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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 09, 1943
Page
3
Homey guidance for steam puddings and fruit desserts amid ingredient shortages. Step by step prep from washing fruit to steaming in moulds, plus English Plum Pudding and Carrot Pudding recipes, sauce for Plum Pudding, butterscotch notes, and practical tips for reheating and pan prep. Ends with kitchen Q&A and a wartime CBC tie-in.
The Aztecs marked a 52 year New Year as dangerous yet hopeful. They smashed images and extinguished fires, gathered at the Great Temple in Mexico City, priests prayed and sacrifices were offered, and at midnight new fires and idols were created to begin a transformed life. The Royal Ontario Museum features Aztec images and pottery from these rituals.
Melbourne reports improved tea quality despite wartime economy as a large shipment from Devon and India reaches Australia. The British Ministry of Food controls Indian and Ceylon output with allocations to allied nations, while Australian tea averages around four cups daily per person.
Ontario's northwest hinterland gains a new 110 kV transmission line from Port Arthur to Steep Rock, completed in six months by Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. The 120 mile, twin pole cedar line cost about 1.5 million dollars and will drain Steep Rock Lake and power Ontario Minnesota Pulp and Paper Limited mining and milling operations.
Van Langley, 22, of Speers Saskatchewan, travels from Seattle to the Arctic as a wireless operator with the Federal Department of Transport. He sailed the globe in two years and played a handball game with the Nascope ship crew on an ice floe near Fort Ross, described in a letter to his parents. Polar bears reportedly approached the stranded ship as scraps were thrown overboard.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board announced eased limits on women's and children's garments. Patch pockets may reappear on two piece dresses and skirts, hem widths are no longer fixed, woolen children's skirts may be fuller, and size 12 may have a larger finished bottom sweep of 70 inches.
A letter recounts a schoolboy selling Christmas cards during wartime. The writer questions sending cheer to bomb-scare victims, and shares a son's perilous motorcycle accident story. The mother notes dangers of war, youth, and the urge to worry versus acceptance.
Bernard Bercovitz, a wealthy aircraft manufacturer, received the heaviest Canadian fine for hoarding in Toronto courts. He was fined 5000 dollars or three months after admitting to hoarding 200 pounds of butter along with large quantities of sugar coffee tea soap and other items in his basement. Evidence showed some goods bought through the war plant cafeteria where he served as president.
In a South West setting natives stage the first talking pictures designed for them at a New Guinea base. Saturday night audiences gather on the beach in front of a white sheet screen. Children crowd close to the screen and many view from the rear, viewing with blurred sight but enjoying their weekly night out.
Right Hon. Malcolm MacDonald, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, lauded Canadian farmers at the Ottawa Export Food Show opening. He credited them with supplying essential food that sustained Britain during wartime and praised their ongoing support through difficult times.
A wartime humor sketch on holiday props shrinking under war tax. Children improvise wooden toys and make pretend weapons from household items as Santa Claus delivers frugal gifts and parents juggle imagination with rationing.
Mrs H P Flumptre director of the Red Cross Enquiry Bureau in Ottawa says 597460 acknowledgment cards were received up to October from Allied prisoners of war in 217 camps for Canadian Red Cross food parcels.
Britain’s mental health improved since before the war according to Ernest Brown the minister of health He told the Provisional National Council for Mental Health that wartime stress did not raise serious mental disorders and hospital admissions were below prewar levels The decline is attributed to improved employment reducing money worries a major cause of breakdowns
A year after shortages, Britain faces a tea surplus as demand wanes. The Food Ministry notes people fail to realize tea is available, with prices and supply rebounding from prior scarcities.
A wartime compilation notes past and future wars with hopeful focus on victory and peace. It reports a Reading price record for non-pedigree Ayrshire cows at $930 each and describes Britain's hop-picking season with 220 special trains moving 135,000 workers.
Canadian National Railways chefs prepare Christmas pudding in Montreal dining facilities for the holiday season. More than three tons of pudding, over 6 000 pounds, were mixed and stored for about 26 000 servings. The process, once in dining cars, now uses restaurant facilities at Central Station Montreal with military cooks observing the mix. Chief Instructor James Morgan oversees, with staff assisting CWAC at St Sulpice Barracks.
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