School levy boosts 1967 budget and mill rates
Commercial property owners pay 34 mills in assessment while the overall school budget rises by 249 000 alongside a mill rate drop. Taxpayers await the combined school and municipal mill rate as the Town Council begins 1967 budget meetings. The foundation program sets nine mills on residential and farm and 33 mills on commercial and industrial properties. If funds fall short, a special levy is added, with Kelsey School Division listing 7356 and Consol Local Government District sharing about one tenth, The Pas bearing the rest.
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Education Foundation
Kelsey
Consol
Pas Girl Festival Queen Crowned at The Pas
EILEEN WELLS of The Pas was crowned Queen of the Flin Flon Trout Festival after beating six contestants. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Hal Wells and was sponsored by the student council at the Northern Manitoba Vocational Centre. As prize, she will represent the festival at Expo 67 when the Centennial Voyageurs arrive in Montreal on September 4.
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Eileen Wells
Pas
Eileen
Hal Wells
Northern Manitoba Vocational Centre
Montreal
Tuberculin Test Day at Vocational Centre
On June 20 a total of 246 students and staff received the Tuberculin Tine Test at The Vocational Centre. Mrs. Cameron supervised the testing with Mrs. Hide from The Northern Manito ba Tuberculosis Unit. Public Health Nurse Olga Chalmers assisted, while Miss Sheila Reimer and others showed hour long films on Venereal Diseases and Their Effects.
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Vocational
Cameron
Hide
Northern Manitoba Tuberculosis Unit
Olga Chalmers
Shiela Reimer
Toronto
Winnipeg
Captain quits Saskatchewan River boat crew at Moose Lake
Packsack Pete cites unrest in the Saskatchewan River transport system. A new boat began between Moose Lake and The Pas costing the government 10000. After a week the captain requested a 60 weekly raise, the board refused, and he boarded a plane back to The Pas.
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Packsack Pete
Saskatchewan River Transportation System
Moose Lake
Pas
Return
Board of Directors
Highway changes name Portagela Prairie district engineer
Ros Scrase is named District Engineer for the Roads Department at Portagela Prairie. The newly created district results from a reorganization expanding the province from eight to twelve districts. Scrase previously served as District Engineer at The Pas and will move to Portagela Prairie.
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Ros Scrase
Highways Department
Portagela Prairie
Ross
Pas
HERALD Holidays Start July 12
The Pas Herald office and plant will close from July 18 to 29 for staff holidays. There will be no Herald issues on July 19 and 26.
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Pas Herald
Jim Thompson Enters Kin Hi Camp Atikokan Ontario
Jim Thompson, 16, son of Mr and Mrs A Thompson of 736 Settee Ave has left for a two week leadership course at Kin Hi Camp in Atikokan Ontario. The program aims to boost his involvement in school and town life as he nears Grade eleven at MBCI. Sponsored by the Kinsmen Club of The Pas.
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Jim Thompson
A. Thompson
Settee Ave
Kin Hi
Atikokan
Ontario
MBCI
Kinsmen Club
Pas
Drayton Valley Launches D V U F O Mystery Project
Citizens and officials gathered at the cement pier June 20 to launch the first platoon of 100 D V U F O s Drayton Valley Unidentified Floating Objects along the river route to Lake Winnipeg and Hudson Bay Each D V U F O carries a centennial flag and a year from 1867 to 1967 Letters inside reveal how to claim rewards with prizes for D W U F O s marked 867 and 1967 and a grand prize for the farthest find
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Drayton Valley
North Saskatchewan River Bridge
D. V.U.F.O
Lake Winnipeg
Hudson's Bay
Drayton Valley Centennial Committee
D.W.U.F.O
Winnipeg hosts Pan Am tribute at council meeting
Mayor Harry Trager was made an honorary member of the Pan American Games Society at The Pas event. Mayor Stephen Juba of Winnipeg, with Winnipeg’s finance comptroller Mr. McLean, accompanied him on the way to the Flin Flon Trout Festival as Pan Am events begin in Winnipeg on July 22. Juba led the effort to bring the Games to Winnipeg.
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Harry Trager
McLean
Winnipeg
Juba
The Story Behind The Pas Pulp Mill and Churchill Forest
The Pas residents ask about Churchill Forest Products as a local office opens with manager Kaare Andersen. Techno pulp of New Jersey plans the northern Manitoba project with Canadian engineers, aiming pulp mill by 1969 and saw mill by 1968. Premier Duff Roblin visited Europe to study immigration and development for the Manitoba venture.
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Churchill
Pas
Saskatchewan River
Kaare Andersen
Holand
Toronto Dominion Bank
The
Manitoba Business Journal
Churchill Forest Products
Technopulp
New Jersey
Alexander Kasser
Sicily
Majestic Mount Etna
Europe
Canada
SIACE
Celanese Group
Technopulp Incorporated
Manitoba
Churchill Forest Industries (Manitoba) Limited
Fiumefred
Cold River
Duff Roblin
Northern
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New Foundation
Baie
the Pas
Voc
Telegraph
Alberta
Fiumefreddo
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