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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
7
Peggy Lane Henderson survives a plane crash in a harsh desert with Jim Mercer, a penniless prospector. They trek east toward water and food discovering a poisoned pond, a fight, and a fragile bond as they reach mountains where water and safety wait.
A rough scene unfolds with a quarrelsome exchange about a gun and love. The speaker insists the other had it coming and expresses a dark, conflicted affection as his hands grip her face amid a cool shade and a distant bird calls above.
Navy emergency equipment section develops aids for rubber boats. A mirror sight enables signaling planes up to ten miles away, a fluorescent sail aids visibility, a plastic bag makes seawater drinkable in twenty minutes, and a chemical that stains water to locate float lights. Castaways also get a compact vest with fishing gear and dehydrated pork bait.
R AF planes based in India provided critical support in Burma by delivering supplies to Rangoon evacuating women and children and dropping food and clothing to refugees in Northern Assam. One Empire and Commonwealth crewed craft landed on an 800 yard jungle clearing and ferried 17 sick and wounded soldiers to India for treatment.
The Royal Canadian Air Force overseas adds numerous commissioned appointments. Air Gunner Set Reginald B Gusseck of Warner Alberta leads a list. others include Navigator Walrath Edgerton and Pilots Sorge Pincher Creek Hansen Lethbridge. New graduates from No 4 Training Command and No 39 SFTS Swift Current and No 35 SFTS North Battleford also receive commissions, with many Albertans and Western Canadians named among air crew and student pilots. The report notes extensive western participation, including 16 graduates from Vancouver and many from Calgary Edmonton and Winnipeg, along with a remaster from the Aeronautical Engineering Branch.
Tuberculosis strikes hardest at the young of the nation. If you value the youth of Canada, do your share to prevent tuberculosis. Buy your Christmas Seals today. Canadian troops on Kiska Island are building roads, installations and living quarters.
A Philadelphia style scrapple recipe blends ground pork sausage with All-Bran and cornmeal creamed into a loaf. The mixture is steamed set in a loaf pan, firmed, sliced, and browned in sausage fat. Yield eight servings. loaf stores a week in the fridge.
First Lt. Maurice M. Hall, chaplain at a Huntsville Texas prisoners of war camp, says about 60 percent of the inmates are confirmed Nazis and warns that without evangelizing them they could return to Germany hostile to American ideals. He notes Nazis may plot after midnight to lynch non Nazis and stresses prevention of future conflict.
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