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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 23, 1944
Page
7
A wartime survey urges health services for all children including medical and dental care. It calls for equalized educational opportunities, larger rural units, transportation or hostels for distant pupils, postwar school-building programs, more supervisors and inspectors, and "helping teachers" to aid primary educators.
A report details wide variation in per pupil spending from 31.70 to 83.38 dollars in the Dominion. It cites average teacher salaries at 782 dollars yearly, with 74.9 percent earning under 1223 dollars, and compares to 1940 industry wages at 1207 dollars. It calls doubling current spending to 146,832,642 dollars, abolishing fees, scholarships for gifted students, raising teacher salaries to 1321 dollars, expanding libraries, raising school leaving age to sixteen and requiring part time work until eighteen.
Tye reports finding lasting relief from constipation by using Kellogg's All-Bran as a bulk forming aid. The ad claims regular consumption corrects the cause by adding bulk for easy natural elimination and recommends muffins and water, noting Kellogg's makes it in London and Canada with two convenient sites.
A terse exchange reveals a dispute as the son accuses the father of failing to send a cheque for three weeks. The father replies quipping that his kindness remains steadfast despite the delay, highlighting a clash over financial support and affection.
Two St. Agats boys chase Valentine nuts on Montreal’s St Catherine Street but find no fruit. After wandering stores they recall a box of dried apricots in a car nearby. Hours later the senior recalls the nuts were seen in Reykjavik, Iceland, as winds change direction.
Viscount Halifax, Britain's ambassador to the United States, spoke in Boston after receiving an honorary Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University. He said allied governments are discussing a common postwar program for coordinated action on war’s aftermath, though outcomes will depend on public opinion in each community.
An advertisement urges readers to treat kidney trouble with GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Ol Capsules marketed as a proven diuretic. It promises quick relief from backache and dizziness, warns of waste buildup in blood, and directs readers to purchase from a druggist, with a stray moral anecdote about wasting bread from a mother and son dialogue.
An advertisement describes a topical remedy for skin eruptions and itching claiming relief of sores wounds and neural discomfort. It promises healing of various afflictions including damp conditions and mentions a money back guarantee with purchase at drugstores.
The British savings drive grew throughout World War II with $26 billion subscribed, averaging $560 per person. Small savers dominate, accounting for over half the total with 17 million holding certificates. Savings stamps and tokens rose from 1940 to 1943 while large savers also increased. Anomalous note of scarce rainfall in the Egyptian desert is mentioned.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board enforces weights for chocolate bars from fall 1941 standards. Weights fixed for different bar types include one and a half ounces for moulded plain or milk, one and a quarter for mixed ingredients, one and three quarter ounces for a confectionery centre coated bar, and two ounces for a non coated confectionery bar. Instructions cover obtaining ration books for newborns, handling of deceased individuals’ ration books, addressing rent discrepancies via Rentals Administration, and how war brides can obtain ration books by applying to local ration boards. Readers are asked to send questions or requests for pamphlets to Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York predicts a self answering telephone after the war. The device uses a magnetic steel tape with eraseable messages and can replay messages when the caller arrives. A two way recording variation already exists for permanent records needing a receiver to be lifted. Newsweek.
Weldable armor steel, designated -ea, for armored vehicles, is a new Australian bullet-proof steel now shared with Allied nations. The development marks a significant shift as Australia, previously not producing motor cars, contributes a key materiel ahead of broader wartime use.
Colonel Johnn Llewellyn told a London audience that food rationing will continue for some years after the war. He cited the need to keep farm production up and noted you cannot remove many able young men from farms in Britain and across Canada the U S A Australia and New Zealand.
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