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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 12, 1961
Page
2
World renowned artist Grandma Moses near 101 rebuked physician Gregg Moses for following her to paint at a rest home in AY. She warned him he would get back her stethoscope if she was taken to Eagle Bridge. She later returned the stethoscope after making her point.
The article recalls the 1957 start of Canada’s intercultural exchanges by the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews and Interprovincial Visits society. It highlights two weeks in each other's homes for youths aged 15 to 18, the language bridge, and vivid contrasts between Ontario and Quebec culture. April O Neill of Waterloo and Christiane Tremblay of Chicoutimi personify the program, with quotes praising the experience.
A Calgary study finds untapped high quality metallurgical coal in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia has a bright future. Dr N Berkowitz of the Alberta Research Council predicts the coal will become essential for coke consuming industries and main uses will be in iron and steel in the Pacific Northwest with overseas markets possible with better mining and transport tech. The beds stand as the west’s major reservoir west of the Appalachians and West Virginia. The fish sentence is irrelevant to coal and may be stray text.
The Department of National Health and Welfare reports 105 blind people treated in 1960 61 under a federal provincial programme. Treatment succeeded in 80 cases with 25 others gaining some sight. Since 1948 the plan, run by the Blindness Control Division, reimburses provinces 75 percent of costs. Through 1960 61 the programme aided 71 Blindness Allowance recipients. 562 treatments succeeded about 77 percent. Corneal transplants rise as cataract extractions remain the bulk of procedures. Dr Hoffman notes increasing provincial use and the curable nature of blindness.
Several ornamental grasses thrive in summer gardens and dried indoor arrangements through winter. Miscanthus sinensis and Zebra grass form tall clumps with slivered plumes and yellow leaf bands. Cloudgrass, quaking grass, Job’s tears, and rabbit tail grass offer varied textures and enduring hardiness.
Several territories in tropical Africa lack accurate counts within about a million people because they have been unable to devise or afford a census.
Advertisement for a pattern named Plainly Perfect Cut 4663 by Anne Adams Pattern Dept. Misses sizes 10 through 18 with a shapely sheath design, curved seaming, and simple neckline. Instructions request 3 35 inch yards for size 16 and payment by 50 cent income stamps not accepted at the Toronto PLP address.
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