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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 23, 1943
Page
2
The faint radio distress reached air crews in late April guiding Pilot Ernie Boffa and mechanic Thornton Tweed of Edmonton to Burnside Harbor. They loaded extra fuel in their Norseman plane and transported Father C. Adam Oblate priest from the Arctic coast to Fort Resolution hospital, 150 miles south, for treatment.
Kathryne A Forbes daughter of Ontario premier Hon Harry C Nixon and Mrs Nixon directed a recent Royal Canadian Air Force Women’s Division personnel draft now arriving in Great Britain. She is wife of Capt R B Forbes of the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade and formerly a junior administration officer at Uplands. She served briefly at air force headquarters before overseas posting. A brother Pilot Officer J C Nixon RCAF was killed overseas in 1941.
Over 300 years Martinique registered 33 hurricanes, seven earthquakes, 11 tidal waves, two famines and one drought, according to historical records.
The Canada Newfoundland Education Association meeting in Winnipeg showcased the first Dominion wide survey on Canada education. Dr. W P Percival chaired the committee presenting findings urging capital school funds, doubled education costs, compulsory schooling to sixteen and part of seventeen and eighteen, and a basic teacher salary of 1321 a year, matching British Columbia's minimum.
A postwar report urges schools to stress morality and worthy citizenship, train pupils in useful crafts alongside academics, and adopt more practical subjects as Canada plans reconstruction. The Canada Newfoundland Education Association examined how education can better meet present needs amid war’s lasting impact.
Educational needs of the country during wartime are met by special provisions in Canadian schools and universities. The Youth Training Plan has trained many technicians for the armed forces and war industry. Large numbers of military personnel also receive university technical training. Finance, teacher salaries, school units, and curriculum broadening require consideration to shape national life.
Garden pests alert from the Dominion Agriculture Department notes cutworms are common in many gardens. For small plots wrap stems with paper or set tin protectors over transplants, ensuring soil contact. In larger gardens use poisoned bran bait before transplanting, apply twice at three day intervals, and keep bait away from children and animals.
The Royal Canadian Air Force announces new commissioning of pilots. Names include J. Gibson Caron Sask. Thomas Foster Arcola Sask. N B Currie Starbuck Man. W L Gwynn Punnichy Sask. W D Harrison The Pas Man. Walter Dick Winkler Man. H L Jones Dinsmore Sask. J E Browne Parkside Sask. Rudolf Milius Odessa Sask. W W MacKeracher Plate Sask. M J Strong Argyle Sask. Bertram Shyteca Rivers Man. R J Bellamy Arena Sask. A P Haacke Elphinstone Sask. H G Gilchrist Foam Lake Sask. J F Wrythe Prince Albert Sask. W B Britton Eston Sask. R E Rennie Gull Lake Sask. S N Colborne Sioux Lookout Ont.
A quotation urges forgetting neighbors faults slander temptations and quarrels to prolong life and happiness. It advocates focusing on good points in friends and blotting out yesterday’s disagreeables to begin each day with a clean slate and cultivate loving memories.
A collage of jokes and vignettes features quick quips about family life, a mail order remark, a theatre trio, a restaurant sign, polygamy satire, clockwork eggs, a black eye confession, and a newspaper-reading father fearing his cleverness will trip his son. The humor centers on everyday misunderstandings and light family banter.
In January 1940 Swan Lake near Sitka froze enough for children to skate during a rare Alaska cold spell, prompting school dismissal. Local residents recalled the unusual ice parade and early winter closure as a notable event in the region.
The New Yorker contrasts Churchill’s harsh Naazzy with radio Nazzy as a snarl of derision. It argues a plain man cannot grasp the foreign world and should dismiss the effort as not worth the trouble.
More than 10,000,000 people, nearly 20 percent of Britain's population, regularly contribute to the Red Cross Penny-a-week fund through ongoing donations and community support campaigns.
A Florida origin note reports the mockingbird, state bird, changes its song 87 times in seven minutes, illustrating its vocal versatility and rapid sound shifts observed in the wild.
A medical statistic notes that roughly one American male in every two hundred reaches six feet in height. The figure appears in a nonspecific health report dated unknown. No additional context or sources are provided.
An anthology of moral maxims and quotes from Browning Publius Syrus Mary Baker Eddy J Longfellow Buckminster and others. It notes self governance integrity and virtue with a closing factual line: there are 15 species of American rattlesnakes, all poisonous.
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