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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 04, 1942
Page
4
A discussion of two Canadian after war outlooks. One group spends rapidly as production restricts peacetime goods. the other saves through War Savings Certificates and Bonds. The piece forecasts postwar buyers will be those who invested in government securities rather than current spree shoppers.
The article praises intensified RAF and RCAF bombing raids on Cologne and Essen, arguing large air attacks can cripple German industry and shorten the war. It asserts equipment and industrial capacity determine victory, urging sustained aerial strikes to disrupt Germany’s war production.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced that Canada is at war with Japan as of December 7 1941, joining Hungary Romania and Finland in declarations. He described a hemispheric battle extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific with Canada mobilizing a total force exceeding 387000 across army navy and air force in early 1942.
The thirteenth annual Canadian National Sale of Holstein-Friesian cattle at Brampton drew over 1,000 attendees from Ontario Quebec and the U S. Fifteen victory calves were donated for auctions raising 1925 for British war relief. Top price 205 bought by I D Meyers of Harrisonburg West Virginia for a calf from Cedar Dale Stock Farms. A U S bidder Glen Bancroft purchased three calves. Meat more: Meyers also bought the sale's top cow for 885. War relief funds will be sent to the British Friesian Association.
Judge German of Toronto succeeds the late Judge OConnor as judge of the United Counties. Port Hope Lions Club savaged glass collecting ten tons. Northumberland Music Festival draws 360 entries with forty classes at Colborne United Church. Cobourg and Hamilton township raise 8000 for Red Cross though district goal was 14000. Port Hope forms an Air Raid Precautions organization with five on a chief air warden panel. Cobourg boys Robert Kerr Jack Clementis Norman Thompson visit home. Thompson survived two ship sinks after torpedoed voyage near Bermuda. Arnold C Anderson takes Latin teaching post.
The Durham Ontario Women’s Christian Temperance Union met at King Street United Church Oshawa on Wednesday of last week with delegates from branches attending. Leaders from Whitby Port Hope and Orono spoke and prizes were awarded for a Temperance Study Course. A memorial service honored departed members and next year’s convention was invited to Orono.
Four rooms with good cellar and a garden available for immediate possession. Also a vacant corner lot for sale. Apply to Miss Eva Patterson in Orono.
Bowmanville High School announces new faculty assignments with an interim principal replacing Walter Carpenter who moved to Georgetown Collegiate. Hilda Rice will assume mathematics teaching duties, succeeding O K Vansickle who has left for a weather observation course in the Air Force.
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