Saskatchewan to hold public hearings on livestock marketing plan
The Saskatchewan Marketing Board announced a proposed livestock marketing plan for cattle, swine, and sheep under the Natural Products Marketing Act. A series of public hearings across Saskatchewan in March will gather representations from producers and organizations to guide possible amendments before recommendation to the Lieutenant Governor in Council. Locations include Saskatoon, North Battleford, Prince Albert, Tisdale, Yorkton, Moose Jaw, Swift Current, Maple Creek, Carlyle, and Regina. Members of the Marketing Board and committee leadership are listed, and copies of the plan are available from the secretary in Regina.
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Regina
Saskatchewan Marketing Board
Saskatchewan
Gordon Loveridge
Saskatoon
North Battleford
Prince Albert
Ing
Tisdale
Yorkton
Moose Jaw
Swift Current
Maple Creek
Carlyle
Grenfell
Denis Downing
James Farquharson
Zealandia
C. H. Whiting
Pleasant Valley
W. F. Ferns
Legislative Building
P. E. Wright
E. Lund
Borden
J. F. Gray
E. A. Boden
Catknife
F. Messenger
Kelvington
Don Griffin
Alameda
ComProv Plan to Aid 25,000 Disabled in Canada
Mr. Martin outlines federal provincial cost sharing under a new act to provide monthly allowances for totally and permanently disabled Canadians. Provinces will decide payment start dates. eligibility hinges on age residence and income with a 40 dollar monthly maximum. Regulations follow patterns of prior acts. about 25,000 recipients expected when fully operating.
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Mr. Martin
Government of
Canada
Martin
Welfare
Ottawa
Ally
Rodent Control Key to Livestock Health Says Vet
Saskatchewan provincial veterinarian Dr. T. V. Johnston warns rodents especially rats are infection sources for livestock. He urges producers to prioritize rodent control on par with disease management to safeguard livestock health.
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Regina
T. V. Johnston
Saskatchewan
LaCombe Builds Ice Arena Seats Over 3000
LaCombe in central Alberta opens a new ice arena replacing the one lost to fire last year. The structure seats more than 3,000 spectators and is touted as the third largest in the province.
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Lacombe
Alberta
Kitchen Meditations By Jane Dale
Poem fragment praising a mother and boy, urging nurturing guidance and love. Emphasizes raising a curious, cheerful child with gentle firmness and shared joys, ending with a maternal blessing and a call to eat right live right feel right.
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Jane Dale
Canada birth surplus 1953 bids 289,444 rise
The natural increase excess of births over deaths for Canada in 1953 stood at 289,444, reflecting a substantial population rise. The figure highlights ongoing demographic growth through higher births relative to deaths across the country.
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Canada
Wheat and oats carryovers, 1954 55 crop year outlook
Federal brief outlines lower carryover in 1954 55 wheat and oats with world wheat production about 6.8 billion bushels, down six percent from 1953 54. Canada’s 1954 crop under 300 million bushels, export prospects for 1954 55 seen higher, carryover reduced, and feed grain supplies down about 15 percent though fodder adequate.
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Canada
Do-It-Yourself Trestle Tables and Braided Rugs
The earliest do it yourself trestle table is shown in a Metropolitan Museum American Wing sketch. The rug background represents an expanding project from a small patch to a ten by eight foot piece, with patterns 390 for three trestle table sizes and 834 for rug making from dyeing to finishing, 35c each.
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Metropolitan Museum
Funny and Otherwise Pattern 207 and Jokes in The Paper
The item describes scallop pattern 207 with twelve sizes from one to nineteen inches for woodwork and window frames plus a related pattern 325 for curtains, all 35 cents. It folds in humorous vignettes about schooling, radio, mischief, and a joke about solarflower seed yield per acre.
New Arctic Survey Method Tested by Army and Canada
The Army Survey Establishment and Geodetic Survey of Canada tested an aerial surveying method to map the Canadian Arctic. Lt-Col J I Thompson led Ottawa based personnel. A high flying aircraft with an electric light serves as a survey marker enabling observations from up to 100 miles away using plane mounted targets and theodolite observations from ground stations.
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Army
Geodetic Survey of Canada
Army Survey Establishment
Ottawa
J. I. Thompson
C. H. Ney
Manitoba place names and their historic meanings
A survey of Manitoba towns lakes and districts tracing Cree Sioux and Ojibway roots. It explains origins from misepawistik grass river muskuskow sipi and manitou legends as well as names honoring explorers politicians and settlers such as La Verendrye and Alvey Morden.
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Grand Rapids
Saskatchewan River
Grass—River
Hamiota
Hamilton's Place
Hayes—River
Radisson
Sir James Hayes
Prince Rupert
Hudson's Bay Co
Hochstadt
Keewatin
Kississing
Lac du Bonnet
la Riviere
Alphonse Alfred Clement la Riviere
la Verendrye
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes
Sieur de la Verendrye
Three Rivers
Montreal
Manitoba
Province
Lake
Manitou-Bau
Man cites bed smoking device to prevent fires
J. Henry Michaud claims an aluminum tube with side holes fits a cigarette holder to keep ash contained. Fire officials and hospital authorities express interest in the invention as a safer way to smoke in bed.
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Victoria
J. Henry Michaud
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