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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 12, 1942
Page
2
The Red Cross distributes relief during peace and war. Outpost hospitals aid Western Provinces and crippled children receive care. Voluntary public contributions fund relief with minimal administration costs.
The wide spread Canadian Red Cross expands its wartime activities. It immediately begins action upon war outbreak and carries out diverse operations including clothing for air raid victims surgical dressings and supplies. It sent 36 mobile kitchen units to Britain and vast clothing for evacuees sailors and navy needs. Women across Canada knit comforts for soldiers sailors and airmen with notable contributions from Western farmers.
The Canadian Red Cross aims to ship two million food parcels to British prisoners of war by year end. Since packing began last year the program reached 22 500 parcels weekly, totaling 612 944 by 1941. Parcels are received by prisoners and acknowledged via a card system. The Red Cross emphasizes this work as vital for prisoners' survival.
Sgt William Garton of Winnipeg served as rear gunner in a Lockheed Hudson and participated in a major Coastal Command raid on Aalesund Norway. The pilot earned a bar to the DFC, while Garton and all crew received a personal Air Ministry congratulation. Garton recently commissioned as Pilot Officer in the RCAF in Britain.
Engineers develop four watt UV lamps that illuminate airplane instrument dials in near darkness. Visible radiation from the bulbs makes dial coatings glow, aiding pilots while keeping the cabin dim for better visibility.
A brief item notes four seas with color descriptors in their common names: Black Sea, Red Sea, White Sea, and Yellow Sea. The entry lists these seas as color based identifiers without additional context or events.
One of the Wise Men Winston Churchill is described as tapering off exercise with age. He poloed past middle age, bricklayed without bending, and now prefers brisk fast walking. The piece notes his livelier weight and a past protest over The Royal Flying Corps pilots trained at Camp Borden during the First Great War.
The list documents graduates from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan at No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School Paulson Manitoba and No. 3 and No. 5 Schools at MacDonald Dafoe and Provost with air observers gunners and pilots named along with their hometowns in Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and Ontario. Name entries include Sgt T W Foran Tofield Alta. LAC B W Agar Provost Alta. Sgt G M Thornton Birth Man. and others from Paulson MacDonald Dafoe Provost Hazel Cliffe Luseland Yellowgrass Mirville Maymont Maymont Letetlier Letetlier and more.
The winter Farm Radio Forum ended and a 15 minute monthly summer series will address wartime agricultural issues. National News Summary moves to 9:00 p.m. Central Time and 8:00 p.m. Mountain Time daily daylight saving time. CBC regional and London BBC bulletins follow established schedules with multiple daily slots.
The Mines and Resources Department reports over 1,200 Indians enlisted in the present war with expectations of a larger total as final agency reports come in.
A traffic officer jokes about using a noodle as a tool while a puzzled woman searches her car. The exchange ends with light humor as she admits pulling and pushing items in an effort to respond.
A new Chilean regulation mandates that 10 percent of all building construction costs be allocated to sculpture and decorative art, aiming to boost public art investment.
In a noisy exchange characters quip about a man of few words, Bowleys harmony, a spring home reunion with a long-ago beloved, a job seeker’s wit about a salary, bank loan bravado, love letters from a president, a lighthearted court cross examination, and a punning Garden of Eden answer.
This essay urges moral duty and practical support for the war effort through blood donation and personal fitness. It notes Montreal volunteers at the Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic provide plasma to aid soldiers and civilians, cites sugar hoardings aiding blood supply, and calls for widespread walking and self discipline as national defense. It ends with a statistic on Northern Ireland unemployment.
A collection of quotations on moral judgment and strength from Phelps Spurgeon Eddy Lowell Lincoln Romans and a note on India's 390000000 people with 45 races. The text urges conscience in small deeds and steadfast truth.
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