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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 06, 1949
Page
2
The text notes rising attention to conserving natural resources beyond soil, highlighting dwindling oil, timber, coal, iron, and steel supplies. It cites global industrial impact and calls for less wasteful production methods and new efficiencies. Representatives from fifty countries met at Lake Success, New York, to discuss critical shortages.
At the United Nations conference on the conservation and utilization of natural resources Canada is represented by twenty nine delegates under Dr Hugh Keenleyside deputy minister of mines and resources. The gathering drew about five hundred scientists administrators and technicians who reported the discussions valuable though progress remains uncertain. The conference fostered international contacts and the exchange of ideas, with hopes of practical economic and social improvements arising from peacetime cooperation.
Beekeepers in Moose Jaw and Mortlach report unusual hive behavior in August with bees filling brood nests with honey rather than storing in honey supers. Jim Bland of Bland's Apiaries notes 120 hives show honey packed in bottom halves as if preparing for winter. He cites possible signs of an early winter or a short crop and says the cause is unclear.
A collection of light jokes about family, money, romance, and small triumphs. A boy laments lost teeth, a landlady is thanked, couples balance chores, a bank cheque prompts a playful query, and a stuttering suitor sends one flower a day.
G W Smallwood editor and publisher of The Star City Echo retires due to ill health after a 52 year career in weekly newspapers and printing. He began in London and Canada in 1909 working at The Journal and The Moon before buying The Kinistino Representative in 1915, later publishing The Represent- ative for 31 years and The Star City Echo since 1936.
More than 65 percent of polio patients at General Hospital have been cured this year and the 1949 wave is in decline. Dr. Stewart Murray reported to the Metropolitan Health Committee. Saskatchewan and Manitoba items note theatre expansion and fur industry gains, while a fatal farm accident in Alberta ends the brief of Western briefs.
Henry Fishman started his day with breakfast when a prairie chicken crashed through his window. The startled bird scattered coffee and cereal then recovered in the garden and escaped back into the morning air.
Royalite Oil Company of Calgary has begun a seismic survey on a 250000 acre crown permit west of Saskatoon and southeast of Unity. The deal with John L. Graham and associates gives Royalite 75 percent of future leases while Graham holds 25 percent. A Farney Exploration seismic crew conducts the survey, with a Mayes Bevan gravity crew surveying another 250000 acre crown permit near Estevan.
A Grand Forks man lost 24 dollars from a till at OK Garage after returning from a morning coffee to find the office left open. The incident, described as the result of a thief, was reported by the proprietor.
Royalite Ltd. leased upwards of 100000 acres of freehold land in a strip from Estevan to Humboldt. The area covers 11 sections per township and passes through crown permit holdings of Sohio Tidewater and Husky Phillips oil firms. Future work hinges on surveys, but Royalite aims for rapid development of its Saskatchewan holdings.
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