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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 27, 1946
Page
3
On Dominion Day Canada enters its seventy ninth year with pride in wartime production and progress. The piece urges confidence without boasting, highlighting vast land area resources and a future leadership in world unity beyond borders.
A letter criticizes the CBC for planning to take CFRB’s wavelength and build a 50 kilowatt transmitter in Toronto for CFBC. The writer argues the move threatens press freedom, calls it government backed private control, and warns of shortages and labor strikes delaying reconstruction.
The article urges careful long range planning as Canada transitions from war to peace. It notes industrial growth, new airports and roads, and the need for regional cooperation to guide housing, business location, parks, and highways to avoid past haphazard development.
The piece argues that progress avoids extremes by embracing CHANGE. Individuals and groups should modify behavior rather than cling to spank or spoil children, strike or do nothing, or polarizing politics. By choosing middle paths and personal reform, families, industry, and politics can overcome deadlock and move the world forward.
A compact provincial note reflecting on Canadian public life. It jokes that broad mindedness lets things slip while noting upcoming holidays and changes in road ease between Acton and Milton. The piece muses on cooling coal fears and shifting taxes as war subsidies wind down and fruit seasons begin.
An article notes Mingit Quebre Magr Damass La Berge will depart for Peru to establish a new mission center under the Fran cauran Order. Father Laberge is named as prefect of the Amazon vicariate and will oversee early arrangements.
A playful exchange asks which to prefer collision or explosion. The dialogue ponders contrast and outcomes with humorous dialect cues and rhetorical twists.
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