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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 26, 1946
Page
4
The MacGregor Herald established February 1891 prints every Thursday at the Herald Printing Office in MacGregor Manitoba. The note lists the Post Office Department Ottawa and publisher A M Shaw with a $200 figure in the USA.
A wartime message urges citizens to defend democracy by aligning personal conduct with faith. It warns of strikes, crime, and global tyrannies, framing freedom as “freedom under God” and urging immediate personal action to counter the enemy’s ideas.
The local potato crop is generally good with large uniform tubers. Harvested potatoes, shipped mainly to Winnipeg, face price drops due to heavy market dumping in recent weeks. Early rain delayed germination but later rains revived the crop, though bacterial ringrot affectations appear in some areas. The Irish Cobbler and Warba varieties are reported as successfully grown this year.
Berlin reports that conditions in Germany are "most difficult" yet better than postwar expectations. The US intelligence review highlights stability in the British zone despite Ruhr and bombed cities, notes communism ebb in the Russian zone, a clear US occupation plan, and improving German attitudes in the French zone. British food shortages harmed civilian support, and authorities faced pressure to accelerate denazification, losing skilled German technicians.
Due to Thanksgiving the tuberculosis screening move starts a day early in each locality. The travelling clinic will begin in Sidney and proceed to Austin and others as municipal councils coordinate calls to residents. Early X rays can detect TB before symptoms and allow early treatment. Attend the local clinic in area number 1.
Portage Ministerial Association held a fall session Friday September 13 at 2 pm in United church. A June Royal Commission report on Adult Education was praised and a Portage Film Council was discussed after a film display at Portage Collegiate. The group endorsed temperance work with Edna Grant traveling secretary for Canada speaking in churches and a Temperance Conference planned. Lions Living Memorial support pledged. Captain C R Gillingham named official representative to Portage Advisory Committee of the Institute for the Blind. Next meeting elects officers.
In loving memory of our father Charles Spence Smith who died October 1 1945. Brighter, fairer far than living with no trace of woe or pain. Robed in everlasting splendor we see the one azail aid and guidance.
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