Canadian Statistics Weekly Review Highlights 1955 Trade, Prices
Canada's 1955 gross national product reached 26 billion dollars up from 24.1 and a 27.4 billion run rate in the last quarter. Growth came from consumer spending and residential construction among other factors. international trade showed a larger current account deficit of 665 million, with travel and finance driving much of the shortfall. Security turnover hit 2.3 billion, exports rose 18 percent and imports 32 percent in January. Prices fell in nine of ten regions in January, farm prices slipped, and butter and dairy output rose. Chain store sales nearly 7 percent higher in January, with mixed results for vehicles and transport metrics.
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Canada
Over-protection not good for Granny
The piece argues that aging does not reduce capability, and seniors should keep decision making and small domestic duties. It cautions against coddling elders living with family, noting many are mentally capable and prefer autonomy and responsibility within the home.
Cuckoo clocks seized at London airport customs
Three parcels from Germany brought by a passenger disrupted proceedings at the London airport customs department. Each package contained a cuckoo clock, yielding no further details on motive or destination.
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London Airport
Germany
Massed Flower Beds and Spaced Planting Tips for Big Gardens
Garden notes advise larger lots for dramatic displays with massed beds of petunias zinnias and cosmos. Use seed direct sow or transplanted annuals and transplant to cottage beds. Spread vegetable harvests by staggered sowing and early mid and late varieties. speed growth with greenhouses covers and starter plants.
New Saskatchewan Radio Program For Square Dancers
Saskatchewan Power Corporation sponsors a new half hour program Square Dance Note Book airing March 21 and 22. Noreen Wilson hosts with updates from six major labels and notes on clubs festivals camps and visiting callers. Clubs are asked to send event details to be aired and instruction for beginners included.
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Saskatchewan
Hoedown
MacGreagor
Old Timer
Western Jubilee
Windsor
Canada
United States
Noreen Wilson
Noreen
Asilomar
California
Saskatchewan Power Corporation
Early grazing impact on Range Substation forage in Stavely Alberta
Ottawa reports show heavy early spring grazing at the Range Experiment Substation reducing palatable native forage like rough fescue, Idaho fescue, and Parry’s oatgrass. Weaning weights fell from 414 pounds on moderate grazing to 338 pounds on heavy grazing over three years. cow weight gains were 186 versus 110 pounds, respectively.
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Ottawa
Canada
Department of Agriculture
Stavely
Alberta
Try and Stop Me! Bennett Cerf humor in Paris and politics
A collection of light anecdotes including Ray Henberry in Paris startled by a taxi horn and a jest about a wife running away with a French auto man. Other bits poke gentle fun at picnic season radio ads hunters and a Sunday school soap gag.
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Ray Henberry
Rue de Rivoli
Paris
Henberry
Toppers Meet in Vancouver for Continental Convention
About 250 delegates from across the continent will assemble in Vancouver on July 18 for a three day convention of the American Tall Club Association. The 28 clubs include 26 in the United States and two in Canada. The Vancouver Tip Top Club hosts with 75 active members and giants Jack and Leo holding the presidency.
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Vancouver
Tall Clubs
United States
Canada
Tip Topper Club
Jack
Leo
Clipped Bird Shows Kiwi Wing Spread Fact
The New Zealand Kiwi, a night bird with the smallest wing span relative to body size, is noted as the species with the shortest wing spread in proportion to its body. The figure 3187 appears in the clipped text.
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New Zealand
Ram Wimberry Causes Stir In Merthyr Tydfil
A pet white ram named Wimberry crowds shoppers in Merthyr Tydfil. Bottle fed and loved by children, the animal chases women, steals from baskets, and sleeps in doorways, creating a city-center nuisance.
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Merthyr Tydfil
Wales
Wimberry
Do It Yourself Trellises and Garden Figures
Trellises can add charm to home exteriors with four trellis styles and three flower box designs. The pattern explains door side seats and a garden gate, with tracing patterns for shaped parts. Patterns 314 and 400 cost 35c each, Lawn and Garden Figures Packet $1.50 postpaid, Home Workshop Pattern Service Vancouver BC.
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Home Workshop
Department
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Party-pretty dress from pinafore pattern 7186
Mice Brock Cool presents a sew-very-easy pattern 7186 for a versatile party-pretty dress by adding a separate collar. Includes embroidery transfer directions and children sizes 2 4 6 8. Send twenty five cents in coins to obtain pattern. stamps not accepted.
Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue Order Encouraged
Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street W Toronto promotes the ALICE BROOKS Needlecraft Catalogue. It boasts knitting crochet embroidery iron ons toys and novelties with a 25 cent copy price and urging readers to order every design.
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Household Arts Department
P.P.L
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Largest trout on display at Saskatchewan museum
The largest lake trout ever caught in North America is now on display in the Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History lower gallery. Dr. Robert W. Nero, assistant director, said that the specimen’s size and origin highlight regional natural history significance.
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Regina
North America
Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History
Robert W. Nero
Shorty Erber the Charlevoix humane officer claims world’s shortest dogcatcher title
Edward Shorty Erber, 62, of Charlevoix Michigan, stands four feet nine inches and recalls his WWI fame as the shortest American Expeditionary Forces member. Named Charlevoix County humane officer, he jokes about outrunning dogs and notes only one dog in six months exceeded him in size. The article also describes a giant 49 inch lake trout preserved as a plaster cast at a museum with details on its size age and the fishing industry.
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Edward
Shorty”) Erber
Charlevoix
Michigan
Erber
Charlevoix County
St. Bernard
A Family of Pain Arthritis Group of Rheumatic Diseases
Arthritis is not a single disease but a group of rheumatic conditions with joint inflammation. Over 200 varieties are classified including statica neuritis lumbago and muscular rheumatism. Each case needs individual expert diagnosis and modern medical treatment.
Store Sells Goods for Good Deeds in Old Town Chicago
A storefront funded by the Old Town Chicago Boys Clubs operates a credit based store for about 1,000 neighborhood boys. Boys earn tokens by chores and good grades to buy items like gym shoes bicycles and canned foods. Club director Vince Giesler says the system preserves dignity by avoiding handouts. Local businessmen donated merchandise for sale.
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Vince Giesler
David X. Meyers
Club
Escaped Bull Stuns Baton Rouge Dress Shop Crowd
A Brahma bull escaped en route to a slaughterhouse and roamed the show window of a downtown Baton Rouge dress shop. It terrorized customers, toppled racks, and was finally subdued by 210-pound officer J. L. Ott who rode the bull to the ground as spectators stared through the window. Shop owner Blanche Ellzey, away briefly, returned to the startled scene.
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Baton Rouge
J. L. Ott
Ott
Blanche Ellzey
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