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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
8
Obituaries and expressed gratitude notes list multiple individuals by name with relations and dates from 1944. Mentions include Hugh O Rourke, Agnes Davis, Anne Marsh, Edward Freeman, Lloyd Allan, Norma Krantz, and others, with memorial sentiments and thanks to friends and neighbors for support after deaths and illnesses. The text reflects cemetery and hospital references, and gratitude messages from families to their communities.
Community notes shout urgent help in harvest fields to gather bumper crops and hay. Ballinafad residents hosted a bee to repair cemetery fencing and tidy grounds. Red Cross needs knitting yarns and garments, with the room open Mondays for donations. Knox Church redecoration prompts three weeks of town hall services. Linen Shower for Russian Relief extended to July 2 with donations at Wilds Home Bakery.
The War Food Administration and USDA plan to collect milkweed seed pods for floss used in life preservers. Seed pods will be gathered in 26 states with New York and New England contributing some, but most collection expected in southwestern states.
A fragment from Arichat notes a voyage by boat to Rocky Bay and Cape Laemha gathering six to eight gallons of spores. The text references ages and a discovery from the dark ages, with cryptic mention of Gay and Galance.
Obituary notices honor Rev. John Taylor Strachan former minister at Campbellville Nassagaweya and St. Marys who died in Londono hospital aged 56 born Brussels 56 years ago. Details include marriages, children Knox Strachan and Mirelan Andrews, funeral in St. Marys cemetery, and church affiliations. Also notices for John Marshall Nassagaweya resident aged about 90 with long municipal service and Ebenezer United Church role, and Mary C Gervais Acton widow later mourned with extensive family. Funeral plans and mourners listed.
A survey shows farm families would benefit from the family allowance plan with an average $6.24 per child monthly cheque issued from Ottawa to heads of families. Proponents include C P Montague. critics like John Bracken call it a political bribe. Brooke Claxton praises it as a bold move to raise purchasing power and living standards.
In Sault Ste. Marie Premier Drew reveals plans to extend Ontario Provincial Air Service into a broader Ontario Air Services. The new outfit would absorb wartime personnel and 28 aircraft under the provincial ministry, with George Ponsford as the initial director. The piece also notes calls for peacetime farming measures and regulatory marketing to ensure farmer income, plus a tomato-picking labor crunch expected mid-August to October.
An American correspondent reports German prisoners on the eastern front no longer resist with confidence. SS troops admit heavy losses and retreat, signaling morale collapse as Red Army advances markedly.
The New York World Telegram argues that wartime strain is no excuse for price hikes or poor service. It condemns profiteering as unjustified while noting frequent high level visits by Dominion Ministers to Britain during the war.
Canadian naval recruits in Winnipeg reflect on how service has shaped them. Young men describe growing up in small towns, training aboard ships, and considering careers in the navy after the war. They contrast wartime duties with civilian life, hoping to stay in uniform or return to peacetime work.
The budget removes compulsory saving schemes and lowers taxes for many earners, with changes affecting high salary individuals and voluntary retirement plans. The Finance Minister notes Canada’s push for global tariff cuts to curb production costs and keep farm prices stable by expanding export markets.
Maj. Kene meth Gray of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps has been granted a four month leave of absence to return to doctors in Gamagie Ontario. The two doctors in that town were not the right kind and could not keep up with patients.
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