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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 30, 1942
Page
4
Mrs Jennie Adamson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions, leads a team of 14 women to place 1 620 war orphans with private families. Funds to support schooling and training are available, with care extending to university scholarships for brilliant pupils.
British factories have run music-while-you-work programs for two years. Over 5,000 plants provide music for 24 hours daily, boosting rhythm and output. Government support from Bevin cited. night shifts not served to avoid disturbing day workers.
Streams pour into the 100 feet deep Devil's Mill Hopper near Gainsville Florida without raising water levels as the basin seems to have no outlet. Early American railroads tested sail powered cars for motive power.
Lieut K D Grant heads a despatch rider section in the 1st Canadian Army Signals unit with designers Sgt Jack Burroughs and Cpl Gordon Duckworth. A prominent six foot pole on a front lawn features a German officer cap and Hitler face, with further grim symbols and a tombstone inscription.
The earthworm is hailed as the best soil tiller. An acre may hold about 50,000 worms, carrying eighteen tons of dirt yearly. They bring subsoil upward and deposit it on the surface, loosening earth and aiding water percolation to deep root systems.
A man endures great danger and hard labor to secure fish, more than for any other food source, highlighting the peril and value of the catch in sustaining nutrition.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board says collapsible metal tubes yield limited salvage. Retail drug stores lead local collections but many gists report under 25 percent returns. Board stresses tubes are a valuable tin source for war industries and forbids disposal or holding used tubes beyond reasonable salvage.
The tiger orchid earns its name from a member of the Fostermann collecting party who was attacked and killed by a tiger during a flower expedition in Siam.
The Sydney Herald reports a highway across Australia's northern desert built in just over a year to support heavy military traffic. Civilian roadworkers and U.S. engineers created a smooth route, designed to endure the rainy season, praised by the general commanding northern territory forces as a great Australian romance.
A teacher asks for help defining impression. A clever pupil replies impressively that the word means a dent in a soft spot, delivering a humorous gloss on the term.
Millions of baby chicks are hatched in commercial incubators this year while only a small fraction were set by hens. Poultry producers have removed broodiness, making the setting hen largely unnecessary as incubators and brooders assume motherly duties in habit and fact. Kansas City Star.
The Ottawa Journal reports the Dutch Fast Indians are said to be starving under Japanese control as food and transport are allegedly stolen by the Japanese and their allies, leaving the natives in need.
British bone salvage converts household and butcher bones into bone grease for candles and glycerine, glue for aircraft and shells, protein feed and bone meal fertilizer. The process includes sorting, benzine sterilization, crushing, and a revolving drum to remove meat. A single factory yields 60 tons of grease, 50 tons of glue, 100 tons of feeding stuff, and 50 tons of bone fertilizer weekly.
A display at the Patriotic Salvage Corps in the Easton annex shows how rags power wartime logistics. Cloth wipers keep tanks and trucks clean during repairs, preventing delays that could cost battles. Modern India is noted as diverse with nine major religions and 225 languages.
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