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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 18, 1948
Page
2
A Daly municipality report recounts weddings and gatherings, including Hazel Gould and Thomas Suther, and a brigade of picnics from Scott Lake to Brandonham. Citizens urged support for a cottage hospital fund, with 24 entries and a fateful Wednesday meeting. Predictions touch on women’s votes, rising newsprint costs, and sugar prices, ending with a Rivers Gazette copyright note.
Frank M. Smith wins provincial president role at a two day convention. Chief Justice McPherson grants April 16 reprieve for Lawrence Deavon, condemned for the bolt murder of taxi driver Johann Johnson. Saskatchewan eyes independent gas investigation into Acine Dye plant. Trans Canada Air Lines official discusses weather schedule reliability. Canadian women travel incident linked to incident in Vancouver area and other wartime era notes. Russian embassy announces Winnipeg Soviet newspaper and citizenship reminders for Lithuanian nationals.
Carnegie Children of Qubinville school collected 59 dollars for the Canadian Appeal for Children fund. Each child wrote a letter to one resident of the school district in response to which the replies were encouraging. Mrs D Stephenson has returned to Sidney after a fortnight with her parents Mr and Mrs J Nevill. Mr and Mrs C Mitchell returned on Tuesday from Medicine Hat Alberta where they visited relatives.
London March CP reports a government economic survey says living standards will drop versus 1940s levels, even with Marshall Plan aid. Unemployment would rise from 209,001 to 450,000, with wholesale job losses and industrial dislocation despite U.S. help.
S. Cochrane of Crandon visits her son W. Cochrane while Mrs. John Laing visits her mother Mrs. A. Gray in the Oak Lake district.
Hollywood and Britain sign a four year agreement effective June 14 ending Hollywood’s ban on film shipments to Britain. The pact lifts Britain’s 75 percent tax on foreign movies and limits Hollywood’s dollar take from Britain to ease Britain’s hard currency shortage.
Clifford Sanderson, a year old Winnipeg druggist, died of a heart attack Wednesday in his berth aboard the Canadian Pacific train. He was traveling home with Mrs. Sanderson after a holiday in Vancouver.
Cardinals archbishops and diplomats gathered in the Sistine Chapel to honor Pope Pius at the formal observance of the ninth anniversary of his coronation. The actual anniversary falls on March 2, Pope Pius's 72nd birthday.
The Scarlet-coated Royal Canadian Mounted Police will patrol the Alaska highway in the Yukon with mechanized patrols after a study found horses would cost more to maintain. Premier Manning told Alberta's legislature his government will enforce minimum retail price regulations based on prices at the time of federal decontrol orders to roll back prices to earlier levels.
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