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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 20, 1950
Page
6
Manitoba events fill the page with a calithumpian parade for the 60th birthday, vagrancy issues, church changes, and community notices. Drownings, marriages, and resignations mix with civic updates as Rivers and Wheatland mark milestones and residents join reunions and celebrations.
Local growers showcased tomatoes potatoes and sweet peas at Oak River Fair with nine awards given to multiple participants. The event highlighted community gardeners and featured names such as Tatmes Scott Abr and Warehaay alongside Sarda and Gilad for assorted vegetables.
Canada unveils its newest national park in New Brunswick with a July 29 opening. Lieutenant-Governor D. L. MacLaren will attend alongside federal Resources and Development Minister J. H. Winters who will deliver the opening address.
Calgary Herald imagines a tax tag on cigarettes showing only one third of the consumer price goes to makers, wholesalers, and retailers while two thirds goes to Ottawa. It argues a 36 cent purchase nets government revenue rather than a cigarette brand, naming Cork-Tipped Martins and Abbott's Mild among examples.
A lighthearted Rivers roundup mentions Doc Rubin and wife surveying whitewashed rocks, Claude Garner's first stone wall, Willard LePage denying wealth, frost on vines in First Avenue gardens, snow at Clear Lake, Horvath delivering shelving on a sleigh, a fur clad shopper in July, neat town and farm premises, a wandering delivery horse, William Rutherford's peonies, two tractors moving a dwelling, Isogene Grant welcoming a grandson born July 12, and government surveyors locating Second Avenue and Main Street.
Former residents James Mitchell of Regina and Ed Galli peau Crandan reestablish ties in Rivers Avanada. Mitchell, once a railways coal dew worker, visited with Mrs. George Mitchell’s nephew Bao Mire. The pair’s return recalls long standing local sports figures Higginson Gould Eccles and others from a famed lifetime team.
Excitement fills the Reynolds household as twins James Alfred and Mary Jane arrive last Saturday at Forman nursing home. James weighs four pounds four ounces and Mary Jane four pounds five ounces, marking a cheerful addition to the family.
Senator Joseph McCarthy said at a press conference that signed statements by one current State Department employee and three former workers prove the department stripped derogatory data from personnel files in 1946. The Wisconsin Republican provided the documents to President Truman as evidence.
Manitoba Power Commission operates an Emergency Appliance Reconditioning Depot at Morns to repair flood damaged electrical gear. Hydro crews worked long hours to restore water systems, install a 10,000 watt oven, and repair appliances from ranges to dental centrifuges. About 500 appliances have already left the depot refurbished and ready for use, restoring vital home and business functions.
The Gazette will not publish on August 3 and 10 and will resume next week. A two week intermission follows with the office closed from July 28 to August 12. Advertisers and readers are asked to note the suspended publication period.
Mrs Kate Johnson of Wheatland died in Brandon on Sunday. Wife of Ernest W Johnson a Canadian Pacific employee she was born in Cambridge England and came to Rocanville Sick thirty years ago. She moved to Wheatland in 1930 and was active in church and Canadian Legion affairs. Survived by husband a Vancouver daughter and a son at home and a sister in Brandon. Funeral held Tuesday at Brockie chapel with interment in Brandon cemetery.
The Calgary Herald argues that enforcing a Bill of Rights could fix liberty to narrow terms and fail to shield freedoms, noting that true liberty depends on government culture. It warns against relying on written law alone and fears rulers’ discretion if freedom beliefs are not shared.
Governor G Mennen Williams in Detroit refused to extradite Haywood Patterson to Alabama to complete a 75 year sentence from 1931. Patterson served 16 years, escaped in 1948, and was arrested in Detroit as a fugitive from justice. Edgar Vachon, 26, was sentenced in Quebec to 25 years for armed drugstore robbery netting $100.
At Forman's nursing home on July 15 1950 Sgt K C Reynolds and wife welcomed twins a son and a daughter. At Midway hospital St Paul Minnesota on July 12 1950 Mr and Mrs L E Grant welcomed a son Douglas Eugene.
Late note announces a six room house with hardwood floors built in cupboards full basement cistern furnace pump at door enclosed verandah fenced yard a stable hothouse and rear garage. Contact Alex Subsky at $11 Third avenue for details. Also listed is a Connor washing machine with new wringer rolls priced at $25 via Mrs M E Mitchell care of J Rous Third avenue east.
Air Cadets of Canada from across the Dominion gather for a two week camping period at Gimli. A special train brought western cadets and nine Rivers cadets late Tuesday night, with local participants including Maurice McKinnon Ed Seater Maurice Pearce Lorne Bray W Czuboka Leslie Humphries Stan Manning Burt Higginson and Emil Hain from Wheatland Bradwardine and Rivers districts.
Prime minister Stalin states that admitting communist China to the UN Security Council is the price for negotiating a Korea settlement. The United States insists on North Korean troop withdrawal behind the 38th parallel and rejects bringing China into the UN for talks at Lake Success. In Moscow, Gromyko and Sir David Kelly continue Korea talks with no progress announced.
Workers recovered the body of 27 year old miner Albert Stone from a 20 inch shaft 1,400 feet underground in Green River Wyoming after he fell into the shaft yesterday. The incident ends a fatal mining accident at the site.
Rivers hosts a summer sports festival on Civic Holiday Monday August 7 featuring a baseball tournament with 500 prize money, up to 150 for first place in men’s and ladies’ fast ball, plus Canadian Legion games and a Chamber of Commerce refreshments booth. Evening dances, Rex Theatre entertainment, and meals by United Church ladies accompany a ban on professional and semi professional entrants.
A torrential downpour on Tuesday turned town streets into rivers and gardens into lakes. Roads in and out were flooded nearly unusable. The rainfall to date exceeds all previous records in the community.
The British government extended diplomatic recognition to the communist government of China, but Beijing has not reciprocated. Observers note the regime controls the mainland from Manchuria to Canton and British interests worth over $1,000,000 remain in place, yet no reply has come.
Warsaw radio announced the removal of Stanislaw Leszczycki from vice foreign minister, a post he held since 1946. The broadcast said he would devote himself to scientific work and return to research.
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