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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 08, 1951
Page
5
A CPC correspondent describes Venezuela’s oil wealth and its impact on the economy and society. He notes high tax income from petroleum, widespread American-Venezuelan cooperation, and development such as roads, health, and schools funded by oil profits, with decades of production and multiple fields and companies active.
The piece recalls Hosmer British Columbia once a bustling mine town now a ghost on the highway. It notes Diamond City and Coalhurst revived by mining projects and asks where Commerce stood when coal production was high. It mentions Taber area towns Elcan and Fincastle as once busy winter spots.
A report highlights a diverse cheese landscape with over 400 distinct varieties across regions. Experts note regional styles, aging processes, and milk sources shaping flavor profiles and culinary uses.
Jumbo the horse, retired from lugging a garbage wagon after 25 years, will spend his last days in pasture thanks to Eugene Mole and several donors. A Lincolnshire village council sold Jumbo for slaughter but local helpers, including a girl with 1.40, pianist Eileen Joyce, and driver Arthur Mason, raised funds to buy him back. The slaughterer James Brown finally relented, noting the girl’s sacrifice.
A Canada lynx one of the first shot in southwestern Manitoba in years was brought to Brandon by J E Drader of Margaret. Wildlife authority Dr R D Bird notes lynx are rare in the district and may have wandered from Riding Mountain. Drader shot it Dec 7 with a 30 30 rifle at 300 yards. the frozen carcass was offered to the B J Hales natural history museum.
After nearly a year the Vancouver congregation selected a young Scottish minister who sent a recorded sermon across the ocean to demonstrate initiative and ability. His decisive approach promises to lead the church out of its drift and into renewed purpose.
The Tasman River in the South Island of New Zealand is created by melting ice and snow from the Tasman Glacier, shaping the land and feeding local waterways.
In New York a new hormone described as the dermotrophic hormone has grown hair on two men who had been bald for five years. applied as a daily cream then intermittently, hair about an inch long and up to 20 000 hairs per head appeared, about one sixth of normal. Experiments in rats support hair growth only at former hair sites. Researchers plan further tests on women and will provide the hormone to labs but not to the public.
Miss Marcheta Benton of Chattanooga Tenn won a contest for the best cherry pie baker of 1951 and plans to take her winning pie to Washington and President Truman. The 18 year old described her recipe as easy to follow and provided detailed crust and filling instructions with measurements and baking steps.
A humorous anecdote about Balzac reading a young writer's notebook at a resort. He criticizes the talent as lacking and suggests menial paths, while an elderly lady reveals the notebook once belonged to Cerf himself. The piece playfully notes the misreadings and oddities in a school setting in Minnesota.
A Niagara Falls hotel discovered an error in mailing a $1.10 cheque to a New Jersey doctor who had not received a premium on U S currency. The doctor returned the cheque with $3.90 extra, making a total donation of $5 for charity.
A clipped fragment mentions a vehicle or object approaching high speed just before it crashed into the ground or another surface at several hundred feet per second. Details on location, cause, or casualties are not provided in the readable text.
Home gardeners should inspect lilac bushes for pests like oyster shell scale and follow with a summer oil spray containing nicotine sulfate and fish oil while young scale hatch. Giant hornets attack lilacs by feeding on sap and stripping bark. locate nests and blow calcium cyanide into them. Lilac borers cause branch wilting. prune or burn infected limbs and inject carbon bisulfide into boring holes, sealing with putty.
A 1908 Siberian meteorite weighing about 40 000 tons plunged into a forest, generating shock waves detectable as far away as Washington DC. The event reshaped nearby terrain and became a landmark in meteor science.
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