The Modern Trend and Civic View in Various Towns
A collage of brief notes from Canadian weeklies discusses education focusing on knowledge over skills, farm pond use for water and fire protection, independent merchants vs chains, bird feeding, US wheat surpluses, public council efficiency, NATO science cooperation, and National Health Week awareness with regional mentions including Grande Prairie, Bonnyville, Hagersville, Gananoque, Picton, Estevan, Carleton Place, and Lahute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagersville
Qnt
Souris waterworks begins lime and salt softening plant
A $25,000 automatic water softening plant at Souris waterworks goes into operation. Softened water should reach all consumers by week’s end with new rates effective next week. Salt use expected near a ton daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Souris
Municipal and Public Utility Board
K. J. Nielsen
Oshkosh Filter and Softener Company
McKenzie
Man
Work to be done at Crimson Lake park
Ernest Ross, chairman of the Crimson Lake park board, says the provincial and dominion governments will spend about $4000 on park work from now through spring. The plan aims to provide winter jobs and improve the park as unemployment remains high, benefiting local citizens in Mt. Mountaineer, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Ross
Crimson Lake Park
Mountaineer
Rocky
Mt. House
Alta
Ammonia plant opens near Kingston with 90 staff
The $9,000,000 ammonia plant of Canadian Industries Limited near Lake Ontario 13 miles west of Kingston goes into commercial production. Daily capacity 200 tons. Plant employs 90 people under A A Perley and H M Sherwood. Fuel oil driven synthesis uses advanced controls and pollution safeguards with Dr Thomas W Beak monitoring Lake Ontario impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Industries Limited
J. D. Converse
Cil’s Chemicals Division
Canada
Lake Ontario
Kingston
Texaco
Thomas W. Beak
Ottawa
Millhaven Works
A. A. Perley
H. M. Sherwood
CIL
Millhaven
Grasshopper Forecast Maps Warn Provinces of 1958 Infestations
The 1958 forecast map for grasshoppers covers 663000 acres of severe, two million in moderate and six million in tight categories across 116 municipalities. R E McKenzie announces first serious outbreak since 1951 and plans a February control conference for municipalities to coordinate actions. Copies are available from the Plant Industry Branch in Regina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. McKenzie
Canada Department of Agriculture
Kenzie
Plant Industry
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Regina
Jiffy Knit Cape Pattern for Women Six Sizes
A jiffy knit clutch cape pattern in a lace design suited for all occasions. Pattern 7195 provides directions for women's sizes 36-38, 40-42, 44-46 using knitting worsted. Bend thirty-five cents for this pattern to the Household Arts Department in Toronto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Department P.P.L
Front Street
Toronto
Welfare work making history in Yellowknife
Constance Evans, executive director of the Children's Aid Society, says welfare work in Yellowknife is shaping history as natives are increasingly absorbed into the community. She cites native girls seeking marriage as a path, notes feelings of inferiority and deprivation, and stresses the Children's Law as the standard for a child’s rights, from a loving home to education and employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowknife
Constance Evans
Children’s Aid
Six Nations
Canada
News of the North
N.W.T
Helicopter Refuels at East End Highway Station
John Collison of Texas landed the helicopter at the Royalite service station on Highway 39 in Estevan to refuel with 24 gallons of top grade gasoline and a quart of non-detergent oil. Staff Casey Casswell, Percy Williams, and John Dorman serviced the craft, checked tire pressures, and polished the windshield before Collison resumed his Dawson City to Texas survey flight with one passenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastend
Estevan
Royaliie
Highway 39
John Collison
Texas
Collison
Dawson City
Yukon
Casey Casswell
Percy Williams
John Dorman
Royalite Station
Mercury
Sask
Revelstoke Draws Interest From U S Students
Three letters to Revelstoke Board of Trade come from San Antonio New York State and Portland Oregon. Each writer is a university senior seeking summer work after reading glowing accounts of Revelstoke. Insulin is derived from pancreas glands of slaughtered livestock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Revelstoke
Board of Trade Officer
San Antonio
Texas
New York State
Portland
Oregon
Revelstoke, B.C
National beef grades revised by Canada Department of Agriculture
The Canada Department of Agriculture announces a national revision in beef grading effective January 16, 1958. It splits the old Commercial grade into Standard and Commercial, with Standard potentially meeting consumer demand for leaner meat. The Standard ribbon mark will be brown, and grading remains optional where not required by provinces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada Department of Agriculture
Dayliners Run By CPR Fleet of 43 Trains Worldwide
The CPR operates a fleet of 43 dayliner self-propelled diesel cars, making it the second largest railway fleet of this type in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CPR
Regina Women’s Club short story contest calls for entries
The Regina Women’s Canadian Club invites entrants 18 and older from Saskatchewan to submit Canadian setting short stories of about 2000 words. One story per person. essays not accepted. Prizes: 25 for first, 15 for second, 10 for third, seven honorable mentions. Entries due by March 31, 1958 to Mrs G Murray Thomson, 3075 Retallack Street, Regina. Manuscripts not returned. Authors may use their stories after judging. Permission required to offer future sale rights and club name. The Danish flag is noted as the oldest in use today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regina Women's Canadian Club
Women’s Canadian Club
G. Murray Thomson
Retallack Street
Regina
Also Mentioned on This Page
Krimbry
Alberta
Grande Praire Herald-Tribune
Bonnyville Tribune
Main Street
Gananoque
Picton (Ont
United States
Committee For Economic Development
Sask) Mercury
Carleton Place
Ont
NATO Alliance
Hursia
Huntingdon
Quebec
Gleaner
Crimson Lake
Renversnes
Sedicin
Barats
Cunard
Sylvania
Carinthia
Ivernia
Saxonia
OF Ocean Travel
Europe
CGO Cunard
Teronte-Dominion Bank
Portage Avenue
Winnipeg
Whitehall
Fline
Anne Adams Pattern Dept
Denmark
Scumphines
Fleischmann
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