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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 08, 1954
Page
5
A review of poliomyelitis research shows progress from basic discovery to vaccine goals. Scientists identify multiple virus types, routes of infection, and the role of gamma globulin, with 1949 breakthrough enabling growth outside nerve tissue. Mass trials of the Salk vaccine are the next key step to test effectiveness in communities.
A 10 man team from General Mills United States Navy and the University of Minnesota conducted Project Skyhook in Saskatoon beginning June 2. Balloons reached 100000 to 120000 feet using 750000 cubic feet of helium and carried instruments released by parachute. Mechanical failures and plane trouble limited three flights, with operations to Thule Arctic base and equatorial launches noted.
Sask farmer Cliff Gunderson boated on his flooded summer fallow near Melfort in Thatch Creek and landed two jackfish within minutes. One fish measured 30 inches, marking the first catches in Thatch Creek in about 40 years after spring floods backed up his land.
Mrs. C. G. Robinson, president of the Southern Alberta Pioneer and Old Timers association women section, marks 70 years of life in Calgary.
Vancouver researchers report atropine used to shorten prolonged insulin induced coma in mental patients at Essondale. Dr. F. E. McNair said six of seven treated in desperation improved within 30 to 60 minutes, aiding recovery with standard care. The finding links eye medicine to emergency psychiatry.
An estimate suggests a single record in a juke box could be played as many as two thousand times, reflecting intense use and demand for popular tracks.
Plans to present a 475 track Plains Cree chant recording made on the Sweetgrass Reserve to the Queen via the Duke of Edinburgh at the British Empire Games in Vancouver. Miss Mary Morton and Ken Peacock led the project with National Museum backing to capture fading native songs for posterity and potential wax release by a New York firm.
The article details NATO training of aircrew in Canada from 1949 to 1950, expanding from six to nine nations, including Portugal Denmark and Turkey. It notes over a thousand pilots and 1700 navigators earning wings, with training across Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta, using Harvard aircraft then T 33 Silver Stars and Mitchell bombers, and highlights cross national camaraderie fostered through sports like soccer.
A copper coin inscribed Napoleon 111 Empereur 1854 was found in the pocket of C. H. Corney of Cut Knife Saskatchewan. Corney nearly passed it off as an old penny before realizing it was a different era and issue.
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