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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 03, 1955
Page
4
On March 5 12 Education Week will focus on Let us make education our responsibility The text recalls education as a right won through long battles and notes 1807 House of Commons views against universal schooling It ends with a poem praising schools as the world’s wealth and the nation’s strength through educated citizens
The Queen will unveil a national memorial to King George VI on 21 October this year. It stands between 2 and 3 Carlton Gardens, overlooking the Mall and St James Park. Sculptor William MacMillan portrays the King bareheaded in Admiral of the Fleet uniform with Order of the Garter insignia. the statue reaches nine feet six inches.
Reginald Maudling, economic secretary to the UK Treasury, told the House of Commons that economic cooperation with the Commonwealth has never been closer and has now reached a very high level.
Britain's production of radioactive isotopes has doubled over two years. Although full 1954 figures are not yet ready, from October 1953 to September 1954 production reached 15 448 shipments with exports totaling 5 233 shipments.
Canadian stores will carry fashion from designer Michael, marking a Canadian distribution deal. The Canadian firm will produce the garments and sell them in leading outlets nationwide.
A British Trade Journal issue reviews ingenious UK devices that speed exports and modernize overseas transport, noting how British equipment aids imports for many nations. The Windscale plutonium works now allows interior inspection with a 5½ by 4 by 11⅝ inch industrial television camera.
An exhibition organized by Leeds University students highlights poverty in its forms worldwide. It was opened on 21 February by Mr. David Ennals, secretary of the United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Quick quiz answers note 25 000, and other Canada facts prepared by editors of Quick Canadian Facts.
The quiz asks which province was once New Caledonia, the year the House of Commons burned, and which provides more revenue customs duties or sales and excise taxes. It questions the monthly cost of the federal old age pension and estimates how many Canadians move to the United States annually.
Knitting pattern 7099 offers a large needle worsted shrug for misses sizes 32 34 36 38. Send twenty five cents to Household Arts Department Toronto for pattern and plain-name address. The 1955 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalog promises exciting designs and a 25 cent copy.
A British helicopter scoop net quickly lifts survivors from frigid waters, reducing risk to victims and rescuers. Tests show up to ten or twelve people rescued in 20 minutes, with the net allowing exposed survivors to remain in the device until reaching safety. The Rosthern net inspired similar side-scoop systems to speed recovery aboard ships. Plans to preempt forest lightning use dry ice or silver iodide to disperse storm clouds.
The study shows the fructose to glucose balance, especially levulose, affects crystallization. Alsike white clover and basswood honeys stay liquid for packing, while alfalfa and sweet clover tend to granulate. An Ottawa test confirms levulose slows dextrose crystallization, delaying crystals for months.
West Germany's economic minister says imports of juke boxes from the United States will total about $1,000,000 during 1955. The announcement signals growing cultural commerce and postwar economic ties between the two countries.
J W Abbott at Wintehorse Experimental Sub Station in Yukon reports combines moving north for grain harvests. In 1953 a northern pioneer bought a grain combine and harvested blocks of wheat oats and barley in Klondyke valley near North Latitude 64. Heating occurred in storage but indicates potential future use while further northern fields await adaptation.
The British Columbia Department of Agriculture notes consumers want different potato textures for baking, boiling, or mashing. Separating lots by specific gravity allows labeling such as Excellent for Baking or Will Not Fall Apart When Boiled, with trials showing buyers pay a premium for labeled bakers or boilers.
A collection of kitchen and home advice covers soaking potatoes to keep them white, using glycerine to stop corks sticking, mounting a shoe scraper from a scrubbing brush, cleaning ivory combs with alcohol via an old toothbrush, and rotating rugs when taking them up to even wear. It also suggests placing a safety pin to mark rug corners for proper replacement.
A light column surveys friendly service at a Los Angeles coffee shop where waitresses greet regular male customers with a kiss. It also rambles through pop corn energy, a maiden’s prayer to St Catherine, and quips about husbands’ looks, height, and wearing nylon stockings with singing for避免 wear.
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