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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 04, 1940
Page
4
The government imposes a two percent national defence tax on single employees earning over 600 and married employees over 1200 yearly starting July. Dependent allowances reduce the tax for families. forms allow exemptions with partial income tax in higher brackets. Employers reimbursed for clerical work. many objectors shift to war savings stamps.
Figures from the Toronto Children's Aid Society show minimum monthly costs for British refugee children in two ages groups. Food is eight to nine dollars monthly and clothing two to five dollars, excluding medical or education expenses. The piece also calls for extending charitable efforts beyond lodge rooms and membership.
Marion Jean Ruth Green married Egerton Harold Hancock at Park St United Church Orono on Saturday June 29 with Rev S Littlewood officiating. The bride wore a redingote of heavenly blue with Johanna Hill roses corsage. witnesses were Milton Green and Marlow Hancock. They left for a wedding trip to eastern points.
The Globe and Mail notes Orono clocks shift to Daylight Saving Time. Obituaries cite Mrs. Duncan Galbraith of Newcastle, daughter of late Samuel Wilmot. Community items mention Blossom Festival corrections, war training postings, church welcomes, Dominion Day quiet, strawberry festivals, Rotary Fair July 10, and East Toronto Salvation Army band performances.
Blood-tested White Leghorn and Barred Rock chicks offered by Alvin Clemens of Bowmanville. Mixed or sexed, started chicks available. Farm eggs produced on site with over 30 years in business. Order now by phone 2483.
The I C D E campaign in Port Hope raised about 300 for the National Chapter bomber fund. Rev Norman Taylor of Trinity College School Port Hope is appointed rector and chaplain of St Mark's Anglican Church succeeding Dr G B Snell. Samuel Seigal of Toronto was jailed six months in Bowmanville for issuing worthless cheques to buy raspberries. The Be a mini street brawl in Pontypool ended with fines for William Wozney and Nicholas Wozney and others. Mrs Ethel Purdy faced 23 charges of obtaining money and forged cheques, with concurrent sentences. James Purdy received three months for possessing goods obtained by forged measures. Two Cobourg nurses died in a rear end collision near Cobourg. RC A F driver Joseph Wallace charged with manslaughter. Nurses Elizabeth Shepherd and Edith Boyle funeral services held in Wellington.
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