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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 10, 1948
Page
2
The text notes international controversies tied to seeking more living space for crowded Europe and Asia. It argues overcrowding fuels unrest, hunger, and disease, and discusses the long‑standing push to relocate excess populations. It also highlights sparse regions with poor climates or accessibility as unlikely settlement areas.
UNESCO called a conference of seven American and three European nations plus observers to Peru. The group will discuss plans to turn the Amazon River basin's 2,700,000 square miles of largely uninhabited land into usable resources. The basin connects to the Atlantic via the Amazon and allows sea-going ships to navigate 2,500 miles.
Delegates from six Amazon border nations Bolivia Brazil Ecuador Colombia Peru Venezuela attend a meeting with United States France Great Britain and the Netherlands observers from FAO ILO and WHO discuss a long range plan to map and develop jungle territory seen as a new area of world development. The UN may help address a major contemporary problem.
Red Deer Alberta negotiations are under way for a multi million dollar pulp mill site. A Seattle firm has begun talks with the city to secure a quarter section of land within the city limits for the mill.
In the two years to 1947 end, 75,439 British‑assisted emigrants went to Canada, 22,604 to Australia, 11,346 to New Zealand, and 37,269 to South Africa. Viscount Addison, Lord Privy Seal, reported to the House of Lords.
Beavers slap their tails on the water to produce loud signals that help communicate and alert other members of their streamside communities. The tail sound travels across the calm surface, prompting a quick response from nearby beavers.
A collection of light jokes and one liners involving family life and children. The humor ranges from dance mishaps and towels marked Pullman to playful mispronunciations and a teacher’s geography pun. The piece uses dated ethnic humor and household scenes typical of light weekender columns.
L B Thomson, longtime Swift Current Experimental Farm superintendent and key early adviser to the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, is appointed director of the national conservation and irrigation agency. He helped farmers cope with drought in the 1930s and will lead PFRA with a focus on soil and water conservation nationwide.
A moderate increase in nesting waterfowl numbers this spring compared with 1947 was reported by groups studying migratory birds at the legislative building. However unreported northern conditions and possible later seasonal changes could alter the gains. Air surveys covered 19 000 miles across the prairie provinces with ground surveys adding 5 000 miles. Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta totals are given for air and ground surveys through May 26.
Hudson's Bay Company and Continental Oil Company of Ponca City Oklahoma will form Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Limited to jointly explore and develop oil and gas in western Canada. The Alberta program covers hundreds of thousands of crown rights acres under exploration permit.
The Brandon to Nelson motorcade advocating a southern route for the proposed Trans Canada highway has been postponed until September due to flood conditions in British Columbia. Nelson convention new dates are September 3 and 4.
Vancouver wartime restrictions barring Japanese from protected areas west of the Cascades will end March 31 1949 per labor minister Humphrey Mitchell. He expects only a small movement back to British Columbia. Medical psychology is less than a century old.
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