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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 22, 1958
Page
2
Classified listings advertise various items for sale including furnaces heating equipment and appliances, with prices and contact details. Multiple vendors offer repairs, catalogs, and services, listing addresses and phone numbers for Regina Toronto and other locations.
An essay contrasts the Mau Mau movement in Kenya with South African resistance, noting alleged Communist links in some groups and the broader context of anti colonial struggle during the period. It also touches on cultural questions about soup customs and plant division and notes Mothers Day origins in England.
The Canadian Red Cross Society reported a 1957 deficit of 256,880 at its Toronto annual meeting. Honorary treasurer D Bruce Shaw cited total expenditures of 7,293,398 with the large cost of operating the free blood transfusion service at 2,470,088. A fund raising campaign raised 5,938,722 but missed the 6,261,000 goal, though it was 401,567 above 1956.
Auto and truck supply ad urges readers to call Electric Motor Service for diesel repairs filters nozzles fuel oil treatment and factory service for American Bosch and C A Y at 1734 Broad St Regina.
Otto Schroder leads the West Boundary Fishermen Co operative in Saskatchewan. The 100 member producer cooperative avoids asset ownership and operates as a community enterprise on lakes Cold Pierce Lac des Isles Lepine and Primrose. Members fish individually but market collectively via non profit SFMS or a future provincial federation.
Arrangements completed for Foothills Cattle Breeders Association third annual show and sale at High River Rodeo grounds on June 3. Pre sale show at 10 am with placing by W H T Bill Mead. sale at 1 pm with auctioneers J Allen Baker and Warren Cooper. 60 Herefords 6 Angus 4 Shorthorn 1 Galloway aged 18 36 months. 27 Hereford females 18 months to five years. All offerings approved by Jack Byers Bert Sheppard and Charlie McKinnon. Approved bulls eligible for purchase assistance under provincial cattle improvement policy at 10 percent up to 50 dollars. Assistance via Department of Agriculture Form B. First time an approved sale locally under this system. All livestock TB and Bangs tested. Times High River Alta May 8 1958.
Canada's largest spender described organizational purchasing scales at a Hamilton Traffic Club gathering. E. I. A. Bromley of Montreal, vice-president of purchase and stores for Canadian National Railways, said the organization spends about 282 million dollars annually about 537 dollars per minute and jokingly noted having spent over 10 000 dollars during the conversation. Salt's ancient symbolism as purity is noted.
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