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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 04, 1942
Page
7
Tamar navigates social tension with Ranny and Christopher Sande while the Cricket Hill mine nears production. A car ride, Phoebe’s chatter, and family routine frame looming danger as an accident at the mine narrows to a hospital rush.
Soldiers and factory workers are cited as completing 193 operations in steel rifle body production. Sixty three of these tasks concern the barrel and one plant shows work performed almost entirely by women except for three men. Mosquitoes have a wing area nearly five square yards per pound of body weight.
Royal Canadian Air Force crews along Canada’s eastern seaboard describe their routine war work as dull yet vital. Wing Commander HN Carscallen leads the unit in Hamilton with young, capable personnel. Flight Lieutenant Slim Jones, 24, of Saskatoon, bears the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Force Cross for escorting troops to Narvik and back, while AC P D MacLaggan of Fredericton recalls landing on a town reservoir as a thrill. Corporal A K North of St Catharines notes the danger of a crewmate’s recent crash death, but all share the view that their daily duties keep the coast safe from invasion.
New York paperhanger Benny Nussbaum recalls meeting Adolf Hitler when he was a young paperhanger in Germany. He describes Hitler as a poor worker and a punk soldier who never rose above corporal. Nussbaum, now a Queens senior air raid warden, shows a 1935 medal from the Reichsführer though he is Jewish and questions Nazi distribution of such honors.
A traveler asks a Black resident if he is a native of the place, prompting an irritated reply from the man and his wife who challenges the notion of birthplace. The exchange underscores local racial attitudes in a Kentucky setting. Canadian factories produced 1,861,028 pairs of leather footwear during July, 1940. Six kinds of ice have been found by a Harvard professor.
Mrs Joseph Pare of Montreal urges friends to switch to all BRAN for relief from chronic constipation. The ad suggests aLong term approach with daily use and ample water, contrasting it with pills. Kellogg's All Bran is sold in two sizes and in restaurants, made in London Canada.
Western Canada students earned badges at No. 7, No. 5, and No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery Schools in February 1942. Names include LACs from Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and Ontario with homes listed in communities such as Paulson Kaarsberg MacNutt Eriksdale Battleford Sedgewick Hoey Yorkton and Humboldt.
A compilation of quotes from Channing Wilson Milton Mary Baker Eddy Daniel Webster and William Cowper praising liberty of mind conscience and citizenship. The excerpt argues true freedom enlarges a people’s energy intellect and virtues and endures against self interest. It emphasizes religious and civil liberty as enduring sparks and pledges of a higher common good.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports highway engineers urge slower speeds on curves to save tires. Researchers note rubber wear on curves is twelve times higher than on straightaways, a finding that challenges drivers who speed through bends.
Exclusive report notes the Canadian forces operate a giant 80 000 000 candlepower anti aircraft searchlight. Each unit costs 18000 dollars to construct and requires generator equipment.
A bull moose normally sheds its antlers in January. The note places this event in the year 2453.
Homemaker advice promotes weight loss through a 1200 calorie daily plan. It suggests portions like 100 calories for sliced chicken and a 100 calorie baked potato, plus low calorie desserts and a three day liquid start. The Winnipeg Newspaper Union advertises booklets offered at 15 cents each.
The certified seed potato program expands with an Armstrong group. Starting in 1927 with 87 tons, the latest crop rose to 1,010 tons. Prices set by the new body are 45 dollars per ton for early varieties and 36 dollars for Netted Gem.
A motorist spotted a sturgeon stranded at the water edge of the River Severn near Framilode Gloucestershire England and towed the nine foot five inch fish to the bank with his car. It ranks as the second largest sturgeon landed from Britain's fresh waters with about nine feet in length. A tin can is about 90 percent iron according to Science Service.
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