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...Carl to bed in their home at Usherville, he was running a fever. Next morning the fever was higher. Peter Derhousoff tried to phone the doctors in nearby Preeceville, was told that both were on vacation. A nurse at the Preeceville Hospital told him to take the baby to Yorkton, 91 miles away. On the road, says Derhousoff, "I began to realize it was a race with death." Three miles from Yorkton, the baby went limp in his mother's arms. Derhousoff tried mouth-to-mouth breathing, but the baby was dead on arrival at the hospital...
...always amazes me to see the 'big names' who write TIME'S letters," wrote Canadian Reader Stan Obodiac of Yorkton, Sask. "One recent issue [Nov. 26], I believe, hit the alltime high: Ignazio Silone, Renata Tebaldi, Major General Chennault, Ed Sullivan, Floyd B. Odium, to name several...
...tight-lipped businessman named Albert Houston from Chatham, Ont. had tramped from farm to farm buying used tractors. When he had 69, he slapped on some fresh paint, took them to Yorkton, Sask. In newspapers and on telephone-pole posters he advertised a "Mammoth Auction Sale of Farm Machinery." Not until the day before the auction did Yorkton's 5,577 people know what they were in for. Some 10,000 tractor-hungry farmers, their pockets bulging with cash, arrived from all over the prairies. When all the rooms in Yorkton's three hotels were snapped up, empty...
Peacemeal. In Yorkton, Sask., a restaurant proudly proclaimed peace & plenty: "We are now making 300 sandwiches from a pound of cheese instead of the former 500 per pound...
...department stores in a dozen cities in Western Canada glitters the name HUDSON'S BAY CO. The Winnipeg store did a $7,600,000 business last year; the Vancouver unit, $6,000,000; the Calgary store, $2,600,000; stores in Victoria, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Kamloops, Nelson, Vernon and Yorkton, another...