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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 05, 1960
Page
11
A council urges cautious motorists to watch for reckless drivers and poor signaling. It details safe winter practices such as warming engines, clear vision with wipers, rear window checks, traction tips, braking technique, space, and handling a car stuck in snow. It warns about carbon monoxide risk and fatigue, stressing rest and patience.
Pattern description notes a bed display using bright poinsettia colors with applique flower and leaves. Item 7438 includes charts directions and patch patterns. Instructions request sending coins for pattern code 7438 to Arte Department Department PPlane 1 Street.
A pithy line reflects on a habit of people who speak twice before thinking once, suggesting impractical urgency and unclear judgment in everyday discourse.
Mushrooms and shrimps sautéed in butter form a fast base for a hearty snack or meal. Beat eggs, season, and pour over to scramble. For Fish a la king, add mushrooms to crab meat and lobster mixtures and serve over split biscuits or rolls.
Pattern 4927 offers a relaxed easy sew guide with softly flaring lines and back interest pleat and bow. It suggests flower fresh rayon brand cotton fabrics and notes half sizes with fabric yardage details and a quirky postal format for pattern orders.
The Royal Canadian Navy reached a peacetime high with 62 ships in commission by mid December 1959, including Bonaventure and several Restigouche and St. Laurant class escorts, frigates, mine sweepers, and loaned Royal Navy submarines based at Halifax. Five new escorts joined, with Cape Scott and Cape Breton returning in repair roles, and three modernized frigates commissioned.
W R Merryweather formerly assistant director of the conservation and development branch is appointed director of the new home and farm improvements branch in Saskatchewan Agriculture. He assumed duties November 23 after leaving his prior post. Born in Paynton in 1916, he studied agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan, served as an engineer in World War II, and rose to captain before his discharge in 1945.
Seventy seed potato varieties were inspected in 1959 with 43,461 acres passing field checks. Sebago led at almost 45 percent, followed by Katadin Kennebec Netted Gem Red Pontiac Irish Cobbler and Green Mountain. Green Mountain is losing ground while Bliss Triumph, once key for export, falls to 20th with 45 acres.
Turbine gates diverting water above Niagara Falls are reduced to double daytime flow from April through October to please sightseers. The plan increases water volume over the falls, boosting the spectacle while managing dam operations.
A new-type anti-freeze wash spilled from two overturned trucks on an icy road in Bialystok, melting street ice quickly. The incident involved two well-loaded vehicles and disrupted traffic as vodka flowed from the wrecks.
Entomologists and plant breeders in Winnipeg report success in selecting lines of fox resistant to aster yellows. The teams focus on disease resistance, aiming to improve crops and reduce yield losses in affected areas.
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