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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 14, 1940
Page
2
The deputy Saskatchewan education official argues that high school programs should serve the 90 percent not entering university by expanding choices. He emphasizes vocational guidance, broader subject ranges, and a cultural aim, with teachers as the system’s key to successful preparation for work and life.
Ottawa reports that bombing practice and air firing do not disturb birds. A defence department press release cites England experience under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan and notes swans have frequented bombing range areas.
Trade notes show Germany as a former top maker of dolls and mechanical toys, now flattened postwar, while Britain boosts exports. Demand centers on dolls and war toys, with Canada expanding purchases to South Africa, Australia, and Argentina. War toys attract neighboring war zones. planes dominate mechanical toys. Female industrial workers rise in Japan since the China incident.
Tea leaves are being used to produce a coffee substitute in Germany. The move follows shortages and aims to provide a cheaper daytime beverage option for consumers.
Capt Horace H Van Wart says the world famous Czech glass and porcelain sectors built by the Czechs are dead under Nazi annexation. He notes factories were confiscated and repurposed for war, destroying a once notable industry and leaving Czech people unable to sustain their traditions.
Six individual baking dishes get layers of boiled onions carrots peas potatoes and chicken with seasoned gravy. Top each with a biscuit butter mix and bake at 450 degrees until lightly browned for six pies.
Blend shortening and sugars thoroughly add egg and flavoring heat well. Sift flour soda baking powder and salt combine with oatmeal Rice Krispies and coconut add to creamed mixture and stir. Drop spoonfuls onto greased sheet bake at 350 degrees F about 15 minutes yields four dozen cookies.
The Brockville Record and Times notes a Bureau of Statistics report showing January revenue freight loaded at Canadian stations or from foreign connections totalled 7,156,622 tons, the highest for that month since 1930. It asks how many motor trucks would be needed to move such volume.
The record notes that anthropologists find head flattening as an old custom across many continents except Australia. The observation highlights widespread cultural practice with regional absence noted in Australia.
A North Vancouver music teacher Mavis Wilcox and Anacortes resident Betty Annette Lowman join Jack Shark to pilot a 42 foot auxiliary schooner from Louisburg Nova Scotia through the Panama Canal to British Columbia waters. Captain John Antle, 73, sails toward Victoria after a long Atlantic voyage and Madeira stopover aboard The Reverie.
Hugh Thornley, a Great War veteran in Vancouver, seeks testimony from former 124th Transport soldiers who were with him near Ypres in October 1917. He lost most of his teeth returning with a coal sack from the Goldfish chateau rail yard after a 200 yard no man s land dash under shellfire. He needs postal or pension board proof to obtain a free denture.
The Department of Transport announced 24 Canadian airports are designated for direct or indirect military use and fall under airport zoning rules. About ten of these hubs will host British Commonwealth Air Training Scheme schools in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Quebec, with others listed across provinces.
Doron Antrim notes writing popular songs draws no age or experience guard. In the United States over 21 000 works are copyrighted yearly most in manuscript 9000 published and about 100 become hits. Of about 1400 professional composers only around 130 craft hits.
Japanese beetles include cultivated geranium leaves and flowers among their diet, even though the plant is poisonous to them. This indicates beetles may ingest toxic material or otherwise interact with an otherwise harmful host plant.
Britain's longest-wed couple are Mr. and Mrs. James West of Milland near Liphook Hants. He will turn 100 in October and she 96 in December. He started work at 10 earning fourpence a day and later farmed land for 44 years. The pair, with 14 children and many grandchildren, celebrate a 75th anniversary after a life of hard work and frugal living.
Some fish ages are estimated by counting marks formed during winter when scales grow little or not at all, rather than by counting growth rings.
Preliminary statistics from the Scottish registrar general show a 124 per thousand marriage rate in the third quarter of 1939, higher than the post war boom of 1919-20. Total marriages for the year reached 46,257, with the period seeing more marriages than the first quarter.
A scientific note explains that about fifty bodies the size of the moon would be required to assemble a mass equivalent to Earth. The comparison highlights the vast difference in scale between lunar sized objects and our planet.
Nearly 6,000 teachers in Japan have resigned over the past three years as school staffing shifts churn. The Union of South Africa is trying to avert a false war prosperity claim amid broader regional tensions.
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