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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 05, 1946
Page
5
John J. O Neill proposes that moon rays and enormous craters result from volcanic and meteor impact processes driven by atomic energy in the crust. He notes Tycho Copernicus and Kepler as principal ray craters and describes how dust sprays could form rays across the moon.
The 937 foot 71 storey 40 Wall Street skyscraper was built to be tallest but lost to the Chrysler Building after a late spire addition. Within five years it dropped to fourth place behind the Empire State Building, with Woolworth and others surpassing it.
The first group of British teachers will depart London later this year under a post war exchange. Ten London teachers will go to Canada while 28 Ontario teachers come to England to teach in London area schools under London County Council education committee plans.
Intensive search for Lidice children continues as Czechs scour Germany and Holland. Ninety eight of the 117 taken after the village’s 1942 destruction remain missing, with seven under one year old only one dying and twelve of 110 older children located in foundling homes.
Marine biologist A Laurence Wells told businessmen that Thames estuary waters would froth and bubble due to disturbances from forthcoming atom bomb experiments in the Pacific. He cited uranium content in seawater as the cause.
The Ottawa Journal reports London views Churchill's recovery as robust after a rest cure in the United States. While he resumes lean leadership in Parliament, Anthony Eden may shoulder much of the routine duties as Churchill enjoys leisure. Many expect his forthcoming World War II memoir.
A poetic tribute from Lancelot Cayley Shadwell of Wiltshire England to Canada as the Old Sea Mother. The speaker praises Canada’s historic aid during war and pledges unity and enduring gratitude as twelve million souls vow to stand with Britain in future battles.
Dr. E S Archibald addressed Ottawa Rotary members for the sixty year milestone of the Experimental Farm system. He traced progress from 1886 wheat production, Marquis wheat, and plant breeding, to modern crops and disease resistance, stressing ongoing innovation and the link between farming prosperity and urban strength.
The Ottawa Citizen notes a plan where bees are painted in distinctive colors to identify their own hives. It questions how a bee would find the keyhole and muses on differences between bees and humans, joking about stairs and a queen bee at the head of the stairs.
Air Commodore Frank Whittle, hailed as father of the jet, described in London how: after flying the Meteor he told his young son the speed was a little over 400. The boy replied that the old man must have been out of practice, reflecting the child's blunt humor and growing up with aviation tales.
Hotels and restaurants in New York city follow Mayor William O Dyer s plea to omit wheat and cereal products from evening meals every Tuesday and Thursday as part of wheatless meals.
The Victoria Times argues that Canadian citizenship carries responsibilities, not a casual right. It criticizes “citizenship apprenticeship” concerns and urges immigrants willing to settle to meet the bill’s requirements and contribute to nationhood.
Georgia school teacher Martha Berry told her male students they must wash their own clothes. When the boys protested, she replied that as a woman she would wash them herself, then demonstrated in zinc tubs until the boys chose to learn.
Heirloom crochet pattern 7004 offered by the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Send twenty cents in coins to obtain chart directions for a scarf and mats set in string crochet with lace stitch. Also advertised 1946 Needlework Book at twenty cents more with 104 illustrations and free potholder pattern.
Scientist Dr Selman A Waksman, discoverer of streptomycin, predicts a breakthrough against the common cold. He notes that decades of research may yield effective treatments or vaccines, signaling a potential shift in how the illness is controlled.
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