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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 14, 1945
Page
8
General Crerar’s V E Day message emphasizes the principle each for all as essential to sustaining democracy. He urges Canadians to apply wartime unity to peacetime goals, noting veterans’ return, peacetime production, and renewed citizenship.
The text urges citizen responsibility in a democracy, noting Canada offers plural voting choices and the need to elect preferred governments. It emphasizes registering to vote at all levels, engaging in public affairs, and applying the principle to health, education, unemployment, and tolerance at home and abroad.
Postal authorities urge all mail to armed forces include a complete return address. With more personnel movements into, out of, or within Canada mail delivery becomes more complex and prompt return of undeliverable items is essential.
The Hamilton Spectator reports British naval and air forces sinking a Japanese cruiser of about 10 000 tons off the Malay peninsula to avenge the earlier loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse in those waters.
Canada has supplied about 4,500,000 pounds of dressed poultry to the U S Army in 1945 as part of a 30,000,000 pound commitment under a United States government contract announced by the special products board at Ottawa.
The 35 mile truck limit is removed along with wholesale and retail deliveries by laundries and dry cleaners and theatre advertising vehicle use. Retailers may set their own delivery value limits. rim fire ammunition can be bought without a permit. maple syrup coupon value changes from 40 to 24 ounces after June 1. civilians may purchase shirts previously limited to armed forces officers.
A chaotic jumble of stray lines and misheard phrases fills a beauty salon window in the West Coast setting. The snippets feature odd exchanges about weather umbrellas, confidences, and distant answers, ending with a fragment about a man seen kissing someone in a hotel foyer.
A stovetop skillet recipe uses Brown sausage, cornmeal and Kellogg’s All Bran to make a hearty scrapple style loaf. It mass expands into slices fried in the sausage fat and served with syrup or apple butter. The ad touts Kellogg’s All Bran from London Canada and claims health benefits.
Swift Canadian Co. Limited reports 16.2 percent of total meat produced in Canada during 1944 and 16.8 percent of livestock slaughtered. Total hog marketings rise from 3,705,000 in 1939 to 8,868,000 in 1944. Cash awards totaling 2600 go to 303 employees under an Employee Suggestion Plan. 1,222 employees served in armed forces. 34 killed or died, five missing, eight prisoners of war.
American soldiers found a bathtub in Hermann Goering’s Berchtesgaden villa that could not be moved as a souvenir. The large tub, flown from Berlin by the Luftwaffe, was too big for doors or windows and had to be hoisted out after part of a wall was torn.
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