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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 17, 1944
Page
7
Canada relies on forests as a key national resource. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates over 1,200,000 square miles of forest lands, about 58 percent of the nine provinces total, with agriculture at 14 percent. Much forest land lies in the Prairie Provinces, especially the northern areas.
Estimated timber proceeds from Canada would sustain half the Dominion’s population. Much forest land is inaccessible due to travel costs. Total timber accessible is about two thirds of 13 000 million cubic feet. Fires reduce yields, but prevention and control lessen losses. Earlier indiscriminate exploitation has declined with modern forest management.
A new chemical method claims to impart hardwood qualities to softwood, with Canada supplying about seventy percent of Empire softwood. Softwoods include Pine, western red cedar, western hemlock, and Douglas fir, all abundant in Western provinces. Researchers also turn sawdust and wood waste into durable materials, suggesting ongoing, important advances for forestry.
A friend described a Greece trip to Helicon and Hippocrene, a fountain born from Pegasus hoofprint, reputed to make a poet. He found the spring ordinary, yet its water seemed exceptionally sweet, likened to a dipper of field water on a hot day. The note closes with a Peterborough remark about sanitation and a 1900 statistic: one woman in two thousand wore silk stockings.
Dr Kung H H, vice-president of the Chinese executive Yuan and finance minister, told a China American Council dinner that China is undergoing an industrial revolution during wartime and expects the US to aid postwar economic growth. He said a prosperous China will become a good market and a necessity for maintaining peace in the Far East.
Scattered across northern Manitoba US air bases at The Pas Churchill Southampton and beyond form a network nicknamed the Far North airports. Churchill 1000 miles from Winnipeg houses three runways a large base area including a hospital and cinema. A gravel road connects the base to the town. Guards of secrecy may lift as governments discuss full story of construction and operations with Americans bringing new hospitality. dances in the big hangar attract US soldiers and Eskimos alike.
Lord Quickwood of Eton told the House of Lords that age should not decide when a child leaves school. No child should leave until he can read a page of good English easily and explain key words. Dr. Temple urged smaller class sizes, saying a 50-student class is unteachable and cannot entertain them.
British government plans to locate new industries in distressed areas as part of postwar reconstruction. Hugh Dalton, president of the Board of Trade, told the House of Commons London is not the priority for new factories and peacetime development will steer growth to areas needing employment. An aside explains the origin of the word sabotage from French sabot and a stray estimate places the world dog population at 70 million.
The article profiles Major Madeleine Nixon and her daughter Lieut Barbara Nation, both CWAC officers in Britain, with Barbara serving in the Military Secretary's Branch overseas and a reunion with her Navy brother. It also highlights Lieut Jean Patricia Bond, a 22 year old CWAC radar expert from Edmonton, educated at the University of London, and part of Canada's Technical Liaison Group. The piece recalls CWAC origins in Manitoba and a Winnipeg bicycle trip that wound up back at Fort Osborne Barracks on the Assiniboine River.
Sgt. Desales Glover, a 16 year old war veteran discharged after officers learned he enlisted at 14, reached Britain with the US Army Air Forces in January and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart. A nerve runs through an elephant tusk, really a tooth, visible as canals on opposite sides of billiard balls.
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