Manitoba Liberal Resolution Seeks Equalized Power Rates
Manitoba Liberal leader Gildas Molgar tabled a resolution in the Manitoba Legislature urging rate equalization for electricity. The proposal notes Hydro Manitoba supplies energy outside Winnipeg and argues northern towns The Pas Cranberry Portage Bakers Narrows Churchill Grand Rapids and Norway House do not receive equal rates. The House has yet to debate the measure.
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Manitoba
Gildas Molgar
Manitoba Hydro
Winnipeg
Pas
Cranberry Porlane
Bakers Narrows
Churchill
Grand Rapids
Norway House
Hydro Buys Mid Canada Power Units
Manitoba Hydro bought 40 power generating and diesel units from Mid Canada Line for about 40 000. The deal includes a Cranberry Portage plant to assure continuous power after a base closure. Diesel units will bolster northern Manitoba supply and replace a burned Thicket Portage unit.
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Manitoba Hydro
Mid Canada Line
Maitland Steinkopf
Winnipeg
Hydro
Cranberry Portage
Manitoba
Thicket Portage
House of Commons
Bud Simpson
North Loop Highway Promotion Group Formed in Manitoba Saskatchewan
A new group the Manitoba Saskatchewan Regional Development Association was formed on March 21 to promote a circle highway route linking northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. It aims to route tourists through Hanson Lake road The Pas and Flin Flon area, enabling a circular tour with fishing hunting and camping along the circle.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Manitoba-Saskatchewan Regional Development Association
Satuday
Flip Flan Chamber of Commerce
Hanson Lake Road
Flin Flan
Pas
Hanson Lake
Flin Flon
Intruder Breaks In At LaRose Avenue Home
Jack Graham and Bart Kobar return from a convention to find a door smashed and a man 25 to 40 inside. A scuffle ensues, the intruder is let go after briefly demanding a coat, and Graham later notes his own coat was handed to the intruder. Police were contacted twice with unclear response.
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Jack Graham
Bart Kobar
Mr.Graham
LaRose Avenue
Prince Albert
Judson Bay Route Association
Graham
Mr. Kobar
Mr. Graham
Coyote Hunter Earl McFarlane Captures Coyotes
Earl McFarlane, a Pasqual Farming district resident, has killed about thirty coyotes this winter. The government pays a five dollar bounty per coyote. McFarlane came to the district in 1445 and has long been a devoted trapper of wolves and muskrats with coyotes as a sideline.
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Earl McFarlane
Pasqual
McFarlane
St Pauls Residence Opens May 20
The St Pauls Residence for senior citizens near St Anthonys Hospital on Second Street will admit up to 74 residents in 14 double and 46 single units. The Grey Nuns will manage with an admission board including Ed Sarna and Dr H C Rolfe. Forms are available at St Anthonys Hospital Guy Hall the Bishop's House Indian Affairs Branch or the Provincial Department of Welfare. No senior citizen should withhold applying due to finances.
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St.Paul’s
Paul Dumouchel
Second Street
St. Anthony's Hospital
Grey Nuns
St.Anthony's Hospital
Ed Sarna
Manitoba Department of Welfare
H.C. Rolfe
Department of Health
R. Hayward
Indian Health Services
The
Pas
Dick Bell
Indian Affairs
Guy Hall
Bishop's House
Indian Affairs Branch
Department of Welfare
Farmers' Festival Contest Candidate from The Pas
Marion Le Moal is The Pas's candidate in the Manitoba Farmers Festival Farmerette Contest to be held in Minnedosa in July. Sponsored by The Pas and District Farmers' Association, first prize is a $1016 university scholarship. Campaign events run before Marion leaves, with tickets offering seven prizes including a Lois prize of $1000.
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Marion LE Moal
Pas
Minnedosa
Pas and District Farmers' Association
Lois
Attempted Murder Charges Laid in Local Case
Charges of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm were laid against Connor and Coulombe over an alleged March assault on Louis Knockaert at a rooming house. Bail set at two sureties each, both with prior penitentiary records. Three men received suspended sentences for related damage at the McGillivary home, with bonds posted to keep the peace and restitution ordered.
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Louis Knockaert
Knockaert
Winnipes
Connor
Coulombe
O.F. Wright
Rod McGil
Joli Samual Lathlin
Leonard Charles Ladin
Solomon David Constant
McGillivary Homie
Zachius Constant
Chained dog injures child in The Pas yard
A three year old boy, Melville-Drew Shende, was bitten in the eye by a white Husky while playing at his grandmother’s home in The Pas. The dog, chained in the yard, had allegedly also bitten a delivery man in the ankle days earlier. The mother reports eye trauma and possible infection and says RCMP could not intervene since the dog was on private property.
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Pas
Melville-Drew Shende
Pauline Sokolosich
Bignell
RCMP
Shende
CBC Rejects Northward TV Link Costs
The CBC told Bud Simpson MP that carrying television from Flin Flon to northern Manitoba centers beyond The Pas would need large capital and operating funds. A CBC subsidy of S84 million this year was noted, with a $7 million rise from last year. The letter from R. C. Fraser to Simpson cited high per capita costs and limited progress on northern tower options.
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CBC
Bud Simpson
Churchill
Flin Flon
Manitoba
Pas
Siimpson
R. C. Fraser
Trager
Mr. Simpson
Snow Lake
Thompson
Lynn Lake
Door Entry Damages Floyds Motors Vehicle Break-In
A 1T year old youth was remanded until Saturday without plea on a breaking and entering charge at Floyds Motors. Entrance was gained by breaking a window. The youth moved a half ton servo ice truck out of the garage, damaged a second vehicle, and fled. The wrecked truck was found a mile past Prospector in a ditch, the motor burned out, with total damages estimated around SLOG.
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Floyd's Motors
Floyd Vause
Prospector
Fire call reports chimney blaze at late night event
Fire units responded to a chimney fire at a nighttime event, details incomplete. Responders contained the blaze and checked for further risk at the scene.
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Mid Canada Power
North Loop
St. Paul's Residence
Farmers’ Festival Candidate
Marton
Chained Dog
Lad
Mr. Yease
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