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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 06, 1951
Page
7
John Forester visits his old western home and recalls a past with Dorothy Jackson. A charging buffalo forces a desperate sprint through brush, ending when the beast crashes into a fallen tree, saving his life as Dorothy arrives in the moonlight.
The Prime Minister's office announced a commission to study the proposed 100 million dollar South Saskatchewan river irrigation project. Chairman is Dr. T. H. Hogg of Toronto, former chair of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission.
Loyalist Alberta reports a two headed calf with two mouths and four eyes born to Alex Lees on his shorthorn dairy. The calf can drink with both mouths but cannot lift its heavy head. it is the third calf born to a four year old cow.
In Rocky Mountain House Alberta James McRae reports a lynx wandered near his yard scaring the children. He wonders if the animal hunted his chickens or chased the family’s two Pomeranians or even monkeys that had escaped from a carnival nearby.
Manitoba officials push a road safety drive against improper passing as the Manitoba Automotive Transport Association joins the campaign. Mayor Garnet Coulter debuts the first pass safety sign on a truck while the city launches the effort.
Alderman George Sharpe told a Lions Club meeting that Winnipeg parking meters are projected to bring about 90000 dollars in 1950. The city operates around 1500 meters. The update ties city revenue to meter usage and funding plans.
Mechanical hop pickers will displace about 2,400 workers in harvesting most of the Fraser Valley crop worth around 1 million dollars. Drought hasn’t affected irrigated fields. Yield expected at one and a half tons per acre. Canadian Hop Growers Limited used over 2,500 workers last year. this season 150 employees will operate machines.
The Balfour Technical School in Regina offers a 190 day professional dressmaking course. Each student must complete 24 garments using various fabrics.
REGINA The continent's first large scale irradiation tests on grain crop seeds and plants are at the University of Saskatchewan funded by a National Research Council scholarship. Tom Lawrence of Colonsay Sask is conducting under Prof JL Shebeski. Tests use radioactive phosphorus neutron gamma and betatron rays with some seeds and plants treated. For each experimental row a control row of untreated barley is grown. More than 15 mutations have appeared including several with improved straw strength potential. Montcalm Barley a six rowed variety is difficult to grow due to weak straw and lodging.
William Randolph Hearst, publisher of a vast empire, died at his Beverly Hills home of a stroke aged 88. His estate is estimated at 200 million dollars and includes 17 newspapers, magazines, radio stations and rare art treasures. Helen the dog was among his cherished companions.
Art Cameron the Vancouver Hotel clerk who refused Bing Crosby a room for looking like a bum was hired by Bob Hope to play a hotel clerk in Son of The Paleface. Cameron left for Hope’s new picture after the incident on a fishing trip with Crosby. Crosby and writer Bill Morrow recalled the moment and laughed it off.
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