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PICKED UPIN PASSINGFOR THE BUSY READERFisheries production in Quebec province had a total marketed ’ value of $2,002,053 in 1940 compared with $2,010,953 in 1939.Henry Chapman, 63, Belle Plaice, Sask., known throughout America as a breeder of Shorthorn cattle, is dead after a brief illness.*Cloakmakers in Montreal’s clothing industry will receive a cost-of-living bonus of per cent retroactive to July 1, the industry’s joint board has decided.(Officials of the Great Lakes Steel Corp. plant in Ecorse, Detroit, where labor troubles disturbed production for three days, state full operations had been resumed in alldepartments.The Canadian Home Economics Association has raised funds to purchase a mobile canteen for Canadian soldiers in England, it was announced m Victoria.Boys swimming in a pool at the river near Rocky Mountain House, Alta., declare they saw the ogopogo that has been seen in the North Saskatchewan river there the past two summers.*Halifax city council have approved a proposal by the Halifax council of social services that a resolution be forwarded to Ottawa asking the federal government to reopen the Dominion housing loan for persons with low incomes.BolNeTo facilitate manufacture in Canada of surgical and dental instruments, the 27^ per cent, tariff on imports from countries subject .to intermediate tariff treatment of rough forgings and handles for such instruments has been removed.Hanry Turko, 19, Steve Sitoski, 18, Walter Derkatch, 17, and Tony Bodnaruk. 16, all of Portage la Prairie, Man., were instantly killed by a C.P. passenger train as they walked on the track one mile east of their home city.Evidence in the trial of 36 tobacco manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers on combine charges has been completed in Alberta Supreme Cour: at Edmonton after defence counsel had completed examination cf its lone witness.Three hundred employees of Air Associated, X^e., at Bendix, 'N.J., have returned to work through a picket line which created a tense atmosphere but caused no repetition cf the disorder in which at(AnJournTheHansction :certaisubjelt;tion/’the \Nor (doestiona’tioncipleservicThiwayCana to se But of ti respo out i the iwhid ing oendu Itgoveitheagairleast six persons were injured and outsithree arrested.M. J. For km, elected to the Win-iform Man: as anipeg city council as a Communist not ---- eiectin 1937, was re-elected as an Independent in a by-election necessitated by the unseating of Jacob Penner Winnipeg Communist interned ’ under defence of Canada regulations.theycomicountionthelighttimeOf 4.601 Royal Canadian Air Force recruits who were rejected, Ti for service in air crews, 2,066 were not found unsuitable because of eye defects, a table prepared for a house of commons sub-committee on war expenditures, showed.conspre®regasideinessurgeA program for liberalizing the United States social security act to and provide for health insurance and to But abandon the 50-50 matching of fed- off ’ era! and state funds was recorn- quir mended in Washington by Chair- that man Arthur J. Altmeyer of the social security board.in ( effo T3C. Vaughan of Vancouver, was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Canada and Newfoundland at the closing session of the 1941 grand lodge convention at Victoria. Fort William. Ont., was chosen as next year’s convention city.1911outlmin inglandonlj andtakAttendance at the Edmonton sum- the mer fair up to Thursday night was in excess of last year, P. W. Abbott, managing director of the Edmonton Exhibition Association, states. Attendance Thursday was 26,191, compared with 30,061 for the corresponding day last year, a decrease of 3,870.Vas Haihe in • hePremier Godbout of Quebec called attention at a press conference today to the ‘'alarming tendency of farmers in some sections of the province to sell their lands. “In their own interest, I%ask them rot to let themselves become dazzled by the attraction of a little capital/’ he said.tlrsaa7eiiUnited States coast guardsmen j ire searching for five men, missing i ^ ;ince their boat overturned during j i severrlt; storm last Wednesday on \bake Ontario. The party’s 16-foot \ ■Dutboard motor boat was discoveredSeating near Associated Island.inbe*»cir.A shortage of fire fighters is reported in Pacific northwest forests,where the situation already is serious because of the prolonged dry spell. In salem, Ore., sound trucks toured the streets calling for fire fighters to supplement forces battling flames set by lightning in the i pr Detroit ranger district of the Wil- alamette National Forest.Hfoithmlt;Manitoba has agreed with municipalities in the province to pay 60 ^er cent of the C06t of direct relief. Retroactive to April 1 last,^ the newagreement will leave municipalitieswith 40 per cent of the direct relief burden, twice the amount they paidbefore the Dominion governmentcut off direct relief grants to the provinces last March 31.fathprsefacowlesisseblt;atIiirolSeveral hundred union employees of the Canadian General Electric Clt;x m Toronto re-affirmed their nomination of Henry Hunter to represent them on a conciliation uboard, Hon. Norman McLarty, tl minister of labor, previously had d refused to name Hunter on the I ti board. Ia
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Sat, Jul 19, 1941
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