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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1950
Page
2
Canada faces a critical need for mining engineers to develop its iron and valusite resources. With mining central to the economy, capital and trained workers are essential, yet university grad rates decline and foreign graduates fill limited roles. Only 15 percent of Canadian mining engineers come from the country’s universities.
Reports from Canadian universities show mining engineering students make up about four percent of total engineering enrollment for 1951 graduates, with even smaller shares expected for 1952 and 1953. The Engineering Institute of Canada and others seek to interest first year students in mining, while the Federal Labor Department aids by directing students to summer mining work and considers financial support from mining firms to those specializing in mining. The aim is to boost future mining engineering supply to meet growing industry needs.
Charlie Park er boosts business south of Red Deer by presenting a roadside museum. The display features a Lancaster bomber, an unused streetcar, a 1902 Holaman automobile and an 1896 steam engine to attract travelers and visitors.
William R. Vallevand, 20, Domaine Saskatchewan, is among three lower deck sailors promoted to cadets and selected to attend the Canadian service college at Royal Roads, Victoria. The note adds that Ann Stephens was the first woman magazine editor in the United States, publishing the Portland Magazine 1835 to 1837.
In Moose Jaw a Sioux explanation ties the city name to a bend shaped like a jaw bone, with no moose nearby. Calgary’s name origin is disputed and linked to Col. James MacLeod’s Scottish Isle of Mull, suggesting meanings from hard water to a shelter or proper name.
An American soldier retreated when his rifle blank cartridges misidentified a brown bear as an enemy during a mock wartime drill near Anchorage Alaska. The RCAF logged 213 search and rescue operations in 1949.
In Newdale, Mrs. Morris Lavery tends an unusual hobby a gardener who grows citrus fruits. Her tropical plot includes a four foot orange tree yielding two ripe oranges a lemon tree bearing a gigantic 11 inch circumference fruit and a vigorous grapefruit tree that frosted out in fall.
Alberta protests Ottawa over higher freight rates on livestock classes that took effect earlier this year. Premier Manning says Alberta seeks support from Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The piece notes the B C Air Training Plan produced over 131,000 aircrew in World War II.
The Canadian Foundation for Poliomyelitis announced four new National Board members Briga dier J A H Trudeau from Quebec City Lieut Gen E V Sansom from Fredericton J W B Bremner from Regina and Martin Folk from Saskatoon. Dr H J Spooner from Regina joins the National Medical Advisory Committee as Saskatchewan medical adviser.
The Saskatchewan fisheries branch reports more than 60 trout tagged this year at Lac la Ronge. Supervisor A. H. MacDonald says tagging tracks their travel routes to improve angling and guide management policies for the famous northern Saskatchewan lake.
Britain's austerity drive reaches hockey with a 60 shillings per week cap on player wages. Promoters offer side jobs to supplement earnings, but any pay above 60 remains forbidden.
Bata Petroleum Limited of Regina has sold half of its 246 800 acre freehold rights held under lease from the C P R to Royalite Oil Company Canada’s second largest crude oil producer The acreage lies around North Battleford and Biggar near the Alberta border The purchase price was not disclosed.
A Vancouver British Columbia clay deposit near Prince Rupert is being tested for healing properties. MIT scientist Dr. Ernst A Hauser calls the deposit unique and valuable for healing cuts burns and wounds and aiding arthritis. Further tests are ongoing and the clay has recently entered markets. Elephants at birth weigh 160 to 200 pounds.
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