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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 05, 1944
Page
4
The notice indicates the MacGregor publication operates on a weekly schedule published on Thursdays with H. T. Trethewey as the publisher. It identifies the local newspaper's timing and leadership.
The Victory Loan opens Monday with a new objective of 1.3 billion dollars set by Finance Minister Isley. Manitoba adds a target of 90 million as the public is urged to support the loan to fund equipment for troops and hasten the war’s end. Citizens are encouraged to lend their dollars and place victory first to aid service members and bring them home.
A civic call to build and protect homes for all as returning men arrive. It urges prefabricated and local construction using available materials, emphasizing community effort, steady temper, and honest minds to strengthen the nation's housing.
A passage urges mastery of home building as essential to postwar happiness and national value. It argues that skilled builders will guide the reconstruction program and ensure every house contains a home inside it, shaping the nation’s future.
Entered into Rest October Std 195. Barber remembered with affection and family tributes in a brief memorial notice.
The North Norfolk Branch of the Canadian Legion will hold its annual meeting at the Masonic Hall MacGregor on Tuesday October 10 at 830 PM. All returned men of War No 1 o12 are invited. Comrade C McAfee district representative will attend. A good attendance is requested.
Fire Prevention Week runs October 8 to 14 with a Proclamation in the Canada Gazette. The Dominion Fire Commissioner notes 470 000 fires in ten years destroyed insurable property valued at over 264 million and 2,869 lives lost, urging inspections and constant care to prevent fires nationwide.
John C Ross of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board says Manitoba Local Ration Boards will distribute Ration Book No 5 during October 15 to 21. Boards set district dates with same centres as prior campaigns. Volunteers assist. ads will publish dates and pickup sites.
Manitoba reports a cereal crop well above the long term average despite a wet cool September that reduced yields and delayed harvest. Threshing ranges from under 50 percent in some districts to nearly complete elsewhere with wheat and oats at about 60 percent, barley 65 percent, and flax 25 percent. Barley fared better than wheat or oats, flax least affected, while rains add to abandoned acreage in the Red River valley. Corn and field peas show strong prospects with sunflowers good and Argentine rape output lowered by shattering but profitable.
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