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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 24, 1968
Page
1
The Mines Minister The Hon Don Craik will visit The Pas on Saturday April 27 to discuss Churchill Forest Industries status. The Town Council says the meeting will be held at Christ Church Parish Hall and invites key community personnel to attend.
Town Council heard budget figures from school board chair Jack Kennedy. Foundation levy rises to 13.1 mills residential and farm and 37.1 on commercial. Special levy up to 5.3 mills. Total residential and farm 18.4 mills, commercial 42.4 mills. The amount to be raised by the special levy is 37944 dollars.
The Pas Minor Hockey hosts a Father and Son Banquet on Wednesday May 1 at 6 30 PM in the Elks Hall. Mothers will cater as last year. Tickets are 3 00 per family, 75 cents for boys. Contact Mrs Ron Cox 3 2224 for details.
The Pas hosts its first Miles for Millions March on May 11 1968 to raise funds for a feeding program in Port au Prince Haiti and a mobile medical unit to Tarija Bolivia. Thirty mile route starts at Devon Park with 8:30 registration and 9:00 start. Contact Valerie Tadda or Holly McDonald for info or volunteering.
St Pauls Residence includes 9000 in this year’s budget earmarked for municipal taxes a voluntary concession by the administration. The sum is under half the total taxes that would be charged if The Pas levied normally. Last year council removed taxes on St Pauls via by law, granting exemption. The present budget notes St Pauls serves people beyond The Pas and warrants fairness in tax treatment. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5.
The Pas welcomes two physicians to the Associate Medical Clinic. Dr W R Templeton from Northern Ireland arrives with wife Marian and 10 month old Lesley, after lecturing at Sheffield University. He specializes in internal medicine. Dr P E Dale from Sussex England, with wife Jennifer Mary a pathologist, specializes in pediatrics. They reside on Head Avenue in a new duplex with their three children Katherine 6, Jonathon 2½, and Susan 1.
The Pas Elks Pee Wee representatives of our town captured the Weyburn International Pee Wee Tournament of Champions East B Division title in Weyburn Saskatchewan. Gabriel Bighetty scored fifteen points, Tim Nash thirteen, Dennis Mayer eleven as The Pas defeated Gull Lake Tisdale Rosetown Watrous and Moosamin across five games to clinch the championship with coach Jack Williams and manager Bob Paetch guiding the team.
Earl Kennedy, longtime Manitoba Government photographer and regular Trappers' Festival visitor, leaves public work to start a private photographic studio with Vivian Hay, a former Manitoba Government employee. The move marks Kennedy's shift to private enterprise and leverages his well known photographic talent.
Earl’s friends in The Pas and northern Manitoba voice concern about his ability to stand on his own. His talent is seen as in demand, with hopes for success. The note mentions Earl’s business address at 157 St. Marys Rd Winnipeg 8 and hints at Seal Hole Lake in the north where seals are suspected to reside. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9.
The Pas residents will pay the same rate as Swan River once Grand Rapids central station power arrives. Manitoba Hydro official K Kristian son told The Herald last week that power from Grand Rapids should reach The Pas by end of September, with earlier notes suggesting rate reductions by August. A utility update said the final towers north to The Pas were erected three weeks ago.
The annual general meeting of the Tippers' Festival is postponed one night. Originally set for Wednesday May 1, it will convene Thursday night May 2 at 8 PM in the Legion Hall due to the Minor Hockey Father and Son Banquet on May 1.
A federal provincial prairie fisheries committee report from April 21 1967 outlines a model fish marketing board for Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba the Northwest Territories and northern Ontario. It proposes a marketing ban on freshwater fish similar to the Canadian Wheat Board and notes the board could operate without direct government cost but would need a working capital line of 2 to 5 million annually. The plan suggests using existing private trade facilities for storage and selling to avoid initial plant investment, with continuation on page 12.
Manitoba implements six month daylight saving under a new Official Time Act from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. Clocks move forward one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday April 28, advancing to 3 a.m., with the change occurring during the night of Saturday and Sunday.
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