Looking Back — June 1, 2022

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SIXTY YEARS AGO

Mrs. Glen Chapman, retiring president of the Exemplar chapter, Beta Sigma Phi sorority, recently installed Mrs. Allan Magnacca as the new president.

Russia today increased consumer prices of meat and butter to finance the country’s lagging agricultural program in the face of food shortages. Butter — up 25 per cent — will cost $1.83 per pound; pork and beef — up 30 per cent — will retail for 88 cents a pound.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

The highlights at the Brandon high school city track and field meet held yesterday were Lawrie Lewis and Brian Wirth tying with a record-shattering 2:01:3 in the junior boys 880.

Eight of the city’s transit department’s 17 buses have logged more than a million miles each.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Students at George Fitton School have become celebrities in the name of fitness. A television show produced by the Education Department has documented the school’s two-year-old daily fitness routine.

Mayor Ken Burgess says he will wear the sterling silver Chain Of Office to city council meetings and on other formal occasions. The chain was designed and engraved by the Joe Thomassen family and donated to the city as a centennial gift.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall left little doubt today that Canada will withdraw its UN peacekeepers from Cyprus if there is no progress on reunification of the island.

About 1,200 people turned out in Souris for the much-anticipated return to western Manitoba of stock car races. Justin Burke cruised to victory at the Westman Stock Car Club.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

The new Keystone Centre board will reconsider whether to charge for parking, says president Don Green. With four weeks to go until the July 1 implementation date, the fee is likely to at least be delayed. It may be more practical to begin charging after the slow summer season is over, he says. Keystone director and city councillor Ken Fitzpatrick agrees July 1 is too soon.

A planned service withdrawal today by Manitoba doctors had regional health authorities setting up command centres and working out last-minute details of contingency plans for emergency care last night. At the Brandon Regional Health Centre, staff members were getting set for what could be a rush of patients transferred from other communities unable to provide emergency service.

TEN YEARS AGO

He punished his stepson by hitting him with a belt, but it’s the stepdad who now has to behave after being sentenced for assault with a weapon. The stepfather received a one-year conditional discharge in Brandon court this week, which requires him to keep the peace and take counselling as directed.

A Brandon provincial court judge has found a youth not guilty of impaired driving charges after ruling that the arresting officer violated the teen’s rights. Judge John Combs ruled that the youth’s rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms were breached when he was arrested without reasonable grounds and denied his right to legal counsel without delay.