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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 06, 1945
Page
2
The piece notes Canada’s vast wartime contribution with over a million service members. It highlights Canada’s fourth-ranking naval and air power among the United Nations and praises the Commonwealth Air Training Plan as laying the foundation for air supremacy cited by Churchill.
Canada contributed to the war effort through taxation and internal loans. War loans within the Dominion totalled over 10.2 billion dollars with more than three million subscribers in the latest issue. Last year 11. million residents paid 813 million dollars in personal income tax along with substantial corporation tax and excess profits tax.
Canada provided vast wartime support to Britain from 1940 to 1941 including munitions, guns, tanks, and food. The London Economist praised Canada's steel and muscle behind monetary figures, noting its relative resources and effort as second to none.
Secretary of State Paul Martin told the Canadian Institute on Public Affairs that the San Francisco charter has all the ingredients of success but requires nations to act with genuine good faith. He stressed civilization depends on spiritual values and warned against sectarian approaches, saying an awakened culture and spiritual outlook are needed to save civilization.
The Christian Science Monitor notes difficulty agreeing on German war crimes trials while asserting Japan will follow a pre established tribunal path. The piece quotes a famed saying about punishment fitting the crime reflecting a stern outlook on postwar justice.
A letter urges employers to avoid demanding “experienced” workers when hiring veterans. It argues many veterans return with skills beyond their specific trades and warns that requiring prior experience discourages capable ex servicemen. The piece cites wartime recruitment and urges industry to recruit and train suitable men for jobs.
The Admiralty details the coastal forces tiny ships up to 120 tons that sank over 500 enemy vessels in 780 actions with 170 losses. They downed 32 aircraft and conducted nearly twice as many minelaying missions as other minelayers. The force grew from two flotillas to about 25,000 men by VE Day.
Dr James Richard Whitwell aged 81 died leaving about £20000 to patients at St Audry s hospital Ipswich where he served as medical superintendent for 37 years The gift will benefit patients at the hospital and reflect his long service to the community.
Chief Engineer Fred Vieau of Buffalo designed a pristine engine room aboard the freighter J. J. H. Brown. He built a meticulous work bench with duplicated tools and a floor painted as a compass dial with a Great Lakes chart at the center. Vieau's long goal was to create a model of neatness, and crew members believe no other lake ship matches it.
Known to thousands of travelers as the man with the big hat he retired after 3 decades in railroading. He served as general agent passenger department Canadian National Railways at Jasper Alberta joining the industry in 1907 and rising through Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern before Jasper post.
The Calgary Albertan contends extending Alberta northward faces two views: Alberta first or Canada first. It argues the Dominion should lead, saying Alberta lacks resources and the Dominion has the finance and admin power to develop the North West Territories with geological and mining support.
U S chemists develop a plastic dipping process that coats glass jars with a film twenty five thousandths of an inch thick. The film keeps broken shards together when dropped, saving valuable battery fluid amid high breakage rates in wartime shipments.
Q and A on meatless Tuesdays and Fridays start time four a.m. for 24 hours. Butter coupons 9 to 115 expired August 31. others valid. Small arms ammunition rationing ends August 31. Lost ration books do not replace canning sugar coupons. Send requests for Consumers News pamphlet or Blue Book to Wartime Prices and Trade Board office.
Dr Mont Fellick, Labour MP for Loughboro, urged a universal English system in the House of Commons. He proposed £30 000 to create a chair of philology at London University and offered £5 000 of his own funds. Fellick, who speaks six languages, earlier in 1938 created a simplified English with 150 fewer words than standard English.
A collection of humorous exchanges and quips from a police court and social scenes. Dialogues include a driver mistaken for an arrestee, sanitary cup humor, a hat remark about church sightlines, mop assaulted spouse, and a drunken gentleman claiming to attend a lecture.
To speed up training of drivers to replace hundreds of girls who have left the service through marriage, members of the Women's Royal Naval Service are taking lessons from London bus drivers.
Captain Patricia A. M. Quinn of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan recalls her start in the Canadian Women's Army Corps in January 1942 and her promotions to Captain in 1943. She notes Saskatchewan recruits rank highly and praises CWAC for broadening outlooks and fostering cooperation.
An Ottawa report highlights Ruby the robot as the sole author of family allowance cheques. Ruby signs addresses and amounts, processing 3,600 cheques per hour with high accuracy, aided by sisters across provinces.
Elmore Philpott notes in the Ottawa Citizen that Canada holds an abundance of building materials and a large labor pool ready to meet housing needs. He describes Cariboo projects where fir log homes rise to two stories with fine workmanship, rivaling the King’s Buckingham Palace in quality.
A collection of brief inspirational lines and maxims from religious authors and ministers. The excerpts emphasize living truth through actions, grace, and love, with analogies of light and guidance for the righteous.
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