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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 04, 1945
Page
2
The article argues that disease claims more civilian lives yearly than combat and calls for public health education medical research expanded medical services better nutrition and higher standards to reduce civilian death rates funded by public money and backed by broad public support.
Canada has seen life expectancy rise from 45 to 67 years over the last fifty years and infant mortality fall as health efforts curb many deadly diseases. Authorities believe half of sickness could be prevented, with substantial savings in suffering, lives, and money if illness were reduced by half.
Records show certain Canadian regions advanced in eradicating vaccine controllable diseases. Diphtheria nearly vanished where immunization is extensive. pasteurization of milk reduced typhoid and other illnesses. Typhoid deaths fell from 1112 in 1927 to 108 in 1942, signaling growing public health gains.
Commodore Sir James Bisset told New York listeners that Britain's postwar blue riband liner will likely be a third Queen class ship. He insisted ships will dominate trans Atlantic travel despite airplane progress and predicted 90 percent of travelers will still choose sea travel.
A Swiss official reported that police discovered vast subterranean rooms beneath the closed German legation in Bern. The main chamber resembled a bank stronghold and contained luxurious furnishings and modern radio equipment for direct communication with Berlin, built to withstand siege or air attack.
Francis J Smith of Toronto says a Toronto stock promoter cheated him out of profits after he bought 1,000 shares of a gold mining stock in August 1944 while working at Goose Bay Labrador. He received a receipt letter but no certificates, saw the stock rise then fall, and ultimately lost money when certificates arrived after the price dropped.
In Burma during World War II a unique labor unit formed of over 200 elephants and handlers built log bridges and roads through jungles, evacuated the sick, and carried three men 12 miles a day. Led by Lt Col J H Williams known as Elephant Bill, the force grew from 60 elephants ferried from Japanese lines in 1942 to a larger era of elephant transport and support.
A collection of Ellen quotes and reflections from St Paul Wendell Phillips John Stuart Mill Mary Baker Eddy and Charles Sumner on virtue state worth and truth. The lines urge personal integrity independent of crowd opinion and the lasting value of individual character.
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board answers common questions about honey and sugar rationing. Beekeepers get two pounds of extracted honey per coupon, and sugar is available via Provincial Apiarist registration. Lost ration books require a visit to the local ration board for affidavit and instructions. Military ration coupons do not expire.
A collection of short, light anecdotes features a London evacuee boy, a parson in a garden, a literacy puzzled prisoner, a doctor and wife with a quip about an appendix, a riveter turned dentist, a fortune teller and a rookie soldier, a towel thief joke, a misspelled currency note, and coffee consumption comparisons between the United States and England.
A Dundurn Camp CWAC unit and a YWCA supervisor head to Regina then to Hollywood, invited by the Studio Club. Cpl. C I M Roberge and Cpl. R R Alexander join Pte. A G Fleming and Mrs E M Haun on a pre warner trip with studio tours and pool access. Sgt. Margaret McBain has been promoted at NDHQ Ottawa. Many rural CWACs enlist or join overseas units. British war brides join Canadian corps as reorientation begins.
A. V. Alexander is praised for his devotion to the Royal Navy and his reminder of prewar sea defences. The piece links German naval and air weaknesses to Britain's 1940 escape from invasion and argues Hitler misread British resolve for war, prompting an unprepared aggression.
Sgt Hector Felipe Jiminez Rubio of the Mexican army stationed at Lowry Field set a typing speed record by typing 120 words per minute in English a language he cannot read, earning the title Typewriter Tornado.
A London white paper records that the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth ferried 1,243,538 people from the start of the war to Germany's capitulation. Americans and Canadians formed the bulk of 869,694 troops moved east across the Atlantic, with a division carried per voyage.
A well meaning stranger on a Parry Sound to Toronto train offered peanuts to six year old Donald Barager of Parry Sound. The boy, en route to the Toronto hospital for a throat obstruction removal, had the obstruction caused by a peanut.
The article argues that marine engines demand the same accuracy as fine watch mechanisms, stressing meticulous engineering and quality control to ensure reliability in harsh marine environments.
U S Army scientists report a rapid freezing process that preserves milk flavor for shipboard use. About 36 000 pints monthly are shipped to returning wounded, with 400 000 pints for overseas troops and Alaska. Thawed milk tastes as fresh as milk from the cow, improving nourishment for incapacitated men on liquid diets.
The article explains oven frying as a quick method for many fish types. It details dipping fillets in salted milk, rolling in rice cereal crumbs, oil brushing, and baking at 500 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes yielding four servings. It notes frosted fish or evaporated milk can enrich the coating.
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