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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 22, 1940
Page
5
H J Atkinson notes soils rich in organic matter are more fertile than low content soils. Organic matter acts as a nutrient store, aids humus formation, and supports bacteria that release usable nitrogen and other nutrients. It improves soil structure, drainage, and water holding capacity across soil types.
Canada through the Canadian Flying Clubs Association will supply civilian instructors for 26 elementary flying schools under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Preference goes to civilian pilots with licenses, then 100 hour veterans, then trainees. Malton Airport hosts No 1 school with 13 instructors. women may qualify. clubs will form Dominion chartered companies to contract with the government.
The text advises that worry is a mental disorder best countered by work and engaging hobbies. It notes worry can return if activity stops, and that the brain can be trained to forget as it remembers. It urges dismissing worry from the mind and focusing on another task.
Report notes that French girls were dispatched to Britain to teach French to soldiers, aiming to improve communication and morale during military service. The item records the exchange program and its intended educational role.
A seventh Nazi pilot, in civilian clothes, admitted he photographed principal Scottish fishing ports prior to the war. He carried a miniature camera and said he took hundreds of photos at each port. He met Dr Wenn Gregor, the German Consul at Glasgow, in May last year during private talks. He is suspected of long espionage work in Norway and may have been an advance agent.
British Columbia remains the largest zinc producer in Canada with Manitoba and Saskatchewan also contributing significant output. In contrast Southern Africa holds reserves so vast that copper deposits there could be the world’s greatest.
Tulip time quilt block pattern 6678 includes the flower and leaf patches, block chart, color schemes, yardage chart and quilt directions. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. E., Winnipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
A survey notes French wartime papers risen from the front lines with mimeographed issues and humorous titles like The Vagabond Duck and The Echo of Cementville. Editors publish short stories poems cartoons and promotions while avoiding direct war references and offering morale boosted content for soldiers. A brigades advertises tools and stenographers seek bright workers, and a geriatric subscriber renews a local Ontario paper for six months.
Dave Boone argues in the New York Sun that Nazi duplicitous moves and ruthless aggression endangered neutral lands. He credits Neville Chamberlain for stressing long-range strategy to win the war, noting England’s history of losses yet ultimate victories when cornered or battered.
The report ranks Americans as the heaviest cigarette smokers globally, with England Mexico Belgium and France following in the listed order.
Canada placed fifth among 24 leading commercial nations in total trade for the year 1938, reflecting strong export performance and diverse trading partners. The report highlights widespread activity across industries and steady growth despite global economic pressures.
Air Commodore Robert Leckie of the Royal Air Force now aids Canadian aviation by training raw recruits. A Scotsman who helped found Canadian aviation, Leckie’s career spans Toronto roots, Royal Naval service, and leadership in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. He praises the current RAF training system and notes Canadian officers served with distinction in the Mediterranean.
Air Vice Marshal Patrick Lyon Playfair leads the Advanced Air Striking Force in France and was the youngest air vice marshal in the Force when promoted in 1934 at age 44. He describes himself as a worker and has prior command experience with British Forces in Palestine for two years.
Howard C Wilson, linotype operator and vice president of the Baltimore Typographical Union, won a bowling tournament and received a prize of fine military brushes. He raffled the brushes, with the raffle winner wearing a toupee. At Stoke Newington, Henry Skinner was a long time milkman who died worth £30,000 in investments.
Eight hundred members of the 15th battalion Old Comrades Association and their families have written messages on a scroll. Secretary George Lovegrove devised the project as a long letter 120 feet in length that will be sent overseas to the men of the 48th Highlanders.
Whitcomb Judson originally invented the device later improved and patented by Gideon Sundback.
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