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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1947
Page
2
The piece argues education can aid peace by fostering tolerance and understanding of global problems in youths. It notes education is a slow process and urgent current difficulties exist, but building up these traits in the rising generation offers lasting progress.
A British program brings school children together to study global problems and foster understanding across nations. A seven day course on international affairs was planned by the Council of Education in World Citizenship, a non political body with educators and youth organizations as representatives.
Pupils voluntarily gave up a week of holidays to study goodwill toward other nations. The article notes Britain’s relative freedom from intolerance and praises efforts to foster international understanding among the younger generation.
Ruh-Hwa Ma of National Peking University arrived in Saskatoon to work for a year with Dr. J B Harrington, University of Saskatchewan field husbandry professor and plant breeder. Ma previously studied cereal breeding at Peiping and earned a master’s degree at Illinois, spending a term at Cornell.
The text explains that electric fans heat a room by circulating air, not cooling it. Body temperature sits above room air, and relief comes when a breeze from the fan carries heat away from the body.
A collage of lighthearted quips about money, military life, fashion, and everyday misunderstandings. A child buys attention with a nickel, shoppers debate meat prices, soldiers labeled gunner, and a lamp shade prompts a church warning. A gag about a dog jacket and a comic misquote closes the column.
The National Physical Laboratory in Teddington England operates a massive test tank 670 feet long and 30 feet wide for testing scale models of boats and ships for speed and seaworthiness.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canada’s hog population at June 1 reached 5,473,200, up from 4,910,200. Western provinces show gains from 2.6 percent in Alberta to 12.7 percent in Manitoba, while eastern provinces lead in overall increases due to subsidies and higher demand. Shortage of feed may reduce the fall pig crop despite subsidies. spring crop up 10.5 percent from 1946.
London records show the annual bugler ceremony at the grave of war veteran Harry Reginald Aldish. Aldish's probate filing outlines the will detailing this yearly observance.
Burlingame California held a prize drawing with 200000 tickets where Miss Marjorie Volkmar was first drawn but absent. An alternate Miss Peg Volkmar also absent. Mrs. Simonds redrew and named Marjorie Volkmar the winner of a washing machine at the Burlingame fair.
Mrs. George Johnstone of Petawawa Ont was killed after stepping from a bus to cross railway tracks. The approaching freight train engineer blew the whistle and brakes were applied but she froze in the centre of the tracks. She is survived by her husband and four children.
The Farmer's Advocate warns that careless habits create fire risks. People store rubbish, use kerosene or gasoline to start fires, heat paraffin wax over direct flames, neglect stove pipes, carry matches loose, and some smoke in bed or on furniture. A strong reminder of past fire tragedies could deter risky behavior.
Manitoba Mines Branch field party reports a new bentonite deposit south of Thornhill with beds thick as similar localities. The site lies 5 miles from Thornhill railway, in township 2 range 6 west, at about 1 300 feet elevation, covered by about 20 feet of overburden.
The Montreal Gazette notes British Columbia shows the strongest development, growing faster than any other province relative to population. It states Quebec would need to more than double its growth to match BC’s rate.
Mrs Roberts aged 69 in Shorne Kent offered her right shoe for a left leg missing shoe from any woman with a lost left leg. She received over 50 replies.
Jerry the mongrel terrier from West Vancouver wandered into the woods while the Hughes family vacationed. The loyal dog retraced his steps and reached the Hughes home on foot after traveling about 110 miles.
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind announces a five year program to erect service centres for the blind in 16 Canadian cities. The plan was outlined to a meeting in Toronto of C N I B field secretaries.
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