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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 11, 1960
Page
11
A compact bulletin board and blackboard combo suits a junior’s room. The dual setup offers a writable surface and pinned space for notes, reminders, and pictures, blending organization with decorative touches.
A public service list from the Rubber Association of Canada claims to show nine methods to wear out tires quickly. It urges high speed, panic stops, skipped tire pressure checks, road hazards, and no tire rotation, warning such practices increase wear on tires, fuel use, and other car parts while allegedly harming employment.
About 300 western farmers and stock-breeders plan a CPR tour to Toronto for the Royal Winter Fair in mid November. The trip blends business and pleasure with fair admission tickets, horse show seats, seven nights at Royal York, tours of Toronto district, Massey Ferguson farm, Niagara Falls, Guelph colleges, St. Lawrence Seaway, Ottawa, and NHL games at Maple Leaf Gardens on November 12 and 19.
Hollywood plans a major Africa shoot for Hatari in Arusha Tanganyika led by Howard Hawks with John Wayne. About 30 tons of equipment valued over 65000 dollars sail from Los Angeles aboard the SS Friedlander as plans include additional shipments from New York and later from Los Angeles aboard the SS Samarinda. Aerial airlifts, 18 motion picture cameras, camera cars, animal cages and monkey catching inventions are to be used. Some 50 key personnel plus about 1000 locals will be inoculated and involved. John Wayne's The Alamo is set for premiere nationwide soon amid a popular song I Must Go Back to the Alamo.
Civil Service Commission selects Dr Morgan Martin as chief of Mental Health Division in the Department of National Health and Welfare. The Hamilton born psychiatrist will assume duties in Ottawa on September 30 after a year studying administration and community psychiatry at Columbia University.
The writer contrasts numbered grids with new curved crescents in Calgary and Camrose, noting how modern subdivisions hinder address locating. They warn planners to study the impact on navigation and utilities, arguing that curves slow traffic and complicate maps for newcomers and residents alike.
Alberta Hereford Association selector Tom Hughes returned to High River from a herd tour with four Russian cattle buyers. Russian gifts included Lenin Medal of Friendship and Sputnik badge, both praising Russia and freely given to impress visitors. The piece muses on differing home impressions between Western travellers and Russians. It argues Westerners should speak prouder and critique more judiciously.
A dairy farmer Earl Neswold has arranged his herd to go dry simultaneously and freshen when he returns home, letting him take a holiday. He suggests producers should plan like this while noting potential issues if many farmers shut down together.
The Regina Saskatchewan site was once named Waskana meaning Pile of Bones from a buffalo bone pile used in pemmican making.
The passage lists estimated Eskimo populations by region: about 11,000 in Canada, more than 20,000 in Greenland, more than 15,000 in Alaska, and possibly 2,000 in Siberia. It presents these figures as approximate counts without concluding trends or sources.
In 1959 Canada's mineral production valued at 24 billion dollars, farm cash income from agricultural products at 2.8 billion, and manufacturing production at about 23 billion dollars, illustrating the country's economic footprint across primary, agricultural, and manufacturing sectors.
Stone tools unearthed in the Yukon reveal a cultural connection between ancient Siberian tribes and indigenous groups of the American southwest, suggesting transcontinental contact or shared ancestry. The findings, described by researchers, may reshape understanding of early migration patterns and toolmaking traditions.
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