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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1983
Page
2
W. Roger Worth laments minor irritations from bottle caps to lineups and credit card vouchers. He riffs on pop bottle screws caps malfunctioning, long movie lines, airline overbooking, grocery checkout, and unclear voucher copies, calling for simpler, more user friendly solutions.
A humorous meditation on heaven and happiness. The speaker imagines diverse wishes from meeting loved ones to endless golf and tax-free bliss, then reveals a personal fantasy of a private trout stream and solitude, ending with lament that heaven remains distant.
A spokesman for a Manitoba French speaking group pins current controversy on Conservatives. He notes the 1890 Liberal move abolishing French language rights and the 1988 Conservative Duff Roblin era opening to minority rights restoration. He argues these rights must be entrenched as free votes elect legislators and governments while judges can overrule them.
A Manitoba letter of outrage targets a Leader newspaper headline about a Hutterite man jailed for nine months. The piece defends the story as fair, notes the judge chose jail over a fine, and argues the headline did not discriminate while urging calm in legal circles.
Chronicle of historical notes recounts December 17 1888 to 1968 events. It mentions McTavish Bros purchasing a new traction engine for their Seeburn saw mill, W Cusitar and TA Crerar planning mills, a small turnout electing Silver Creek council, 1904 reeve WS Crerar and councillors, a 1913 engine room fire at Northern Elevator, CW Stanley resigning as Union Bank accountant, a Carman CPR agent appointment, 1943 Bernard Fox dies, 1953 Kinney Hatchery upgrades, 1964 Russell Red Cross leadership, 1968 rink progress and Slim Greene obituary.
Local papers praise cross town coalition efforts to boost commerce and attract shoppers. Russell backs area improvements with shared rear entrances and a common parking lot while Dauphin, Steinbach, Wainwright and Morinville push chamber led plans, festivals, and new facilities to keep residents local and stimulate growth.
An 87 year old writer objects to seatbelt laws in a fiery letter to Howard Pawley. He likens objectors to wartime conscientious dissenters and demands legal protections for deaths caused by seatbelts. He vows never to wear one, claims belts make people targets, and urges provinces to resist what he calls a loss of rights.
Read as a 20th century wire-style dispatch the piece warns of world threatening bombs and a warming Earth in the early 2000s. It cites scientists predicting dangerous soil changes and vegetation loss, while fossil fuels become unusable to fight deep cold. It notes an invasion of walking catfish crossing borders into Canada.
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