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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 01, 1951
Page
6
The Dominion government opens a coastal radio beacon station near Trafalgar township, Canada. It operates remotely to guide ships and relay telephone messages, broadcasting weather twice daily with seven stations on the Great Lakes and four 100 foot masts.
A reader extols the film One Foot in Heaven with Frederic March and Martha Scott as a down to earth, human interest story. The minister Parson Bill Spence, his wife, and their children are praised for genuine, moving performances. Evening showtimes 7 and 9, Saturday matinee 2.
A Friday Saturday program includes Cattle Drive as a spotlight while a London report details the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Duchess of Kent opens new hospital premises with larger labs and patient space. The facility trains postgraduate students from many countries and advances tropical disease research including mepacrine use against malaria aiding Allied campaigns.
A Scottish city visitor found streets empty during a tag day then two weeks later the same streets crowded as the event failed and organizers shifted to a house to house canvass to seek donations.
The CCF outlines price controls to curb inflation and a 10 percent emergency subsidy for municipalities to lower home taxes. It pledges hospital funding, a low cost auto insurance plan, a farm marketing act with central agency, labor reforms, an Ontario Housing Corporation, and a scholarship fund aimed at 3,000 students.
A review praising the film adaptation of One Foot in Heaven about a country minister. Frederic March stars as the minister with Martha Scott as his devoted helper, illustrating warmth humor and humanity in small town life.
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