Poland, only Russia, and Paderewski then plays Chopin’s Funeral March as a quiet rebuttal. Paderewski would soon lead a free Poland while the czar waned.
May Judge Margaret Anglin, Canadian born actress, may visit Winnipeg to adjudicate the Dominion Drama Festival finals the week of May 16. Festival heads have approached her but no definite appointment yet. An American adjudicator was considered to handle bilingual English and French plays. Col. H. C. Osborne, honorary director, recently met Anglin in New York.
Elmer Siebert living near Lima consumed 47 pancakes in one sitting and washed them down with four cups of coffee plus several slices of bread. In another note Johannesburg plans a 6.7 million dollar slum clearance project.
Sheep ranchers in the Yuma Valley Arizona learned to shear in November boosting wool per sheep by about two pounds. An early clipping plus higher market prices increased this year's Yuma and Blythe districts total clip by nearly 100000 pounds. About 42000 sheep graze on farms in the area.
A post office encounter features a woman accusing staff of errors as she explains her husband is in Newcastle on business and a letter she received bears a Brighton postmark. The exchange highlights mail mixups and regional stamps.
A lighthearted saying credits small contributors for larger success, noting how major achievements rely on the steady work of ordinary participants at the base. The proverb frames teamwork as essential to rising to the top.
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