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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 21, 1959
Page
5
Urban shoppers increasingly rely on a sprawling Canadian catalogue whose 15 000 illustrated items rival a large department store. Rapid transport and updated fashion sections let distant towns receive timely catalogs, while stores still ship by plane river boat or dog team to reach remote regions.
Alberta Department of Education offers free loan of oversized print textbooks to help sight handicapped students persist in schooling. Initiated in 1951 to aid smaller communities, with Edmonton and Calgary hosting sight-saving classrooms.
Public hearings into oil-leasing practices are set for Virden Melita and Deloraine in southwestern Manitoba. Commissioner Winston Norton of the Mineral Inquiry Commission will hear evidence at scheduled times in each town and witnesses should file documents and confirm their names with local contacts. The inquiry seeks to determine if petroleum natural gas or related royalties were obtained through fraud oppression or unconscionable means or misrepresentation.
Ed Sundby of Speast district faced a light conspiracy at home when a calf terrified of the dark kept licking a white light switch until the barn was flooded with light. The couple blamed each other for omitting the lights, nearly harming family harmony before the animal was restrained.
The White Pelican, long a prairie summer resident, has moved up toward the Northwest Territories as settlement lines push forward. The change signals adjusting feeding grounds and migratory patterns amid expanding settlement and land use.
FOCA Rutherford urges strong local grasshopper control with appointed district officers to enforce by laws on votes matter and to prepare early summer trap strips. He advocates a district sprayer survey, immediate insecticide supplies, and a standard municipal price for chemicals, stressing community, municipality, and farm roles.
Oil wives collecting used clothing to fund a Calgary Holiday Home for crippled children. The Regina shop at 1762 Broad Street sells second hand articles with proceeds for the project. Donations picked up by Jean Kirkpatrick or Sally Dorin in Oxbow, Saskatchewan.
Three poplar plywood plants in Edmonton and Grande Prairie together boast a daily capacity of about 200000 board feet of quarter inch ply wood per eight hours.
The notice promotes Pattern 328 as a method that clarifies name and house number details and offers actual size cutting guides for a complete display.
The Recorder Reston Manitoba argues for higher game licenses to raise funds to compensate farmers for feed and grain losses caused by deer and ducks. It cites past protections near the Delta marsh and suggests adding fifty cents to big game licenses to create a special fund. The piece urges provincial Games and Fisheries involvement to improve hunter farmer relations and address damage costs.
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