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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 30, 1947
Page
2
The article notes Canada has abundant food groups including cereals meat fish fruit and dairy yet thirty to forty percent of Canadians suffer from malnutrition or are at risk. Causes cited include ignorance of nutritional standards faulty food distribution and related factors.
Health authorities warn malnutrition is a subtle, deadly disease. In 1944 polio caused 38 deaths while nutritional deficiency caused 42 deaths. Rickets, a major Canadian nutrition problem, leaves deformities and deaths. 11 percent of children suffer, preventable by fish liver oils. Nutritional anaemia from iron deficiency is also prevalent in some areas.
Under Dr. L B Pett the nutritional division led surveys across widely separated areas in the Dominion. Public health services credit education and other efforts for progress, and officials believe lack of knowledge drives malnutrition, with plans for better food distribution and schooling to eliminate the health menace.
A Globe and Mail analysis notes cigarette taxes inflate the cost of a 33 cent pack. federal excise tariff 12 cents plus 8 percent sales tax and war revenue tax total 21 1 cents to government, with 11 1 cents shared among grower, manufacturer, transport, wholesale, and retailer.
The late Sir Sidney Kidman brought twenty five London bus drivers and families to Australia to become boundary riders. Some had never ridden a horse, yet they adapted quickly and proved sound horsemen able to handle cattle mobs alongside experienced Australian stockmen.
The Manitoba Engineering Company of Winnipeg has been awarded a $45,000 contract to build a new school at West St. Paul in Manitoba.
In Coral Gables Florida a massive bloom of tiny yellow plankton sweeps from the Florida Keys to Cape Sable in the Gulf of Mexico. The unknown organism is blamed for vast fish kills as scientists warn of nature’s freak reproduction. Dr. F G Walton Smith of the University of Miami marine lab notes the blast of plankton numbers is astronomical.
A collection of brief quotations on beauty goodness and virtue from Stowe Ninon de l Enclos Mary Baker Eddy and others. The snippets emphasize cultivating beauty and loveliness as uplifting universal ideals across life and faith.
The initial issue of the Russian paper Vedomosti was published under Peter the Great’s supervision on January 13, 1703. The event marks the dawn of a state sponsored press in Russia and reflects a shift toward centralized information dissemination.
A brisk collection of light humor and anecdotes. It features an employer and clerk dialogue about sickness and races, hair tonic misfires, a stubborn patient drinking bathwater versus orange juice, price complaints on cottage pudding, job interview quips about electricity and armature, a seven year old recitation mishap, and a magistrate's vote bribery quip.
W F Bull told the Commons committee that nails in the British West Indies are rented out for concrete reinforcements due to a critical shortage. Nails are placed for building then removed after use, while Ottawa considers continuing export controls on Canadian nails.
Over 100000 Britons and Europeans will holiday in each other’s homes this year via the World Friendship Association founded May 8 1945. Denmark invites 5000 guests and 25000 Dutch families offer hospitality, with costs under 40 dollars per person.
Hog slaughtering quotas set by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board were discontinued on April 19. Price ceiling regulations for pork remain in force. Slaughtering permit holders must still file monthly reports of all livestock slaughtered.
A historical reference states the Atlantic Ocean average depth is 2200 fathoms approximately two to three miles. The fact illustrated uses older measurement units to convey oceanic depth.
At the Alberta Association of Registered Nurses convention a proposal would let nurses from other provinces work in Alberta for three or six months without Alberta registration. The plan aims to attract more nurses by easing registration requirements.
Eureka Sound on Ellesmere Island sends the first Arctic weather dispatch from Canada’s new station 700 miles from the Pole. The crew notes 15 below zero with a light east wind and the report marks the first dispatch by a Canadian Press correspondent from that northern area. The system plans nine more stations in three years for long range forecasting.
Rear Admiral Richard Byrd returns from the Antarctic with about 700 aboard Mount Olympus and predicts long range planes and ice breakers will open the continent for exploration within 25 years. He cites coal deposits and envisions using the ice cap as a natural refrigerator for surplus crops, while noting the U S should consider territorial claims. He questions strategic importance and says the state department must decide on claims. The article also mentions the concertina invented by an Englishman in 1829.
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