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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 28, 1946
Page
4
The United Nations Organization has faced difficult times since its founding and avoided major crises in international affairs. Critics linked it to the League of Nations, doubting its durability, but supporters note lessons learned and expect a stronger, more solid structure from experience.
Former Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles spoke in Canada under the J W Dafoe Foundation about The United Nations in the World of the Future He urged patience with the U N O noting it has averted crises since the war and should preserve peace and restraint in the future.
Mr. Welles and other leading international relations students urge realism and confidence in solving grave world problems. The United Nations Organization is cited as a concrete effort to avert wars and secure future peace. Those who doubt its worth may harm security and humanity’s hope.
An elderly cook named Martha renowned for her apple pie shares her recipe when a guest asks. She explains the perfect scalloped edges around the pie are achieved with a simple method.
The Family Herald notes Secretary of State Paul Martin announced a Canadian citizenship week from January 5 to 11. He aims to replace the hurried, skimpy naturalization with a ceremony akin to a church wedding, inviting communities to welcome new Canadians with dignity.
Capt. J. S. Brown of Carisbrooke Isle of Wight, aged 80, finally receives the Meritorious Service Medal after a recommended honor dating back 38 years to the 1898 Sudan campaign.
The first motorist to be fined for speeding paid 10 dollars after being caught driving 19 miles per hour over the limit.
Public guidance on fuelwood price ceilings and enforcement by Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Officials advise dealers must display up-to-date ceiling schedules and consumers may verify prices via local WPTB offices. Q&A covers ration book validity and December butter and meat coupon expirations with dates and coupon numbers.
A collection of humorous exchanges and jokes set in a casual, old time voice. It features a colored preacher lampooning his audience about hogs, a bootblack named Tony, a newsboy Mickey, a laborer and supervisor dig scene, a master of house, a mother-in-law request for arsenic, a catty friend, a lovestruck suitor, a businesslike secretary, and a whale bone classroom quip. The tone is playful and folksy with quick punchlines.
During World War II supplies were delivered to fighters in containers modeled after maple seeds. The design allowed the containers to spiral downward, mimicking the seeds that glide to the ground in spring.
London reports that the day of gasoline powered fighters is over. The RAF will equip all line and reserve squadrons with jet aircraft as soon as they are manufactured. No further Spitfire models will be designed as De Havilland Vampires and Gloster Meteors lead the jet era.
Relief guidance for itching piles and rectal soreness advises prompt treatment with Hem-Roid capsules. The ad claims internal use eases itching and soreness, accelerates healing, and offers money-back if not satisfied, with druggist availability and directed usage.
Armand Premo, a 20 year old war veteran from Burlington, hauled home a 250 pound eight point buck after shooting it with a .22. He mounted the deer bareback, rode it 65 feet as it bucked, and slashed it 15 times with a hunting knife before it fell. The bullet wound was superficial. He grinned and said he was excited.
Chicago reports Farmers Wife Section editor Gertrude Dieken says a farm wife is worth about 69 000 to her husband during life after a 13 week study of farm wives. She claims city wives are far less valuable monetarily and notes farm couples share work all day while city wives rarely see their husbands. The study notes a typical dairy farm housewife washed 1509 pounds of clothes carried nearly five tons of water and spent 57 hours on laundry in the period.
A collection of quotes on joy and virtue from Seneca Eddy and Montaigne, noting moral guidance and calm pleasures. The passage also mentions a historical note that the use of postal cards was first suggested in 1865 by the director of the Royal Prussian Post.
Robert K. Parker a 42 year old Canadian veteran with burned lungs from a French battlefield forges a paired bicycle contraption to carry his wife Emma Parker 32 and their four children from Tampa to Seattle. The family will travel in three months using the dual bicycles with a wooden box for two children and a padded rear seat for the oldest. They seek funds from Parker's Canadian disability pension to begin the journey.
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