Bonspiel of High School Ends With Dance After Weekend Meet
A high school bonspiel concluded Saturday night March 4 with a community hall dance. Games ran late, finals earned top prizes of shirts and belts, while entries listed Bradwardine and Hotham among others. Total cash and prize gifts reached about $36. girls’ group raised over $20 serving refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hivery
Fradwardine
Tiver
Kapit City
Lothar
Greasley, Hivers
Alexandra
Hotham
Firls
A. Wareham
Newfoundland Crisis over Promised Freight Rates Debate
In Ottawa a Newfoundland Conservative MP Gordon Higgins threatened to resign his seat if the federal government fails to honor the promised freight rates for Newfoundland. Higgins warned he could push Newfoundland toward secession from Confederation if union terms are not upheld. The Confederation agreement tied Howard’s Maritime Freight Rate Act to Newfoundland, but a Transport Board ruling said the CN railways may apply discretion to rates in the Newfoundland area.
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Ottawa
March
Newfoundland
Hig Aeat
Upi
Gordon Higgins
Canada
St. John’s East
Confederation
Howard
Board of Transport Commissioners
Canadian National Railways
May Transport New Cars From Factories By Truck To Avoid Freight Rates
A Manitoba Automobile Dealers Association official notes plans to truck new cars from eastern factories to Manitoba to dodge higher railway freight rates. About 10,000 cars are believed bootlegged into the province last year as dealers discuss curbing this practice and possibly coordinating western shipments with Saskatchewan and Alberta groups. Freight costs cited range from 136 to 140 dollars per car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Manitoba Automobile Dealers Association
H. Dickson
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Bradwardine Thomas Dobson wins new Austin car in Flin Flon
Local boy Thomas Dobson of Bradwardine now in Flin Flon recently won a new Austin car. Two rinks led by Ian Lowe and R. Dobson returned the Hobdberiin cup from Hivers on Thursday. Bradwardine and Lothair Red Cross groups sent eight quilts and sewing to organization HQ during winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Dobson
Flin Flon
Ian Lowe
R. Dobson
Hivers
Bradwardine and
Lothair
Red Cross
Birthday Greetings List for March Dates
A readable roster of birthdays and names appears with dates from March 17 to March 23. It lists individuals such as Mrs. Doug Robins, Harry Beltz, John Bellamy, Alfred Maxwell, James Stevenson, and many others along with locations Wheatland Yorkton Sask and Vancouver. The note reads like a community birthday calendar with many entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doug Robins
Harry Beltz
John Bellamy
Alfred Maxwell
Alfred Cluff
J. W. Hanson
Darlene Brown
Wheatland
James A. MecKenzie
Joyce McKenzie
Darryle Victor Lowe
Sherridan
Wilfred Dennison
Thomas Seens
Foster Baily
Kes McKellar
Vancouver
J. Foster
Yorkton
Sask
Reg
Luchuck
Instructors Course Is Now Completed
Winnipeg military unit notes completion of an eight day instructors course for over forty soldiers at Fort Ostwine Barracks. Lt B H Graham of Camp Borden led instruction on instructor roles, destruction methods, question technique, training films and usage. Rivers personnel including Set. E BD Murphy and many corporals and privates are listed as participants.
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Winnipeg
Prairie Command
Fort Ostwine
Graham
Royal Canadian School of Infantrs
Camp Borden
Ont
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Rivers
Set
Murphy
J. B. Wilson
Wor
Rithaler
Do BR
Joema
W. Leaver
B.C. Rabin
M. MacKay
W. A. Dawn
BR. J. Harvey
Ended Services with Railroad in March CN Magazine Notes
The March issue of the Canadian National Magazine lists men who recently retired after long railway service. W Ede spent 28 years at Levine and moved to Rivers. Arthur Johnson longtime Rivers resident. George Cargill a renowned engineer. J Carnachan and J Fraser from Transcona. They recall Rivers’ early football league with six resident teams, evoking older days.
