Parliament debates earnings and pensions for MPs in 1962
The budget debate ends and the committee of ways and means discusses 1962 estimates. MPs consider increasing remuneration and pensions for long-serving members, with talk of an actuarial pension scheme. Consumer credit relief and grain handling are noted, while foot-and-mouth concerns hit cattle industries amid by elections and provincial tensions.
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Committee of Ways and Means
House of Commons
Saskatchewan
Tales of the Big Dust Storm Varied and Wild
A Sunday dust storm is recalled with high winds darkening skies and shifting farm lands. Local papers quote a Morden man claiming unprecedented dryness and explain how gophers were seen digging above ground. Winnipeg notes add a drummer’s dusty city tale and a frog drowned after eight months without rain.
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Rapid City
Morden Times
Big City
Winnipeg
Morden
Daly asks dominion to take over Rivers airport road
Five years ago Daly urged the Dominion government to assume maintenance of the road from Rivers airport to No 10 highway. The town planned a joint air school insignia for airport vehicles and announced river levels rose 14 inches in 26 hours. Plans included enlarging No 1 air navigation school, building two hangars and eight bar rack structures at a $400000 cost, while Thomas Heal of Carnegie died at 79. Mr and Mrs L Wiegand left for Transcona as a new memorial grounds were laid out in a bee. Measles closed two school rooms and Rivers Junction was announced as a new residential subdivision.
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Daly
Rivers
No. 10
Joint Air School
Little Saskatchewan
No. 1 Air Navigation School
Thomas Heal
Carnegie
L. Wiegand
Transcona
Canadians Warm Reflections From Esquire Piece
An Esquire essay by Richard Joseph describes Canada as a private, unpressured haven for honeymoons and calmer living. Meanwhile police in Haney British Columbia arrested a 71 year old Chinese man and a 22 year old white woman on drug possession charges, seizing heroin worth over 50 thousand dollars. In Gloucestershire England locals puzzled over a stone parish church model until Ontario visitor C A Fuller explained it was carved 75 years ago by his father in law’s brother during illness and given to the church.
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Haney
B.C
RCM
Yip Yee Fong
Kathleen Couturier
Northleach
Glos
England
Ontario
C. A. Fuller
Inlaw
Editorial Brief Feeds Birds and Tax Exemptions
An editorial argues for feeding birds as a peacekeeping act while comically noting the dove implies peace and the stork signifies tax exemptions. The piece blends whimsy with a call to protect avian life and acknowledges civic perks tied to wildlife.
Kangaroos Form Social Bands and Daily Routine
Kangaroos live in gregarious bands of 20 to 50 and maintain a strictly vegetarian diet. They browse mainly during the early morning, dusk, or moonlight, with midday reserved for rest and play.
Davy Named Chief Admin Officer at Air Training Centre
Wing Cmdr W F Davy has been appointed chief administrative officer at the Canadian Joint Air Training Centre in Ottawa after graduating from the RCAF staff college in Toronto. He takes the post this month and brings experience from No 210 Bomber Squadron England, Summerside PEI, and Shawbury England.
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W. F. Davy
Toronto
Canadian Joint Air Training Centre
Rcaf Staff College
RCAF
Ottawa
Davy
Danforth Technical School
England
Summerside
P.E.I
RAF
Central Navigation School
Shawbury
Canada
Cmdr
Airforce Headquarters
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