Prairie Tree Planting Car Opens Annual Tour
The Prairie Tree Planting Car marks its thirty fourth western tour promoting shelterbelts and field shelters. Organized by the Canadian Forestry association with CP and CN railways, the traveling schoolroom teaches tree planting, home grounds, and farm shelter planning to adults and pupils across prairie communities.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific
Canadian National
Canadian Forestry Association
Prairie
West
Fiery Itching Skin Relief Promised by Moone’s Emerald Oil
A patent medicine advertisement touts Moone’s Emerald Oil as fast relief for eczema itching, toes and feet rashes, and skin ailments. It claims rapid healing of open sores, ulcers, pimples, and eruptions with a money back guarantee at drug stores.
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Moone
Home Workshop Pipe Rack Patterns for Humidors
Family oriented project describes two pipe racks with humidors for tobacco, one 17 by 12 inches holding 12 pipes, the other two-thirds as tall holding 6 pipes. Use clear pine or hardwoods, glass air tight humidors, tracing diagrams included, pattern 406, 35 cents, Department P.P.L. Home Workshop Pattern Service, 4488 West Fifth Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.
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Java
P.P.L
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Regina plans small walkie talkie radios for forest fire use
Regina Saskatchewan provincial natural resources department radios branch plans to produce about 15 midget walkie talkie sets this summer. Various designs are on the boards for forest fire protection, scouting fires, air to ground contact on fire control, and game patrol work. Radios would be issued to conservation officers and patrolmen.
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Regina
Sask
Provincial
Natural Resources Department
Radio Communications
R. Hook
Honey Hot Cross Buns Recipe
A printable recipe for honey hot cross buns using bran, currants, flour and honey. Prepare a bran mixture with milk and honey, mix dry ingredients with shortening, combine dough, shape into 12 balls, bake at 425 degrees for about 20 minutes, then top with sugar icing to form a cross.
Fire Fighting A Joint Effort On Manitoba Ontar io Border
Manitoba and Ontario will cooperate this spring to meet forest fire threats along their mutual border. At Winnipeg, officials discussed detection, radio links, aircraft patrols, and cross border fire fighting. They praised idea exchange and equipment sharing led by Manitoba and Ontario foresters.
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Manitoba
Ontario
Winnipeg
Manitoba Service
J. G. Somers
T. E. Mackey
Ontario Forest Service
C. E. Greenlay
Sailor Becomes Reindeer Herd Handler in Alberta Arctic
Arnold Blomberg a 28 year old sailor from Lapland plans to settle in Aklavik Northwest Territories to tend the Dominion government herd of 10 000 reindeer. He cites desire for a home and family and recalls early life with his father in Lapland reindeer herding. The herd occupies a 6600 square mile reserve east of the Mackenzie delta with seasonal migrations and rounds.
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Sailor
Alberta
Edmonton
Arnold Blomberg
Lapland
Northwest Territories
Aklavik
Arctic Circle
Aittle
Arnold
Fam
Mackenzie Delta
Alaska
Quick Crochet Baby Set Pattern 7318
Quick crochet directions for an infants cap booties and jacket in open and closed shell stitches using 3 ply baby yarn in white with pastel pink blue or yellow. Send twenty five cents to Department PPL Household Arts Department Toronto for pattern 7318.
New and Correct 1777 Map on Display in Legislature Library
A 1777 map of North America is on display in the Legislature library as part of its archives collection. The item, described as new and correct, resides in the library's archives division for public viewing and historic interest.
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Regina
North America
Legislature Library
Saskatchewan Officer Wins Northwestern University Scholarship
Regina reports Billy S. Miller of the Highway Traffic Board earned a $100 tuition scholarship for a three week course at Northwestern University Evanston Illinois. Miller is the lone Canadian recipient alongside 25 Americans. The award was given by J A Christie of the board, with funds from the Farmers Insurance Group Safety Foundation. The program covers driver license administration statistics management writing and traffic safety with six days weekly of study. Miller joined the board in 1950 and became chief driver examiner in 1954.
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Los Angeles
Miller
Christie
United States
Canada
Highway Traffic Board
Edmonton to Expand Clarke Stadium Grandstand
City council awarded a $230,662 contract to Bennett and White Ltd. for a new 9,200 seat concrete grandstand on the west side of Clarke Stadium, elevating Edmonton Eskimos capacity to 20,667 from 15,133. The project, including field shifts and floodlights, lifts total cost to about $350,000 with completion aimed for the fall season.
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Edmonton
Clarke Stadium
Eskimos
Bennett and White Ltd
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Expect Gas Export Decision in July
Export of Peace River natural gas to the Northwestern United States and Vancouver likely will be approved about July 1. The Western Oil Examiner was told recently. Dr. C. R. Hetherington of Westcoast Transmission said they are confident Westcoast will be the successful applicant when the decision is announced.
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Peace River
United States
Vancouver
Western Oil Examiner
C. R. Hetherington
Westcoast Transmission and Pipeline Expert
Westcoast
Needle weaving wedding gifts featured in ads
Wedding showers honor June brides with needle woven male figures as gifts. The Jindalee Needle-Weaving Instruction Book explains easy techniques, nine stitches, eleven patterns, uses less wool, and saves time. Order through Dept. PPL Home Workshop Patterns, 4433 West Fifth Ave.
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PPL
Home Workshop
West Fifth Ave
Vancouver
B.C
Cattle Industry Still Strong in Alberta at Calgary Yards
Calgary stockyards handle vast weekly cattle influx with 5000 head daily deliveries from within a 100 mile radius. In 1953 receipts totaled over 35.5 million dollars with 264000 cattle and calves and 146000 hogs entering the yards. Auctions dominate sales as Alberta Stockyards Co. runs the 22 acre facility near CPR ownership.
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Calgary
Calgary Yards
Toronto
Winnipeg
Alberta Stockyards Co
C.P.R
Edith Cavell Named Peak Towering Over Alberta
The peak called Mount Edith Cavell in Alberta rises about 11 000 feet and is named for the British nurse shot by Germans in World War I. Canada asserts dominance in fresh water resources, claiming more than half of the world supply.
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Edith Cavell
Alberta
Canada
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