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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 26, 1943
Page
3
The Red Cross Mobile Unit asks for one hundred volunteers next Tuesday at the YMCA. The Voluntary Blood Donors Committee notes weekly quotas rising from 2 000 to 15 000 units, with most blood arriving from Ontario, to aid wounded frontline Canadians.
The piece urges community cooperation to advance British ideals and bolster national programs while highlighting Acton’s acute housing shortage worsened by war. It notes industrial growth without timely home building, workers commuting long hours, and the need to study other towns for solutions to provide peacetime homes and stability.
The upcoming Acton Fair marks the season’s last local event with prize lists ready for distribution. Officials expect the fair to exceed previous years though hall exhibits will be missed, offering a communal outing as travel is hampered. The fair runs on September 7 and 18, with weekend staging allowing industry attendees to participate without time loss.
Editorial notes reflect on the approaching school opening and fall fair while praising summer rains and harvest progress. It praises ration book volunteers, notes new rationing for Honey jams and marmalade, comments on fuel stock and comfort, and cites Walter P. Zeller on social protection. It also mentions Acton Park gatherings, wartime shifts in greetings, and a science note on haying times from New York State agriculture college.
Canadian forces in the Arras sector moved from the Somme battlefield to renew attacks on the Hindenburg Line. By Aug 26 the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Divisions crossed No Man’s Land, seizing Orange Hill Monchy le Preux and Wancourt Ridge. the 2nd and 3rd divisions advanced four miles and captured Cherisy Fontaine les Crossilles, with heavy bombardment and rapid progress. By Aug 28 Canadian divisions relieved others and by month’s end held high ground south of the Arras Cambrai Road, with remaining ridges east of the Sensee Canal awaiting capture.
New Montreal street Enat runs beneath the Central Station area built by Canadian National Railways. 1158.5 feet long, 54 feet wide between curbs, and 71 feet 10 inches overall, it hosts offices and facilities including the Welcome Room, immigration and taximen shelters, rest rooms, and a soda bar beneath traffic.
In London and Edinburgh a special course trains British women to teach English in Polish schools after the war. An official of the Polish Ministry of Education says preference will be given to women married to Poles.
A missionary in Afslen advised a Black convert to abandon all but one wife, instructing him to tell his other wives they may no longer look upon him. The convert reflected quietly and replied, You tell them, minaan.
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