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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 20, 1946
Page
2
Postwar months brought famine strikes and tensions across nations. The piece urges hope and civic engagement, noting courageous Allied effort won the war and urging Canadians to express public opinion to influence policy on food, labor, and peace. It highlights representative knowledge as key to shaping a better world.
High officials said the Mexican Embassy asked Cuban cooperation in a campaign to curb gold smugglers based in Havana. Customs seized 1,712,250 in gold from June to February. imports swelled to over 5,000,000 since February via small boats between Mexican and Cuban ports, with most destined for European black markets and some earmarked for Argentina.
Nearly 250000 service members killed in World War II will be brought home for burial with military honors on home soil. Mancel Talcott, chairman of the American Legion Grave Registration Program, announced the plan noting this covers about 80 percent of those buried overseas.
Sydney G. Dobson, born in Sydney Nova Scotia, elected president of the Royal Bank of Canada succeeding Morris W. Wilson who died unexpectedly. Dobson rose from junior clerk to head of the bank in 46 years, with a career spanning Truro Vancouver Montreal and leadership in welfare work.
A fragmentary report notes the uncut unbound first edition of Thomas Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard sold to a London dealer for about 4.72 dollars, marking a strong price for the rare item.
A wartime advisory explains how ration books work including date of coupons, when to claim books after discharge, and holiday rules for Canadian hotels. It notes that coupons from discharge date are issued if the book is claimed promptly, and that two week stays in hotels require holding the ration book, with American guests exempt. Guidance covers dental pricing limits and how to request pamphlets from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
Sabu, 22, famed as the Elephant Boy, arrived at Hurn Airport en route to London to resume film work after earning 11 decorations for gallantry as a rear gunner in the U S Army Air Forces during service in the Pacific war zone.
The National Film Board presents Canada World Trader to review Canada's vast industrial scene and export growth. It stresses Canada's quality products marked Canada Approved and notes remaining development opportunities amid global economic ills. The film views Canada's latent power as a force for peace and mankind.
Health Minister B Claxton outlined plans to expand medical care for Indians and Eskimos to the Indian affairs committee. Proposals include more staff and higher salaries, expanded hospital facilities, TB case finding, vaccines, and immunization, medical exams for entrants to the north, use of government transport for medical personnel and patients, enhanced dental care and first aid, increased research, and training of Indian doctors and nurses.
William Arthur Deacon, literary editor of the Toronto Globe and Mail, was elected president of the Canadian Authors' Association. Kathleen Strange of Winnipeg was chosen as vice-president for Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
A vintage style ad copy extols Post Grape-Nuts Flakes for energy from carbohydrates and protein for muscles, touts its two grains wheat and malted barley, and promises golden brown crispness and easy digestion. The dialogue mode invites readers to share the bowlful and purchase the giant economy package.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips features burglars, a professor’s boast of Napoleon, a coed, a sergeant at a rifle range, marital jests, a parrot who says busy, a typist complaint, and finally a note from Philip Wright of Epping Essex who asks for beads to pass the time and has received a flood of gifts and responses from readers of the London Daily Mirror.
Reconversion from war to peace production is expected to finish by year end if government goals hold. In three months, manufacturing and utility sectors will maintain payrolls while government plans anticipate employment gains and higher output.
Major R. K. Magee of No. 20 Canadian General Hospital Overseas reports in the Canadian Medical Journal that German surgery during the war lagged behind advances in Canada Britain and the United States. He notes German surgeons neglected outside medical influences, a claim later supported by Netherlands surgeons.
Hon. Colin Gibson said the peace-time Royal Canadian Air Force will require 10,000 ground trade airmen with 6,296 officers and airmen enrolled since the April announcement. More recruits are expected from young men leaving civilian life as vacancies persist.
A compilation of quoted lines from Bowles Burke Eddy Mary Baker Eddy Prichard Cowper Southey on liberty. It contrasts liberty tied to order with liberty as personal rights, warning against detaching God’s law from its spirit and noting how truth can free or fail to free individuals.
The Ottawa Journal notes that once seeds are in the ground the gardener must await a harvest while guarding against drought stray dogs caterpillars cut worms neighbor children and diseases of vegetables, keeping steady attention on the patch.
In Gallup New Mexico nylon has spread through ranching circles where cowboys and gauchos form nylon lines. Stockings hold little appeal here. buyers are willing to pay about 19 dollars and up for a 20 foot nylon lariat strong enough to deter cattle.
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