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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 17, 1947
Page
2
The Canadian Press survey shows British Columbia leading Western Provinces in doctors per population with about 1,400 physicians or one per 755 residents. Manitoba follows with one per 1,032. Alberta has 689 doctors or one per 1,200. Saskatchewan has 577 physicians or roughly one per 1,500.
Canada has over 12 000 registered physicians, about one for every 908 people, but many physicians do not work full time in medicine. Rural provinces show higher ratios, with some districts lacking adequate medical facilities due to retirees and new entrants, teaching, research, or administrative duties.
The piece notes Canada has high physician density but many countries lack doctors. China and Ethiopia face severe shortages, while Czechoslovakia suffered losses in war. It urges training and sending medical personnel and expanding Canadian medical education to aid devastated nations and address domestic gaps.
London Ontario residents learn that a first batch of bananas were grown in the University of Western Ontario greenhouse. The event marks a historic botanical milestone for the city and its campus.
Washington reports that the United States has sold Canada and Latin America surplus munitions and weapons of war totaling about 65 million dollars since the end of the war, for a little over 3 million dollars in payments.
A collage of quips and sketches ranging from a 101 year old’s vitality to marriage refusals and doctors’ woes. Sitcom style vignettes feature a centenarian, a convalescent, a con man, a maid, a farmer, a teacher, and a circus manager, each delivered in quick punchlines.
After seven years abroad as a war reporter and European correspondent for the Canadian Press Ross Munro arrives in Canada to take up new duties in Ottawa and Washington. He earned a world wide reputation with reporting on Dieppe Sicily Italy and Normandy and has since traveled eighty thousand miles visiting nearly every European country.
The Lamp reports Canada’s lively oil boom as 10 major companies rush to tap new domestic supplies. Imperial Oil near Leduc, 16 miles south of Edmonton, yields 39 degree gravity crude, boosting fuel for prairie farms while Canada still imports 89 percent of its processed oil.
Sixteen new service centers will be built across the Dominion within five years for Canada's 14 679 blind persons. Col. E A Baker of the Canadian Institute For The Blind announced at the institute's 29th annual meeting. Two centers are under construction in Kitchener and St Catharines with others planned in Ottawa Windsor Hamilton London and Toronto.
Chinese Central News Agency reports a group of Lingnan Middle School students in Canton threw principal Tsai Hu fu down stairs, causing fatal injuries after demanding his surrender of final examination papers. The agency did not state the motive for needing the papers.
Ottawa health officials report 4622398 paid in family allowances from 1945 to 1947, with about 30 million recovered via income tax in 1946. Since 1947 the allowances joined the income tax exemption system, making them non taxable per child 16 and under and boosting annual payments by 10 million.
A compact collection of maxims notes that adversity tests principle and honesty. It argues true joy comes from meaningful deeds, not comfort or praise, and praises religion and faith as sources of public good and wisdom.
Postmaster-General Bertrand told the Commons that Alexander Graham Bell commemorative stamps were extraordinary, with $125,000 worth sold before issue. He added that total stamp sales to collectors this year exceeded $300,000.
About 95 000 Maori live in New Zealand according to the figures cited. The estimate highlights the presence of indigenous people within the national population.
A writer asserts Canada's tourist trade is booming with 1946 figures near 212 million dollars and air, sea, rail arrivals surpassing past records. The piece stresses broad benefits to hotels, restaurants, farmers, and all Canadians and calls for a cooperative effort to maintain pleasant hospitality and welcoming surroundings for visitors. It ends with a note about Santos Brazil as a leading coffee port unrelated to the main Canada tourism point.
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