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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 13, 1944
Page
7
The issue surveys wartime policies and social actions in Canada. it notes tax form changes and government advisories on spending rationing and housing in Ottawa. it covers women’s employment figures, wartime production boosts, and consumer guidance from the Wartime Prices and Trade Board.
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret dig for victory on Windsor Castle East Terrace allotments. The royal sisters maintain separate plots but work together as vegetables replace decorative flower beds. A harvest of dwarf beans and corn appears with potatoes onions carrots beans beetroot and lettuce in the foreground.
In a radio news reel recount, Poon Lim, a Chinese ship steward, endures four months adrift after a torpedo sinks his vessel. He survives by rationing water and food, eventually rescued by fishermen and awarded the British Empire Medal for fortitude.
Designers and architects face pressure to overhaul orthodox methods as consumer trends push for discreet service in workplaces. The article contrasts grocery stores serving steady customers with the challenge of arranging stock while keeping premises clean and efficient.
A Royal Armoured Corps sergeant in a remote Indian area creates a wall newspaper by drawing BBC news headlines in colored ink after transcribing the news, then displays them on walls, biscuit tins, and trees. He even gathers updates via train and a tank’s keyboard, sending copies to a Brigadier.
A stowaway slipped past Trans-Canada Air Lines security and flew from Newfoundland to Dorval. Captain J Rood of TCA landed at Gander and verified crew and passengers including 21 WCAFL airmen, while one man had no documents and hid in a wing duct at 50 below zero. Officials removed him amid a hurried unauthorized ascent investigation.
The article notes coal as the main fuel for homes and industry in Canada due to forest destruction. It compares coal to wood, petroleum distillates, natural gas, peat, and electricity, outlining heat values, burning characteristics, and practicality in different climates and conditions.
A list of Canadian wartime resolutions urges care with resources and honesty. It promotes using items until worn out, avoiding rumours, not hoarding, complying with rationing, staying informed on regulations, cooperating with grocers, avoiding panic buying, and investing in Victory Bonds to curb inflation.
The quote argues postwar employment depends on available openings and that the state should ensure money creates work. Beveridge notes Japan in the context of wartime labor and urges active policy to sustain jobs after the war.
Nigeria now runs five main pig breeding stations and plans a bacon industry. An African owned piggery is a new development. Pigs rose from 160 in May 1941 to 2,300 by end of March 1943 across stations.
A garbled collage of holiday humor and social scenes features a conscript and oculist chart joke, a real estate quip about mortgages, Christmas dinner invitations, children’s quips about collars and pudding, a street singer, and cousins planning a wedding. The piece reads like a light, dated humor page with several unnamed voices.
Parents should ensure children attend school and pursue full education to protect future opportunities. Leaving school for small earnings now can forfeit better chances later.
Canadian Pacific Railway repurposes discarded iron castings and even a locomotive frame at its Angus Shops Montreal to build an improved grinder for shaping radial motion links for main marine engines. H. de Bowen heads the project with J. Hope and R. Naylor contributing. the device speeds production for Royal Canadian Navy escort engines and uses parts salvaged from tanks and other old equipment.
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