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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1953
Page
2
Saskatchewan Red Cross campaigns warn of water dangers and promote swimming skills. Free training to competent swimmers over 17 helps spread life saving knowledge, with past reach of 10,900 pupils taught by 115 volunteers. A boat owner sticker urges passengers to hang on, as water safety expands among many humanitarian services.
In Clarkson Ontario three men dressed as ghosts startled night watchman Henry Perette 60 at a gravel pit. Perette fired his sawed off shotgun wounding John Purdue 26 of Toronto who had helped rig the prank with two pit workers. Perette was unharmed.
A collection of humorous exchanges and miscommunications from everyday life. A countryman buys shoes then walks slowly because the string isn’t cut. A barber mistakes a man for a lady, and a wife jokes about a vocabulary bound.
The federal district commission will attempt to grow a tree once believed extinct for 20 million years. Victoria Parks Commissioner W. H Warren donated three seeds of Meta sequoia glyptostroboides, an ancestor of California Sequoias and Redwoods, found in China in 1846 and later grown in the United States.
Regina E C Hingley president of the Saskatchewan Anti tuberculosis League reports 1952 estimated TB deaths in Saskatchewan at 14.3 per 100 000. Deaths include 66 among whites and 53 among Indians.
A 12 year old boy from an Grahamstown orphanage spent a day at the coast then dreamt he swam. He leapt from the second storey window and was found on the ground dazed with a sprained arm as his only injury.
Forecast suggests good weather for Coronation day June 2 with a dry trend. Meteorological records show rain on that date only five times since 1875 indicating favorable conditions for outdoor ceremonies.
Dr Problada of United States Industrial Chemicals notes antibiotics produced by soil microorganisms can double farm output without more land. He cites large-scale use of antibiotics as crop disease control and growth stimulants, enabling two harvests annually in many areas and healthier crops.
Manitoba cattle producers halted the postwar herd reduction and plan for a cattle population near 700000 by June 1953, about 14 head per farm, per Livestock Commissioner John Conner. He told veterinarians at their 68rd annual meeting that drought could raise marketings beyond this minimum. The piece notes September as barley month.
Instructions describe cutting dough into three long strips, braiding, sealing ends, and baking on greased sheets at 375 degrees. Also cover and proof dough until doubled, then shape a quarter batch into 7 inch strips, water brush, cornmeal, space on sheet, proof again, and bake about 10 minutes.
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