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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1950
Page
3
The Lacombe Globe criticizes the provincial government for lax control of drivers licenses and calls for stricter issuance rules to prevent license holders from causing chaos. It contrasts modern policy with New York Times views and reflects on Tibet as an example of enduring tradition amid a shrinking globe.
Rivers Curling Club hosts an admission event priced at 55 cents designed to entertain families and seniors alike. The activity list includes games, demonstrations, and friendly matches to promote curling participation across ages.
Windsor Star reports that Canada plans to expand the Royal Canadian Mint to raise annual coin production from 20 million to about 108 million. The piece argues the rise reflects inflated population and currency demands, while alleging government motive hides long-term inflation. Maple Creek News notes US Democrats and CCF shift on union labor influence.
Farmers advocate that trend toward larger holdings in Canada does not doom the family size farm. With bigger implements raising costs, cooperation and machinery pools could help smaller operators survive and remain viable.
A Town and country view square dancing revival stirs discussions on its social economic cultural and religious impact, while some regions note it has never faded away. Toronto and Newsweek contrast US and Canadian newsprint trade and political shifts involving Tito and Mao in a broader global context.
The text argues the regime remains rigid about satellites and dismisses any chance of Chinese comments shifting power. It cites Moscow allowing Mao to move troops into Manchuria as proof of Stalin's confidence in control over Beijing.
An anonymous buyer paid 12,506,000 francs for a Rembrandt self portrait in Paris, depicting the artist aged 36. The sale reflects postwar art market activity as observers note the high price amid a year of global tension.
A United Nations study finds the United States leads per capita income at 1450 dollars with Canada second at 870 and Indonesia last at 236 while China sits at 27. An Edmonton Canoe River train wreck inquiry begins, with 20 dead after a head on collision between a passenger and troop train 112 miles west of Edmonton on November 21. Gussie Moran headlines as she tours, after a Cadillac crash on an Ottawa street injures no one. Sam Carr is sentenced for communist plotting in Canada and named to Kingston penitentiary paper’s editorial staff raising debate about indoctrination.
A 14 room brick mansion built during the first world war marks a monument to Sam Miller a farmer whose successful career is celebrated on the main highway near Saskatoon A.
An Ontario man, Sam Miller, left Bruce County with 70 dollars in 1903, walked 70 miles to his Saskatoon homestead, built a 1917 house for 16000 in booming timber times, and survived the 1930s by farming livestock. He recalls buying a neighbor's quarter section for 20 dollars an acre, then borrowing 250 dollars to close the deal.
In a neighbor conversation the farmer recalls selling a quarter with a crop on it amid talk of no crop that year. He notes threshing 35 bushels to the acre and vats reaching 100 bushels per acre, saying he paid for the quarter in the first year.
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