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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 21, 1981
Page
2
Bill Smiley writes as a weary teacher noting 316 sick days plus 20 future, joking about his many injuries from accidents at work and at home. He recalls nose injuries, a limp, and mishaps from shopping and daily tasks, while lampooning gullible students and a chaotic school life.
The Melville Advance editorial laments VIA Rail reductions as a step against public service. It cites political meddling, lack of hearings, and quotes editors from multiple Saskatchewan towns praising rail’s energy efficiency and regional dependence.
Worth notes that doctors topped earnings at $57,500 with dentists $51,800 and lawyers $44,600. Public sector workers show high averages, teachers and professors at $21,988, federal bureaucrats $17,587, municipal $14,696, and armed forces $16,993. He argues for curbing public sector strikes and questions higher government pay vs private sector.
Peter Warren urges Canadians to keep a sane view on arms. The piece contrasts U.S. violence with Canadian restraint, citing FBI reports and city crime highlights from New Orleans and Washington. It questions whether lenient sentencing fuels crime and warns that guns are made to kill, urging calm and prudence.
A letter to the editor details farmers in Inglis unable to deliver their 1980-81 grain quotas due to rail congestion on the Russell Division. The writer cites weather, rail-bed condition, and potential branch-line rehabilitation issues, urging CPR and Wheat Board action to rehabilitate the line and enable timely shipments.
Census returns list populations for Binscarth Foxwarren Roblin Rossburn and Shoal Lake with 1931 1921 1981 and 981 dates. A Lily Hall shower in honor of Lorence Louttit of Elgin and various local notices from 1941 1951 1961 1971 include baptisms union meetings school awards pole bending and Junior Red Cross votes.
The St. Regis Tavern scene captures reaction as the Postmaster-General hints at raising postage to 80 cents. Philatelists voice sharp opposition, arguing the move invites widespread dissent and disrupts stamp collecting.
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