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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 18, 1947
Page
2
The article argues for improving housing, education, and recreation in rural Western Canada to retain young farmers. It notes urban living advantages draw youth to towns and cities and urges fair living conditions for farmers who contribute to national welfare. Government and agricultural groups have long pursued such improvements.
A Prairie Rural Housing Committee with Federal Agriculture and CMHC involvement organizes research by the Universities of Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba to raise housing standards for farm families. Studies cover water and heating, sewage disposal, materials and costs with Manitoba examining farm homes kitchens and community centres. Farmers and farm women provide input, signaling strong interest in better equipped homes and livable rural surroundings.
Professor J A Russell of the University of Manitoba announces a $33 825 budget for a two year program addressing Western farm housing needs. Provinces will share about 15 percent each while the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation funds 55 percent as interim plans for farmers are prepared.
The estate of the late James Turner of Carroll Manitoba near Brandon will disperse about fifty head of pure bred Aberdeen Angus cattle on Saturday October 25 at 1 pm standard time. The herd descends from Karama 2nd of Glencarnock.
The Flint Journal praises Canada for courteous police and friendly people. It notes women drivers are not problematic and warns against reckless teen drivers. It invites readers to vacation in Canada for a kind, bright experience and safe streets.
The old seamen of pre radar days relied on eyes and ears to navigate. They could see what radar might miss and hear what radar could not hear. They never relaxed or had a chance, for one minute’s lapse could be fatal. The piece warns we may pay for counting too much on instruments that can quit without warning.
The 1947 first seven months saw Hog market prices rise with less weekly variation compared with 1946. About 2.5 million hogs were slaughtered under inspection from January to July, down 5.6 percent from 1946. Eastern Canada up 21 percent while the West fell 28 percent. Eastern weekly slaughter surpassed 1946 by late April. Western levels rose by mid July, though future trends remain uncertain.
A collage of light jokes and brief anecdotes spans miscommunications on storms and ships, funny misreadings, a farmer’s sunset, a cheeky sailor’s call, an evacuee’s egg remark, and a shopkeeper’s wit. The piece closes with quirky patter about a Chinese cook and a grizzly bear ogling tracks.
Chile imposes a temporary ban on a broad range of luxury imports from Canada due to shrinking dollar reserves. Effective until December 31, the decree affects items including refrigerators, heaters, pottery, glassware, lumber, hunting gear, textiles, radios, hardware, plumbing, cutlery, flour mills, footwear, dyes, perfumes, and toothpaste. Heavy machinery, agricultural implements, newsprint, rubber and chemicals are exempt.
The Jack Miner Foundation secured publishers Reilly Lee in Chicago and Copp Clark in Toronto to issue a new enlarged Memorial Edition of Jack Miner and the Birds. The volume combines Miner's two books with twenty magazine and newspaper articles, totaling several hundred pages. The edition honors a famed naturalist praised by Governor Alfred Smith Irvin S Cobb Edgar A Guest and others for his humane conservation work.
The Brandon Sun reports quirky laws from Fred Meyer. In Colorado Springs a dog gets one bite while Pasadena bans barking. Hayden protects bullfrogs and rabbits. California requires a hunting license to trap a mouse. Colorado bans trout fishing from horseback.
A collection of quotes on truth spoken by Browning Ruskin Mary Baker Eddy Emerson Suckling and Lowell. Each line presents a stance on truth and its power against falsehood. The compilation reflects ethical reflections across writers and eras.
Water color portraits by Fit.-Lieut. Paul A. Goranson and Fit.-Lieut. David E. Hornell honor the Royal Canadian Air Force Victoria Cross recipients. P.O. Andrew Charles Mynarski of Winnipeg is shown as the other VC winner. Paintings were based on photographs. both airmen died in the actions earning their VC.
Alberta’s public works minister W A Fallon reports a 13 million dollar highway program across 88 projects is one third finished. The plan aims to restore transcontinental routes and main subsidiary roads with Lethbridge to Medicine Hat paving nearing completion and most remaining work at least 50 percent done. Completion hoped for this year if weather cooperates.
An employee of a UK aircraft firm descended from a jet fighter traveling over 500 mph in a successful test of new apparatus devised by the firm's head. The feat establishes the fastest ejection ever recorded.
Mrs. W. R. Dilworth of Pincher Creek Alta, believed to be Canada’s first mother to visit Nijmegen and Adegemen graves, finds solace in the green lawns and white crosses. Her son James Robert Dilworth, 27, died September 13, 1944, and another son, Herman Clifton, 25, was killed December 12.
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