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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
7
The Acton Band held a jubilee concert in commemoration of the event fifty years ago. H. P. Moore reviewed the band’s history and activities for a large audience. Also notes a Toronto hospital obituary for Donald Spence aged 11 months.
The campaign urges Canadians to save waste fats and oils from kitchens restaurants and hotels to supply glycerine for ammunition. It notes every person saving two ounces weekly could meet substantial wartime needs and urges all to join the kitchen commandos on the home front.
A Sunday school lesson from John chapters 13 to 14 discusses Jesus setting an example of humble service, the need to abandon pride, and the call to follow Jesus as Master and Lord through serving others. It also explores belief in Christ as the way to the Father, the truth, and the life, with emphasis on peace, comfort, and eternal life for believers.
A country editor recounts Mr. L. C. Unwin of Canadian Pacific and Canada's No. 2 ration books system. He describes local boards, volunteer workers, and the nationwide effort to distribute ration cards with efficiency, cost savings, and minimal disruption to citizens during wartime.
The text asserts nineteen centuries of testing and calls on all to accept Jesus as Saviour and Lord to provide a reason for hope. It emphasizes enduring testimony from believers across lands and insists on personal conversion as response to faith.
Richard McLaren, aged 70, cycles through Vancouver streets seven days a week gathering tinfoil and old rubber for the Red Cross salvage depot. His efforts have yielded 905 pounds of tinfoil and 279 pounds of rubber, supporting war effort morale and resources.
Born in Ontario and living in Vancouver for six years, Mr. McLaren served as a stretcher bearer in the First Great War. He vows loyalty to Canada and says salvaging streets is not his path, even as he expresses a hostile wish toward Hitler.
Halifax reports that infant welfare schemes are set up in Baseterre Leeward Islands. Children are medically examined weighed and records kept of their progress for monitoring and care.
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