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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 22, 1949
Page
2
Destructive fires continually endanger life and property with 1947 Canadian losses at 57 050 461 dollars and 390 deaths. Forests suffer yearly, with nearly one million acres burned, while remoteness and flammable conifers hinder prevention efforts and leave vast forests vulnerable.
Forest conservation staff do excellent work in preventing and controlling fires but getting equipment to needed areas is often difficult. The Canadian Society of Forest Engineers urges National Research Council and possibly the Department of National Defence to assist, noting enemy actions as a wartime danger. Public support is urged to reduce annual losses of life property and forest wealth.
Calgary Mayor James C. Watson said the Alberta Government refused financial aid to the British Empire Games Association of Canada Calgary unit. The association sought 1500 dollars, arguing provincial help was denied and that the city must shoulder part of the burden.
The American Optometric Association reports that all but 37 percent of workers pass standard vision tests. It notes farmers show fewer visual inefficiencies than other major occupations.
J. R. Donald of Montreal told the Montreal regional conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers that Alberta with its low-cost natural gas and rich chemical resources will support a large future chemical industry. He said ammonia methanol urea and chlorinated hydrocarbons could be produced much cheaper in Alberta for Eastern Canada.
In Moose Jaw Mrs. George Leggett of Eyebrow Saskatchewan was fined ten dollars plus costs for leaving her home during a ten day poliomyelitis quarantine. Her infant son Tony is hospitalized with polio and the home remained under restriction.
A bronze plaque will be placed east of Darlingford Manitoba to commemorate La Verendrye s 1738 journey through the area from Portage la Prairie toward the Missouri River. The route reportedly ran south and southwest from Fort La Reine.
A roofed Greek theater, the odeum or odeon, hosted trial performances and musical contests, serving as a venue for public spectacle and cultural competition.
A Canadian editor recalls controversy over wedding write ups in The Sun Swift Current Saskatchewan where a different groom focused piece sparked letters. The sample described the groom in a three piece suit and the bride in a nylon gown with red roses.
A newspaper blurb promotes Dr. Chase's Kidney Liver Pills as a long trusted remedy for back pains from kidney cold. It claims the formula tones kidneys and liver and offers relief, available at drug counters after many years of use.
A collage of joke snippets and light quips. Scenes include a neighbor asking to borrow lawnmowers and golf clubs, a budget chat between a father and son, a political speaker teased by an audience member, a child’s mud incident, a job interview misfire over quick decisions, and a hesitant recruit facing the question of social life.
Lake Louise Alta The Canadian Good Roads association was told that Canadians are becoming more safety conscious through information distributed in the press by radio and motion pictures.
Humidity after heavy rains in the Murrumbidgee area New South Wales caused burrs and clover seeds to sprout in the wool of sheep. Farmers say they have never seen such strange looking sheep.
Dr. O B Hopk ins and H H Hewetson said Imperial Oil is extending the 450 mile Edmonton Regina line by 700 miles to the head of the lakes with a 20 inch diameter and possible further route to Superior Wisconsin The project size is estimated at 90 million dollars and the company contemplates expanding to reach the Great Lakes region.
The province directs a five mile buffer along the border to be trapped clear of beavers to stop a water-borne plague from Ontario. Registered trapline owners in the area are advised to trap heavily.
Onega lake in Russia ranks as Europe’s second largest by area, with a maximum breadth of 530 miles and a length of 140 miles.
The project aims to shift crude transport from Edmonton to Regina in the fall of 1950 while oil flow from Regina to the head of the lakes is slated to begin in spring 1951.
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