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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1945
Page
8
People of Western Canada show optimism about agriculture despite drought rust frost insects and tough economics. Farmers solved many issues through science and cooperation with economists and organizations improving wheat varieties insecticides and fertilizers and sustaining prairie progress.
A Canadian farming survey reports farmers now own more property, enjoy better cash positions, and carry fewer debts. Prices rose sixty percent and production grew fifty percent from 1939 to 1944, lifting farm income to near twice its prewar level and echoing prosperity from 1926 to 1929.
Records show the 1914 to 1918 period saw an 18 million acre increase in cultivated land, boosting wheat exports and tying prices to world markets. Agriculture employed about a quarter of all workers and remains Canada’s key industry, with postwar support planned and Bretons Woods talks urging better world trade to aid farmers.
A London banker, whose eldest son died serving with the RAF, donates 200000 to build housing for disabled RAF and Fleet Air Arm pilots and widows. Nominal rents apply but no eligible tenant will pay more than they can afford or be charged if it causes hardship.
The United States extends lend-lease credits to France for civilian supplies totaling 2.575 billion dollars. The agreement continues during and after the war unless canceled by President Roosevelt and requires France to pay for materials over 30 years at 2 percent interest. France will align its resources to aid the Allied war effort under a master lend-lease plan similar to Britain Russia and China.
Questions and answers on Wartime Prices and Trade Board rules for room rates, cuffs on ladies slacks, sugar in restaurants, and seed price exemptions. Landladies may set rates. boarders can seek adjustment. Cuffs not allowed on ladies slacks. pleats ok. Sugar with tea or coffee must be requested. Seeds and plants priced outside board control. Send inquiries and paper name to local board office.
The Royal Canadian Navy operates a film service that rents 16 mm productions to ships from Halifax to North Russia. Navymen pay five cents per film, with totals around four dollars for a minesweeper and ten dollars for a destroyer, funded by the ship canteen fund.
A Battelle Memorial Institute study for the U.S. An and Navy Ordnance departments and the Office of Scientific Research and Development reports that Japanese use of U.S. scrap metal persists in munitions. Spectroscope analysis detects trace metals, indicating prior sales contributed to weapons used against U.S. soldiers.
County commissioners in St. Joseph hired a locksmith to inspect an old safe before sale. The locksmith found nothing valuable and presented a $15 bill for his services, after a three-cent stamp had been paid.
Barbara Leonard and others in Saskatchewan and Manitoba pursue postwar domestic aims while in service with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps and CWAC. The piece traces training, marriages, graduations at Kitchener, and wartime postings overseas, highlighting women preparing for civilian domestic life after service.
A collage of quick lines shows a parade of puns and social moments. Characters trade quips about hats, hygiene, manners, and daily life with playful misdirections and sharp one liners. The piece ends with a sly exchange about financial capability and marriage.
The white chalk cliffs of Dover England are formed from fossilized shells of tiny animals requiring over a million of them to make one cubic inch of chalk.
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