11 Feb 1944
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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 11, 1944
Page
1
Store advertises SUNGLO and SUNBEAM baby wools in white, 1 oz balls with coupons, SUNGLO SUPER 1 oz skeins, SUNBEAM CROCHET 1 oz skein with coupons, and KNITTING BOOKS and NEEDLES. Also lists BLACK LANCE swimming trunks 32–36, MEN'S working socks, cashmere hose, work trousers, navy cotton athletic vests, all with coupon pricing and ranges.
The report states Marshal von Manstein ordered a general retreat after losing Nikopol and the bridgehead south of the Dnie per. Russian forces push west and southwest along a 450 mile front, wrecking German units. Germany faces heavy casualties, with at least 41,000 killed in five days.
A Queensland tale recounts Mur py, a selector who took up Tyson's cattle station and began with eight bullocks and a cow. The cow produced 2, 3, then 4 calves in successive years, and seven bulls died in a later year while the cow died. Calving season revealed the lone bullock with two calves at foot. Murphy vows to kill the bullock, leaving the calf count extraordinary. Similar feats are told of 13 calves in one year at Muttaburra and calves carried in special cattle bags at Waggaway to avoid walking.
The National Works Council proposed a £200,000,000 immediate postwar public works plan. It calls for a three tier urgency classification, full preparation of projects, government endorsements, finance sharing, land access, and rapid legislative and administrative action. A second instalment would follow after the first programme is completed.
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