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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 06, 1943
Page
2
Canadians face wartime adjustments as labour shortages housing congestion and transport delays affect daily life. Banks launch a ration banking system on March 1 allowing dealers with high monthly rationed sales to open accounts deposit coupons and receive negotiable vouchers to renew supplies.
A Royal Bank of Canada report outlines how banks facilitate wartime rationing now used in Britain and the United States. It notes butter rationing alone requires about ten million coupons weekly and that coupons pass through multiple transfers, creating a heavy administrative load. Banks help reduce this burden and support national logistics.
Defence Minister Ralston tabled two orders in council to align the legal position of armed forces members in cars with civilians. One order allows civilian damages from the crown for negligence by the forces if a finding is before June 13, 1943, recalling the Exchequer Court ruling that drivers are not crown officers. The other abolishes government rights to seek compensation from owners or drivers for injuries to service members riding as passengers.
Turkish authorities join the British Council in inaugurating an English lending library in Istanbul. A second library in Ankara already exists, together housing about 5,000 volumes, mainly technical works in high demand.
In Chicago a new word appeasolationist is coined meaning a useful term with brief life. Vancouver readers propose Alaska Highway nicknames like Al camusa and Alcamusapanamex. A seat on a T C A plane sparing deplane ment for the second passenger is noted. Savants suggest unilateral arbitration as a substitute for war to vex headline writers.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board officials state no boost to butter ration for Canadians. They say they are "just hoping" to maintain the current allotment through the coming winter.
Lady Montgomery voices pride in Bernard Montgomery and his brothers. She recalls his drive to meet Rommel as a prisoner and notes his Eighth Army leadership, his religious faith, and a family with long Irish landholding history.
A collage of jokes and light exchanges from British life during bombing raids. Housewife hunts for false teeth amid air raid urgency while a chorus of puns, child mischief, and rural humor unfolds through short exchanges and backchat.
The Royal Canadian Air Force announces recent commissions across Canada. Names include N Sgt L F Cook of Kenton and many others from Manitoba Saskatchewan Ontario and Alberta. Graduates span air gunners pilots and wireless airmen with assignments to Dauphin Morden Estevan and Prince Albert among others.
A wartime advertisement urges readers to fix constipation by increasing dietary bulk with Kellogg's All-Bran. It promotes daily use, plenty of water, and describes All-Bran as a natural regulator available in two sizes from Kellogg's in London, Canada.
Garden notes explain extending veggie freshness from the garden by spreading planting over weeks, using early medium and late varieties, and mulching. It also covers soil stirring, weed control, watering once weekly, proper fertilization, and cultivation to preserve moisture for hot summers.
The resources department appealed for public help to cut fire losses after last year its forest fire cost 3,550,181 dollars and area burned 1,838,471 acres. Fewer fires occurred but manpower shortages due to the war worsened damage in British Columbia Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia.
Consumer Information Service warns neglect shortens battery life while reasonable care extends it. Check batteries every two weeks under current driving conditions, record specific gravity, and recharge if discharge is gradual. Inspect the electrical system to ensure charging keeps the battery fully charged.
A quarrel between neighbors over a 6 am lawn mowing incident sparks a sharp reply. One party says relations are suspended, after returning the oil and telling the other to use it on his wife when she sang at 11 pm.
Frederick J. Fowler of Malmsbury Wiltshire England a farmer used his car to visit a farmer’s daughter six miles away and was fined about $20 for wasting gasoline in a local court ruling.
The Bach family spanned eight generations with twenty nine musicians starting with Wert Bach in 1550. Johann Sebastian Bach achieved the highest fame among them in classical music.
The Smithsonian Institution holds eight specimens of blue sheep among its prized rare mammal collection. These animals are counted as among the world’s most uncommon large mammals.
The Ramsay Company patent attorneys at 273 Bank Street Ottawa offer a full information list of inventions and cent free information for inventors seeking patents.
The United Kingdom Information Office names Hilary A. St. George Saunders as the author of Combined Operation. Saunders, famed for Bomber Command and Battle of Britain, has produced war histories translated into 24 languages and selling over 12 million copies, more than double Mein Kampf’s last German total. Lord Louis Mountbatten writes the foreword.
A collection of quotes on conscience from Whewell Nehemiah Adams Channing Mary Baker Eddy and Daniel Webster. Each voice highlights conscience as guiding moral judgment and the duty to do right, with emphasis on inner scrutiny, self-government, and divine instruction.
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