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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 08, 1947
Page
6
London reports show Canadian and American loans easing Britain's currency problem. 1946 export gains narrowed the trade deficit, sterling balances settled through new commercial pacts after hard bargaining. Budget deficit shrank as expenditure fell 35 percent, with higher duties and taxes widening revenue. Large future capital needs loom for coal, steel, electricity, transport, and housing.
A small dark crow nicknamed Jim is accused by contractors of sabotaging local construction by stealing nails and workers’ chewing tobacco and placing nails under roofing. Police visited Mr. and Mrs. Nick Miller to report the thief, who often returns to the Miller home and socializes with neighborhood children.
London reports Britain aims to welcome 250000 visitors, including about 60000 from the United States, as postwar disorganization and austerity affect tourism. Hotels are being derequisitioned, a tourism division of the Board of Trade is formed, and a non-governmental tourist group is planned.
The article notes soybean cultivation was first recorded in China in the third century BC, marking an ancient origin for this crop and its early agricultural history.
Toronto reports extensive search by plane for whooping crane nesting grounds across Northwest Territories Lake Athabaska district and parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta. No nests found after flying thousands of square miles. A wider 1947 survey planned as researchers seek to protect the rare species once nesting sites are located.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 3,277,000 women workers in U S factories for September, up 293,000 from February’s reconversion low and 1,600,000 below the wartime peak, yet above pre war totals.
The Queensland native affairs department launches Australia’s first aboriginal savings bank with deposits reaching 400000 dollars. Natives leave their fingerprints at the bank to prevent forgery as many elders cannot read or write.
Shanghai faces a vast coffin repository as 100000 unburied dead await burial in their ancestral native places. War and finances delay removals to clan temples while authorities set December solstice as the traditional burial window.
Charles Walker of the Dominion Experimental Station told Manitoba agronomists that the vegetable processing industry surpassed previous records and will expand in coming years. Nearly 5,000 tons were canned or pickled last year, with cucumbers tomatoes and peas among the crops. he urged greater cooperation between firms and growers to encourage new plants and acreage, noting Winkler sparked farmer interest in contract growing.
The London Daily Mail reports a study by Robert Burns editor W A Nicholson of the Scottish Tourist Board noting most sing Auld Lang Syne wrong. He provides the correct words and singing dance, urging circles and proper hand holds as the tune opens.
A collection of light humor questions and answers about puns and wordplay. It notes jokes about plum pudding, shoes, fish dealers, weary people, ducks, cranes, sculptors, the letter k, Adam and Eve, beech trees, plum cake, apples, and rubber’s naming after its 18th century discovery.
Britain faces a sharp labor and material squeeze as 1947 approaches. Sir Stafford Cripps warns exports must rise to avert a cropper, with shortages in coal timber and labor. Agriculture remains on war footing while manpower, aging workers, and returning women reshape the economy.
Discovery of star formation in the Milky Way reported by Dr. Bart J. Bok at the centennial meeting of the American Astronomical Society. He cited 23 dust collections in gravitationally tugged regions likely forming new stars, with half the galaxy’s mass in dust and gas unseen as stars.
Fragments of 31 reels show Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun in Berchtesgaden and at Bavarian lakes before their marriage. The Bavarian footage, dated 1939 to 1941, was recovered from the Bavarian mountains and used to identify Nazi associates. The collection includes Eva Braun in blue polka dot attire and bathing scenes, and Gretel Braun nude under a waterfall.
Deaf children in Ann Arbor learn to hear by watching visual speech patterns created by two new instruments. Bell Labs and Dr. George A. Kopp of the University of Michigan, with Harriet Green of Michigan State Normal College, developed the cathodeal speech translator and the acoustical spectograph to teach basic vocabulary quickly and assist speech correction for normal-hearing individuals.
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