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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 23, 1952
Page
4
The Twillingate Sun reports reduced staff due to heavy colds and storms delaying publication this week. Editor K. G. Clarke apologizes for potential delays, notes absence of two of three staff, and outlines subscription rates for local Canada and U.S. readers.
Authorized as second class mail Post Office Department Ottawa confirms jurisdiction and classification for mailing services and rates. Government agency outlines eligibility and procedures for newspapers and periodicals under postal regulations.
Twillingate editorial urges residents to stop blaming place and unite to revive the town. It cites Dr. Chase’s Almanac and calls for collective action, pride, and a proactive mindset to define and build the kind of town they desire. The piece stresses shared responsibility and local effort over individual gain.
The message admits failure to restore power on time to a suburb, apologizes for a forty eight hour delay, and states efforts to make up the loss. Needing to inform customers, it reflects ongoing power restoration undertakings.
The Masonic Society planned for Wednesday postponed their anniversary banquet and installation due to severe weather, meeting as bad a day as recent memory. The event has been rescheduled for Monday afternoon and night.
Stan Curtis of North Side prepares to move a house from Davis Cove to Back Harbour. He bought the dwelling from Gus Price, who earlier lived in a house once owned by Stewart Mioores. The voyage faces a difficult ice crossing at Back Harbour unless December weather turns colder, but local friends expect success with cooperative effort.
A Gander Bay correspondent notes the winter mail service compares favorably with fall steamer mails. He cites only four mails received from October until January and says the winter service has been consistently satisfactory. He doubts the helicopter will improve the Lewisporte to Musgrave Harbour route.
A clipped American daily mentions a Canadian Christmas card for charity aiding Sir Wilfred Grenfell’s successors in Northern Newfoundland and Labrador. It notes the card from Lioble Secord of Ree. N. of Edmonton and her Arctic Tern themed journey including nursing in South Africa during World War II.
A half million dollars in old age pensions may go unclaimed this year as over 100 eligible Newfoundlanders aged 70 and up have not applied for 40 a month. Newfoundlanders abroad ask about eligibility if returning home, with rules allowing benefits based on time lived in the United States. Examples include a 106 year old resident set to gain independence, and proof of age via a headstone or a spouse’s pension status.
Twillingate branch No. 21 of the Canadian Legion elected officers for the year: President Arthur Spencer, Secretary-Treasurer John Clarke, Sergeant at Arms Cecil Pride, Executive Committee Cecil Anstey David White Roland Stuckey George Osmond. Hospital Visiting Committee members Wilfred Gillard Stanley Stockley and David White.
Misa Marilyn Anstey daughter of Edward Anstey Back Harbour and Gordon Ashbourne son of T G W Ashbourne M P left for the mainland by plane to Gander on Sunday. The young couple plan to be married soon and are expected to return after their honeymoon. They carry the best wishes of many friends for their future happiness.
Crow Head skipper William Sharpe, recently struck by a second shock after paralysis, shows slow recovery with impaired speech. Doctors express cautious optimism that he may be seen around again when spring breaks.
The local association of the Canadian Council of Girl Guides re organized last week with ten members present. Officers were elected for the coming year and a board appointed to act as examiners for Brownie Fleet Class work. Plans are underway to start a Ranger Patrol in conjunction with the Guide meetings after this month.
Teams moved blocks of ice last week from Kiart's Pond to Hodge Brothers. Shovelling aided loading but horses navigated to the road without issue, especially on North Side where the surface had been cleared to the ice. Ice measured about fifteen inches thick.
Mr Wheeler seeks color photos of coating ice berg capelin catching and codtrap work and offers color footage. He sends a Canada wild geese picture and hopes to interest the Canadian government in stocking Newfoundland estuaries with sturgeon for profitable fishing. The fish, likened to a small alligator, is valued for roe caviar and is used for isinglass from its bladder.
Sixty five year old Prof Aqitate Piccard, famed for his 1948 ascent to the atmosphere, plans a new descent to 9,900 feet off Naples Italy. Negotiations with Trieste shipyards aim to build a bathyscaphe with its own propulsion, lifting the craft from a suspended steel ballast on a ship.
BPA planes are expected here in early week to take several loads of sealers to Gander where they will entrain for St Johns and other points to connect with the vessels in which they will prosecute the Iseal fishery.
Dumont New Jersey resident Brank Wheeler writes of a Bermudas holiday and describes Hamilton Bermuda with coral homes on hills overlooking the city. He notes coral cut houses, no wells, cistern water, whitewashed roofs, and a coral island about twenty two miles long and a half mile wide.
The Gerald S. Doyle News Bulletin notes the death of Mrs Nellie Colbourne of Corner Brook. She died in hospital after being knocked down by a truck while walking with her friend Mrs Churchill. She was sister to Mrs Hannah Peyton and sister in law to Mrs William Harnett, both of this town.
Hodge Brothers of Path End celebrate the 37th anniversary of opening their current shop premises on February 22 1915.
A fragmented instruction card directs drivers to sing specific hymns at given speeds. At 20 mph sing High ways are Happy ways. At 30 mph sing It am but a stranger there Heaven is my home. At 40 mph sing Nearer my God thee. At ACSO miles sing When the roll is called up yonder I ll be there. At 60 mph if possible sing Lord JT m coming home.
Local reports describe the rapid launch and haul to Coastal Wharf of Chester Dive Limited’s cookhouse on the beach at Path Hod. The towing operation occurred so quickly that a casual remark about a “Johnny Poker” was not even time to be made.
Inclement weather last week disrupted local mail service. Messrs. Roberts and Guy will depart Tuesday morning with both mails, collect the awaiting mail at Summerford, then proceed to deliver and return to normal schedule.
A fountain pen has been found and left at Sun Office. The finder is asked to contact the Sun Office to identify and reclaim the item by presenting proof of ownership and a description of the pen.
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