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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1942
Page
8
A North of England factory that once built cricket bats now manufactures rifle butts and stocks for Tommy guns and rifles. The St Thomas Times-Journal notes the idea arose at war outbreak, and the adapting of machines proved swift, turning four slabs of wood into four rifle butts in minutes.
Scrap rubber tires remain usable even after extended outdoor exposure, but inner tubes do not hold up as well. The note highlights salvaging tires while cautioning about tubed tubes degrading more quickly.
Canadians urge better publicity abroad to bridge knowledge gaps about Canada in England and the United States. A government survey led by Charles Vining could expand U S information services and clarify Canada’s war efforts while highlighting the nation’s resources, industry, and potential in a postwar world.
A secretary of state and fellow cabinet members discuss a wealthy man whose prisque manner alienates others. Root notes he has no friends could be his downfall. Hats off to Leeds for war worker transport priority on buses and trams to keep workers from crowded shoppers. A prairie editor prefers a cow to a saxophone for practical milk and noise.
Alan May argues in this column about wartime mobilization in Canada. He urges forming a Home Guard from married and single men and stresses Canadians must conserve resources for wartime production while supporting the Royal Canadian Navy with clothing, gear, and supplies. He highlights the St Lawrence estuary as a vulnerable frontier and calls for collective effort across communities to back defense and sustain the navy.
The report outlines rationing and production shifts for key wartime goods. It cites metal kegs sugar rubber and wrapping paper as items tied to defense needs and mentions a RAF station in Britain funding airmen haircuts. The auditor general report records barber fees totaling about $500.
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