Waterton Dam Nears Completion In Alberta Project
After five years of construction the Waterton dam in south western Alberta approaches completion as the final stage of the St Mary Irrigation Project. The project will enable irrigation for up to 500 000 acres with 340 000 already developed. Canada will use water from the Belly St Mary and Waterton rivers under a federal provincial plan. The dam provides storage for 140 000 acre feet and the embankment rises 180 feet over the river. Finishing the concrete spillway is underway and a five mile diversion canal remains to connect to Belly River facilities.
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Waterton
Alberta
St. Mary
Canada
Ridge Reservoir
Waterton Dam
Belly River
Waterton River
Pattern 285 shows durable trash burner construction
A permanent solution to the trash burner problem is demonstrated with Pattern 285. It lists materials a concrete mixing formula steps for making reinforced base installing grate and keeping block construction true. Pattern 285 is 50c. Yard Benches Chairs and Tables Pattern Packet No 60 is $1.75.
Chest and shelf units from Pattern 226 offer versatile furniture
Three pieces including a 31 inch chest a 16 inch end chest and a 29 inch shelf unit designed for center use. Pattern 226 priced at 50 cents with optional additions Pattern 225 dining table and Pattern 224 chairs also at 50 cents each or all three patterns for 1.75.
Tips From Experts On House Painting
Exterior painting rewards careful prep and proper technique. Clean surfaces, remove loose paint, sand edges, and prime before coating. Use blister resistant acrylic latex, follow can directions, choose dry weather, and apply thin coats with steady strokes for a durable finish.
Feed grain movement subsidized to eastern Canada and BC
Agriculture Minister Hays stated in the Commons last week that the feed grain issue is under review. The federal government now subsidizes rail movement of Prairie feed grains to farmers in Eastern Canada and British Columbia.
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Uwroad
Hays
Canada
B.C
Grace Darling Heroine of a Sea Rescue
Grace Darling, daughter of the Loungstone Island lighthouse keeper, rowed with her father through a sea storm on September 7, 1838 to lift survivors from the Forfarshire wreck near Harker's Rocks. The sisters saved four men and a woman, earning nationwide acclaim before her death at 27 from consumption.
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Grace Darling
Loungstone Island
Northumberland
England
Forfarshire
Hull
Dundee
Harker's Rocks
William Darling
Grace
Harker
Goldie La Venne A Burlesque Queen’s Final Alarm
A reminiscence of Goldie La Venne, famed Eastern Wheel soubrette, unfolds as her life of showgirl triumphs and a long obsession with Eddie Miles ends in her death on a Brooklyn fire escape. Eddie, once her lover and rival, is shocked to learn of her passing as the warehouse alley yields a fatal, decades-long yearning.
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Goldie la Venne
Goldie
Broadway
Old Puttynose
Schermerhorn Street
Brooklyn
Hilarity
Eddie Miles
Eddie
Idie la Venne
Star
Over Town
Ling
Greenhorn
Bert
Chicago
Bett
Edward Miles
MacLachlan Named Chief of Seed Potato Section
Dr Donald B MacLachlan a potato disease expert aged 39 has been appointed chief of the Seed Potato Section Plant Protection Division Canada Department of Agriculture He succeeds the retired J W Scanneh Born on a farm near Ottawa he studied at McDonald College of McGill University starting in 1941.
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Donald 8. MacLachlan
Canada Department of Agriculture
MacLachlan
J. W. Scanneh
Kenmore
Ottawa
MacDonald College of
McGill University
World Food Plan Approved at Washington Congress
The World Food Congress in Washington endorsed a global plan for food production and utilization to be run within FAO and the World Food Program. By 1968 preliminary work should enable all countries to craft integrated national programs, boosting farm output and exports to fund food purchases, with no single world food pool or trade disruption. The FAO Freedom from Hunger Campaign continues beyond 1960 65, now a permanent effort in the war on hunger.
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World Food Congress
Washington
Freedom From Hunger Committee
Food and Agriculture Organization
FAO
CN Train Carries Youth Orchestra On Western Tour
The National Youth Orchestra of 92 musicians from eight provinces boarded a CN train in Toronto to begin a tour of western Canada after Stratford and Toronto performances. The group, housed in five sleeping cars, kept instruments close by with a harp tympani glockenspiel and six bass violins among them. They perform in Winnipeg Saskatoon Edmonton Calgary and Vancouver.
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Toronto
O'Keefe
National Youth Orchestra
Canada
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Edmonton
Calgary
Vancouver
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