Word: saskatchewaners
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...trail last week was Dr. Frank C. Hibben of the University of New Mexico. In 1941 he followed the trail to Alaska, where he found the characteristic Folsom dart points. This summer he will dig in Saskatchewan. His dream is to ransack Siberia, where the earliest Americans presumably came from...
...Evan Hardy of the University of Saskatchewan did not look like a professor; nor did he look like a revolutionist. Yet as much as any one man can, dealing with a single branch of the farm economy, Dr. Hardy has wrought a revolution in prairie agriculture. It began 15 years ago when he served as a judge in plowing matches. Then & there he decided that plowing matches were good fun, but a waste of farmers' time. What difference did it make how fast and straight a furrow could be plowed? The important thing was the productivity of the furrow...
...Emma Woikin, a young (25), good-looking cipher clerk in the External Affairs Department. She is a Doukhobor from Saskatchewan, of Russian parentage. Said the report: she gave Zabotin "the contents of secret telegrams to which she had access...
Citizens of Saskatchewan's prosperous little Simmie (pop. 100) were bored. Ever since Christmas they had been snowbound. Twelve-foot drifts blocked their roads to the outer world. Once a week a train (one coach plus cattle cars and boxcars) chuffed in & out, and then silence lay upon the grain elevators along the C.P.R. tracks, the general store, blacksmith shop, barbershop and garage...
...Military Medal and Bar. Back at college, he took 39 courses to the average student's 20, worked his way through by digging postholes, taking census, parking cars. Then he took postgraduate courses in law at Harvard and Cambridge. For four years he worked on a Saskatchewan farm. He has long been one of Canada's top men in international affairs, was called by the Government in 1943 to head the Wartime Information Board...