Expert Tips for Winter Driving from Ottawa Transport Manager
Ottawa trucking veteran Dave Hyman offers practical winter driving advice. Focus on traction, gentle throttle, and smooth steering to avoid skids. Start slowly, avoid spinning wheels, and back up if needed. Keep wheels turning while slowing, steer into slides, and drive defensively by looking ahead far.
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Canada
Washington
Arnold Heerey
Dave Hyman
Ottawa
Husband Transport, Ltd
Lega
Umea
Local stores set Friday evening hours debut February 15
The Enterprise notes Friday evening shopping will begin February 15 with stores staying open until 6 00 pm Saturdays. This trend, already popular in many U S and Canadian cities, expands to Selkirk Manitoba as a new feature. Vultures that feed on carrion are guided to their food by sight.
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Canda
The
Enterprise
Selkirk
Man
Paint your own home decorations in the workshop
In the Home Workshop offers Pattern 296 with tracing designs color guides and complete directions for painting trays boxes curtains bedspreads glassware pottery and furniture. The pattern sells for 3c.
Bird House Pattern Packet For Home Workshop
Pattern 341 provides size guides for cutting bird houses and feeders shown in the Bird House and Feeder Packet. The five patterns include open front robin houses deep nest space wrens tiny Jenny Wren unit, mailed for 35 cents. packet price 1.50. mail to Home Workshop Patterns Department P.P.L. 44938 West Sth Avenue Vancouver B C.
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Jenny Wren
Department P.P.L
West Sth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Lessons of Hungary: Triumph Amid Revolt and Risk
The Sunday Times argues Hungary’s revolt signals defeat of Soviet historic inevitability and proves a people armed only with will can challenge a modern dictatorship. It contends workers may resist capitalist democracy’s spread and that bold sacrifice tests comfort in democracies.
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Hungary
Russia
Lenin
Stalin
Poland
Soviet
Italy
Egypt
India
Argentine
Sunday Times
London
Dangers of Carbon Monoxide in Garages and Safe Ventilation
The notice warns that running a car in a closed garage risks carbon monoxide poisoning, urging open doors or ventilation and keeping windows cracked when the engine runs. It adds that CO is colorless and odorless and can be fatal. It ends with a note that sailors use knots to measure speed, not distance.
Unsound benevolence in foreign competition
Joseph Lister Rutledge argues that Canadian manufacturers and workers suffer from foreign competition enabled by lower wages and government support. He cites the rubber footwear and textile sectors, noting imports have doubled and 11.2 percent of Canadian consumption now comes from abroad. He warns that without tariff protection Canada cannot sell high priced goods or buy high quality raw materials, risking widespread bankruptcies.
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Joseph Lister Rutledge
Canada
Radio survey made in Gimli area boosts lines
Telephone lines in Gimli were unusually busy during a nation wide radio program survey reported by The Enterprise Selkirk Manitoba on February 6 1957 The district participated in the survey indicating heightened activity for the area which was included in the national study.
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Gimli
Enterprise
Selkirk
Man
Fire prevention: check furnace and chimney before winter
A warning from The Stanstead Journal urges homeowners to inspect heating systems for clean pipes and clear debris, noting sub-zero fires are hard to control. It emphasizes eliminating hazards and keeping furnaces under control to avoid losing homes.
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Stanstead Journal
Rock Island
Que
Season’s safety note urges care on Renfrew streets
Corporal E A Hunter thanks pedestrians and drivers for staying out of accidents and warns that late year shopping and evening activity raise danger. He emphasizes inattention and carelessness as the main causes, citing the final 10 days as the riskiest period. The Advance Renfrew Ont December 6 1956.
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Renfrew
E. A. Hunter
Renfrew, Ont
Puffins and cliff swallows show fixed migration dates
In California's San Juan Capistrano area, labrador's puffins and cliff swallows depart their seasonal haunts on definite dates and arrive at their destinations with predictable timing.
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Labrador
San Juan Capistrano
California
Emergency Snei and Pantry Tips for Unexpected Guests
Useful hints for hosting and stocking a kitchen include preparing an emergency snei with a variety of canned meats vegetables and fruits plus snacks such as pickles olives sardines spreads mushrooms candy and nuts. Plain crackers and cheese stay good, sesame seeds on yeast rolls, and a simple cheesy olive bread with crevano offer a warm option for soup days. A notepad kept near a kneading drawer helps track running low supplies.
Cougar Shot Near Homes In West Revelstoke
John Farman startled to face a snarling cougar at his West Revelstoke home. Fred Chapman, armed nearby, was summoned and killed the animal. It marked a rare close encounter for the area as residents recall few such sightings.
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John Farman
West Revelstoke
Fred Chapman
Mr. Farman
Revelstoke
B.C
Cure for laggard gets approval of principal
Howard Couch of Swift Current Collegiate supports Calgary high schools expulsion plan for laggards noting some students attend only to be with peers. He cites three stage process including early parent notice by October, a Christmas warning, and a February dismissal threat with potential removal after that.
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Howard Couch
Swift Current Collegiate
Calgary
Couch
Robert Warren
Sichro Institution
Focal Collegiate
Dentists Restore Teeth With Groundbreaking Transplants
Reported cases from a boxer who reinserted a knocked-out tooth to Mrs. Charlotte Hughes who travelled 1000 miles with her teeth in her handbag. The piece details early tooth transplant successes at St Marys Hospital London and notes a surgeon with seven of his own teeth replanted, aiming for full restoration.
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Charlotte Hughes
France
London
St. Mary's Hospital
First Cunarder to Montreal April 13
Cunard Line reports heavy advance bookings for 1957 St Lawrence sailings as the luxury liner Sylvania makes its maiden voyage to Montreal in June joining sisters Saxonia Ivernia and Carinthia. Four ships will operate 42 Montreal sailings with 22 to Liverpool and 20 to Southampton via Le Havre, with Quebec calls for embarkations. Carinthia arrives Montreal April 13 and sails to Liverpool April 17. Sylvania departs Liverpool June 5 and reaches Montreal June 11.
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Montreal
Cunard
St. Lawrence
United Kingdom
France
Silvanus
Saxonia
Ivernia
Carinthia
Atlantic
Cunard Line
Europe
Scotland
Southampton
le Havre
Quebec
Gimli Citizens Pride In Chamber Of Commerce Efforts
Gimli citizens may take pride in their energetic Chamber of Commerce and town council who press provincial aid for municipalities wishing to install sewage and waterworks. Published in The Enterprise Sel kirk on Feb 6 1957.
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Gimli
Chamber of Commerce
Selkirk
Mar
Weekly Crossword Puzzle Clue Pack From Old Page
A compact crossword list presents clues and partial solutions across positions A to Z. Entries include garden tools, creeds, animals, measurements, and abbreviations with scattered numeric notations and foreign terms. The fragmented text hints at a larger puzzle grid and assorted definitions from a historical page.
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Bar Association
G. C. Thomson
J. E. Friesen
William Minto
Land Titles Office
Swift Current
Sun
Keith Saddlemeir
J. Gordon Cooper
B. F. Falk
J. W. Hagemeister
Larry Salloum
Fred Polley
R. H. McClelland
Manfred Klemme
Gimili
the Free Press
Acton, Ont
Halton
Milton High School
Stanley Allen
Allen
Roy Ford
Lloyd Vivian
Mac Sprowl
George Greenlees
Bill Robinson
Artoaie
Lynn Coulter
Ungir
George
Ted Williams
Emerald Isle
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