IN MANITOBA

By
KENNETH D. EMMOND

MORRIS, Man. (UPC) -
Twelve months ago southern
Manitoba grain farmers lost
their crops to a sea of flood
water, but today those same
farmers look out at their sun-
scorched fieids and pray for
rain.

The contrast from 12
months ago is almost beyond

_behtef and _ illustrates - per-
fectly why farming is such a
precarious business. The
sodden dikes and icy winds
of last year have given way
to sun-scorched land,
cloudless days and a total.
absence of rain.

Temperatures that
stubbornly refused to climb
more than a degree or two
above freezing last year are
now routinely hitting the
high 20s or low 30s,
challenging or exceeding all-
tame highs.

Revisiting the town of
Morris, 50 kilometers south
of Winnipeg, one year after
the flood, this reporter was.
able to stand on the banks of
the Morris River and gaze at
a bridge cight meters above
where last year he canoed in
a meter of water on the
bridge's roadway.

“It's a complete = tur-
naround of nature,” said Eva
Krocker, noting that area
farmers harvested the flax
crop left over from last fall
with little or no loss of yield
or grade, thanks to the
summery combining. con-
ditions.

The completeness of the
transition 1s reflected in the
weather records. This year’s
overnight lows regularly

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exceed last year’s daily
highs, while 62.9 millimeters
of precipitation was
recorded in April 1979
against virtually none this
April.

The irony of the situation
is that farmers who last year
sought flood assistance
could be looking for crop
insurance to give them
drought relief if it doesn't
rain in the next couple of
weeks.“We're going ahead
and seeding,” said Ross
Campbell, who farms near

“-

Grain farmers pray for rai

Douglas. “A lot of farmers
are kind of beside them-
selves, and don't know what
to do. We're going ahead in
hopes that it will rain in the
next two weeks.”

Campbell said that even if
the rain comes in time, it
won't be enough, since the
subsoil moisture that usually
stands as a reserve now is
gone.

“We're going to need a
rain pretty well every week

‘ this summer,” he said.

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MORRIS, MAN.: Clouds of dust whirl behind this
tractor as farmers across southern Manitoba worry
about a possible drought. (UPI wirephoto)

THE CORPORATION OF THE
DISTRICT OF
NORTH VANCOUVER

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
ZONING BY-LAW

The Council for The Corporation of the District of North
Vancouver will hold a Public Hearing under the
provisions of the Municipal Act in the Municipal Hall,
355 West Queens Road, North Vancouver, B.C. on
Monday, May 12th, 1980, commencing at 7:30 p.m.
to consider the following:

BY-LAW 5261 (Applicant: The Corporation of
the District of North Vancouver)

Location: 1900 block Mountain Highway
(Lot 17, District Lot 2008, Plan
17012)

Proposed rezoning from the Garden

Amendment: Apartment Residential Zone 2
(RG2) to the Public Assembly
Zone (PA)

Purpose: to permit development of an
intermediate care facility.

A copy of the by-law may be inspected at the Municipal
Hall between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
April 30 to May 12th, 1980.

(Mrs. H. W. Egleston
Municipal Clerk

April 30, 1980 °

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