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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1944
Page
3
The article urges business women and homemakers to plan meals to save time energy and resources. It offers steps such as preparing beef shank for soup making stews in advance white sauce biscuits and crusts pastry and ready mixes. It also lists recipes like stuffed meat loaves all in one pasta and apple pudding and emphasizes saving waste paper for munitions.
James R Finlay former senior producer at CRC Toronto studios is named Manager of Station Cn in the newly created post. He led many notable broadcasts and began radio work in Montreal before joining GBC Vancouver. The piece notes his English birth and move to Canada in 1927.
A New York report profiles John Foster Dulles and church leaders shaping a global peace vision. The Pillars of Peace emphasize international fellowship, economic cooperation, and arms control, with Catholic and Jewish support. The piece notes Protestant unity, church missions, and a push against imperial power, urging just, inclusive peace.
War time coupon schedule lists January 196d rationing values for coffee sugar butter meat and preserves. Specific coupons are declared valid through late January with several expiry dates in February and void statuses noted.
A massive steel water conduit will carry 235 miles from Whyalla toward dry northern South Australia and to Port Augusta with 2.25 billion gallons annually to the steelworks and 1.5 hundred million to the Commonwealth Railways. Four pumping stations will lift water across varied terrain.
The Agriculture Department tested a jeep plowing an acre of cotton bottom land in 172 hours using a 9 inch plough and 2.32 gallons of fuel. The vehicle pulled a three horse trailer over a 20 acre field using 100 gallons of gasoline and proved capable of powering grinding pumping and milking.
A personal column recounts improvised pie filling using mincemeat and butter as a substitute, shares household reading habits, recent books like The Men Around Churchill and The Sea is So Wide, and praises the film In Which We Serve. It also ponders radio’s role and comments on audience engagement with soap dramas and programs like Road of Life.
The Committee of Lloyds increases from twelve to thirteen as Sir Eustace Pulbrook extends his chairmanship for another term. This change, announced at Lloyds London, marks the first time the body has grown in history and follows Pulbrook's decision to remain beyond his planned retirement.
Canadian Red Cross parcels aid prisoners of war in Europe with warm clothing food and medical care. Mrs. Marjorie Cost of Calgary leads the effort coordinating supplies via the Canadian Legion and universities. The program sends books and educational material and keeps next of kin informed through Ottawa offices.
Daniel Doheny, a prisoner in Germany from Dieppe, writes home about the new Central Stadion of the Canadian National Railways. He notes Lt. Doheny’s interest in the Canada and Gulf Terminal Railway from Mont Joli to Matane and mentions the Naytan System holiday trips to Metin Beach.
A small British farmer warns that wider adoption of machinery pools is essential to avoid postwar farm amalgamation. He argues that without pooling, farms will need to combine with neighboring holdings to form larger units to survive.
The text notes that young workers face a handicap from lack of experience and may annoy employers with blunders. It stresses showing a willingness to learn, acquire skills, and endure to master the trade. Repeated failure to remember instructions and obey directions can lead to being deemed unsuitable for that work.
A fragmentary report describes a mysterious wreckage wash ashore at a Northun village with a pale bottle and odd notes. Authorities believed the vessel involved may be from a distant port, but details remain unclear as investigators seek clues from the debris.
In London, Meritain's Hurqper 1943 sugar beet crop is processed around the clock in 18 factories of the British Sugar Corporation. There are no holidays, as workers and families note the strain, with a mother remarking the son is burning the candle at both ends and a father joking the candle has four ends.
The Canadian Pacific Railway announces 1 2250000 tons of American bituminous coal coal moved through Fort William Ontario to avert western Canada fuel shortage. Th Raman reports CAMR vote to import coal from the United States due to Alberta and British Columbia supply limits. CP share accounted for 14 percent of freight miles during 1943.
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