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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 20, 1946
Page
2
Canada rose to a leading world position in wartime output and organization. The article argues peacetime needs include expanding population or markets, addressing housing, unemployment, and world food shortages, and maintaining public cooperation to develop agriculture mining manufacturing and culture. It notes tax, employment, and farm prices depend on population and market size.
Mr. J. F. Booth of the Dominion Department of Agriculture said Canada has between 25 and 27 million acres of land outside the Yukon and Northwest Territories that are unused but accessible for farming. He estimated this could support 158,000 to 168,000 farms, including irrigated units, if population or foreign demand expands. He urged cooperation and skill to develop these agricultural possibilities, echoing postwar economic needs.
English researchers unveil wallpaper that speeds room heating by reflecting heat from an electric fire. The metal decoration on the paper prevents heat loss into plaster walls, enabling the room to warm up in one third the normal time.
A Health League pamphlet warns neglecting tooth health can cause chronic serious or fatal disease. It urges dental visits twice yearly, moderating carbohydrates, and eating raw vegetables fruits and dairy. It emphasizes teeth need exercise and proper brushing after meals with vigorous back-teeth cleaning and rinsing.
A wartime innovation introduces a compact seven-plate tire-track that provides a two-foot runway to pull a vehicle from mud ice or snow. No jack is needed just drop it in front of the rear wheel attach a bumper cable and fold it to cigar box size when clear. The Hamilton Spectator notes its novelty and practicality.
A jet-propelled P-80 Shooting Star is described as capable of crossing the Atlantic in a single morning, highlighting rapid postwar jet travel potential and advancing aviation milestones.
The Earl Granville cited Belfast and Londonderry as crucial wartime naval bases. They escorted 85,493 ocean convoys with 649 losses and aided ship repairs nearing five million gross tons. Belfast ships like Georgic HMS Formidable and Glory served in the Pacific, Glory accepting Japanese surrender in New Ireland.
Several Hollywood producers have bid for screening rights to James Benson Nablo’s The Long November. Nablo, from St. Catharines Ontario, is now in Hollywood where multiple studios have offered to adapt his account of a Canadian infantryman’s front line impressions in Italy.
A collage of quotable lines from Socrates to Woodrow Wilson praising honor duty faith and truth. It includes reflections on living with integrity, overcoming anxiety with faith, trusting truth for freedom, and finding God and well being through scripture and personal conviction.
Dr. Olive Russell of Ottawa told a Saskatoon conference that women who served in the armed forces have not posed the expected problems. About 24 000 demobilized, with roughly 400 not yet fully rehabilitated, remain. Ex-servicewomen are showing initiative and adaptability and will contribute to communities.
The largest known uranium deposit is discovered near Stanthorpe Queensland Australia. The Australian Workers' Union general secretary says grade is high with samples sent to London assaying about three percent uranium.
The Ramsay Company a registered patent attorney firm at 273 Bank Street Ottawa offers every inventor a free list of inventions and full information on patenting. This publicity appears in a historical Ottawa newspaper as an advertisement for patent services.
Wartime Q and A covers five month term leases, sugar canning coupons for 1946, ceiling prices on 1932 used cars, and maple syrup purchases from Ontario. It explains notice rights, coupon handling, and how to obtain ration pamphlets from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
Two million pounds of U S horse meat shipped to foreign nations while the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration seeks 300 million more and pledges to take 1946 output. ANARA predicts about 100 million pounds will be available. Meat bought by agriculture department for canning or curing. ceiling prices 13 to 16 cents per pound. ANARA assists Europe to replace work horses. draft mares sent abroad for breeding and work. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
Howard Gorsline of the Dominion Department of Agriculture reports adequate overall seed supplies for 1946 aside from red clover. He notes shortages in some varietals but good quality oats barley wheat corn peas beans and oil crops. field root and garden vegetables are ample. Red clover crops fell in 1945, yet carryover and eastward movement may keep total supply near normal.
In Mineola New York a plan would test drunken drivers with a long tongue twister arguing that speech tests are foolish and that blood tests used in Norway provide a more accurate measure of intoxication. The note cites Norway where severe punishment keeps drunken driving rare.
Research teams in Britain report penicillin curing dairy cattle mastitis with results described as almost too good to be true. Prof. Scott Watson of the Ministry of Agriculture calls the findings noteworthy and promising for animal health.
A medical man asserts the longest living people are those who never hurry. The remark is offered to reassure parents anxious about their children's bedtime routines.
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