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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 27, 1950
Page
7
Mischievous tale recounts Miss Primrose who captures rowdy cats with a carpet bag and ether catpad. Her cattery houses twelve cats with beds and baths while she pursues a legendary king of cats, ending in a hospital bed after a wild escape from the zoo.
Edmonton city council approved a 25 million dollar plan for a four block civic centre in the business district. The Miracle Mile project is led by the First New Amsterdam Corporation of New York and includes shopping office and professional space an auditorium and parking for 1800 cars. A contract will not be signed until approval by the provincial board of public utility commissioners and the city would lease the space tax free for 69 years with ground rent of 50000 annually plus profit sharing.
The Bureau of Statistics reports Canada field crops at June 30 show a condition above last year's level as a percentage of the long time average yield. The note compares current conditions to the prior year indicating improved crop performance overall.
The Northwest Territories Council notes Eskimo family allowances are paid in kind at trading posts. Sunglasses sewing machines woollen cloth and garments are available to improve child health. Mothers are urged to feed nutritious foods and avoid bannock while bonus credits buy cereals eggs fruit peanut butter and marmalade.
Ottawa report shows June stream flow generally above normal with regional extremes. Red River basin runoff declined while Winnipeg, Lake of the Woods, and Rainy Lake floods exceeded record levels. British Columbia runoff stayed very high but below 1948 flood stages. Across the country, flows ranged from below normal on the Atlantic coast to well above normal from the northwest to the Pacific.
No. 422 City of Vancouver Squadron again claimed the Gimli trophy as Western Canada’s top RC AF unit. Capt. M P. Martyn of Northwest Air Command announced the award after a two week summer training period at Gimli Manitoba on Lake Winnipeg. The story notes US tins filled with food range from five to eight million annually.
Alexander Ulaniv, once a cook for the Czar, now among Regina's new residents seeks work after fleeing Ukraine in 1943. He trained chefs for the Communist regime, later left survivors to Canada, and plans to adapt to Canadian cooking methods while offering dishes like aspic fish and flambé desserts.
Winnipeg agrees to a 750 dollar annual service charge for Bank of Montreal to count and wrap pennies from 600 meters, while Medicine Hat drills a natural gas well with civic-owned gear for the first time. Blairmore notes a druglike pup eats odd items, Estevan plants a 10 percent amusement tax for 1951, Regina condemns two old city buildings, and Lethbridge reports 30 hours of flying in four days for a private pilot licence.
Wilson Barker tossed his driver’s licence into François Lake and used it as bait to troll, catching three trout with the biggest weighing ten pounds.
Victoria reports that after two years archer hunters may return to British Columbia forests with a bow and regular hunting licence. A bow must have at least a 40 pound pull and arrows must be nonpoisonous and nonexplosive.
Electrician W. Downing traced a recent Central Butte outage to a dead cat found on a power pole about one and a half miles east of town. The animal apparently touched the line causing a short.
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