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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 20, 1962
Page
5
Madeleine Levyason recalls winter sun in Barbados from a Canadian traveler’s view. She notes that locals admire Canada as a land of opportunity while Barbadians inquire about jobs, housing, and wages, contrasting tropical climate with winter cold back home.
The Hudson Bay Route Association will hold its 19th Annual Convention in Lloydminster Saskatchewan on March 28 and 29 1962. City Council and Chamber of Commerce sponsor a luncheon and reception with a banquet to follow. Notable speakers from the Canadian Wheat Board Transport National Harbours Board Canadian National Railways and provincial governments are invited.
The piece contrasts an ancient Egyptian priest's lament on youth with Socrates in the fifth century B C quoted in a journal and notes a real python growing to nearly 30 feet and weighing about 300 pounds.
Saskatchewan produced 16 percent of Canada’s turkey meat in 1961 with 15.4 million pounds marketed through provincial grading stations. Canada total 94.5 million pounds. Poultry Commissioner E M Campbell notes rapid industry expansion and near parity with national trends since 1951, plus rising private consumption and cooler prices in 1961.
The share of Canadian households with automobiles rose from 37 percent in 1941 to 43 percent in 1951 and then to 69 percent in 1961. This shows a strong, sustained expansion of car access across the country, reflecting postwar growth and mobility trends.
A collection of humorous exchanges featuring a young minister upset over his wife buying a dress, a teenager hoping to borrow a car for a foggy night drive in a drive in, and a boy claiming to be the best in class. Quips include a dress joke about get thee behind me Satan and a courthouse quip about shocking the court with the naked truth.
The United States considers a plan to reduce wheat surplus by implementing marketing quotas like Canada. It would lower price support and pay farmers to leave wheat acreage intact or divert it to conservation aims.
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