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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 06, 1951
Page
3
The Souris Plain dealer notes Santa Claus visiting multiple towns with community sponsored appearances. Carman offers float prizes, Minnedosa prepares thousands of Caney bags, and Treherne plans a parade with public speaking aid while Maratou urges kids to stay for the big show.
Ron Tuckwell argues that crowd mood drives hockey players to follow or break rules. He urges fans to support clean, rule-based play and defend referees, noting injuries rise when crowds glorify rough tactics. He warns parents and towns against mob behavior fueling dangerous conduct.
Defence Minister Brooke Claxton praises all ranks of the three services for their planning and execution of Royal Visit arrangements. The dispatch notes active and reserve personnel from Quebec to Newfoundland, including ceremonies at the war memorial, navy visits, the Plains of Abraham review, cadet parades, and guards of honor from Dorval to Conception Bay.
The Biggar Saskatchewan Independent rebukes an Winnipeg source over a column item claiming a sign at Biggar station reads New York is big but this is Biggar. A local informant doubts the sign's existence after 24 years in town and suggests a sign be erected to stop lies.
Oslo composer Eivind Groven is transcribing 200 Eskimo songs recorded on tape by explorer Helge Ingstad during a year in Alaska. Fifteen tunes have been written down, seven appear in Ingstad’s life among the Nunamiut book. The recordings are described as a notable find for musicologists as the first Eskimo songs ever recorded in Alaska. Groven notes artistic and scientific value, with some tunes featuring drum accompaniment and possible foreign influences from American Indians or Siberian Eskimos. One Nunamiut piece appears to adapt a Telemark theme.
Premier Douglas Campbell announces Edmond Prefontaine as municipal commissioner succeeding the late Saveur Marcoux and Ronald Turner as provincial treasurer, both Liberal members with long legislative records. Also notes Winnipeg’s Pinewood River plant dismantling and a Port Union Fisherman's Advocate view on highway building as a public investment.
In central Alaska the hunters remain isolated hundreds of miles from any village. Their sole link to civilization is a lone fur trader who makes a yearly flying visit, providing the only outside contact.
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