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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 22, 1958
Page
2
The Observer from Carlyle Sask urges improved handwriting through family involvement. It argues parents can shape neat writing by example, assigning writing tasks at home, supervising homework, and letting children copy recipes and write notices. Writing should be legible, slow, and personally expressive.
The Times Canwood Sask highlights local shopping advantages with honest values ample selection instant delivery service and adjustment more personal friendly treatment saving time relief from costly travel freedom from road hazards elimination of parking problems avoidance of jostling crowds and the chance to build a better community by putting dollars to work locally.
Canada’s gross national product at market prices fell to 31.0 billion in the fourth quarter from 31.3 billion in the third quarter, a roughly 1 percent decline in value and a larger drop in volume. For all of 1957 GNP reached about 31.9 billion, up 3.5 percent in value but unchanged in physical volume.
The Saskatchewan Fire Commissioner's office announced winners of the annual Fire Prevention Poster Contest. Due to high quality entries the awards were split into city school and other divisions. Prizes will be mailed to local fire chiefs for public presentations, with supplementary prizes for outstanding lower grade posters.
The Rosetown Health Region reports success of Food Handlers Schools taught in six towns. A total of 145 students from cooks to charity staff attended, covering safe handling storage and dishwashing with bacteriology basics. Certificates issued. district sanitary officers led sessions and plan next year’s expanded program.
Fresh water occurs in several oceans where springs escape from underground rivers. The text notes that freshwater can be present due to submarine springs feeding into seawater.
A devotional meditation on how the cross creates internal and social conflict yet leads to spiritual victory. It cites Jesus in Gethsemane and Luke 9 15 and Matthew 26 39, notes Peter’s rebuke and the rich young ruler’s refusal, and ends with Paul’s claim of a crown for faithfulness.
W B Holmes warned of grasshopper infestations in the southeastern province during a district Ag Rep District 1 meeting at Elks Hall. He outlined forecast risks across 13 rural municipalities, noting possible infestations from normal to severe along area edges and described three economically important grasshopper types and their likely locations.
Ice floods washed out the Witherow highway bridge over the Carrot River eight miles south of Carrot River forcing a 60 mile detour for residents. The bridge’s east end and approach collapsed under ice pressure, with only cables at the west end anchoring the span. The outage disrupts travel eastward for motorists.
Moisture conditions in southwestern Saskatchewan have greatly improved due to early spring run-off. PFRA's 5S. F. Shields, Swift Current superintendent, notes the north Cypress Hills and small irrigation works are filling. Swift Current Creek is high but controlled with low flood risk. Water from Battle Creek and Lodge Creek could reach Chinook, Montana, causing some trouble.
In the spring the poem notes that young men's fancy drives them to danger. The Canadian Highway Safety Conference cautions that fancy driving by anyone is a death-dealing menace and urges drivers to move aside to stay safe.
A National Geographic led survey describes the Mekong rising in the Tangsha Range of Tsinghai Province and flowing 2,600 miles to the South China Sea. It details its vast discharge, untamed nature, nearby geography, and human impact across Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam with references to Angkor and Tonle Sap.
Brass tubing and wood lamps for the workshop. Floor lamp provides light beside a chair. table lamp suits a desk or end table. Pattern 204 mailed for 40c, part of a five-pattern Complete Living-Room Packet for 5.
University of Saskatchewan assistant professor Saya J. M. Murray warns farmers against water witching. In a university information bulletin he states no method other than drilling reliably locates ground water and that diviners exaggerate unseen underground streams. He adds success rests on sand and gravel deposits, not mystical instruments.
Oscar Howard of Gull Lake reports his brother George Howard died in Australia on February 23. A former Herbert Herald Weekly printer who homesteaded north of Gull Lake, he worked for the Advance, including Tupholme and later H Gamble, and served in the Australian Government printing department.
The 1956 Manitoba census records 49,201 farms spanning 17,931,817 acres. This data highlights farm density and land use across the province, reflecting agricultural structure and regional distribution during the mid twentieth century.
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