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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 01, 1951
Page
2
The shortage of teachers is severe, hit rural areas hardest as urban centers offer higher salaries and better schools. Vacancies persist in country districts, and planners warn only enough newly trained teachers can fill rural posts.
The Canadian Education Association reports nearly 200 one room rural schools closed for lack of teachers and 3 900 rural sites with underqualified staff. Total teacher shortages reach 5 856 while 6 066 students enroll in training, down from 10 971 last year as many seek higher pay in other sectors.
Alberta offers the highest median rural teacher salary at 2181 dollars with 147 vacancies. Saskatchewan shows 1650 dollars and 606 needed teachers, Manitoba has 1600 dollars and 667 vacancies. Newfoundland records the greatest shortfall at 1330 positions with no salary data. The piece calls for keeping rural schools open and addressing the nationwide teacher shortage.
Three men were awarded the Canadian Seed Growers' association Robertson associa te awards and medal at Manitoba branch meeting. T. J. Harrison longtime barley progress leader and former experimental farm head. Albert Atkin 38 years seed grower. J. H. Tolton Manitoba Livestock Board former president and Manitoba exhibition director. A. H. Parker elected Manitoba branch president with T. W. Spafford as vice-president.
Rural route No 1 in Port Coquitlam B C has been extended to serve five more households on Pipe Line road. The change expands local mail service and improves access for residents along the route. The extension confirms continued improvements to rural delivery in the area.
The average robin lives about 15 years, according to typical bird life expectancy studies.
One year after arriving from a European displaced persons camp Peter Krickhan in Coaldale Alberta welcomed his 12th family member. The 30 acre sugar beets 20 acres potatoes 10 carrots and 42 turnips were grown on Jacob Funk’s 700 acre farm as the family paid 2200 for the passages. The Krickhans worked in Winnipeg and built a house while aiding others under the Canadian Christian Council for resettlement of refugees.
Officials announce a four-event bonspiel on artificial ice the week of March 27 with draws at 6 8 and 10 every night. Open to all rinks in the province. Earl Bourne named chairman of the spiel. To Live Right Eat Right.
Average Saskatchewan school teacher salary for 1949 50 was 1818 up from 1948 49 by 108 as education minister Lloyd tabled the annual report. Negotiated salary schedules apply in large units and many districts while 4790 teachers hold first class certificates and 1600 hold higher credentials. Pupils enrolled total 157 450 with many taking correspondence courses.
A string of humorous vignettes from a Swiss hotel setting plus assorted quips. A five year old’s blunt schoolyard remark, a rope on a mountain walk, a singing debut at a party, and a parent child exchange about Emma illustrate light miscommunications and social oddities.
A Saskatchewan expedition travels 250 miles from Saskatoon to Lac la Range then 500 miles north to land at Camsell Portage to study a 25 square mile concession north of the 59th parallel. Five men, led by Henry Wright, explore ore rich in uranium oxide and copper amid the region’s 30 active mining ops.
In Manitoba a scare about windigos spread among island communities 300 miles northeast of Winnipeg. Forty braves chased the windigos who turned out to be three teenage lads. RCMP later halted the hunt, ending the village panic sparked by a remote legend.
Contracts signed for a three storey Assiniboia Hotel in Medicine Hat costing about 750000 dollars. George Cantalini, president of the hotel company, said construction will begin at once. A light heart lives long.
F. J. Stubbs of Edmon ton, assistant general manager of Interprovincial Pipe Line, said a third large oil tanker will be built on the Great Lakes to ship Alberta crude to eastern refineries. He announced 2,600,000 barrels of extra storage at both ends of the 1,127 mile Edmonton to Superior line and that the new tanker and storage would be ready in 1951 52. Stubbs predicted further gasoline price reductions on the prairies in spring. By next November Alberta crude market would reach 130,000 barrels daily.
In Lethbridge Alberta a shipment of 50 calves sold at $37.35 per hundredweight, a possible Canadian record for commercial beef cattle. The whiteface calves including five heifers reached a record on the farm price of $35 per cwt to Ray Walters of Foremost. The Holtman Brothers ranch near Skiff, Alberta bought the calves, about 10 months old and weighing 25,130 pounds, for a total of $9,386. The previous top price was $35.25 per cwt.
Report notes a single destroyer on an east coast to North Africa run requires over 23 railway tank cars of heavy fuel for a round trip. The figure highlights the scale of logistical effort and vast fuel demand for naval operations.
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