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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Mar 14, 1946

Page

6

Week-end Guests Fill Town as Travelers Visit

A flurry of visits fills the week-end scene with residents from Toronto Ottawa London Halifax Vineland and Florida returning home or hosting relatives. Notables include John Wood Jack Graham Wansborough and the Heid Murray and Clayton families alongside others visiting local households.

Jack Graham Turosto Wren Dorothy Clayton Ottawa Bill Clayton Toronto Lewis Heid John Murray Sam Torna Jack Heid

Ontario sugar subsidy motion amid fears of world food shortage

Ontario moves second reading on a sugar subsidy bill to aid production amid a world food shortage. Agriculture Minister Kennedy says subsidies will help growers with about 11.50 per ton for 16 percent beta, alongside continued support for cheese and hog subsidies. He notes improved cheese quality and warns imports affect domestic pricing while outlining historical Ontario cheese output and quality gains. The report also discusses a reform proposal on prisons and youth crime prevention, urging institutional handling of first offenders and revision of the probation system.

Toronto Ontario Kennedy Canada George H. Dunbar

Moose Jaw Men Design 9 New Brush Cutter

Moose Jaw engineers claim two local men designed a brush cutter capable of clearing prairie thickets. The machine reportedly handles brush up to 18 inches in diameter and can perform the work of 50 experienced bushmen, easing labor in clearing prairie brushlands.

Moose Jaw Sask

Parabyterias Ghurch Service Schedule In Canada 1946

Sunday program lists Morning Worship at 10 and Evening Worship at 7 with a Sunday School and Junior Bible Class at 12 00. Sermon series titled Naszilam and Man. Theme They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. Location Manse Willow Street. Associated names include Reverend Worres Thomson and 2.4 BB.

Parabyterias Ghurch Canada Snox Chtuegel Acton Worres Thomson Willow Street Naszilam Man

Martyr Gr Alben Lent Schedule March 1946

Service times listed for Sunday March 17 1946 at the Martyr Gr Alben parish. Activities include church school at 10 90 am Holy Eucharist and sermon on Our Anglican Heritage at 11 00 am senior classes at 12 15 pm Evensong and sermon series I Believe in Jesus Christ at 7 20 pm. Wednesday March 20 Holy Communion 10 00 am and 8 00 pm Litany and address.

Marche Church School

Wartime Board Sets New Auto Prices for 1944 Models

The Wartime Prices and Trade Board announced ceiling retail factory delivered prices for 1944 automobile models. Prices reflect prewar levels with minor adjustments for 1946 model improvements. add transport and service fees. Examples include Plymouth Deluxe starting at $132 to $132? and Dodge, Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Chrysler lines with varying 4 door sedans and coupes.

Prices and Trade Board Prices Board Cansas Vontiac Chrysler Royal

Auction Sale Of Stock And Farm Equipment

Auction notice for a mixed farm sale at the farmhouse location one mile from Kitchen er on Guelph Highway. Cattle include 14 grade Holstein cows with calves and breds, 4 Clyde Horses, 1300 to 1500 pounds, and 25 tons hay plus farm machinery and grain. Sale Wednesday March 26 at 3:30 pm. Owner Menno Snyder. Auctioneer A B Brubacher.

Kitchener Guelph Clyde Hornes Boom Noreaceve Menno Snyder A.B Brubacher

Auction at Erin farm sale offers cattle tools and househo

MRA instructs T Waldovitch to sell by public auction on March 21 1946 at her Erin farm Lot 6 Con 1 corner Eramosa Erin town line No 5 side road. Items include cows Holsteins milking and due dates, horses, hogs York sows and shoats, 150 rock hens poultry equipment tractors implements machinery farm gear harness grain and roots household effects and more. Cash on day no reserve as farm sold to Halcovitch. sale held on site with items moved after sale.

Mra. T. Waldovitcch Con Erin Eramosa-Erin Crewson Marche Belgium York Jamesway Plymouth Stewart Cros Vietor Climax Eatonia

Farm Forum and Busy Bees Activities Reported

NASSAGAWEYA 8 community notes cover a March Farm Forum discussion on export markets and policy options plus Busy Bees Club annual officer elections and progress party results. Reports include deaths, social gatherings, and upcoming meetings with details on hosts and attendees.

Well kept neighborhoods improve streetscapes

The piece praises well kept neighborhoods and attractive homes with neat lawns and gardens. It notes residents invest personal labor to maintain appearance, earns neighborly approval, and foresees planting trees and shrubs as a lasting, low maintenance beautification effort that benefits the street year after year.

Priority car certificates aid veterans amid limited new vehicle supply

The article explains B priority certificates allow discharged service members who owned and used a car in business to rehabilitate, and require medical officer certification for incapacitated veterans. Applicants not covered by this rule cannot purchase new cars until production improves, with future public notices planned via press and radio once supply suffices.

Armed Forces

Feed Situation for Farm Live Stock in Canada

The 1945-46 grain outlook shows total feed grain supply sufficient per animal unit, but coarse grain crops lag last year. Oats yield about 3783 million and barley 1563 million bushels, with declines mainly in the Prairie Provinces due to poor conditions. Eastern Canada and British Columbia will receive more feed grain under freight aid, but likely below 119 million bushels the year before.

Canada Canadian Coarse Grains Quarterly Review Prairie Provinces Grifth Columbia Dominion

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