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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 12, 1961
Page
3
Canada marks Fire Prevention Week from October 8 to 14 with emphasis on safer practices. Matches and careless smoking cause about a quarter of fires, electrical misuse accounts for twenty percent, and fires claim lives daily though prevention can reduce tolls.
The narrator describes a CN Leaf Tour through three Atlantic provinces with passengers drawn to Oak Island legends of Captain Kidd's buried treasure. They reflect on epidemics, immunization, and the dramatic Peggy’s Cove landscape with its granite shore, lighthouse, and visitor allure.
The group travels from Kentville in the Annapolis Valley toward Bridgewater along CN tracks, stopping to dip toes at West Dover and observe La Have River salmon and kelp harvest. They admire the sea viewed from granite ledges as waves roar and gulls cry while five o clock traffic leaves Halifax.
The article notes heart and arterial disease remain leading killers in Canada. It observes deaths often occur in seemingly healthy middle aged adults and advises reducing strenuous exercise after forty and avoiding tense periods.
The Rural Municipalities report details freight assistance policy shifts for fodder transport, with a 1 third cost share by federal provincial and railway lines, and a final deadline of October 31 for free railway certificates. It notes Ruelene Warble Fly Control registration for spray and pour methods, and warns against applying to cattle under 300 pounds. It discusses Boxelder Bug nuisance, insect control options like DDT chlor jan e and malathion, and stockpiling fodder for winter.
The UNICEF campaign in Canada has expanded from 15000 in 1955 to 260000 in 1961, funding food, medical aid, and vaccines for children worldwide. For each dollar donated, about three dollars comes from the donor country’s government, and Ontario’s Brockville town debates name history as outsiders recall Williamstown or Elisabeth town disputes.
A Victoria General Hospital disaster exercise in Winnipeg showcases auxiliary medical supplies provided under federal provincial CD agreements. Hon. Gurney Evans presents stretchers and dressings to Alton Rossen as 10 Manitoba hospitals qualify for CD hospital disaster kits by meeting government-approved planning requirements.
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