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Canadian National Magazine
W. Ede
Levine
Arthur Johnson
George Cargill
J. Carnachan
J. Fraser
Transcona
Rivers
Gasoline and Cigarette Price Hikes Back Italian Plan
Rome March AP government boosts faseline and tobacco prices to fund Premier Alcide de Gasperi’s 2 million 4010 development push for southern Italy. Cigarettes up 10 lire per pack, gasoline up 23 lire per gallon amid Communist protests. violence reports rise in rural Italy and Sicily with clashes near Palermo injuring police and peasants.
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Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Sorthern
Italy
Umberto Terradel
Senate
Sicily
Poace
Palermo
Man Honored by City Later Leaves Estate in Birmingham
Martin Lewis Lancaster, once lord mayor and justice of the peace for Birmingham, died at 84. His $124,000 will leaves three months salary to staff, £1,550 in bequests, and the residue for the collective benefit of Birmingham's citizens. the city has not decided how to use the funds.
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Birmingham
Eng
March Cp
Martin Lewis Lancaster
Back in the Saddle Hope for New Week
The Gazette requests cooperation from readers to resume publication smoothly. Please leave all copies at the Gazette office early to facilitate the process. Thank you.
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Gazette
Diamond Jubilee of J. T. Bowmans
Mr and Mrs Joseph T Beeyrman celebrated their diamond wedding in Winnipeg on Saturday surrounded by family. The Pendennis district couple spent most of their married life there with winters in the capital. Rivers guests included Mr and Mrs R B Lee and Mr and Mrs James Stevenson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph T. Beeyrman
Dimond
Winnipeg
Bowman
Pendennis
Capital
Rivers
R. B. Lee
James Stevenson
Churchill Keeps Pressure With Longer Parliament Offer
London March Churchill offered Labour a chance to ease its precarious position by delaying steel nationalization. He pressed Attlee for a pledge that steel would not be taken over until at least nine months after the next general election. Attlee replied Labour would proceed with steel nationalization as scheduled, framing the move as implementing acts passed by Parliament.
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London
March
Winston Churchill
Labor
Labour
Churchill
Attlee
Commons
Man Runs Amok in New York Street Subdued by Police
In Manhattan an unemployed 60 year old man armed with a butcher knife and meat cleaver created panic on an uptown street corner. He knocked a woman down and smashed a car window before surrendering as officers arrived. He faces assault and illegal weapons charges.
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New York
March
Manhattan
John Stanplalin
Stanplalin
Vicar Who Married Duke of Windsor Dies at 72
Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, the vicar who defied bishops to wed the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson in 1937, died today in Bedford England at age 72. He had been ill and died at his daughter's home after returning to Britain last year from the United States where he lived twelve years. He traveled to France to perform the marriage of a king who abdicated for the woman.
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Bedford
England
Robert Anderson Jardine
Church of England
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Simpson
Britain
United States
Jardine
France
Gunman Fires at Homeowner Surprised During Break-In
Raymond Barclay, 24, was shot at last night after entering a dark store room to investigate a breaking sound at a second floor suite in Saskatoon. A shot shattered a window and hit the wall behind him as the gunman fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatoon
March
Raymond Barclay
Barclay
Former Hunterites 50 Years Married
More than 100 people gathered to pay tribute to Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Humphries on their golden wedding anniversary at the Wheat Farmer residents in Daly municipality. The couple, who married March 7, 1800, lived in the Hunter district for 27 years. A son, Wilken Fl, resides in Rovers. Tea was hosted by Mrs. J. Hinch of Roseland with guests including Mesdames J. A. Weir, Kenneth Haggerty, Ronald Bath and Ellen Harper.
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H. J. Humphries
12Th Street
Brandon
Daly
Hunter District
J. Hinch
Roseland
Mesdames
J. A. Weir
Kenneth Haggerty
Ronald Bath
Ellen Harper
W. Cannon
E. O. Dysy
W. H. Humphries
Leslie
Earthquake Shocks Philippines No Damage Reported
An earthquake frightened residents in the Central Philippines with a main shock at 10 07 am. No damage or major consequences were noted by weather bureau seismologists, though reports came from at least nine islands including Northern Mindanao where tremors lasted for 43 minutes.
