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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 03, 1945
Page
7
Pete, drunk and jealous, tries to force Babe the elephant to walk with him. Babe resists and strikes back,DAILY inciting a dramatic struggle. Pete collapses, Babe carries him to the circus vet as dawn nears.
A UK war discovery Plexiglass known as Perspex becomes a versatile material for peacetime use. It enters production for bathroom and kitchen equipment, frames, furniture, jewellery and wireless casings while offering potential roofs as an alternative to corrugated iron.
A Navy airman recalls a flash flak hit in the neck during a Pacific mission. After recovering in hospital he explains he didn’t feel pain at first. He realized he had been hit when seeing a fresh hole in the fuselage to his right and no exit hole to his left.
The first American injury since the occupation of southern Korea occurred when a sentry at Seoul's governor-general palace opened a booby trapped fountain pen and lost four fingers.
A collage of light items from across Canada: a New Toronto wife wins best rolling pin throw at a family reunion while her husband tops a 100 yard dash. Mrs. Lorne Rivett in Arnprior finds luck with a six and a seven leaf clover. Reports show labor shortages in Neepawa with wives, daughters, German POWs and Indians working fields. Obituaries note John M. Stevens KC and George Pocock who found coal in Estevan. A Brampton car crash and a five hour thief pursuit in Indian Head. A Hanna Alberta tale of a fearless woman chasing a coyote gobbler. Editorial voices on national unity and British identity. Swift Current churches form a mixed Council of Churches to recruit Sunday school dropouts. Postwar thoughts urge building better homes and families, with surveys on women’s roles after war. Speculation on career women and wartime employment ends with a tax refund quip from Pictou Nova Scotia.
The Navy's 45,000 ton aircraft carriers are too large to pass through the Panama Canal and must sail around Cape Horn or stay east. The three ships, the Midway, the Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Coral Sea, await completion or commissioning as supplemental locks proceed to enable future passage.
A collage of humor lines and cartoons pokes fun at fashion memory finance and daily life. Quips include imitations and ivory jokes about hats dresses a caddy job and a missing laugh, plus a father son exchange about a substitute ballplayer and a child’s elephant riddle.
A man in St Helens Lancashire stepped from his car to inspect a suspected fault and was struck by a wheel that had fallen off and rolled behind the vehicle.
The London Daily Express reports British and United States scientists have advanced counter weapons blending radar, rockets and fuses to create projectiles that can destroy planes or rockets carrying atomic bombs at high altitudes. The device would also disable the atomic warhead before it explodes in mid air.
Seasonal fruit inspires many dishes from breakfast to dessert. Pears baked raw over cereal to elegant stuffed servings, with lemon honey coating and nutmeg finish. Crusted Pears pair bland fruit with crisp cereal crumbs for a simple, tasty dessert.
A wildfire races through woods, moving faster than deer as it crosses a plain and threatens nearby brush and wildlife. Fire crews coordinate containment as wind shifts and embers threaten new areas.
John Hanson Flett, son of CPR agent L. M. Flett of Neudorf Saskatchewan, wins one of two CPR scholarships. The award covers up to five years of tuition at McGill for employees under 21 or their minor children. Flett, educated in Fort William Ontario Kelloe and Rosenfeld Manitoba, completed a six week Saskatoon course and averaged above 88 percent in Grade 12 exams. He is enrolled to study engineering at McGill.
Dr Sidney Smith of the University of Toronto reported that representatives from McGill Queen's McMaster Western and Toronto met on September 8 to urge governing bodies to make military training voluntary. The program has been compulsory since 1941 under the Resources Mobilization Act.
This Week's Pattern Can't begin to sing the praises of this lovely slenderizing frock. Princess-line panels may contrast or match and are easy to sew. Embroidered leaves decorate. Pattern 4934 suitable for sizes 36 to 48 with yardage listed. Send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
Several factories have been built in Ceylon for producing shark liver oil rich in vitamin A. The oil contains three times as much vitamin A as cod liver oil, and researchers are examining its preservation and concentration methods.
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