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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1950
Page
2
A Bradwardine youth was honored on a birthday with community recognition. The event highlighted local support from the War anvers and Raker groups and the Brandon area.
The passage surveys figures like Albers Bowman and Fleming while discussing the Argio-Egyptian Treaty and Egyptian liberty movements. It comments on paradoxes in postwar sentiment toward England and Egypt, noting Egypt’s passion for liberty and foreign involvement. It reflects on Egyptians welcoming Romine and the shift in attitudes toward German forces near Cairo.
Classified notes list a walnut finish dining room set with extension table and four chairs, in near new condition priced at $100 and contact W. Fitch at 43 Trenton Rd, New Sarum. Also multiple tire and trailer notices from various sellers with contact names and locations.
Smeth Rock Falls Ont a Quonset hut style 400 seat theatre opens Feb 1 with modern sound and screen to serve 2000 residents. Rev Samuel P R East leads Trinity United church support. project funds go to church needs and general missionary work.
Police enforce a Sunday work ban on farmers in the district under the 15 percent Sunday Law after reports of plowing resumed post rains. Prohibited acts include agricultural labor on Sundays with penalties up to one month in jail or a 15 dollar fine. Other items note Teasdale’s Toronto fraud sentence, Manos awaiting trial, and Roe’s large probate.
A 110 member party of Rapid City boys and girls clubs returned home after a week in Winnipeg funded by Manitoba extension service and T Eaton Company. They visited Eaton's, the Free Press and Tribune, Legislative Buildings, University of Manitoba, a packing plant and radio stations and attended a hockey game theater party dinner and social evening. Joyce Neilson and Beverly Hotham spoke at a luncheon. both were on Rapid City clothing team that won second at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. The piece also notes Britain’s large postwar military commitments in Malaya amidst broader Cold War tensions.
Prime Minister Sidney Holland said the New Zealand volunteer field artillery regiment of about 1,100 men will proceed with its planned action on Sunday despite a deteriorating military situation in the area.
The Gazette asked subscribers to vote on a weekly mental quiz. A deadline passed with little response. Only one reply arrived, from British Columbia, indicating limited local interest in the feature.
A burglary at Prince Albert auto wreckers left thieves smashing the front office safe with an acetylene torch. They moved a 350 pound safe to the machine shop and cut out the dial to steal about 350 in stamps.
Supply Minister Ahmed Hamza Bey said Egypt is negotiating with Russia to buy 100000 tons of Russian wheat, with Cairo as the focal point of talks.
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