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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1943
Page
5
About 56 English brides attended four days of lectures in London sponsored by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire and Lady Tweedsmuir. Speakers described Canada’s land, people, and life, with CWAC demonstrations and talks by church and civic leaders.
Special task for new fathers to restore an old baby carriage. Tighten loose screws and bolts. paint gears and axles to prevent rust and improve appearance. Clean tires with soap and water. scrub body and hood with soapy cloth. Consider furniture polish or wax for wood bodies.
A keen-eyed mountaineer leads his son into a country school house and asks about the curriculum. The professor lists arithmetic algebra geometry and trigonometry. The father retorts load him with trigger nometry as he is the family’s only poor shot.
In Britain’s Royal Ordnance factories where guns shells and explosives are produced sixty percent of the workers are women.
Ottawa Citizen reports officials and scientists work to stop logs sinking on long drives to mills. War demand for Canadian timber fuels urgency to recover salvaged logs and cut wastage as many streams’ bottoms hold thousands of sunken timbers. Kangaroos jump fences as high as 11 feet.
Indian Sappers build a sunk span bridge on the Persian Gulf to bypass muddy bottoms and 70 mph gales. The Basra to Russia shipment route gains 40 foot clearance as Brigadier and engineers hail the pioneering technique despite testing challenges.
The diary recounts a leave with her father on Cornwall’s cliffs and Folkestone’s scarred coast. She describes an investiture at Buckingham Palace with 211 recipients including Wing Commander Gibson, plus encounters with Ian Hunter and wartime banter from Cpl. Cecilia Fleming.
The article notes Canadian parachute troops at Fort Benning will study German and Allied techniques to drop behind enemy lines seize targets, and train with British and American methods. It describes German parachutists and air landing troops, training paths, equipment, and the aim for fearless volunteers to form an elite Canadian unit.
G W V Shaw appointed office assistant to the President of Canadian National Railways with headquarters in Montreal. He has served since 1916, long connected with executive officers and formerly secretary to the Chairman of Trustees. Shaw has been Assistant Secretary of the company since 1938.
Goldwin Gregory of New York reports abundant superior coal near Hud son’s Hope along the Alaska highway. He notes potential to meet western Canada and U S needs, with development starting about 60 miles from Fort St John over a remoteness long hindering exploitation. Also mentions RAF bomb tonnage in Burma hitting a thousand this year.
Allied forces executed night drops on Sicily, deploying air-borne troops behind enemy lines for the first time in history as part of the invasion operation.
Arthur MacNamara the National Selective Service director says municipal provincial and RCMP are used in parts of Canada to round up young loafers and vagrants for compulsory work placement. Chronic loafers or unemployed over six months can be forced to work with six months in a work camp if they refuse. Police forces at both provincial and federal levels assist, municipal forces only at Fort William and Windsor Ontario so far.
Pattern 7392 offers a transfer of 10 motifs from 5 by 12 inches to 3 by 3 inches for crocheted baskets and flowers. Includes crochet directions and materials. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number. Mail may be slow.
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