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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 27, 1942
Page
3
Homemakers prepare to sew and mend for school with government fashion rules limiting frills and certain trims. The column cites fabric standards, simple styles, and a kitchen badge of home economics with recipes for porridge and custard pie while offering flower care tips and a Q and A on common household repairs.
The Imported Cabbage Worm damages cabbages and cauliflowers with central leaf feeding. Dust arsenate with hydrated lime in a 1 to 6 mix, applied morning or evening when leaves are dew-wet, then repeat. If market time nears, dust fresh pyrethrum powder with wheat flour. Pyrethrum is non poisonous to humans and can be sourced locally.
A U S welding machine shipped to Britain enables women to join shipbuilding. Trained quickly, these women work beside men on Tees Tyne Wear Mersey Clyde yards, handling painting and lighter tasks while rivetting and engine work see increasing female labor. Government employers and unions call it a success.
Readers reflect on Dieppe and the cost of victory while home front realities press on. Farmers face threshing shortages and ration anxieties as Canada weighs sugar tea and coffee reserves, ship dangers, and labor limits before tea can be secured. Rev. T. W. Castle named rector of Hollbrook in Sussex.
A Toronto CP report profiles 100 farmerettes at Lindy’s Lodge Oakville Ontario Camp of the Farm Service Force. They work eight hours daily on fields and orchards yet enjoy Wednesday and Saturday Internas and birthday parties. Wages about 1.60 daily, board 4.50 weekly. Rainy days mean extra sleep.
Advice links kitchen hacks to better health and lower expenses. Tips urge cooking potatoes in jackets to preserve vitamin C, using outer lettuce and cabbage leaves, saving cooking water, shredding greens late, and choosing vitamin B white flour to raise nutrient intake and morale.
Beulah L. Head becomes superintendent of the Gapago Indian Agency in SELES Arizona after her husband William W. Head is sent to Poston. The PapagoReservation houses about 6,200 tribal members. Another known female superintendent is Sophie Eberle of the United Pueblos near Albuquerque.
London report notes a vast mobilization of harvest machinery with 100 000 tractors and over 1 000 combine harvesters. Volunteers plus the Women's Land Army and Italian prisoners work the land as Britain nears self sufficiency in essential foods and saves shipping space. 10 000 school boys expected to assist.
The Czech ace Karel Kuttelwascher is hailed by Air Ministry officials as Britain's best night fighter. He has an official tally of 15 destroyed at night, six in daytime, with seven bombers credited in ten days. Known as Old Kuttel, he operates from England and is famed for stalking German bombers from above and striking as they land. He battles in a four cannon Hurricane and often predicts targets by eyeing maps in the operations room.
A Canadian Press report profiles Wendy Leake leading a Guards platoon of the Auxiliary Territorial Service touring Britain to reassure parents about ATS life. Recruits ask about discipline, curfews, and beds while volunteers like Violet Ball boost wartime Bren gun production.
Black Battledress Twenty thousand British locomotives are being painted in uniform black for the duration. Each Ioco every repaired locomotive is hidden under a single color coat. Wagons receive minimal paint save for a numbered board. Passenger carriages get coats only when weather protection is needed. Interior decor awaits peace.
A watch lost 23 years ago on an Alberta farm emerged when a neighbor found it in a meadow. Patrick Bowen, who died in 1935, owned the open face wristwatch whose case was tarnished but inner works remained bright and functional after decades in the ground.
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