Word: saskatchewan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada's fastest-growing town this week is the Saskatchewan farm hamlet of Smiley, 300 miles northwest of Regina. Smiley's meager population has more than tripled, from 105 to 350, in the past four months. Roomers are bedded down on cots in the corridors of the town's only hotel. New streets have been laid out, lined with tar-paper shacks and auto trailers. A third classroom will be opened this week for the winter term in the Smiley schoolhouse...
...sudden surge is the result of an oil strike last September some 2,300 ft. below the surface of the surrounding wheatfields. In a geologic layer of Viking sand, drillers for Imperial Oil Ltd. struck a pool of high-quality light oil, the best yet found in Saskatchewan. Since then, 30 producing wells have been drilled, and new ones are coming in at the rate of two a week. Some 15,400 acres of Smiley wheatland have been classified as a proven field, capable of accommodating 385 producing wells...
...shoots it out with Two-Gun Mercedes McCambridge. A lesser character, Scott Brady, plays "The Dancing Kid," a varmint who goes into a dance step just before he blazes away. ¶ The Black Knight (Columbia) a "medieval western," offers deadpan Alan Ladd as a knight on the town. ¶ Saskatchewan (Alan Ladd) and The Far Country (James Stewart) take place in Canada and Alaska, are called "northern westerns" by Universal-International. ¶ War Clouds (United Artists) is notable for a sequence in which the whiteman hero (Rory Calhoun), armed with bow & arrow, fights it out with a gun-toting Indian...
...sheet the hard way. He quit school in Toronto at 14, began to clerk in a fishing supply store, starting at $5 a week. Within ten years he had invested his small savings so shrewdly that he had $20,000, which he lost in a pie-in-the-sky Saskatchewan land deal. During the Depression he sold radios in northern Ontario, quickly found that in some remote Canadian towns reception was so poor that few people would buy his sets. Thomson knew how to solve that. For $500, he bought his own transmitter, started broadcasting recorded programs from North...
...Smythies, 30, has moved to Canada and is working with Dr. Humphry Osmond at the Saskatchewan (mental) Hospital in Weyburn. In the Journal of Mental Science, the two doctors do some close reasoning. Mescaline, they suggest, breaks down in the body; some resulting "M substance" (chemically related to adrenalin) upsets the brain's sugar consumption and brings on split-personality hallucinations. Similarly, perhaps, stress of the type that brings on schizophrenia upsets the adrenals, and they liberate "M substance...