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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1942
Page
2
The article urges Canadians to back the war financially through savings and higher taxes while stressing the need to protect national health. It highlights the sailors and soldiers at Hong Kong and Dieppe as motivation and notes the health of workers is vital to keeping war supplies flowing.
The Canadian Tuberculosis Association reports a national death rate increase from 50.6 to 53.1 per 100 000, with Saskatchewan losing its low death rate status as Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia show higher figures. Total deaths rose from 5 790 in 1940 to 6 057 in 1941.
The warning urges immediate preventive measures against tide disease and other health threats. It notes the wartime financial burden and possible curtailment of peacetime public services, praising nutrition education and preventive medicine for soldiers and civilians, and calls for continued public support for health standards sustaining the war effort at home and abroad.
The Round Church and Middle Temple Hall, famed London buildings built by Crusading Knights, suffered severe bomb damage in wartime. The Round Church survived fires from 1940s raids though its furnace burned six to seven hours, while Middle Temple Hall, its crowning architectural glory, fell into ruin after repeated disasters including the 1692 Elizabethan era theatre tale.
Calgary Herald columnist Richard J Needham defends train whistles as a comforting nightly sound. He argues passengers rest safely and CP Rail remains present amid distant wars and alarms, finding reassurance in the long whistle blast through Calgary and Nose Creek.
War pressures have spurred unprecedented Canada United States cooperation across Alaska Yukon Territory and northern British Columbia. Officials in Washington and Ottawa collect data to map joint plans for exploiting timber fishing mining and agriculture while preserving war supply routes. The Alaska highway telegraph links and improved communications promise better export of farm products and coordinated development with Fairbanks Alaska and Canadian railways.
J E Middleton presents a poetic reminiscence on Frederick the Great and Frederick’s failed siege of Prague. The piece contrasts bold assault with costly losses, noting Prague’s stubborn defense, depleted forces, and the eventual retreat.
A list of air trainees who completed courses at No 1 Central Navigation School Rivers Manitoba and No 11 Service Flying Training School Yorkton Saskatchewan under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Names include LAC J Anderson Prince Albert Sask and LAC G Anderson St Vital Man among many others with hometowns across Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and Ontario.
Canada, once short of machine tools, now exports them to Britain and the United States as production rises by about 800 percent. The machine tools branch of the Department of Munitions and Supply is celebrated for its role in this expansion. Antipater of Palestine is believed to have selected the Seven Wonders of the World around 200 B.C.
The column argues age should not bar citizens from wartime duty. Veterans and older workers are urged to fill roles in administration logistics and nursing nursing sisters face age limits yet old soldiers can train and aid, while civilians help by conserving goods and keeping prices down.
A selection of quotations on prejudice and bias from Bancroft Jeffrey Barrow Mary Baker Eddy Bovee A Eustace Haydon. Each line reflects on how prejudice arises from ignorance or self interest and how awareness can lessen bias guiding progress and judgment.
Wives of missing service members face anxiety over assigned pay and allowances. Authorities explain that dependents continue to receive pay until investigations decide if the person is a prisoner of war or presumed dead. If presumed dead, dependents move to the Pension fund with payments handled by the Department of Pensions and National Health.
The London Spectator argues Germans feel a pathetic longing for love and reject their cold hatred, from Narvik to Bordeaux, which creates an unknown fear and a sense of vulnerability.
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