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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1944
Page
5
The Financial Post says a two year postwar period may bring world food scarcities and a demand surge in Canada. Farmers may sustain exports to Britain despite budgets, while new nutritional standards emerge. Canada plans may mirror wartime aid into peace, with Britain boosted imports and flour shifts.
Ten years after a Chattanooga hunting accident left Otis Pickett paralyzed from the waist, he carved a full bedroom workshop of hand crafted furniture while confined to his bed. His tools hang from the bed and he moves equipment with a grappling hook.
Red Star correspondents describe a guerilla land in White Russia formed by Bori Sov Lepel and Minsk where hundreds of villages held out behind German lines for three years and never submitted nor recognized the Nazis.
Toronto dealers report a looming rise in supply as production of white infant shoes resumes amid labor shortages. Civilian white shoes remain unavailable while stocks last, but factory output has increased to meet demand shown by Dominion Bureau of Statistics data.
Twenty thousand British prisoners, many of them miners, are working in German coal mines. Major Henderson, Financial Secretary to the War Office, told the House of Commons recently that their conditions are not uniformly satisfactory and protests have been made through the protecting power.
At Columbia University a new center for industrial research in high frequency electricity was announced. A tuned in stove could pick up radio waves of short lengths and heat by electrical resistance, using a specially chosen wave length that would heat only home stoves.
Headquarters disclosed that during the first month of invasion one vehicle landed for every five men ashore. The figure underscores the scale of gear brought to France as Allied forces established beachhead operations.
Despite four years of conflict the intake of Gurkha recruits remains strong with many hillmen from the Himalayas volunteering for service in the Indian army. Their stocky build and loyalty are noted as enduring traits fueling this continued enlistment drive.
A Halifax Herald article urges stores to value courtesy and patience as customers endure wartime strain. It discusses soil deterioration and conservation in Ontario, highlighting the need for comprehensive programs, grassland improvement, reforestation, soil type knowledge, and cooperative government and farmer efforts to sustain national well being in Canada.
Canadian senior Air Cadets, under RCAF supervision, took to the skies during summer camps. Arthur Melling led efforts to secure passenger flights, with cadets flying in Ansons, Harvards, and other trainers to apply navigation, flight theory, and signals in real aircraft sessions.
A sergeant major commands a marching drill in the village square. Residents watch as an amused old lady mutters that the sergeant should take two paces forward himself instead of the entire regiment.
Quick to make crocheted hat and matching bag pattern 7112. Includes hat and purse stitches with directions. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Manitoba. Include name address and pattern number.
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