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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 21, 1942
Page
9
Cooking notes offer a quick failure-proof pie filling using sweetened condensed milk with lemon juice and rind, no cooking required. Also included are fruit cream pie variations with fresh berries and peaches, plus a sour cream dressing for seafood and Kravens, all in easy, household-friendly steps.
Wartime designer Digby Morton of Mayfair creates a three piece industrial overall suit for women factory workers. The set includes a hard wearing drill shirt slacks and apron that wraps around for durability and easy replacement. The model aims to reduce wear on the middle section.
Nicholas Schooster, a Holland native long journeying from Java to Canada and the United States, now lives in Halifax. He directs salon music programs for National Network listeners on Saturdays at 7 20 p.m. EDT and is active in curling golfing and tennis.
A surge in long handled cut throat razors from Sheffield cutters supports Britain’s war effort. Civilians buy the style as safety blades remain scarce due to only 25 percent home output. Factories receive steel strip and stamping machines, employing mostly girls, to convert material into blades.
Gunner Marks of a Midland searchlight battery was married three times to the same woman during wartime. He first wed during early London raids without access to Jewish authorities, then married again under Jewish law after later leave, and finally repeated the ceremony after records were destroyed by enemy action.
A Norfolk style column by Gwendoline Clarke recounts salvaging for war funds. A two month old collie pup is found among scrap and returned to its mother. The piece blends weather talk, fair humor and community effort, urging action and salvage for the war.
The Canadian Red Cross packs two million prisoner of war food parcels yearly with plans to reach over four million by end of 1942. Parcels go from Montreal and Toronto depots to Geneva and to British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand soldiers in German Italian and African camps. Each eleven pound parcel feeds one week. cost to pack is about 2.50, with 3.55 million dollars sought from Canadians May 11–23 to fund next year’s operations.
The Lannon Midland and Scottish Railway lab tested Libyan desert sand filters in a wind tunnel to simulate desert conditions for air intake to hunting locomotives. Improvements for tank engine gear boxes in heat were achieved. The department also developed magnetically triggered pins and fasteners salvage from correspondence.
Alberta’s Agriculture Lease Law allows 300 plus homesteaders to pay rent only on the land’s production percent. Under Premier Aberhart’s tenure plan, settlers must live on and cultivate the land for up to six months, with rent and taxes due only if yields meet minimum production. The scheme aims to attract British subjects 18 or older and has drawn interest from other regions.
London report shows Mrs Ethel Lines and Mrs Sarah Agar who baked pastries before the war now work at Tenust in the metal foundry. They have replaced men since the war began and prepare sand for moulds to cast metal.
A CTP A restaurant owner in London was fined about 100 dollars after a food inspector said the meals were so unsafe they could have killed a dog. The case highlights concerns over health standards and potential penalties for violations.
Two men who rifled a mail bag with letters for soldiers sailing overseas were sentenced to 12 months hard labor.
Darla Phillips, 21, employed at a Welsh anti tank factory, travels to London and comments that London girls are dowdy while asserting Welsh sophistication and cleverness.
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