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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1959
Page
5
Advice emphasizes facing hypertension calmly, avoiding panic, and maintaining healthy optimism. It urges regular medical checkups, sensible weight management, and gradual lifestyle adjustments without drastic self-imposed restrictions. The piece notes drug choices vary, urges cooperation with doctors, and cites future medical advances funded by the Canadian Heart Fund.
The Manitoba Legislature approves new social legislation to guarantee essential needs such as clothing shelter and medical care for all residents. The program, costing about 2 million, places welfare duties under provincial responsibility including care for aged and infirm, neglected children, and social allowances for widowed or single mothers and families with disabled breadwinners. It also covers aid for Indians and immigrants.
The Daily Sun advises travelers to carry an old shower curtain or rug on long trips to protect clothing during repairs. It outlines steps for changing a flat, stresses placing the spare behind the flat tire, and notes how to signal for help. It also recommends ensuring the spare is inflated and stocked with tools, a medical kit, flares, and towels for quick cleanup.
Printed Pattern 4636 offers a slim sleek shirtwaist with a tucked bodice and trim hip pockets. It features a back pleat and printed directions on each pattern part. Send 50 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Toronto for pattern OO Front Street.
SPC appoints public relations superintendent Cc. E. Smith announces Miss Jan Pawlik to the role. Born in Regina and educated in Fort William, she joined Port Arthur Daily News Chronicle in 1950s, worked at CKY Winnipeg, and joined SaskPower in 1956, advancing to publications editor then publicity and advertising supervisor. She will oversee official functions and flame lighting ceremonies.
Manitoba memories revived at the Thresherman’s Reunion July 15 18 near Austin at the Agricultural Memorial Museum. Expanded program features ox weight guessing, flour grinding, bread making, tractor parade, gas and steam engine threshing and plowing demos, obstacle races, nightly folk dancing. The event, eight year old, grows in spectators and donations of farm relics to the museum located south of Austin along Highway 34.
A 14 foot high 22 foot long wooden pheasant sculpture arrives from Lethbridge to join the board of trade dinosaur under construction at the junction of Highways No 1 and No 36. Gift from CJLH-TV to the focal board, the bird won second prize in the Lethbridge Exhibition parade and was presented to B of T president H. D. Pound.
Plasma makes up about 55 percent of blood while red and white cells account for the remaining 45 percent. The statement outlines the basic distribution of blood components.
Manitoba's game branch plans a field and lab study on a botulism like illness killing ducks yearly. Biologists will take blood from dead birds and test at the University of Manitoba while Delta Waterfowl and other labs explore the toxin's path from bacteria to the duck's stomach and possible insect vectors.
The 11th group of British schoolboys, 48 students from British secondary schools, will arrive in Montreal on August 19 aboard the Cunard liner Carinthia. Two schoolmasters and I W Cunningham will accompany them, representing the W H Rhodes Canada Educational Trusts. The tour, founded by W H Rhodes in 1938, aims to foster friendships with Canadian youths and broaden knowledge of Canada, visiting Quebec Montreal Toronto Hamilton Niagara Falls Sudbury and Ottawa. The trip ends September 4 with return to England aboard the Cunard liner Sylvania.
Community safety notice urges motorists to slow down and stay alert. Officials highlight the risk of accidents and injuries, urging adherence to traffic laws and use of seat belts. Local agencies plan enforcement and public awareness campaigns.
Mrs Elizabeth Hammond of the Canadian Shoe Information Bureau notes that pointed shoes, revived from WWI, remain dainty and elegant for dress wear. She cites improved design and comfort, with lower heels benefiting older women, and observes Canada adopting the style ahead of the United States two years ago.
Eighty stevedores arrived by CNR for Churchill open season. S. S. North Devon first docked with 4,000 tons of British autos tractors machinery and steel. CNR moved cargo on 57 flatcars to Prairie points.
A measuring worm, the caterpillar of a moth, moves by a looping gait that makes its path look like it is measuring the distance it travels.
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