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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 29, 1943
Page
4
WartimePrices ad appears in MacGregor Manitoba publication. Trade Board Licence No 75143 permits 315 C. Official notices indicate licensing for wartime price controls and distribution from the MacGregor office on Main Street.
In Sicily Allied forces press toward the Italian mainland while Mussolini vanishes amid demonstrations and rumors of a separate peace. Churchill vows continued war on Italy against the Germans as Axis crimes weigh on the world, signaling a step toward victory for the United Nations.
The people of MacGregor and surrounding areas join the Stamp Out the U-Boat campaign by purchasing stamps. Miss Canada girls have sold stamps worth six depth charges totaling 540 dollars. Roy Farncombe of Bagot sent one depth charge. The municipality aims for seven depth charges, with this Saturday the campaign’s final day. Buy stamps from the girls to show support for their work and the 1.0.D. effort.
Wartime Pric has boosted newsprint to 400 a ton in Canada and the United States effective September 1. The pulp and paper sector faces a broader review by the Board with reports of another inevitable price rise to sustain Canadian production.
A wartime exhortation urges Canadians to back the Sicily campaign with home front production discipline. It calls on every man and woman to sacrifice comfort, resist greed, and emulate troops’ discipline and teamwork to build a country worthy of soldiers’ sacrifices.
On July 22 members of the Hurry Him Home Club gathered in the Community Hall to pack twenty one boxes for boys overseas. The group thanks all contributors and helpers and announces a Christmas Remembrance packing in late October with further notices to follow.
Tenders will be received by the undersigned up to August th for washing painting and varnishing the interior of Southend School. Materials except brushes to be supplied. Fuller particulars may be had by applying to P Templar Sec Treas
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