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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 06, 1945
Page
6
The piece extols Canada’s total war mobilization with over a million service members and a key air training plan. It credits service members, families, farmers, bureaucrats, industry workers, and professionals for national welfare and victory. It notes Canada’s rank among the United Nations and cites Churchill on air supremacy.
Canada raised over 10.2 billion dollars in war loans with more than three million subscribers and taxed 813 million in personal income tax plus 311 million in corporate tax. The nation’s support for Britain and munitions through 1941 drew international praise for its steel and muscle behind monetary figures.
Labour MP Dr Mont Follick proposed teaching English worldwide to ease tensions between nations. He urged £30,000 to fund a London University chair of philology and offered £5,000 himself if the government matched the balance. Follick, a six language speaker, had earlier in 1988 created a simplified English system with 150 fewer fundamental words than standard English.
An observant man notes that planting at a backyard fence spreads quickly through the neighborhood, taking about an hour for most of the area to be affected. Sometimes the spread occurs even faster, within an hour or less.
The Calgary Albertan contends Alberta should extend northward to include parts of the North West Territories. It argues the Dominion government is better positioned to develop the north's wealth, with funds and expertise for geological and mining support, over provincial administration. The piece presents two views and favors the Dominion option for the region’s development.
The first steam locomotive to reach Vancouver arrived after completing the Canadian Pacific Railway. Pioneers who built the line were on hand to greet the engine, which CPR presented to the city. Its resting place is Stanley Park as the city marks the milestone.
Wartime guidance outlines meatless Tuesdays and Fridays goals to conserve meat and meals in homes. It notes butter coupons from ration book five expired August 31 and confirms small arms ammunition rationing ends August 31. Meatless periods start at four am for a 24 hour window. Lost ration books do not replace canning sugar coupons. request pamphlets from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
A collage of humorous exchanges and social chatter from a time when talk ranged from arrests for driving to stray hats and village gossip. Jests about licenses, Navy bravado, and humorous misunderstandings fill the page with light banter and no serious action.
Captain Patricia A. M. Quinn of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan recalls joining the Canadian Women's Army Corps in January 1942. She trained at St. Anne de Bellevue and Regina MD 12, later promoted to captain in 1943. She praises CWAC recruits and credits the unit with expanding outlooks and fostering cooperation for the war effort.
A wartime reminiscence notes how service members rely on chaplains, specifically Padres, for compassion and counsel. It recalls church parades, open doors to the Padre’s office, and the hope he can smooth transitions to civilian life after battles such as Dieppe, illustrating trusted support during stress and marriages proposed in a hurry.
Secretary of State Paul Martin told the Canadian Institute Public Affairs the San Francisco world security charter has the ingredients for success but needs the nations to act in good faith. He warned against sectarianism and stressed civilization depends on spiritual values, citing General Smuts on awakening culture and a purified outlook.
U.S. chemists develop a plastic process keeping bottles intact when trapped on cars or dropped. A thin enclosing film, only 26 thousandths of an inch, binds pieces and preserves the valuable contents from breakage during wartime shipping.
A compilation of religious quotes stresses light, truth, grace, and influence from figures like Matthew, Horace Bushnell, Mary Baker Eddy, T L Cuyler, Moody, and Hezekiah Butterworth. The text ends with a factual note: the French mandate territory of the Cameroons covers 425000 square kilometres of West Africa.
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