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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 19, 1948
Page
4
The key scout organization was being revived with Rev J E Whiting named as scout master, signaling a restoration of local scouting activities and leadership.
Donald Mitchell Hugh Stewart and George Burt enlisted in the Canadian active army joining the ranks in a notable wartime manpower drive. Their enlistment underscores expanding contributions from local residents to national defense efforts.
The New Yorker notes Election Day 1945 occurs on November 3 the earliest possible date. Almanac readers warn that the last time this happened the country suffered a Harding era landslide.
General Officer Commanding Midadiad Wo commenced a tour of military establishments and units in Manitoba Saskatchewan and western Ontario. Brigadier Dornatchez departed for the Fort Church II winter testing station and visited the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Reserve office in Winnipeg. Brigadier Bervatchez tentatively scheduled to visit the Joint Air School Rivers and Ado Camp between February 18 and 20.
A 15 article statute by the big powers calls for a UN appointed governor to organize a neutral international force in Jerusalem. The force would keep internal order with no Jerusalem or state citizens, demilitarize the area, and require security council permission for any military entry. The UN would guarantee territorial integrity and report to the trusteeship council meeting on February 18 for final action. Members include the United States, Britain, France, China, Mexico and Australia.
In Noose Jaw, February, the Canadian automotive transportation association expressed support for regulating highway freight rates. John Magee of Toronto, the executive secretary, said only three provinces regulate rates and urged others to follow. The group favors provincial control of trucking entry and regulation as policy.
The National Liberal federation urged the government to raise veterans pensions and focus on widows with dependent children where allowances are insufficient. Resolutions, approved by the advisory council at the January 2021 meeting in Ottawa, were presented to the government on February 5 and call for revising the basic pension principle.
The late Lord Tweedsmuir, former Governor General, toured the Northwest Territories and predicted it would be Canada’s next major development. A decade ago maps showed vast barren land with few inhabitants beyond Indians, prospectors, and wildlife. Transportation improvements have driven a remarkable change since then.
McTavish of Cardale won the grand aggregate with nine wins and one loss in Rivers first annual open bonspiel. The event, held in Frame's Community Hall, featured 87 rinks with five sheets and outside entrants, plus a grand challenge podium finish for L Me Tavish and Merchants and Curling Club divisions.
The Toronto Globe and Mail notes Baldwin’s wide range of interests as a wealthy industrial captain and country gentleman. He championed English life in his essays, notably in On England, and gave anonymous 750000 dollars to Britain’s exchequer during a depression, embodying valued British traits.
Local sports note reports Rivers Junior hockey team unable to play in Rapid City due to ice unavailability after bonspiel. Skaters had access prior to season tickets. two bonspiels upcoming at Kenton and Oak River. A local ladies bonspiel next week invites participants, with no formal tryouts. Curling club invites old timers to a novelty dance on Friday Feb 27 at Community hall.
City police found four children aged five months to five years left alone and hungry in an unheated trailer on Ottawa's southeastern edge. The youngsters James five months, Gerald four, Dorothy five, and Jean two are in Childrens' Aid Society care. Parents Leo and Mrs Emery may face charges. Constable Robertson said the father had been out seeking work.
About 1,500 former minor members of Nazi organizations judged criminal in the first Nuernberg trial will be released soon for internment in Bavaria. They were interned for membership only in the Nazi party leadership corps the S S the Reichs security service and Gestapo.
RCMP Assistant Commissioner J D Bird of Winnipeg, recently transferred from Edmonton in 1945, made a brief district visit last week. He and Insp L LePointe limited their duties mainly to the joint air school and discussed press release work formerly tied to the Gazette's police reporting.
Lethbridge commentary notes the Social Crediters are quiet as money chases scarce goods. It recalls the thirties promise of $26 a month to boost demand, contrasting with today’s $235 monthly for nothing, arguing such subsidies would worsen inflation amid limited goods and global isolation in trade.
General Ismail Safwat Pasha declared after the Cairo meeting that the Arab league council achieved complete agreement on Palestine and ironed out all divergences about the military situation. He serves as commander in chief of the Arab army pledged to the liberation effort.
A tentative March 2 trial date was set in Winnipeg for Clarence George Richardson 26 charged with the January 2 snowbank killing of Mrs. Ann Varty 28. Justice W J Donovan allowed defence counsel to renew a postponement application.
A young man with a grizzly black facial covering is described as the foliage spot, with a Feb 29 deadline if weather breaks. Owners continue sheltering amid fur as dejected tethered teams drop at hitching posts while a young lady on a slippery street surveys scattered groceries.
Madeleine Parent Bjarnason and Azelugs Beaucage, organizers with the United Textile Workers of America, were sentenced to two years in prison each after conviction on seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to interfere with workers rights. The case stems from a summer strike at Ayers Ltd. in Lachute, Quebec.
In Lethbridge Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Coroner E D Fryett investigate the death of Wilfred Shovelton about 65 found dead in his home northwest of Coalhurst after neighbors notified police due to his absence.
Montreal February 1 Canadian Lumbermen's Association holding its annual convention announced that production prospects for 1948 are lower than in 1947.
Ottawa commons prices committee decided to ferret out speculators and hoarders of butter during the last five months.
The piece recalls a rural community facing a flu epidemic during harvest and school closures as World War I losses accumulate. It notes Pte Nelson Porteous and Pte James Burr killed in action, a Rivers chautauqua curtailed, and Armistice night celebrations signaling the war’s end.
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