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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
2
Public concern over wartime changes drives calls for larger adult education and expanded facilities. Vocational retraining and four postwar opportunities exist, but experts foresee needs in citizenship, health, guidance and related subjects after demobilization.
A report by the Canada and Newfoundland Education Association urges trained leaders for postwar adult education. It calls on provincial and university extension departments to train leaders and run study courses, with local school boards aiding community needs. It cites Britain’s people’s education movement and a U S education office backed program as models.
Canada’s Canadian Association of Adult Education, active since 1935, supports adult education through publications conferences radio library services and study facilities. Its National Farm Radio Forum reaches 20 000 weekly listeners with 16 000 study material packages. The education report urges extended support for the association.
Arthur F Wallace of Milton Massachusetts, described as a tall dignified industrialist, visits Valatie New York for dinner in his mill town. He sees a store sign reading Boy Wanted and asks how much celery costs, receiving the reply Eighteen dollars a week to start.
A humor page features short gags and wry exchanges. A man jokes about his late wife and a thief, a chemistry professor prompts a pun about change, and a motorist asks about speed limits. Witty exchanges include a wife threatening to leave over fishing and a calendar noting disasters.
Wartime questions cover meat rationing after sugar coupons, harvest transport permits to Nov 15, hotel ration surrender rules, evaporated milk and canning sugar coupon cautions, shoe repair price ceilings, and how to obtain the Consumers News pamphlet or Blue Book from Wartime Prices and Trade Board offices.
Members of British women's societies filled many key wartime roles in the invasion effort last month. The National Federation of Women's Institutes organized and packed 375,000,000 spares for equipment from radios to tanks, in odd hours across homes and halls. IWIs contributed to transport prep and were praised by ordinance controllers for aiding invasion readiness. They also continued canning and jam making and plan to assist with harvest as volunteer land workers are in greater demand.
The official marching song for the British Eighth Army highlights working together across nations. John Masefield wrote the words and Zoe Elliott, a Vermont native, wrote the music. The term Bible is explained as meaning book, with many calling it the Book.
A reader explains breaking reliance on pills by adjusting diet and using Kellogg's All Bran. The ad urges daily intake with milk or bran wafers, plus ample water, and notes availability in two sizes from Kellogg's in London, Canada.
The Canadian government launches its first comprehensive survey of the Northwestern wilderness spanning British Columbia the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Mineralogists foresters and fisheries experts will study resources along the Alaska Highway and Northwest Air Route while an agricultural station near Whitehorse tests soil and climate for crops.
Winnipeg reports say the District Depot Band, led by Warrant Officer Robert Summer, now provides half hour concerts at Fort Osborne Barracks for the Depot Company No. 4 CWA Administrative Unit and patients at Fort Osborne Military Hospital. Active Army soldiers also attend, keeping the band in frequent action.
Regina CWAC Pte Mary Moynihan, among the first to set foot in Italy, writes home of sweet encounters withItalian children and a rescued girl named Maria. Mercedes Lemay from Sherbrooke joins to replace a discharged sister. Private Steve Constable meets Broadway stars after a New York leave.
In 522 A.D. two Nestorian monks smuggled silkworm eggs from China hidden inside their pilgrim staffs, enabling silk culture to spread to Europe.
Dr. George E. Simpson of Pennsylvania State College urges families to focus on future civilian roles for veterans. He argues servicemen prefer not to relive wartime memories and should be integrated into local problems with full information on community and technological developments.
A new device at Ohio Crankshaft Co in Cleveland perfects a heatless heat process using high frequency electrical induction to continuously harden steel bars. The method enhances properties of bars used in industrial equipment and engines for war production. John Boyd Dunlop originated the first hollow rubber tires over fifty years ago for a child’s tricycle.
This recipe describes making chocolate bran refrigerator cookies. Melt chocolate, cream butter and sugar, add egg, flavor, and bran, then fold in milk. Mix in dry ingredients, shape into a roll, refrigerate until firm, slice, and bake 12 minutes at 400 degrees F for about 48 cookies.
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