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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 07, 1952
Page
6
Children from throughout town enjoy the new playpark on Fourth Avenue at Columbia. The Kiwanis project features a playpool and swings for all ages with an adult supervisor present. Regular water refresh keeps the concrete paddling area safe as youths bring trikes, now restricted to riding within the park.
The council accepted M. W. Wiltsey’s offer for two SHbreck lots for residential use and ordered a new sidewalk along the north side and the western half of Second Avenue. Frontage owners will pay 146 dollars per lineal foot. A request to the district architect seeks 60 percent cost sharing for the sidewalk in front of the post office.
Directors of the Manitoba division of the Canadian Weekly News Papers Association visited the Canadian Joint Air Training Centre at Rivers on July 25. They flew in, were welcomed by Lt. Col. Cassidy and Major Graham, and viewed air training demonstrations including para trooper drills and the JAFPIS program. The party praised CJATC officials and returned to Winnipeg by plane.
A writer recalls a cross country tour through several states and offers a blunt portrait of Americans. He portrays citizens as boastful, generous, and exhibitionist while noting a shared national morality despite regional differences. The assessment emphasizes unity under two flags and a single North American character.
The passage extols Betty Grable as an emblem of American culture, noting her icon status from Korea to Canada and England. It laments Americans’ self praise and ignorance of Canada, while praising national pride, music, and the habit of collecting royalties from global admiration.
A travelers account traversing the Canadian American border highlights currency contrasts, shared gardens, and cross border towns. It notes Peace Garden near Boissevain, Canadian customs at Boissevain and Dunseith, and visits to Rugby Minot and other municipalities. The narrative observes traffic, highway 2 conditions, and a vast diesel freight train signaling industrial change.
A Gazette feature surveys Williston North Dakota describing rain from the night before and a new oil driven prosperity. The town has grown with wide boulevards and upscale eateries while four tall churches cluster at a busy intersection. The Clack motel chain debuts with the slogan you click at Clack's.
In a special session held to pass bills on the McArthur Falls power project and disaster funding, Seens notes the Rivers road bridge will not be built this summer due to steel shortages and that exact location remains uncertain. The session also advances four bills including Manitoba flood relief fund transfer, Winnipeg Enterprises stadium incorporation, liquor control act clarifications, and Erickson village incorporation.
Polio cases were confined to the airport area with two or three definite cases and several suspected, while Rivers remained free of polio up to Wednesday morning. The Gazette was informed.
Last Friday town officials examined garden plots amid weed issues. Aldermen reviewed future plot arrangements and set the 1953 rental at $2, with the town handling plowing and harrowing duties to improve produce areas.
Harry Cascaden, 87, died in Vancouver on July 24. Born in Bruce County Ontario, he came west in 1884 and lived in Bradwardine and Mayne districts. He married and survived by his wife, three sons, one daughter, a brother John Cascaden of Brandon, and a sister Mrs. John Silcox of Rivers. Funeral held in Vancouver on July 28.
In intense heat, the New Haven County Farm Bureau noted that apples baked on trees across many orchards. The report highlights stress on fruit due to high temperatures and offers context on local orchard conditions.
The first grain of the season, 200 bushels of barley, was threshed by J Archibald of Daly. The 1952 harvest is underway with an expected yield of about 25 bushels per acre. Swathing is common while power binders are used. rain delayed work but activity resumes midweek.
Ottawa reports social security taxes for family allowances and pensions total around $20,000 each week. This figure highlights the cost to support welfare programs and state aid, with implications for budget planning and public welfare funding.
Water tests in the district showed definite contamination with all tested wells coming back positive. Dr. G Wortgnan, municipal health officer, presented the report to the town council on Friday evening. Further tests will be arranged after the health officer returns from holidays, with Mrs E Westwood covering the office from Aug 1.
Thousands attended the event with 23 baseball teams and eight entries each for fastball and softball. Rivers CJATC led fastball, while Newdale won softball with Hamiota and Kenton following. McConnell beat Miami in extra innings, many games extended, and 2,340 spectators tried the Legion wheel of chance as church meals ran short and dancing closed the day.
The Gazette reports a local inspection of premises at Elmer Westwood farm at Rivers gate to reveal a transformed farmhouse yard. Terraced landscape, fruit bushes, grapevines, crab apples, a tennis court, croquet ground, picnic area, and a new patio create a relaxing setting alongside shaded lawns and mature trees.
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