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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 26, 1945
Page
7
In a tense neighborhood tale, Mulvaney battles to cage Gully the sea gull, nicknamed by Mike. After months of conflict and a failed promotion, a Saturday gambles outing ends with Gully recognizing a hoodlum, Acklin, and revealing a dangerous custody turn in their uneasy relationship.
In a crowd scene on State Street Mulvaney realizes a jewel heist was bungled by a clever decoy using a gull with a broken wing. He reports for promotion after catching the perpetrator Acklin, then negotiates with Ellen over the fate of the bird and his future.
Scattered notes from Canadian towns recount mishaps and oddities. A funeral was delayed by 13 tire blowouts near White Hall Sask. A Duncan B C reporter survived a wasp sting and alert nurse aid. A fox bounty near Woodstock Ont. yielded $4. A Yorkton arrest linked to an eleven year old Brandon break in. A jack fish leapt into a Little Smoky boat. A telegraph lineman was injured near Estevan. A Kamloops fire truck muffler sparked a street fire. An elderly woman’s cuff links found after many years. A poem by Lilla Nease of Toronto connected to Picton Gazette. Fire chief Venables touts new rescue gear. A school discipline debate in Kentville. Postwar small industries revive with Pemina Co-op Canners planning 40 acres of crops and canned goods. Rural West promotes small industry against urban centers. The MacEachern Mill bell in Wetaskiwin tolls for the funeral of its founder.
Smith Brothers and Wilson of Saskatoon win the contract to erect a vegetable oil plant as the first unit in the 2.5 million Saskatchewan Wheat Pool project. The 21 acre site lies in Saskatoon’s industrial area, with plans for future facilities including a 1,000‑barrel flour mill, glycol plant, stores, glucose and syrup factory, and a 500,000 bushel storage elevator.
A Kuala Lumpur dispatch reports Malaya has suffered extensive destruction of rubber trees worth millions and processing machinery, with tin and lumber industries also seriously impaired by Japanese forces.
A. G. Sinclair district supervisor of the Canadian National Railways says alfalfa seed production is growing at Hudson Bay Junction. He reports three carloads shipped to Moscow from Hudson Bay Junction, returning local growers 66 009 dollars.
The Special Products Board, created April 15, 1941, regulated export of agricultural products to Britain and other allies. In the year ending March 31, 1945, it shipped vast quantities of poultry and eggs to Britain and the US, dehydrated vegetables, apples, flax fibre, seeds, and seed potatoes to multiple countries. Board members come from the Dominion Departments of Agriculture and Trade and Commerce.
The Montreal Gazette notes British children who were wartime guests in Canada and the United States are returning home. It argues their experience tempers nostalgia with realism, shapes trans Atlantic relations, and imparts a duty to interpret and explain English speaking peoples between Britain and North America for reconstruction years ahead.
This week shows Pattern 4586 for a gaily useful apron suitable for misses and women. It can be made from little fabric even from a grain or feed bag. Sizes small medium and large require 1% yds 35 inch material. Send 20 cents for pattern to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man.
The white horse Patton rode in Austria, once meant as a gift to Hirohito, was seized by German forces from a Vienna riding school and later liberated by American troops before being returned.
D. M. McRae announces that chartered banks have issued the first one million dollars in loans to farmers under the Farm Improvement Loans Act. Loans cover water supply dugouts in Alberta pre fabricated houses in Saskatchewan and tobacco kilns in Ontario. Most loans so far fund farm implements with construction repair and improvement of buildings rising in demand as materials and labor become available.
Cereal crumbs provide dry crumb options for croquettes breaded chops fried fish and pie shells. Coarse crumbs extend meat patties toppings thickening pies and cobblers while fine crumbs suit crumbles and fillings. A Honey Crumb Pie Shell mixture combines corn flakes honey and butter baked briefly for eight inch pies.
India and China are joined by telephone and telegraph for the first time. A pole line about 1 750 miles long runs from Calcutta to Kunming, China, completing a vast system from Karachi through Burma into China.
Kingston Whig Standard argues Canada can keep Denmark out of Britain market by exposing wartime conditions on Canadian exporters and pushing for higher quality bacon. It warns that wartime logistics and lowered standards harmed quality and that Britain should be informed of gifts and transport limits to safeguard a major export role for Canadian producers.
The University of Saskatchewan College of Agriculture announces a two year practical course for young farmers. Subjects include crop production, farm management, breeding, dairying, livestock feeding, and building construction. Admission requires age at least 17, grade 8, and one year on a farm. Scholarships available. Classes run October 31, 1945 to March 23, 1946. Inquiries to The Dean, College of Agriculture, Saskatoon.
Newsweek reports the Southern regional research laboratory of the Department of Agriculture in New Orleans developed an acetylated cotton cloth that resists rot and mildew. Buried samples remained strong for six to twelve months, while normal cloth disintegrated within a week. Sandbags of the treated material stayed intact after two years outdoors. The process leaves no discoloration odor or stickiness and is non toxic.
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