25 YEARS AGO
• Two Red Deer area residents likely didn’t mail anti-Semitic literature to Winnipeg day-care centres, says an Edmonton RCMP officer. Sgt. John Metcalfe said a preliminary investigation shows there is no link between two names suggested by a B’nai B’rith official in Toronto and the racist mail recently received by 13 day-care centres.
• The drive to keep air-rescue helicopter service in Central and Southern Alberta is not going well but staying afloat, says Aid spokesman Jack Qually. “Right now we’re just looking at getting through March. We’re taking it one step at a time,” said Mr. Qually, a Calgary communications consultant. Public response to an appeal to save the service has raised some $40,000, about $10,000 in the last six weeks. That’s enough to pay the immediate bills, he said.
50 YEARS AGO
• Following a “pen pal” courtship between Alberta and England which ended in marriage March 1 at Newcastle Upon-Tyne, catching the imagination of many newspaper readers, Eric Doherty, 41, who farms west of Bowden, and his bride, the former Dorothy Cragg, 29, arrived home this week.
Word from Bowden today was that a host of relatives and friends will welcome the newlyweds at a social in the Annerdale schoolhouse, 15 miles west of Bowden, on Sunday. The happy ending to an acquaintance that grew by correspondence was really a result of many years of association between the Doherty family at Bowden and the Craggs in England.
The mothers of the bride and groom had been friends in England before Mrs. Doherty, senior, came to Canada. The family association was kept up and on the death of her mother a few years ago, Miss Cragg took over the end of it. In the course of communications, Eric and Miss Cragg exchanged letters and pictures.
• Many laymen are still asking, “Well exactly what does radiation do to the human body?” Well the basic action of radiation is simply this: A certain amount of radiation delivered to living tissue tears apart a proportionate number of molecules. Too much radiation certainly is dangerous but the human body can absorb a certain amount of this radiation without harmful effects and these levels are known and the effects at each level predictable.
90 YEARS AGO
• Message from the new m.h.o. To the Citizens of Red Deer: As Medical Officer for the City, I feel it my duty to point out the danger of the present wide-spread epidemic of whooping cough. Although usually treated so lightly, this malady has probably more ill after-effects than any other of the diseases of childhood, and deserves more careful attention than is usually accorded it. To prevent any increase in the present numerous cases, children affected should be kept out of school and other public places, and also from coming in contact with unaffected persons. All cases should be reported, and in cases where there is any doubt, an accurate diagnosis should be made. I hope to receive the co-operation of all citizens of the city in this matter, so that no stringent measures will become necessary to control a more wide-spread epidemic of this disease.
• Dr. Dorsey got back Tuesday from a trip to the Saunders-Alberta Colleries. The Dr. confirms the rumor that a fine six-foot seam of coal has been struck underneath the present workings, which ensures the Company all kinds of supply ahead. The mine on Wednesday had the biggest output in its history — 165 tons. There are 70 men working.