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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1946
Page
3
A man in a first lieutenant uniform engages Julie in a lounge where he declares a kidnapping plan. She answers with coy refusals and hints at meeting at a steakhouse frequented by newspaper people as they leave together to a unknown destination.
In a late night taxi ride through New York Julie resists Peter’s pleas to join him at a borrowed apartment to answer questions before he leaves for the Army. She recounts her ex husband Cornelius Peter Granville, a newspaper reporter on leave, and they discuss change, forgiveness, and whether they will crash again.
Scientists from the United Nations FAO warn that pests and rodents destroy vast grain after harvest. They estimate 12.5 million tons lost from 725 million tons produced yearly, with rodents consuming 25 million and insects 36.25 million tons.
Wren Sharp, a Regina navy dischargee, aims to study architectural drafting. Navy officials doubted a woman could enter the field until Miss Blanche Lemco advised and vouched for female architects. Sharp, with math and drawing strengths from Scott Collegiate, hopes to begin at the Canadian Vocational School in Regina, despite family doubt.
The text describes an albatross trap in Australia where birds slip between steep valley walls and crash due to calm winds. It also notes the burrowing owl as the only land bird that nests underground.
An Ottawa Kiwanis talk claims the undefended Canada US border is 5.635 miles long, contradicting the usual 3.0 miles. Veterans of border humor recounts and local oddities describe hairdressers in Rock Island Vermont offering Canada haircuts and US shoe shines, while border surveys determine a farm sits inside the United States. The piece lampoons cross border life with jokes about elections and weather.
Farmers who feed twelve meals or more to temporary hired help may apply for transient labor rations from the wartime prices and trade board. When the worker stays longer than two weeks, the farmer may use the employee’s ration book, treating the worker as part of the household for meat sugar preserves and butter.
Royal Engineers report nearly ten tons of high explosive remain in 21 unexploded German bombs beneath London bombed sites. Captain G A Frake of the N 2 Bomb Disposal Company notes seven bombs are being dealt with while two recently found were abandoned as not a public danger.
Alberta plans a large new timber based industry with nearly 100 million dollars in timber purchases across the north from High Prairie to Peace River and Dawson Creek. A huge prefabrication plant would be built near Peace River to produce furniture and prefab buildings using a new process. The project aims to employ thousands and distribute products continent wide.
A fragmented passage depicts a Baked Cheese Eggs recipe with ingredients and steps, plus a brief note about Philippe Herzan and a Canadian toy production effort. It combines cooking instructions with a political economy aside, mentioning a French engineer and mass producing toys in Canada.
Dr. E. B. Moore, addressing the Royal Society of Canada in Toronto, argued the atomic age is unlikely to end the world. He cited ancient rock formations in Eastern Ontario and Southern Quebec suggesting life 1.9 billion years ago and noted that physicists agree a single atomic blast could only cause a local effect due to limited fissionable material.
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