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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 18, 1961
Page
4
Publishers from rural and suburban Manitoba gathered in Winnipeg for the annual convention. The meeting valued community service, exchanging ideas, and improving papers to better serve towns. Prize-winning weeklies honor their towns while the event highlights the craft and sport of fair competition.
A wry line jokes that modern medicine treats prevention as valuable, estimating a dollar figure of about eighteen dollars and fifty cents per ounce. It playfully critiques cost versus care in health practices.
An initial May 18 lunch meeting at the Dauphin Legion Hall launches a regional development blueprint for Manitoba's Western Development Region. Hon. Gurney Evans and Manitoba Hydro chief W. D. Fallis headline talks on regional growth, resources, and tourism.
A writer laments rapid change since the 1939 World Fair noting 85 percent of now startling tools became useful or obsolete. He cites Sputnik and flat earth beliefs, warns against experts, urges courage to pursue new ideas without imposing ignorance, and advocates keeping doors open for bigger, better candles of thought.
4-H clubs in Boissevain and Killarney will stage the first of 19 rallies this summer across the province. Rallies in Winnipeg Brandon Carman Dauphin and Portage will join Class A and B fairs, drawing 800 to 1800 participants. North Western rallies include Shoal Lake Hamiota July 10 Dauphin July 13 Russell Roblin July 20 Swan Valley July 25 Swan River.
Ottawa Department of Public Works invites sealed tenders for supply of coal, fuel oil and propane gas across western provinces and territories for 1961 62. Tenders due 3 00 P M E D S T Tuesday June 6 1961.
Provincial fisheries officers enlist skin divers to hatch walleye and northern pike eggs in protective cages along Falcon Lake. Diver Ralph Wride submerges with buoyed cages housing fertilized eggs while biologist Alex Fedoruk harvests ripe pike spawn for incubation.
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