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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 28, 1964
Page
2
The article chronicles the origins of Crufts the great dog show in London, tracing from a 14 year old Charles Cruft spotting a shop window ad for help with a dog biscuit shop owned by James Spratt. It highlights how his early ideas and a new bookkeeping system propelled the event.
The article discusses hockey hold and stick lie affecting shot power with notes on players like Henri Richard and Bobby Hull, then shifts to Charles Cruft and the origin of Cruft’s Show. It covers early canvassing by Craft, dog show growth, two exhibit days, and the 1963 Supreme Championship won by a Lakeland terrier named Rogerholm Recruit.
Pattern 225 for an Extension Table and 224 for Chairs in Two Sizes require common hand or power tools. The table top may be plywood or colored plastic panel to match chair coverings. The table and chair parts are 50c each and are included in Quick and Easy Saiis Packet No 13 for 1:7.
A Saskatchewan Government Telephone press briefing unveils Direct Distance Dialing DDD arriving in Regina on January 12 and expanding to communities such as Balcarres Fort Qu Appelle Grenfell Indian Head Lumsden Qu Appelle Regina Beach Rouleau Wolseley over the next years. DDD links local phones into a national network with three digit area codes and seven character numbers replacing old patterns. The system speeds long distance station to station calls to under two seconds, though operators will remain for person to person and other services. Users should maintain good dialing habits and prepare a personal list of frequently dialed numbers to avoid re dialing and misdials. Eventually DDD will permit continent wide direct dialing with Paris London Berlin Vienna Rome and beyond a future frontier for telecoms.
A quirky note about luck and misfortune with lines about a black cat, laryngitis causing a phone to feel cut off, and a quip that golf is no longer exclusive. The piece ends with a coach’s view that winning isn’t everything if job security matters.
The dialogue sketches seven life stages of women from baby to young adult with jokes about publishing sexy lines. A clerk teases a boy about losing a skirt and a childless star laments marrying a director rather than a producer, all in a playful, risqué tone.
Van Johnson checks into New York hospital for precautionary cancer surgery seven months after previous operation. Jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden dies in New Orleans at 58, with pneumonia suspected. he performed with Ben Pollack, Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, and led his own bands born Weldon John Teagarden in Vernon Texas. Bob Hope’s doctor says the Mediterranean Christmas tour aided his eye condition. Tony Curtis touts smoking cessation method learned by self discipline. June Allyson’s husband Alfred Glen Maxwell files for bankruptcy as unemployed barber in Santa Ana. Doris Day’s son pursues singing but now runs her recording sessions. Edie Adams debuts in Las Vegas in sable-lined pajama outfit. Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay shop for baby clothes while visiting Budapest with Hargitay’s mother.
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