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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 25, 1945
Page
5
An homage to ordinary workers and volunteers sustaining wartime effort. Donors, Red Cross workers, hospital visitors, fuel savers, rationing sustainers, farmers, housewives, and transit workers are praised for quiet, essential service that supports troops and war industries. Their unseen labor underpins morale and eventual victory.
Trucks and equipment from Grimshaw Alberta will trek northward over a winter road to Hay River near Great Slave Lake. The 385 mile route, once a tractor trail in 1939, links defence sites and oilfields with Yellowknife mining districts. Giant bulldozers keep the road passable as traffic runs at 30 to 40 miles an hour when conditions permit.
In 1943 the Canadian leather industry reached a record value of 44,773,000 dollars, up 2,566,000 from the previous year. Ontario produced 39,132,892 dollars (87 percent), while Quebec accounted for 4,725,857 dollars (11 percent). Remaining provinces shared 2 percent. The main leather types include oak-tanned sole, cattle and horse hide upper, calf skin upper, and glove leather. Brandon Sun.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture issues an order requiring dogs from Europe Asia and Africa to enter Canada only at Halifax Saint John Quebec City Vancouver and Victoria and to undergo six months quarantine at owners expense. Dogs from Great Britain Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State come in without quarantine with a certificate of origin. A British admission may add quarantine time in Canada if previously held. Dr Barker notes the risk to livestock from pet imports.
A collection of maxims on governance and virtue from thinkers including Victor Cousin Proverts 29 2 and Shakespeare. It stresses natural justice, righteous rule, and the dangers of excessive authority while praising clean, impartial service.
A new process described in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry uses a horn-angle hydraulic press to extract tannin from bark of floated logs from Pacific Northwest pulping centers. The work by Potter Williams Swenson and Feustel from the Western Regional Research Laboratory notes domestic tannin supply has grown urgent due to chestnut blight.
The British government will pursue revival of pre war migration pacts with Dominions for individuals, not a mass movement. Talks with Canada and the Commonwealth are prioritized, with interdepartmental study into foreign exchange for emigrants and timing of labor exit permits, while avoiding population loss fears. Most Canadian wheat export is rust resistant.
The American Merchant Marine Institute reports air transport has risen sharply since the war began. For every 1.5 pounds of cargo by air, ships carry a ton the same distance. One passenger by air equals about a thousand by ship. After the war ship cargo will likely grow or stay strong while air passenger use drops. The Himalaya route example shows ships could replace monthly air output if ports exist. Ships would cut costs significantly for vital materials.
Massachusetts legislators consider a petition by H Vance Greenshit of New Orleans seeking to clear Ann Pudeator and potentially others from 1692 witchcraft convictions. The measure would reverse judgments for several named individuals with prior executions and possible heirs receive compensation.
By year end British shipyards expect to start work on more than 20 super passenger liners, including Mauretania class vessels, as wartime fleet shortages push tenders for 15 000 to 25 000 ton ships. Some Queen Mary like ships may follow, with postwar focus on fast ships up to 40 000 tons. Sir Robert Johnson of Camell Laird says builders are receiving orders or inquiries.
Red Cross officials estimate about 26 000 Canadian soldiers overseas have married British girls and will bring wives to Canada. The Canadian National Railways has hosted 3 000 British war brides and 1 500 children, with 20 special trains since April 1943. The trains are described as homes on wheels with clothes lines for babies.
Britain has handed the Diego Suarez naval base at the northern tip of Madagascar to the French navy. AFP reported the base was seized by British forces during the 1942 Madagascar invasion and is to be used in the war against Japan.
British minister told a Guelph meeting that postwar cheese and butter markets in Great Britain will expand beyond prewar levels though sourcing remains uncertain. He projected 1949 demand for whole milk and urged increasing dairy cow output by 100 gallons per cow annually, noting wartime milk value. He thanked Canada for wartime aid and cited mechanization growth with Canadian imports.
The Empire Hope carried kerosene explosives and food to Malta, leaving Gibraltar August 8 at 18 knots. Surrounded by bombers torpedo boats and U boats, it endured 30 minutes of near misses, fires and damage before being abandoned with only a broken wrist. Waimarama and Wairangi were sunk in the same battle.
The Vancouver Daily Province reports Osoyoos in British Columbia is now a Canadian Pacific station after the last branch line spoke to the border was completed. Once cattle country, the valley thrives with early fruit, orchards bearing, and a growing population, justifying the new railway line to spur further progress.
Jefferson Davis Jackson, a longtime janitor at the University of Alabama Museum of Natural History and the Geological Survey, asked for rest and was given three months leave without pay after officials confirmed he had served 50 years on the job.
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