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Newspaper
Dauphin Herald And Press
Location
Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
3
A public appeal calls nurses now on fulltime duty to take vacations and to accept at least part time employment to address a severe nurse shortage. The shortage hits sanatoria mental hospitals and smaller general hospitals, with forty percent lacking qualified public health nurses.
At the theatre a return engagement of Mutiny on the Bounty starring Charles Laughton Clark Gable and Franchot Tone will be shown at the Gay Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday next week with added selected short subjects.
The piece argues the present rate should be kept to allow tax funding, contending the town should run the plant like any utility at cost. It condemns self serving tax payers and some councillors, noting an election might fix views and urging employees to stay quiet.
The Rural Municipality of Mossey River held a May 31 meeting at Fork River with Reeve Berkis presiding. Land sales were approved to local residents for amounts from 50 to 250 dollars, by laws authorized sales, and two old age pension applications were approved. The council discussed garbage disposal complaints, approved a 1944 roadwork plan with about six and a half miles graveling and ten miles of main roads, and sought 50 50 provincial funding. Public works spending totals include $1000 for graveling two and a half miles in Bicton Heath and a half mile on the Fork River Ethelbert road. Repairs to Munroe and German Creek bridges were authorized. Berkis will represent the municipality at a Dauphin juvenile court on June 1. The next meeting is scheduled for June 30.
Pensions Minister Ian Mac kenzie announced higher rates for discharged service personnel. A single man’s monthly discharge pay rose from $44.20 to $60, and with child allowances from $62.40 to $80. Additional flat allowances of $50 for single men and $70 for a man with a wife apply to those awaiting returns from holdings or businesses or unable to find work.
London reports that the German glider bomb, once a menacing weapon, sank the new Italian battleship Roma after capitulation. Scientists claim to have found an answer, though details remain secret.
Ochre River council considers funding a health unit nurse office with Wo man’s Institute support and approves several road repairs including culverts and washouts with set cost limits. Meeting adjourns to Makinak on July 8.
London reports that British war ship output through January 1944 runs only slightly below the peak of the previous war, with ships now far more complex and equipped. Detailed equipment and systems show a tremendous increase in complexity over earlier efforts.
Bette Davis and Paul Lukas star in Watch On The Rhine to be shown at the Dauphin Theatre on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next week.
Warrant officers and air corps graduates gathered at Baylor to receive honors. Sgt Bartlett and LAC Haeber earned silver bracelets as best air gunner and best bomb aimer respectively. F/O L H Steuart received the operational wing in a first-time presentation at No 7 B&G school. Station hours changed to 8 am to 5 pm.
The RCAF in Canada and Newfoundland drinks milk and plenty of it. Fresh milk and about 1,000,000 pounds of powdered milk supply isolated stations. Consumption averages a pint daily for every service member.
A wartime drama titled Watch On The Rhine will be shown at the Dauphin Theatre on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. The screening highlights a story of womanly bravery and steadfast courage.
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