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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 15, 1948
Page
3
A grateful note signed by every teaching staff member thanking the school board for a salary boost stands out amid wage disputes and threatened strikes. Trustees are praised as good citizens for granting the raise, noted as a bright spot in troubled times.
Forty years ago the Manitoba Telephone System began, taking Bell equipment in Manitoba. It then served 5,219 phones provincewide and 8,423 in Winnipeg. Today the system serves 110,039 phones, with 3,498 connected through municipal or private providers. The evolution reflects growing communications access in the region.
The province advances with widespread changes in communications. Underground cable replaces town pole lines while automatic service operates in Manitoba's two largest centres. Further plans include mobile radio telephone service and ship to shore links between land and vessels on Lake Winnipeg.
A New York physician warns that leaping from bed into cold morning exercise strains cold muscles and may cause creaking and groaning. He advises warming up gradually and stopping before fatigue to preserve value and prevent injury.
Scrap iron movement once sent by boatloads to Japan now reverses to the United States. 65,000 tons of scrap are reported moving from Japan to U S steel mills. The West Coast and Halifax ships formerly exporting waste to Japan are noted.
George Bernard Shaw, aged 91, continues to collect a $4,700 weekly royalty as his dramas revival sustains box office success in England. Despite rival dramatists, Shaw remains a standout for sustained monetary achievement decade after decade.
Brantford Expositor quotes a Ukrainian Catholic Council official in Winnipeg saying Communist agents are extremely active among displaced persons in Canada. He warns Canadians to be more vigilant to counter Red influence. A New York Sun note recounts a Birmingham physician writing to the Times about a patient seeking a fathering certificate for twins to buy a wider baby carriage.
The article notes a belief in Canada that Britain still enjoys higher rations than most of Europe. It cites Sir Stafford Cripps on austerity and references a Glasgow Sunday Post table showing Britain near the bottom for bread, meat, milk, and fats compared with ten European nations.
Kansas City Times notes a heated dispute over minimum apartment temperatures. The piece suggests a city ordinance to require at least 70 degrees, reflecting resident demands while acknowledging deep-seated conflict between property owners and tenants since central heating changed the landscape.
Chief Constable Reg Jennings reports no murders in Edmonton in 1947. The era's sole major crime, a daylight $3000 armed bank robbery last February, was solved within 11 hours with culprits apprehended and sentenced to penitentiary terms within three days.
The verse proclaims the fear of the Lord as clean and enduring forever with the judgments of the Lord described as true and righteous altogether.
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