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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1945
Page
3
Edna Benton races through a downpour to fetch Paul who returns early from a prolonged trip. she dons his jacket for warmth as she nears Harper's Point. The evening shadows grow heavy as the couple heads toward a quiet reunion, with rain tapping on the windshield.
In a rainy country road Edna stops to help a drenched woman with a newspaper over her head. The passenger reveals danger, a missing pocket book, and Edna hijacks the car to recover the bag, then reunites with Paul who reveals the pocket book inside a red patent bag. The tale shifts to a noisy jumble of notices about Canadian war era happenings, local ads, and community stories.
Hog production in the United States and Canada fell about nine percent last year, according to the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations in Washington. The drop compounds shortages as meat supplies are stretched during a war weary world.
An English governess living in Florence during the Nazi occupation remains unflustered by the new order. When a Nazi officer attempted to arrest her, she coolly proclaimed, You can't arrest me. I'm English. The incident, reported by the Leeds and Yorksh ire Post, highlights her calm defiance and survival until the Allies arrived.
Anne Adams presents pattern 4765 for a youthful frock and hat with white eye set garnished by ribbons. Pattern 4768 offers Teen Age sizes 10 through 16. size 12 requires 21 yards of 39 inch material. Send 20 cents with size name address and style number to Anne Adams Ptters Winnipeg. Mail delays may occur.
Quinine remains scarce as the Java loss in 1942 depleted world supply. Allies rely on small stockpiles and growing needs from war theaters in Africa and the Pacific. Despite some progress with synthetic substitutes, demand rises as air routes and combat continue. Painting rooms with warm colors can create a warmer ambiance, while blues and greens offer a cooler feel.
Pte. Virginia Chartrand of Deer Horn Manitoba has been promoted to corporal in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps. Enlisting in Winnipeg last July she served as a storewoman at Samp Borden Ontario and remains there. Several rural Saskatchewan girls recently enlisted in Regina, including Mia Burnett Hazel Gessey Joyce Egeland Mary Egeland Beatrice Smith Dorothy Broad Nevadi Humboldt Nelda Bowman Mary Nugent. Capt Cynthia Oakley, first CWAC woman posted to active operations, spent 5.5 years overseas in England and Italy and later worked in Ottawa. Her sister Sgt Helen Oakley visited in Algiers, and Capri provided a happy interlude from army duties.
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