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Muna
Philippines
Weather Bureau
Philipines
Mindanao
Big Southern
Sweden accuses Israel over Bernadotte murder case
The Swedish state prosecutor accuses Israel of not tracing or punishing the killers of Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator killed in Jerusalem in 1948, and says Israel and the Swedish government were misled by Israel regarding the Bernadotte case in a report to The King.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevkhohn
Israel
Count Folke Bernadotte
United Nations
Jerusalem
Maths Henman
Bernadotte
Girl Sentenced And Russ Partner To Be Deported
Judith Coplon was sentenced to 10 years for plotting to spy for Russia. Valentin A Gublichev, her Russian partner, received a 1b-year suspended sentence and was ordered deported to Russia within two weeks. Coplon with 5 years for espionage and 18 years for attempted espionage to run concurrently. Gublichev received a suspended sentence and deportation order. The judge acted on government recommendation. The defense claimed the case was artificially manufactured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
March
Judith Coplon
Russia
Valentin A. Gublichev
Miss Coplon
Gublichev
Sylvester J. Ryan
Bubitenev
Manitoba Debates Move To Probe Wheat Board
In Winnipeg on March, the legislature debated the throne speech ending with a demand for old age pensions based on need and a royal commission to investigate the Canadian Wheat Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
March
Manitoba
Canadian Wheat Board
Minnedosa Man Sentenced for False Pretenses
William H. Ruttan of Minnedosa was convicted on two counts of obtaining money under false pretenses. He received three months in jail on one charge and six weeks on the second, with the second sentence to run concurrently. The charges were filed by Brandon business firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Ruttan
Minnedosa
Brandon
Three Young People In Musical Honors
Local musical circles celebrate three youths earning top honors last week. Donald Whyte won first place in violin at Winnipeg’s festival, while Joan Westwood earned honors in theory at the Toronto Conservatory, and Lorraine Harvey achieved first class honors in University of Manitoba theory examinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Whyte
Joan Westwood
Lorraine Harvey
Alex. Whyte
Winnipeg
Toronto Conservatory of Music
E. Westwood
University of Manitoba
H. M Harvey
Signs of spring appear in Oakleigh district and Barker home
J W Smith reports larks around a farmyard in the Oakleigh district while a butterfly is found in the basement of the G F Barker residence. Warm weather attire starts appearing in shopping centers signaling seasonal change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Smith
Oakleigh
G F. Barker
He Sang B-Caws First Crew Reported by The Gazette
Kenneth Samson reported for The Gazette on Saturday that the visiting crew did appear that day. The piece highlights a season start with the first observer noting the visiting team’s presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Kenneth Samson
British Forces Guard German Coke Plant as Dismantling Protests
British light armored cars and infantry stood by at the Hermann Goering steel works in Brunswick while a German dismantling squad blew up part of the coke producing plant. Demonstrators overturned cars, tore scaffolding, and burned records of the dismantling firm. Police reported the 1,400 rioters dispersed with 300 British troops occupying the coke oven area. Governor Kapf asked the British commissioner for apologies for the protest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Germany
Hermann Goering Steel Works
Cury Bitter Corman
Hingith Kapf
Lower Saxony
Brig
G. Langham
Seven Bodies Recovered in B C Fire. One Still Missing
Ocean Fale B C March CP Bodies of seven persons were recovered from a fire gutted apartment house in Ocean Fale. Four women two children and one man were found. One man remains missing. An entire family of three perished including a man wife and 18 month old child. Names not released. Fire started on third floor of Balsam apartments and burned for more than two hours. Town of 3000, owned by Pacific Mills Ltd, sits 250 miles north of Vancouver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocean Fale
B.C
March
Pacific Mills Ltd
Vancouver
Blind Dog Keeps Vow To Young Mistress In Britain
In Brighton a blind Dalmatian named Jeremy remains a devoted guardian to three year old Maxine Lloyd. The dog, once sighted, now fully blind, has never deserted Maxine since her birth, staying by her side on visits and guarding her as she grows.
