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Looking Back -- May 17, 2012

By: Cathy Arthur

Thursday, May. 17, 2012 | Comments: 0

1972: Bruins’ Smith welcomed with motorcade

SIXTY YEARS AGO

The North American Lumber and Supply Co. Ltd. of Winnipeg has bought out Wade and Sons Ltd. of Brandon.

A.B. Downing has been named chairman of the Brandon board of the Canadian Institute of the Blind.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Canada’s total farm net income in the drought year of 1961 was $1,033,700,000, lowest since 1957.

A combat force of 1,800 United States marines was flown tonight to within 50 miles of Thailand’s northern border with troubled Laos. Meanwhile, Australia and New Zealand announced their readiness to send forces to Thailand.

Souris town council agreed to have the policing of Souris done by the RCMP, if and when available.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Assiniboine Historical Society will publish a book of studies of pioneer settlement in western Manitoba, written by Dr. John Tyman of the geography department at Brandon University.

Construction on a $1.5-million apartment complex in the southwest section of the city east of 26th Street and south of Argyle Courts began this week by Jacobson and Greiner Ltd. of Brandon.

Stanley Cup champ and Boston Bruins’ defenceman Dallas Smith was welcomed home with a motorcade of about 30 cars travelling from Oakner to Hamiota. They led the local lad to an appreciative crowd of hundreds at the fairgrounds.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

Riding Mountain National Park is continuing its liquor ban in Wasagaming Campground this May long weekend, but officials say it could be completely lifted by 1983.

Manitoba Pool Elevators directors have given the go-ahead for plans to rebuild the Brandon stockyards, pending an investigation of market conditions.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Two students from western Manitoba took home some hardware from the Canada-wide science fair in Sudbury, Ont. Christy Roset, a Grade 9 student from Neepawa, won the bronze medal in the intermediate physical science category and also won a trip to Montreal for a conference on biotechnology. Kevin Nakowechy, a Grade 7 student from Elphinstone, won the silver medal in the junior computer science division.

Lawrence Welk, the champagne music master who struck up his band with “ah-one, an’ ah-two” for a generation of TV viewers, died today at his home. He was 89. “The Lawrence Welk Show” ran for 30 years.

TEN YEARS AGO

A pair of students from Minnedosa Collegiate Institute took third place in the 2002 Ford/CAA Student Auto Skills competition in Winnipeg over the weekend. The annual contest has 10 pairs of students from Manitoba schools competing to see who can most accurately repair cars that have been identically disabled. Minnedosa students Donald Inkster and Darin Oakley finished third, while Bryson Lennartz and Ryan Phaneuf of Dauphin Regional Comprehensive Secondary School finished fourth. Students from a third Westman school, Virden Collegiate’s Brent Murray and Shane Murray, came in eighth.

Are Westman motorists being gouged at the gas pumps? Brandonites are paying on average 71.9 cents per litre — considerably more than Winnipeggers are shelling out — for regular gasoline. The average gas price in winnipeg yesterday was 68.9 cents.

» From the archives of the Brandon Sun.

Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition May 17, 2012

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