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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 08, 1943
Page
5
Canadian engineers reveal wood can substitute steel in ships, planes, pipes, and more. Wooden aircraft fuselages, plywood planes, wooden patrol vessels, and laminated drains showcase wood’s strength, rigidity, and lighter weight, aiding wartime production and postwar uses.
The Division of Entomology of the Dominion Department of Agriculture informs Canadian military authorities about best repellents against biting flies. Studies for improved mixtures were conducted with cooperation from the British Medical Research Council and the United States.
A wartime note reports that carat utility wedding rings are now made in Great Britain but production cannot meet demand. The piece notes about half a million rings are promised in the next twelve months to address the gap.
A brief note reports spiders produce silk threads as thin as one five thousandth of an inch, highlighting the remarkable scale of natural fiber creation.
Agnes Roy describes a successful housing solution in the west where women share homes and kitchens. Volunteer visitors match tenants to landlords, placing workers, service families, and military personnel in suitable houses. Towns from Fort William to Port Alberni open residences as building lags.
An astronomer notes a star is fleeing the sun at 155 miles per second and speculates it may have observed a sun satellite nearby possibly triggering fear of contagion. New York Sun.
The Royal Ontario Museum completes a mural of a late fifth century B C Greek household. The scene shows a well to do family gathered at noon in the inner court with painted pillars and a mosaic floor. Children play above while a slave roasts meat on the altar and the wife’s brother visits.
Lord Woolton has solidified his role since 1940 as Britain's food minister and wartime planner. He expanded nutrition, rationing, and welfare systems, from a national loaf to canteens and school meals, earning praise as a prudent administrator. Flax is noted as an early crop in Dominion experiments begun in 1886.
Eight girl contestants and 23 teams from Halifax to Vancouver travel to Toronto for provincial elimination contests in cattle swine poultry grain and potatoes. Awards include trophies medals and certificates presented by the Canadian Council of Boys and Girls' Club Work. Ontario Agriculture Minister Kennedy officially welcomes the group.
A guided tour revealed Britain's seven year effort to create a vast subterranean warehouse for explosives beneath unused quarries. The maze includes rail lines, conveyors, offices and barracks with an emergency plant and air conditioning, while outsiders glimpse only pasture on the surface.
At Ottawa investiture led by the Governor General two Canadian National figures received honors. Captain J H Hubley, master of SS Bourne, earned the MBE after patching 50 holes in his ship and guiding it home through mined waters to land 20 civilians at Cape of Good Hope. George A Shea, chief of the investigation department, received the OBE for wartime protective services and leadership roles with the Chief Constables Association of Canada and the protective section of the Association of American Railroads.
An eccentric man enters a restaurant and declines all food saying he is not hungry. He calmly explains the reason is simple because this is his lunch hour. He shrugs and sits, awaiting nothing from the menu.
Poem fragment notes the boy who tends the sheep is now in Italy driving a jeep. It preserves a playful shift from meadow scenes to foreign duties with incongruous humor.
The text describes a method where water is injected with gasoline directly into fighter plane cylinders to gain instant power. Army and Navy approval is cited, with pilots activating via a dashboard switch to achieve higher speed for evasive action or gaining a position. Vaporization cools cylinders reduces detonation and allows a leaner fuel mixture for more power.
Anne Adams Pattern Dept offers apron pattern 4549 in sizes small medium and large. Price twenty cents in coins includes option for ruffled or crisp rig-rac edge. Send name address style number to Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man with note on possible mail delays.
Seed production of vegetables and field roots in Canada has risen at least fivefold compared with pre war years. A program of scientific research essential to developing effective control methods for many seed borne diseases is now in progress.
The British ministry of war transport has placed orders for the construction of steel lifeboats to equip 125 tankers, signaling a push to increase wartime maritime safety and resilience.
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