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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 13, 1944
Page
7
Marsha travels to Mindanao to wed Don while facing Hassin and his dangerous shipboard life. A faux fireplace built for a child’s belief shifts tension as Hassin’s son awaits Santa. The scene binds love, danger, and a woman’s longing for home.
Organizations can raise funds by selling Health League of Canada Nutrition Calendars for 25 cents each, or 25 calendars at 15 cents each. Colorful charts provide nutrition and vitamin guidance. For more information contact Nutrition Division, Health League of Canada, 11 Avenue Road, Toronto 5, Ontario.
Scout News notes G W Curry DSO DFC bar led the Dortmund Ernl canal assault and earned 18 proficiency badges as a King's Scout in a Newcastle on Tyne troop. Another dam bust hero, Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, led the Moehn and Eder dam raid in 1943 and was also a Boy Scout.
Oil production in Alberta for January to September 1941 totaled 6,585,842 barrels, down 722,827 from the same period in 1940. The figures were released in a report by J. L. Irwin.
The article notes extensive use of cow parts in aircraft production, including blood, highlighting resourcefulness during wartime.
The Lethbridge Herald notes MP W H Billy Moore of Ontario county proposes a citizens workshop to discuss the war weather government finances and baby bonus. The piece endorses a community debating club as a way to restore neighborly contact and constructive public discussion amid rising party fragmentation.
The Minister of Trade and Commerce announces a research laboratory costing about $200,000 to be built in Saskatoon beside the University. It will study profitable industrial outlets for farm products and explore industrial uses for plants now considered weeds.
Pattern 4866 offers an elongated waistline slimming style with trim button front. Available sizes range from 14 to 48 with specific yardage for size 36 using 35 inch fabric and contrasting yard. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg. delays may occur due to mail.
An appeal for universal price controls and citizen vigilance against inflation references a native in Durban paying $88 plus seven cows for marriage, examples from Mexico China Rome and Hitler's 1936 price freeze, and urges individuals to help in their communities to prevent economic ruin.
Herman Hilton of the Treasury Department's procurement division offered four monkeys used by the Air Corps for altitude reaction tests. Prodded by Senator Homer Ferguson the witness said he also has 10 000 surplus carrier pigeons and 5 000 war dogs to market.
Selected recipes include liver stew with turnips carrots onions and optional celery baked at 350 degrees for about one hour serving six. A second dish combines beef with bacon or salt pork onions carrots potatoes simmered in tomato juice or water, baked at 375 degrees for about 11 hours yielding six servings. The piece closes noting the first zoological garden was founded in China around 1190 B C.
George Spinney, Bank of Montreal president, warns against postwar utopian hopes and urges realistic timetables for reconversion, reemployment, and free internal and external trade. He says full employment will come from productive activity and individual liberty, with Canada starting the postwar era from a position of advantages. B C Gardner notes higher gross earnings but lower net after tax, discusses Bank Act changes, new interest limits, and plans to extend longer term credit while aiding wartime to peacetime conversion and staff reabsorption.
The Canadian milling industry produced 243 million barrels of flour in 1943-44, up from 23.6 million barrels a year earlier. About 110 million bushels of wheat were milled into flour each year, with mills running at capacity to meet demand from the United Nations and liberated Europe. Prospects look strong for continued exports after the war.
Anxious to collect 100 francs from Pierre Laval, war correspondent Joseph C. Harsch seeks him before Laval is shot. They had bet in Paris after France fell, when Laval predicted England would be invaded and Germany win the war. Laval offered 100 francs, quipping he is not a betting man.
W. L. Clark argues in the Windsor Star that Canada’s war spending boosted munitions factory wages while sailors soldiers and airmen earned little. He contends workers see profit but fighting men receive only a comparative pittance for their service.
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