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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 29, 1952
Page
2
Parents of children who will be six by December 32 2252 are asked to submit a certificate of eligibility with a birth record before May 31 142 to enroll for the fall term starting September 12. This notice seeks to ensure placement for the upcoming academic year.
The Rural Municipality of Duty charges all ratepayers receiving Rivers Fire Department services to pay immediately. Reeve G. I. Davies issues the notice demanding prompt payment.
Tenders are invited for a frame construction balloon type annex 28 by 72 by 18 feet with two partitions and double shiplap floor adjacent to the Rapid City Co-Operative elevator. Tenderers must include 20 percent marked cheque. Closing June 12? and removal by June 28. Contact Mr. William Argo, secretary, Rapid City Co-Operative Elevator Association, Rapid City, Man. Telephone 325-31 2a, 5.
A parliamentary discussion in Canada centers on censorship worries and the push to create a national library to unite literary resources. Abe Cukbyedl warns against cheap pornographic literature while praising cultural maturity. Reports of pilfering in military camps prompt calls for investigation, with Defence Expenditure Committee offered as an alternative. Also notes a sale listing for SE 4 22-12-21 priced at $2,000 with crop, or cattle trade.
The annual Rivers district field day unfolds Friday with a parade at 9 00 am and a full program of track events. Students from Rivers and district schools join in relays sprinting jumps dodgeball and softball as Mrs. John Morrow leads the field day committee with chairman WT. Stewart.
Extremely dry spring across Manitoba has seriously damaged the hay crop and yielded only light crops even with improved weather ahead. The Manitoba Department of Agriculture urges substitutes such as millets sorghums wild oats and corn. Millet should be planted after rain and sorghums suit hot dry conditions. It is not too late to plant corn.
Mr unit Mrs T H Seens accompany Mr and Mrs Alex Thomson as they depart Monday on a holiday trip to the Pacific coast.
Sixty seed club members from four H junior seed clubs in Manitoba travel to Winnipeg from June 9 for a week of tours talks and entertainment. About 80 delegates will be hosted by United College with visits to scientific establishments the technical institute a newspaper plant and a radio station. A banquet is planned and tours include Trans Canada Airlines premises a baking company a malting factory and the legislative building. Largest Canadian population groups by origin include British Isles France Germany Ukraine Scandinavia Netherlands Polish.
A reader urges editors to publish praise for The Christian Science Monitor and promotes a special introductory subscription offer. The letter touts the paper as carefully edited, complete and fair, essential as a hometown paper, and invites readers to use a coupon for 26 issues at $1.
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