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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 15, 1947
Page
5
A 1946 report to the House of Commons shows 13 000 farmers received loans totaling about 10 million dollars under The Farm Improvement Loans Act. Loans through 3 100 chartered bank branches financed farm improvements and living conditions at 5 percent simple interest, up to ten years.
War veterans comprise 30 percent of arts students in United Church of Canada universities with 1,402 veterans among 4,630 arts enrollees. Total higher learning under church care reaches 9,877 as junior colleges and theology students add 5,247. Colleges report veterans elevating attainment, with Mount Royal noting 100 veterans raising standards.
Geological Survey of Canada sent a nearly five foot fossil fish from a Fernie reservoir site to Dr. L S Russell of the Royal Ontario Museum. Dating to the Triassic period over 150 million years ago, the rhombic body had large dorsal and anal fins and strong bony rectangular scales like house siding.
Sir Ben Lockspeiser announced a 887 pound rocket propelled model to be tested over the Scilly Islands in about five weeks. The torpedo shaped craft will launch from a Mosquito at 400 mph and 36000 feet with auto pilot and radar tracking. It is expected to reach speeds of 1000 mph or more before guidance transfer to a full sized radio controlled aircraft.
Financial guidance from the Institute of Life Insurance outlines prudent steps for prospective buyers. Do not exceed three times net annual income in total home investment and limit upkeep costs to about a quarter of assured income. Emphasizes large down payments, fast mortgage payoff, avoiding overlarge homes, and purchasing for security rather than speculative profit.
London reports the Air Ministry remains puzzled by a nighttime radar shown mystery aircraft. It speeds between 120 and 400 mph at various altitudes, never sighted visually, and never crosses the coast, instead cruising along the east coast before vanishing.
A farmer guarding a hazelnut grove posted a warning to trespassers noting that Corylus Avellana or hazelnut trees abound and give no warning of their presence, and that entering the wood is at one’s own risk. The notice stopped further trespass.
The passage explains that a hair crop on the head persists for two to four years while shedding is usually imperceptible because a new hair grows to replace it.
A Weekly Underwriter record lists extreme human feats. It cites long sleep and water deprivation times, food endurance, breath holding, deep and hot/cold survivals, high altitude climbs, underwater dives, extended running and walking, stilts hiking, pole squats, a 30,800 foot parachute jump, and a final note on Feeling Right Eating Right.
John Laurence Longland 41, author and educator, recounts 1935 Everest expedition reaching within 850 feet of the summit after six weeks. He also joined a Greenland trek to 12 250 feet Watkins Peak, noting oxygen scarcity and cold hindered Everest. In Greenland, Huskies not trained. sellers hauled sleds 130 miles. Longland now Dorset county education flyer.
The Fort William Times Journal profiles Lloyd McClintock who lost both eyes and his left hand in a childhood accident in Quebec. He learned to type 40 words a minute, passed matriculation, earned degrees at McGill, and became a field secretary for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. He enjoys music reading games and swimming.
The royal party aboard H M Vanguard at sea visited St Helena on their return from South Africa where Jonathan the 200 year old tortoise was photographed with the Queen feeding him a banana during the island stopover.
An 1883 Krakatoa eruption in the Malay Archipelago expelled a cubic mile of rock. The blast sent debris more than 17 miles into the sky, shocking observers and reshaping regional geography and climate.
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