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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
2
Homemakers urged to stretch meat rations by adopting meatless meals on Tuesdays. Readers learn to cook soybeans, parsnips, and carrots with simple preparations, plus notes from the Wartime Prices and Trade Board on affordable choppers and meat extenders. The column answers reader questions on mincing meat and pasteurized milk.
Wartime rationing notes outline coupon validity for coffee sugar tea and butter with dates in May 1943. It lists coupon numbers 1 2 45 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 with validity windows and product limits including coffee tea sugar and butter. The text notes expirations May 27 May 31 and June 30 and references blue and purple coupon colors.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board ration administration announces one hundred million pounds of sugar will be available for home canning this year. This covers about half the amount asked by housewives. Ottawa’s per person quota is ten pounds, while Toronto area allotment is still to be fixed.
In Britain war factories appoint part time chaplains to counsel young workers facing personal and family problems. The program aims to provide guidance and support for those dealing with wartime stresses and duties.
London reports Hugh Dalton, head of the British Board of Trade, endorses men wearing “bags” and bare legs at work as women set an example with new wartime fashions. He notes clothing coupons regulate purchases, with 60 coupons for 15 months, and predicts more sacks and bare legs for both genders as civilian dress loosens under wartime constraints.
In late March Canadian papers highlight Rommel’s retreat with Montgomery driving Nazis toward annihilation. Concurrently Montreal Tramway workers walk out halting war production and Vancouver shipyard workers join a nationwide labor dispute over union card requirements and alleged legal violations.
A wartime column notes the end of the Fourth Victory Loan but urges saving for the Fifth. Weather and floods hit fields near London complicating planting plans. A farmer finds a bushel of potatoes in the root cellar, and a plume of farm life and ration talk follows, ending with a brief obituary of Florence Marr iage in Romford Cemetery.
Describes a rabbit invasion across Western Australia from Rawlinna to Kalgoorlie and east to Ooldea as dry conditions force migrations to watering points. Trappers sell pelts and carcasses. many rabbits die from dehydration. mice numbers rise and affect camps as bore work continues amid infestations.
Health Minister Brown Food Minister Lord Woolton and Board of Trade President Dalton are credited as Britain's three most effective doctors for improving child health during wartime. From January to April 1943 measures show reduced deaths from diphtheria scarlet fever and measles versus 1939 and 1942.
A resolution calling for rationing of all drinks was passed by a Scottish Christian Union of the British Women's Temperance Association at the Glasgow conference.
A 20 acre woodlot can yield from half to one cord per metre yearly if properly managed. Do not cut all trees at once. select dead, defective, and old trees first and remove only large scattered trees to meet annual cord goals. Divide the lot into 5 to 10 acre sections and harvest one section per year, leaving others undisturbed.
Wartime guests from Europe share meatless dish ideas for Canadian housewives facing rationing. Recipes include Hot Lightning potatoes with applesauce, smoked sausage with mashed kale, Polish beet soup with sour cream, Russian pastry filling, and vegetable spreads. Officials at Wartime Prices and Trade Board promote the circular endorsing these tips to stretch scarce supplies.
London officials report the Food Ministry will conserve transportation by buying up all soft fruit this season. The initiative aims to reserve supplies for the war effort, turning the fruit into jam as a storage measure until the war ends.
Dominion Department of Agriculture officials promote home produced protein feeds when commercial starters are unavailable. Start chicks on ground grains with homemade supplements, using hard boiled infertile eggs or sour milk curd, plus animal or fish offal as needed, and feed four to five times daily while allowing greens and sunshine. Include vitamin fish oil early in the season.
Britain reports a rise in lamb production by producing two lamb crops per year using a follicle stimulating hormone from pregnant mares. The hormone, injected, triggers year round lambing and could lead to more lamb chops and possibly twins or larger calves in cows.
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