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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
3
The Winnipeg Free Press reports a Vancouver experiment where office workers take four hour night shifts in sedentary roles to support war production. Early signs are encouraging as clerks and sales staff find satisfaction, though long term endurance remains uncertain. The plan could be adopted nationwide if successful.
Vernon Upton, 22, second officer aboard a torpedoed British merchant ship, swam through shark-infested South Atlantic waters with a Bible clenched in his teeth to conduct a burial service for a dead shipmate. He led 40 men in two lifeboats for over a month until rescue on the 18th day.
Gwendoline Clarke writes about a fierce thunderstorm at her Ontario farm. She observes trees bending yet not breaking, likening roots to Allied strength in war, and notes spring harvest worries while praising sun and heat as fuel relief.
A Sunday school lesson notes the call of Israel to holiness per Leviticus 19 1 4 11 18 32 34 and 1 Peter 1 16, emphasizing moral law aims and gospel character. It covers Sabbath respect fear of God honest judgment care for the poor aged reverence for elders and love for strangers.
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A sea-going jeep picked up by a submarine was later sold for three gallons of ice cream to a warship captain on a South Pacific island. The vehicle still runs, and its journey included being taken inside a submarine during wartime operations.
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