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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 01, 1944
Page
2
At the Guelph General on May 27 1944 a son named Wilam Elmer was born to Mr and Mrs A F Kennedy at Agughter ity Home on the Caledon and Erin Townline Acton Ontario.
Memorial note speaks of a father Geet wits died Jane uary List 1941 and mother Lavina Near who died June 2. It cherishes memories as treasures that heal with time and vows that the family will remember them forever.
Farmers battle the driest season in 23 years as June brings roses, strawberries, and garden work. A fire on Crescent Street and scarcity of staples like sugar and tea appear in a town update alongside reader subscriptions and a western subscriber pledge from Acton and Nasanga weya.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board announces six types of farm machinery and equipment cleared from ration lists and now saleable without permits. Items include diamond harrow sections flexible harrow sections spring tooth harrow sections cream separators power sheep shearing machines animal clippers egg cleaners and brushes.
A reader suggests that government ownership of defense industries would require the government to pay all taxes itself. The exchange frames a view that ownership would centralize fiscal responsibility.
Mrs Keziah Graham died after a brief illness at her daughter’s home in Toronto. She was born to Thomas Glover and lived in Acton before moving to Winnipeg after her husband’s death. Survived by daughter Mrs W G Hutcheson, Mrs Frank Hunt of Windermere, two sisters, five grandchildren, and a son Fred B Graham of Winnipeg. Funeral May 30 at McDougall and Brown funeral home with burial in Fairview Cemetery Acton.
The letter from T D Arcy Leonard, Chairman, Halton County, congratulates the Acton organization on a successful campaign with record general sales and payroll. It notes wide provincial support, thanks committees and salesmen, and expresses appreciation for orderly returns to headquarters and continued leadership in Halton County.
Nellie Hyde the justice of peace and council member with Alderman W Matineau conducted a Saturday night pub crawl through Birmingham pubs to assess youth behavior. She found drinking but not excess and criticized critics as meddlesome.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board allows extra rations for seasonal farm crews in Canada up to five meals per person per day. Applications may be made by any farm household employing seasonal help for tasks such as weaving, cutting wood, and other work. Officials expect the measure to cover most rationed foods, with sugar not included.
A reader asks how to prevent heartburn from juice before meals and how to stop a gray coating on chocolate. Answers cover melting fat on chocolate, preventing eye wrinkles with nightly fingertip massage, improving potato salad by dressing with French dressing first, and making a simple doormat from a board and gunny sacks.
Queensland's Judge Philp leads a Royal Commission into fruit industry conditions visiting an Brisbane orchard. He questions 70 year old grower George Smith as packing sheds load apples and peaches onto a lorry while officials and reporters observe. The judge and entourage work quickly, shedding coats in the heat as the inquiry proceeds.
THIS WEEK reports Co B Smith of Creemore Ontario becomes president of the Gt ario-Quebec division of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association succeeding John A Marsh of Amherstburg Ontario at a wartime conference in Niagara Falls. Marsh notes many weekly plants may close without aid and urges a clearing house for workers with National Selective Service.
The report highlights favorable Ontario farming conditions with near completion of seeding and strong pastures. Labor shortages press farmers, while frost and heat hit Renfrew hay prospects. Welland sees wet fields but 60 percent of normal spring grain sown. Northern regions report scant rainfall outside Sudbury and Rainy River.
Readers discuss back pain from working in victory gardens and argue fatigue may stem from overexertion or lack of past exercise. The piece suggests cautious garden work could build strength so bending over plants becomes easier.
A national electricity program aimed at rural areas and agricultural efficiency is being prepared for implementation across Trinidad. The plan targets farm communities and regional power access to boost productivity.
John Bracken, national Progressive Conservative leader, addressed 250 weekly publishers and editors and stated that the world needs not a new religion but a restatement of the old religion.
A New York CP article notes modern insecticides combine pyrethrum and rotenone for broad effectiveness, reducing need for multiple sprays. It warns to ensure both ingredients are present, avoid nicotine or arsenic mixes, and suggests a home mix of one part arsenic powder to ten parts gypsum for cucumber and squash pests with caution on foliage burn.
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