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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1944
Page
2
The piece notes widespread public interest in adult education and anticipates expanded facilities after demobilization. It cites government plans for vocational retraining and interrupted studies, while educators foresee need for instruction in citizenship health career guidance and related subjects.
A report by the Canada and Newfoundland Education Association urges trained leaders for adult education in the postwar era. It calls on provincial education and university extension bodies to train coordinators and run courses for study groups. The piece highlights the National Farm Radio Forum and praise for the Canadian Association of Adult Education, which supports study groups and distributions to 20,000 listeners weekly.
Milton industrialist Arthur F Wallace visits Valaut New York where his mill stands and spots a large store sign reading Boy Wanted He asks about celery price and hears eighteen dollars weekly as starting pay The piece ends urging purchasing War Savings Stamps regularly.
A collection of light gags and quips from a town life scene featuring jokes about wallets watches water turning to ice prices in chemistry, jury, and marriage. The humor plays on everyday misunderstandings and social quirks through snippets and one liners.
Readers inquire about using No 3 ration books after sugar coupons. Meat coupons remain valid if meat rationing resumes. Farmers may transport harvest help in trucks until November 15 under a general permit. after that passengers are restricted. Hotel guests surrender ration books. coupons are detached every two weeks. Shoe repairs fall under price ceilings. charges must match the basic period. Contact Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices for the pamphlet Consumers News or the Blue Book.
British Information Services releases details on the National Federation of Women's Institutes organizing and packing 375 million spares for invasion equipment. Members worked in odd hours in homes and halls and were praised by the controller of ordinance services for contributing to invasion prep. They also continue canning and making jam and plan to help with the harvest due to increased need for volunteers.
The official British Eighth Army marching song uses John Masefield words and Zoe Elliott music linking a hands across the sea policy. The lyric term Bible or Look appears as a common reference to the Book in many quotations.
A reader claims relief from constipation by increasing dietary bulk with Kellogg's All Bran. The ad advises daily servings with milk or added to other cereals, plus ample water, and notes Kellogg's All Bran is made in London for Kellogg's.
The Canadian government conducts its initial comprehensive survey of resources across British Columbia Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Mineralogists foresters and fishery experts will study the highway and air route tributaries the timber fisheries around Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes and the Mackenzie River. An agricultural experiment station near White Horse will test soil and climate for crop growth. The project follows large wartime investments in the Northwest.
Winnipeg reports say CWACs at Fort Os borne Barracks receive after dinner music from the District Depot Band led by Warrant Officer Robert Sumner. The band plays half hours for Depot Company No. 4 and the C W A C Administrative Unit and Fort Osborne Military Hospital patients, with active Army soldiers also attending.
Regina born Pte Mary Moynihan tallies life in Italy with the CWAC unit. She writes her father Capt F E Moynihan about Italian kids, candy, and a fat woman colliding with a child over chocolate, which Moynihan tended and fed with chocolate and orange juice. Other notes feature Mercedes Lemay from Sherbrooke seeking a stenographer role and Private Steve Constable in New York City meeting Rogers and Hart. She relates fond memories from a Broadway backstage visit and a gift of Oklahoma. Silkworms enter Europe via Nestorian monks in 522 A D.
Dr. George E. Simpson of Pennsylvania State College urges families not to press veterans for memories. He says servicemen focus on future civilian roles and should be kept informed about community and technological developments rather than placed in a special class.
A new machine at the Ohio Crankshaft Co. in Cleveland uses high frequency electrical induction to heatlessly harden steel bars in a continuous process. This method enhances the physical characteristics of the bars, aiding production of parts for industrial equipment and automotive, tractor, and tank engines. John Boyd Dunlop, the Belfast veterinarian, created the first hollow rubber tires over fifty years ago for his child’s tricycle.
Summer invites impromptu snacks so bake chocolate bran refrigerator cookies. Melt chocolate, cream butter and sugar, add egg, chocolate, and All-Bran. Stir in milk and flavoring, sift and fold in dry ingredients. Roll, wrap, chill, then slice and bake 12 minutes at 400 degrees F for about 4 dozen cookies.
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