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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 19, 1948
Page
3
The World Telegram notes Britain in a vicious economic circle as socialism weakens civilian resolve while Windsor Star reports heavy toll on Britain's forests from wartime needs. It highlights a reforestation plan to plant 5 million acres over 50 years, with 25,900 acres planted in 1947. Snow persists in Iceland, home to the world’s hottest spring.
Public information from the Manitoba Division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association outlines a Statutes of Manitoba provision. It explains that if a locality has over 500 inhabitants and is village forming, a petition by at least 750 residents can lead to letters patent incorporating the inhabitants as a village. 5.M.1933, ¢ 7, 3.8 am.
The text outlines when a locality may be incorporated as a town or city under the Municipal Act. It notes census thresholds of 1500 for towns and 10000 for cities, and requires a three month public notice period via local newspapers or posted notices. It also specifies petition requirements and notice publication methods.
An archaeological expedition funded by the Manitoba Museum and a Winnipeg newspaper aims to probe northern Manitoba around the upper Nelson and Hayes rivers for Viking remains. Leader Walter Hindy says reports of Viking finds near Lake Winnipeg justify the search despite lacking confirmation of pre Columbus travels.
RCMP said a large scale punchboard operation has been active in rural Manitoba. Investigators seized boards in at least 15 towns. The devices reached up to 1000 holes with punches costing 10 cents. Most boards were made in eastern Canada, many from Toronto.
Stratford on Avon reports booming Shakespeare industry with strong bookings. The memorial theatre extends its season by four weeks as last year’s 288000 visitor record appears likely to fall. Names from Melbourne and Manhattan, Paris and Peru show in visitors books.
Sidney George Brown, a Chicago-born scientist and prolific inventor with nearly 1000 patents, died at his Sidmouth home. Brown began investing at 18 and contributed to telegraphy telephony and gyroscopic compass development, marking a major impact on early communication and navigation technologies.
Ottawa questions whether the 3000 mile route will become reality as costs and unemployment drive feasibility. Peterborough notes call for discipline in schools, warning that harsh treatment harms more than it helps, amid war and postwar housing strains.
Ottawa August . The National Dairy Council urged the government to provide a suitable substitute for butter without reintroducing rationing or boosting imports. Council officials did not specify the substitute, but margarine was presumed. Canadian wheat stocks total 34,799,000 bushels in North America as of July 29, down from late July and last year.
Mrs. W G Ball of Winnipeg suffered facial lacerations and bruises when an automobile driven by her husband left the trans canada highway 90 miles west of Port Arthur and overturned.
Four Sudbury district men drowned when an outboard boat capsized on the Wahanpitae river while fighting a bush fire. Two identified as Rossy Betty and Nillo Koskinen. the others unnamed. River spans 125 feet at the incident. motive unclear. Across eastern Canada 39 violent deaths noted that weekend.
Citizens blame various actors from the federal government to retailers for rising meat costs while the delivery boy bears no blame. The blame game shifts among farmers drovers wholesalers and consumers as shoppers face higher prices or reduced meat availability.
A London announcement reveals the betrothal of Miss Mary Munn of New York to Viscount Duncannon elder son of Canada's former governor general the Earl of Bessborough and the Countess of Bessborough.
The note argues communists resist defeat in elections and rely on violence rather than the people’s free choice. It claims they infiltrate essential services like communication, transportation, and municipal government to force their will by ransom.
Whitehall delegates recently traveled to Nigeria to discuss financial arrangements for the country’s development. They spoke with leaders including the Awujale of Webu Ode Olubadan of Ibadan Alake of Abeokuta Oni of Ife Alafin of Oyo Oba of Benin and Aighobaht of Benin as part of Commonwealth diplomacy and resource planning.
United Nations sources in Lake Success report little hope for breaking the east west deadlock on a UN army. Officials say the force can only form after a general settlement between Russia and the West. The U.N. military staff committee briefed the Security Council on the stalemate and acknowledged 2 1/2 years of study yielded no major agreement.
North Bay Ont August Fifteen year old Billy Larochelle walked out of the bush and back to his home as search parties of more than 150 people scoured Dream Lake area. He said he will play baseball tonight with Kitzell's juniors, a local team, despite the weekend stay.
John Robinson of Kenton caught a three pound jack fish with a tail cut off when young. The oddly shaped specimen measured 18 inches in length and three inches wide where the tail would have been, yet appeared normal and healthy.
The Alberta Federation of Agriculture proposed that farmers pay harvest wages of six dollars a day and threshing wages of seven dollars daily plus meals and housing during harvest season. The recommendation appeared in a federation statement dated August 11 from Calgary.
Linda Norman alias Eleanor Fraser was arrested by Toronto police as she exited a cinema and charged with abducting 11 month old Anthony Griffin from his Hamilton home.
A sixth large group departed Rotterdam on the Kota Men vessel headed to Canada. The party comprises 400 Dutch farmers with families, 100 artisans from Belgium Switzerland and Scandinavia, and 356 German Mennonites from Bremen.
Don F. Brown chairman of the commons Indian affairs committee will confer with Indian affairs agents in western cities to obtain an overall picture of Indian problems. The move aims to map challenges and potential policy directions across tribes and regions.
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