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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1944
Page
7
A father envisions guiding his son toward fairness and honesty. He vows to teach upright conduct, share struggles and joys, and grow together into men, affirming that life rewards effort and integrity. The lines echo Hugh M. Pierce on parenting and character.
Sunday night brought the coldest night yet this winter with the thermometer at ten below zero. Knox Churchs Young People Guild and the Methodist Young People's League held a skating party and social hour at the rink and school room. Citens Band played a musical program for workers at Hewetkon Shoe factory and friends at Town Hall Friday. Knox Churchs old fashioned supper and choir program followed a gloomy weather night. George Barber of Acton was elected county warden for 1924 by the County Council. A son was born January Vth 1924 to Mr and Mrs W H Beaumont at Glen Williams.
A father and son with four helpers build whalers for the Royal Canadian Navy in Port Arthur. Each 27 foot vessel carries portable masts and a steel plate in a teak box to stabilize sails. The sturdy craft shield convoys to Britain and warfronts, priced at $1500 each.
Major General Pp H Dunton notes that variations in supposedly identical parts hinder aircraft readiness. He cites Canada achieving high precision with optical die alignment, making Lancastrian parts interchangeable with English components for trans Atlantic service by Trans Canada Air Lines.
Deputy Minister of Labor Arthur McNamara told the Dominion Provincial Agricultural Conference in Ottawa that about 400 000 men and at least 100 000 women have left farms since 1939. He said tens of thousands of farmers serve on battle fronts and many women joined munitions work. He praised older workers who stayed on the land and noted retirees returning to farms to aid the war effort.
A speaker describes Savoy separatists led by Romon who fled to Enghual and grew from a few hundred to over five thousand. They train in camps with revolvers and explosives, attack German supply lines, and await retreat of the Nazis from Italy while facing winter shortages and suspected Laval collaborators.
The Financial Post reports that Allied progress in Italy and Western Europe remains hard fought with heavy German defenses and mined coasts. Churchill warns there is no quick path to victory and victory will demand blood and treasure, though collapse of Germany could occur before full Western Allied operations.
Edward Parry aged 21 was fined the equivalent of 45.50 dollars plus costs after a drinking spree in a public house. He had fire watched instead of on the roof of a coach-building firm, labeled as an act of negligence.
The open air sermon in Galilee shows Jesus teaching by parables about four soils and receptive hearts. It contrasts seed failure and fruit, urging faithful hearing, understanding, and steadfastness to bear fruit thirty sixty or a hundredfold.
In Kent Sussex Hampshire and Dorset villagers flee their homes as 3,000 villages relocate inland to train American invasion forces. Some 450 families depart with 15 000 cattle 7 000 tons of beets and 1 000 tons of hay. Army trucks 135 and 300 to 400 servicemen aid the move while locals retire as unsung heroes.
London reports a new plan allows members of the United Kingdom forces to learn bakery through a correspondence course so they can enter the trade after leaving military service.
An American letter from Worcester Massachusetts recounts Lambeth Walk memories. The writer recalls Camberwell trains to Lambeth Walk and baked sheep head on Saturdays, mentions Canterbury and Marty Loftux, and notes his mother's Englishness inspired the note to Joan Gilbert.
Bedrock Bedroom beats the Blitz at a southeast coast port where a former resort tunnel sheltered city residents. The blitz faded yet attacks return mild, with about 2000 residents sleeping nightly in double decker bunks along a subterranean tunnel carved from solid rock, several miles long and linking to an old rail tunnel.
Weekly paid employees of Erith film studios recently received back pay totaling thousands of pounds from last February under a new agreement that raises wages and improves working conditions.
British wartime beer provides a large amount of Vitamin B2 riboflavin, according to Prof Hopkins after an investigation. He says two or three pints a day supply all the riboflavin a man needs.
A 23 50 pound grant under the Colonial Development Welfare Act supports developing women’s education in Sierra Leone. The program trains African girls as secondary school teachers with scholarships for 1943 44 in England. In Britain basic rationed foods require registration with a single retailer linked to a specific wholesaler.
Irving Berlin arrived in Britain to deliver his stay spectacle This Is the Army. Extracts including songs by Berlin were also broadcast on BBC programs, highlighting the wartime morale boosting show.
The ad notes a printing service that emphasizes neat, easy to read impressions across sale bills labels and catalogues. It promises customers no excuses for printed material and tailored design to fit the recipient’s needs.
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