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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 28, 1945
Page
2
The article notes expected sweeping changes in living standards after the war and highlights medical advances from wartime research. It argues that applying this new knowledge to the general population could raise national health standards and benefit mankind overall.
Article notes that medical advances did not curb disease. emphasis shifts to preventative medicine and health education in Canada. It cites army draft statistics up to March 1944 showing only 468,303 of 1,064,888 examined were fit for service and over 300,000 of the remainder unfit for any military duty.
Dr Morris Fishbein during a visit to Canada argued medical science aims beyond avoiding disease to living with vim vigor and vitality He suggested a future where people maintain high health and well being at all times as individuals and as a nation
The War Assets Corporation reports a shortage of surplus steel helmets and dummy rifles from the First Great War. Seventeen thousand helmets were sold as scrap or repurposed after a Vancouver youth found the price suitable to the purse. Ninety thousand helmets and forty seven thousand rifles were disposed by volunteers nationwide as a result of radio driven interest, with broader commentary on radio bringing culture into homes but also advertising intrusion.
A survey shows 654 women employed across Canadian National Shops roundhouses coach yards and car repair tracks. Roles include boilermaker welders car oilers blacksmith helpers and electric crane operators with others as machinist helpers sheet metal workers boilermakers carmen and labourers seamstresses porters and a turntable operator.
A Brimsby juvenile court heard a boy who stole grapes from a truck describe them as round black things he did not recognize. The report notes humans cannot survive above 23 000 feet without artificial oxygen.
Questions and answers on emergency shelter areas rationing coupons and wartime price rules. Guidance covers residence in Victoria and other cities, preserves coupons for canning sugar, ration book deletions for discharged servicemen, fur coat pricing and reporting to Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
The article links Canada's butter ration to Red Cross fundraising, noting 140,000 weekly parcels for prisoners of war and liberated regions. Each package contains butter, milk powder, and cheese, and yearly totals would supply butter for a city of 400,000 or about two weeks for all of Canada. An elephants heart measurement is also given for contrast.
Trans-Canada Air Lines promotes Captains J. D. Storie and L. L. Dunsmore to check pilots. Based at Winnipeg, they will assist in an intensive training program for ex-service R.C.A.F. personnel as TCA prepares for growth in 1945.
The Port of London shipped 311000 British Liberation Army personnel 123400 vehicles and 666000 tons of stores from June to August aiding the invasion. Dockers and unions kept 2000 ships moving under tight Thames tides while eight caissons for Arromanches were built.
The Prime Minister has travelled about 150000 miles during the war to advance United Nations planning for war and peace. He met Roosevelt nine times and Stalin four, conferred with de Gaulle and Chiang Kai-shek, and spoke with leaders across the British Commonwealth and European Allies. He crossed the Atlantic ten times, visiting the United States five times and stopping in Canada, Russia, Persia, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Cyprus, Tripoli, Algiers, Malta, Italy, France, Greece, and Gibraltar.
Campers cook meals over a steaming crack in the ground and sleep in steam heated tents in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes located in southern Alaska.
The American Institute of Graphic Arts and allies hosted a dinner in New York in his honor. Goudy, 80, said he is designing his 121st type face at his Marlboro home and believes he may hold a record for most designs. He recently declined an invitation from Ethiopia to design a new Amharic typeface.
Two Saskatchewan girls advance in the Canadian Women's Army Corps overseas. L. Cpl. Lena Goulet of Shaunavon becomes corporal and Pte. Ruth Allen of Rutland is named lance corporal after 18 months abroad with No. 1 Static Base Laundry Unit. Captain Marial Mosher, Nova Scotia born CWAC officer, and other Saskatchewan CWAC members, including photographers and nursing staff, are noted for varied postings and postwar plans.
A collage of brief gags and quips touching on manners money education and family life. The pieces include a dentist joke a reluctance to shout over a corn and a punchline about a wife inviting her mother for dinner and British Army humor with a CWAC hat alert.
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