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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1944
Page
7
David Prescott, war correspondent on furlough, contemplates love and duty as Karen and Lyle prepare for a midnigh t wedding. A broken license and a telegram hint at an upcoming China assignment, leaving Karen to learn Prescott’s hidden past.
Beards are fading among Canadian sailors as the Navy orders captains to discourage facial hair. A post mortem on the Valleyfield sinking suggested two victims might have survived without beards, as oil and salt water clogged whiskers. The force also notes beards hinder breathing in gas or when using respirators.
By March 1945 London County Council will serve daily meals in schools rising to 160000, an increase of 80000. The change means about 75 percent of attending children will receive meals.
Pte. William A. Haggard of Tisdale Saskatchewan earned the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Dieppe and graduated with his commission from Officers' Training Centre Brockville Ontario.
Canadian Press recalls Capt. Dave Brennan of Ottawa as RCAS adjutant who prefers a jeep but on D Day rode a German officer’s horse to aid beachhead operations. The horse leaped a fence into a minefield but Brennan escaped uninjured, returning to the road and continuing on foot. He notes a jeep’s advantage is it won’t jump fences.
Ottawa announces that the design of the fourth Canadian National hospital car, recently placed in service, is now the standard for all future hospital cars. Two more air-conditioned hospital cars of the standard type will be built in Montreal shops. The interior layout was designed by Col. E L Stone. The Ottawa medical adviser coordinated with National system experts. The people of Manipur, India, do not eat meat.
Dominion and Allied researchers tested many repellents for military use. Rutgers 612, dimethyl phthalate, and Indalone showed strong protection, with civilian supply limited. A prewar mixture of oil of citronella, camphor spirits, tar oil, and castor or peanut oil proved as effective as pyrethrum extract. Complete coverage of exposed skin yields best protection.
Gurkhas on the Burma invasion train the use of Air Force gliders for the first wave. Col John Alison recounts how Gurkhas doubted a motorless plane while British crews practiced loading and unloading repeatedly. Scientists estimate the sun’s core at 25.7 million degrees Celsius.
In summer 1943 a black bear with four cubs drew crowds in Jasper National Park. Visitors fed the cubs, films captured the scenes, and the bears grew accustomed to people. If fed they risk becoming bold beggars raiding homes and trash, possibly leading to the park warden being forced to shoot them.
Pattern 4805 converts a playsuit into a dress for both play and street wear. Pattern 4405 offers sizes 12 through 42 with yardage for skirt and shorts. Send 20 cents in coins to Anne Adama Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave. E Winnipeg Man. Allow extra days due to slow mail delivery.
June meeting of the Kinnickinik Club in Winnipeg heard Mr. Gundry describe his role as YMCA comptroller and oversee the Overseas League Tobacco Fund. Cigarettes are shipped under bond to avoid duty, sent in 10 000 lots, stored in a London depot, and delivered to front lines with care to prevent duplication. Three three ton trucks service a division, with 75 percent of supply from the Overseas League. Gundry urged continuous home front support, noting the morale boost from cards bearing donors’ names enclosed with each packet.
Hull based Factory Made Homes showcases rapid prefabrication during wartime. One three bedroom two story wooden framed unit assembled in four days, another cottage set up in six hours watched by the public. Eight workers plus four girls built both with kiln dried timber and heat insulated walls. The two story house costs about 3000 dollars.
In prewar London the bowler hat waned but now civilians resist uniforms and return to the style. The derby originated with Mr Bowler, though William Coke of Norfolk popularized the hat globally. A second note recalls Egypt’s singing Memnon statue which sang at sunrise and sunset until toppled.
A Cherbourg despatch notes the first liberated France newspaper and crowds gathering for copies, showing radio cannot substitute for print. The Ottawa Journal argues radio remains ephemeral and impersonal, an auxiliary to newspapers rather than a replacement.
A Chatham News column critiques residents who oppose improvements seek to harm progress distrust outsiders and resist ventures not benefiting themselves. It argues such petty obstruction slows growth while genuine public-spirited people foster development.
Radium serves ten percent of its applications in luminous coatings for clock handles gun sights and military instruments.
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