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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 26, 1943
Page
2
Public attention highlights the crucial role of youth in the war as young soldiers seamen and airmen take on high responsibility. Veterans as young as twenty one are honored, Battle of Britain fliers influenced air supremacy, and many youths have given their lives been injured or held in enemy camps while serving bravely.
Canada offers free university study for eligible service members aged seventeen to twenty-two with free tuition board room texts and medical care at eleven universities. Courses include mathematics physics and engineering with mandatory military training and immediate officer training on completion. Credit for interrupted studies is provided after wartime service.
The plan offers broad benefits to capable soldiers facing education barriers after the war. It would relieve students of financial worry, enabling university study and a postwar foundation, and signals society’s appreciation for the fighting services’ value.
A recipe lists fat corn cheese and crumbs baked in a greased dish until set in a 350 degree oven for about 40 minutes yields 4 to 6 servings. It invites readers to write to the Western Division Health League of Canada at 111 Avenue Road Toronto Ontario for more cheese dishes.
Agricultural chemists examine phosphate fixation in soils and the efficiency of superphosphate. They test slag derived phosphoric acid as a potential fertilizer, note limited sulphuric acid in wartime production, and describe laboratories in Ottawa Kentville and Summerland managing soil, animal nutrition and food analyses.
The United States says Britain will cover compensation costs for private property affected by the destroyers for bases agreement of 1940. Britain to pay for properties appraised at about $5.5 million as it takes over compensation liability for base sites across Newfoundland Bermuda the Bahamas Jamaica Antigua St Lucia Trinidad and British Guiana.
Air planes assist the United States grazing service in a campaign to remove mustangs from southwestern Wyoming sheep and cattle ranges. The effort targets wild horses on public grazing lands under federal supervision.
It is estimated that Canada will require 477000000 bushels of oats to meet both export and domestic demand in 1943 44. The projection signals a large crop need and potential supply considerations for farmers and trade.
Neve! Board Acting Paymaster Commander Joseph Jeffery of London Ontario has been named secretary of the naval board. He succeeds Captain Feares Pennington who is reassigned to duties with the Royal Canadian Navy in London England.
The Anson V bomber gains Canadian designed windscreen by Canadian Car and Foundry staff at Amherst Nova Scotia. Engineers test and fit the screen in Montreal after last fall design. George Henderson supervises jig work and Cecil Stiles leads assembly. Manufacture time saves about 75 percent.
Canadian Red Cross stores were uncovered among captured hospital supplies in Leonforte Sicily. About a dozen bales of pillowslips and sheets stamped Canadian Red Cross Society Quebec province branch were sent to a Canadian general hospital in Sicily. Maj. J. K. Bell allowed two possible explanations for the items ending up in enemy hands.
Sir John Anderson announced in Washington that a committee of scientists from English speaking countries will be named soon to act as an information clearing house. He hopes other nations join and that the body serves postwar peace as well as wartime research, with Britain, the United States, Canada and Russia collaborating.
Abraham Friedman 48 of Montreal sought medical care after a nearly three week injury. He reported walking along St Lawrence near St Catherine Street July 17 when struck on the head by a bullet later removed from his forehead by Dr Ben Kolber. Detectives are investigating.
The article notes the U S gallon is 16 percent smaller than the British imperial gallon. No further context is provided.
A collection of old jokes and quips about family life and everyday moments. Bits include a Scotsman joke about Angus and his toys, a daughter teasing her father about birthstones, a racing motorist fatherly comment, a cold shoulder quip, and a streetcar tale about ten children. A closing note urges buying War Savings Stamps regularly.
In Ottawa the Parliamentary Library has grown beyond its space hindering research. A joint committee urges establishing a national library from 350000 volumes, an institution worthy of Canada reflecting past achievements present status and future greatness. Parliament should proceed with a scale matching national aspirations.
A collection of quotations on silence from Addison La Rochefoucauld Zimmermann Mary Baker Eddy Carlyle and Lavater. The passages praise silence as a powerful response, a teacher, and a foundation for decisive action.
Norman Stewart, a farmer from Redickville Ontario, reports a single potato plant producing more than 30 potatoes on its stalk. The unusual sprouting draws attention as a curiosity of farming in the region.
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