Saskatchewan Boy Scout Financial Campaign Launched
The lieutenant governor led a province wide campaign Sept 20 to 25 with ongoing donations accepted after. Saskatchewan has over 66 000 Boy Scouts Cubs and leaders across 172 groups 121 troops 142 cub packs and four rover crews. Funds cover leader training new group formation and provincial staff costs with support from Premier T C Douglas and other leaders.
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Saskatchewan
Boy Scout Association
Gordon Building
Regina
Sask
T. C. Douglas
Bishop Coleman
Archbishop O'Neill
Father Murray
Boy Scouts
Saskatchewan horses vaccinated against encephalomyelitis
About 60 000 Saskatchewan horses have been vaccinated this year against en cephalomyelitis says Dr J S Fulton of the University of Saskatchewan s virus laboratory Officials hope the program will confine an outbreak reported in the Saskatoon and Humboldt districts.
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Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
J. S. Fulton
University of Saskatchewan
Virus Laboratory
Humboldt
Alberta loses rat-free status as invasion spreads
Provincial entomologist J. H. Brown announced on Tuesday that rats have invaded Alberta from Saskatchewan and are now firmly established, ending Alberta's distinction as North America’s only rat-free area.
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Alberta
North America
J. H. Brown
Saskatchewan
Home Workshop patterns for reupholstery and decoys
The notice describes Home Workshop Pattern Service offering pattern No. 312 for re webbing and re tying springs and other patterns such as No. 404 for decoy making. It advertises illustrated instructions, pricing at 35 cents per pattern, and a five pattern packet for $1.50 postpaid from Department P.P.L. in Vancouver, B C.
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Pattern
Sportsman's
Department P.P.L
Home Workshop
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Chilliwack Girl Starts Flying Nurse Training
Vicki Swanson, 18, has earned a pilot license and begun three years at St Pauls Hospital to train as a flying nurse. She will spend a year at the University of British Columbia for a public health degree after 30 flight hours, including 12 dual and 18 solo. Her father notes she may be Canada’s only girl who learned to fly before driving.
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Chilliwack
B.C
Vicki Swanson
St. Paul's Hospital
University of B
Vicki
Canada
Banff July visitor totals set new record
Banff National Park reports July attendance reached a new high with 165 388 visitors through the eastern gates and a 3 628 rise from the previous July. Canadians accounted for 78 percent of the total visitors.
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Banff
Banff National Park
Courageous Toronto girl swims toward distant fame
Marilyn Bell, a 16 year old from Toronto, trained eight years under coach Gus Ryder to become the first Canadian to win a long Atlantic Coast marathon. She finished seventh overall and first girl in a 25 mile swim off Atlantic City earning 1150 dollars amid cheering crowds.
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Syd Bell
Trim High School
Marilyn
Lake Ontario
Atlantic City
Pablum
Gus Ryder
Pistol of Scott and Rope of Riel Highlight Riel Relics
The St Boniface historical society unveils a new museum display featuring the pistol used to kill Thomas Scott and the rope used to hang Louis Riel. Scott was condemned in 1870 for his role in the uprising against the provisional government, while Riel was hanged at Regina in 1885 for his part in the same outbreak.
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Riel
ST. Boniface
Thomas Scott
Louis Riel
New Museum of the
Fishing Cat Victoria Enjoys Constant Catfish Returns
A 12 year old cat owned by Mr. and Mrs. J Loiselle in Victoria continues its fishing routines. The feline dives into a creek and routinely emerges with a bullhead, its favorite catch.
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Victoria
Moose Jaw Mayor Leads Drive to Save Rural Church
Mayor L H Lowry of Moose Jaw spearheads a campaign to designate a 70 year old rural church as a historic site. The wooden building once hosted pioneer activities but has stood idle for over 30 years and was sold as a cottage.
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Moose Jaw
L. H. Lowry
Old Steamer Yorktown at Fair Draws Big Crowd
A 40-year-old tractor, as large as a railway locomotive, was shown at the fair here. Its small steam whistle could be heard for miles when the big boiler fired for threshing, drawing attention and interest from spectators.
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Yorktown
Percheron Twins Stamp Calgary as Rare Equine Oddity
Calgary owner Dr. B W Banks reports a rare occurrence as Sprucevill Lucille Laet, a purebred Percheron mare, gives birth to twins sired by a federal government stallion marking a one in 100 000 oddity in the local equine scene.
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Calgary
Sprucevill
Dr. B. W. Banks
Largest family settles in new aluminum industrial area
Mr. and Mrs. Orville O'Neill head the largest family to settle in the new aluminum industrial area. Their eight children include seven girls and one boy, aged one to 12 years.
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Kitimat
Orville O'Neill
Metis Colony Life to Be Filmed for NFB Documentary
The National Film Board will shoot a documentary sequence on life in a Northern Saskatchewan Metis colony. Produced for Odeon theatres under Eyewitnesses, the segment will cover the Metis rehabilitation program with Victor F. Valentine as consultant, highlighting the colony’s historical role.
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Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
National Film Board
Provincial Resources Department
Odeon Theatres
Canada
NFB
Victor F. Valentine
Northwest insect plague terrifies RCAF officer
Frt. Lt. R. J. Goodley of the Royal Canadian Air Force survival school in Edmonton says he would endure weeks in 50 below zero weather rather than face the summertime mosquito swarm of the Northwest Territories at a meeting.
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Edmonton
Frt
R. J. Goodley
Rcaf Survival School
Northwest Territories
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