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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 03, 1948
Page
2
The Canadian Youth Commission chaired by Dr. Sidney Smith finds youth agree that best schooling should reach all children, teaching must attract top minds to education, and school health needs emphasis. It urges curricula tailored to each child to maximize societal contribution.
The discussion centers on building better school facilities and expanding the school role in communities. The commission stresses federal aid as essential, noting funds are lacking and large public investment is required for meaningful education improvements. The Canadian Youth Commission and others receive commendation for their constructive criticism.
The Ministry of Agriculture reports England and Wales have sown 2,340,250 acres of wheat, up 265,000 acres from last year, as part of a five-year plan to boost home-grown wheat and potatoes in 1948. Potatoes area rises by over 73,000 acres to 1,014,840 total.
An engineer argues that rear facing seats boost safety in forced landings. The piece notes 45 different steel types in a medium-priced car model.
Alberta bans caribou hunting this year while open deer moose elk mountain sheep and mountain goat seasons are shortened. Bag limits include one male mountain sheep one bear of each species and one deer elk or moose with special protections for female bears with cubs. Bear seasons run Sept 1 to Dec 11 and Apr 1 to Jun 4.
D. E. Woodsworth outlined a late summer film workshop in south central Manitoba for delegates at the film council conference in Winkler. Training will cover modern equipment including sound projectors film strip projectors and wire recorders. Altona will remain the main film repository for the region including Lowe Farm Roland Manitou and Winkler.
Experts report discovery shows glass bottles used in Egypt over four millennia ago. The find highlights early craft in ancient workshops and sheds light on trade and daily life in the region.
Ottawa reports a new postal plan to carry ordinary one-ounce letters by air mail to major Canadian centers starting July 1. Canada becomes the first nation to implement all-up national air service, with flights on the Trans-Canada Air Lines main network. The system will operate on an experimental basis until proven financially viable and will affect rates for air versus surface mail.
A note reading this rain has got me down was found near the gas-filled room of Marlowe Mc Kenney 50 in Portland Maine where rain had fallen for 13 consecutive days. An unrelated wartime fact states Canada more than doubled steel production during the war.
A collection of humorous vignettes and dialogue about marriage money aging and work life. Jokes feature six or seven reasons for leaving a husband a lunch invitation a birthday quip about aging and a boss and worker exchange.
A man in Blackpool sent a postcard to the fire brigade asking them to come to his house as he could smell burning. The crew arrived 24 hours later and found timbers smouldering under the hearth. They put out the fire.
Canada shows progress in correcting its unfavorable trade balance with the United States and in its American dollar situation. Yet it still buys more from the U S than it sells, needing dollar payments for sales to other nations. For the first four months this year Canadian sales to the U S totaled 421.533 million dollars, up from 320.237 million in 1947, while the first quarter deficit with the U S was 107.9 million, down from 203.2 million in 1947.
BC forest production is headed for another record year. First three months show 762,484,174 fbm vs 721,002,257 fbm a year earlier. Also 6,794,590 lineal feet of poles, 29,202 cords of fuel wood, and 107,370 hewn ties produced. Pole, fuel, and tie outputs lag 1947 figures in several categories.
Ottawa notes Canadians welcomed 358 709 live births in 1947, the year’s total surpassing 1946’s 330 732 mark and setting a new record for the Dominion according to the bureau of statistics.
Vancouver school speech supervisor Mrs. Elfrida Webb told kindergarten teachers that baby talk among seven and eight year olds can cause lisps and other speech defects and should be corrected as soon as possible. The talk was to the Vancouver Kindergarten Teachers Association.
Vast swarms of locusts invade Guatemala threatening Mexico. The director-general of agriculture says they will likely devour more than a third of Guatemala's corn crop as they move through El Salvador Honduras and Nicaragua.
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