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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 29, 1953
Page
3
A damaged note describes a humane rat control method in England, claiming it protects crops and saves pounds annually while referencing a classified ad style promotion.
A home recipe for browning beef with onions garlic and green pepper precedes an ad pitch for Westinghouse electric clothes dryer promising weatherproof drying. Additional tips suggest shellac pane weatherproofing and turning wool garments inside out to ease itching, with a cryptic closing note referencing Elizabeth at Manitoba Power Cop in Winnipeg Canada Bldg. Winnipeg.
December additions and improvements to Manitoba preaver commission substations increased capacity at Rivers airfield St Claure and the Rivers Kowang area. Extensions finished to CPR pumping stations at Virden Reston and to California Standard wells in the Virden district.
Survey data show Manitoba flax shifted away from Dakota Royal and Redwing from 80.4 percent in 1949 to 28.7 percent in 1952. New licenced varieties include Rocket Redwood Sheyenne and Marine with varying maturity, rust wilt and pasmo resistance. Shipments advised via Provincial Crop Improvement Association. John Paul Jones of revolutionary fame born in Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland.
The provincial move to take Winnipeg Electric into public ownership sparks a broad debate on free enterprise versus state control. Leaders from Liberal, Conservative, CCF, and others voice nuanced stances, favoring compromise and selective public ownership as circumstances require. A visitor voices a blunt view advocating government takeover of utilities to enable public accountability at election time.
A united services institute hall hosted the first public event in Edmonton at the Macdonald hotel new wing. About 1,000 people attended the banquet and ball rooms. Thirty two debutantes were presented to Lieutenant Governor John J. Bowlon and Mrs. Bowlon. The CN owned hotel opened three floors of the new wing adding 69 rooms. one floor a week will open until all 13 floors are finished, totaling 300 rooms in use.
The Sixtieth anniversary of the Salvation Army league of mercy is marked the first week in February. Begun in Toronto, the endeavor now operates worldwide with 70 leagues and 802 members visiting hospitals, prisons, asylums, and rest homes to ease anxiety and banish loneliness. The national Red Shield goal is $1,600,000, with a fundraising drive launching May 4.
Delegates of the Manitoba urban association at Dauphin received a printed menu with items such as Stuffed Assessments, Roast Taxpayer, Councillors' Sauce, Relief Salad, Mixed Curbs and Gutters, and Thin Grants. The list, laced with fiscal and municipal humor, ends with dictionary notes on a flea and hydrophobia.
Mrs Wiliam Harvey left for Ant ler Sask where her father J Rutherford met with an automobile accident. Miss Mavis Wolfe has been taking part in the ladies bonspiel at Hranston. T Harper has returned home from Deer Lodge where he spent several weeks.
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