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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 10, 1942
Page
10
Readers are urged to enjoy fresh raw fruits this season with fruit salads and desserts featuring melons grapes plums peaches and pears. The piece includes fruit serving ideas garnishes and a sample refreshing menu with cantaloupes honeydew and watermelon plus a Q&A on baking peppers peach conserve and general kitchen tips.
Canada moves to register all women under National Selective Service with first group born 1918 through 1922 to register September 14 to 19. Exceptions include unemployed insured workers, hospital inmates, and certain religious members.
Wartime notes describe a sugar ration concession for farm wives feeding threshers with a voucher system. The author recounts a Sunday trip to Malton Airport to view a Lancaster bomber undergoing ground tests and a Trans-Canada Airline stopover, followed by reflections on harvest work remaining.
An analysis compares wartime price and wage controls with the 1914 1918 period. The Wartime Prices and Trade Board curbs inflation and the Wage Control policy improve wages, with bonuses up to 4.25 dollars per week in many industries. The cost of living has risen far less than in the last war, and bonuses supplement base pay for workers.
Seven officers and privates in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps organized repairs to vital gear after Dunkirk. They leveraged garages and small shops to form the Central Repair Depot, saving millions of hours and tons of material. The program rehabilitates up to 60 percent of repairs within a month, easing factory pressure and multiplying manpower.
Major Jack Front a South African fighter ace is officially listed as missing since June 16 but is believed to have destroyed a total of 13 Axis planes.
Soviet movement gained momentum as Kerensky faced a rising Bolshevik force. Kornilov ordered cavalry to march on Petrograd, but failed and was imprisoned. Kerensky’s power waned, a Soviet executive committee prepared for revolution, and he later escaped to London.
Eighty year old Tom Beasley, who forged a blade as a child in 1870, works 100 hours daily to arm Britain. His factory, origin dating to 1772, now doubles staff and outputs weapons including Commandos knives, scabbards, anti tank shot and Graviner extinguishers for warplanes.
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