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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 06, 1951
Page
2
New Westminster and Washington area fans face arrest as the city commissioner cracks down on drinking at Queens Park Arena. The mayor warned that complaints are rising and the situation is getting out of hand, threatening official action. Cicero began his public career in the law courts at age 26.
In Ottawa last week a retail price fixing debate sparked clashes in Parliament as witnesses attacked price maintenance and a push to ban resale price maintenance aimed to curb price wars. The radio committee discussed abolishing the $2.50 radio license fee with CBC subsidy ideas, while CBC leadership saw a reshuffle with Dr. A Frigon named director of planning Ronald Stanson and J A Ouimet advancing in senior roles.
Thirty years ago two bachelor farmers vanished with unpaid bills that left local merchants strained.
Emerson Wolfe attended the annual convention of the Union of Manitoba municipalities in Winnipeg last week. Mrs James Wedderburn and Mr and Mrs Alex Thomson were weekend visitors in Brandon and Winnipeg respectively. Lethbridge adds 600 telephones raising total to 6 396. Pietda Fabrizio underwent surgery in Milford Iowa revealing 79 nails two pieces of barbed wire two pen nibs 14 tin pieces and a yard of electric wire in his stomach.
The Plain Dealer reports a $157,800 hospital project and a $35,740 four bed unit at Hartney will begin in spring. The tender amounts are from a Winnipeg construction company.
Local notices announce a sale of home cooking and candy by United church in Taylor and Son Ltd. premises on Saturday December 15. Multiple Manitoba education and employment ads from Winnipeg include home kindergarten teaching courses civil service prep typing shorthand and teacher helps from M C C Schools. Rentals and sales items list a warm two room house for rent and various goods for sale including a Booker cabinet a Strand coat and wood range a baby Astrol fridge a Gerrard Heintzman piano and white figure skates with protectors.
Yorkshire weanling pigs for sale at 25 dollars per pair. Seller W. I. Sibbald, RR 1, Alexander. Phone 28-14 for details.
Saskatoon scientists at the University of Saskatchewan devised a moisture meter to measure soil moisture where sampling is impossible. The device uses a radium beryllium source in indium to detect moisture by neutron capture, with tests taking minutes and leaving an aluminum tube for repeat checks. Also notes Britain’s Harwell atomic heating plant and Britain’s no Christmas food bonuses policy.
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