Readings on Sinclair Lewis Highlight Nobel Laureate and Works
The October Reading Club session featured American author Sinclair Lewis born in Sauk Centre Minnesota as the first American Nobel Prize in literature winner. It noted his troubled personal life including marriages and divorces and cited main works such as Main Street Babbitt Arrowsmith Elmer Gantry and Dodsworth.
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Sinclair Lewis
Reading Club
Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Grace Hegger
Vogue
Dorothy Thompson
America
Post Office Reform in Canada and the Five Day Week
Ottawa report by Russell C Honey outlines a postal deficit of 92 million this year expected to rise to 130 million. Proposes cost cuts and rate increases to balance next year, with a five day work week and air delivery for first class mail at 6 cents. argues taxpayers should not subsidize high-volume stamps and notes varied responses to proposed rate hikes.
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Russel C. Honey
M.P
Canada
Post Office
Kendal News Thanksgiving Weather and Local Notes
Thanksgiving week in Kendal featured mild 70s temperatures and clear skies as tobacco harvest ends and corn fields flourish. Local families visited Norwood Fair. Kendal Anniversary Service set for October 20 with Rev. R C White and the Excelsior Choir. United Church Women heard Mrs. Stevens recounting her life from England to Manitoba with Missionary roots. The Pas in northern Manitoba described as gateway to the west, noted for Sir John Franklin passes. New mail rates shift pamphlet costs to senders, not taxpayers.
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Barbadoes
Jack Stapleton
Dean West
Iin
Norwood Fair
Kendal
R. C. White
Excelsior Choir
United Church
Sir John Franklin
Pas
Saskatchewan
Franklin
Port Hope Expands Nuclear Fuel Output in 1969 Plan
Port Hope sees growth in uranium processing as Atomic Energy of Canada and Canadian Westinghouse commit a 3.3 million dollar order for natural uranium fuel rods to load Gentilly nuclear plant. Eldorado Nuclear advances a 10 million dollar uranium hexafluoride plant, expanding a ten acre Port Hope facility complex.
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Canada
Port Hope
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd
Atomic Power Division
Canadian Westinghouse Ltd
Gentully
J. C. Brown
Westinghouse Atomic Power Division
Mr. Brown
Atomic Energy of Canada
Uran
Eldorado Nuclear
Darlington Council Rejects Referendum on Debentures
A citizens committee requested a referendum on issuing debentures to fund an auditorium indoor swimming pool and outdoor skating rink for a proposed Bowmanville high school. Darlington township council refused the request deeming the submission unnecessary.
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Citizens’ Committee
Darlington
Bowmanville
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Benchley Isles of
South Pacific
National Geographic
Jin Field and Laboratory
Simon
MacLean
the Malones
The
Wind
Alexander Graham Bell
Holland
Ottawa
Kendal News
Polaroid
Matt's Barber Shop
St. Lawrence
Montreal
Orono Building
Orono
Orone Pastoral
B. E. Long
Archie McCurdy
Board of Evangelism and Social Science
Orone
Kirby
Council
Bonnie Doon
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