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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 14, 1943
Page
9
An editorial argues youth choose leisure paths now shape future success or failure. It stresses parental guidance over state action, urging effort to direct young people to better associations, with warnings about delinquency and the burden on families. It cites local opportunities in Acton and references broader social questions and wartime thrift.
Townsfolk urged to raise 225000 for the Fifth Victory Loan detailing that 939 applications in the district show wide participation and that every fifty dollar bond helps. The piece ties home front support to front line success and notes ongoing autumn colorings and community fall programming amid fire prevention cautions.
Ottawa reports Canada aims to hit a 675 000 900 pounds bacon quota this year while cheese and eggs quotas lag. Agriculture Minister Gardiner to announce next year’s program as the government mobilizes 150 000 farm workers and extends postponements to keep troops in essential roles.
Labor Minister Mitchell said Ontario farmers who went west to help with prairie harvests may return due to satisfactory progress. About 4000 Ontario farmers were moved to the prairies to assist, and he praised their response saying the western crop will be saved with no loss from labor shortages.
Canadian wholesalers and growers report general approval of new ceiling prices for apples. Early indications suggest the controls will barely alter base prices, while ensuring growers in key zones earn satisfactory margins despite a short crop and higher costs. The order allows growers to add wholesale and retail markups when selling at retail, including public markets or door to door.
Canada and the United States face cattle losses from bloat caused by insufficient roughage. Dominion Department of Agriculture findings show that providing roughage prevents bloat and enables grazing on green forage. If animals graze daily, feed rough forage beforehand. no universal rule exists, but roughage is essential.
Detailed report from London says three years of work by thousands of Norwegian and foreign workers was destroyed in minutes when American bombers hit the Nazi submarine base at Trondheim on July 24.
Dr W G C Kenney successor to Dr J A McNiven maintains an office in Symon Block Mill Street Acton contact 18 Ecaldence Church Bt Phone 180 for appointments and medical service.
The excerpt lists mixed timetable notes with routes and daily services. It mentions Georgetown and Guelph lines, various daily and Sunday restrictions, and specific times such as 6.49 pm and 9.25 pm. It appears as OCR garble of a railway schedule with inconsistent wording and chosen stop patterns.
Partial timetable notes indicate westbound travel times and service patterns. Some lines show daily or holiday operations to Guelph and Kitchener with Sundays and Holidays restrictions and routes to Stratford and London.
Dr. J. Winfield Fretz of Bethel College in Newton Kansas addressed Canadian Mennonites urging preservation of distinct traditions. He warned that Mennonites have weakened their Christian testimony by blending too closely with worldly society. Source: Altona Manitoba Echo.
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