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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1953
Page
2
Canada’s population reached 14 692 000 as of March 1, up 376 000 from a year earlier and 643 000 since June 1951. The gain in the December-March quarter is typically smaller than other quarters, with prior increases noted in past periods.
On May 21 Canada held 21,266,000 pounds of creamery butter across nine cities, up from 13,535,000 a year earlier. Ontario and Quebec led with Montreal at 8,954 thousand pounds and Toronto at 5,868 thousand, while other cities including Winnipeg Regina Saskatoon Edmonton Calgary and Vancouver contributed smaller totals.
A mosaic of 1920s style vignettes unfolds with jokes about a West erland roosters banished to the mainland for vacation, a coffee salesman in Alabama meeting a sleepy man, a post office pen quip about Magna Carta, and playful parent and teacher exchanges. The humor centers on wordplay and everyday misunderstandings amid travel and domestic life.
Craft a beautiful centerpiece with corsages and bags using Nyton hose dyed in flower colors. Pattern 7082 features flowers leaves and stems all made from discarded nyion hosiery. Send twenty five cents in coins to obtain pattern, stamps not accepted.
Household Arts Department promotes the 1953 Alice Brooks Needle Craft Book Plus with ten complete patterns to sew embroider or crochet. Readers are asked to send 25 cents for the patterns and include name address and pattern number for gifts home items toys fashions and more.
Montreal police use sports clubs to steer youths away from crime. Inspector Ovila Pelletier founded the clubs 17 years ago to provide constructive outlets and guidance for 10 to 16 year olds, aiming to channel energy into positive activity.
Agriculture Minister Nollet reports in Shaunavon Saskatchewan that cattle production has fallen by 1,250,000 head annually since World War II ended.
Crust combines graham cracker crumbs sugar nutmeg and butter baked briefly to set. Filling blends lemon pie filling cream cheese sugar salt water and gelatin then folds in beaten egg and preserves to form a glossy mixture.
The Home Workshop offers Pattern 282 for sturdy block-front drawers with large working diagrams and step-by-step directions. Pattern 277 provides actual-size cutting guides for blue birds and wrens. Each pattern costs 35 cents and orders go to Home Workshop Pattern Service, Prairie Publishers Limited, 4483 West Fifth Ave Vancouver BC.
Regina reports May figures showing 198 drivers had licenses revoked or suspended, more than double May 1982. Alcohol impairment caused 94 license losses, dangerous driving 33 cases, compared with 10 the prior year. Colored licenses issued to 265 motorists. First offence yields a blue license, a second within a year red, and a red violation can lead to a full revocation.
Prince Albert reports northern Saskatchewan timber wolves have been sharply reduced by winter control programs. Harold Read notes 229 adults and an estimated 650 unborn wolves killed, with the buffer zone from the 59th to 61st parallels key to results.
Washington expert warns drowsy motorists are a greater danger than drunk drivers. Harris cites army findings show fatigue in 37 percent of 348 highway accidents and urges two hour coffee pauses, window ventilation, movement breaks, driver rotation, and optional snooze stops during busy travel months.
Regina announces a new central post office project with a 24 month construction timetable and an estimated cost of 3.5 million dollars. It will be the largest building in the city aside from the Legislative Building. Also notes the cicada song is produced by two drumlike membranes on its abdomen.
A Saskatchewan farmer soaked a fill wagon oats to seed next day, rain halted field work, he cooled with water to prevent heating, oats sprouted and the farmer planted, green shoots appeared next day. Watson in Saskatchewan now has 66 street lamps including 15 300 watt lamps lit on June 1.
Bessie the cow fell in a well in Delaware. Firemen poured water into the well to float her to the top. She walked back to her barn seemingly unruffled by the incident.
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