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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1957
Page
14
Salk anti polio vaccine is available for children born in 1955 and 1956 as part of the current immunization program at Estevan Health Centre The Mercury Estevan May 23 1957 Saccharine is about 550 times as sweet as sugar.
Sewing pattern notice offering Misses and Women's bra sizes 32 through 46. Includes long and regular lengths, yardage, printed directions, and order form with 40 cent price and required name address and style number.
Prize winner boasts easy crocheting with Pattern 7215 directions for a seven and a half inch square for bedspread cloth. Thrifty crochet uses 10 skeins for cloth and 20 for spread. Send thirty five cents to Household Arts Department Toronto for pattern and a free 1957 Alice Brooks needlecraft book offer.
A fragmentary collection presents insights on opportunity and success. Mary Baker Eddy is cited with a seaside metaphor about grains of sand slipping away as children play. Disraeli is noted for a note on readiness meeting opportunity.
Bedouin Arabs keep one or two camels for each horse they own and rely on the camels for milk and other desert livelihoods, illustrating a complementary animal economy that sustains nomadic herding communities.
Saskatoon hosted the 46th annual convocation with top graduates from towns across Saskatchewan. Lenore Mae Kivell of Moosomin won the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation Prize for education, Robert Edward McDermit of Antler earned the Martin Scholarship in Pharmacy, Dennis Garth of Climax shared the Engineering prize, Donald David Ledray of Winter received the Lindsay Gold Medal in Medicine, Douglas Fletcher Brown of Avonlea won the Scott Prize in Agriculture, and Eben Catherine Schmeiser of Bradworth won the Brown Prize in Law.
A wooden and stone barn owned by Pete Enns at the corner of Nelson Street and 11th Avenue Virden burned to the ground early Sunday. The alarm sounded about 6:50 PM and the upper structure could not be saved. No animals or feed were inside. Fire officials cited defective wiring as the likely cause. Loss partly covered by insurance.
The Journal Humboldt Sask notes a mid summer surge in building activity with much work on business property. Alterations and remodeling are already changing the town’s business district appearance.
The Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources announces the Game Branch is reorganized into the Wildlife Branch. New structure lists four divisions under Director of Wildlife with Kuciak as head and Paynter as Director of Wildlife. Officials emphasize better administration of wildlife, fur, game, and statistics programs amid rising hunting activity.
T L Hill named deputy minister of the Saskatchewan Department of Travel and Information by minister Rosas Brown. Hill, a Vancouver advertising executive, will assume duties June 3 and is the first to hold the deputy minister post in the new department created during the 1957 session. He previously partnered in Regina and worked at CKRM Regina, with a background in radio and advertising. Mr. Hill is married to Dorothy Sturdy with two children.
The Melfort Public School Board asks council for permission to move the Main School to land east of Burke 3s hool to create classroom space for southside students. They request continued use of the present site for next term with two classrooms while new library quarters are readied in Memorial hall. A committee will study the request. Board Chairman Wm Lonsdale cites expected enrollment of 197 at Burke and notes need to empty the assembly room. An extra teacher and 26 classrooms are planned for 1957-58.
At the Virden festival two Reston contestants won trophies. Cheryl Curtis earned the St. Pauls AOTS trophy for Story Telling with 90 marks. Barbara Bulloch tied with Lynn Balding at 59 for the Wallace trophy in Spoken Poetry.
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