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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1954
Page
4
Christmas 1954 church notice outlines services on December 24 at 1 PM Christmas Eve and December 25 at 8 AM Midnight Communion, December 26 at 11 AM Holy Communion, a Children's Christmas Service, and a 7 PM Evening Prayer with parents invited.
Delegation asks council to study opening a street across Blackene plan 2309 from McIntosh to Minawawa between Park Avenue and PTH 1. The cost to subdivide ends and pay portions of the street may fall to lot owners. Ditch clearing on Highway No 11 requested before frost. Council appeals 1955 56 equalized assessment. Martin and Company named village solicitors. Notices sent about nonconforming buildings at rear of certain lots. By law amended to raise council member pay to 150 per year. J W Wade paid 200 for sewage installation expenses. Surplus 1954 to fund sidewalks in 1955.
The Civil Servants Association of the Manitoba Government Air Service held its annual Christmas party in the Air Service building on December 17 with decorations. Guests included J G Cowan Deputy Minister of Mines and Natural Resources, J G Somers Provincial Forester, and T B Vermilyea District Forester. Santa arrived by chimney amid a festive hangar scene with a turntable, balloons, and an airplane ride. Children received gifts and candy. a lunch followed. Local notes mention x rays offered at reduced rates and various holiday visits, with a birthday party for Ivar Anderson of Great Falls noting about 75 attendees.
December events include a school Christmas concert at Memorial Hall from 2 to 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. for grades 7 and up. Lac du Bonnet Collegiate will send a rink to Winnipeg for the Manitoba Schools bonspiel December 27 to 29, with players Glen Butchart Dennis Fournier Art Malyk and Johnny Usackis. Also mentions winners, travel plans, and a Health unit talk by Miss Connelly on tuberculosis and local services.
Canadian Premier Henry Hicks of Nova Scotia says he will seek joint action with other maritime premiers to urge the federal government to commission a study on the St. Lawrence Seaway’s impact on the maritime economy. Hicks cites distinct disadvantages to the maritimes from the project.
Mr Anderson was greeted by Mrs T Peterson of Great Falls with a boutonniere. Speeches by J Sparman of Lac du Bonnet and Ferguson and Jones of Great Falls followed. Guests included 70 year olds at lunch, and Duffly’s orchestra provided music for dancing.
The most beloved carol Silent Night was written by Joseph Mohr in Oberndorf South Germany with melody by Franz Gruber. The hymn debuted December 24 1818 in the Oberndorf church with guitar accompaniment after the organ failed. Since then it has been sung worldwide in many languages and instruments.
In 1953 Canada endured strikes that erased about 1.3 million man-days of work. The disruption equates to a large factory employing roughly 5,000 workers producing goods for consumers for an entire year.
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