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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 07, 1952
Page
3
A brief note indicates Fain plans to construct a fleet of gas turbine passenger aircraft for Britain between now and 1955. The plan aims to produce about one hundred planes for utilization in civilian air travel and related services.
An eleven year old girl from Exinburgh Scotland, Justine Wilson, undertook a long cherished dream by traveling unaccompanied to Vancouver to visit her grandmother Mrs Martha Fraser. The journey began when her grandmother left Edinburgh to settle elsewhere.
Five years ago ann vartesh Uhat left her parents in Exinburgh to fly to Montreal then ride CN Continental to Vancouver. The determined youth aims to visit Mrs Fraser in a solo journey and will return to Edinburgh for school in the fall. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, the author, died in 1910.
Remodelled washrooms at the Canadian National depot in Rivers will add features for railway patrons. Men gain extra urinals toilets and washbasins shared with the women’s room. Restrooms enlarged with tile walls and concrete floors. A sign notes water is for washing not drinking.
Backward glance notes a baptismal font dedicated at Roseville church in memory of J. C. Nevill and E. D. Chapman. It also recalls electrification efforts for farm homes by Hydro and reports a fatal plane crash near Airey farm involving Albert Wareham, RCAF pilot instructor, and a companion, with Dr. G. R. D. Lyon listed as deceased. A 35 year ago item records a lightning strike destroying a barn owned by W. Hunter at Pendennis.
About two thirds of workers in Britain now entitled to two weeks of paid holidays in addition to the six public holidays. The move expands annual vacation rights and affects most sectors.
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