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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1966
Page
6
The Fashion Group in Montreal showcased Canadian fabrics to press and public, featuring designers’ photos and comments. A prominent Canadian designer praised Canadian wool knit fabrics as the best made anywhere and praised cottons and crepes, but critics urged greater variety and imagination in Canada’s fashion industry.
The Thames Conservancy announced a $24 million plan to tap underground sources to supply London and the south east with 200 million extra gallons daily. It would avoid surface reservoirs costing $135 million to $240 million and flooding 10 square miles of river valley land. Water would be pumped into the Thames when levels drop and underground stores would be replenished by winter rains.
A Canadian history vignette recounts the 1793 naming of Brandon House by Hudson's Bay Company traders on the Assiniboine frontier, with notes on rival posts, colorful figures like Le Malin and Mad MacKay, and a tale of capture and release as tensions among traders and Indigenous peoples shaped early Brandon.
Dr. Oswald Hoffman on radio The Lutheran Hour suggests fir trees became religious symbols because they are evergreens, seen as a sign of an immortal beloved God across many parts of the world.
In a built in defense, certain beetles release a strong smelling secretion to drive away attackers and reduce predation. The mechanism acts as an automatic chemical shield in their survival strategy.
The 1965-66 port season offers 218 cruises by 21 steamship lines aboard 38 luxury liners. Empress of Canada adds sailings, with six departures from West 55th Street, including a 10 to 15 day schedule, limited to 650 passengers, with early bookings from under 250 dollars. Other Canada sailings include 12, 13, 14, and 15 day options to multiple ports, with Christmas and New Year at sea. Prices start around 30 dollars per day per person, varying by cabin type, plus predeparture hotel rates and travel tips.
An increasing number of seniors seek ocean travel abroad for comfort, leisure and value. Two tours to the Old Country sponsored by the Senior Citizens' Federation of Saskatchewan and Manitoba sail from Montreal to Glasgow and Liverpool in April 1966 aboard the Empress of England and Empress of Canada, returning July 4. Inquiries to Mr. W. E. Clampitt, Room 105 Canadian Pacific Station, Winnipeg.
The article gives practical tips for preserving and cooking game meat. It stresses cooling and refrigeration after field evisceration, notes aging can be done by butchers, and offers simple methods. Venison parallels lamb and wild duck similar to domesticated duck, with lean meat needing added fat. Traditional seasoning suggests fruit stuffed birds.
Nellie Raymond of Tuktoyaktuk and Louisa Tsetso of Fort Simpson will join Ottawa events as the first NWT participants in National 4-H Club Week. They travel with Mrs. John Craig, FWIC secretary, under a Youth Travel Grant funded by the Canadian Federated Women's Institutes.
The report notes C W Scott urging rapid planting of single species fast growing forests to meet rising timber demand. It cites BBC Farming World coverage by John Newell, highlighting seed selection, breeding, and factory like forestry, with millions of acres planted in 1964 across Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
F G Proudfoot of the federal research station reports five years of tests on about 10,000 White Leghorn hens. A 14 hour day with 10 hours darkness, starting after hatching, yielded equal or better egg production feed efficiency and net income than other day lengths. Some strains varied, with a subset preferring 20 hours 40 minutes early and tapering to 14 hours by 21 weeks.
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