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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 08, 1960
Page
7
Manitoba deer become unlikely subjects as expert aerial photographers from the Canadian Joint Air Training Command at Rivers take pictures from high altitude aircraft. Aerial photo interpreters will review prints to judge if the method can count deer populations, replacing slower, low altitude surveys with observers tallying deer in flight.
The 3rd Canadian Boy Scout Jamboree is set for early July 1961 at Connaught Ranges near Ottawa. About 3,000 First Class Scouts and Leaders are expected, chosen by provincial quotas. Connaught Ranges, site of the 1st in 1949 and 2nd in 1953, was chosen to maximize access to Canada’s capital. Separate counts using aerial photography and conventional surveys are being tested to tally wildlife in southern Manitoba, comparing photo interpreters with ground observers in a cooperative effort by the provincial game branch and CJATC.
A Saskatchewan Motorist essay extols police as guardians and neighbors who serve in many roles from traffic enforcers to lifesavers. It lauds their vigilance during accidents, rescues, and emergencies and notes over 20 000 Canadians wear a badge to share our troubles.
A reader details shock at mislabeled goods as Japanese imports rise. She cites a new Canadian law requiring country of origin marks for store displays but notes mail order catalogs lack such labeling. Finance Minister Fleming calls Japanese imports an urgent problem, stressing growth outpacing orderly trade.
Canadians now allocate roughly 1.75 billion dollars annually to health services and the same 1.75 billion to national defence. The figures highlight parity between social and security spending.
Printed Pattern 4907 offers a crisp pinafore that can be worn over dresses or as a dress itself. Instructions claim ease and accuracy with 35 inch fabric for size 6 and require 40 cents return to Huis pattern in Toronto.
Start the year with a sew ahead wardrobe featuring three blouse styles in crisp no iron cottons. Printed Pattern 4965 covers Misses sizes 10 to 20 with yardage details for top middle and lower sections. Send 50 cents to the Arts Department at 60 Front Street WW Toronto for the pattern.
The Canadian National Railway adopts two way radio to connect engineers, train crews, and dispatchers from Vancouver to Edmonton improving operating efficiency. Messages can be exchanged between trains in the same territory, with yard offices, and between crews and despatchers. The Fraser Valley photo shows the Super Continental near Chilliwack with Mount Cheam in the background, and Engineer C. E. Wollands receiving a message from Trainman 8. K. MacRae in the locomotive cab.
A nostalgic guide to hosting a St Patrick Day gathering with green invitations in shamrock shapes, shamrock decor, four leaf clover tokens with fortunes, telegrams in St Patrick initials, a game of Going to Old Ireland, Green Shopping alphabet game, pipe cleaner dolls as table decor, and a menu featuring rainbow ice cream with chocolate sauce and a tri-color jelly cake.
A Castlegar resident, moved by admiration for Fred Hackney and Paterson customs officers, retrieved a lost $100 bill at the border port. With accompanying papers, Pred and officers worked to locate the owner, finally tracing him to Castlegar after time and expense. Travelers praise the port’s service.
The first transmission of hydro electric power in Canada occurred in Georgetown Ontario in 1888 when power was sent to a paper mill from two miles outside the town.
A humorous overheard hotel room exchange has a husband extolling his wife's beauty as fit for a nude statue by the world's finest sculptor. Two passing gentlemen at the door identify themselves as sculptors from New York and knock.
Researchers report fish can stay alive when encased in ice with a surrounding ice cake, suggesting some species endure extreme cold by maintaining internal processes and cellular integrity during temporary entrapment.
Adam the militant duck, living with William Johnson in Lansdowne near Philadelphia, guards the apartment complex by chasing strangers off the lawn and even accompanies Johnson to the store. He drinks brandy in cold weather with milk toddy, but remains vigilant on Sundays at the Baptist church. His mate Eve died last year, and Johnson notes Adam shows no emotion over the loss.
A salmon tagged by Washington State University turned up in the Kluch river near Kurilsk in the Soviet-occupied Kurile islands. Two boys caught the fish bearing disk number 346 with a note asking that the disk be returned to the university.
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