Provencher Delegates Endorse Joe Clark At Ottawa Convention
Provencher delegates and alternates at the National Progressive Conservative Convention in Ottawa voted for Joe Clark. Attendees included M.P. Jake Epp M.L.A. Bob Banman and others from Dugald Steinbach Oakbank and Beausejour. The Provencher association re elected Garnet Kyle as president and chose new officers.
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Progressive Conservative
Ottawa
Provencher
Jake Epp
Joe
Winnipeg
Provencher P.C. Association
Beausejour
Garnet Kyle
George Krausher Oakbank
Fred T. Klym
Joan Campbell
Joan Anderson
Don Jonas Guest Speaker at L.A.B. Lion's Birthday
A mass innoculation program against infectious hepatitis will be carried out today at Manitoba Hydro's Long Spruce camp near Gillam in Northern Manitoba. About 700 workers will receive injections after a single hepatitis case was diagnosed in the camp kitchen. Free inoculation is offered to Gillam residents with recent contact to the camp, organized by the Provincial Department of Health and Gillam Hospital staff.
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Manitoba Hydro
Long Spruce
Gillam
Manitoba
Department of Health and Social Development
Gillam Hospital
Abitibi 1975 Results Show Decline Amid Strike Damage
Consolidated 1975 net sales reached 764 million including The Price Company Limited, up from 552 million in 1974 after Price acquisition on November 21 1974. Six month earnings were 19.4 million with normal operations, last six months hit by a prolonged strike. Net earnings 13.3 million or 57 cents per share versus 45.9 million or 2.50 in 1974. Capital expenditure 71 million for the year, Mattabi Mines earnings reduced to 34.3 million from nearly 10 million in 1974. Wage settlement with Canadian Paperworkers Union approved for three years from May 1 1975 featuring 82 cents hourly raise plus increases. operations to resume quickly. Annual report to shareholders in March.
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Price Company Limited
Abitibi
Price
Mattabi Mines Limited
Mattabi
Canadian Paperworkers Union
Abitibi Mills
Lac du Bonnet Home and School meeting on language development
At the February Lac du Bonnet Home and School Association gathering Frank Selko spoke on language development in young children. Demonstrations with tapes and words illustrated articulation and hearing issues, with films stressing parental listening and sentence expansion. A business note urged Education Ministry funding for school divisions' capital needs.
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Lac du Bonnet
Selko
Home and School
Federation of Manitoba
Minister of Education
Grace Ross Speaks On Drugs Alcohol In Manitoba Series
Grace Ross of the Foundation of the Women series chaired a February 2 presentation attended by about thirty women. She highlighted drugs and alcohol as Manitoba's top social issue and noted one in eleven Canadians are alcohol dependent. The film The Alcoholic Within Us was discussed, and reasons for drinking included insecurity and loneliness. Ross urged direct talks with youth and criticized provincial school programs for neglecting drug and alcohol education. She called for less pharmacology and horror story focus, more emotional and intellectual development in schools, and teaching coping without crutches. The series resumes March 3 with Beth Drewle on middle years, and ends with Ricki Devlin on coping with stress.
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Grace
Ross
Manitoba
Canada
Grace Ross
Spmrosch
Horro
Beth Drewle
Canada Manpower
Selkirk
Ricki Devlin
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