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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1951
Page
3
Dozens of flaws complicate Canadian National railway terminals causing delays and maintenance pressures across the network. Officials cite aging infrastructure and mounting repair needs as freight and passenger schedules suffer from bottlenecks and signals outages.
A damaged OCR fragment presents a garbled quote about literature and an awful volume. The readable portions mention unclear references and do not form a coherent report or named entities.
Calgary man Mr. Wolthuis preserves a 10 foot long relic bicycle built for four. The craft weighs enough to challenge steering and may not be safe. He also owns an 1880 bicycle and touts Fred Anderson as the first Canadian to circle the country by bike in 24 days from Vancouver to Sidney. The bikes draw customers as eye catchers for his shop.
Shoal Lake and Hamiota host a joint reunion sponsored by their chambers of commerce featuring a ball game between local vldtimers. The Stames chamber launches a group insurance scheme for small business men and employees. The Morden Times notes a late issue caused by a screw in the typesetting machine delaying production.
Farmers observe Alvin Beggs farm near Sund erlan where a Veterans' land act project builds a new underground trench silo. Officials say it could reduce costs and influence future silo design though loading must reach barn floor height. Beggs’s barn, built on a hill, keeps the silo level for use.
A simple sign in a bakery window advertises pies at 30 cents each and notes a comparison that the baker’s mother used to bake pies at 60 cents, reflecting a nostalgic price contrast.
Wellington N Z New Zealand in the past two months had its busiest tourist season since the war despite transport problems making travel difficult. Visitors can see a world in miniature with a range of scenery from subtropical forests to glaciers and attractions including geysers native wildlife trout and big game hunting. Tourists come largely to escape northern winters.
Calgary based flight instructor Mary Willcox, once arrested in Guatemala on suspicion of being an Argentine spy after a forced ferry run from Pennsylvania, later earned a commercial pilot certificate at 18 and logged over 2,000 hours. She now teaches at Calgary airport and has flown paths across Pennsylvania, Florida, California, Hawaii and Chile.
MacLean's warns in its current issue that at least nine key Canadian cities could be hit by atomic bombs if war with Russia occurs. Halifax Montreal Ottawa Toronto Windsor Sault Ste Marie Winnipeg Edmonton and Vancouver are named as target areas with civil defense measures potentially reducing casualties from 750000 to about 207400.
Former neighbors and Pen dennis ball team members organized a two day event to aid Les lie Sykes who recently broke a leg. The effort supported the injured youth during a summer of rough conditions as eight tractor men were involved and lunch was provided by the workers' parents. Arthur Crofton also received injuries.
A coal company worker sustained injuries requiring a cast after a fall while unloading a car of coal last Thursday. The incident occurred at the loading area, with no further details on injuries or witnesses provided.
The Canadian National railways maintains 35 offices in the United States, six in Europe and three in Australia and New Zealand.
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