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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 04, 1962
Page
1
The Pas celebrates its 50th anniversary with an August 24 to 26 event. Merchants can win prizes totaling 175 dollars for decorations matching 1912 style. First prize 100 dollars, second 50 dollars, third 25 dollars. Knights of Columbus oversee decorations and souvenirs.
Labatts sponsored display at the Red River Exhibition Winnipeg features Trappers Festival Flin Flon Trout Festival and Swan River Rodeo. The Pas resident Mrs Ernest Jebb showcased beaded mukruks and Indian handiwork attracting CBC coverage and public interest. Peggy Green and Eve Dunn moderated the booth with support from Kerrs Furs and Trappers Festival committee.
The Pas Rotary Club, led by president Frank Bickle, winds up another season with near 100 percent attendance in a photo by Murray McKenzie. Three members were missing and hoped to join a nearby club while traveling. Neil Macphee succeeds Bickle as president this week.
The ten day exhibition features a handicraft booth sponsored by Labatt's. The Trappers Festival arranged for Mrs. Jebb to attend the event.
The Pas town faces doubt over a $100000 Senior Citizens Housing project as council lacks authority to exempt the Eventide Home from education taxes. The plan, led by the Kinsmen Club, would cost $93000 to build twelve units with a provincial grant of $18936 and a remaining mortgage of $64847 over 40 years.
The body of a Thompson man was recovered from the Carrot River at mile 20 after being missing for a week. Police have not yet identified him. kin notifications are pending.
A court hearing in about three weeks at The Pas will decide custody of an infant found abandoned behind the Cambrian Hotel. The baby was found around 5 30 pm Thursday June 21 and turned over to the provincial department of welfare. Welfare officials say they are concerned about mothers being drunk and leaving children on the street.
Texaco Oil Company site in town has a service station built with five foot clearance against a planning rule of twenty five feet. The Town Planning Commission urged proper advertising of an amendment to the Scheme before approval. Council authorized a building permit last November without public notice. Ben Maxwell objected, seeking details of action. Mayor Trager discussed with Hon. Gurney Evans, who advised conformity with the Provincial Town Planning Act. Continued Page 7.
A fifteen year old fisherman from Willoughby Hills Ohio Allan Charles Rattray won first prize in the Trout Derby at Clearwater Lake near the Clearwater Lake Airport during the Flin Flon Trout Festival. He landed a 40 pound eight ounce trout using a 95 cent doctor Spoon with his father Gordon Rattray industrial engineer for General Electric assisting. The fish was weighed by Roy Vickery of Vickery's Lodge as Allan prepared to head to Churchill for whale hunting.
Wanless residents learn of a proposed town planning scheme by Far North Farms promoters Juan Brownell Wayne Wright and son Bill Wright. The plan envisions 7500 acres for a summer residence community around Rocky Lake with a shopping centre and strict lot and road development to protect foundation seed operations. Objections from locals are possible as the scheme is published this week.
Manitoba health authorities release an information kit for rabies control to municipalities and health units. Minister George Johnson notes local governments may create dog control by laws, with provincial guidelines included. Rabies in animals is rising in Manitoba and across Canada, described as an infectious nervous system disease affecting dogs cats skunks foxes wolves and coyotes.
The Pas Herald will not publish on Wednesday July 11 due to staff holidays. The next edition will appear July 18 as the weekly departures resume.
Booster Mr. C P Wood of Houston presented two aluminum trays to Mayor Trager and Bart Kobar that will be mounted in town offices. Wood unveiled the 15 foot Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin statue at the Flin Flon Trout Festival opening. He previously worked in The Pas in 1916 with American Lead and Zinc on a Flin Flon discovery.
Funeral services were held for 22 year old Dennis Reader at the Apostolic Church with burial in the family plot at Reader Lake. He died in a car accident near Lenswood Manitoba in the Swan River area while a passenger in Donald Plosz’s car which went out of control and rolled into a ditch. Plosz sustained minor injuries.
A meeting to discuss the Saskeram area west of The Pas will be held tomorrow at 8 pm in the Legion Hall. Attending are Hon. George Hutton Manitoba Minister of Agriculture, with Chamber of Commerce Game and Fish and Farmers Association representatives. The session follows concerns a Ducks Unlimited program at Bracken Dam could flood grazing land.
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