Kamsack home impresses Moosomin visitors
About two dozen ladies and men from Moosomin toured the new Senior Citizens home in Kamsack and returned enthusiastic. The H shaped building makes a stirring impression though final touches and painting remain. The plan has met strong favor and may become a standard provincial design.
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Moosomin
Kamsack
World Spectator
Sask
Television moves into the schoolroom in Manitoba
Manitoba launches a unique educational TV trial with six half hour programs sent to 34 of 42 school districts. CBC Winnipeg and CKX Brandon provide facilities and staff while Miss Gertrude McCance organizes the series for grades seven to eleven. Programs cover chemistry biology physics art theatre and natural science with teacher preparation and evaluation required to gauge impact.
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Manitoba
Canada
Flin Fion
Pas
Churchill
Manitoba Department of Education
National Advisory Council
W. C. Miller
Gertrude McCance
CBC
Winnipeg
CKX
Brandon
CBWT
CKW Brandon
Monitoba
Steinbach gadget wins prize at Minnesota inventor show
Bruno Derksen of Steinbach devised a retractable trailer hitch that stole the show at a Devils Lake Minnesota inventors convention last weekend. It was the prize-winning display item but ineligible for prize money due to an out-of-state entry rule. Derksen then appeared on TV in a Saint Paul Minneapolis audience interview, gaining wide exposure.
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Bruno Derksen
Steinbach
Invenor
Devils Lake
Minnesota
Derksen
Payroll Increase Elevates Civil Service Branches
In March 1957 the federal payroll shows 148000 classified civil servants, up from 116000 in 1945 and 46000 in 1939, illustrating substantial growth across eras.
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