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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 29, 1956
Page
2
Garden notes discuss using big massed beds of annuals like petunias zinnias and cosmos for striking displays in large lots and along driveways. They advise staggered planting of vegetables to spread harvests and cover crops with mini greenhouses for early yields using starts from greenhouse flats or shells for melons and berries.
National Accounts show Canada’s gross national product hitting 26.6 billion in 1955 with a 27.4 billion quarterly rate. Growth driven by consumer spending and residential construction, plus exports, government outlays, equipment, and grain. Net national income up about 11 percent from 1954. International trade data reveal a larger current account deficit and a record securities turnover. Prices and farm products moved varied in January. Sea fish catch and dairy production trends noted.
In 1949 North Carolina State College planted 60 000 seeds exposed to atomic radiation. Irradiated plants produced seeds for the next generation, with some strains resistant to leaf spot disease and others yielding more pods. One variety yielded about 30 percent more peanuts, suggesting disease resistance and higher harvests. Other crops are being studied similarly for improved food production.
Saskatchewan Power Corporation sponsors a new half hour radio program Square Dance Note Book airing March 21 and 22 across Saskatchewan stations. It features six major labels, dance club schedules, camps, and travel notes with MC Noreen Wilson guiding listeners through updates and trends from North America.
Paris report on Queen Elizabeth II hat fittings with milliner Madame Claude St. Cyr. The Queen must wear hair long enough for state tiaras and crowns, while the Duke of Edinburgh has no say. The private fitting involves only the Queen, her maid, and the milliner. Christine, the Queen’s daughter, often rejects hats.
A sharp-eyed rookie answers a sergeant by declaring the first rifle cleaning step is to check the serial number to ensure he is cleaning his own weapon. The exchange prompts a stern reminder from the sergeant about proper procedure.
Patterns 314 308 400 offer trellises flower boxes and a garden gate with traced shapes and color placement to achieve realistic finishes. The Lawn and Garden Figures Packet includes all three 35c patterns plus bundle price 1.50 postpaid. order from Home Workshop Pattern Service Vancouver B C.
Alice Brooks showcases a cool scooped neck pinafore transformed into a party dress by a detachable collar. The versatile style, pattern 7186 for children's sizes 2 4 6 8 includes embroidery transfer and directions. Send twenty five cents in coins to obtain this pattern.
Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street W Toronto promotes the ALICE BROOKS Needlecraft Catalogue from Anne Adams Pattern Dept. The offer invites readers to send 25 cents for a copy featuring knitting crochet embroidery iron-ons toys and novelties.
The 80 pound 8 ounce lake trout, 49 inches long with a 40 inch girth, is shown as a life like plaster cast. Taken from Lake Athabasca by Mc Ginnis Products Ltd. on September 11, 1955, the fish is estimated 50 to 60 years old. Dr. Robert W. Nero notes the display includes a gill net and industry facts.
Guidance on selective lawn weed killers stresses following manufacturer directions, dampening leaves not flooding lawns, avoiding contact with ornamentals, delaying application after mowing, and washing the sprayer thoroughly after use.
A string of gags unfolds from Paris to a bear hunt and a soap joke. A taxi horn startles a friend in Rue de Rivoli as a wife plot and a hunter’s cook Mose mix into a lighthearted vignette about sanity and consumer ads.
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