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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 13, 1949
Page
2
Prices and incomes have climbed in Canada as the cost of living index hits record highs. The surge is linked to wartime shortages that reduced civilian production, with shortages easing postwar but a persistent demand push from farm and factory outputs shaping the prosperity.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 1949 half year cash income for Canadian farmers rose across most provinces, led by Western wheat payments. Despite drops in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island from potato value declines, prairie provinces show strong gains with higher cattle prices and livestock sales contributing to overall income.
Firestone Tire and Rubber of Canada plans new warehouses in Regina and Vancouver with an Edmonton addition to start next spring. Vice-president T M Mayberry cited western population growth highway traffic and increased farm mechanization as main expansion drivers.
New Westminster reports that 1950 plates will reverse the BC pattern. About 162000 passenger plates and 59000 commercial plates are being produced in Oakalla jail workshops with yellow letters on black.
A humorous collection of quick quips and visual gags. A fortune teller delivers a cheeky forecast while a string of small skits features a nagging wife, a midget car owner, a clownish mechanic, a minister with 300 churchgoers, a lion tamer, and a playful exchange about cows and heard.
Manitoba game officials order a five mile border strip trapped clear of beaver to stop disease spread from Ontario. Registered trapline owners urged to trap heavily to prevent westward movement of infected animals.
About 2737 B C the Chinese emperor Shen Nung wrote a book on agriculture and herbal lore describing remedies, crops, and farming practices in early Chinese history.
Douglas Green reports that farming ranks among the era’s riskiest occupations due to machinery and animal dangers. Saskatchewan shows high tractor and combine ownership, while prairie provinces record most accidents. Quebec is labeled safest.
VICTORIA British Columbia prospecting this year remains steady with 1 652 claims staked in the first seven months compared to 1 636 in the same period last year figures from the department of mines show.
Manitoba's big game season opens at sunrise November 28 and closes at sunset December 8. Deer hunting is permitted province wide except log sanctuaries, moose only north of the 53rd parallel, barren ground caribou restricted to special northern licenses, elk and woodland caribou closed. Bag limits set for deer and moose. moose license holders may take a deer if no moose is taken.
The Buffalo harbor handles more than 16,000,000 tons of water borne freight each year though the port is frozen four or five months annually.
An old advertisement touts Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills as quick relief for backache, head and liver disorders, claiming fifty years of Canadian use for women ironing, sweeping, and washing dishes. The copy urges trying the remedy at drug counters tonight.
Members of the Commons found Red McIntosh apples on their desks in a display aimed at proving Eastern Ontario apples can compete with other regions. George Fulford of Leeds praised the gift from Brockville, Ontario, while George Cruickshank of Fraser Valley compared sizes and thanked Ontario for a tasty appetizer ahead of British Columbia’s larger harvest.
Lethbridge Alberta S C Heckbert of Vermilion Alberta president of the Western Canada Fairs association told a conference of class B fair managers to engage more in youth work. He said youth work is integral to fairs and urged greater opportunities to display handiwork to keep young people interested in farm work.
A study warns that letting weeds grow under an electric fence increases ground contact and shortens fence effectiveness. Officials emphasize keeping vegetation trimmed to maintain voltage and deterrence.
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