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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1952
Page
2
A Kiwanis magazine piece questions modern changes to Christmas noting the holy star guided humble shepherds while sophisticates chase trend. It urges preserving wreaths, fruit cake, the creche, and reverent observance over commercialization, and reflects on rural families as bulwarks against overmodernity.
Manitoba reports a population of 776 541 largely English origin based on the ninth census. The breakdown lists English 169 260 plus others, Scottish 100 251, French 66 020, German 4 251, indicating a predominantly English speaking demographic in the province.
The report lists 21 050 people of Austrian Czech Slovak Finnish Hungarian Italian and other origins. It shows Manitoba has 564 818 males and 381 723 females.
Trooper Bob Pearson of Calgary and British gunner Terrance Collins watch an American Sabre limp from Communist lines. Lt William Adams of Lancaster, Texas ejects after his jet is hit, lands in the Canadian sector. The jet explodes nearby, a 500 pound bomb remains unspent. Pearson and Collins extend rescue and hospitality.
A cross border drive led by the U S Department of Agriculture and partners seeks to improve storage sanitation for cereal grains. A yearlong US flour mill survey shows only 38 percent of wheat entering mills was free of internal insect and rodent contamination. New rules after July 1 1953 classify grain with three or more insectExit holes per 14 pint sample as suspect and ban grain with bird filth or mouse pellets from food channels. Canada must keep its reputation for clean grain to secure better prices, aided by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Friday event on the 17th and 18th is billed as the big day with local agents sponsoring the John Deere show led by Taylor and Son.
A brief note lists celebrants for the week including Charles Nowe, Mrs J Clu, Taylor, Harvey E Forman, G Howard White, and Linda Cuard. The item also mentions Canada’s Eskimos possibly tracing origins to Asia.
Rivers council members praised the provincial public works department for the new highway from the airport to No. 10, and for a hardtop and a new bridge over the Little Saskatchewan River expected to be completed in 1953.
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