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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 24, 1951
Page
1
The 1951 census begins in June with 720,000 farms surveyed across Canada. The schedule is shorter, asking for crops, livestock, equipment, farm and home garden values, and major expenses. Enumerators pledge confidentiality. data is used only in aggregate statistics.
The Pine Falls Horticultural Society held its annual meeting at Manitou Lodge on Monday night April 16 with E J Kahle presiding and Don Munro as secretary treasurer. Officers chosen include R E Hayes as honorary president Don Munro as president J J Jackson as vice president and Fred Harrison as secretary treasurer Directors were named for townsite Powerview and Rack areas, with L Seguin and F Lidstone as auditors. The new president announced continued wholesale fertilizer pricing for members. A junior garden club was discussed but deferred pending further study. F J Weir spoke on plant diseases and presented slides, followed by a tulip and flower movie from Holland.
Victoria Day will be observed in Manitoba on Thursday May 24 according to Hon C E Greenlay provincial secretary and labor minister He notes proposed changes to the Hours of Work Act add Victoria Day to general holidays and outline pay rules for holiday work plus new rules on business operation permits under the new legislation no federal act required for the present conclusion
The J A Bothwell award for Forest Conservation was given to Duncan Naysmith divisional forester of Manitoba Paper for leading the company's forest fire prevention campaign in 1950. The prize was awarded at the Woodlands section annual meeting of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association in Montreal at the end of March.
The Manitoba Power Commission selects Beausejour as the hub of a new Hydro district including Garson and Tyndall villages and surrounding farms. J. MacKenzie Ready is named district supervisor at Beausejour, transferring from Cabot to lead the area with his wife and child moving there soon.
Rev Father E Pelletier of Camperville Manitoba visits his brother in Powerview with his mother amid local updates on Al's Lunch renovation new neon sign and rising fish and chip department. Local health notes list Mrs Art Malo and Mr and Mrs M Pictor recovering. A concert and basket social at Leonard School raised $101.15 for school grounds renovation.
William Edward MacLean, an escapee from Dauphin, was captured three miles east of Whitemouth on Wednesday. Cpl. William Munnoch and Constable A L Greening of the R C M P Whitemouth detachment led a district search before securing the fugitive.
A Rennie Manitoba meeting on April 17 with Elma Rennie and Whiteshell representatives denounced the Ste. Anne route for the Trans Canada Highway. They urged Ottawa to reconsider, questioned cost and soil surveys, and pressed for a Vivian route protest committee led by A H Watt, J Devlin, and H Milbrandt.
Archibald Park MacKinnon, born 1914 in New Zealand, assumed the duties of News Editor at the Springfield Leader on Monday. A veteran of World War II, he served with the New Zealand airforce after 14 years with the Auckland Education Board, trained in Canada, and met his Winnipeg-born wife Violet Carter during service. They reside at 341 Moorbate Street, St. James, with two children, Carol Raye and Robert Wayne.
Beausejour Collegiate reflects on moving from the old school day with pupils recalling friends, rooms, and routines. Students mourn the end of familiar spaces while joking about April exams and upcoming “New Beausejour 1951” in a nostalgic campus column.
Provincial Library entry from the Legislative Building in Winnipeg dated December 31 with catalog number 49990 5 refers to a government or archival notice. The fragmentary text provides limited context beyond the location and date.
Farmers and stockmen can gauge pasture carrying capacity by monitoring spear-grass and twine-grass dominance in light brown soft zones. Overgrazing shifts to weedy species like pasture sage and broomweed, while palatable grasses decline and blue grama and low-sedge rise, reducing yield. When spear-grass dominates, 20 to 25 acres per season per head is safe. blue grama requires 30 acres. if low-sedge dominates, grazing should pause until recovery. Careful observation reveals improvement or deterioration.
Horodyski asks where to find a mine detector that spots nickels quarters and half dollars. The piece notes a follow up about boys attempting the same stunt atop a flag pole.
Joe Micklaychuk known as Joe, guest at a McColl Fontenac Oil Co banquet at the Royal Alexandra Hotel in Winnipeg on April 18. He received a framed certificate for five years salesmanship, praised for building a strong service station and store with his wife assisting in the business serving Pointe du Bois residents and visitors.
Mrs Arthur St Pierre returns from a trip east visiting her daughter St Andre at St Hyacinthe and relatives in Three Rivers and Montreal. Mrs G Menard stayed in Winnipeg visiting her children Edward Courtois and others. Mrs J E Beaubien of Shilo Manitoba visited. Mrs J Wilcott marked her 73rd birthday on April 20.
A concise maxim from John D. Rockefeller states that mere wealth pursuit fails without a larger aim. The remark emphasizes higher purpose beyond profit as the path to lasting success.
Pupils from Brokenhead school were named among winners in the Blue Cross Community Health scrapbook contest. Honorable mention prizes of 5.00 each went to Freddie Bubay and Ralph Trombo, Grade XI, and to pupils of Grades VI and IX. Contest sponsored by Manitoba Hospital Service Association.
Recently named district supervisor for the Manitoba Power Commission at East Selkirk, reflecting leadership changes in the province's electrical administration. The appointment underscores the commission’s strategy to strengthen regional oversight and service delivery in rural Manitoba.
A new Winnipeg traffic by law becomes effective Saturday May 12 1951 to improve street safety. It elevates pedestrian rights and duties, requiring crossing at corners and on cross walks with traffic lights observed. Motorists must yield to walkers lawfully on crosswalks, especially when turning at intersections.
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