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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1952
Page
4
Community notes reveal subscription rates listed as Local 1.50, Ganada Canada 1.70, Per year 2.00 with payment in advance. Mentions dental charges 50 each and vague references to ingertion and nickel terms throughout.
Twillingate celebrated the September 9 1952 opening of a new public wharf built to modern Federal specs by Chester Dawe Limited. Secretary of State F Gordon Bradley led the ceremony with local officials and hundreds of residents, praising improved harbors, fishing facilities, and longlining advances while noting past wharf shortcomings and future expansion.
Abner Dove president of Local 16 Newfoundland Federation of Fishermen delivers opening remarks at Twillingate for the Coastal Wharf. He lauds Hon. F Gordon Bradley for advancing long liner experiments and artificial drying to improve speed and living standards for North East coast fishermen, urging unity to raise product quality and prices while noting risks to future fishing if young people abandon the industry.
Mr Ru Coppiny of the Twillingate Branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia arrived back from a family visit at Glencoe and Fogo. Mrs Coppiny and Paula left the hip at Fogo to stay with relatives and planned to return via Clarenville.
Mr. Harry Cooper has returned from Grand Balla aboard the Clarenville and is now supervising the construction of the new Dental Clinic for Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital, marking a key stage in the hospital upgrade.
The November will be closed from Tuesday September 6 to Thursday October 5. Patrons may borrow more than two fiction and two non fiction items to carry over the three week period.
Mr E Crocker with Mrs Crocker and daughter Gloria return home by Twillin gate on Wednesday, marking the end of their journey.
The Thomas V Hollets formerly Twillingate was in port Thursday and Friday to discharge a coal cargo for the firm of Arthur Manuel.
Mr. Obedish Bridger, about eighty, suffered a broken leg after a fall while cutting stalachana early this week. This marks the second leg fracture for Bridger in three years, with the patient currently hospitalized.
Mrs T G W Ashbourne and her daughter arrived there by the vehicle named Twillin gate on Wednesday, according to local society notes.
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