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Brighton
England
March
Jeremy
Maxine Lloyd
Maxine
Explosion Knocks Out Springfield Gas Supply
An explosion and fire wrecked a pumping station in Springfield Missouri today, cutting natural gas to about 7,300 homes and disabling heat and other uses. Affected industries may switch to standby equipment, as the city of 75,000 scrambles to restore service.
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Springfield
Rivers Gazette Looking Backward notes local history
A recap from The Rivers Gazette lists names and events from 10 to 35 years ago. Highlights include curling club visits by five rinks led by local skippers, the Rivers concert party at Oak River, family visits, anniversary observances, a torpedoing survivor speaking at a school concert, bank openings, prize-winners in competitions, a bishop’s confirmation at St. James, college scholarships, rural council grants, clerical moves, and trips to England and new farm visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Wareham
Hugh McFadden
Legion
Brandon
St. James
Rivers
Constance Offen
Ruth Buggey
Wesley College
Western Canada Basin Holds Vast Wealth in Oil
Theo A. Link, a consulting geologist, told the Prospectors and Developers association in Toronto that western Canada could yield 15 to 20 billion barrels of oil, far more than the 1 billion currently in sight, with discovery likely decades off due to inaccessible regions, and that natural gas reserves may reach 19 to 20 trillion cubic feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Canada
Toronto
Maron
Canada
Theo A. Link
Link
Imperial Qi. Ltd
Prospectors and Developers Association
Western
Police recover $110000 diamond from Aga Khan theft
Paris AP reports police recovered a diamond valued at $110,000 linked to the Aga Khan theft last summer. Two arrests have been made. Most of the loot was recovered recently by police in Marseille.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
March
Aga Khan
Marseille
Wolfe family returns from Winni Bee trip
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Wolfe and son Harris have come back from Winnipeg. T. H. Seens, M.L.A., and Mrs. Seens spent the weekend at their home. Mrs. A. R. Thomson of Vancouver, who just returned from a Caribbean cruise, visited her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Thomson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Wolfe
Harris
Winni- Bee
T., H. Seens
M.la
Mrs. Seens
A. R. Thomson
Vancouver
Caribbean
Alex. Thomson
Birth announcements for Robins and McFadden families
A son was born at General Hospital Edmonton on February 27 1950 to Mr and Mrs Fred Robins with the name Terry Nathan. Another birth in Wad Medani Anglo Egyptian Sudan records a son born to Mr and Mrs Earl McFadden.
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Robins
General Hospital
Edmonton
Fred Robins
Terry Nathan
McFadden
al Khartoun
Sudan
Earl McFadden
Wad Medani
Angio
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Robert A. Mills
A. J. McFadden
W. A. Thomas
Joy Post
P. Luchuck
Ronnie Stewart
Wayne Weseen
de Gasperi
J. T. Bowmans
Man
New York Street
Householder
Phillipines
Commission
Wheat Board
The
Rivers Gazette
Geo. Jeliff
Roy Mitchell
Frank Taylor
Jack Gilchrist
Jim Frame
Melville Curling Club
the Rivers
Alec Whyte
Oak River
Alf, Paddock
Biggar, Sask
Frank
C. H. Gabe
Sey-Treas
R. Mun
Assiniboine
J. T. Bowman
Alf. Richardson
Athenia
Robinville School
Jim Collingwood
Lou Nixon
Cadillac, Sask
Albert Madden
Emerson Harburn
Corey Stewart
Daly Rural Council
Rivers Fair Board
S. A. Martin
Knox Church
Hamiota
Thos. Brown
Bell
Cadron
H. B. Duckworth
R. N. Dunsmore
C. W. Angel
Oddfellow’s
Grand Lodge
Cora Wilson
Winnipeg Telegram
Tarbolton
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