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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1955
Page
8
In Gregory's Department Store a tall foreign woman demands a missing table from a bedroom suite. The weary manager scrambles through will call, stock, and files as shoppers crowd the closing hour. At last the bill reveals the table was sold in 1938.
A painter visits a Maine village and in a general store asks for camel hair brushes. A boy fights a neighbor for cake after school and returns with two black eyes. An inspector finds a cottage using electric light briefly to see by. California’s old trees boast lifespans of 3,250 years.
Alberta merges motor vehicle and highway operations into a single department of highways. Horace R. Clark becomes registrar of the new branch and deputy registrars J. Pritchard R. F. Tait and C. J. Kenway join the three divisions motor vehicle operators and regulatory. The highway traffic board remains separate but joins the regulatory division.
Advertises pattern 4777 for misses sizes 12 to 20 and size 16 blouse with blouse skirt and jerkin. Describes open sides jerkin four gore skirt and front fastening blouse plus yardage for 35 inch and 54 inch fabrics. Priced 35 cents with order details and address.
Wanda and Billy Kenny and Sue visit grandma for a treat. In the front room a windup toy plays a tinkly tune while the children listen quietly. Grandma smiles as they promise to return another day. The piece closes with a quip about poor women drivers and husbands as teachers.
Reports indicate a sale of about 12 million bushels of Canadian wheat, mainly to the United Kingdom and Belgium, with shipments expected when Hudson Bay navigation opens in mid July. The Canadian Wheat Board has priced No 1 Northern at 1.82 a bushel and Churchill’s government elevator is expanding to double capacity.
A Winnipeg meeting led by H E Wood and attended by 25 weed specialists from the University of Manitoba federal and provincial agriculture departments and industry outlined 1955 field trials. Eight Manitoba farms with heavy wild oat infestations will be treated with chemicals and tested for germination, while L H Shebeski and George Friesen will expand the university weed program. Committees will test newer chemicals on crops and weeds, and the Manitoba Power Commission will broaden brush control along power lines and roads this season.
BC game commission estimates over 5,000 moose and 28,000 deer were taken by hunters in 1953. Additional counts include about 51,000 pheasants, 171,000 willow grouse, 143,000 blue grouse, 17,000 sharp tailed grouse, and 429,000 ducks.
The Canadian Government Travel Bureau recorded 397 594 individual enquiries in the first eight months of 1954, up 15.8 percent from the same period in 1953.
The Irish became the earliest Europeans to adopt the potato as a staple, reshaping regional agriculture and dietary habits.
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