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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 21, 1960
Page
2
Saskatchewan Hide and Fur Co offers top rates for raw fish beef horsehair and deerskins. Ship inquiries to 116 Avenue A South Saskatchewan Bask.
The 41st annual Victoria Amateur Swimming Cluck-sponsored race saw 50-yard handicap entries led by a 76 year old swimmer. Younger swimmers opted out, citing no fear, as entrants braced for a Christmastide water event titled as the Victoria Amateur Swim meet.
Ontario and Quebec apple shipments to British Columbia rise as BC harvest falls to 4.2 million bushels from last year’s six million. The Plant Protection Division warns eastern shippers must fumigate under officer supervision due to Oriental fruit moth and apple maggot concerns.
Saskatchewan to issue amateur radio call letter plates for the coming licence year. More than 200 operators have applied. Early application allows time for changes in production. Plates will bear four letters and a middle numeral 5 to match each call signal. A five dollar surcharge applies per plate set. The numeral 5 marks Saskatchewan as a Canadian district.
A family rug hooking project shows how a square by square approach creates a portable craft. The piece emphasizes ease of carrying the work without a frame and highlights the neat result of shared pastime activity.
A dense recap of 1959 noting Castro over Batista in Cuba, Britain sterling changes, six-nation EEC steps, CPR trans-Canada air, Lunik moon pass, Dulles cancer and other international shifts. Major moves include de Gaulle leaving NATO, St. Lawrence Seaway opening, Tibet crackdown, and Cold War tensions across Europe Asia and Africa. Leaders and events span Khrushchev Nixon Eisenhower Adenauer and de Gaulle with mass strikes, elections, and diplomacy shaping the year.
The article lists Oscar best picture winners by year from 1950 to 1959. Titles include All the King’s Men, All About Eve, An American in Paris, The Greatest Show on Earth, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Marty, Around the World in 80 Days, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Gigi.
Dentists claim Eskimos avoid teeth problems when they eat the white man’s food, but suffer if they maintain traditional raw meat and hide chewing. The explanation cites diet and hide processing as key factors in dental health.
The Heart Foundation Canada requests parents to vow in 1960 to protect children from streptococcal infections to reduce rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. It stresses prompt medical care for throat infections, regular treatment for those with prior rheumatic fever, and support for the 1960 Heart Fund during February.
The note recalls Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s father sending his son to live two years with an English-speaking family to immerse him in the language and culture, aiming to prepare him for a future in politics.
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