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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 13, 1951
Page
3
Seven Carnegie district farmers waited on Daly council last Tuesday seeking assistance under the PFRA. Several grain producers in the Carnegie area were bailed out during the summer of 1951.
Last week Terris Daly council agreed to buy equipment to fit the Riversire department track for fire calls. Costs for country calls will be charged to individual taxpayers.
Manitoba expands library service to rural areas with a 10 page booklet outlining two borrowing methods. The original collection has grown to about 10 000 volumes. Traveling library ships boxes with 20 adult and 10 children books, returnable in six months. Open-shelf service loans books for three months. Both services are free.
Kiwanis members will view a religious film Tuesday night at the local theatre. Arrangements for the turkey shoot parade planned for Saturday were also discussed.
A four by three foot swastika flag was found draped over the residence of police chief Lou Strange in St Johns. War veterans said it matched the Nazi flag used in the last war marking a provocative act.
Eighteen Rivers firms enter floats for a Santa Claus parade traveling east on Second Avenue then looping through Malin Street Third Avenue Brunswick Street First Avenue Main Second and Columbia. The Hex theatre stop allows Santa to alight enter the picture house and greet hundreds of children as Kiwanis members distribute goodies before a film. The weather eyed, expenses rise as plans proceed under committee chair I R Stratford with many Rivers firms listed among entrants and sponsors.
A 35 year old man Ronald Evans Mc Coll, serving seven years and seven strokes of the cash, threatened to kill himself. Transient, charged with breaking and entering and assault on a middle aged woman, he claimed prior suicide attempts in prison and said he would succeed this time.
In Hamiota District, a new barn 36 by 52 feet is rising on farmer Jack Routledge’s Quakner farm after a November 9 fire destroyed a barn with 22 cattle 43 pigs 50 hens a tractor and feed. About 8 neighbors cleared ruins and rebuilt with municipal help. locals served lunch. over 100 men lent labor. funds were raised for the Routledge family.
Two persons appeared before Justice of the Peace W T Dyer this past week charged with local by law infractions. One paid a $10 fine plus costs, the other was assessed $25 and costs.
The Rev. G. M. Ottsen in Charles City discovered about $40 missing from church funds after opening his desk drawer to deposit a cheque. He notified police and returned to his sermon titled Stop, Thief. In Saskatoon H R McKenzie cited Saskatchewan's 1952 highway program as the province's largest ever undertaking.
Rivers branch of the Canadian Legion sponsors a Christmas tree for Deer Lodge veterans set up at Havlck's bakery. Residents value the remembrances each year and donations such as tobacco cigarettes candy socks reading material help brighten Christmas Day. Gifts close Saturday December 22.
The Saskatchewan archives at the University of Saskatchewan publish a 114 page directory listing all newspapers from 1878 to 1950. It notes only 112 of 493 papers are still published, with many pre 1900 titles now on microfilm. Microfilm files cover most weeklies since 1943 in Regina’s legislative library. You Saw It in The Gazette.
A Red Cross mobile unit collected 148 blood donations in Rivers on Monday evening with an average of 380 ct. The venture, at the Legion hall, drew one prospective donor who fainted. Nurses and technicians from a 12-person team plus a doctor staffed the unit. Local ladies assisted and Friendship Rebekah lodge members provided refreshments. The clinic plans a return in May or June 1952.
Dmitro Kolotyla a long time railway employee resident since 1911 retires due to ill health after leaving his position months ago He was visited by James Messel and Adam Daniel who gave best wishes and a sum of money He married in Rivers and is survived by seven children and two grandchildren Swift Current Saskatchewan Also a note that W J McIntyre local inventor is building a mobile grain frying unit with 1000 bushel capacity for operation in the area.
Mount Sinai Chapter RAM installed officers for the coming year led by Ex. Comp. W C White and Ex. Comp A D McKinnon. The 56th annual old-timers rally in Moose Jaw drew only 91 year old Arthur L Davies as the sole arriving guest.
The Belgian capital reports record car thefts with only about one in five stolen by professional thieves. Juvenile groups with skeleton keys steal cars for rides and dump them on the city outskirts. Officials blame stretched police for delayed coverage as traffic duties dominate.
Edmonton officials began negotiations with Canadian National Railway to eliminate 21 railway level crossings in the city, aiming to improve safety and traffic flow amid ongoing discussions with CN.
MP Walter Dinsdale notes how broadcasting bills consume House time and how private stations push CBC monopoly. He describes a Montreal CBC center tour and a $100,000 mobile TV unit, predicting telecasting to Montreal and Toronto in 1962 and to Winnipeg by 1953, with Manitoba likely enjoying TV soon after.
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