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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 20, 1946
Page
2
The postwar months brought famine strikes and national disagreements that dampened optimism. Yet the piece urges maintaining faith in a better future, praising courageous citizens in allied nations and warning that cynicism could jeopardize peace.
Citizens should voice opinions on food crises labor issues and international tension to shape national policy. Legislators welcome clear viewpoints and involvement from constituents to build a better world following the war.
Officials say the Mexican Embassy asked Cuba to help stop a gold smuggling ring operating from Havana. Customs seized 1 712 250 dollars in gold from June 6 1945 to February 6 and estimate smugglers have imported over 5 million dollars since February. Much of the gold is believed headed for European black markets with some earmarked for Argentina.
About 250000 American servicemen and women killed in the Second World War will be brought back to the United States for burial with full military honors on home soil. Mancel Talcott, chairman of the American Legion Grave Registration Program, announced this plan. He said the service will be at no cost to families.
Q and A on ration books and coupons. If discharged, apply promptly to receive coupons from discharge date. delaying removes pre application coupons. Canadians staying two weeks or more at summer hotels must carry ration books while hotel management deducts specified coupons. American guests are exempt. No ceiling on dental professional services. Send questions to Wartime Prices and Trade Board with paper name for pamphlets Consumers' News or the Blue Book.
Sydney G. Dobson, born in Sydney Nova Scotia, was elected president of the Royal Bank of Canada succeeding the late Morris W. Wilson. A 46 year sterling climb from junior clerk to top position, Dobson and Wilson once worked together in Truro and Vancouver and Montreal. Dobson is known for his direct leadership and community welfare work, especially with Montreal's Welfare Federation.
Sabu, 22, famed as the Elephant Boy, arrives at Hurn Airport en route to London to resume film work after earning eleven decorations for gallantry as a rear gunner in the Pacific theater aboard an Army air force vessel.
An uncut unbound first issue of Thomas Gray’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard sold to a London dealer for £1050. The rare edition highlights strong early print demand and regional collecting interest.
The National Film Board presents Canada World Trader in the Canada Carries On series to illustrate Canada’s rise to the world’s fourth largest industrial power and its export strength. The film highlights Canada Approved quality and notes future industrial potential amid global economic issues.
Hon. B. Claxton told the Parliamentary committee on Indian affairs that the Health Department proposes to increase staff and salaries, reorganize professional staff, expand hospital facilities and nursing stations, intensify tuberculosis case finding, extend vaccine use, and develop immunization. The plan includes medical exams for entrants to the north, required treatment for infection risks, greater use of government transport for personnel and patients, cooperation with health agencies, expanded dental care, better first aid, and increased research. It also calls for appointing departmental nurses to residential schools and training Indian doctors and nurses.
William Arthur Deacon, literary editor of the Globe and Mail, is elected president. Mrs. Kathleen Strange of Winnipeg is elected vice-president for Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Readable entries show a crossword puzzle clue set with many OCR errors and garbled terms. The readable items include several clear clues such as Chinese pagoda and Macaw alongside nonsensical strings and misread numbers. The fragmentary list lacks coherent structure or complete clues, making precise answers difficult.
An officer and a partner discuss Grape-Nuts Flakes fueling a meal with carbs and protein for energy and strength. They describe the cereal as made from wheat and malted barley, baked and toasted for crispness and easy digestion, noting large economy packages.
A collection of light humor lines including burglar banter about riches and fame. A professor predicts fame, a wife answers a gate question, and various quick one liners cover secrets, marriage, pets, and a late typist with punchy punchlines and comic misunderstandings.
In Epping England Philip Wright a 35 year old tuberculous patient in hospital writes to the London Daily Mirror asking for beads to pass time making jewelry. He has received over one million beads plus money cigarettes candy and one marriage proposal and more replies keep arriving.
Government expects reconversion of industry from war to peace production to finish by year end. In three months factories and utilities will match prewar employment, with an eventual boost of 800,000 jobs by December 31.
Major R. K. Magee of No. 20 Canadian General Hospital Overseas reports in the Canadian Medical Journal that German surgeons lag behind Allied medicine. He notes German prisoners show German surgeons failed to use advances known to Canadian British and United States medicine and suffered from isolation from outside medical influence.
Hon Colin Gibson Air Minister announced that over 1,500 have enlisted since the peace time terms were released last April 15 while there remain 10,000 vacancies in air and ground trades. Between VJ Day and May 25, 6,296 officers and airmen had enrolled, mostly from current service members, with more recruits expected from civilian youths.
A collection of quotes on liberty by Bowles Burke Mary Baker Eddy Prichard Cowper and Southey. It contrasts freedom tied to order with individual rights and warns against legalism without spirit. The compilation emphasizes truth as a path to freedom and the resistance of oppression.
The Ottawa Journal advises amateur gardeners to plant and then wait for a crop while vigilantly managing drought, stray dogs, caterpillars, cutworms, neighbors’ children, and vegetable diseases.
Nylon has invaded the wild west as cowboys and dudes form nylon lines in Gallup New Mexico. Stockings hold little appeal while buyers pay twelve dollars and up for a 30 foot nylon lariat touted as strong enough to rope an elephant.
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