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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 26, 1950
Page
7
A man who found a purse containing a suicide note returns it to Charlotte Day in a waterfront boarding house. He reads the note, seeks to help, and tells a tale of blues and redemption. Charlotte tears up the note, grateful, while the purse is seen as a second chance for both.
Cream and butter folded into potatoes with sugar spices and salt, then mixed with flour and steamed for three hours. Serve with hard or soft sauce and reheat when served.
Walter Fidler, a stocky dog handler, raced into The Pas after a 550 mile month long trek from Churchill to the festival. It marks the first such journey by dog team in twenty years, with Fidler resting his dogs along the route en route to the Manitoba Trappers' festival races.
CLIMAX Sask O R Hunt and George Brown two progressive farmers of Climax district have decided to assist nature by holding snow on their summerfallow land. Using home built snowplows they plow ridges of snow at regular distances across the summerfallow land. The ridges act as snow fences and keep an even distribution of snow on the land which they expect will provide ample moisture for a good start to the spring sown crops. They also use their plows to keep the roads open for themselves and neighbors from their farms to town. Be content but never satisfied.
A. E. Wilson of Melfort experimental farm warned at an agriculture conference that northern park belt farmers ruin topsoil with harsh tillage. He said grey wooded soil erodes faster and northern moisture is overestimated by rapid land cashing tactics, including bulldozing bushes to raise water depletion.
A freight train collided with a foraging herd of antelope near Bow Island Alberta about 75 miles east of Lethbridge, killing 23 animals. Police said the herd was moving south in search of feed when the accident occurred on the railway right of way.
City Council demands federal government appoint a fact finding committee before selecting a route for the Trans-Canada Highway. The move signals heightened local pressure to ensure thorough study and public input prior to decision.
REGINA The 1950 convention of the Saskatchewan division Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association will be held in Regina August 10 and 11. Stirling King and Walter Ash will attend the Ottawa meeting next month. The Better Newspapers competition will be continued with judges from other divisions. Saskatchewan executive attendees included Gerald Humphrey T E Scriber George Lancaster Syd Stevens John Pinckney Stirling King and Walter Ashfield.
An Alberta government official said the province holds coal reserves large enough to power Canada’s entire railway system though development has been slow and cannot yet ease the current shortage significantly.
In Saskatoon, officials report that more than a fifth of taxpayers were delinquent on hospital taxes, with about 23 percent still owing after the payment deadline. The figures highlight gaps in revenue for local health funding.
The Saskatchewan Federation of Agriculture urged the federal government to support higher egg prices while a permanent marketing plan is developed. Vancouver may bid to host the 1954 British Empire Games, with a public meeting to discuss the feasibility. Regina sculptor Henri Garier will send the coat of arms sculpture from Regina to the University of Alberta Student Union building in Edmonton. Eskimos face hardship from low fur prices, Archdeacon Marsh notes for the Arctic Anglican Diocese. Flin Flon reports D P s in northern trades convene to study English language classes for newcomers.
Victoria officials report the provincial works department faces the largest snow cleanup bill in history this winter. Works Minister Carson said maintaining 25 000 miles of highways and byways during storms will exceed all prior yearly costs, though he did not estimate the total.
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