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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 08, 1946
Page
2
The Canada Year Book highlights oil output prospects for Canada while noting Alberta supplies about 88 percent of the nation's oil. Turner Valley remains historically prolific, with 1944 data showing over 99 percent of Alberta's crude oil from that district.
In northern Alberta the Fort McMurray bituminous sands are cited as possibly the world’s richest oil reserves. Estimates place potential output from 100 000 million tons per the Canada Year Book and 250 000 million tons per the U S Bureau of Mines. The war boosted oil demand and Canada’s Fort Norman fields fed military needs, while the McMurray project could move Canada toward a leading role in global oil.
R. W. Sodergren, an ex service man, plans BC first orchid farm near Chilliwack on a 15 acre site. He will plant 10 acres with bulbs year round and grow outside with greenhouse use in later development. He aims to give a free bridal corsage to wives of overseas veterans and a free wreath to the Canadian Legion for veterans’ funerals. Sodergren has not run an orchid farm before but has tropical bulb experience. Hawaii’s island count and area are noted.
The plan would strip Germany of war potential and limit steel to 5.8 million tons annually while forbidding magnesium, primary aluminum, synthetic rubber, oil, aircraft, ships, arms, and ammunition. Exports would cover essential goods. The approach differs from Morgenthau but aims to prevent a repeat of Hitler era policies.
A collection of maxims on duty from Goe, Mary Baker Eddy, Thomas Paine, Mencius, J W Dulles, and E H Chapin. Concepts stress prompt faithful action, right conduct, and doing one’s neighborly duties in everyday life. The quotes urge moral clarity and the value of duty in all spheres.
Coffee plants commonly produce their initial crop in the fourth year of growth, marking the start of their productive period. This baseline helps growers plan pruning, fertilization, and resource allocation for a steady yield.
Wartime questions cover priority service certificates for discharged servicemen with no replacement rights. Cigarette price controls suspended. Canning sugar coupons may buy jam jelly and preserves. Five pounds of sugar and S coupons May 2. Butter coupons valid May 2 16 23 for half a pound. Send questions or request pamphlets to Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices with newspaper name.
The article notes the average person ingests two to three quarts of food and drink daily while inhaling 10 000 to 12 000 quarts of air. It also states that seventy five gallons of water are used to produce one pound of rayon.
Canadian dairy production shows a sustained shift westward from Ontario and Quebec. In 1920 the east produced 67 percent of milk, while the Prairies had 22 percent. by 1944 Ontario and Quebec supplied about 60 percent and the Prairies 30 percent, with the Maritimes and British Columbia sharing the remainder.
British housewives complain official hospitality skews view of Britain’s food. Mrs. Emily Hill, wartime widow and mother of four, says foreigners see better meals in hotels and would be shocked by rationing. She urges sending overseas housewives to Britain to live under British conditions.
Egyptians across the Nile celebrate Shem el Nessim on April 22. The holiday, observed by Muslims Christians and Jews, began as a Coptic feast and falls the Monday after Greek Orthodox Easter. People picnic, seeking spring air to beat summer heat.
A crossword puzzle list with horizontal and vertical clues covering letters and wordplay. Includes entries for Himalayan mammal burdens symbol for tellurium wry face and more into various word meanings and crossword solvable hints.
Reconstruction Department officials predict Canada will harvest about 5,000,000,000 feet of lumber in the current year, about 100,000,000 feet more than 1945. They say labor difficulties may affect supplies but enough lumber should remain to meet other building material demand. Early spring break-up had left timber in the woods, offset by the large 1945 cut brought out at the start of the season.
Cartoon style snippets show quips about hoarseness and fashion, a baby, a sacked office boy, and a classroom jab. An amusing exchange highlights a belief about Captain James Cook as Australia’s Columbus, reflecting national pride.
Observations from Chicago Daily News describe Switzerland's calm wartime preparation and postwar abundance. The piece credits foresight in stockpiling, boosted production, and a liberal fair rationing system creating plentiful shops uncommon in the United States and Britain.
The text outlines two daily meals in Elizabethan England with variations by social class. Nobil ity gentry and students dined at 11 and supped between 5 and 6. merchants at noon and 6. husbandmen at 12 and 7 or 8.
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